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  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Dirac's contour representation in thermofield dynamics A. Vourdas and R. F. Bishop pp. R1205-R1208 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interferometric Bell-state analysis Markus Michler, Klaus Mattle, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger pp. R1209-R1212 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross section for Compton scattering by polarized bound electrons F. Bell, J. Felsteiner, and L. P. Pitaevskii pp. R1213-R1215 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Photoassociative spectroscopy of ultracold 39K atoms in a high-density vapor-cell magneto-optical trap H. Wang, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley pp. R1216-R1219 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Role of off-resonant excitation in cold collisions in a strong laser field K. -A. Suominen, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne pp. R1220-R1223 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Laser cooling of Rydberg atoms in bichromatic standing waves J. Guo and E. Arimondo pp. R1224-R1227 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Interaction-free preparation G. Krenn, J. Summhammer, and K. Svozil pp. 1228-1231 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proposed test of Bell’s inequality without a detection loophole by using entangled Rydberg atoms M. Freyberger, P. K. Aravind, M. A. Horne, and A. Shimony pp. 1232-1244 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Loss-error compensation in quantum-state measurements and the solution of the time-reversed damping equation Ulrike Herzog pp. 1245-1250 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Hermitian quantum canonical variables and the generalized ladder operators W. S. l’Yi pp. 1251-1256 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear wave-packet dynamics for a generic one-dimensional time-independent system and its application to the hydrogen atom in a weak magnetic field Karine Dupret and Dominique Delande pp. 1257-1272 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Applications of the Jaynes-Cummings model for the detection of nonorthogonal quantum states M. Sasaki, T. S. Usuda, O. Hirota, and A. S. Holevo pp. 1273-1279 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Study of quantum anharmonic oscillators by state-dependent diagonalization K. C. Ho, Y. T. Liu, C. F. Lo, K. L. Liu, W. M. Kwok, and M. L. Shiu pp. 1280-1284 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical integrable matrix elements James J. Morehead pp. 1285-1294 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesoscopic quantum coherences in cavity QED: Preparation and decoherence monitoring schemes L. Davidovich, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche pp. 1295-1309 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and two-level atoms Marek Czachor pp. 1310-1315 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Determination of frequency-dependent polarizabilities using current density-functional theory Susan M. Colwell, Nicholas C. Handy, and Aaron M. Lee pp. 1316-1322 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoassociation and bound-bound excitation into the 2 2Π state of LiZn, LiCd, and NaZn molecules Davorka Azinović, Xinghua Li, Slobodan Milošević, and Goran Pichler pp. 1323-1329 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbed energies and eigenfunctions of the curved- and flat-space isotropic oscillator via the Riccati equation N. Bessis and G. Bessis pp. 1330-1339 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization anisotropy in resonant x-ray emission from molecules Yi Luo, Hans Ågren, and Faris Gel’mukhanov pp. 1340-1348 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision measurements on lithium atoms in an electric field compared with R-matrix and other Stark theories G. D. Stevens, C.-H. Iu, T. Bergeman, H. J. Metcalf, I. Seipp, K. T. Taylor, and D. Delande pp. 1349-1366 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized gradient approximation for the relativistic exchange-only energy functional E. Engel, S. Keller, and R. M. Dreizler pp. 1367-1374 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic configuration-interaction calculation of the polarizabilities of heliumlike ions W. R. Johnson and K. T. Cheng pp. 1375-1378 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Theory of Auger spectra for molecular-field-split core levels Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Svante Svensson, Helena Aksela, and Seppo Aksela pp. 1379-1387 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent approach to slow ion-atom collisions for systems with one active electron Keith Runge and David A. Micha pp. 1388-1399 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic e-NO collisions Fernando J. da Paixão, Marco A. Lima, and Vincent McKoy pp. 1400-1406 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy distributions of emitted ion fragments following C(1s) excitations in CO P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, U. Köble, E. Rachlew-Källne, and K. Yoshiki Franzén pp. 1407-1412 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution measurement of the dielectronic recombination of fluorinelike selenium ions A. Lampert, A. Wolf, D. Habs, J. Kenntner, G. Kilgus, D. Schwalm, M. S. Pindzola, and N. R. Badnell pp. 1413-1423 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution study of 1Po double-excitation states in helium M. Domke, K. Schulz, G. Remmers, G. Kaindl, and D. Wintgen pp. 1424-1438 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Retardation long-range potentials between two helium atoms Ming-Keh Chen and Kwong T. Chung pp. 1439-1446 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic decay processes in a gas of spin-polarized triplet helium P. O. Fedichev, M. W. Reynolds, U. M. Rahmanov, and G. V. Shlyapnikov pp. 1447-1453 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Autoionization and interchannel mixing in atomic fluorine: The 2p4(1S)ns,md Rydberg series C. D. Caldwell, S. Benzaid, A. Menzel, and M. O. Krause pp. 1454-1456 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orientation dependence of the differential cross section in elastic electron scattering from CH3I molecules M. Volkmer, Ch. Meier, J. Lieschke, A. Mihill, M. Fink, and N. Böwering pp. 1457-1468 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of data in multidimensional spaces and its application to Coulomb-explosion imaging Jacob Levin, Dror Kella, and Zeev Vager pp. 1469-1475 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact excitation of low-lying preionization-edge electronic and Rydberg transitions of fluoroform and chloroform: Bethe surfaces and absolute generalized oscillator strengths J. F. Ying and K. T. Leung pp. 1476-1486 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections of symmetric charge transfer between Gd* and Gd+ in the energy range 30–1000 eV M. Hashida, S. Sakabe, and Y. Izawa pp. 1487-1491 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Retardation effects in nonrelativistic two-photon electron bremsstrahlung in the Coulomb field M. Dondera, Viorica Florescu, and R. H. Pratt pp. 1492-1497 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Convergence of a lattice calculation for bound-free muon-pair production in peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions J. C. Wells, V. E. Oberacker, M. R. Strayer, and A. S. Umar pp. 1498-1504 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections of electron excitation out of metastable helium levels with a fast metastable target produced via charge exchange Mark E. Lagus, John B. Boffard, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin pp. 1505-1518 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-hexadecapole (24-pole) Coulomb integrals Marita C. Chidichimo and Marek Stastna pp. 1519-1524 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent close-coupling method for electron-impact ionization of hydrogen M. S. Pindzola and D. R. Schultz pp. 1525-1536 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K-shell ionization of B, O, and F by 0.4–2.0-MeV He+ ions A. Ghebremedhin, W. M. Ariyasinghe, and D. Powers pp. 1537-1544 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoionization cross sections and oscillator strengths for Fe III Sultana N. Nahar pp. 1545-1552 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculation for low-energy elastic scattering of electrons from chlorine atoms H. P. Saha pp. 1553-1558 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-threshold study of the polarization of He resonance radiation using an energy-selected electron beam C. Norén, J. W. McConkey, P. Hammond, and K. Bartschat pp. 1559-1566 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersion interactions between atoms involving electric quadrupole polarizabilities E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran pp. 1567-1575 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of inelastic electron impact on ozone: Absolute differential cross sections for excitation of the Hartley band Christopher J. Sweeney and Tong W. Shyn pp. 1576-1580 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute differential cross sections for the scattering of kilo-electron-volt O atoms G. J. Smith, R. S. Gao, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings pp. 1581-1588 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of atomic-hydrogen spin-exchange parameters at 0.5 K using a cryogenic hydrogen maser M. E. Hayden, M. D. Hürlimann, and W. N. Hardy pp. 1589-1604 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical treatment of the time-dependent Dirac equation in momentum space for atomic processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions K. Momberger, A. Belkacem, and A. H. So/rensen pp. 1605-1622 [View PDF (540 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical electron polarimetry with heavy noble gases T. J. Gay, J. E. Furst, K. W. Trantham, and W. M. Wijayaratna pp. 1623-1629 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Energy- and angle-differential yields of electron emission from thin carbon foils after fast proton impact C. G. Drexler and R. D. DuBois pp. 1630-1637 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy loss of slow protons channeled in Au P. Vargas, J. E. Valdés, and N. R. Arista pp. 1638-1643 [View PDF (886 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct determination of impact-parameter-dependent stopping powers for million-electron-volt He ions penetrating Er-doped GaAs Yasukazu Yamamoto, Jan Kaczanowski, Yoshiaki Kido, Jyoji Nakata, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Kenichiro Takahei pp. 1644-1652 [View PDF (507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Waveguide for cold atoms: Spin-1 magnetic particles and a filamentary current Kirstine Berg-So/rensen, Michael M. Burns, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau pp. 1653-1667 [View PDF (297 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Observation of strongly subhomogeneous linewidths using high-contrast transmission spectroscopy: Experiment and theory Luo Caiyan, S. Kröll, L. Sturesson, and S. Svanberg pp. 1668-1677 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultracold collisions and optical shielding in metastable xenon K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, P. S. Julienne, M. Walhout, U. Sterr, C. Orzel, M. Hoogerland, and S. L. Rolston pp. 1678-1689 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of coherent population trapping states in dense systems Iyyanki V. Jyotsna and G. S. Agarwal pp. 1690-1696 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanical potentials due to Raman transitions J. J. Hope and C. M. Savage pp. 1697-1701 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-density trapping of cesium atoms in a dark magneto-optical trap C. G. Townsend, N. H. Edwards, K. P. Zetie, C. J. Cooper, J. Rink, and C. J. Foot pp. 1702-1714 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trojan wave packets: Mathieu theory and generation from circular states Maciej Kalinski and J. H. Eberly pp. 1715-1724 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of high-order harmonic generation by an elliptically polarized laser field Philippe Antoine, Anne L’Huillier, Maciej Lewenstein, Pascal Salières, and Bertrand Carré pp. 1725-1745 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-harmonic generation in a driven triangular well: The implications of chaos S. Cocke and L. E. Reichl pp. 1746-1750 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Selective photoionization of the ytterbium atom by coherent two-photon excitation Hyunmin Park, Jongmin Lee, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Joon-Sung Chang pp. 1751-1755 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb effects in multiphoton above-threshold ionization J. Z. Kamiński, A. Jaroń, and F. Ehlotzky pp. 1756-1761 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction of half-cycle radiation pulse with polarized states of atomic hydrogen K. J. LaGattuta pp. 1762-1766 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Sub-Doppler light amplification in a coherently pumped atomic system Yifu Zhu and Jun Lin pp. 1767-1774 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-focused light propagation in a fully saturable medium: Experiment M. L. Dowell, R. C. Hart, A. Gallagher, and J. Cooper pp. 1775-1781 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generating mutual coherence from incoherence with the help of a phase-conjugate mirror C. H. Monken, A. Garuccio, D. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, F. Narducci, and L. Mandel pp. 1782-1785 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(1,1) coherent states defined via a minimum-uncertainty product and an equality of quadrature variances R. R. Puri and G. S. Agarwal pp. 1786-1790 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalization of damping theory for cavities with mirrors of finite transmittivity R. W. van der Plank and L. G. Suttorp pp. 1791-1800 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetrically pumped nondegenerate second-harmonic generation inside a cavity M. W. Jack, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls pp. 1801-1811 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlling optical bistability using electromagnetic-field-induced transparency and quantum interferences W. Harshawardhan and G. S. Agarwal pp. 1812-1817 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green-function approach to the radiation-field quantization for homogeneous and inhomogeneous Kramers-Kronig dielectrics T. Gruner and D.-G. Welsch pp. 1818-1829 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental observation of parametric effects near period doubling in a loss-modulated CO2 laser V. N. Chizhevsky and Ramón Corbalán pp. 1830-1833 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-time intensity correlation in a driven three-level system H. Huang, S.-Y. Zhu, M. S. Zubairy, and M. O. Scully pp. 1834-1838 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gain and coherence effects induced by strong cw-laser coupling in potassium–rare-gas mixtures J. A. Kleinfeld and A. D. Streater pp. 1839-1853 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between spontaneous scattering and stimulated scattering in an injection-seeded Raman amplifier J. G. Wessel, K. S. Repasky, and J. L. Carlsten pp. 1854-1861 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Internal dynamics of multilevel atoms near a vacuum-dielectric interface J.-Y. Courtois, J.-M. Courty, and J. C. Mertz pp. 1862-1878 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal control of pulse amplification without inversion Ningjun Wang and Herschel Rabitz pp. 1879-1885 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(2) coherent states in parametric down-conversion A. Luis and J. Peřina pp. 1886-1893 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of associative ionization to the observation of quantum beats in low-lying atomic resonances J. F. Christian, L. C. Snoek, S. G. Clement, and W. J. van der Zande pp. 1894-1899 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Quantum teleportation without irreversible detection Samuel L. Braunstein pp. 1900-1902 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Efficient, direct self-consistent-field method in density-functional theory Kinya Kobayashi, Kazutami Tago, and Noriyuki Kurita pp. 1903-1906 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic variational method with a correlated Gaussian basis K. Varga and Y. Suzuki pp. 1907-1910 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Designations of ds2p energy levels in neutral zirconium, hafnium, and rutherfordium (Z=104) W. C. Martin and Jack Sugar pp. 1911-1914 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Elastic scattering of electrons from singly ionized argon D. C. Griffin and M. S. Pindzola pp. 1915-1918 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Spectroscopy of atoms confined to the single node of a standing wave in a parallel-plate cavity V. Sandoghdar, C. I. Sukenik, S. Haroche, and E. A. Hinds pp. 1919-1922 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]