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Group-theoretic intrepetation of the bound states of Morse oscillators Carl Wulfman pp. R987-R990 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Natural widths in open-shell atoms: The K absorption spectrum of atomic oxygen A. Menzel, S. Benzaid, M. O. Krause, C. D. Caldwell, U. Hergenhahn, and M. Bissen pp. R991-R994 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Calculation of double photoionization of helium using the convergent close-coupling method Anatoli S. Kheifets and Igor Bray pp. R995-R997 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Convergent R matrix with pseudostates calculation for e--He collisions K. Bartschat, E. T. Hudson, M. P. Scott, P. G. Burke, and V. M. Burke pp. R998-R1001 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

S-wave model for electron-hydrogen scattering Klaus Bartschat and Igor Bray pp. R1002-R1005 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct measurement of the ground-state dissociation energy of Na2 K. M. Jones, S. Maleki, S. Bize, P. D. Lett, C. J. Williams, H. Richling, H. Knöckel, E. Tiemann, H. Wang, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley pp. R1006-R1009 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Millihertz magnetic resonance spectroscopy of Cs atoms in body-centered-cubic 4He S. I. Kanorsky, S. Lang, S. Lücke, S. B. Ross, T. W. Hänsch, and A. Weis pp. R1010-R1013 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dark pair coherent states of the motion of a trapped ion S. -C. Gou, J. Steinbach, and P. L. Knight pp. R1014-R1017 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rotating magnetic quadrupole field traps for neutral atoms V. E. Shapiro pp. R1018-R1021 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamics of electronic wave packets in field emission and intense-field laser-atom physics B. Gottlieb, A. Lohr, W. Becker, and M. Kleber pp. R1022-R1025 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase-matched frequency conversion in ionizing atomic gases C. Kan, C. E. Capjack, R. Rankin, T. Brabec, and N. H. Burnett pp. R1026-R1029 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Trap-depth measurements using ultracold collisions D. Hoffmann, S. Bali, and T. Walker pp. R1030-R1033 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Efficient networks for quantum factoring David Beckman, Amalavoyal N. Chari, Srikrishna Devabhaktuni, and John Preskill pp. 1034-1063 [View PDF (498 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence and dephasing in a quantum measurement process Naoyuki Kono, Ken Machida, Mikio Namiki, and Saverio Pascazio pp. 1064-1086 [View PDF (733 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic electron moving in a multimode quantized radiation field Dong-Sheng Guo, Ju Gao, and Amy Hwia-May Chu pp. 1087-1097 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Good quantum error-correcting codes exist A. R. Calderbank and Peter W. Shor pp. 1098-1105 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum ballistic evolution in quantum mechanics: Application to quantum computers Paul Benioff pp. 1106-1123 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Implications of the intrinsic decoherence in quantum mechanics to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics A. K. Rajagopal pp. 1124-1127 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the Aharonov-Bohm wave function M. Alvarez pp. 1128-1135 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonintegral Maslov indices H. Friedrich and J. Trost pp. 1136-1145 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum measurement and the transformation from quantum to classical probabilities Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione pp. 1146-1153 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Revivals of wave packets: General theory and application to Rydberg clusters O. Knospe and R. Schmidt pp. 1154-1160 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized center-of-mass coordinate and relative momentum operators studied through unitary transformations Shen-xi Yu pp. 1161-1164 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar curvature factor in the Schrödinger equation and scattering on a curved surface Ali Mostafazadeh pp. 1165-1170 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	Formation of metastable dtμ molecules in tμ(2s)-D2 collisions J. Wallenius and P. Froelich pp. 1171-1182 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Stationary direct perturbation theory of relativistic corrections Werner Kutzelnigg pp. 1183-1198 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental gJ factor in the metastable 5D3/2 level of Ba+ K. H. Knöll, G. Marx, K. Hübner, F. Schweikert, S. Stahl, Ch. Weber, and G. Werth pp. 1199-1205 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct calculation of Stark resonances in hydrogen Francisco M. Fernández pp. 1206-1209 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Approximate account of connected quadruply excited clusters in single-reference coupled-cluster theory via cluster analysis of the projected unrestricted Hartree-Fock wave function Piotr Piecuch, Robert Tobol/a, and Josef Paldus pp. 1210-1241 [View PDF (594 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant nuclear transition in the dμ 6Li muonic molecule S. A. Rakityansky, S. A. Sofianos, V. B. Belyaev, and V. I. Korobov pp. 1242-1251 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Corrections to O(α7(lnα)mc2) fine-structure splittings and O(α6(lnα)mc2) energy levels in helium Tao Zhang pp. 1252-1312 [View PDF (1031 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic potential-energy surfaces for higher excited states of the H2+ ion in a strong magnetic field U. Kappes and P. Schmelcher pp. 1313-1317 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second-order Zeeman effect in the 5 2S–3 2S and 4 2D–3 2S two-photon transitions of atomic sodium W. Hüttner, P. Otto, and M. Gamperling pp. 1318-1321 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational calculations of the Fermi contact term for the 2 2S, 2 2P, and 3 2S states of Li and the 2 2S state of Be+ Zong-Chao Yan, D. K. McKenzie, and G. W. Drake pp. 1322-1327 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-density approximation, hierarchy of equations, functional expansion, and adiabatic connection in current-density-functional theory Shubin Liu pp. 1328-1336 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unresolved transition arrays and wave-number distributions for some E1 transitions between high-l states of the iron-group elements P. Palmeri and E. Biémont pp. 1337-1341 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization measurements on a magnetic quadrupole line in Ne-like barium E. Takács, E. S. Meyer, J. D. Gillaspy, J. R. Roberts, C. T. Chantler, L. T. Hudson, R. D. Deslattes, C. M. Brown, J. M. Laming, J. Dubau, and M. K. Inal pp. 1342-1350 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body calculations of [2p53d]J=1 excited-state energy levels for neonlike ions E. Avgoustoglou and Z. W. Liu pp. 1351-1359 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Threshold law for ionization of atomic hydrogen by positron impact N. C. Sil and K. Roy pp. 1360-1362 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyticity and unitarity as constraints to obtain scattering phase shifts and an application to e-He scattering H. Huber, D. R. Lun, L. J. Allen, and K. Amos pp. 1363-1371 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-pooling collisions in cesium: 6PJ+6PJ→6S+(nl=7P,6D,8S,4F) Z. J. Jabbour, R. K. Namiotka, J. Huennekens, M. Allegrini, S. Milošević, and F. de Tomasi pp. 1372-1384 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recoil-ion charge-state-resolved electron-production cross sections at 55° for 1 MeV/u C5+ on He and Ar F. Segner, M. Breinig, D. D. Desai, A. Wig, and L. Straus pp. 1385-1393 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Single ionization of He by low-velocity protons and C6+: Ejected electron momentum distributions S. D. Kravis, M. Abdallah, C. L. Cocke, C. D. Lin, M. Stockli, B. Walch, Y. D. Wang, R. E. Olson, V. D. Rodríguez, W. Wu, M. Pieksma, and N. Watanabe pp. 1394-1403 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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K-shell radiative electron capture with bare 60-MeV/u Kr ions channeled in a Si crystal: Experiments and simulations S. Andriamonje, M. Chevallier, C. Cohen, N. Cue, D. Dauvergne, J. Dural, F. Fujimoto, R. Kirsch, A. L’Hoir, J.-C. Poizat, Y. Quéré, J. Remillieux, C. Röhl, H. Rothard, J. P. Rozet, D. Schmaus, M. Toulemonde, and D. Vernhet pp. 1404-1416 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Velocity-matching model for electron capture in keV atomic collisions Emil Y. Sidky and Hans-Jo/rgen T. Simonsen pp. 1417-1429 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Line-shape analysis of resonant energy transfer collisions J. R. Veale, W. Anderson, M. Gatzke, M. Renn, and T. F. Gallagher pp. 1430-1434 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute cross sections for electron-impact single ionization of Neq+ (q=2,4–6) ions M. E. Bannister pp. 1435-1444 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron detachment of H- in collisions with multiply charged ions M. H. Cherkani, D. Fussen, M. I. Chibisov, and F. Brouillard pp. 1445-1447 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetry parameter and momentum distribution of the nucleus in double photoionization of helium Marcel Pont and Robin Shakeshaft pp. 1448-1451 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transfer-excitation processes in collisions of N3+ ions with H2, He, Ne, and Ar targets E. Y. Kamber, K. Akgüngör, C. Leather, and A. G. Brenton pp. 1452-1458 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of oscillations of the optogalvanic signal in an electrodeless discharge Namic Kwon, Sang-Hyun Yoog, Young-Hwan Yun, and Wonho Jhe pp. 1459-1462 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring nondipolar asymmetries of photoelectron angular distributions P. S. Shaw, U. Arp, and S. H. Southworth pp. 1463-1472 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociative ionization of H2 + by fast-electron impact: Use of a two-center continuum wave function B. Joulakian, J. Hanssen, R. Rivarola, and A. Motassim pp. 1473-1479 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parabolic-hyperspherical approach to the fragmentation of three-particle Coulomb systems J. Berakdar pp. 1480-1486 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Basic matrix elements for level shifts and widths of hydrogenic levels in ion-surface interactions P. Kürpick and U. Thumm pp. 1487-1499 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Spontaneous and stimulated combination scattering from alkali-metal Bose-Einstein condensates Y. B. Band pp. 1500-1503 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Theory of two-photon adiabatic passage: Absorption to and emission from N states Moshe Shapiro pp. 1504-1509 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of noise and modulation on the reflection of atoms from an evanescent wave Wen-Yu Chen, G. J. Milburn, and S. Dyrting pp. 1510-1515 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double-core resonance in two-electron atoms R. Grobe, S. L. Haan, and J. H. Eberly pp. 1516-1521 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order harmonic generation in a bichromatic elliptically polarized laser field Dejan B. Milošević and Bernard Piraux pp. 1522-1531 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trapped ions in the strong-excitation regime: Ion interferometry and nonclassical states J. F. Poyatos, J. I. Cirac, R. Blatt, and P. Zoller pp. 1532-1540 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explosive ionization of molecules in intense laser fields M. Ivanov, T. Seideman, P. Corkum, F. Ilkov, and P. Dietrich pp. 1541-1550 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum interferences in resonant multiphoton-ionization processes for a strongly coupled atomic system R. S. Sihombing, M. Katsuragawa, G. Z. Zhang, and K. Hakuta pp. 1551-1555 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent population transfer in multilevel systems with magnetic sublevels. III. Experimental results J. Martin, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann pp. 1556-1569 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiphoton ionization of H2+ Moon-Gu Baik, Marcel Pont, and Robin Shakeshaft pp. 1570-1576 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Resonant formation of Ca+ from the Ca*(4s25d1D2) level explained by autoionization through the 3d3/29f5/2, Jπ=2- resonance Henrik Q. Lorensen, Harold V. Parks, Eileen M. Spain, John E. Smedley, Chris H. Greene, and Stephen R. Leone pp. 1577-1585 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Raman theory for a three-level atom in the Λ configuration Ying Wu pp. 1586-1592 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical angular-momentum transfer to trapped absorbing particles M. E. Friese, J. Enger, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and N. R. Heckenberg pp. 1593-1596 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

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Coherence and bandwidth measurements of harmonics generated from solid surfaces irradiated by intense picosecond laser pulses J. Zhang, M. Zepf, P. A. Norreys, A. E. Dangor, M. Bakarezos, C. N. Danson, A. Dyson, A. P. Fews, P. Gibbon, M. H. Key, P. Lee, P. Loukakos, S. Moustaizis, D. Neely, F. N. Walsh, and J. S. Wark pp. 1597-1603 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic coherence and bistable lasers without inversion Guao Qin Ge, Xueli Luo, Ying Wu, and Zaiguang Li pp. 1604-1608 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse patterns in degenerate optical parametric oscillation and degenerate four-wave mixing G. J. de Valcárcel, K. Staliunas, Eugenio Roldán, and V. J. Sánchez-Morcillo pp. 1609-1624 [View PDF (969 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum noise reduction in stationary superradiance Fritz Haake, Mikhail I. Kolobov, Carsten Seeger, Claude Fabre, Elisabeth Giacobino, and Serge Reynaud pp. 1625-1637 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intensity phase coherence in three-mode Fabry-Pérot lasers Ba An Nguyen and Paul Mandel pp. 1638-1646 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of optical anisotropies in the polarization properties of surface-emitting semiconductor lasers M. Travagnin, M. P. van Exter, A. K. Jansen van Doorn, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 1647-1660 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-optical input-output relations for dispersive and lossy multilayer dielectric plates T. Gruner and D.-G. Welsch pp. 1661-1677 [View PDF (379 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct sampling of density matrices in field-strength bases A. Zucchetti, W. Vogel, M. Tasche, and D.-G. Welsch pp. 1678-1681 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trapped ions as vibrational beam splitters: SU(2) states in a two-dimensional ion trap S.-C. Gou and P. L. Knight pp. 1682-1690 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous emission from the bare ground state of an optically driven three-level atom: Perturbation theory and energy conservation J. L. Cohen and P. R. Berman pp. 1686-1690 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Derivation and physical interpretation of the optimum detection operators for coherent-state signals Masao Osaki, Masashi Ban, and Osamu Hirota pp. 1691-1701 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-modulation effects in self-diffraction Qiguang Yang, Jinhai Si, Yougui Wang, and Peixian Ye pp. 1702-1708 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear oscillator behavior in the Jaynes-Cummings model Y. T. Chough and H. J. Carmichael pp. 1709-1714 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Relation between quantum computing and quantum controllability Viswanath Ramakrishna and Herschel Rabitz pp. 1715-1716 [View PDF (33 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Analysis of the He-Xe absorption spectrum in the far infrared Lothar Frommhold and Paolo Dore pp. 1717-1719 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Unusual nature of positronium-proton elastic scattering J. Mitroy, K. Ratnavelu, and A. T. Stelbovics pp. 1720-1722 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of electron-Cs scattering at intermediate energies Klaus Bartschat and Igor Bray pp. 1723-1725 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Simple calculation of the spatial evolution of atoms in a trap during occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation V. S. Bagnato pp. 1726-1728 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Josephson cascade micromaser Noriyuki Hatakenaka and Susumu Kurihara pp. 1729-1732 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Why quantum mechanics cannot be formulated as a Markov process’’ Piotr Garbaczewski and Robert Olkiewicz pp. 1733-1736 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Why quantum mechanics cannot be formulated as a Markov process’’’ Daniel T. Gillespie pp. 1737-1738 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Simultaneous trapping of two different atomic species in a vapor-cell magneto-optical trap M. S. Santos, P. Nussenzveig, L. G. Marcassa, K. Helmerson, J. Fleming, S. C. Zilio, and V. S. Bagnato pp. 1739 [View PDF (25 kB) ]