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Physical Review A – August 1997
Volume 56, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Buffer-gas-induced linewidth reduction of coherent dark resonances to below 50 Hz
S. Brandt, A. Nagel, R. Wynands, and D. Meschede
pp. R1063-R1066 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Prediction of Feshbach resonances in collisions of ultracold rubidium atoms
J. M. Vogels, C. C. Tsai, R. S. Freeland, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, B. J. Verhaar, and D. J. Heinzen
pp. R1067-R1070 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Photoelectron spectroscopy measurements and theoretical calculations of the lowest doubly hollow lithium state
S. Diehl, D. Cubaynes, K. T. Chung, F. J. Wuilleumier, E. T. Kennedy, J.-M. Bizau, L. Journel, C. Blancard, L. VoKy, P. Faucher, A. Hibbert, N. Berrah, T. J. Morgan, J. Bozek, and A. S. Schlachter
pp. R1071-R1074 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Collisional excitation and destruction of metastable states in a stored ion beam
S. Mannervik, J. Lidberg, L. O. Norlin, and P. Royen
pp. R1075-R1078 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Xenon spectator and diagram L3-M4,5M4,5 Auger intensities near the L3 threshold
G. B. Armen, S. H. Southworth, J. C. Levin, U. Arp, T. LeBrun, and M. A. MacDonald
pp. R1079-R1082 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Matter waves

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Heisenberg-limited spectroscopy with degenerate Bose-Einstein gases
P. Bouyer and M. A. Kasevich
pp. R1083-R1086 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Output coupling for an atom laser by state change
G. M. Moy and C. M. Savage
pp. R1087-R1090 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Ground-state Ramsey fringes
B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman
pp. R1091-R1094 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Laser-noise-induced heating in far-off resonance optical traps
T. A. Savard, K. M. O’Hara, and J. E. Thomas
pp. R1095-R1098 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Spectrum of the ion-trap laser
Georg M. Meyer, Markus Löffler, and Herbert Walther
pp. R1099-R1102 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Theory of Z-scan measurements using Gaussian-Bessel beams
Steve Hughes and Josef M. Burzler
pp. R1103-R1106 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Optical mesons
P. D. Drummond and H. He
pp. R1107-R1109 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Bound dipole solitary solutions in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media
A. V. Mamaev, A. A. Zozulya, V. K. Mezentsev, D. Z. Anderson, and M. Saffman
pp. R1110-R1113 [View PDF (461 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Bosonic quantum codes for amplitude damping
Isaac L. Chuang, Debbie W. Leung, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 1114-1125 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Wigner’s problem for a precessing magnetic dipole
R. López-Peña, V. I. Man’ko, and G. Marmo
pp. 1126-1130 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Quantum anti-Zeno effect
B. Kaulakys and V. Gontis
pp. 1131-1137 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Quantum Zeno effect and adiabatic change
M. Kitano
pp. 1138-1141 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Effects of inelastic scattering on tunneling time based on the generalized diffusion process approach
Kentaro Imafuku, Ichiro Ohba, and Yoshiya Yamanaka
pp. 1142-1153 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Insecurity of quantum secure computations
Hoi-Kwong Lo
pp. 1154-1162 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography. I. Information bound and optimal strategy
Christopher A. Fuchs, Nicolas Gisin, Robert B. Griffiths, Chi-Sheng Niu, and Asher Peres
pp. 1163-1172 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography.  II.  A quantum circuit
Robert B. Griffiths and Chi-Sheng Niu
pp. 1173-1176 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Effects of noise on quantum error correction algorithms
Adriano Barenco, Todd A. Brun, Rüdiger Schack, and Timothy P. Spiller
pp. 1177-1188 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Quartic, sextic, and octic anharmonic oscillators: Precise energies of ground state and excited states by an iterative method based on the generalized Bloch equation
Holger Meiβner and E. Otto Steinborn
pp. 1189-1200 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Substituting quantum entanglement for communication
Richard Cleve and Harry Buhrman
pp. 1201-1204 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Determination of entangled quantum states of a trapped atom
S. Wallentowitz, R. L. de Matos Filho, and W. Vogel
pp. 1205-1211 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Quantum copying: Fundamental inequalities
M. Hillery and V. Bužek
pp. 1212-1216 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Locality and causality in hidden-variables models of quantum theory
Stefan Teufel, Karin Berndl, Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, and Nino Zanghì
pp. 1217-1227 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Si 2p photoabsorption in SiH4 and SiD4:  Molecular distortion in core-excited silane
R. Püttner, M. Domke, D. Lentz, and G. Kaindl
pp. 1228-1239 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Two methods for solving the Dirac equation without variational collapse
P. Falsaperla, G. Fonte, and J. Z. Chen
pp. 1240-1248 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Characteristics of large electric-dipole moment states in crossed electric and magnetic fields studied by quantum calculations
Sihong Gu, Wenyu Liu, Shunsheng Gong, and Baiwen Li
pp. 1249-1254 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Long-range interactions in planetary three-body Coulomb systems
K.-D. Heber, M. Seng, M. Halka, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner
pp. 1255-1267 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Mean lifetime measurements and calculations of long-lived HeNe2+ isotopes
I. Ben-Itzhak, J. P. Bouhnik, Z. Chen, B. D. Esry, I. Gertner, C. Heinemann, W. Koch, C. D. Lin, and B. Rosner
pp. 1268-1280 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Adiabatic approximation in atomic three-body systems
Rakhi Chattopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Das
pp. 1281-1287 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Two-photon decay of 21S0 and 23S1 states of heliumlike ions
A. Derevianko and W. R. Johnson
pp. 1288-1294 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body perturbation calculations for open-shell systems
Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Konrad Koc
pp. 1295-1304 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Absolute cross sections with polarization effects in Ne*(2p53p)+He collisions:  A detailed comparison between theory and experiment
Cristian Bahrim, Hélène Kucal, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
pp. 1305-1320 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Symmetric-eikonal theory of excitation with Hartree-Fock-Slater description of the target
László Gulyás and Pablo D. Fainstein
pp. 1321-1328 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Photoion spectroscopy of atomic tantalum and rhenium in the region of the 5p and 4f excitation
M. Martins, P. Sladeczek, K. Tiedtke, and P. Zimmermann
pp. 1329-1331 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Coupled-state calculations of positron-hydrogen scattering
T. T. Gien
pp. 1332-1337 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Measurement of electron-impact ionization cross sections for hydrogenlike high-Z ions
R. E. Marrs, S. R. Elliott, and J. H. Scofield
pp. 1338-1345 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Cross section for photodetachment of the excited C-(2D) ion using fast ion-laser-beam electron spectroscopy
D. H. Lee, W. D. Brandon, D. J. Pegg, and D. Hanstorp
pp. 1346-1350 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Complete momentum balance for single ionization of helium by fast ion impact: Experiment
R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, H. Kollmus, W. Schmitt, M. Unverzagt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, C. J. Wood, and R. E. Olson
pp. 1351-1363 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Charge exchange, excitation, and ionization in H(1s)+He2+ collisions simulated using the multichannel perturbed-stationary-state propagator
Gabriel Hose
pp. 1364-1378 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Strong interference effects in the triple differential cross section of neutral-atom targets
J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, R. J. Allan, S. P. Lucey, and and H. R. J. Walters
pp. 1379-1383 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Measurement of absolute differential cross sections for the vibrational excitation of molecular nitrogen by electron impact in the 2Πg shape resonance region
Christopher J. Sweeney and Tong W. Shyn
pp. 1384-1392 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Electron momentum spectroscopy of H2 and D2: Ionization to ground and excited final states
N. Lermer, B. R. Todd, N. M. Cann, Y. Zheng, C. E. Brion, Z. Yang, and E. R. Davidson
pp. 1393-1402 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Electron ejection from clean metallic surfaces upon charged particle impact
J. Berakdar and M. P. Das
pp. 1403-1413 [View PDF (393 kB)]

Matter waves

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Particle-number-conserving Bogoliubov method which demonstrates the validity of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a highly condensed Bose gas
C. W. Gardiner
pp. 1414-1423 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates: Variational solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations
Víctor M. Pérez-García, Humberto Michinel, J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, and P. Zoller
pp. 1424-1432 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Self-trapping and self-focusing of a coherent atomic beam
Weiping Zhang, B. C. Sanders, and Weihan Tan
pp. 1433-1437 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in a trap: The case of a dense condensate
Klaus Ziegler and Alok Shukla
pp. 1438-1442 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Circular states of atomic hydrogen
Robert Lutwak, Jeffrey Holley, Pin Peter Chang, Scott Paine, Daniel Kleppner, and Theodore Ducas
pp. 1443-1452 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Quantum Zeno effect in atomic Bragg scattering
S. Dyrting and M. J. Gagen
pp. 1453-1457 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Complete dissociation by chirped laser pulses designed by adiabatic Floquet analysis
Stéphane Guérin
pp. 1458-1462 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Population transfer via a decaying state
N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm
pp. 1463-1471 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Velocity-tuned resonances between different ground-state sublevels in two (σ+ and σ- polarized) standing waves
G. Demeter, G. P. Djotyan, J. S. Bakos, and Zs. Sörlei
pp. 1472-1480 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Electronic-state lifetime interference in the resonant Auger decay of krypton
E. Kukk, H. Aksela, A. Kivimäki, J. Jauhiainen, E. Nõmmiste, and S. Aksela
pp. 1481-1485 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Prospects for influencing scattering lengths with far-off-resonant light
John L. Bohn and P. S. Julienne
pp. 1486-1491 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Feedback-induced destabilization of a laser diode using wavelets
Alejandra Figliola and Cristina Masoller
pp. 1492-1496 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Influence of carrier dynamics on the polarization stability and noise-induced polarization hopping in surface-emitting semiconductor lasers
M. Travagnin, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 1497-1507 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Pulsed quadrature-phase squeezing of solitary waves in χ(2) parametric waveguides
M. J. Werner and P. D. Drummond
pp. 1508-1518 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Observation of large continuous-wave two-photon optical amplification
Hope M. Concannon, William J. Brown, Jeff R. Gardner, and Daniel J. Gauthier
pp. 1519-1523 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Double-resonance spectroscopy with fluctuating multimode fields: A Monte Carlo approach
H. M. Lauranto and R. R. E. Salomaa
pp. 1524-1533 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Theory of two-photon entanglement for spontaneous parametric down-conversion driven by a narrow pump pulse
Timothy E. Keller and Morton H. Rubin
pp. 1534-1541 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Order-parameter equations for transverse pattern formation in nonlinear optical systems with nonplanar resonators
Germán J. de Valcárcel
pp. 1542-1547 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Renormalization group methods in quantum optics
Marco Frasca
pp. 1548-1552 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Traveling and standing waves in a laser with an injected signal
Stefano Longhi
pp. 1553-1563 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Optical free-induction decay of laser-cooled 85Rb
K. Toyoda, Y. Takahashi, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki
pp. 1564-1568 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Quasiadiabatic following of femtosecond optical pulses in a weakly excited semiconductor
I. V. Mel’nikov, D. Mihalache, F. Moldoveanu, and N.-C. Panoiu
pp. 1569-1576 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Direct way to observe the geometric phase in nonlinear coupled oscillators
Wang Kaige, Wang Jian, and Yang Guojian
pp. 1577-1581 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Spatial soliton laser: Localized structures in a laser with a saturable absorber in a self-imaging resonator
V. B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C. O. Weiss
pp. 1582-1591 [View PDF (1,559 kB)]
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Photon statistics and the optical Stark effect
T. Altevogt, H. Puff, and R. Zimmermann
pp. 1592-1597 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Selective reflection by Rb
Ping Wang, A. Gallagher, and J. Cooper
pp. 1598-1606 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Self-induced transparency soliton laser via coherent mode locking
Victor V. Kozlov
pp. 1607-1612 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Third-harmonic generation and multiphoton ionization in Bessel beams
V. E. Peet and R. V. Tsubin
pp. 1613-1620 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Localized states in a nonlinear optical system with a binary-phase slice and a feedback mirror
B. A. Samson and M. A. Vorontsov
pp. 1621-1626 [View PDF (1,827 kB)]
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Spectral information and distinguishability in type-II down-conversion with a broadband pump
W. P. Grice and I. A. Walmsley
pp. 1627-1634 [View PDF (1,070 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Computation of correlation effects on the parity-nonconserving electric-dipole transition in atomic ytterbium
B. P. Das
pp. 1635-1637 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Geometric phase, quantum measurements, and the de Broglie–Bohm model
Erik Sjöqvist and Henrik Carlsen
pp. 1638-1641 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Atomic and molecular bound ground states of the Yukawa potential
J. M. Ugalde, C. Sarasola, and X. Lopez
pp. 1642-1645 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Coordinate scaling and adiabatic-connection formulation in density-functional theory
Yan Alexander Wang
pp. 1646-1649 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Doubly excited resonance structures in He photoionization from 1s2s1,3S metastable states
T. K. Fang and T. N. Chang
pp. 1650-1653 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of tungsten ions in the configuration-average distorted-wave approximation
M. S. Pindzola and D. C. Griffin
pp. 1654-1657 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Nonclassical maximum-entropy states
Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou
pp. 1658-1661 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Semiclassical four-level single-atom laser
Kyungwon An and Michael S. Feld
pp. 1662-1665 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Pulse-energy statistics in the linear regime of stimulated Raman scattering with a broad-band pump
A. S. Grabtchikov, A. I. Vodtchits, and V. A. Orlovich
pp. 1666-1669 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Heavy-particle collisions and quantum optics: The parabolic noncrossing model
B. S. Nesbitt, D. S. F. Crothers, S. F. C. O’Rourke, and P. R. Berman
pp. 1670-1673 [View PDF (90 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Binding energy of the metastable He- ion [Phys. Rev. A 55, 978 (1997)]
P. Kristensen, U. V. Pedersen, V. V. Petrunin, T. Andersen, and K. T. Chung
pp. 1674 [View PDF (43 kB)]
 
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