Physical Review A – October 1997
(Volume 56, Issue 4)

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Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Molecular emission tomography of anharmonic vibrations
L. J. Waxer, I. A. Walmsley, and W. Vogel
pp. R2491-R2494 [View PDF (1063 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Application of the generalized-gradient approximation to rare-gas dimers
David C. Patton and Mark R. Pederson
pp. R2495-R2498 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Radiative corrections to the electron g-factor in H-like ions
Hans Persson, Sten Salomonson, Per Sunnergren, and Ingvar Lindgren
pp. R2499-R2502 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Ground state of the hydrogen molecule in a strong magnetic field
Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman
pp. R2510-R2513 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Effective Sommerfeld parameters in the three-body Coulomb continuum problem
Zhangjin Chen, Qicun Shi, Suimeng Zhang, Ji Chen, and Kezun Xu
pp. R2514-R2517 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Absolute keV photon yields from ultrashort laser-field-induced hot nanoplasmas
S. Dobosz, M. Lezius, M. Schmidt, P. Meynadier, M. Perdrix, D. Normand, J.-P. Rozet, and D. Vernhet
pp. R2526-R2529 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Aspects of postcollision interactions near the Ar L shell
James A. Samson, Y. Lu, and W. C. Stolte
pp. R2530-R2532 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Hydrodynamic excitations of Bose condensates in anisotropic traps
Martin Fliesser, András Csordás, Péter Szépfalusy, and Robert Graham
pp. R2533-R2536 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

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Add to article collection Enhanced harmonic generation in extended molecular systems by two-color excitation
A. D. Bandrauk, S. Chelkowski, H. Yu, and E. Constant
pp. R2537-R2540 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Feedback-controlled photorefractive two-beam coupling
V. P. Kamenov, K. H. Ringhofer, B. I. Sturman, and J. Frejlich
pp. R2541-R2544 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Dynamics of dissipative two-level systems in the stochastic approximation
L. Accardi, S. V. Kozyrev, and I. V. Volovich
pp. 2557-2562 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lorentz boost of the Newton-Wigner-Pryce position operator
Adam Hugh Monahan and Malcolm McMillan
pp. 2563-2566 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Approximate quantum error correction can lead to better codes
Debbie W. Leung, M. A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 2567-2573 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantizing constrained systems
L. Kaplan, N. T. Maitra, and E. J. Heller
pp. 2592-2599 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Direct measurement of bending conformations in triatomic dihydride ions
T. Graber, E. P. Kanter, J. Levin, D. Zajfman, Z. Vager, and R. Naaman
pp. 2600-2613 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic configuration interaction and studies of He, Li, Be, and Ne ground states
Oliverio Jitrik and Carlos F. Bunge
pp. 2614-2623 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Comparison of phenomenological and supersymmetry-inspired quantum-defect methods in their relativistic and quasirelativistic formulations
S. G. Nana Engo, M. G. Kwato Njock, L. C. Owono Owono, B. Oumarou, G. Lagmago Kamta, and O. Motapon
pp. 2624-2647 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of resonant elastic x-ray scattering by free molecules
Faris Gel’mukhanov and Hans Ågren
pp. 2676-2684 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effects of the finite size of the ion (ddμ)+ on the energy levels of the molecules (ddμ)e and (ddμ)dee
M. R. Harston, S. Hara, Y. Kino, I. Shimamura, H. Sato, and M. Kamimura
pp. 2685-2691 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Determinations of metastable lifetimes in singly charged xenon by laser probing of a stored ion beam
J. Lidberg, A. Al-Khalili, R. D. Cowan, L.-O. Norlin, P. Royen, and S. Mannervik
pp. 2692-2698 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Investigation of the 2S1/2-2D5/2 clock transition in a single ytterbium ion
P. Taylor, M. Roberts, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. Clarke, G. P. Barwood, W. R. Rowley, and P. Gill
pp. 2699-2704 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution angular-resolved measurements of the fragmentation of the core-excited OCS molecule
P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, E. Rachlew, M. Stankiewicz, and K. Yoshiki Franzén
pp. 2705-2712 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical and generalized oscillator strengths for valence and inner-shell excitations on the Mg atom
Leila M. de Albuquerque Martins and Carlos E. Bielschowsky
pp. 2720-2725 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Exact hydrogenic density functionals
David J. Tozer
pp. 2726-2730 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 6s and 4f ionized states of lanthanide calculated by the configuration-interaction method
Masahiro Sekiya, Fukashi Sasaki, and Hiroshi Tatewaki
pp. 2731-2740 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Molecular staggering in AgH and its description in terms of parity-split q rotators
Peter Raychev, Jean Maruani, and Svetla Drenska
pp. 2759-2777 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Low-velocity elastic scattering of Rb-Rb
P. Westphal, S. Koch, A. Horn, J. Schmand, and H. J. Andrä
pp. 2784-2787 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photodetachment study of the 1s3s4s4S resonance in He-
Andreas E. Klinkmüller, Gunnar Haeffler, Dag Hanstorp, Igor Yu. Kiyan, Uldis Berzinsh, Christopher W. Ingram, David J. Pegg, and James R. Peterson
pp. 2788-2791 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ionization widths for Ne(3l)-Ar systems (l=s,p): Application to ionization and intramultiplet mixing cross sections
S. S. Op de Beek, J. P. Driessen, S. J. Kokkelmans, W. Boom, H. C. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 2792-2805 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Capture, ionization, and pair-production processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the 1-GeV/nucleon energy range
A. Belkacem, Harvey Gould, B. Feinberg, R. Bossingham, and W. E. Meyerhof
pp. 2806-2818 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of L-shell electron-impact ionization cross sections for highly charged uranium ions
Th. Stöhlker, A. Krämer, S. R. Elliott, R. E. Marrs, and J. H. Scofield
pp. 2819-2824 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collisional semiclassical approximations in phase-space representation
G. W. Bund, S. S. Mizrahi, and M. C. Tijero
pp. 2825-2832 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Four-vector correlation experiment on Ne(3p)+He collisions: Measurements on intramultiplet mixing
S. S. Op de Beek, J. P. Driessen, K. H. Robben, H. C. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 2833-2847 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Multiple ionization of atoms and molecules in collisions with fast ions: Ion-atom collisions
N. M. Kabachnik, V. N. Kondratyev, Z. Roller-Lutz, and H. O. Lutz
pp. 2848-2854 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Low-energy electron scattering from CH3Cl
T. N. Rescigno, A. E. Orel, and C. W. McCurdy
pp. 2855-2859 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection L-shell ionization of selected medium-Z elements by 0.22–0.83-MeV u-1 carbon ions
I. Bogdanović, S. Fazinić, M. Jakšić, and Ž. Šmit
pp. 2860-2867 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of ionization in ion-atom collisions: Spectra of ejected electrons
S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, J. H. Macek, and D. B. Khrebtukov
pp. 2872-2886 [View PDF (964 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of light fragments in dissociative excitation of molecular ions: CD+
N. Djurić, Y.-S. Chung, B. Wallbank, and G. H. Dunn
pp. 2887-2892 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Doubly excited autoionizing states in N2
Pål Sannes and Leif Veseth
pp. 2893-2902 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Direct measurements of the stopping power for antiprotons of light and heavy targets
S. P. Møller, E. Uggerhøj, H. Bluhme, H. Knudsen, U. Mikkelsen, K. Paludan, and E. Morenzoni
pp. 2930-2939 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Paraxial light and atom optics: The optical Schrödinger equation and beyond
Monika A. Marte and Stig Stenholm
pp. 2940-2953 [View PDF (367 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic interferences in a comoving magnetic field
R. Mathevet, K. Brodsky, B. J. Lawson-Daku, Ch. Miniatura, J. Robert, and J. Baudon
pp. 2954-2958 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atom-interferometric study of Bose-Einstein condensation
Thomas P. Altenmüller, Rainer Müller, and Axel Schenzle
pp. 2959-2971 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atom localization via Ramsey interferometry: A coherent cavity field provides a better resolution
Fam Le Kien, G. Rempe, W. P. Schleich, and M. S. Zubairy
pp. 2972-2977 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stability and collective excitations of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensed gas: A moment approach
Th. Busch, J. I. Cirac, V. M. Pérez-García, and P. Zoller
pp. 2978-2983 [View PDF (1442 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Energy of a trapped interacting Bose gas
Hualin Shi and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 2984-2988 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dipole-dipole selection rules for an atom laser cavity
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. 2989-2995 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Suppression of potential electron emission for impact of slow multicharged fullerenes on clean gold
HP. Winter, M. Vana, G. Betz, F. Aumayr, H. Drexel, P. Scheier, and T. D. Märk
pp. 3007-3010 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Quantum signatures of chaos in the dynamics of a trapped ion
J. K. Breslin, C. A. Holmes, and G. J. Milburn
pp. 3022-3027 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative cooling force in atoms with multiplet structure
Arturo Bambini and Alessandro Agresti
pp. 3040-3055 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measuring the cyclotron state of a trapped electron
Stefano Mancini and Paolo Tombesi
pp. 3060-3064 [View PDF (3277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Many-body quantum Monte Carlo wave-function method for laser cooling
Tohya Hiroshima and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 3077-3082 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser cooling, friction, and diffusion in a three-level cascade system
W. Rooijakkers, W. Hogervorst, and W. Vassen
pp. 3083-3092 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High harmonic generation and periodic level crossings
F. I. Gauthey, B. M. Garraway, and P. L. Knight
pp. 3093-3096 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Above-threshold ionization of negative hydrogen
L. A. Nikolopoulos and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 3106-3115 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection Two-photon geometrical phase
D. V. Strekalov and Y. H. Shih
pp. 3129-3133 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Jaynes-Cummings model with phase damping
Le-Man Kuang, Xin Chen, Guang-Hong Chen, and Mo-Lin Ge
pp. 3139-3149 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Localized structures in chaotic patterns: From disorder to ordering
M. Le Berre, A. S. Patrascu, E. Ressayre, and A. Tallet
pp. 3150-3160 [View PDF (2785 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Near-field spatial imaging of a Ni-like Ag 140-Å x-ray laser
J. Nilsen, J. Zhang, A. G. MacPhee, J. Lin, T. W. Barbee, C. Danson, L. B. Da Silva, M. H. Key, C. L. Lewis, D. Neely, R. M. O’Rourke, G. J. Pert, R. Smith, G. J. Tallents, J. S. Wark, and E. Wolfrum
pp. 3161-3165 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Pulsed second-harmonic generation in nonlinear, one-dimensional, periodic structures
M. Scalora, M. J. Bloemer, A. S. Manka, J. P. Dowling, C. M. Bowden, R. Viswanathan, and J. W. Haus
pp. 3166-3174 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metastable chaos in the ammonia ring laser
R. Dykstra, J. T. Malos, N. R. Heckenberg, and R. G. McDuff
pp. 3180-3186 [View PDF (825 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single-atom quantum gate for light
K. M. Gheri and H. Ritsch
pp. 3187-3190 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with polarized optical feedback
P. Besnard, F. Robert, M. L. Charès, and G. M. Stéphan
pp. 3191-3205 [View PDF (449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interference effects in spontaneous two-photon parametric scattering from two macroscopic regions
A. V. Burlakov, M. V. Chekhova, D. N. Klyshko, S. P. Kulik, A. N. Penin, Y. H. Shih, and D. V. Strekalov
pp. 3214-3225 [View PDF (684 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]