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Physical Review A – April 1997
Volume 55, Issue 4

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Fundamental concepts

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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)]
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Test of Bell's inequalities with harmonic oscillators
S. Hacyan
pp. R2492-R2494 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Stokes phase and geometrical phase in a driven two-level system
Yosuke Kayanuma
pp. R2495-R2498 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Quantum Zeno effect and the impossibility of determining the quantum state of a single system
Orly Alter and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. R2499-R2502 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Unified quantum-defect-theory treatment of molecular ionization and dissociation
Christian Jungen and Stephen C. Ross
pp. R2503-R2506 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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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 (98 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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 (107 kB)]
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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)]
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Absence of the cusp in the single-electron detachment spectrum of the He- ion
L. Víkor and L. Sarkadi
pp. R2519-R2522 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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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 (80 kB)]

Matter waves

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Mean-field model of a weakly interacting Bose condensate in a harmonic potential
H. J. Davies and C. S. Adams
pp. R2527-R2530 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Theory of input and output of atoms from an atomic trap
J. J. Hope
pp. R2531-R2534 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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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)]

Quantum optics

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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)]
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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 (86 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Reversible quantum operations and their application to teleportation
M. A. Nielsen and Carlton M. Caves
pp. 2547-2556 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Bound states in continuum induced by relativity
A. Khelashvili and N. Kiknadze
pp. 2557-2563 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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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)]
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Isospectral deformation of quantum potentials and the Liouville equation
V. M. Eleonsky and V. G. Korolev
pp. 2580-2593 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Two-boson Hamiltonian for Shor's algorithm
Mario Rasetti, Elena Tagliati, and Riccardo Zecchina
pp. 2594-2597 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Fundamental quantum limit in precision phase measurement
Z. Y. Ou
pp. 2598-2609 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Time-dependent-harmonic plus inverse-harmonic potential in quantum mechanics
R. S. Kaushal and D. Parashar
pp. 2610-2614 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Quantum time-dependent perturbation theory for the construction of operator invariants
H. Ralph Lewis and Walter E. Lawrence
pp. 2615-2616 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Orthogonality criteria for singular states and the nonexistence of stationary states with even parity for the one-dimensional hydrogen atom
Dai Xianxi, Jixin Dai, and Jiqiong Dai
pp. 2617-2624 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Semiclassical analysis of quasiexact solvability
Carl M. Bender, Gerald V. Dunne, and Moshe Moshe
pp. 2625-2629 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Time-dependent Kohn-Sham formalism
Andreas Görling
pp. 2630-2639 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Interpair and intrapair electron correlation of low excited states (2 A1 ) in NaCl2s
Guan-Zhi Ju and Ning Ju
pp. 2640-2643 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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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 (131 kB)]
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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)]
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Positronium hydrides and the Ps2 molecule: Bound-state properties, positron annihilation rates, and hyperfine structure
Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith
pp. 2662-2673 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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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 (7,566 kB)]
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Constrained Hamiltonian approach to the phase space of the coupled cluster method
Jouko Arponen
pp. 2686-2700 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Hydrogen molecular ion in a strong parallel magnetic field
Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman
pp. 2701-2710 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Precise Stark-shift measurements using an electro-optically modulated laser beam
W. A. van Wijngaarden and J. Li
pp. 2711-2715 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Clt2p–photoelectron spectrum of HCl studied by fully relativistic, self-consistent-field, and configuration-interaction calculations
K. Ellingsen, T. Saue, H. Aksela, and O. Gropen
pp. 2743-2747 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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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)]
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Green's-function approach to atomic many-body calculations with application to the ground state in alkali-metal atoms
H̊akan Warston, Ingvar Lindgren, and Sten Salomonson
pp. 2757-2770 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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 (181 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Dissociative-recombination and excitation measurements with <emb><base>H</base><sup>n+></sup><sub>2</sub></emb> and <emb><base>HD</base><sup>+</sup></emb>s
L. H. Andersen, P. J. Johnson, D. Kella, H. B. Pedersen, and L. Vejby-Christensen
pp. 2799-2808 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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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 (434 kB)]
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Semiclassical description of proton stopping by atomic and molecular targets
W. A. Beck and L. Wilets
pp. 2821-2829 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Theory and computation of electron correlation in the continuous spectrum:Double photoionization cross section of H- and He near and far from threshold
Cleanthes A. Nicolaides, Costas Haritos, and Theodoros Mercouris
pp. 2830-2841 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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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)]
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Effect of long-range interactions on low-energy scattering parameters: Variational formulation
Leonard Rosenberg
pp. 2857-2863 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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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 (195 kB)]
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Interaction of ion clusters with fusion plasmas: Scaling laws
N. R. Arista and E. M. Bringa
pp. 2873-2881 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Long-range interactions of lithium atoms
Zong-Chao Yan, A. Dalgarno, and J. F. Babb
pp. 2882-2887 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Energies, intensities, and polarizations of channeling radiation in the axial-to-planar channeling transition region
R. W. Dougherty, J. B. Langworthy, and A. W. Sáenz
pp. 2888-2895 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Distribution in angle of the Bloch correction in electronic stopping
Allan H. Sørensen
pp. 2896-2901 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Matter waves

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Quantum kinetic theory: A quantum kinetic master equation for condensation of a weakly interacting Bose gas without a trapping potential
C. W. Gardiner and P. Zoller
pp. 2902-2921 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in anisotropic harmonic traps
Tor Haugset, H̊arek Haugerud, and Jens O. Andersen
pp. 2922-2929 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas with attractive interactions
Hualin Shi and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 2930-2934 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quasiparticle instabilities in multicomponent atomic condensates
Elena V. Goldstein and Pierre Meystre
pp. 2935-2940 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Phase-controlled quantum interference in two-color atomic photoionization
Stefano Cavalieri, Roberto Eramo, and Lorenzo Fini
pp. 2941-2944 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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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 (208 kB)]
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Fundamental mechanisms of single-pulse NMR echo formation
L. N. Shakhmuratova, D. K. Fowler, and D. H. Chaplin
pp. 2955-2967 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Pulsed excitation of a transition to a decaying level
N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm
pp. 2982-2988 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (218 kB)]
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Molecular excitation by large-area ultrashort pulses
A. Paloviita and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 3007-3013 [View PDF (1,775 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Positive P representation: Application and validity
A. Gilchrist, C. W. Gardiner, and P. D. Drummond
pp. 3014-3032 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Collective effects in the microlaser
Mikhail I. Kolobov and Fritz Haake
pp. 3033-3041 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Ponderomotive control of quantum macroscopic coherence
S. Mancini, V. I. Man'ko, and P. Tombesi
pp. 3042-3050 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Second-order squeezed states
Paulina Marian
pp. 3051-3058 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Effects of finite-system size in nonlinear optical systems:A quantum many-body approach to parametric oscillation
Oliver Veits and Michael Fleischhauer
pp. 3059-3072 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Rate-equation approximations in high-gain lasers
Lee W. Casperson
pp. 3073-3085 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (226 kB)]
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Dissipative quantum systems in strong laser fields: Stochastic wave-function method and Floquet theory
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 3101-3116 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Operational theory of homodyne detection
Konrad Banaszek and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 3117-3123 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of additive-pulse mode-locked lasers in four cavity topologies
U. Morgner and F. Mitschke
pp. 3124-3132 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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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 (588 kB)]
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Observation of narrow resonances inside homogeneously self-broadened lines in pump-probe reflection experiments
V. A. Sautenkov, R. G. Gamidov, and A. Weis
pp. 3137-3142 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Fock state interference: A fast computation and an analytic treatment in the frameworkof the quantum trajectory theory
Young-Tak Chough
pp. 3143-3154 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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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 (181 kB)]
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State reconstruction of anharmonic molecular vibrations: Morse-oscillator model
Ulf Leonhardt
pp. 3164-3172 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Boundary-driven selection of patterns in large-aspect-ratio lasers
I. Aranson, D. Hochheiser, and J. V. Moloney
pp. 3173-3176 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Femtosecond measurement of fluorescence by two-photon interference
Ying Li, M. Baba, and M. Matsuoka
pp. 3177-3183 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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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 (514 kB)]
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Optical coherence: A convenient fiction
Klaus Mølmer
pp. 3195-3203 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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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 (6,853 kB)]
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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)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Exact wave functions of a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent mass and frequency
I. A. Pedrosa
pp. 3219-3221 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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)]
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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 (74 kB)]
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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 (86 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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S-wave model for e-He+ scattering
Klaus Bartschat and Igor Bray
pp. 3236-3238 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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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 (114 kB)]
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Superelastic cross sections in e--H2 scattering
Cláudio S. Sartori, Fernando J. da Paixão, and Marco A. P. Lima
pp. 3243-3246 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Structural properties of the negative strontium ion: Binding energy and fine-structure splitting
H. H. Andersen, V. V. Petrunin, P. Kristensen, and T. Andersen
pp. 3247-3249 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Threshold law for the triplet state for electron-impact ionization in the Temkin-Poet model
W. Ihra, F. Mota-Furtado, P. F. O'Mahony, and J. H. Macek
pp. 3250-3253 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Matter waves

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Trapped Bose gas: The canonical versus grand canonical statistics
C. Herzog and M. Olshanii
pp. 3254-3256 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Exchange effects in the transition amplitude for inelastic electron-cluster collisions
M. R. Spinella, M. Bernath, O. Dragún, and H. Massmann
pp. 3257-3260 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Coulomb-corrected strong-field approximation for the two-electron atom
Jaros|A*law Bauer
pp. 3261-3263 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dynamics of interfering wave packets
Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell
pp. 3264-3266 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Enhancement of squeezing in cascaded lasers
Márcia T. Fontenelle and L. Davidovich
pp. 3267-3270 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Analysis of a picosecond-laser-driven Ne-like Ti x-ray laser
Joseph Nilsen
pp. 3271-3274 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Optical homodyne tomography of unpolarized light
D. S. Krähmer and U. Leonhardt
pp. 3275-3278 [View PDF (79 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: s-wave elastic collisions between cold ground-state 87Rb atoms [Phys. Rev. A 51, R2680 (1995)]
N. R. Newbury, C. J. Myatt, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 3279 [View PDF (33 kB)]
 
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