Physical Review A – April 1997
(Volume 55, Issue 4)

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Add to article collection Simplified quantum logic with trapped ions
C. Monroe, D. Leibfried, B. E. King, D. M. Meekhof, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland
pp. R2489-R2491 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Unified quantum-defect-theory treatment of molecular ionization and dissociation
Christian Jungen and Stephen C. Ross
pp. R2503-R2506 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Anisotropy in the transient absorption change of a molecular system with two-dimensionally degenerate transitions
Nicola Pfeffer, Takashi Isoshima, Minquan Tian, Tatsuo Wada, Jean-Michel Nunzi, and Hiroyuki Sasabe
pp. R2507-R2510 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Impact of the 87Rb singlet scattering length on suppressing inelastic collisions
James P. Burke, John L. Bohn, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene
pp. R2511-R2514 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Reverse energy-pooling collisions: K(5D)+Na(3S)→K(4P)+Na(3P)
S. Guldberg-Kjær, G. De Filippo, S. Milosevic-acute, S. Magnier, J.O.P. Pedersen, and M. Allegrini
pp. R2515-R2518 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Add to article collection Image acceleration of highly charged ions on metal, semiconductor, and insulator surfaces
J.-P. Briand, S. Thuriez, G. Giardino, G. Borsoni, V. Le Roux, M. Froment, M. Eddrief, C. de Villeneuve, B. D'Etat-Ban, and C. Sébenne
pp. R2523-R2526 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Add to article collection Resonant hot-electron production in above-threshold ionization
P. Hansch, M. A. Walker, and L. D. Van Woerkom
pp. R2535-R2538 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

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Add to article collection Observation of correlated atom-photon pairs on the single-particle level
Christian Kurtsiefer, Oliver Dross, Dirk Voigt, Christopher R. Ekstrom, Tilman Pfau, and Jürgen Mlynek
pp. R2539-R2542 [View PDF (789 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Optimization of plasmas for recombination-pumped short-wavelength lasers
M. Murphy, C. Glasheen, F. A. Moscatelli, and T. D. Donnelly
pp. R2543-R2546 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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Add to article collection Reversible quantum operations and their application to teleportation
M. A. Nielsen and Carlton M. Caves
pp. 2547-2556 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bound states in continuum induced by relativity
A. Khelashvili and N. Kiknadze
pp. 2557-2563 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Realizable higher-dimensional two-particle entanglements via multiport beam splitters
Marek Z-dotukowski, Anton Zeilinger, and Michael A. Horne
pp. 2564-2579 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Isospectral deformation of quantum potentials and the Liouville equation
V. M. Eleonsky and V. G. Korolev
pp. 2580-2593 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-boson Hamiltonian for Shor's algorithm
Mario Rasetti, Elena Tagliati, and Riccardo Zecchina
pp. 2594-2597 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Semiclassical analysis of quasiexact solvability
Carl M. Bender, Gerald V. Dunne, and Moshe Moshe
pp. 2625-2629 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Time-dependent Kohn-Sham formalism
Andreas Görling
pp. 2630-2639 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of hyperfine interactions in potassium and Sc2+sion:Trends in systems isoelectronic with potassium
Alfred Owusu, Xing Yuan, S. N. Panigrahy, R. W. Dougherty, T. P. Das, and J. Andriessen
pp. 2644-2650 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytic basis set for high-Z atomic QED calculations: Heavy He-like ions
D. J. Hylton and N. J. Snyderman
pp. 2651-2661 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Pair-Rydberg description of doubly excited states: Diabatic evolution of correlation patterns
Thomas A. Heim, G. Brad Armen, and A. R. P. Rau
pp. 2674-2685 [View PDF (7567 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Hydrogen molecular ion in a strong parallel magnetic field
Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman
pp. 2701-2710 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of natural circular dichroism in x-ray Raman scattering from molecules
Yi Luo, Olav Vahtras, Faris Gel'mukhanov, and Hans ̊Agren
pp. 2716-2722 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lifetimes of the 3p54s3P1, 1P1 and 3p53d3P1 levels in KtII
M. Henderson, L. J. Curtis, R. Matulioniene, D. G. Ellis, and Yuelin Li
pp. 2723-2727 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Hyperfine structure of 23P levels of heliumlike ions
W. R. Johnson, K. T. Cheng, and D. R. Plante
pp. 2728-2742 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution C 1s photoelectron spectra of methane, ethene, propene, and 2-methylpropene
L. J. Sæthre, O. Sværen, S. Svensson, S. Osborne, T. D. Thomas, J. Jauhiainen, and S. Aksela
pp. 2748-2756 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Electron-electron interaction in the ionization of O7+ by He
W. Wu, K. L. Wong, E. C. Montenegro, R. Ali, C. Y. Chen, C. L. Cocke, R. Dörner, V. Frohne, J. P. Giese, V. Mergel, W. E. Meyerhof, M. Raphaelian, H. Schmidt-Böcking, and B. Walch
pp. 2771-2777 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Inelastic processes in collisions of H+ ions with C, N, O, and Si atoms below 1 keV
M. Kimura, J. P. Gu, G. Hirsch, and R. J. Buenker
pp. 2778-2785 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ultrasimple calculation of very-low-energy momentum-transferand rotational-excitation cross sections: e-N2 scattering
Michael A. Morrison, Weiguo Sun, William A. Isaacs, and Wayne K. Trail
pp. 2786-2798 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Correlated continuum wave functions for three particles with Coulomb interactions
G. Gasaneo, F. D. Colavecchia, C. R. Garibotti, J. E. Miraglia, and P. Macri
pp. 2809-2820 [View PDF (435 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cross sections for electron excitation of the 2t3S metastable level of He into higher triplet levels
Garrett A. Piech, Mark E. Lagus, L. W. Anderson, Chun C. Lin, and M. R. Flannery
pp. 2842-2856 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Bethe theory of stopping incorporating electronic excitations of partially stripped projectiles
R. Cabrera-Trujillo, S. A. Cruz, Jens Oddershede, and John R. Sabin
pp. 2864-2872 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interaction of ion clusters with fusion plasmas: Scaling laws
N. R. Arista and E. M. Bringa
pp. 2873-2881 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Long-range interactions of lithium atoms
Zong-Chao Yan, A. Dalgarno, and J. F. Babb
pp. 2882-2887 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Bose-Einstein condensation in anisotropic harmonic traps
Tor Haugset, H̊arek Haugerud, and Jens O. Andersen
pp. 2922-2929 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quasiparticle instabilities in multicomponent atomic condensates
Elena V. Goldstein and Pierre Meystre
pp. 2935-2940 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Phase-controlled quantum interference in two-color atomic photoionization
Stefano Cavalieri, Roberto Eramo, and Lorenzo Fini
pp. 2941-2944 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-level atom in an electromagnetic wave of circular polarization
Gao-Jian Zeng, Shi-Lun Zhou, Sheng-Mei Ao, and Zhao-Yang Zeng
pp. 2945-2954 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fundamental mechanisms of single-pulse NMR echo formation
L. N. Shakhmuratova, D. K. Fowler, and D. H. Chaplin
pp. 2955-2967 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear spectroscopy and optical phase conjugation in cold cesium atoms
J. W. R. Tabosa, S. S. Vianna, and F. A. M. de Oliveira
pp. 2968-2972 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Velocity selective optical pumping and dark resonances in selective reflection spectroscopy
B. Gross, N. Papageorgiou, V. Sautenkov, and A. Weis
pp. 2973-2981 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Pulsed excitation of a transition to a decaying level
N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm
pp. 2982-2988 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bloch oscillations of atoms, adiabatic rapid passage, and monokinetic atomic beams
Ekkehard Peik, Maxime Ben Dahan, Isabelle Bouchoule, Yvan Castin, and Christophe Salomon
pp. 2989-3001 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Blackbody-radiation-induced resonances between Rydberg-Stark states of Na
E. J. Galvez, C. W. MacGregor, B. Chaudhuri, S. Gupta, E. Massoni, and F. De Zela
pp. 3002-3006 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Molecular excitation by large-area ultrashort pulses
A. Paloviita and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 3007-3013 [View PDF (1776 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Positive P representation: Application and validity
A. Gilchrist, C. W. Gardiner, and P. D. Drummond
pp. 3014-3032 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collective effects in the microlaser
Mikhail I. Kolobov and Fritz Haake
pp. 3033-3041 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ponderomotive control of quantum macroscopic coherence
S. Mancini, V. I. Man'ko, and P. Tombesi
pp. 3042-3050 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Second-order squeezed states
Paulina Marian
pp. 3051-3058 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Rate-equation approximations in high-gain lasers
Lee W. Casperson
pp. 3073-3085 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Power dependence of transient degenerate four-wave mixing in molecular systems
A. Pakhomov, Chung-Jen Wu, Yit-Tsong Chen, and S. H. Lin
pp. 3086-3091 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-pumped phase conjugation in photorefractive crystals: Reflectivity and spatial fidelity
Ping Xie, Jian-Hua Dai, Peng-Ye Wang, and Hong-Jun Zhang
pp. 3092-3100 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Operational theory of homodyne detection
Konrad Banaszek and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 3117-3123 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical and electric properties of dynamic holographic gratings with arbitrary contrast
N. V. Kukhtarev, P. Buchhave, and S. F. Lyuksyutov
pp. 3133-3136 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum theory of noise in phase conjugation by four-wave mixing in a two-level system
R. W. Schirmer, M. Y. Lanzerotti, A. L. Gaeta, and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 3155-3163 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Boundary-driven selection of patterns in large-aspect-ratio lasers
I. Aranson, D. Hochheiser, and J. V. Moloney
pp. 3173-3176 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Femtosecond measurement of fluorescence by two-photon interference
Ying Li, M. Baba, and M. Matsuoka
pp. 3177-3183 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Generating Schrödinger-cat-like states by means of conditional measurements on a beam splitter
M. Dakna, T. Anhut, T. Opatrný, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
pp. 3184-3194 [View PDF (515 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical coherence: A convenient fiction
Klaus Mølmer
pp. 3195-3203 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Generalized phase-matching conditions for high harmonics: The role of field-gradient forces
Philippe Balcou, Pascal Sali`eres, Anne L'Huillier, and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 3204-3210 [View PDF (6853 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear dynamics of a backward quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generator
G. D'Alessandro, P. St. J. Russell, and A. A. Wheeler
pp. 3211-3218 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Add to article collection Quantum detection for on-off keyed mixed-state signals with a small amount of thermal noise
Masahide Sasaki, Rei Momose, and Osamu Hirota
pp. 3222-3225 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Kohn-Sham method as a free-energy minimization at infinite temperature
Robert G. Parr and Y. Alexander Wang
pp. 3226-3228 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lifetime of the 3pt2P3/2 level in Na-like Kr25+
I. Kink, R. Hutton, B. Nyström, I. Martinson, K. Ishii, K. Ando, T. Kambara, Y. Nakai, T. M. Kojima, and Y. Awaya
pp. 3229-3232 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optimal partition of the Coulomb operator
Aaron M. Lee, Stephen W. Taylor, Jeremy P. Dombroski, and Peter M. W. Gill
pp. 3233-3235 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection S-wave model for e-He+ scattering
Klaus Bartschat and Igor Bray
pp. 3236-3238 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Eigenchannel treatment of R-matrix theory
Jia-Ming Li, Lan Vo Ky, Yi-Zhi Qu, Jun Yan, Pei-Hong Zhang, Hsiao-Ling Zhou, and Paul Faucher
pp. 3239-3242 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superelastic cross sections in e--H2 scattering
Cláudio S. Sartori, Fernando J. da Paixão, and Marco A. P. Lima
pp. 3243-3246 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]