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Additional motional-magnetic-field considerations for electric-dipole-moment experiments S. K. Lamoreaux pp. R3705-R3708 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Compton-scattering contribution to the double ionization of He in the A2 approximation M. A. Kornberg and J. E. Miraglia pp. R3709-R3712 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Singlet s-wave scattering lengths of 6Li and 7Li E. R. Abraham, W. I. McAlexander, J. M. Gerton, R. G. Hulet, R. Côté, and A. Dalgarno pp. R3713-R3715 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct observation of the double Auger decay of a K hole M. M. Hindi, Lin Zhu, Recep Avci, P. M. Miočinović, R. L. Kozub, and G. J. Lapeyre pp. R3716-R3719 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Compton double-to-single ionization ratio of helium at 57 keV R. Wehlitz, R. Hentges, G. Prümper, A. Farhat, T. Buslaps, N. Berrah, J. C. Levin, I. A. Sellin, and U. Becker pp. R3720-R3722 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Static-electric-field effects on high harmonic generation Min-Qi Bao and Anthony F. Starace pp. R3723-R3726 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atom trapping in nondissipative optical lattices B. P. Anderson, T. L. Gustavson, and M. A. Kasevich pp. R3727-R3730 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Polarization dynamics in a vertical-cavity laser with an axial magnetic field C. Serrat, N. B. Abraham, M. San Miguel, R. Vilaseca, and J. Martín-Regalado pp. R3731-R3733 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Laser cooling of cesium atoms in gray optical molasses down to 1.1 μK D. Boiron, A. Michaud, P. Lemonde, Y. Castin, C. Salomon, S. Weyers, K. Szymaniec, L. Cognet, and A. Clairon pp. R3734-R3737 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Entropy of phase measurement: Quantum phase via quadrature measurement Zdeněk Hradil, Robert Myška, Tomáš Opatrný, and Jiří Bajer pp. 3738-3742 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	δ-function spin-1/2 fermions in a one-dimensional potential well You-Quan Li and Jian-Hui Dai pp. 3743-3748 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Larmor clock for tunneling times H. M. Krenzlin, J. Budczies, and K. W. Kehr pp. 3749-3755 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Coherent splitting of single photons by an ideal beam splitter J. D. Franson pp. 3756-3760 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fundamental concepts

•	Accelerating light clocks F. V. Kowalski pp. 3761-3766 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heisenberg-picture approach to the exact quantum motion of a time-dependent forced harmonic oscillator Hyeong-Chan Kim, Min-Ho Lee, Jeong-Young Ji, and Jae Kwan Kim pp. 3767-3772 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum damping of position due to energy measurements Roberto Onofrio and Lorenza Viola pp. 3773-3780 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jamming nonlocal quantum correlations Jacob Grunhaus, Sandu Popescu, and Daniel Rohrlich pp. 3781-3784 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical quantum nondemolition measurements and the Copenhagen interpretation H. A. Haus and F. X. Kärtner pp. 3785-3791 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Special functions and quantum mechanics in phase space: Airy functions Go. Torres-Vega, A. Zúñiga-Segundo, and J. D. Morales-Guzmán pp. 3792-3797 [View PDF (1534 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical wave equation and exactness of the WKB method M. N. Sergeenko pp. 3798-3804 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric and nongeometric effects in an unbounded mechanical system Zhen Qi pp. 3805-3807 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Logical reversibility in quantum measurement: General theory and specific examples Masahito Ueda, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Hiroshi Nagaoka pp. 3808-3817 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generation of four-photon coherent states in dispersive cavity QED Christopher C. Gerry pp. 3818-3821 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametrized discrete phase-space functions T. Opatrný, D.-G. Welsch, and V. Bužek pp. 3822-3835 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exponential and Laguerre squeezed states for su(1,1) algebra and the Calogero-Sutherland model Hong-Chen Fu and Ryu Sasaki pp. 3836-3844 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Theoretical study of the electronic structure of the Sr2 molecule N. Boutassetta, A. R. Allouche, and M. Aubert-Frécon pp. 3845-3852 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound states with arbitrary angular momenta in nonrelativistic three-body systems Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith pp. 3853-3864 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear quadrupole coupling constants from the Gaussian density-functional method A. M. Köster, P. Calaminici, and N. Russo pp. 3865-3868 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic potential-energy surfaces of the H2 + ion in a strong magnetic field U. Kappes and P. Schmelcher pp. 3869-3883 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipole treatment of radiation trapping in a stepwise-excitation, electron-photon coincidence experiment A. T. Masters, A. J. Murray, R. Pascual, and M. C. Standage pp. 3884-3895 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QED corrections to O(α7mc2) fine-structure splittings in helium Tao Zhang pp. 3896-3914 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prospects for parity-nonconservation experiments with highly charged heavy ions M. Maul, A. Schäfer, W. Greiner, and P. Indelicato pp. 3915-3925 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculated energy levels of thallium and eka-thallium (element 113) Ephraim Eliav, Uzi Kaldor, Yasuyuki Ishikawa, Michael Seth, and Pekka Pyykkö pp. 3926-3933 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperspherical approach to three-electron atomic systems Xiazhou Yang, C. G. Bao, and C. D. Lin pp. 3934-3945 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple spin correction of unrestricted density-functional calculation Alexander A. Ovchinnikov and Jan K. Labanowski pp. 3946-3952 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray observations of 2l-nl′ transitions from Zr, Nb, Mo, and Pd in near-neonlike charge states J. E. Rice, K. B. Fournier, J. L. Terry, M. A. Graf, M. Finkenthal, E. S. Marmar, and W. H. Goldstein pp. 3953-3962 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact local exchange potential from Fock equations at vanishing coupling constant, and δTc/δn from wave-function calculations at full coupling constant Mel Levy, Matthias Ernzerhof, and Andreas Görling pp. 3963-3965 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body perturbation theory for general open-shell multiplet states of atoms Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Konrad Koc pp. 3966-3973 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement and interpretation of the polarization of the x-ray line emission of heliumlike Fe XXV excited by an electron beam P. Beiersdorfer, D. A. Vogel, K. J. Reed, V. Decaux, J. H. Scofield, K. Widmann, G. Hölzer, E. Förster, O. Wehrhan, D. W. Savin, and L. Schweikhard pp. 3974-3981 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of trapped 113Cd+ ions Utako Tanaka, Hidetsuka Imajo, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Masayoshi Watanabe, and Shinji Urabe pp. 3982-3985 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron correlations in multiconfiguration atomic wave functions David G. Ellis pp. 3986-3993 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Abnormal branching ratios in laser-excited Rydberg series of Yb+, Ba+, and Sr+ R. C. Zhao, W. Huang, X. Y. Xu, X. M. Tong, Y. Z. Qu, C. B. Xu, and P. Xue pp. 3994-3999 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for 1s2s 3S1–1s2p 3P2 decay in U90+ P. Beiersdorfer, S. R. Elliott, A. Osterheld, Th. Stöhlker, J. Autrey, G. V. Brown, A. J. Smith, and K. Widmann pp. 4000-4006 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of an intense magnetic field on transition arrays Pierre Dallot pp. 4007-4013 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragmentation of atomic systems John L. Bohn and U. Fano pp. 4014-4020 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Large-scale multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and configuration-interaction calculations of the transition probability and hyperfine structures in the sodium resonance transition Per Jönsson, Anders Ynnerman, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Michel R. Godefroid, and Jeppe Olsen pp. 4021-4030 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron affinity of Pa by 7p attachment and hyperfine structure constants for Pa- Konstantin D. Dinov and Donald R. Beck pp. 4031-4035 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body calculations of the energies of n=2 states for the berylliumlike isoelectronic sequence M. S. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, and U. I. Safronova pp. 4036-4053 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure-dependent quenching of Rb 5P states in liquid helium T. Kinoshita, K. Fukuda, T. Matsuura, and T. Yabuzaki pp. 4054-4063 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapse of the Zeeman structure of the hydrogen atom in an external electric field D. A. Sadovskií, B. I. Zhilinskií, and L. Michel pp. 4064-4067 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multichannel density-functional calculations for atoms and atomic chains in magnetic fields of compact stars B. M. Relovsky and H. Ruder pp. 4068-4074 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Extension of scattering theory for finite times: Three-body scattering T. Petrosky, G. Ordonez, and T. Miyasaka pp. 4075-4103 [View PDF (4478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signatures of target e-e correlations in the angular distribution of (e,3e) differential cross sections for the ionization of helium by fast electrons M. K. Srivastava, Seema Gupta, and C. Dal Cappello pp. 4104-4110 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational branching ratios for single-photon ionization of Na2 Henrik Rudolph and Xavier Urbain pp. 4111-4119 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution C 1s photoelectron spectra of methane H. M. Köppe, B. S. Itchkawitz, A. L. Kilcoyne, J. Feldhaus, B. Kempgens, A. Kivimäki, M. Neeb, and A. M. Bradshaw pp. 4120-4126 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron affinity of Li: A state-selective measurement Gunnar Haeffler, Dag Hanstorp, Igor Kiyan, Andreas E. Klinkmüller, Ulric Ljungblad, and David J. Pegg pp. 4127-4131 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisional mixing among excited degenerate states in inelastic ion-atom collisions C. C. Montanari and J. E. Miraglia pp. 4132-4137 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of cross sections and oscillator strengths by electron impact for the 5d and 7s levels of Xe T. Y. Suzuki, H. Suzuki, F. J. Currell, S. Ohtani, T. Takayanagi, and K. Wakiya pp. 4138-4144 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic inner-shell ionization by light ions Ž. Šmit pp. 4145-4150 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimum principle for autoionizing states Leonard Rosenberg pp. 4151-4157 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triply differential cross section and polarization correlations in electron bremsstrahlung emission C. David Shaffer, Xiao-Min Tong, and R. H. Pratt pp. 4158-4163 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron capture in collisions of O2+(3P) ions with He atoms at energies below 10 keV: The effect of metastable O2+(1D) ions M. Kimura, J. P. Gu, G. Hirsch, and R. J. Buenker pp. 4164-4168 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering of excited muonic hydrogen Vyacheslav Bystritsky, Wilhelm Czapliński, Jan Wozniak, Elżbieta Gul/a, Andrey Kravtsov, Alexander Mikhailov, and Nicolai Popov pp. 4169-4175 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double electron capture in low-energy Fe17++He collisions S. Bliman, R. Bruch, P. L. Altick, D. Schneider, and M. H. Prior pp. 4176-4182 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Circular-dichroism effects on photoelectron angular distributions for the 7P and 8P states of cesium C. S. Feigerle, R. N. Compton, L. E. Cuéllar, N. A. Cherepkov, and L. V. Chernysheva pp. 4183-4189 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-state dependence of K-shell x-ray production in aluminum by 2–12-MeV carbon ions H. L. Sun, Y. C. Yu, E. K. Lin, C. W. Wang, J. L. Duggan, A. R. Azordegan, F. D. McDaniel, and G. Lapicki pp. 4190-4197 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectronic processes producing radiative stabilization in slow Ne10++He collisions J.-Y. Chesnel, H. Merabet, F. Frémont, G. Cremer, X. Husson, D. Lecler, G. Rieger, A. Spieler, M. Grether, and N. Stolterfoht pp. 4198-4204 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-momentum structure of the krypton valence shell by electron-momentum spectroscopy R. Nicholson, S. W. Braidwood, I. E. McCarthy, E. Weigold, and M. J. Brunger pp. 4205-4214 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic Born completion in the calculation of electron-molecule differential cross sections William A. Isaacs and Michael A. Morrison pp. 4215-4221 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Auger deexcitation in a helium atom induced by a metal surface M. Alducin pp. 4222-4227 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutralization and equilibration of highly charged argon ions at grazing incidence on a graphite surface S. Winecki, C. L. Cocke, D. Fry, and M. P. Stöckli pp. 4228-4237 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Atomic de Broglie waves in multiple optical standing waves Chang Jae Lee pp. 4238-4244 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state and excited states of a confined condensed Bose gas Alexander L. Fetter pp. 4245-4249 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium condensates and lasers without inversion: Exciton-polariton lasers A. Imamog¯lu, R. J. Ram, S. Pau, and Y. Yamamoto pp. 4250-4253 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference of two condensates William Hoston and L. You pp. 4254-4256 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms in a trap T. T. Chou, Chen Ning Yang, and L. H. Yu pp. 4257-4259 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Multiple reflection of an extended atomic wave packet through a square-profile laser beam Luis Pumares, Luis Plaja, Luis Roso, and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski pp. 4260-4267 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-color above-threshold ionization of atoms C. S. Han pp. 4268-4274 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluorescence and absorption by a two-level atom in a bichromatic field with one strong and one weak component Z. Ficek and H. S. Freedhoff pp. 4275-4287 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Landau-Zener model: Effects of finite coupling duration N. V. Vitanov and B. M. Garraway pp. 4288-4304 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized analytical description of light-induced drift and an experimental test using C2H4 B. Nagels, P. L. Chapovsky, L. J. Hermans, G. J. van der Meer, and A. M. Shalagin pp. 4305-4310 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of the Kapitza-Dirac effect in strong radiation fields Dong-Sheng Guo pp. 4311-4319 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonresonant multiphoton double ionization of Ga and As probed by a picosecond double-pulse technique C. Trappe, M. Schütze, G. Lüpke, and H. Kurz pp. 4320-4325 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical study of the vibrational-branching ratio and photoelectron angular distribution in (1+1′)-photon resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of HD and D2 molecules Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar pp. 4326-4330 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous light-induced drift of potassium in Ne plus rare-gas mixtures F. Yahyaei-Moayyed and A. D. Streater pp. 4331-4337 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interferometric characterization of Raman redistribution among perturbed Rydberg states of barium D. I. Duncan and R. R. Jones pp. 4338-4342 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisions of dressed ground-state atoms A. J. Moerdijk, B. J. Verhaar, and T. M. Nagtegaal pp. 4343-4351 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gravito-optical trapping of three-level atoms Karl-Peter Marzlin and Jürgen Audretsch pp. 4352-4359 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Coherence properties of entangled light beams generated by parametric down-conversion: Theory and experiment Adel Joobeur, Bahaa E. Saleh, Todd S. Larchuk, and Malvin C. Teich pp. 4360-4371 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism for period-doubling bifurcation in a semiconductor laser subject to optical injection Thomas Erneux, Vassilios Kovanis, Athanasios Gavrielides, and Paul M. Alsing pp. 4372-4380 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-contrast, high-resolution focusing of neutral atoms using light forces Vasant Natarajan, Robert E. Behringer, and Gregory Timp pp. 4381-4385 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-atom maser: Phase-sensitive measurements Berthold-Georg Englert, Tserensodnom Gantsog, Axel Schenzle, Christian Wagner, and Herbert Walther pp. 4386-4399 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical media with an imaginary third-order nonlinearity analyzed by Hamiltonian systems K. Fobelets and K. Thielemans pp. 4400-4407 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global-stability analysis of transverse modes in laser systems under inhomogeneous pumping M. N. Ouarzazi, P. A. Bois, and M. Taki pp. 4408-4419 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective-resonance fluorescence in an ideal cavity H. M. Castro-Beltran, J. J. Sanchez-Mondragon, and S. M. Chumakov pp. 4420-4428 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lang and Kobayashi phase equation P. M. Alsing, V. Kovanis, A. Gavrielides, and T. Erneux pp. 4429-4434 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse mode competition in a CO2 laser E. Louvergneaux, D. Hennequin, D. Dangoisse, and P. Glorieux pp. 4435-4438 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probe absorption spectra for driven atomic systems in a narrow bandwidth squeezed vacuum M. Bosticky, Z. Ficek, and B. J. Dalton pp. 4439-4467 [View PDF (541 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous emission in an absorptive and inhomogeneous cav