• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
  • Quantum optics
• 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
  • 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
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
  • Quantum optics
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Complete photofragmentation of the lithium atom A. W. Malcherek, J. M. Rost, and J. S. Briggs pp. R3979-R3982 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Doubly differential electron emission for transfer ionization in 100-keV H+ on Ar G. Bernardi, P. Focke, and W. Meckbach pp. R3983-R3986 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Temperature and localization of atoms in three-dimensional optical lattices M. Gatzke, G. Birkl, P. S. Jessen, A. Kastberg, S. L. Rolston, and W. D. Phillips pp. R3987-R3990 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atom trapping in deeply bound states of a far-off-resonance optical lattice D. L. Haycock, S. E. Hamann, G. Klose, and P. S. Jessen pp. R3991-R3994 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stark wave packets viewed with half-cycle pulses C. Raman, T. C. Weinacht, and P. H. Bucksbaum pp. R3995-R3998 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct measurement of fine-structure collisional losses from a Cs magneto-optical trap A. Fioretti, J. H. Müller, P. Verkerk, M. Allegrini, E. Arimondo, and P. S. Julienne pp. R3999-R4002 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Above-threshold ionization in the tunneling regime A. Lohr, M. Kleber, R. Kopold, and W. Becker pp. R4003-R4006 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Quantum evolution of classical nonlinear eigenmode in parametric interaction and realization in traps with ions G. S. Agarwal and J. Banerji pp. R4007-R4010 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Controlling optical turbulence D. Hochheiser, J. V. Moloney, and J. Lega pp. R4011-R4014 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spontaneous emission in absorbing dielectrics: tA microscopic approach Gediminas Juzeliu-barnas pp. R4015-R4018 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Broadband spectral generation with refractive index control S. E. Harris and A. V. Sokolov pp. R4019-R4022 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Relations of canonical and unitary transformations for a general time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian system Kyu-Hwang Yeon, Duk-Hyeon Kim, Chung-In Um, Thomas F. George, and Lakshmi N. Pandey pp. 4023-4029 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Information entropy and the space of decoherence functions in generalized quantum theory C. J. Isham and N. Linden pp. 4030-4040 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deconstructing decoherence J. R. Anglin, J. P. Paz, and W. H. Zurek pp. 4041-4053 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum stabilizer codes and classical linear codes Richard Cleve pp. 4054-4059 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Causality in the excitation exchange between identical atoms P. R. Berman and B. Dubetsky pp. 4060-4069 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence and initial correlations in quantum Brownian motion Luciana Dávila Romero and Juan Pablo Paz pp. 4070-4083 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inverting a time-dependent harmonic oscillator potential by a unitary transformation and a class of exactly solvable oscillators Ali Mostafazadeh pp. 4084-4088 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum code words contradict local realism David P. DiVincenzo and Asher Peres pp. 4089-4092 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin densities in pseudoclassical kinetic theory F. M. C. Witte pp. 4093-4101 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound states and propagating modes in quantum wires with sharp bends and/or constrictions M. Razavy pp. 4102-4108 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No-hidden-variables proof for two spin- particles preselected and postselected in unentangled states Adán Cabello pp. 4109-4111 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of U(2)⊃O(2) and U(2)⊃U(1) dynamical symmetries to diatomic molecular vibrations Ian L. Cooper and Raj K. Gupta pp. 4112-4119 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the quantum state of a trapped atom Matthias Freyberger pp. 4120-4125 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Testing the symmetrization postulate for photons using Rydberg atoms and cavity QED Christopher C. Gerry and Robert C. Hilborn pp. 4126-4130 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Photophysical and electron attachment properties of ArF-excimer-laser irradiated H2 Panos G. Datskos, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, and John F. Kielkopf pp. 4131-4142 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	All-order relativistic many-body calculations for the electron affinities of Ca-, Sr-, Ba-, and Yb- negative ions Euripides N. Avgoustoglou and Donald R. Beck pp. 4143-4149 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	4f2/4f6p configuration interaction in LiYF4 :Pr3+s M. D. Faucher and O. K. Moune pp. 4150-4154 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent-field perturbation theory for the Schrödinger equation David Z. Goodson pp. 4155-4163 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Lorentzian line shapes for interfering rotational resonances in the predissociation of O2 B. R. Lewis, P. M. Dooley, J. P. England, S. T. Gibson, K. G. H. Baldwin, and L. W. Torop pp. 4164-4167 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nodal structures of intrashell states of three-valence-electron atoms C. G. Bao, Xiazhou Yang, and C. D. Lin pp. 4168-4182 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbit coupling in variational quantum Monte Carlo calculations Heinz-Jürgen Flad, Michael Dolg, and Alok Shukla pp. 4183-4195 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of a magnetic-dipole transition probability in Xe32+using an electron-beam ion trap F. G. Serpa, C. A. Morgan, E. S. Meyer, J. D. Gillaspy, E. Träbert, D. A. Church, and E. Takács pp. 4196-4200 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Helium excitation by protons and highly-charged-ion impact V. D. Rodríguez, C. A. Ramírez, R. D. Rivarola, and J. E. Miraglia pp. 4201-4208 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multichannel Penning detachment of H- from excited Li and Ca atoms F. Martín and R. S. Berry pp. 4209-4214 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalent-photon method study of differential cross sections for double ionization of helium by relativistic heavy-ion impact S. Keller, H. J. Lüdde, and R. M. Dreizler pp. 4215-4220 [View PDF (2989 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrashort-lived non-Rydberg doubly excited resonances in diatomic molecules P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, E. Rachlew-Källne, M. Stankiewicz, K. Yoshiki Franzén, P. Sannes, and L. Veseth pp. 4221-4229 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotropic collision-induced light scattering by gaseous CF4 A. Elliasmine, J.-L. Godet, Y. Le Duff, and T. Bancewicz pp. 4230-4237 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalization of the Hartree-Fock approach to collision processes Yukap Hahn pp. 4238-4243 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of positron-methane differential scattering cross sections D. A. Przybyla, W. E. Kauppila, C. K. Kwan, Steven J. Smith, and T. S. Stein pp. 4244-4247 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detector-to-detector Compton backscattering in germanium at 59.5 keV S. Pasic-acute and K. Ilakovac pp. 4248-4252 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Making complex scaling work for long-range potentials T. N. Rescigno, M. Baertschy, D. Byrum, and C. W. McCurdy pp. 4253-4262 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-particle breakup near threshold when the Wannier exponent diverges W. Ihra, F. Mota-Furtado, and P. F. O'Mahony pp. 4263-4268 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distributions of Auger transitions of N2 to dissociative final states A. K. Edwards, Q. Zheng, R. M. Wood, and M. A. Mangan pp. 4269-4272 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray fluorescence and Auger-electron coincidence spectroscopyof vacancy cascades in atomic argon U. Arp, T. LeBrun, S. H. Southworth, M. A. MacDonald, and M. Jung pp. 4273-4284 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of (Nlm)-(N+1,l+1,m) nonadiabatic couplings in (Z1,e,Z2) system and the Z2/Z1 range of Landau-Zener coupling R. K. Janev pp. 4285-4289 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extension of classical trajectory Monte Carlo calculations to ion–Rydberg-atom collisionsin a magnetic field S. Bradenbrink, E. Y. Sidky, Z. Roller-Lutz, H. Reihl, and H. O. Lutz pp. 4290-4299 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Stopping in ion-surface collisions at high energies J. E. Miraglia and M. S. Gravielle pp. 4300-4309 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy loss of highly charged argon ions at grazing incidence on a graphite surface S. Winecki, M. P. Stöckli, and C. L. Cocke pp. 4310-4317 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Quantum dynamics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential G. J. Milburn, J. Corney, E. M. Wright, and D. F. Walls pp. 4318-4324 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical analysis of collective excitations in Bose-Einstein condensate Subhasis Sinha pp. 4325-4329 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relative phase of two Bose-Einstein condensates Yvan Castin and Jean Dalibard pp. 4330-4337 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solitary-wave solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations S. A. Morgan, R. J. Ballagh, and K. Burnett pp. 4338-4345 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trapped Fermi gases D. A. Butts and D. S. Rokhsar pp. 4346-4350 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Many-particle effects in laser cooling of one-dimensional optical molasses K. Ellinger and J. Cooper pp. 4351-4376 [View PDF (477 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sympathetic cooling of 6Li atoms F. A. van Abeelen, B. J. Verhaar, and A. J. Moerdijk pp. 4377-4381 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pump-probe spectroscopy approach to Bragg scattering P. R. Berman and B. Bian pp. 4382-4385 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance fluorescence of an extended atomic wave packet Luis Pumares, Luis Santos, Luis Roso, and Kazimierz Rząz-dotewski pp. 4386-4396 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong laser-field effects in hydrogen:mHigh-order above-threshold ionization and photoelectron angular distributions S. Dionissopoulou, Th. Mercouris, A. Lyras, and C. A. Nicolaides pp. 4397-4406 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical suppression of hyperfine-changing collisions in a sample of ultracold sodium atoms S. R. Muniz, L. G. Marcassa, R. Napolitano, G. D. Telles, J. Weiner, S. C. Zilio, and V. S. Bagnato pp. 4407-4411 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-nondemolition measurement of the vibrational energy of a trapped ion F. E. Harrison, A. S. Parkins, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls pp. 4412-4417 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Population dynamics and phase effects in periodic level crossings B. M. Garraway and N. V. Vitanov pp. 4418-4432 [View PDF (368 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic scattering of atoms by a standing laser wave A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch pp. 4433-4437 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-mechanical counterpart of nonlinear optics S. Wallentowitz and W. Vogel pp. 4438-4442 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Low pump limit of the bifurcation to periodic intensities in a semiconductor laser subject to external optical feedback G. Lythe, T. Erneux, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis pp. 4443-4448 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of Klyshko's criterion for nonclassical states to the micromaser pumped by ultracold atoms Ching Tsung Lee pp. 4449-4453 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quenching of spontaneous emission via quantum interference Hwang Lee, Pavel Polynkin, Marlan O. Scully, and Shi-Yao Zhu pp. 4454-4465 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant interaction between identical atoms including recoil P. R. Berman pp. 4466-4476 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear theory for optimal control of molecular wave packets Jianshu Cao and Kent R. Wilson pp. 4477-4482 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum interference effects in spontaneous atomic emission: Dependence of the resonance fluorescence spectrum on the phase of the driving field M. A. G. Martinez, P. R. Herczfeld, C. Samuels, L. M. Narducci, and C. H. Keitel pp. 4483-4491 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum trajectory analysis of a thresholdlike transition in the microlaser Changhuei Yang and Kyungwon An pp. 4492-4500 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Forward-scattered light: Spectral broadening and temporal coherence N. L. Swanson and D. H. Van Winkle pp. 4501-4510 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical and quantum signatures of competing χ(2) nonlinearities A. G. White, P. K. Lam, M. S. Taubman, M. A. M. Marte, S. Schiller, D. E. McClelland, and H.-A. Bachor pp. 4511-4515 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-size effects on squeezing in the self-pulsing regime of second harmonic generation Oliver Veits and Michael Fleischhauer pp. 4516-4519 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering of second-harmonic light from small spherical particles ordered in a crystalline lattice Jordi Martorell, R. Vilaseca, and R. Corbalán pp. 4520-4525 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional wave-function revivals in the infinite square well David L. Aronstein and C. R. Stroud pp. 4526-4537 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subhexagons and ultrahexagons as a result of a secondary instability Yu. A. Logvin, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange pp. 4538-4544 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified and standardized procedure to solve various nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings models Xiaoxue Yang, Ying Wu, and Yuanjie Li pp. 4545-4551 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strongly anticorrelated twin beams from symmetric low-Q cavity semiconductor lasers under constant-current operation Makoto Yamashita, Susumu Machida, and Takaaki Mukai pp. 4552-4555 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unstable-resonator diffraction losses and the excess-noise factor M. A. van Eijkelenborg, Å. M. Lindberg, M. S. Thijssen, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 4556-4562 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse excess noise factor in geometrically stable laser resonators Marc Brunel, Guy Ropars, Albert Le Floch, and Fabien Bretenaker pp. 4563-4567 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light amplification mechanisms in a coherently coupled atomic system Yifu Zhu pp. 4568-4575 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zeeman splitting in the Maxwell-Bloch theory of collisionally pumped lasers D. Benredjem, A. Sureau, and C. Möller pp. 4576-4584 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Generation of highly entangled field states in multiple micromaser cavities János A. Bergou and Mark Hillery pp. 4585-4588 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Natural variables for density functionals Yan Alexander Wang pp. 4589-4592 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional generation of error syndromes in fault-tolerant error correction M. B. Plenio, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight pp. 4593-4596 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Investigation of the b1Σg+(v=0)←X3Σg-(v=0) magnetic-dipole transitions in 18O2 G. Gagliardi, L. Gianfrani, and G. M. Tino pp. 4597-4600 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical test of the sixth-order gradient expansion for the kinetic energy:Application to the monovacancy in jellium Zidan Yan, John P. Perdew, Timo Korhonen, and Paul Ziesche pp. 4601-4604 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyzing the photodetachment cross section of H- in electric and magnetic fields with arbitrary orientation Z. Y. Liu and D. H. Wang pp. 4605-4608 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical examination of the Stark effect in hydrogen Andrew Hooker, Chris H. Greene, and William Clark pp. 4609-4612 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Interference patterns in positron-H2+ collisions with the formation of positronium atoms O. A. Fojón, R. D. Rivarola, J. Hanssen, and M. A. Ourdane pp. 4613-4616 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential cross sections in the ejected energy for an L=0 model of the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux pp. 4617-4620 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Cooling mechanisms in the sodium type-II magneto-optical trap A. M. L. Oien, I. T. McKinnie, P. J. Manson, W. J. Sandle, and D. M. Warrington pp. 4621-4624 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sidelobes in multiphoton ionization of inert gases J. Z. Kamin-acuteski and F. Ehlotzky pp. 4625-4628 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Tomographic reconstruction of completely unpolarized light Th. Richter pp. 4629-4631 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from a microcavity exciton polariton to a photon laser H. Cao, S. Pau, J. M. Jacobson, G. Björk, Y. Yamamoto, and A. Imamŏglu pp. 4632-4635 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decay of an atom coupled strongly to a reservoir B. M. Garraway pp. 4636-4639 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ``Cyclic quantum-evolution dependence on the Hamiltonian and geometric phase'' Ali Mostafazadeh pp. 4640 [View PDF (27 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Role of optical anisotropies in the polarization properties of surface-emitting semiconductor lasers [Phys. Rev. A 54, 1647 (1996)] M. Travagnin, M. P. van Exter, A. K. Jansen van Doorn, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 4641 [View PDF (38 kB) ]