• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Matter waves
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
• ARTICLES
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Matter waves
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
  • Quantum optics
• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Correcting quantum errors in higher spin systems H. F. Chau pp. R839-R841 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Ionization of Au78+ and electron capture by Au79+ at 10.8 GeV/nucleon N. Claytor, A. Belkacem, T. Dinneen, B. Feinberg, and Harvey Gould pp. R842-R845 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Scattering of alkali atoms and ions from alkali-halide surfaces: No evidence found for electronic surface states within the band gap of the insulator A. Mertens, C. Auth, H. Winter, and A. G. Borisov pp. R846-R848 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Optical measurements of the condensate phase A. Imamog-barlu and T. A. B. Kennedy pp. R849-R852 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Breathing modes and hidden symmetry of trapped atoms in two dimensions L. P. Pitaevskii and A. Rosch pp. R853-R856 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of atomic tunneling from an accelerating optical potential C. F. Bharucha, K. W. Madison, P. R. Morrow, S. R. Wilkinson, Bala Sundaram, and M. G. Raizen pp. R857-R860 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Anomalous ellipticity dependence of high-order harmonic generation M. Kakehata, H. Takada, H. Yumoto, and K. Miyazaki pp. R861-R864 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Very-high-n Stark wave packets generated by an electric-field step M. T. Frey, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer pp. R865-R868 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Geometric phases for generalized squeezed coherent states S. Seshadri, S. Lakshmibala, and V. Balakrishnan pp. 869-875 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution under polynomial Hamiltonians in quantum and optical phase spaces A. L. Rivera, N. M. Atakishiyev, S. M. Chumakov, and K. B. Wolf pp. 876-889 [View PDF (530 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization and magnetization fields in the Aharonov-Bohm effect W. P. Healy and Ranjith Ananda Samandra pp. 890-899 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of quantum error-correcting codes Emanuel Knill and Raymond Laflamme pp. 900-911 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Macroscopic test of quantum mechanics versus stochastic electrodynamics S. Chaturvedi and Peter D. Drummond pp. 912-914 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resummation of anisotropic quartic oscillator: Crossover from anisotropic to isotropic large-order behavior H. Kleinert, S. Thoms, and W. Janke pp. 915-928 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic theory of quantization of radiation in molecular dielectrics. II. Analysis of microscopic field operators Gediminas Juzeliu-barnas pp. 929-934 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonunitary connection between explicitly time-dependent and nonlinear approachesfor the description of dissipative quantum systems Dieter Schuch pp. 935-940 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for particles obeying an exclusion-inclusion principle G. Kaniadakis pp. 941-944 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perfect quantum-error-correction coding in 24 laser pulses Samuel L. Braunstein and John A. Smolin pp. 945-950 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proposal for an experiment to measure the Hausdorff dimensionof quantum-mechanical trajectories H. Kröger pp. 951-966 [View PDF (736 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Separated-oscillatory-field measurement of the n=10 +F3-+G4 interval in helium: A 200-part-per-billion measurement C. H. Storry, N. E. Rothery, and E. A. Hessels pp. 967-977 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binding energy of the metastable He- ion P. Kristensen, U. V. Pedersen, V. V. Petrunin, T. Andersen, and K. T. Chung pp. 978-983 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for very weakly interacting, short-lived, C-odd bosons and the orthopositronium decay rate problem M. Skalsey and R. S. Conti pp. 984-987 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperspherical approach to the calculation of few-body atomic resonances S. Berkovic, R. Krivec, V. Mandelzweig, and L. Stotland pp. 988-993 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shape of the two-photon-continuum emission from the 1s2s1S0 state in He-like krypton R. Ali, I. Ahmad, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, M. Jung, E. P. Kanter, P. H. Mokler, H. G. Berry, A. E. Livingston, S. Cheng, and L. J. Curtis pp. 994-1006 [View PDF (1178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision measurement of the ratio of scalar to tensor transition polarizabilities for the cesium 6S-7S transition D. Cho, C. S. Wood, S. C. Bennett, J. L. Roberts, and C. E. Wieman pp. 1007-1011 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Time delay in electromagnetic scattering H. M. Nussenzveig pp. 1012-1019 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron scattering by Ca atoms and photodetachment of Ca- ions: An R-matrix study Jianmin Yuan and L. Fritsche pp. 1020-1027 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonuniqueness in the close-coupling method for e-He scattering Andris T. Stelbovics and Lindsay Berge pp. 1028-1038 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectronic recombination for average ions L. B. Zhao and S. C. Li pp. 1039-1043 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical coupling effects in the vibrational excitation of H2sand N2scolliding with positrons F. A. Gianturco and T. Mukherjee pp. 1044-1055 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational autoionization and energy levels of triplet nf, v=0 Rydberg states of H2s M. D. Lindsay and F. M. Pipkin pp. 1056-1063 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio study of charge transfer in low-energy collisions of Si4+ with helium P. C. Stancil, B. Zygelman, N. J. Clarke, and D. L. Cooper pp. 1064-1068 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical excitation function of H(1s-2p) produced by electron impact from threshold to 1.8 keV G. K. James, J. A. Slevin, D. E. Shemansky, J. W. McConkey, I. Bray, D. Dziczek, I. Kanik, and J. M. Ajello pp. 1069-1087 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Projectile velocity dependence of emission line polarization degrees following slow Ar8+-Li(2s) state-selective electron-capture collisions C. Laulhé, E. Jacquet, G. Cremer, J. Pascale, Ph. Boduch, G. Rieger, M. Chantepie, and D. Lecler pp. 1088-1098 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Penning detachment of H- by impact of excited He and Li atoms F. Martín and R. S. Berry pp. 1099-1107 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic multiconfiguration approach to the spin polarization of slow electrons elastically scattered from krypton J. E. Sienkiewicz and W. E. Baylis pp. 1108-1112 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-photon multiple ionization of neon in the K-edge region D. V. Morgan, M. Sagurton, and R. J. Bartlett pp. 1113-1118 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Simultaneous measurement of the average ion-induced electron emission yield and the mean charge for isotachic ions in carbon foils A. M. Arrale, Z. Y. Zhao, J. F. Kirchhoff, D. L. Weathers, F. D. McDaniel, and S. Matteson pp. 1119-1123 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion-by-ion measurements of backward secondary electron emission of carbon foilsunder the impact of MeV H+, H0, H-, and H2+ projectiles A. Billebaud, M. Fallavier, R. Kirsch, J.-C. Poizat, J. Remillieux, and Z. Vidovic-acute pp. 1124-1128 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Superslow neutrons and the dispersion law for neutron waves in matter V. G. Nosov and A. I. Frank pp. 1129-1139 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bose-stimulated scattering off a cold atom trap H. David Politzer pp. 1140-1146 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hartree-Fock theory for Bose-Einstein condensates and the inclusion of correlation effects B. D. Esry pp. 1147-1159 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffuse atomic reflection at a rough mirror Carsten Henkel, Klaus Mølmer, Robin Kaiser, Nathalie Vansteenkiste, Christoph I. Westbrook, and Alain Aspect pp. 1160-1178 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum distribution for bosons with positive scattering length in a trap T. T. Chou, Chen Ning Yang, and L. H. Yu pp. 1179-1181 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Ultrafast electron dynamics and inner-shell ionization in laser driven clusters C. Rose-Petruck, K. J. Schafer, K. R. Wilson, and C. P. J. Barty pp. 1182-1190 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Theory of optical suppression of ultracold-collision rates by polarized light Reginaldo Napolitano, John Weiner, and Paul S. Julienne pp. 1191-1207 [View PDF (358 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schrödinger-cat states in Paul traps O. Castaños, R. Jáuregui, R. López-Peña, J. Recamier, and V. I. Man'ko pp. 1208-1216 [View PDF (435 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dark-state cooling in the presence of gravity: Gravitational limit of laser cooling R. Dum and M. Ol'shanii pp. 1217-1223 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave-packet recollision and pulse-shape effects in high-harmonic generation J. B. Watson, A. Sanpera, K. Burnett, and P. L. Knight pp. 1224-1233 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance fluorescence and Autler-Townes spectra of a two-level atom driven by two fieldsof equal frequencies H. S. Freedhoff and Z. Ficek pp. 1234-1238 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum structure and dynamics for atom galleries D. W. Vernooy and H. J. Kimble pp. 1239-1261 [View PDF (576 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laser-enhanced tunneling through resonant intermediate levels Stéphane Guérin and Hans-Rudolf Jauslin pp. 1262-1275 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatial separation of ion clouds between sympathetically laser-cooled Cd+ -ion isotopes in a Penning trap Hidetsuka Imajo, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Utako Tanaka, Masayoshi Watanabe, and Shinji Urabe pp. 1276-1280 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics for evaporative cooling of a trapped gas Kirstine Berg-Sørensen pp. 1281-1287 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference of resonance fluorescence from two four-level atoms T. Wong, S. M. Tan, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls pp. 1288-1299 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute nonresonant multiphoton ionization cross section of NO at 532 nm Chun He and Christopher H. Becker pp. 1300-1306 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double multiphoton ionization of a model atom M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, and P. Gavras pp. 1307-1313 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization of high-order harmonics Philippe Antoine, Bertrand Carré, Anne L'Huillier, and Maciej Lewenstein pp. 1314-1324 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regular and chaotic multiphoton dissociation Vassilis Constantoudis and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides pp. 1325-1330 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laser collimation of a chromium beam R. E. Scholten, R. Gupta, J. J. McClelland, R. J. Celotta, M. S. Levenson, and M. G. Vangel pp. 1331-1338 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Nonlinear theory of noninversion lasers of an open three-level system Shi-Yao Zhu, De-Zhong Wang, and Jin-Yue Gao pp. 1339-1346 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of optical pulse propagation through an absorbing and dispersive slab M. Artoni and R. Loudon pp. 1347-1357 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon correlation spectroscopy of the Jaynes-Cummings system B. C. Sanders, H. J. Carmichael, and B. F. Wielinga pp. 1358-1370 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical study of the laser transition G. M. Stéphan pp. 1371-1384 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection of the Jaynes-Cummings dynamics in the spectrum of a regularly pumped micromaser Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou pp. 1385-1390 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modal analysis of polarization self-modulated lasers M. Brunel, M. Vallet, G. Ropars, A. Le Floch, F. Bretenaker, G. Jouliéand, and J.-C. Keromnes pp. 1391-1397 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Manipulating the motion of a single atom in a standing wave via feedback J. A. Dunningham, H. M. Wiseman, and D. F. Walls pp. 1398-1411 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum-field-induced filamentation in laser-beam propagation E. M. Nagasako, Robert W. Boyd, and G. S. Agarwal pp. 1412-1415 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Homodyne detection for measuring internal quantum correlations of optical pulses T. Opatrný, D.-G. Welsch, and W. Vogel pp. 1416-1422 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical stimulated nutation echo A. Szabo and R. N. Shakhmuratov pp. 1423-1429 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional variance reduction by measurements on correlated field modes J. K. Breslin and G. J. Milburn pp. 1430-1436 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lasing at 60.8 nm in Ne-like sulfur ions in ablated material excited by a capillary discharge F. G. Tomasel, J. J. Rocca, V. N. Shlyaptsev, and C. D. Macchietto pp. 1437-1440 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modeling of an injected gas laser P. Even, K. Ait Ameur, and G. M. Stéphan pp. 1441-1453 [View PDF (569 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dipole relaxation in dispersive photonic band-gap structures A. Kamli, M. Babiker, A. Al-Hajry, and N. Enfati pp. 1454-1461 [View PDF (676 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-matrix reconstruction by unbalanced homodyning T. Opatrný and D.-G. Welsch pp. 1462-1465 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wigner distribution for density of states in quantum optics G. S. Agarwal and Gautam Vemuri pp. 1466-1472 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled-mode description for the polarization state of a vertical-cavity semiconductor laser A. K. Jansen van Doorn, M. P. van Exter, A. M. van der Lee, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 1473-1484 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom-atom interaction in strongly modified reservoirs Søren Bay, P. Lambropoulos, and Klaus Mølmer pp. 1485-1496 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiative and guided wave emission of Er3+satoms located in planar multidielectric structures H. Rigneault, S. Robert, C. Begon, B. Jacquier, and P. Moretti pp. 1497-1502 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-electron hyperpolarizability density analysis: Application to the dissociation processof one-dimensional H2s Masayoshi Nakano, Hidemi Nagao, and Kizashi Yamaguchi pp. 1503-1513 [View PDF (606 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Pancharatnam phase for ordinary and generalized squeezed states I. Mendas pp. 1514-1517 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Density-functional approach to one-positron and neutral-atom bound states Tunna Baruah, Rajeev K. Pathak, and Anjali Kshirsagar pp. 1518-1521 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective fractal dimension of energy levels W. F. Wang and P. P. Ong pp. 1522-1525 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First ionization potentials of osmium and iridium determined by mass-analyzed double-resonance field-ionization spectroscopy Pina Colarusso, Marie-Ange Lebeault-Dorget, and Benoit Simard pp. 1526-1529 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Retarded long-range potentials for the alkali-metal atoms and a perfectly conducting wall M. Marinescu, A. Dalgarno, and J. F. Babb pp. 1530-1532 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Total cross sections of positron scattering from various molecules using the rule of additivity Ritu Raizada and K. L. Baluja pp. 1533-1536 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasifree-electron process in the single ionization of He by fast protons W. Wu, S. Datz, N. L. Jones, H. F. Krause, B. Rosner, K. D. Sorge, and C. R. Vane pp. 1537-1539 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary conditions of the exact impulse wave function M. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia pp. 1540-1543 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Technique for measuring the linewidth of autoionizing Rydberg states Grzegorz Waligorski, Lei Zhou, and W. E. Cooke pp. 1544-1547 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	sComment on 'Puri's criterion and higher-order squeezing' Xia Yunjie, Yan Kezhu, and Kong Xianghe pp. 1548-1549 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ``Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant'' David Farrelly pp. 1550-1551 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ``Comment on `Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant't'' James E. Howard pp. 1552-1554 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Geometric and nongeometric effects in an unbounded mechanical system [Phys. Rev. A 53, 3805 (1996)] Zhen Qi pp. 1555 [View PDF (49 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Three disks in a row: A two-dimensional scattering analog of the double-well problem [Phys. Rev. A 54, 2745 (1996)] Andreas Wirzba and Per E. Rosenqvist pp. 1555 [View PDF (49 kB) ]