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Fundamental concepts

Five quantum register error correction code for higher spin systems H. F. Chau pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Semiclassical formula for oscillator strengths in atomic spectra V. Kondratovich and J. B. Delos pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Atomic diffraction assisted by a stimulated Raman transition Carsten Henkel, Klaus Mølmer, Robin Kaiser, and Christoph I. Westbrook pp. R9-R12 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Ionization and double excitation of helium by short intense laser pulses Armin Scrinzi and Bernard Piraux pp. R13-R16 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Molecular optics in an intense laser field: A route to nanoscale material design Tamar Seideman pp. R17-R20 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Quantum interference and indistinguishability with femtosecond pulses G. Di Giuseppe, L. Haiberger, F. De Martini, and A. V. Sergienko pp. R21-R24 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Hindered decay: Quantum Zeno effect through electromagnetic field domination E. Mihokova, S. Pascazio, and L. S. Schulman pp. 25-32 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Codes for the quantum erasure channel M. Grassl, Th. Beth, and T. Pellizzari pp. 33-38 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lindblad approach to nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings dynamics of a trapped ion Roberto Onofrio and Lorenza Viola pp. 39-43 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuous fuzzy measurement of energy for a two-level system Jürgen Audretsch and Michael Mensky pp. 44-54 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal momentum transfer in welcher Weg measurements H. M. Wiseman, F. E. Harrison, M. J. Collett, S. M. Tan, D. F. Walls, and R. B. Killip pp. 55-75 [View PDF (523 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient computations of encodings for quantum error correction Richard Cleve and Daniel Gottesman pp. 76-82 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Derivation of planar three-body hyperspherical harmonics from monopole harmonics Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn pp. 83-99 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence between Bell’s inequality and a constraint on stochastic field theories for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states Lars M. Johansen pp. 100-107 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimal irreversible quantum mechanics: Pure-state formalism Mario Castagnino and Roberto Laura pp. 108-119 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal separable bases and series expansions Bill Poirier pp. 120-130 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sending classical information via noisy quantum channels Benjamin Schumacher and Michael D. Westmoreland pp. 131-138 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinless Salpeter equation: Laguerre bounds on energy levels Wolfgang Lucha and Franz F. Schöberl pp. 139-145 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical reduction theory of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations and a possible origin of CP violations Daniel I. Fivel pp. 146-156 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase and transition-amplitude holonomy in optics S. C. Tiwari pp. 157-161 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixing quantum and classical mechanics Oleg V. Prezhdo and Vladimir V. Kisil pp. 162-175 [View PDF (345 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental test of the violation of local realism in quantum mechanics without Bell inequalities G. Di Giuseppe, F. De Martini, and D. Boschi pp. 176-181 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic orbit theory of a circular billiard in homogeneous magnetic fields J. Blaschke and M. Brack pp. 182-194 [View PDF (523 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interferometric measurement of an atomic wave function Matthias Freyberger, Stefan H. Kienle, and Valery P. Yakovlev pp. 195-201 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stark effect in hydrogen: Reconstruction of the complex ground-state energy from the coefficients of an asymptotic perturbation expansion I. A. Ivanov pp. 202-207 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape invariance in the Calogero and Calogero-Sutherland models C. J. Efthimiou and Donald Spector pp. 208-219 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Canonical perturbation treatment of a Rydberg electron in combined electric and magnetic fields Jan von Milczewski and T. Uzer pp. 220-231 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent time evolution on a grid of Landau-Zener anticrossings David A. Harmin pp. 232-251 [View PDF (11058 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state hyperfine splitting of high-Z hydrogenlike ions V. M. Shabaev, M. Tomaselli, T. Kühl, A. N. Artemyev, and V. A. Yerokhin pp. 252-255 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapse of vibrational structure in spectra of resonant x-ray Raman scattering Faris Gel’mukhanov, Timofei Privalov, and Hans Ågren pp. 256-264 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state hyperfine-structure measurements of unstable Eu+ isotopes in a Paul ion trap K. Enders, E. Stachowska, G. Marx, Ch. Zölch, U. Georg, J. Dembczynski, and G. Werth ISOLDE Collaboration pp. 265-269 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body corrections to O(α6) fine structure in helium Tao Zhang pp. 270-277 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculated electron dynamics in an electric field F. Robicheaux and J. Shaw pp. 278-289 [View PDF (1531 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local correlation energies of two-electron atoms and model systems Chien-Jung Huang and C. J. Umrigar pp. 290-296 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Hamiltonian approach to the bound state: Positronium hyperfine structure Krzysztof Pachucki pp. 297-304 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body investigation of hyperfine interactions in excited S states of alkali metals: Francium and potassium Alfred Owusu, R. W. Dougherty, G. Gowri, T. P. Das, and J. Andriessen pp. 305-309 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of collisional modification of the Zeeman effect in a high-density atomic vapor H. van Kampen, A. V. Papoyan, V. A. Sautenkov, P. H. Castermans, E. R. Eliel, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 310-315 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear quadrupole moment of scandium Jacek Bieroń, Ian P. Grant, and Charlotte Froese Fischer pp. 316-321 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Susceptibility of strongly driven two-level atoms: A non-Markovian analysis J. R. Brinati, S. S. Mizrahi, and G. A. Prataviera pp. 322-330 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Closed-orbit theory and the photodetachment cross section of H- in parallel electric and magnetic fields Aaron D. Peters, Charles Jaffé, and John B. Delos pp. 331-344 [View PDF (399 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum manifestations of bifurcations of closed orbits in the photodetachment cross section of H- in parallel fields A. D. Peters, C. Jaffé, J. Gao, and J. B. Delos pp. 345-355 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum manifestations of bifurcations of closed orbits in the photoabsorption spectra of atoms in electric fields J. Gao and J. B. Delos pp. 356-364 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic ionization by electron impact: A hyperspherical approach J. N. Das and K. Chakrabarti pp. 365-369 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen at intermediate energies Jamal Berakdar pp. 370-377 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance feature in Al- photodetachment below the Al(3s24s 2S) threshold B. J. Davies, C. W. Ingram, D. J. Larson, Chien-Nan Liu, and Anthony F. Starace pp. 378-385 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accurate determination of dielectronic recombination resonances with lithiumlike argon W. Zong, R. Schuch, E. Lindroth, H. Gao, D. R. DeWitt, S. Asp, and H. Danared pp. 386-394 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic theory for binary-encounter-electron emission D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen and P. Kürpick pp. 395-402 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic interactions in autoionizing Rydberg systems William Clark and Chris H. Greene pp. 403-414 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Convoy-electron emission induced by multiple collisions of H+ and H0 on a thick He target D. Fregenal, G. Bernardi, P. Focke, and W. Meckbach pp. 415-420 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantal and semiclassical calculations of charge transfer in C2++He collisions J. F. Castillo and L. Méndez pp. 421-425 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy electron capture by C4+ ions from atomic hydrogen F. W. Bliek, R. Hoekstra, M. E. Bannister, and C. C. Havener pp. 426-431 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Velocity dependence of energy pooling collisions in strontium J. A. Neuman, J. Cooper, and A. Gallagher pp. 432-442 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociative recombination of vibrationally excited H2+ ions: High-Rydberg-state formation M. I. Chibisov, J. B. Mitchell, P. J. Van der Donk, F. B. Yousif, and T. J. Morgan pp. 443-456 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio study of electron capture in low-energy collisions of N4+ with hydrogen B. Zygelman, P. C. Stancil, N. J. Clarke, and D. L. Cooper pp. 457-467 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Investigation of charge transfer from excited muonic hydrogen atoms to argon Y.-A. Thalmann, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, S. Tresch, and A. Werthmüller pp. 468-472 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body effect: Nonrelativistic 1/ρ5 polarization term in the effective potential between charged particles A. M. Mukhamedzhanov pp. 473-479 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrationally selective resonant Auger spectroscopy of the 3p core-to-Rydberg excitation in CO S. Sundin, S. J. Osborne, A. Ausmees, O. Björneholm, S. L. Sorensen, A. Kikas, and S. Svensson pp. 480-487 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion-atom inelastic scattering cross sections and energy loss in the plane-wave Born approximation Eugene J. McGuire pp. 488-500 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angle-resolved study of Ar 2p1/2,3/2-1ns,d resonant Auger decay A. Farhat, M. Humphrey, B. Langer, N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, and D. Cubaynes pp. 501-513 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-pooling collisions in potassium: 4PJ+4PJ→4S+(nl=5P,6S,4D) R. K. Namiotka, J. Huennekens, and M. Allegrini pp. 514-520 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic continuum wave function for three charged particles Y. E. Kim and A. L. Zubarev pp. 521-526 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Dirac states of relativistic electrons channeled in a crystal and high-energy channeling electron-positron pair production by photons Haakon A. Olsen and Yuri Kunashenko pp. 527-537 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rapid neutralization and charge equilibration of highly charged ions at grazing incidence on a surface S. Winecki, M. P. Stöckli, and C. L. Cocke pp. 538-542 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance formation of hydrogenic levels in front of metal surfaces P. Kürpick, U. Thumm, and U. Wille pp. 543-554 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Selective creation of quasiparticles in trapped Bose condensates R. Walsworth and L. You pp. 555-559 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of evaporative cooling for Bose-Einstein condensation Huang Wu, Ennio Arimondo, and Christopher J. Foot pp. 560-569 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elementary excitation spectrum of a trapped weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate Mircea Marinescu and Anthony F. Starace pp. 570-574 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum kinetic theory. II. Simulation of the quantum Boltzmann master equation D. Jaksch, C. W. Gardiner, and P. Zoller pp. 575-586 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation spectroscopy of vortex states in dilute Bose-Einstein condensed gases R. J. Dodd, K. Burnett, Mark Edwards, and Charles W. Clark pp. 587-590 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapses and revivals in the interference between two Bose-Einstein condensates formed in small atomic samples E. M. Wright, T. Wong, M. J. Collett, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls pp. 591-602 [View PDF (558 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diffusion and the output properties of a cw atom-laser M. Naraschewski, A. Schenzle, and H. Wallis pp. 603-606 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Multipole oscillations in sodium clusters: Separable ansatz in the random-phase-approximation description V. O. Nesterenko, W. Kleinig, V. V. Gudkov, N. Lo Iudice, and J. Kvasil pp. 607-616 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Ab initio calculations on small lithium clusters R. Rousseau and D. Marx pp. 617-625 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	3nr+l grouping of energy levels and clusters V. N. Ostrovsky pp. 626-631 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability and Teller’s theorem: Fullerenes in the March model Dennis P. Clougherty and Xiang Zhu pp. 632-635 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Core scattering of Stark wave packets M. L. Naudeau, C. I. Sukenik, and P. H. Bucksbaum pp. 636-639 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correcting the effects of spontaneous emission on cold-trapped ions C. D’Helon and G. J. Milburn pp. 640-644 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A unified theory of high-harmonic generation: Application to polarization properties of the harmonics W. Becker, A. Lohr, M. Kleber, and M. Lewenstein pp. 645-656 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of the atomic Coulomb center in ionization and periodic orbit selection Jan von Milczewski, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer pp. 657-670 [View PDF (4260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Femtosecond-pulse two-photon resonant difference-frequency mixing in gases: A technique for tunable vacuum-ultraviolet femtosecond-pulse generation and a spectroscopic tool for studying atoms in strong laser fields A. Nazarkin, G. Korn, O. Kittelmann, J. Ringling, and I. V. Hertel pp. 671-684 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecules in intense laser fields: Enhanced ionization in one- and two-electron linear triatomic molecules Hengtai Yu and André D. Bandrauk pp. 685-693 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single two-level ion in an anharmonic-oscillator trap: Time evolution of the Q function and population inversion S. Shelly Sharma, N. K. Sharma, and Larry Zamick pp. 694-699 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic calculation of two-photon bound-bound transition amplitudes in hydrogenic atoms C. Szymanowski, V. Véniard, R. Taïeb, and A. Maquet pp. 700-711 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic funnel with evanescent light H. Ito, K. Sakaki, W. Jhe, and M. Ohtsu pp. 712-718 [View PDF (329 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	H-atom ionization by elliptically polarized microwave fields: The overlap criterion Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski pp. 719-728 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sisyphus cooling on the surface of a hollow-mirror atom trap H. Nha and W. Jhe pp. 729-736 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simplified solution for the energy eigenvalues of a two-state atom in a sinusoidal field W. M. Ruyten pp. 737-740 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Population transfer by delayed pulses via continuum states N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm pp. 741-747 [View PDF (1289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Floquet-Bloch theory of high-harmonic generation in periodic structures F. H. Faisal and J. Z. Kamiński pp. 748-762 [View PDF (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation conditions for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: Application to strong-field photoionization K. Boucke, H. Schmitz, and H.-J. Kull pp. 763-771 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic response to short intense laser pulses in dissociation dynamics R. Numico, A. Keller, and O. Atabek pp. 772-781 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	QED for a fibrillar medium of two-level atoms André LeClair pp. 782-795 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of nonlinearity in one-photon processes on the relationship between field and dipole squeezing in the two-level thermal Jaynes-Cummings model Aranya B. Bhattacherjee pp. 796-802 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant quasiperiodic patterns in a three-dimensional lasing medium Natalia L. Komarova, Boris A. Malomed, J. V. Moloney, and Alan C. Newell pp. 803-812 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear generation of extreme-ultraviolet radiation in atomic hydrogen using electromagnetically induced transparency G. Z. Zhang, D. W. Tokaryk, B. P. Stoicheff, and K. Hakuta pp. 813-819 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rydberg electrons in intense fluctuating laser fields G. Alber and B. Eggers pp. 820-832 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Motion of a two-level atom in an optical cavity A. C. Doherty, A. S. Parkins, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls pp. 833-844 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electro-optic effect and birefringence in semiconductor vertical-cavity lasers M. P. van Exter, A. K. Jansen van Doorn, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 845-853 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooperative effects in cone emission from laser-pumped two-level atoms Y. Ben-Aryeh pp. 854-858 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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