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Physical Review A – September 1997
Volume 56, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Macroscopic coherence for a trapped electron
Stefano Mancini and Paolo Tombesi
pp. R1679-R1681 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Critical visibility for N-particle Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations to violate local realism
Marek Żukowski and Dagomir Kaszlikowski
pp. R1682-R1685 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Ultralow energy scattering of a He atom off a He dimer
E. A. Kolganova, A. K. Motovilov, and S. A. Sofianos
pp. R1686-R1689 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Azimuthal dependence of the differential cross section in electron scattering from free oriented CH3Cl molecules
M. Volkmer, Ch. Meier, J. Lieschke, R. Dreier, M. Fink, and N. Böwering
pp. R1690-R1693 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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S-wave model for H-like ions
Igor Bray and Bradley Clare
pp. R1694-R1696 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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R matrix with pseudostates calculation for single and double ionization of helium by photon impact
Pascale J. Marchalant and Klaus Bartschat
pp. R1697-R1700 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Energy loss of slow, highly charged ions in solids
T. Schenkel, A. V. Hamza, A. V. Barnes, and D. H. Schneider
pp. R1701-R1704 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Local dynamics of laser cooling in an optical lattice
I. H. Deutsch, J. Grondalski, and P. M. Alsing
pp. R1705-R1708 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Polarized patterns in sodium vapor with single mirror feedback
A. Aumann, E. Büthe, Yu. A. Logvin, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange
pp. R1709-R1712 [View PDF (1,764 kB)]
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Time-dependent evolution of an optical vortex in photorefractive media
A. V. Mamaev, M. Saffman, and A. A. Zozulya
pp. R1713-R1716 [View PDF (1,554 kB)]
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Polarization instabilities and antiphase dynamics in a Brillouin fiber ring laser
S. Randoux, V. Lecoeuche, and J. Zemmouri
pp. R1717-R1720 [View PDF (140 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Information-theoretic interpretation of quantum error-correcting codes
Nicolas J. Cerf and Richard Cleve
pp. 1721-1732 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Two-particle entanglement as a property of three-particle entangled states
José L. Cereceda
pp. 1733-1738 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Lamb shift of 3P and 4P states and the determination of α
U. D. Jentschura, G. Soff, and P. J. Mohr
pp. 1739-1755 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Maximum information and quantum prediction algorithms
Jim McElwaine
pp. 1756-1766 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Two-wavelength-difference measurement of gravitationally induced quantum interference phases
K. C. Littrell, B. E. Allman, and S. A. Werner
pp. 1767-1780 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Reflection above potential steps
R. Co⁁té, H. Friedrich, and J. Trost
pp. 1781-1787 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Least-squares inversion for density-matrix reconstruction
T. Opatrný, D.-G. Welsch, and W. Vogel
pp. 1788-1799 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Experimental observation of the splitting of single photons by a beam splitter
J. D. Franson
pp. 1800-1805 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Spontaneous radiation of free electrons in a nonrelativistic collapse model
Qijia Fu
pp. 1806-1811 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations and electron coherence. II. Effects of wave-packet size
L. H. Ford
pp. 1812-1818 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Near-threshold structures in inner-shell photoabsorption processes of N2 and CO
Yi Zhang, Pei-Hong Zhang, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 1819-1824 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Hydrogen molecule in magnetic fields: The ground states of the Σ manifold of the parallel configuration
T. Detmer, P. Schmelcher, F. K. Diakonos, and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 1825-1838 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Bifurcations in the hydrogen atom in the presence of a circularly polarized microwave field and a static magnetic field
V. Lanchares, M. Iñarrea, and J. P. Salas
pp. 1839-1843 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Hyperfine structure intervals and absolute frequency measurement in the 2p43s2PJ→2p43p2DJ′ fine-structure multiplet of atomic fluorine by diode laser spectroscopy
D. A. Tate and D. N. Aturaliye
pp. 1844-1854 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Finite-element calculations of the antiprotonic helium atom including relativistic and QED corrections
Nils Elander and Evgeny Yarevsky
pp. 1855-1864 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Discrete variable representation for highly excited states of hydrogen atoms in magnetic fields
Tasko P. Grozdanov, Lidija Andric, Corneliu Manescu, and Ronald McCarroll
pp. 1865-1871 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Lifetime measurements in Tl III and the determination of the ground-state dipole polarizabilities for Au I–Bi V
M. Henderson, L. J. Curtis, R. Matulioniene, D. G. Ellis, and C. E. Theodosiou
pp. 1872-1878 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Spin polarization in the double photoionization of atoms
N. Chandra
pp. 1879-1891 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Electron capture in collisions of H+ ions with S atoms and its reverse process below kilo-electron-volt energies
M. Kimura, J.-P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, A. Domondon, T. Watanabe, and H. Sato
pp. 1892-1896 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Ab initio calculation for low-energy elastic scattering of electrons from sulfur atoms
H. P. Saha and Dong Lin
pp. 1897-1903 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Projectile energy dependence of L x-ray emission from fast, highly charged Xe ions traveling in solids
V. Horvat, R. L. Watson, and J. M. Blackadar
pp. 1904-1912 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Dissociative-recombination product states and the dissociation energy D0 of Ne2+
Gloria Ramos, J. W. Sheldon, K. A. Hardy, and J. R. Peterson
pp. 1913-1919 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Generalized Hartree-Fock method for electron-atom scattering
Leonard Rosenberg
pp. 1920-1928 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Kinetic-energy distribution of D(2p) atoms from analysis of the D Lyman-α line profile
Marco Ciocca, Joseph M. Ajello, Xianming Liu, and Justin Maki
pp. 1929-1937 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Levinson theorem in two dimensions
Qiong-gui Lin
pp. 1938-1944 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Dissociative-attachment cross sections for excited and ground electronic states of SO2
E. Krishnakumar, S. V. K. Kumar, S. A. Rangwala, and S. K. Mitra
pp. 1945-1953 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Charge-changing cross sections for 8–40-MeV O7,8++(Ar, Ne) collisions
J. H. Houck, P. A. Závodszky, and J. A. Tanis
pp. 1954-1957 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Approach to electron-impact ionization that avoids the three-body Coulomb asymptotic form
C. W. McCurdy, T. N. Rescigno, and D. Byrum
pp. 1958-1969 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Muon catalyzed fusion in 3-K solid deuterium
P. E. Knowles, G. A. Beer, G. R. Mason, T. A. Porcelli, A. Adamczak, J. M. Bailey, J. L. Beveridge, G. M. Marshall, A. Olin, M. C. Fujiwara, T. M. Huber, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, P. Kammel, J. Zmeskal, S. K. Kim, A. R. Kunselman, C. J. Martoff, and C. Petitjean
pp. 1970-1982 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Calculation of the (e,2e) differential cross sections in the vicinity of autoionizing states for the electron-impact ionization of cadmium
D. H. Madison, V. D. Kravtsov, J. B. Dent, and M. Wilson
pp. 1983-1988 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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L-shell resonant transfer excitation in Cuq++H2 (q=18,19) collisions
P. A. Závodszky, J. A. Wroblewski, S. M. Ferguson, T. W. Gorczyca, J. H. Houck, O. Woitke, J. A. Tanis, and N. R. Badnell
pp. 1989-1993 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Time-dependent and time-independent close-coupling methods for the electron-impact ionization of Be+
M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, N. R. Badnell, and T. W. Gorczyca
pp. 1994-1999 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Velocity-space pictures of continuum electrons produced by slow, bare, highly charged ions
M. Abdallah, S. Kravis, C. L. Cocke, Y. Wang, V. D. Rodriguez, and M. Stöckli
pp. 2000-2004 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of barium-helium collisions. I. The adiabatic potential curves
J. Brust and Chris H. Greene
pp. 2005-2012 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of barium-helium collisions. II. The excitation transfer cross sections
J. Brust and Chris H. Greene
pp. 2013-2019 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Electron detachment of H- in collision with Ne4+ and Ar4+ ions
J. T. Lin, T. F. Jiang, J. Y. Kuang, and C. D. Lin
pp. 2020-2024 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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HgIn photoassociation, bound-bound transitions, and excimer emission
P. Bicchi, C. Marinelli, and R. A. Bernheim
pp. 2025-2031 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Surface effects in the energy loss of ions passing through a thin foil
J. Osma and F. J. García de Abajo
pp. 2032-2040 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Matter waves

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Critical temperature of a trapped Bose gas: Mean-field theory and fluctuations
M. Houbiers, H. T. C. Stoof, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 2041-2045 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Spontaneous photon emission stimulated by two Bose-Einstein condensates
C. M. Savage, Janne Ruostekoski,1, and Dan F. Walls
pp. 2046-2050 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Accelerated guided atomic pulse
S. Dyrting, Weiping Zhang, and B. C. Sanders
pp. 2051-2055 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Lorentz-Lorenz shift in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen
pp. 2056-2059 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Mean field for a dilute Bose gas in the light field of an evanescent wave
H. Wallis
pp. 2060-2067 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Defining the (atom) laser
H. M. Wiseman
pp. 2068-2084 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Three-beam atom interferometer
H. Hinderthür, A. Pautz, V. Rieger, F. Ruschewitz, J. L. Peng, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer
pp. 2085-2089 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Spin-rotation interaction of alkali-metal–He-atom pairs
Thad G. Walker, Joseph H. Thywissen, and William Happer
pp. 2090-2094 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Polarization-dependent Mg(3p1P1→5s1S0, 4d1D2)–rare-gas-atom excited-state optical collisions: Experiment and theory
R. A. Lasell, B. S. Bayram, M. D. Havey, D. V. Kupriyanov, and S. V. Subbotin
pp. 2095-2108 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Atomic transport on one-dimensional optical lattices
W. Greenwood, P. Pax, and P. Meystre
pp. 2109-2122 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Dynamics of high-angular-momentum velocity-selective coherent population trapping
Chiara Menotti, Peter Horak, Helmut Ritsch, Jörg H. Müller, and Ennio Arimondo
pp. 2123-2131 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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One-dimensional model for coherent control
Stephanie B. Staley and Chris H. Greene
pp. 2132-2141 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Tunnel ionization of H2 in a low-frequency laser field: A wave-packet approach
T.-T. Nguyen-Dang, F. Cha⁁teauneuf, S. Manoli, O. Atabek, and A. Keller
pp. 2142-2167 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Dissociation of H2+ and D2+ in an intense laser field
J. Ludwig, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner
pp. 2168-2181 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Appearance and structure of multiply charged negative ions of hydrogen in intense circularly polarized laser fields
Ernst van Duijn and H. G. Muller
pp. 2182-2191 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Multiply charged negative ions of hydrogen in linearly polarized laser fields
Ernst van Duijn and H. G. Muller
pp. 2192-2204 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Limitations on quantum ladder climbing in complex systems
R. B. Vrijen, D. I. Duncan, and L. D. Noordam
pp. 2205-2212 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Cavity quantum electrodynamics for a cylinder: Inside a hollow dielectric and near a solid dielectric cylinder
H. Nha and W. Jhe
pp. 2213-2220 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced transparency in cold free atoms: Test of a sum rule for nonlinear optics
F. S. Cataliotti, C. Fort, T. W. Hänsch, M. Inguscio, and M. Prevedelli
pp. 2221-2224 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Effects of transverse profile of probe and driving fields on the gain in a Raman-driven four-level system
Han-Zhuang Zhang and Jin-Yue Gao
pp. 2225-2232 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry for sonoluminescence bubble
Y. Hama, T. Kodama, and Sandra S. Padula
pp. 2233-2236 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Pattern dynamics in a large Fresnel number laser close to threshold
A. Labate, M. Ciofini, R. Meucci, S. Boccaletti, and F. T. Arecchi
pp. 2237-2241 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Cavity-induced modifications of quantum jumps
J. von Zanthier, G. S. Agarwal, and H. Walther
pp. 2242-2248 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Atomic Schrödinger cat states
G. S. Agarwal, R. R. Puri, and R. P. Singh
pp. 2249-2254 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Theory of laser-amplifier linear gain
J. Jahanpanah and R. Loudon
pp. 2255-2266 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Spectral line shape of nonresonant four-wave mixing in Markovian stochastic fields
R. Bratfalean and P. Ewart
pp. 2267-2279 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced transparency with coherent and stochastic fields
A. G. Kofman
pp. 2280-2291 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Solitary waves and atomic population transfer via the continuum
F. T. Hioe and C. E. Carroll
pp. 2292-2298 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Theory of spontaneous emission in an optical cavity
Ichiro Takahashi and Kikuo Ujihara
pp. 2299-2307 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Vacuum Rabi splitting of energy levels in a strongly coupled system of a two-level atom and dielectric microsphere
V. V. Klimov, V. S. Letokhov, and M. Ducloy
pp. 2308-2315 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Reconstruction of engineered atomic wave functions via phase-dependent population measurements
Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell
pp. 2316-2320 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Light-shift-induced level crossing and resonatorless optical bistability in sodium vapor
T. Ackemann, A. Heuer, Yu. A. Logvin, and W. Lange
pp. 2321-2326 [View PDF (905 kB)]
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Polarization switching in an anisotropic cavity coherently pumped J=1→J′=0 laser
C. Serrat, R. Vilaseca, G. J. de Valcárcel, and E. Roldán
pp. 2327-2333 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Stochastic wave-function approach to the calculation of multitime correlation functions of open quantum systems
Heinz-Peter Breuer, Bernd Kappler, and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 2334-2351 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Cavity QED with cold trapped ions
V. Bužek, G. Drobný, M. S. Kim, G. Adam, and P. L. Knight
pp. 2352-2360 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Noise at the turn-on of a class-B laser
G. L. Lippi, L. M. Hoffer, and G. P. Puccioni
pp. 2361-2372 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Micromaser with injected atomic phase
Rebecca R. McGowan and William C. Schieve
pp. 2373-2384 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Optical resonator with steep internal dispersion
G. Müller, M. Müller, A. Wicht, R.-H. Rinkleff, and K. Danzmann
pp. 2385-2389 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Generation and properties of collective atomic Schrödinger-cat states
Christopher C. Gerry and Rainer Grobe
pp. 2390-2396 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Transverse patterns in a laser with an injected signal
Stefano Longhi
pp. 2397-2407 [View PDF (1,584 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Correlations in ac Aharonov-Bohm phenomena
A. Vourdas
pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Variational supersymmetric WKB approximation
Chun-Hui Miao and Shang-Wu Qian
pp. 2412-2414 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Bare Coulomb field: Explicit solution
Eugene S. Kryachko
pp. 2415-2416 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Ground state of positronium hydride
Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith, , Jr.
pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Beam-laser measurements of the lifetimes of the 6p levels in Yb II
E. H. Pinnington, G. Rieger, and J. A. Kernahan
pp. 2421-2423 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body perturbation-theory calculations of transition rates for copperlike, silverlike, and goldlike ions
Hsiang-Shun Chou and W. R. Johnson
pp. 2424-2427 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Relativistic configuration-interaction results for Xe32+, Ba34+, Nd38+, and Gd42+ “5D” J=2 to J=3 energy differences
Donald R. Beck
pp. 2428-2430 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Non-partial-wave Coulomb-Born theory for the excitation of many-electron atomic ions
Yun-Bo Duan, Li Wang, Wen-Jia Qian, and Takaichi Kawamura
pp. 2431-2434 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Hyperspherical close-coupling calculation of electron-hydrogen scattering cross sections
Ming-Keh Chen, C. D. Lin, and J. Z. Tang
pp. 2435-2438 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Higher harmonic generation at metal surfaces by powerful bichromatic laser fields
S. Varró and F. Ehlotzky
pp. 2439-2442 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Effective two-level model for a three-level atom in the Ξ configuration
Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang
pp. 2443-2446 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Shifted channel wave numbers in approximate Floquet calculations
H. C. Day, A. S. Fearnside, and R. M. Potvliege
pp. 2447-2450 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Spin-flip transitions in a magnetic trap
C. V. Sukumar and D. M. Brink
pp. 2451-2454 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Spatial alignment of gas-phase polyatomic molecules by an intense laser field
V. R. Bhardwaj, K. Vijayalakshmi, and D. Mathur
pp. 2455-2458 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Classical model for high-field ionization suppression in a short-range potential
A. T. Rosenberger, C. C. Sung, S. D. Pethel, and C. M. Bowden
pp. 2459-2462 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Quantum and classical radiation from the surface of a sonoluminescent bubble
R. Esquivel-Sirvent, R. Jáuregui, and C. Villarreal
pp. 2463-2465 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Atomic localization in the presence of optical feedback
Stefano Mancini and Paolo Tombesi
pp. 2466-2469 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Interaction of a moving two-level atom with a single-mode quantized cavity field
Bimalendu Deb and Surajit Sen
pp. 2470-2472 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Dynamical algebraic connection between the Stark and Kerr effects
J. L. Gruver and J. Aliaga
pp. 2473-2476 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Dispersion cancellation and quantum eraser experiments analyzed in the Wigner function formalism
Alberto Casado, Agustin Fernandez-Rueda, Trevor W. Marshall, Ramon Risco-Delgado, and Emilio Santos
pp. 2477-2480 [View PDF (118 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Cyclic quantum-evolution dependence on the Hamiltonian and geometrical phase’ ”
Lian-Ao Wu
pp. 2481-2482 [View PDF (37 kB)]
 
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