Physical Review A – September 1997
(Volume 56, Issue 3)
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Fundamental concepts
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Macroscopic coherence for a trapped electronStefano Mancini and Paolo Tombesi pp. R1679-R1681 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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S-wave model for H-like ions Igor Bray and Bradley Clare pp. R1694-R1696 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (1764 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (1555 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Two-particle entanglement as a property of three-particle entangled states José L. Cereceda pp. 1733-1738 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Maximum information and quantum prediction algorithms Jim McElwaine pp. 1756-1766 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Reflection above potential steps R. Co⁁té, H. Friedrich, and J. Trost pp. 1781-1787 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Experimental observation of the splitting of single photons by a beam splitter J. D. Franson pp. 1800-1805 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spontaneous radiation of free electrons in a nonrelativistic collapse model Qijia Fu pp. 1806-1811 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations and electron coherence. II. Effects of wave-packet size L. H. Ford pp. 1812-1818 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Hyperfine structure intervals and absolute frequency measurement in the 2p43s 2PJ→2p43p 2DJ′ fine-structure multiplet of atomic fluorine by diode laser spectroscopy D. A. Tate and D. N. Aturaliye pp. 1844-1854 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Generalized Hartree-Fock method for electron-atom scattering Leonard Rosenberg pp. 1920-1928 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Levinson theorem in two dimensions Qiong-gui Lin pp. 1938-1944 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Dissociative-attachment cross sections for excited and ground electronic states of SO2 E. Krishnakumar, S. V. Kumar, S. A. Rangwala, and S. K. Mitra pp. 1945-1953 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Matter waves
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Critical temperature of a trapped Bose gas: Mean-field theory and fluctuations M. Houbiers, H. T. Stoof, and E. A. Cornell pp. 2041-2045 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Accelerated guided atomic pulse S. Dyrting, Weiping Zhang, and B. C. Sanders pp. 2051-2055 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Lorentz-Lorenz shift in a Bose-Einstein condensate Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen pp. 2056-2059 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Defining the (atom) laser H. M. Wiseman pp. 2068-2084 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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 (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Polarization-dependent Mg(3p1P1→5s1S0, 4d 1D2)–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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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One-dimensional model for coherent control Stephanie B. Staley and Chris H. Greene pp. 2132-2141 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Atomic Schrödinger cat states G. S. Agarwal, R. R. Puri, and R. P. Singh pp. 2249-2254 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Theory of laser-amplifier linear gain J. Jahanpanah and R. Loudon pp. 2255-2266 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Electromagnetically induced transparency with coherent and stochastic fields A. G. Kofman pp. 2280-2291 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Theory of spontaneous emission in an optical cavity Ichiro Takahashi and Kikuo Ujihara pp. 2299-2307 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (350 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Micromaser with injected atomic phase Rebecca R. McGowan and William C. Schieve pp. 2373-2384 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Transverse patterns in a laser with an injected signal Stefano Longhi pp. 2397-2407 [View PDF (1584 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
BRIEF REPORTS
Fundamental concepts
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Correlations in ac Aharonov-Bohm phenomena A. Vourdas pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Variational supersymmetric WKB approximation Chun-Hui Miao and Shang-Wu Qian pp. 2412-2414 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Bare Coulomb field: Explicit solution Eugene S. Kryachko pp. 2415-2416 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
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Ground state of positronium hydride Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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 (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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