Physical Review A – September 1996
(Volume 54, Issue 3)

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Add to article collection Error prevention scheme with four particles
Lev Vaidman, Lior Goldenberg, and Stephen Wiesner
pp. R1745-R1748 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Evolution of a Bose-condensed gas under variations of the confining potential
Yu. Kagan, E. L. Surkov, and G. V. Shlyapnikov
pp. R1753-R1756 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Theory of an atom laser
M. Holland, K. Burnett, C. Gardiner, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. R1757-R1760 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Generation of ultrashort pulses of harmonics
Ph. Antoine, B. Piraux, D. B. Milošević, and M. Gajda
pp. R1761-R1764 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Energetic electrons in strong-field ionization
H. R. Reiss
pp. R1765-R1768 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Very low threshold whispering-gallery-mode microsphere laser
V. Sandoghdar, F. Treussart, J. Hare, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, J. -M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
pp. R1777-R1780 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Relation between dynamic localization in crystals and trapping in two-level atoms
S. Raghavan, V. M. Kenkre, D. H. Dunlap, A. R. Bishop, and M. I. Salkola
pp. R1781-R1784 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Coherent nonlinear optical spectroscopy using photon-number squeezed light
D. C. Kilper, A. C. Schaefer, J. Erland, and D. G. Steel
pp. R1785-R1788 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Observation of a laserlike transition in a microcavity exciton polariton system
Stanley Pau, Hui Cao, Joseph Jacobson, Gunnar Björk, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Atac Imamoğlu
pp. R1789-R1792 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Entangled entanglement
Günther Krenn and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 1793-1797 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Temporal Bell-type inequalities for two-level Rydberg atoms coupled to a high-Q resonator
Susana F. Huelga, Trevor W. Marshall, and Emilio Santos
pp. 1798-1807 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Semiclassical approximations to the coherent-state propagator for a particle in a box
Ademir L. Xavier and Marcus A. de Aguiar
pp. 1808-1819 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection From Heisenberg matrix mechanics to semiclassical quantization: Theory and first applications
William R. Greenberg, Abraham Klein, Ivaylo Zlatev, and Ching-Teh Li
pp. 1820-1837 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Information-theoretic aspects of inseparability of mixed states
Ryszard Horodecki and Michal/ Horodecki
pp. 1838-1843 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum copying: Beyond the no-cloning theorem
V. Bužek and M. Hillery
pp. 1844-1852 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Higher-order binding corrections to the Lamb shift of 2P states
U. Jentschura and K. Pachucki
pp. 1853-1861 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical information capacity of a quantum channel
Paul Hausladen, Richard Jozsa, Benjamin Schumacher, Michael Westmoreland, and William K. Wootters
pp. 1869-1876 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Electron correlation in momentum space for the neon-atom isoelectronic sequence from F- through Ar8+
Awadh N. Tripathi, Vedene H. Smith, Robin P. Sagar, and Rodolfo O. Esquivel
pp. 1877-1883 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Crossed-field hydrogen atom and the three-body Sun-Earth-Moon problem
Eugen Flöthmann and Karl H. Welge
pp. 1884-1888 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Extended time-dependent mean-field approximation
D. A. Portes, Takeshi Kodama, and A. F. de Toledo Piza
pp. 1889-1896 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Kinetic-energy density functional: Atoms and shell structure
P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and E. Chacón
pp. 1897-1905 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Contribution of electron correlation to the stability of dipole-bound anionic states
Maciej Gutowski, Piotr Skurski, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Jack Simons, and Kenneth D. Jordan
pp. 1906-1909 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Kohn-Sham effective potentials for spin-polarized atomic systems
Jiqiang Chen, J. B. Krieger, R. O. Esquivel, M. J. Stott, and G. J. Iafrate
pp. 1910-1921 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Periodic-orbit spectra of hydrogen and helium
Yanghui Qiu, Jörg Müller, and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. 1922-1935 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of five-photon decay in orthopositronium
Toshihiro Matsumoto, Masami Chiba, Ryosuke Hamatsu, Tachishige Hirose, Jinfeng Yang, and Jie Yu
pp. 1947-1951 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Four-photon decay of orthopositronium: A test of charge-conjugation invariance
Jinfeng Yang, Masami Chiba, Ryosuke Hamatsu, Tachishige Hirose, Toshihiro Matsumoto, and Jie Yu
pp. 1952-1956 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effect of molecular dissociation on the exchange-correlation Kohn-Sham potential
Oleg V. Gritsenko and Evert Jan Baerends
pp. 1957-1972 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical and experimental determination of the polarizabilities of the zinc 1S0 state
Dirk Goebel, Uwe Hohm, and George Maroulis
pp. 1973-1978 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground- and excited-state properties of neutral and anionic selenium dimers and trimers
Christoph Heinemann, Wolfram Koch, Gottlieb-Georg Lindner, Dirk Reinen, and Per-Olof Widmark
pp. 1979-1993 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental atomic transition probabilities for O II lines
G. Veres and W. L. Wiese
pp. 1999-2003 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Kinetic-energy- and angular-resolved fragmentation of CO in vibrational-resolved C 1s excitation
Norio Saito, Franz Heiser, Oliver Hemmers, Kornel Wieliczek, Jens Viefhaus, and Uwe Becker
pp. 2004-2010 [View PDF (437 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Modified Faddeev treatment of electron capture
Steven Alston
pp. 2011-2021 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of slow-atom collisions
Bo Gao
pp. 2022-2039 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative and inner-shell dielectronic recombination in a highly charged barium ion
D. J. McLaughlin, Y. Hahn, E. Takács, E. S. Meyer, and J. D. Gillaspy
pp. 2040-2049 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nuclear spin conversion in molecules: Experiments on 13CH3F support a mixing-of-states model
B. Nagels, M. Schuurman, P. L. Chapovsky, and L. J. Hermans
pp. 2050-2055 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron absorption by complex potentials: One-dimensional case
Patrici Molinàs-Mata and Pau Molinàs-Mata
pp. 2060-2065 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Narrow chaotic compound autoionizing states in atomic spectra
V. V. Flambaum, A. A. Gribakina, and G. F. Gribakin
pp. 2066-2079 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Partial photoionization cross sections and photoelectron angular distributions for double excitations up to the N=5 threshold in helium
A. Menzel, S. P. Frigo, S. B. Whitfield, C. D. Caldwell, and M. O. Krause
pp. 2080-2090 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Postcollision interactions in the Auger decay of the Ar L shell
James A. Samson, W. C. Stolte, Z. X. He, J. N. Cutler, and D. Hansen
pp. 2099-2106 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Core-to-Rydberg excitations and their Auger decay in the HCl and DCl molecules
E. Kukk, H. Aksela, O.-P. Sairanen, E. Nõmmiste, S. Aksela, S. J. Osborne, A. Ausmees, and S. Svensson
pp. 2121-2126 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental determination of nondipolar angular distribution parameters for photoionization in the Ar K and Kr L shells
M. Jung, B. Krässig, D. S. Gemmell, E. P. Kanter, T. LeBrun, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young
pp. 2127-2136 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Angle-resolved Auger spectrum of the N2 molecule
A. Kivimäki, M. Neeb, B. Kempgens, H. M. Köppe, and A. M. Bradshaw
pp. 2137-2141 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Absolute partial cross sections for electron-impact ionization of H2, N2, and O2 from threshold to 1000 eV
H. C. Straub, P. Renault, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings
pp. 2146-2153 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Doubly differential cross sections of low-energy electrons emitted in the ionization of molecular hydrogen by bare carbon ions
Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, D. Ling, Y. D. Wang, C. D. Lin, R. Moshammer, G. W. Kerby, M. W. Gealy, and M. E. Rudd
pp. 2154-2160 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single- and double-electron detachment from H- in collisions with He
L. Víkor, L. Sarkadi, F. Penent, A. Báder, and J. Pálinkás
pp. 2161-2168 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Matter waves

Add to article collection Index of refraction of noble gases for sodium matter waves
Robert C. Forrey, Li You, Vasili Kharchenko, and Alex Dalgarno
pp. 2180-2184 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interference of Bose condensates
M. Naraschewski, H. Wallis, A. Schenzle, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 2185-2196 [View PDF (1098 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Particle-hole excitations in small metal clusters by electron scattering
M. R. Spinella, M. Bernath, O. Dragún, and H. Massmann
pp. 2197-2204 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interactions of the Na2 dimer with a C60 molecule
A. S. Hira and A. K. Ray
pp. 2205-2215 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Multipole moments and trap states in forward scattering of resonance light
Bogdan L/obodziński and Wojciech Gawlik
pp. 2238-2252 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonant photoionization of Ni I into autoionizing states
P. Lievens, E. Vandeweert, P. Thoen, and R. E. Silverans
pp. 2253-2259 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Force measurement via dark-state cooling
K. Jacobs, M. J. Collett, H. M. Wiseman, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls
pp. 2260-2270 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic inhibition of polarization-gradient laser cooling in σ+-σ- optical molasses
M. Walhout, U. Sterr, and S. L. Rolston
pp. 2275-2279 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Squeezed states in multiple atomic fluorescence
M. Artoni and R. Marani
pp. 2280-2291 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Field quantization in dielectric media and the generalized multipolar Hamiltonian
B. J. Dalton, E. S. Guerra, and P. L. Knight
pp. 2292-2313 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of third-harmonic generation using Bessel beams, and self-phase-matching
Surya P. Tewari, H. Huang, and R. W. Boyd
pp. 2314-2325 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Modal analysis of spontaneous emission in a planar microcavity
H. Rigneault and S. Monneret
pp. 2356-2368 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical-vortex pair creation and annihilation and helical astigmatism of a nonplanar ring resonator
N. R. Heckenberg, M. Vaupel, J. T. Malos, and C. O. Weiss
pp. 2369-2378 [View PDF (1412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonance fluorescence spectra of three-level atoms in a squeezed vacuum
M. R. Ferguson, Z. Ficek, and B. J. Dalton
pp. 2379-2390 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Homodyne detection for the enhancement of antibunching
Reeta Vyas, Changxin Wang, and Surendra Singh
pp. 2391-2396 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-mode quantum-optical state measurement: Sampling the joint density matrix
M. G. Raymer, D. F. McAlister, and U. Leonhardt
pp. 2397-2401 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of inversionless gain and field-assisted lasing in a nearly ideal three-level cascade-type atomic system
P. B. Sellin, G. A. Wilson, K. K. Meduri, and T. W. Mossberg
pp. 2402-2407 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Enhanced input coupling into a gain-guided amplifier
J. G. Wessel, K. S. Repasky, and J. L. Carlsten
pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum optics of plasmon polaritons and velocity sum rules
O. Al-Dossary, M. Babiker, and N. Enfati
pp. 2419-2425 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytic solutions of the Bloch equation involving asymmetric amplitude and frequency modulations
Daniel Rosenfeld, Shimon L. Panfil, and Yuval Zur
pp. 2439-2443 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Enhanced beam characteristics of a discharge-pumped soft-x-ray amplifier by an axial magnetic field
F. G. Tomasel, V. N. Shlyaptsev, and J. J. Rocca
pp. 2474-2478 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Direct measurement of macroscopic electric fields produced by collective effects in electron-impact experiments
R. Velotta, L. Avaldi, R. Camilloni, F. Giammanco, N. Spinelli, and G. Stefani
pp. 2482-2485 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Avoided level crossings between s states and Stark states in Rydberg Rb atoms
M. Gatzke, J. R. Veale, W. R. Swindell, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 2492-2495 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Suppression of ionization due to a laser pulse
Man Mohan, V. Prasad, and R. Sharma
pp. 2496-2498 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spatial correlation effects in a laser
Ashish Agarwal and S. Chopra
pp. 2503-2505 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]