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Physical Review A – October 1997
Volume 56, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Bell’s inequality violation with four entangled fermions
Shahen Hacyan
pp. R2489-R2490 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Molecular emission tomography of anharmonic vibrations
L. J. Waxer, I. A. Walmsley, and W. Vogel
pp. R2491-R2494 [View PDF (1,063 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Application of the generalized-gradient approximation to rare-gas dimers
David C. Patton and Mark R. Pederson
pp. R2495-R2498 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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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)]
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Detecting classical bifurcations in atoms from experimental data
Marcus W. Beims
pp. R2503-R2506 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Radiative correction to the nuclear-size effect and hydrogen-deuterium isotopic shift
Michael I. Eides and Howard Grotch
pp. R2507-R2509 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Ground state of the hydrogen molecule in a strong magnetic field
Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman
pp. R2510-R2513 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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 (152 kB)]
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Formation of metastable N2- and CO- anions in sputtering
Hubert Gnaser
pp. R2518-R2521 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Direct observation of x-ray emission from high-n spectator electrons following radiative stabilization in dielectronically excited highly charged barium
C. Biedermann, R. Radtke, and G. Fußmann
pp. R2522-R2525 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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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)]
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Aspects of postcollision interactions near the Ar L shell
James A. R. Samson, Y. Lu, and W. C. Stolte
pp. R2530-R2532 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Matter waves

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Hydrodynamic excitations of Bose condensates in anisotropic traps
Martin Fliesser, András Csordás, Péter Szépfalusy, and Robert Graham
pp. R2533-R2536 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Quantum optics

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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)]
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Feedback-controlled photorefractive two-beam coupling
V. P. Kamenov, K. H. Ringhofer, B. I. Sturman, and J. Frejlich
pp. R2541-R2544 [View PDF (112 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Information entropy and squeezing of quantum fluctuations
Arkadiusz Orłowski
pp. 2545-2548 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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State reconstruction in one-dimensional quantum mechanics: The continuous spectrum
U. Leonhardt and S. Schneider
pp. 2549-2556 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dynamics of dissipative two-level systems in the stochastic approximation
L. Accardi, S. V. Kozyrev, and I. V. Volovich
pp. 2557-2562 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Lorentz boost of the Newton-Wigner-Pryce position operator
Adam Hugh Monahan and Malcolm McMillan
pp. 2563-2566 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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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 (176 kB)]
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Quantization of the motion of a particle on an n-dimensional sphere
Petre Diţă
pp. 2574-2578 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Maxwell field operators, the energy density, and the Poynting vector calculated using the minimal-coupling framework of molecular quantum electrodynamics in the Heisenberg picture
A. Salam
pp. 2579-2591 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Quantizing constrained systems
L. Kaplan, N. T. Maitra, and E. J. Heller
pp. 2592-2599 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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 (325 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (341 kB)]
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Direct determination of the quantum-mechanical density matrix using the density equation. II.
Koji Yasuda and Hiroshi Nakatsuji
pp. 2648-2657 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Time-dependent multireference coupled-cluster-based response approach for evaluating dynamic properties
D. Ajitha and Sourav Pal
pp. 2658-2664 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Fractional occupation numbers in density-functional theory
R. K. Nesbet
pp. 2665-2669 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical calculation of the photodetachment of H- in electric and magnetic fields with arbitrary orientation
Z. Y. Liu and D. H. Wang
pp. 2670-2675 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Theory of resonant elastic x-ray scattering by free molecules
Faris Gel’mukhanov and Hans Ågren
pp. 2676-2684 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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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 (159 kB)]
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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)]
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Investigation of the 2S1/2-2D5/2 clock transition in a single ytterbium ion
P. Taylor, M. Roberts, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. M. Clarke, G. P. Barwood, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill
pp. 2699-2704 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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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)]
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Effect of high-n and continuum eigenstates on the Stark effect of resonance lines of atoms and ions
E. Stambulchik and Y. Maron
pp. 2713-2719 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Optical and generalized oscillator strengths for valence and inner-shell excitations on the Mg atom
Leila M. M. de Albuquerque Martins and Carlos E. Bielschowsky
pp. 2720-2725 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Exact hydrogenic density functionals
David J. Tozer
pp. 2726-2730 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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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 (187 kB)]
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L23-MM Auger spectrum of K-ionized argon: Decomposition by electron-ion and electron-electron coincidence techniques
U. Alkemper, J. Doppelfeld, and F. von Busch
pp. 2741-2749 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Experimental evidence for the K-LM radiative Auger effect in medium-mass atoms
Ch. Herren and J.-Cl. Dousse
pp. 2750-2758 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Local response model of the generalized polarization potential
R. K. Nesbet
pp. 2778-2783 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Low-velocity elastic scattering of Rb-Rb
P. Westphal, S. Koch, A. Horn, J. Schmand, and H. J. Andrä
pp. 2784-2787 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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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)]
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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. J. Driessen, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, W. Boom, H. C. W. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 2792-2805 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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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 (188 kB)]
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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 (113 kB)]
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Collisional semiclassical approximations in phase-space representation
G. W. Bund, S. S. Mizrahi, and M. C. Tijero
pp. 2825-2832 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Four-vector correlation experiment on Ne(3p)+He collisions: Measurements on intramultiplet mixing
S. S. Op de Beek, J. P. J. Driessen, K. H. J. M. Robben, H. C. W. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 2833-2847 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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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 (155 kB)]
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Low-energy electron scattering from CH3Cl
T. N. Rescigno, A. E. Orel, and C. W. McCurdy
pp. 2855-2859 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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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)]
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Energy-angle distributions of bremsstrahlung from intermediate-energy electrons on atoms
H. K. Tseng
pp. 2868-2871 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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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 (963 kB)]
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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)]
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Doubly excited autoionizing states in N2
Pål Sannes and Leif Veseth
pp. 2893-2902 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Electron transfer and ionization in collisions between H+, He2+, Li3+, Be4+, B5+, C6+, N7+ ions and target C5+(1s) ions studied using a Sturmian basis
Thomas G. Winter
pp. 2903-2908 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Quenching of Na(4p) by He and H2: A molecular-state treatment
Bidhan C. Saha
pp. 2909-2912 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Quadratic energy-loss straggling and energy widths of the states of slow ions in an electron gas
Neng-ping Wang and J. M. Pitarke
pp. 2913-2917 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Energy loss of H+ fragments arising from dissociation of fast H2+ ions under glancing-angle incidence on a SnTe(001) surface
Y. Susuki
pp. 2918-2929 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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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)]

Matter waves

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Paraxial light and atom optics: The optical Schrödinger equation and beyond
Monika A. M. Marte and Stig Stenholm
pp. 2940-2953 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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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)]
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Atom-interferometric study of Bose-Einstein condensation
Thomas P. Altenmüller, Rainer Müller, and Axel Schenzle
pp. 2959-2971 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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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 (143 kB)]
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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 (1,442 kB)]
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Energy of a trapped interacting Bose gas
Hualin Shi and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 2984-2988 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Dipole-dipole selection rules for an atom laser cavity
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. 2989-2995 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Nondestructive optical measurement of relative phase between two Bose-Einstein condensates
Janne Ruostekoski and Dan F. Walls
pp. 2996-3006 [View PDF (240 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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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)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Quantum interference in resonance fluorescence for a driven V atom
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 3011-3021 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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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 (150 kB)]
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Two-dimensional, two-electron model atom in a laser pulse: Exact treatment, single-active-electron analysis, time-dependent density-functional theory, classical calculations, and nonsequential ionization
D. Bauer
pp. 3028-3039 [View PDF (4,415 kB)]
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Radiative cooling force in atoms with multiplet structure
Arturo Bambini and Alessandro Agresti
pp. 3040-3055 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Laser heating of photoelectrons during multiphoton ionization of molecular ions adsorbed on disperse silica surfaces
Yu. D. Glinka and M. Jaroniec
pp. 3056-3059 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Measuring the cyclotron state of a trapped electron
Stefano Mancini and Paolo Tombesi
pp. 3060-3064 [View PDF (3,276 kB)]
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Product-state control through interfering two-photon ionization routes
Feng Wang and D. S. Elliott
pp. 3065-3076 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Many-body quantum Monte Carlo wave-function method for laser cooling
Tohya Hiroshima and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 3077-3082 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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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)]
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High harmonic generation and periodic level crossings
F. I. Gauthey, B. M. Garraway, and P. L. Knight
pp. 3093-3096 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Laser-induced transparency and dark-line effects caused by three-wave mixing in atomic systems
S. M. Sadeghi, J. Meyer, and H. Rastegar
pp. 3097-3105 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization of negative hydrogen
L. A. A. Nikolopoulos and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 3106-3115 [View PDF (222 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Exact solution of the Jaynes-Cummings model with cavity damping
A. J. van Wonderen
pp. 3116-3128 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Two-photon geometrical phase
D. V. Strekalov and Y. H. Shih
pp. 3129-3133 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Determination of the phase-difference distribution between two weak optical fields
Th. Richter
pp. 3134-3138 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (2,784 kB)]
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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, , Jr.,, C. Danson, L. B. Da Silva, M. H. Key, C. L. S. Lewis, D. Neely, R. M. N. O’Rourke, G. J. Pert, R. Smith, G. J. Tallents, J. S. Wark, and E. Wolfrum
pp. 3161-3165 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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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 (150 kB)]
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Quasiprobability functions measured by photon statistics of amplified signal fields
M. S. Kim
pp. 3175-3179 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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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)]
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Single-atom quantum gate for light
K. M. Gheri and H. Ritsch
pp. 3187-3190 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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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)]
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Light control of optical intersubband absorption and amplification in a quantum well inside a cavity
Ansheng Liu
pp. 3206-3213 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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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 (683 kB)]
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Breakup of cw multimode oscillations and low-frequency instability in a microchip solid-state laser by high-density pumping
Kenju Otsuka, Paul Mandel, and E. A. Viktorov
pp. 3226-3232 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Laser emission from semiconductor microcavities: The role of cavity polaritons
Xudong Fan, Hailin Wang, H. Q. Hou, and B. E. Hammons
pp. 3233-3236 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Generalized complex Swift-Hohenberg equation for optical parametric oscillators
Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Eugenio Roldán, Germán J. de Valcárcel, and Kestutis Staliunas
pp. 3237-3244 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Field propagator of a dressed junction: Fluorescence lifetime calculations in a confined geometry
Adel Rahmani, Patrick C. Chaumet, Frédérique de Fornel, and Christian Girard
pp. 3245-3254 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Amplification of laser beams counterpropagating through a potassium vapor: The effects of atomic coherence
William J. Brown, Jeff R. Gardner, Daniel J. Gauthier, and R. Vilaseca
pp. 3255-3261 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Evolution of the vacuum Rabi peaks in a detuned atom-cavity system
J. Gripp, S. L. Mielke, and L. A. Orozco
pp. 3262-3273 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Cooperative emission in the process of cascade and dipole-forbidden transitions
N. Enaki and M. Macovei
pp. 3274-3286 [View PDF (288 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Three-body halos in two dimensions
E. Nielsen, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen
pp. 3287-3290 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Matter waves

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Coherence properties of Bose-Einstein condensates and atom lasers
Wolfgang Ketterle and Hans-Joachim Miesner
pp. 3291-3293 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Interaction-induced light scattering in Lennard-Jones argon clusters: Computer simulations
A. Dawid and Z. Gburski
pp. 3294-3296 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Chaotic enhancement of hydrogen-atom excitation in magnetic and microwave fields
Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, and Dima L. Shepelyansky
pp. 3297-3300 [View PDF (112 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Why quantum mechanics cannot be formulated as a Markov process”
L. Hardy, D. Home, E. J. Squires, and M. A. B. Whitaker
pp. 3301-3303 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Why quantum mechanics cannot be formulated as a Markov process’ ”
Daniel T. Gillespie
pp. 3304-3306 [View PDF (72 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Extension of a moment-problem minimax quantization procedure to anharmonic potentials [Phys. Rev. A 52, 3468 (1995)]
Carlos R. Handy
pp. 3307 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Erratum: Variational calculation of polarizability and second hyperpolarizability of two-electron systems [Phys. Rev. A 54, 283 (1996)]
Manoj K. Harbola and Arup Banerjee
pp. 3307 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Erratum: Kinetics for evaporative cooling of a trapped gas [Phys. Rev. A 55, 1281 (1997)]
Kirstine Berg-Sørensen
pp. 3308-3309 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Erratum: Hartree-Fock calculations of Bose-Einstein condensation of 7Li atoms in a harmonic trap for T>0 [Phys. Rev. A 55, 3658 (1997)]
T. Bergeman
pp. 3310 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum evolution of classical nonlinear eigenmode in parametric interaction and realization in traps with ions [Phys. Rev. A 55, R4007 (1997)]
G. S. Agarwal and J. Banerji
pp. 3311 [View PDF (107 kB)]
 
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