Physical Review A – November 1996
(Volume 54, Issue 5)

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Add to article collection Electron-impact ionization of laser-excited sodium atom
W. S. Tan, Z. Shi, C. H. Ying, and L. Vušković
pp. R3710-R3713 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Continuous observation of interference fringes from Bose condensates
J. I. Cirac, C. W. Gardiner, M. Naraschewski, and P. Zoller
pp. R3714-R3717 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Interference of two Bose-Einstein condensates with collisions
T. Wong, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls
pp. R3718-R3721 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Noncondensate atoms in a trapped Bose gas
Juha Javanainen
pp. R3722-R3725 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Properties of cold collisions of 39K atoms and of 41K atoms in relation to Bose-Einstein condensation
H. M. Boesten, J. M. Vogels, J. G. Tempelaars, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. R3726-R3729 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Observation of flux enhancement in collisions between ultracold atoms
V. Sanchez-Villicana, S. D. Gensemer, and P. L. Gould
pp. R3730-R3733 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Conditional probabilities for a single photon at a beam splitter
K. Jacobs and P. L. Knight
pp. R3738-R3741 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Second-harmonic generation and the orbital angular momentum of light
K. Dholakia, N. B. Simpson, M. J. Padgett, and L. Allen
pp. R3742-R3745 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Anharmonicity of the vacuum Rabi peaks in a many-atom system
J. Gripp, S. L. Mielke, L. A. Orozco, and H. J. Carmichael
pp. R3746-R3749 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Quantum Zeno effect on atomic excitation decay in resonators
A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki
pp. R3750-R3753 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Random walks, continuum limits, and Schrödinger’s equation
G. N. Ord and A. S. Deakin
pp. 3772-3778 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum tunneling in a dissipative system
Li Hua Yu
pp. 3779-3782 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Unambiguous quantum measurement of nonorthogonal states
B. Huttner, A. Muller, J. D. Gautier, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
pp. 3783-3789 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Relativistic Coulomb problem: Analytic upper bounds on energy levels
Wolfgang Lucha and Franz F. Schöberl
pp. 3790-3794 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nearly instantaneous alternatives in quantum mechanics
Richard J. Micanek and James B. Hartle
pp. 3795-3800 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Change and uncertainty in quantum systems
J. D. Franson
pp. 3808-3812 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical state sensitivity from quantum mechanics
L. E. Ballentine and J. P. Zibin
pp. 3813-3819 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Parity nonconservation in high-Z heliumlike ions
R. W. Dunford
pp. 3820-3823 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mixed-state entanglement and quantum error correction
Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, John A. Smolin, and William K. Wootters
pp. 3824-3851 [View PDF (475 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection K-LM and K-MM radiative Auger effect from Kr and Xe
A. Mühleisen, M. Budnar, and J.-Cl. Dousse
pp. 3852-3858 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dielectronic recombination and excitation autoionization rate coefficients for potassiumlike Mo23+ to fluorinelike Mo33+
K. B. Fournier, M. Cohen, W. H. Goldstein, A. L. Osterheld, M. Finkenthal, M. J. May, J. L. Terry, M. A. Graf, and J. Rice
pp. 3870-3884 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Teardrop bifurcation for Rydberg atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields
A. Deprit, V. Lanchares, M. Iñarrea, J. P. Salas, and J. D. Sierra
pp. 3885-3893 [View PDF (5042 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Density-functional theory for excited states
Andreas Görling
pp. 3912-3915 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of the second 3Πu valence state of O2
B. R. Lewis, P. M. Dooley, J. P. England, K. Waring, S. T. Gibson, K. G. Baldwin, and H. Partridge
pp. 3923-3938 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Combination of the many-body perturbation theory with the configuration-interaction method
V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and M. G. Kozlov
pp. 3948-3959 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurements of the ground-state ionization energy and wavelengths for the 1s21S0–1snp1P1 (n=6–12) lines of Al XII
A. L. Osterheld, A. I. Magunov, V. M. Dyakin, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Yu. Skobelev, T. Pisarczyk, P. Parys, J. Wolowski, J. Makowski, S. A. Pikuz, V. M. Romanova, and T. A. Shelkovenko
pp. 3971-3976 [View PDF (1085 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Electron scattering by Fe XXII within the Dirac R-matrix approach
S. Ait-Tahar, I. P. Grant, and P. H. Norrington
pp. 3984-3989 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron correlation in ion-atom collisions
F. Martín and A. Salin
pp. 3990-4003 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-impact excitation of the 1 1S→3 1P and 1 1S→4 1P transitions in helium
M. A. Khakoo, D. Roundy, and F. Rugamas
pp. 4004-4014 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection H0+H2 and H0+O2 collisions at low kilo-electron-volt energies
E. J. Quintana and E. Pollack
pp. 4015-4021 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Partial densities of states, scattering matrices, and Green’s functions
V. Gasparian, T. Christen, and M. Büttiker
pp. 4022-4031 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dissociative recombination of CH+: Cross section and final states
Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, P. Forck, U. Hechtfischer, B. Seidel, M. Grieser, D. Habs, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, and A. Wolf
pp. 4032-4050 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection State-selective electron capture by 18-keV Kr8+ ions from laser-excited Rb*(15p–25p) Rydberg atoms
A. Pesnelle, J. Pascale, R. Trainham, and H. J. Andrä
pp. 4051-4063 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Postcollision interaction effects induced by Auger cascades following Xe L3-shell ionization
T. Hayaishi, E. Murakami, Y. Lu, E. Shigemasa, A. Yagishita, F. Koike, and Y. Morioka
pp. 4064-4068 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Search for H2- resonances in the detachment of H- by electron impact with a high-resolution cooler ring
T. Tanabe, I. Katayama, H. Kamegaya, K. Chida, T. Watanabe, Y. Arakaki, M. Yoshizawa, Y. Haruyama, M. Saito, T. Honma, K. Hosono, K. Hatanaka, F. J. Currell, and K. Noda
pp. 4069-4072 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative association of LiH(X 1Σ+) from electronically excited lithium atoms
F. A. Gianturco and P. Gori Giorgi
pp. 4073-4077 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photodetachment cross section of H- in electric and magnetic fields with any orientation
Z. Y. Liu, D. H. Wang, S. L. Lin, and W. Z. Shi
pp. 4078-4090 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Triangle amplitude with off-shell Coulomb T matrix for exchange reactions in atomic and nuclear physics
E. O. Alt, A. S. Kadyrov, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov
pp. 4091-4105 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental determination of orbital and spin orientation of (Ar+)* formed in collisions
B. W. Moudry, O. Yenen, D. H. Jaecks, and J. H. Macek
pp. 4119-4126 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Semiempirical scaling laws for electron capture at low energies
N. Selberg, C. Biedermann, and H. Cederquist
pp. 4127-4135 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Decay of hollow atoms above and below a surface
J.-P. Briand, G. Giardino, G. Borsoni, M. Froment, M. Eddrief, C. Sébenne, S. Bardin, D. Schneider, J. Jin, H. Khemliche, Z. Xie, and M. Prior
pp. 4136-4139 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Above-surface potential sputtering of protons by highly charged ions
Joachim Burgdörfer and Yasunori Yamazaki
pp. 4140-4144 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collective effects in the energy loss of large hydrogen clusters
F. Javier Pérez-Pérez, Isabel Abril, Rafael Garcia-Molina, and Néstor R. Arista
pp. 4145-4152 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transport of electrons induced by highly charged Ni (74 MeV/u) and Cu (9.6 MeV/u) ions in carbon: A study of target-thickness-dependent electron yields
Matthias Jung, Hermann Rothard, Benoit Gervais, Jean-Pierre Grandin, Alexander Clouvas, and Ralf Wünsch
pp. 4153-4161 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Probing the linear and nonlinear excitations of Bose-condensed neutral atoms in a trap
P. A. Ruprecht, Mark Edwards, K. Burnett, and Charles W. Clark
pp. 4178-4187 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Order parameter at the boundary of a trapped Bose gas
F. Dalfovo, L. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari
pp. 4213-4217 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Theory of high-order sum and difference frequency mixing in a strong bichromatic laser field
Mette B. Gaarde, Anne L’Huillier, and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 4236-4248 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic-velocity class selection using quantum interference
D. Wilkowski, J. C. Garreau, D. Hennequin, and V. Zehnlé
pp. 4249-4258 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atom dynamics in multiple Laguerre-Gaussian beams
L. Allen, M. Babiker, W. K. Lai, and V. E. Lembessis
pp. 4259-4270 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase dependence of intense-field ionization
D. W. Schumacher and P. H. Bucksbaum
pp. 4271-4278 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Light-induced current in plasma
S. N. Atutov, K. A. Nasyrov, S. P. Pod’yachev, A. M. Shalagin, and O. A. Vostrikov
pp. 4279-4291 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Elementary Sisyphus process close to a dielectric surface
Pierre Desbiolles, Markus Arndt, Pascal Szriftgiser, and Jean Dalibard
pp. 4292-4298 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ionization, dissociation, and level shifts of H2 + in a strong dc or low-frequency ac field
Zufar Mulyukov, Marcel Pont, and Robin Shakeshaft
pp. 4299-4308 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytic results for the linear and nonlinear response of atoms in a trap with a model interaction
Simon C. Benjamin, Luis Quiroga, and Neil F. Johnson
pp. 4309-4314 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Vibrational pair cat states
S.-C. Gou, J. Steinbach, and P. L. Knight
pp. 4315-4319 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Harmonic-generation control
A. Sanpera, J. B. Watson, M. Lewenstein, and K. Burnett
pp. 4320-4326 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Influence of radiative interatomic collisions on dark-state cooling
T. W. Hijmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and A. L. Burin
pp. 4332-4338 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Numerical studies of the mesomaser
M. Elk
pp. 4351-4358 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Intensity noise of injection-locked lasers: Quantum theory using a linearized input-output method
Timothy C. Ralph, Charles C. Harb, and Hans-A. Bachor
pp. 4359-4369 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Intensity-noise properties of injection-locked lasers
Charles C. Harb, Timothy C. Ralph, Elanor H. Huntington, Ingo Freitag, David E. McClelland, and Hans-A. Bachor
pp. 4370-4382 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Harmonic generation by superintense light scattering from relativistic electrons
Yousef I. Salamin and Farhad H. Faisal
pp. 4383-4395 [View PDF (354 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Squeezing of cw light in a single-mode dispersive χ(2) medium
T. A. Kennedy and S. Trillo
pp. 4396-4407 [View PDF (524 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quadrupole radiation of an atom in the vicinity of a dielectric microsphere
V. V. Klimov and V. S. Letokhov
pp. 4408-4423 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Correlation-induced spectral changes and energy conservation
Girish S. Agarwal and Emil Wolf
pp. 4424-4427 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superradiant laser with partial atomic cooperativity
Carsten Seeger, Mikhail I. Kolobov, Marek Kuś, and Fritz Haake
pp. 4440-4452 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Isotopically selective atom counting using photon burst detection
R. D. LaBelle, C. S. Hansen, M. M. Mankowski, and W. M. Fairbank
pp. 4461-4463 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Grouping of antiphase oscillations in modulated multimode lasers
Kenju Otsuka, Yoshinori Sato, and Jyh-Long Chern
pp. 4464-4472 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Polarizability effects in resonant ultrafast spectroscopy
Pablo Pérez-Alcázar and Víctor Romero-Rochín
pp. 4489-4494 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Feedback-assisted homodyne detection of phase shifts
Giacomo M. D’Ariano, Matteo G. Paris, and Raffaella Seno
pp. 4495-4504 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonclassical interferometry with intelligent light
C. Brif and A. Mann
pp. 4505-4518 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]