Physical Review A – March 1997
(Volume 55, Issue 3)

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Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Quantum-state estimation
Z. Hradil
pp. R1561-R1564 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Kinematical bounds on evolution and optimization of mixed quantum states
M. D. Girardeau, M. Ina, S. Schirmer, and T. Gulsrud
pp. R1565-R1568 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Precise determination of the dipole matrix element and radiative lifetime of the 39K 4p state by photoassociative spectroscopy
H. Wang, J. Li, X. T. Wang, C. J. Williams, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley
pp. R1569-R1572 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Electrostatic bottle for long-time storage of fast ion beams
D. Zajfman, O. Heber, L. Vejby-Christensen, I. Ben-Itzhak, M. Rappaport, R. Fishman, and M. Dahan
pp. R1577-R1580 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Low-energy excitations of trapped Bose condensates
L. You, W. Hoston, and M. Lewenstein
pp. R1581-R1584 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Add to article collection Secular motion of three-dimensional Rydberg states in a microwave field
Andreas Buchleitner and Dominique Delande
pp. R1585-R1588 [View PDF (526 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Role of collisions in creation of overlapping Bose condensates
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, H. M. J. M. Boesten, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. R1589-R1592 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Resonant cooling in position-dependent magnetic fields
J. De Luca, R. Napolitano, and V. S. Bagnato
pp. R1597-R1600 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

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Add to article collection Amplification of laser beams propagating through a collectionof strongly driven, Doppler-broadened two-level atoms
William J. Brown, Jeff R. Gardner, Daniel J. Gauthier, and R. Vilaseca
pp. R1601-R1604 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Atoms as nonlinear mixers for detection of quantum correlations at ultrahigh frequencies
N. Ph. Georgiades, E. S. Polzik, and H. J. Kimble
pp. R1605-R1608 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Capacity of the noisy quantum channel
Seth Lloyd
pp. 1613-1622 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electromagnetic field quantization in amplifying dielectrics
Reza Matloob, Rodney Loudon, Maurizio Artoni, Stephen M. Barnett, and John Jeffers
pp. 1623-1633 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reduced control dynamics for complex quantum systems
Jair Botina and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 1634-1638 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cerenkov effect and the Lorentz contraction
Miroslav Pardy
pp. 1647-1652 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-state diffusion model and the driven damped nonlinear oscillator
M. Rigo, G. Alber, F. Mota-Furtado, and P. F. O'Mahony
pp. 1665-1673 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transition form factor of the hydrogen Rydberg atom
I. Bersons and A. Kulsh
pp. 1674-1682 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonclassical states and measurement of general motional observables of a trapped ion
S. A. Gardiner, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 1683-1694 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Information and metrics in Hilbert space
M. Raviculé, M. Casas, and A. Plastino
pp. 1695-1702 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum prediction algorithms
Adrian Kent and Jim McElwaine
pp. 1703-1720 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collective observables and enhanced violation of Bell's inequality
Anthony Chefles and Stephen M. Barnett
pp. 1721-1731 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Dynamical localization: Hydrogen atoms in magnetic and microwave fields
Francesco Benvenuto, Giulio Casati, and Dima L. Shepelyansky
pp. 1732-1735 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Upper bounds to the eigenvalues of the no-pair Hamiltonian
Rocio Jáuregui, Carlos F. Bunge, and Eugenio Ley-Koo
pp. 1781-1784 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Absolute generalized oscillator strengths for the vibronic bands of A1Π, B1Σ+, C1Σ+, and E1Π transitions of carbon monoxide
Z. P. Zhong, R. F. Feng, K. Z. Xu, S. L. Wu, L. F. Zhu, X. J. Zhang, Q. Ji, and Q. C. Shi
pp. 1799-1809 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spectroscopic study of lithiumlike carbon by dielectronic recombination of a stored ion beam
S. Mannervik, S. Asp, L. Broström, D. R. DeWitt, J. Lidberg, R. Schuch, and K. T. Chung
pp. 1810-1819 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Kr spectra from an electron-beam ion trap: 300 nm to 460 nm
F. G. Serpa, E. W. Bell, E. S. Meyer, J. D. Gillaspy, and J. R. Roberts
pp. 1832-1835 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Determination of radiative lifetimes of neutral sulfur by time-resolved vacuum-ultraviolet laser spectroscopy
U. Berzinsh, Luo Caiyan, R. Zerne, S. Svanberg, and E. Biémont
pp. 1836-1841 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative corrections in atomic physics in the presence of perturbing potentials
S. A. Blundell, K. T. Cheng, and J. Sapirstein
pp. 1857-1865 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lamb shift measurement in the 1t1S ground state of helium
K. S. E. Eikema, W. Ubachs, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst
pp. 1866-1884 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Emission cross sections for electron-impact-induced line radiation in the vuv from Ne, Ar, and Kr: Measurements and comparison with theory
Wolfgang Jans, Bernd Möbus, Michael Kühne, Gerhard Ulm, Andreas Werner, and Karl-Heinz Schartner
pp. 1890-1898 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Femtosecond time-resolved observation of above-threshold ionization in Na2
A. Assion, T. Baumert, J. Helbing, V. Seyfried, and G. Gerber
pp. 1899-1902 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Evidence for a metastable state of the fundamental dianion H2-
T. Sommerfeld, U. V. Riss, H.-D. Meyer, and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 1903-1910 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Photon-emission studies of slow C4+-Ne collisions
M.O. Larsson, A. Wännström, M. Wang, A. Arnesen, F. Heijkenskjöld, A. Langereis, B. Nyström, R.W. McCullough, and H. Cederquist
pp. 1911-1921 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Vacuum-ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of laser-excited aligned Ca atomsin the 3p-3d resonance region
M. Wedowski, K. Godehusen, F. Weisbarth, P. Zimmermann, M. Martins, Th. Dohrmann, A. von dem Borne, B. Sonntag, and A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo
pp. 1922-1936 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Medium modification of two-particle scattering in nonideal Bose systems
H. Stein, K. Morawetz, and G. Röpke
pp. 1945-1951 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Triple differential cross sections for electron-impact ionization of He+s
Xingfu Jia, Qicun Shi, Zhangjin Chen, Ji Chen, and Kezun Xu
pp. 1971-1975 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-ion recombination of FetII
Sultana N. Nahar
pp. 1980-1987 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Projectile-energy dependence of H-like Ar Lyman-α emission in solids
R. L. Watson, V. Horvat, and J. M. Blackadar
pp. 1988-1993 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Projectile charge-state dependence of transfer ionization to single capture ratio in collisions of multiply charged ions with He
E. C. Montenegro, K. L. Wong, W. Wu, P. Richard, I. Ben-Itzhak, C. L. Cocke, R. Moshammer, J. P. Giese, Y. D. Wang, and C. D. Lin
pp. 2009-2014 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution threshold photodetachment spectroscopy of OH-
Jim R. Smith, Joseph B. Kim, and W. C. Lineberger
pp. 2036-2043 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonance interference and absolute cross sections in near-threshold electron-impact excitationof the 3s2t1S→3s3pt3P and 3s2t1S→3s3pt1P transitions in Ar6+
Y-S. Chung, N. Djuric-acute, B. Wallbank, G. H. Dunn, M. E. Bannister, and A. C. H. Smith
pp. 2044-2049 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Variation of the angular anisotropy in resonant Auger decay along the Mg 2p→nl excitations
U. Hergenhahn, S. B. Whitfield, J. Tulkki, F. Heiser, N. M. Kabachnik, B. Langer, and U. Becker
pp. 2050-2066 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Three-body dispersion coefficients for alkali-metal atoms
Mircea Marinescu and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 2067-2074 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Velocity dependence of the K Auger deexcitation of O7+ projectiles impinging on solid Cu(111) at 51 and 102 keV
A. Saal, L. Aberle, R. Page, J. Thomaschewski, J. Bleck-Neuhaus, M. Grether, and A. Spieler
pp. 2075-2082 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic energy loss of helium ions in aluminum
Neng-ping Wang and Istvan Nagy
pp. 2083-2086 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Coulomb explosion of 173-MeV HeH+ ions traversing carbon foils
M. P. Carpenter, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, T. Graber, R. V. F. Janssens, E. P. Kanter, J. A. Nolen, and Z. Vager
pp. 2090-2096 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Above-surface neutralization of slow highly charged ions in front of ionic crystals
Lotten Hägg, Carlos O. Reinhold, and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. 2097-2108 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Phase-space dynamics of Bose condensates: Interference versus interaction
H. Wallis, A. Röhrl, M. Naraschewski, and A. Schenzle
pp. 2109-2119 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Numerical studies of the dynamics of multiphoton processes with arbitrary field polarization: Methodological considerations
Etienne Huens, Bernard Piraux, Alejandro Bugacov, and Mariusz Gajda
pp. 2132-2143 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stabilization against ionization via high-Rydberg states
A. Wójcik, R. Parzyn-acuteski, and A. Grudka
pp. 2144-2154 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dynamical behavior, transient chaos, and riddled basins of two charged particles in a Paul trap
Jing-Ling Shen, Hua-Wei Yin, Jian-Hua Dai, and Hong-Jun Zhang
pp. 2159-2164 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-induced Bragg-type scattering in dark optical superlattices
Peter Horak and Helmut Ritsch
pp. 2176-2179 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Simultaneously forbidden resonances in the Autler-Townes effect with a modulated pump
V. N. Smelyanskiy, R. S. Conti, and G. W. Ford
pp. 2186-2202 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Coherent states in a Rydberg atom: Classical mechanics
Ernestine Lee, Andrea F. Brunello, and David Farrelly
pp. 2203-2221 [View PDF (742 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Coherent states in a Rydberg atom: Quantum mechanics
Charles Cerjan, Ernestine Lee, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer
pp. 2222-2231 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Manifestations of atomic and core resonances in photoelectron energy spectra
Lars G. Hanson, Jian Zhang, and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 2232-2244 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Isotropic and squeezed colored pump noise effects on the degenerate parametric oscillator
L. Gilles, P. Tombesi, M. San Miguel, and P. García-Fernández
pp. 2245-2253 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic wave packet in a ring cavity
Hubert Stoop, Pawel Masiak, and Kazimierz Rz̧az-dotewski
pp. 2254-2266 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Arbitrary precision in multipath interferometry
Giacomo M. D'Ariano and Matteo G. A. Paris
pp. 2267-2271 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dark-state-based three-element vector model for the stimulated Raman interaction
M. S. Shahriar, P. R. Hemmer, D. P. Katz, A. Lee, and M. G. Prentiss
pp. 2272-2282 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Trapping state stabilization in a micromaser with a mixed atomic beam
A. Z. Khoury and Tarso B. L. Kist
pp. 2304-2309 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-resolved study of ultrafast dephasing processes in solution
A. Kummrow, A. Lau, and K. Lenz
pp. 2310-2320 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fifth-order perturbation analysis for removing the degeneracy between squares and rhombuses
D. Leduc, M. Le Berre, E. Ressayre, and A. Tallet
pp. 2321-2325 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Field-correlation effects on Raman-enhanced nondegenerate four-wave mixing
Zuhe Yu, Xin Mi, Qian Jiang, Xiaofeng Li, and Panming Fu
pp. 2334-2339 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]