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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Teleportation with identity interchange of quantum states M. H. Y. Moussa pp. R3287-R3290 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Measured quantum dynamics of a trapped ion Lorenza Viola and Roberto Onofrio pp. R3291-R3294 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

High-precision structural studies of the antiprotonic helium atom p-|Am4He+ by observing laser resonances with Δv=Δ(n-l-1)=2 T. Yamazaki, E. Widmann, J. Eades, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, H. A. Torii, M. Hori, T. Ishikawa, F. E. Maas, H. Tamura, R. S. Hayano, I. Sugai, Y. Fujita, B. Ketzer, H. Daniel, F. J. Hartmann, M. Hasinoff, R. Pohl, R. Schmidt, T. von Egidy, and D. Horváth pp. R3295-R3298 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Triplet s-wave resonance in 6Li collisions and scattering lengths of 6Li and 7Li E. R. I. Abraham, W. I. McAlexander, J. M. Gerton, R. G. Hulet, R. Côtéand, and A. Dalgarno pp. R3299-R3302 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of Ramsey interference in a one-dimensional continuum: Short-pulse photodetachment in a magnetic field J. N. Yukich, C. T. Butler, and D. J. Larson pp. R3303-R3306 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Quantum dephasing of normal modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a magnetic trap A. B. Kuklov, N. Chencinski, A. M. Levine, W. M. Schreiber, and Joseph L. Birman pp. R3307-R3310 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Refining molecular potentials using atom interferometry Robert C. Forrey, Li You, Vasili Kharchenko, and Alex Dalgarno pp. R3311-R3314 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Quantum fluctuations affect the critical properties of noble gases Akira Ohnishi and Jørgen Randrup pp. R3315-R3318 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Formation and measurement of molecular quantum picostructures Henrik Stapelfeldt, Hirofumi Sakai, Eric Constant, and Paul B. Corkum pp. R3319-R3322 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Squeezed light generated by a microcavity laser Daniel C. Kilper, Peter A. Roos, John L. Carlsten, and Kevin L. Lear pp. R3323-R3326 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Broadcasting of entanglement via local copying V. Buzek, V. Vedral, M. B. Plenio, P. L. Knight, and M. Hillery pp. 3327-3332 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solutions without preacceleration to the one-dimensional Lorentz-Dirac equation D. Villarroel pp. 3333-3340 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Harmonic oscillators in q implicate-order theory and order structures Zai-Zhe Zhong pp. 3341-3344 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accuracy of semiclassical methods for shape-invariant potentials Marina Hruska, Wai-Yee Keung, and Uday Sukhatme pp. 3345-3350 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recoil corrections of order (Zα)6(m/M)m to the hydrogen energy levels recalculated Michael I. Eides and Howard Grotch pp. 3351-3360 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient effects and delay time in the dynamics of resonant tunneling Gastón García-Calderón and Alberto Rubio pp. 3361-3370 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropic Bell inequalities N. J. Cerf and C. Adami pp. 3371-3374 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixed quantum-classical versus full quantum dynamics: Coupled quasiparticle-oscillator system Holger Schanz and Bernd Esser pp. 3375-3387 [View PDF (638 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Electron-impact study in the valence and autoionization resonance regions of neon Z. P. Zhong, S. L. Wu, R. F. Feng, B. X. Yang, Q. Ji, K. Z. Xu, Y. Zou, and Jia-Ming Li pp. 3388-3393 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipulse laser spectroscopy of p-bartHe+: Measurement and controlof the metastable state populations V. L. Derbov, L. A. Melnikov, I. M. Umansky, and S. I. Vinitsky pp. 3394-3400 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson-realization model applied to highly excited vibrations of H2O Xi-Wen Hou, Mi Xie, and Zhong-Qi Ma pp. 3401-3405 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional theory with optimized effective potential and self-interaction correction for ground states and autoionizing resonances Xiao-Min Tong and Shih-I Chu pp. 3406-3416 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accurate basis sets for the calculation of bound and continuum wave functions of the Schrödinger equation B. I. Schneider pp. 3417-3421 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray emissions in 3d, 4d, and 5d ranges for uranium ions C. Bonnelle, P. Jonnard, C. Barré, G. Giorgi, and J. Bruneau pp. 3422-3432 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Relativistic configuration-interaction study of valence-electron correlation effects on the fine-structure splitting in the Pb isoelectronic series Alok Shukla, Michael Dolg, Heinz-Jürgen Flad, Ajit Banerjee, and Ajaya K. Mohanty pp. 3433-3439 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-scale relativistic configuration-interaction calculation of the 3s21S0-3s3p1,3P1 transition energies in magnesiumlike ions M. H. Chen and K. T. Cheng pp. 3440-3446 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muon transfer from thermalized muonic hydrogen isotopes to argon R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, C. Piller, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, Y.-A. Thalmann, S. Tresch, A. Werthmüller, and A. Adamczak pp. 3447-3452 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-degeneracy effect on energy shifts in some highly charged few-electron Rydberg ions Steffen D. Frischat, Thomas Schüßler, Larry Spruch, and Andreas Wolf pp. 3453-3457 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General analytical form for the long-range potential of the (ns+npJ) 0u+ states of alkali dimers applied to 6Li2 F. Martin, M. Aubert-Frécon, R. Bacis, P. Crozet, C. Linton, S. Magnier, A. J. Ross, and I. Russier pp. 3458-3464 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternative derivation of the Krieger-Li-Iafrate approximation to the optimized-effective-potential method Á. Nagy pp. 3465-3468 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime measurements using the cascade-photon-coincidence technique with a sputtered-atom source S. D. Rosner, R. A. Holt, and T. J. Scholl pp. 3469-3474 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of hyperfine coupling constants in the 3dt2Dj levels of 39K, 40K, and 41K by polarization quantum-beat spectroscopy A. Sieradzan, R. Stoleru, Wo Yei, and M. D. Havey pp. 3475-3483 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trace polarizability spectra from Ar2 quasimolecules in collision-induced scattering Omar Gaye, Michael Chrysos, Victor Teboul, and Yves Le Duff pp. 3484-3490 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Elastic collisions and rotational excitation in positron scattering from CO2 molecules F. A. Gianturco and P. Paioletti pp. 3491-3503 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation mechanisms in moderate-energy Li+-Ar collisions S. Kita and N. Shimakura pp. 3504-3517 [View PDF (412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approximate analytical solution for two electrons in the continuum P. A. Macri, J. E. Miraglia, C. R. Garibotti, F. D. Colavecchia, and G. Gasaneo pp. 3518-3525 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy electron capture by N2+ ions from atomic hydrogen using merged beams Marc Pieksma, M. E. Bannister, W. Wu, and C. C. Havener pp. 3526-3531 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distribution of emitted electrons in the decay of Ar 2p-14s states studiedby high-resolution experiment H. Aksela, J. Mursu, J. Jauhiainen, E. Nõmmiste, J. Karvonen, and S. Aksela pp. 3532-3538 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eikonal formula for tensor forces J. Besprosvany pp. 3539-3546 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution studies of extreme-ultraviolet emission from CO by electron impact Marco Ciocca, Isik Kanik, and Joseph M. Ajello pp. 3547-3556 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering of 22.1-keV photons by elements in the atomic region 12≤Z≤92 J. S. Shahi, Sanjiv Puri, D. Mehta, M. L. Garg, Nirmal Singh, and P. N. Trehan pp. 3557-3565 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-range interactions of sodium atoms P. Kharchenko, J. F. Babb, and A. Dalgarno pp. 3566-3572 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent quantal calculations for L=0 models of the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen near threshold F. Robicheaux, M. S. Pindzola, and D. R. Plante pp. 3573-3579 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Barrier penetration by wave packets and the tunneling times M. S. Marinov and Bilha Segev pp. 3580-3585 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray spectra from positron annihilation on atoms and molecules Koji Iwata, R. G. Greaves, and C. M. Surko pp. 3586-3604 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Positive energy Sturmian states for two-Coulomb-center problems S. Yu. Ovchinnikov and J. H. Macek pp. 3605-3614 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-threshold spectrum of photoelectron angular distributions from maximally oriented Cat4s5p1P K. W. McLaughlin, K. Aflatooni, and D. W. Duquette pp. 3615-3624 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Phase-dependent spectrum of scattered light from two Bose condensates Janne Ruostekoski and Dan F. Walls pp. 3625-3630 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom laser based on Raman transitions G. M. Moy, J. J. Hope, and C. M. Savage pp. 3631-3638 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for trapped Bose-condensed atoms with negative scattering lengths Kimitaka Watanabe, Tetsuya Mukai, and Takaaki Mukai pp. 3639-3644 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational Thomas-Fermi theory of a nonuniform Bose condensate at zero temperature Eddy Timmermans, Paolo Tommasini, and Kerson Huang pp. 3645-3657 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hartree-Fock calculations of Bose-Einstein condensation of 7Li atomsin a harmonic trap for T>0 T. Bergeman pp. 3658-3669 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bose-Einstein condensation: Kinetic evolution obtained from simulated trajectories M. Holland, J. Williams, and J. Cooper pp. 3670-3677 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Ponderomotive scattering of electrons in intense laser fields Yousef I. Salamin and Farhad H. M. Faisal pp. 3678-3683 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical-dipole-force fiber guiding and heating of atoms Michael J. Renn, Alex A. Zozulya, Elizabeth A. Donley, Eric A. Cornell, and Dana Z. Anderson pp. 3684-3696 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time evolution of two-photon population transfer between the 1s and 2s statesof a hydrogen atom M. Dörr, O. Latinne, and C. J. Joachain pp. 3697-3703 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency external force acting on an atom in a resonant field Sergey V. Siparov pp. 3704-3709 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent population trapping with losses observed on the Hanle effect of the D1 sodium line F. Renzoni, W. Maichen, L. Windholz, and E. Arimondo pp. 3710-3718 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generation of mesoscopic superpositions of two squeezed states of motion for a trapped ion S.-C. Gou, J. Steinbach, and P. L. Knight pp. 3719-3723 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rydberg wave packets in parallel electric and magnetic fields I. Moser, F. Mota-Furtado, P. F. O'Mahony, and J. P. dos Santos pp. 3724-3729 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen atom in circularly polarized microwaves:nChaotic ionization via core scattering Andrea F. Brunello, T. Uzer, and David Farrelly pp. 3730-3745 [View PDF (649 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrete-time picture for multiphoton microwave spectroscopy M. J. Cavagnero and S. T. Cornett pp. 3746-3754 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy laser-assisted electron-helium collisions Sydney Geltman pp. 3755-3759 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiphoton detachment of electrons from negative ions G. F. Gribakin and M. Yu. Kuchiev pp. 3760-3771 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Incomplete optical shielding in cold atom traps: three-dimensional Landau-Zener theory V. A. Yurovsky and A. Ben-Reuven pp. 3772-3779 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision measurement of the 5st2S1/2→5pt2Pj→8st2S1/2 two-photon, two-color polarization spectrum in atomic Rb A. I. Beger, M. D. Havey, and R. P. Meyer pp. 3780-3786 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum interference in half-cycle microwave multiphoton transitions C. W. S. Conover and J. H. Rentz pp. 3787-3796 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimization of evaporative cooling C. A. Sackett, C. C. Bradley, and R. G. Hulet pp. 3797-3801 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Strong intracavity and output laser noise reduction via initial atomic coherence Carlos Saavedra, Juan C. Retamal, and Christoph H. Keitel pp. 3802-3812 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Micromaser linewidth Rebecca R. McGowan and William C. Schieve pp. 3813-3818 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometrical representation of coherent-excitation methods using delayed and detuned lasers J. B. Kim, J. Lee, A. S. Choe, and Y. Rhee pp. 3819-3825 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free-induction decay after a pulse saturation for systems with noncorrelated frequency exchange Vladimir S. Malinovsky and Alex Szabo pp. 3826-3831 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Macroscopic averages in QED in material media S. M. Dutra and K. Furuya pp. 3832-3841 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-photon parametric pumping versus two-photon absorption: A quantum jump approach E. S. Guerra, B. M. Garraway, and P. L. Knight pp. 3842-3857 [View PDF (473 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient, high-brightness soft-x-ray laser at 21.2 nm B. Rus, A. Carillon, P. Dhez, P. Jaeglé, G. Jamelot, A. Klisnick, M. Nantel, and P. Zeitoun pp. 3858-3873 [View PDF (2656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-dimensional coherent-state generation and quantum-optical nonlinear oscillator models W. Leon-acuteski pp. 3874-3878 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fourth-order interference in the Wigner representation for parametric down-conversion experiments Alberto Casado, Agustín Fernández-Rueda, Trevor Marshall, Ramón Risco-Delgado, and Emilio Santos pp. 3879-3890 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of a semiconductor laser with phase-conjugate optical feedback Erik Bochove pp. 3891-3899 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amplification without inversion:mUnderstanding probability amplitudes, quantum interference, and Feynman rules in a strongly driven system J. L. Cohen and P. R. Berman pp. 3900-3917 [View PDF (409 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Zeno effect and V-scheme lasing without inversion F. B. de Jong, R. J. C. Spreeuw, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell pp. 3918-3922 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral properties of the one-atom laser Markus Löffler, Georg M. Meyer, and Herbert Walther pp. 3923-3930 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Exactly solvable three-particle problem with three-body interaction C. Quesne pp. 3931-3934 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Density-functional approach to relativistic charge expansion theory N. H. March pp. 3935-3936 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Projectile charge and velocity scaling for double ionization of helium Bhas Bapat and E. Krishnakumar pp. 3937-3940 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inner-shell resonances in metastable Ca+ ions A. Gottwald, S. Anger, J.-M. Bizau, D. Rosenthal, and M. Richter pp. 3941-3944 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge transfer of 0.5-, 1.5-, and 5-keV protons with H2O:mAbsolute differential and integral cross sections B. G. Lindsay, D. R. Sieglaff, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings pp. 3945-3946 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	X-ray studies of the interaction of N, O, and Ne hydrogenlike ions below surfaces J.-P. Briand, D. Schneider, S. Bardin, H. Khemliche, J. Jin, Z. Xie, and M. Prior pp. 3947-3950 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Analysis of in situ images of Bose-Einstein condensates of lithium C. C. Bradley, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet pp. 3951-3953 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of a finite number of particles in the Bose-Einstein condensation of a trapped gas R. Napolitano, J. De Luca, V. S. Bagnato, and G. C. Marques pp. 3954-3956 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Two-color multiphoton ionization of atoms C. S. Han pp. 3957-3960 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time profile of harmonic generation Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria, Martin Dörr, and Wolfgang Sandner pp. 3961-3963 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Harmonic generation by scattering circularly polarized light of arbitrary intensity from free electrons of arbitrary initial velocity Yousef I. Salamin and Farhad H. M. Faisal pp. 3964-3967 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	sComment on 'Local-realism violations in two-particle interferometry' JoséL. Cereceda pp. 3968-3969 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Comment on ``Definition and construction of the quantum soliton states in optical fibers''[Phys. Rev. A 53, 2901 (1996)] Demin Yao pp. 3970 [View PDF (49 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Entangled entanglement [Phys. Rev. A 54, 1793 (1996)] pp. 3970 [View PDF (49 kB) ]