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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Resonance states in Li- and B- D. H. Lee, W. D. Brandon, D. Hanstorp, and D. J. Pegg pp. R633-R636 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Soft-x-ray generation by multiphoton scattering of a laser beam from fast free electrons F. F. Körmendi and Gy. Farkas pp. R637-R639 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum-classical hybrid approach to helium double photoionization Jan-Michael Rost pp. R640-R643 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dissociative recombination of cold OH+: Evidence for indirect recombination through excited core Rydberg states Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, P. Forck, T. Heupel, M. Grieser, D. Habs, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and Steven L. Guberman pp. R644-R647 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evanescent-wave guiding of atoms in hollow optical fibers Michael J. Renn, Elizabeth A. Donley, Eric A. Cornell, Carl E. Wieman, and Dana Z. Anderson pp. R648-R651 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Demonstration of x-ray lasing in nickel-like tin Yuelin Li, Georg Pretzler, Peixiang Lu, and Ernst E. Fill pp. R652-R654 [View PDF (951 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Emergence of classicality via decoherence described by Lindblad operators Michael R. Gallis pp. 655-660 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniform regularized semiclassical propagator for the x-2 potential Robert S. Manning and Gregory S. Ezra pp. 661-668 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-particle density of states, bound states, phase-shift flip, and a resonance in the presence of an Aharonov-Bohm potential Alexander Moroz pp. 669-694 [View PDF (445 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Embedding of velocity-power forces into a class of energy-dependent potentials and their quantization J. Geicke pp. 695-702 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature changes and squeezing properties of the system of time-dependent harmonic oscillators Jeong-Young Ji and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 703-708 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Electron temperature and density dependence of E1 and E2 lines in the spectra of cobaltlike to potassiumlike ions K. B. Fournier, W. H. Goldstein, M. May, and M. Finkenthal pp. 709-716 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution measurements of the K-MM radiative Auger effect in medium-mass atoms Ch. Herren and J.-Cl. Dousse pp. 717-725 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muonic three-body Coulomb systems in the hyperspherical approach M. Decker, W. Sandhas, and V. B. Belyaev pp. 726-736 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chaos in a quasiclassical hadronic atom Francesco Benvenuto, Giulio Casati, and Dima L. Shepelyansky pp. 737-743 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonhydrogenic Rydberg atoms in a magnetic field: A rigorous semiclassical approach Bruno Hüpper, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner pp. 744-759 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	3p-photoionization resonances of atomic Fe, Co, and Ni studied by the observation of singly and doubly charged photoions H. Feist, M. Feldt, Ch. Gerth, M. Martins, P. Sladeczek, and P. Zimmermann pp. 760-765 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio potential-energy surfaces and electron-spin-exchange cross sections for H-O2 interactions James R. Stallcop, Harry Partridge, and Eugene Levin pp. 766-771 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiationless resonant Raman scattering interpretation of argon photoion yields measured in coincidence with K-LL Auger decay G. Bradley Armen, Jon C. Levin, and Ivan A. Sellin pp. 772-784 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-dependent rotational polarization in elementary rearrangement collisions Nark Nyul Choi and Sung-Ho Suck Salk pp. 785-790 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-state methods for low-energy electron-ion scattering Leonard Rosenberg pp. 791-797 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for multielectron resonances at the Sr K edge P. D’Angelo, H.-F. Nolting, and N. V. Pavel pp. 798-805 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron excitation of optically-allowed transitions in CO2, SF6, CO, F2, and SO2 I. W. Fomunung, Zhifan Chen, and A. Z. Msezane pp. 806-817 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Galilean invariance of the Schrödinger equation in the adiabatic approximation: The central-field method A. López-Castillo pp. 818-824 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	Multilevel effects on the balance of dipole-allowed to dipole-forbidden transitions in Rydberg atoms induced by a dipole interaction with slow charged projectiles M. I. Syrkin pp. 825-830 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Inversion of total and differential cross-section data for electron-methane scattering D. R. Lun, K. Amos, and L. J. Allen pp. 831-839 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photodetachment of Li- from the Li 3s threshold to the Li 6s threshold Cheng Pan, Anthony F. Starace, and Chris H. Greene pp. 840-852 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron degradation and thermalization in H2 gas Ken-ichi Kowari pp. 853-866 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum absorption spectra in the far wings of the Hg 1S0→3P1 resonance line broadened by Ar Y. Sato, T. Nakamura, M. Okunishi, K. Ohmori, H. Chiba, and K. Ueda pp. 867-873 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Slow collisions between highly charged ions and C60: Absolute ΔE values and cross sections N. Selberg, A. Bárány, C. Biedermann, C. J. Setterlind, H. Cederquist, A. Langereis, M. O. Larsson, A. Wännström, and P. Hvelplund pp. 874-879 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Image acceleration of highly charged ions by metal surfaces C. Lemell, H. P. Winter, F. Aumayr, J. Burgdörfer, and F. Meyer pp. 880-885 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectra of secondary electrons induced by channeled and nonchanneled ions in Si and Al P. F. Alkemade, L. Flinn, W. N. Lennard, and I. V. Mitchell pp. 886-894 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binary-electron emission in grazing ion-surface collisions M. L. Martiarena, E. A. Sánchez, O. Grizzi, and V. H. Ponce pp. 895-901 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	Measurement and characterization of the three-dimensional coherence function in neutron interferometry H. Rauch, H. Wölwitsch, H. Kaiser, R. Clothier, and S. A. Werner pp. 902-908 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Ground state of a weakly interacting Bose gas of atoms in a tight trap Maciej Lewenstein and Li You pp. 909-915 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Decay of trapped ultracold alkali atoms by recombination A. J. Moerdijk, H. M. Boesten, and B. J. Verhaar pp. 916-920 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin relaxation of optically pumped potassium in an argon buffer gas Cody Martin and L. W. Anderson pp. 921-924 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative analysis of four-wave mixing in a four-level system with three strong fields D. A. Coppeta, P. L. Kelley, P. J. Harshman, and T. K. Gustafson pp. 925-936 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Keplerian squeezed states and Rydberg wave packets Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Bogdan Tudose pp. 937-945 [View PDF (505 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	High-velocity dark states in velocity-selective coherent population trapping M. Widmer, M. R. Doery, M. J. Bellanca, W. F. Buell, T. H. Bergeman, and H. J. Metcalf pp. 946-949 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Collective laser cooling of two trapped ions A. W. Vogt, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller pp. 950-968 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Composite level approach to the hyperfine structure of the sodium D1 transition R. S. Gurjar and K. K. Sharma pp. 969-976 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of a coherent atomic-beam generator A. M. Guzmán, M. Moore, and P. Meystre pp. 977-984 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of interference in transitions due to local geometric phases D. Bouwmeester, G. P. Karman, C. A. Schrama, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 985-989 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Autler-Townes effect for an atom in a 100% amplitude-modulated laser field. I. A dressed-atom approach M. F. Van Leeuwen, S. Papademetriou, and C. R. Stroud pp. 990-996 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Autler-Townes effect for an atom in a 100% amplitude-modulated laser field. II. Experimental results S. Papademetriou, M. F. Van Leeuwen, and C. R. Stroud pp. 997-1003 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	‘‘Freely’’ falling two-level atom in a running laser wave Karl-Peter Marzlin and Jürgen Audretsch pp. 1004-1013 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency in multi-Zeeman-sublevel atoms Hong Yuan Ling, Yong-Qing Li, and Min Xiao pp. 1014-1026 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preservation of nonclassical character during the amplification of a Schrödinger cat state H. Huang, S.-Y. Zhu, and M. S. Zubairy pp. 1027-1030 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-point noise in a nonstationary dielectric cavity M. Artoni, A. Bulatov, and J. Birman pp. 1031-1035 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous-emission coupling from multiemitters to the quasimode of a Fabry-Pérot microcavity Q. Deng and D. G. Deppe pp. 1036-1047 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear optical response of cold atoms Tohya Hiroshima and Yoshihisa Yamamoto pp. 1048-1051 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic simulations of the quantum Zeno effect W. L. Power and P. L. Knight pp. 1052-1059 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of inhomogeneous broadening in lasing without inversion in ladder systems Gautam Vemuri and Girish S. Agarwal pp. 1060-1064 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inversionless lasing and photon statistics in a V-type atomic system Yifu Zhu, A. I. Rubiera, and Min Xiao pp. 1065-1071 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasipatterns in a polarization instability D. Leduc, M. Le Berre, E. Ressayre, and A. Tallet pp. 1072-1080 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-wave mixing in a Bloch two-level system with incoherent laser light having a Lorentzian spectral density: Analytic solution and a diagrammatic approach Darin J. Ulness and A. C. Albrecht pp. 1081-1095 [View PDF (296 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amplitude-squeezed quantum states produced by the evolution of a quadrature-squeezed coherent state in a Kerr medium Kasivishvanathan Sundar pp. 1096-1111 [View PDF (379 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Floquet-state perturbation theory for the radio-frequency modulation of the Mössbauer resonance Ilkka Tittonen, Mikk Lippmaa, and Juha Javanainen pp. 1112-1119 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-limited linewidth of a bad-cavity laser with inhomogeneous broadening A. Z. Khoury, M. I. Kolobov, and L. Davidovich pp. 1120-1125 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cavity quantum electrodynamics inside a hollow spherical cavity W. Jhe and K. Jang pp. 1126-1129 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Selective reflection from a dense atomic vapor J. Guo, J. Cooper, and A. Gallagher pp. 1130-1138 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-field effects in a dense collection of two-level atoms embedded in a dielectric medium: Intrinsic optical bistability enhancement and local cooperative effects Michael E. Crenshaw and Charles M. Bowden pp. 1139-1142 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic noise reduction in multilevel lasers: Nonlinear theory and the pump-operator approach Hans-Jürgen Briegel, Georg M. Meyer, and Berthold-Georg Englert pp. 1143-1159 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of transparency and population trapping due to atomic coherent effects Yuzhu Wang, Gu Xu, Chao Ye, Jiaming Zhao, Shanyu Zhou, and Yashu Liu pp. 1160-1163 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional resonance-fluorescence spectra of single atoms Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Martin B. Plenio pp. 1164-1178 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Complementarity and quantum erasure with dispersive atom-field interactions Christopher C. Gerry pp. 1179-1182 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Multiperturber effects in the Faraday spectrum of Rb atoms immersed in a high-density Xe gas J. P. Woerdman, F. J. Blok, M. Kristensen, and C. A. Schrama pp. 1183-1186 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Kinetic-energy release in the dissociative capture-ionization of CO molecules by 97-MeV Ar14+ ions R. L. Watson, G. Sampoll, V. Horvat, and O. Heber pp. 1187-1190 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasicausal expansion of the quantum Liouville propagator G. W. Bund, S. S. Mizrahi, and M. C. Tijero pp. 1191-1193 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Effect of quantum interference on multiphoton resonant excitation involving high-lying Rydberg orbitals L. Deng, W. R. Garrett, M. G. Payne, and D. Z. Li pp. 1194-1196 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Determination of field correlation functions from measured quadrature component distributions Th. Richter pp. 1197-1199 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Distribution of electrons in double photoionization of helium and heavier atoms in the asymptotic region E. G. Drukarev pp. 1200 [View PDF (48 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Distribution of electrons in double photoionization of helium and heavier atoms in the asymptotic region [Phys. Rev. A 52, 3910 (1995)] E. G. Drukarev pp. 1200 [View PDF (48 kB) ]