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Physical Review A – January 1997
Volume 55, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Observation of double-resonant laser-induced transitions in the v=n-l-1=2 metastable cascade of antiprotonic 4He atoms
R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, H. Tamura, H. A. Torii, M. Hori, F. E. Maas, N. Morita, M. Kumakura, I. Sugai, F. J. Hartmann, H. Daniel, T. von Egidy, B. Ketzer, R. Pohl, D. Horváth, J. Eades, E. Widmann, and T. Yamazaki
pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Analytical parametrization for the shape of atomic ionization cross sections
Jan M. Rost and Thomas Pattard
pp. R5-R7 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Vacuum ultraviolet photoionization study of atomic Ir in the region of the 5p and 4f excitation
M. Martins, P. Sladeczek, K. Tiedtke, and P. Zimmermann
pp. R8-R9 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Production of YbH+ by chemical reaction of Yb+ in excited states with H2 gas
Kazuhiko Sugiyama and Jun Yoda
pp. R10-R13 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Observation of low-lying resonance states of He- at the 21S and 23S He thresholds
A. Báder, L. Sarkadi, L. Víkor, M. Kuzel, P. A. Závodszky, T. Jalowy, K. O. Groeneveld, P. A. Macri, and R. O. Barrachina
pp. R14-R17 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Matter waves

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Evolution of a Bose gas in anisotropic time-dependent traps
Yu. Kagan, E. L. Surkov, and G. V. Shlyapnikov
pp. R18-R21 [View PDF (135 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Accessible information in combined and sequential quantum measurementson a binary-state signal
Masashi Ban, Kouichi Yamazaki, and Osamu Hirota
pp. 22-26 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondence via Liouville dynamics. I. Integrable systems and the chaotic spectral decomposition
Joshua Wilkie and Paul Brumer
pp. 27-42 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondence via Liouville dynamics. II. Correspondence for chaotic Hamiltonian systems
Joshua Wilkie and Paul Brumer
pp. 43-61 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Photon generation by time-dependent dielectric: A soluble model
Markus Cirone, Kazimierz Rz̧az-dotewski, and Jan Mostowski
pp. 62-66 [View PDF (92 kB)]

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Quantum error correction in the presence of spontaneous emission
M. B. Plenio, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight
pp. 67-71 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiment with relativistic massive particles
Marek Czachor
pp. 72-77 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Fundamental concepts

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Quantum description of nonlinearly interacting oscillators via classical trajectories
G. Drobný, A. Bandilla, and I. Jex
pp. 78-93 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm interference in the presence of metallic mesoscopic cylinders
Silviu Olariu
pp. 94-99 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Quantum information and correlation bounds
Michael J. W. Hall
pp. 100-113 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Creation of a persistent quantum bit using error correction
Isaac L. Chuang and Y. Yamamoto
pp. 114-127 [View PDF (251 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Measurement of the n=9 F-to-G intervals in atomic lithium
C. H. Storry, N. E. Rothery, and E. A. Hessels
pp. 128-133 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Role of screening and angular distributions in resonant x-ray emission of CO
Per Skytt, Peter Glans, Kerstin Gunnelin, Jinghua Guo, Joseph Nordgren, Yi Luo, and Hans Ågren
pp. 134-145 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Lifetime-vibrational interference effects in the resonantly excited x-ray-emission spectra of CO
Per Skytt, Peter Glans, Kerstin Gunnelin, Jinghua Guo, and Joseph Nordgren
pp. 146-154 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Equal-factors method for solutions of the extended Schrödinger equation for (Zns)2sstates of heliumlike ions
Guo F. Chen
pp. 155-165 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Energy levels of the ground state and the 2s2pn(J=1) excited states of berylliumlike ions: A large-scale, relativistic configuration-interaction calculation
M. H. Chen and K. T. Cheng
pp. 166-174 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Elimination of hyperspherical ghost states caused by a closed-shell core: Test with the restricted Temkin-Poet model
Shinichi Watanabe and T. Ebara
pp. 175-182 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Collisional coupling between hyperfine and Stark components of molecular spectra
S. Belli, G. Buffa, and O. Tarrini
pp. 183-190 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Local-density-functional calculations of the energy of atoms
Svetlana Kotochigova, Zachary H. Levine, Eric L. Shirley, M. D. Stiles, and Charles W. Clark
pp. 191-199 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Stability of four-unit-charge systems: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Dario Bressanini, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi
pp. 200-205 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Multiple-quantum spin coherence in the ground state of alkali atomic vapors
J. D. Xu, G. Wäckerle, and M. Mehring
pp. 206-213 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Diffusion of muonic deuterium and hydrogen atoms
D. J. Abbott, G. F. Chen, P. Guss, A. D. Hancock, J. B. Kraiman, R. T. Siegel, W. F. Vulcan, D. W. Viel, R. E. Welsh, C. Petitjean, A. Zehnder, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, P. Kammel, A. Scrinzi, J. Marton, J. Zmeskal, J. J. Reidy, H. L. Woolverton, F. J. Hartmann, A. Adamczak, V. E. Markushin, and V. S. Melezhik
pp. 214-229 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Two-photon, two-color polarization spectroscopy of the 3ts2 S1/2 →5ts2 S1/2stransitionin atomic Na: Measurement of relative transition matrix elements
Rodney P. Meyer, A. I. Beger, and M. D. Havey
pp. 230-237 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Phase transitions for N-electron atoms at the large-dimension limit
Pablo Serra and Sabre Kais
pp. 238-247 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Effects of relaxation and Auger decay on photoionization calculations of argon
M. Kutzner, Q. Shamblin, S. E. Vance, and D. Winn
pp. 248-255 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Positron-hydrogen collisions at low energies
Y. R. Kuang and T. T. Gien
pp. 256-264 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Algebraic model for quantum scattering: Reformulation, analysis, and numerical strategies
V. S. Vasilevsky and F. Arickx
pp. 265-286 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Description of ionization in the molecular approach to atomic collisions
C. Harel, H. Jouin, B. Pons, L. F. Errea, L. Méndez, and A. Riera
pp. 287-302 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Measurement of probabilities for vacancy transfer from the K to L shell of the elements 73⩽Z⩽92
M. Ertŭgrul, O. Dŏgan, Ö. ̧Sim̧sek, Ü. Turgut, and H. Erdŏgan
pp. 303-306 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Excitation-autoionization cross sections and rate coefficients of Zn-like ions
D. Mitnik, P. Mandelbaum, J. L. Schwob, A. Bar-Shalom, and J. Oreg
pp. 307-317 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of the doubly excited states of helium below the N=3 He+ threshold
S. J. Brotton, S. Cvejanovic, F. J. Currell, N. J. Bowring, and F. H. Read
pp. 318-328 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Electron-impact-excitation cross sections of hydrogenlike ions
Vladimir I. Fisher, Yuri V. Ralchenko, Vladimir A. Bernshtam, Alexander Goldgirsh, Yitzhak Maron, Leonid A. Vainshtein, Igor Bray, and Helen Golten
pp. 329-334 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Model for hydrogen-atom production from the dissociation of fast Hnf+ cluster ions by thin foils
M. Farizon, N. V. de Castro Faria, B. Farizon Mazuy, and M. J. Gaillard
pp. 335-341 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Algebraic variational approach to atomic and molecular photoionization cross sections: Removing the energy dependence from the basis
T. N. Rescigno, A. E. Orel, and C. W. McCurdy
pp. 342-346 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Stationary-state scattering theory for dissociative photodetachment on nonadiabatically coupled potential surfaces as a probe of transition states
Kazuo Takatsuka
pp. 347-360 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Measurements of total and positronium formation cross sections for positrons and electrons scattered by hydrogen atoms and molecules
S. Zhou, H. Li, W. E. Kauppila, C. K. Kwan, and T. S. Stein
pp. 361-368 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Excess electron mobility in low density CH3 CN gas:mShort-lived dipole-bound electron ground states as precursors of localized electron states
P. Mikulski, Th. Klahn, and P. Krebs
pp. 369-377 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Four-body model for transfer ionization in fast ion-atom collisions
Dzevad Belkic-acute, Ivan Mancev, and Volker Mergel
pp. 378-395 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Multiple electromagnetic electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Adrian Alscher, Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, and Gerhard Baur
pp. 396-401 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Pair creation with bound electron for photon impact on bare heavy nuclei
Carsten K. Agger and Allan H. Sørensen
pp. 402-413 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Photodetachment of the 1s2s2pt4 P state of He-sfrom threshold to 100 eV
Dae-Soung Kim, Hsaio-Ling Zhou, and Steven T. Manson
pp. 414-425 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Dependence of the binary-encounter-peak energy on the projectile core
J. M. Sanders, J. L. Shinpaugh, S. Datz, F. Segner, and M. Breinig
pp. 426-432 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Resonant structures of overlapping doubly excited autoionization series in photoionization of Mg-like Al+sand Si2+sions
T. K. Fang, Baek Il Nam, Young Soon Kim, and T. N. Chang
pp. 433-439 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Charge transfer between ground-state N2+ and H2, N2, and CO at electron-volt energies
Z. Fang and Victor H. S. Kwong
pp. 440-443 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Three-body models of electron-hydrogen ionization
S. Jones, D. H. Madison, and D. A. Konovalov
pp. 444-449 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Theoretical description of fast kinetic electron emission in ion-surface collisions
Carlos O. Reinhold and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. 450-465 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Atomic resonances of hydrogen near aluminum surfaces:mAdiabatic evolution of the ground state
Stefan A. Deutscher, Xiazhou Yang, and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. 466-478 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Hollow ion formation and decay in slow Bi46+ -C60scollisions
Uwe Thumm
pp. 479-487 [View PDF (279 kB)]

Matter waves

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Centrifugal effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap
A. B. Kuklov, N. Chencinski, A. M. Levine, W. M. Schreiber, and Joseph L. Birman
pp. 488-497 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Variational approach to the dilute Bose gas
M. Bijlsma and H. T. C. Stoof
pp. 498-512 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Quantum field theory of cooperative atom response: Low light intensity
Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen
pp. 513-526 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Coherence of the two-level atom bichromatic beam splitter
S. Choi, H. M. Wiseman, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls
pp. 527-537 [View PDF (285 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Chaotic behavior of triatomic clusters
Ersin Yurtsever and Nuran Elmacı
pp. 538-544 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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All-optical gray lattice for atoms
H. Stecher, H. Ritsch, P. Zoller, F. Sander, T. Esslinger, and T. W. Hänsch
pp. 545-551 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical interference between optical transitions and the effect of laser phase noise
J. C. Camparo and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 552-560 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Theoretical analysis of the spatial structures of atoms in magneto-optical traps
I. Guedes, H. F. Silva Filho, and F. D. Nunes
pp. 561-567 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Resonance overlap criterion for H atom ionization by circularly polarized microwave fields
Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 568-576 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Multiphoton ionization as time-dependent tunneling
Klaus Ergenzinger
pp. 577-588 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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State-selective vibrational excitation of diatomic molecules coupled to a quasiresonant environment: Markov approximation and non-Markov approach
M. V. Korolkov and G. K. Paramonov
pp. 589-604 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Diagnostic technique for Zeeman-compensated atomic beam slowing: Technique and results
P. A. Molenaar, P. van der Straten, H. G. M. Heideman, and H. Metcalf
pp. 605-614 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Phase of harmonics from strongly driven two-level atoms
F. I. Gauthey, C. H. Keitel, P. L. Knight, and A. Maquet
pp. 615-621 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Adiabatic stabilization: Observation of the surviving population
N. J. van Druten, R. C. Constantinescu, J. M. Schins, H. Nieuwenhuize, and H. G. Muller
pp. 622-629 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Generation of motional SU(1,1) intelligent states of a trapped ion
C. C. Gerry, S.-C. Gou, and J. Steinbach
pp. 630-635 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Observation of a shape resonance in the collision of two cold 87Rb atoms
H. M. J. M. Boesten, C. C. Tsai, J. R. Gardner, D. J. Heinzen, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 636-640 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Theory of gas-phase time-resolved ultrafast electron diffraction
W. -K. Liu and S. H. Lin
pp. 641-647 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Analytic properties and effective two-level problems in stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm
pp. 648-660 [View PDF (1,696 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Giant Coulomb broadening and Raman lasing in ionic transitions
A. A. Apolonsky, S. A. Babin, A. I. Chernykh, S. I. Kablukov, S. V. Khorev, E. V. Podivilov, and D. A. Shapiro
pp. 661-667 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Effect of optical pumping and Raman scattering on the degenerate four-wave mixingin coherently pumped rubidium atoms
Yifu Zhu, T. N. Wasserlauf, and Paul Sanchez
pp. 668-672 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dispersion-free wave packets and feedback solitonic motion in controlled quantum dynamics
Metin Demiralp and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 673-677 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Quantized fields in a nonlinear dielectric medium: A microscopic approach
Mark Hillery and Leonard Mlodinow
pp. 678-689 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Logic gates and optical switching with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
F. Prati, M. Travagnin, and L. A. Lugiato
pp. 690-700 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Schrödinger-cat-like states for quantum fundamental solitons in optical fibers
Demin Yao
pp. 701-709 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Suppression of fluorescence in a squeezed vacuum
G. Yeoman
pp. 710-716 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Hanle fluorescence spectra of an atom with a Jg =0⇆Je =1 transition
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 717-724 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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SU(2) linear canonical transformation and dynamics in the multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings interaction
Han-Qian Gong
pp. 725-737 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Three-mode rotating pattern in a CO2 laser with high cylindrical symmetry
I. Boscolo, A. Bramati, M. Malvezzi, and F. Prati
pp. 738-743 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Nondecaying state in a three-level system driven by a single field:mEffect of relaxations
Hu Huang, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. S. Zubairy
pp. 744-750 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Soft turbulence in multimode lasers
D. Casini, G. D'Alessandro, and A. Politi
pp. 751-760 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Femtosecond temporal probes using spectrally tailored noisy quasi-cw laser light
Dirk C. DeMott, Darin J. Ulness, and A. C. Albrecht
pp. 761-771 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Absorption spectrum and gain without inversion of a driven two-level atom with arbitrary probe intensity in a squeezed vacuum
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 772-780 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Diffraction losses reduction in multiapertured non-Hermitian laser resonators
Marc Brunel, Guy Ropars, Albert Le Floch, and Fabien Bretenaker
pp. 781-786 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Field cancellation by a two-level atom in a multimode cavity driven by a time-dependent field
D. A. Cardimona, Karl Koch, and P. M. Alsing
pp. 787-795 [View PDF (234 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Calculation of wave functions and of energy levels:Application to multiple quantum wells and continuous potential
Ph. Grossel and J.-M. Vigoureux
pp. 796-799 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Three-body coupling in electron-hydrogen ionizing collisions
Jamal Berakdar
pp. 800-803 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Asymptotic limits of the retarded interaction energy between two hyperpolarizable molecules
A. Salam
pp. 804-807 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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X rays from radiative electron capture into continuum states in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
H. Tawara, T. Azuma, T. Ito, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, T. Matsuo, T. Tonuma, K. Shima, A. Kitagawa, and E. Takada
pp. 808-811 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Formula for the calculation of integral cross sections in a Fourier expansion method
Zhifan Chen and Alfred Z. Msezane
pp. 812-814 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Classical interpretation of the quantum description of H- photodetachment in parallel E and B fields
Qiaoling Wang and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 815-818 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Revival structure of Stark wave packets
Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Bogdan Tudose
pp. 819-822 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Cavity-modified Maxwell-Bloch equations for the vacuum Rabi splitting
Changxin Wang and Reeta Vyas
pp. 823-826 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Two-dimensional spatial imaging of the multiple-pulse-driven 196-Å neonlike germanium x-ray laser
Joseph Nilsen, Juan C. Moreno, Luiz B. Da Silva, and Troy W. Barbee
pp. 827-830 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Temporally two-dimensional overtone vibrational dephasing spectroscopy in liquids
Keisuke Tominaga and Keitaro Yoshihara
pp. 831-834 [View PDF (101 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Electron transfer, target excitation, and ionization in H+ +Na(3s) and H+ +Na(3p) collisions in the coupled-Sturmian-pseudostate approach [Phys. Rev. A 51, 2963 (1995)]
pp. 835 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Erratum: Approximate analytical solution of the quantum-mechanical three-body Coulomb continuum problem [Phys. Rev. A 53, 2314 (1996)]
pp. 835 [View PDF (36 kB)]
 
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