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Physical Review A – December 1997
Volume 56, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Revisiting Bell’s theorem for a class of down-conversion experiments
Sandu Popescu, Lucien Hardy, and Marek Żukowski
pp. R4353-R4356 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Polarizabilities and parity nonconservation in the Cs atom and limits on the deviation from the standard electroweak model
V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and O. P. Sushkov
pp. R4357-R4360 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Determination of the dipole polarizabilities of H2+(0,0) and D2+(0,0) by microwave spectroscopy of high-L Rydberg states of H2 and D2
P. L. Jacobson, D. S. Fisher, C. W. Fehrenbach, W. G. Sturrus, and S. R. Lundeen
pp. R4361-R4364 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Nanometer definition of atomic beams with masks of light
Roland Abfalterer, Claudia Keller, Stefan Bernet, Markus K. Oberthaler, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. R4365-R4368 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Calculating differential cross sections for electron-impact ionization without explicit use of the asymptotic form
C. W. McCurdy and T. N. Rescigno
pp. R4369-R4372 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Formation of HeH+ from positron interactions with H2 and He mixtures
Jun Xu, L. D. Hulett, J. Moxom, W. Wu, S. Datz, and D. M. Schrader
pp. R4373-R4376 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Matter waves

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Time-dependent control of ultracold atoms in magnetic traps
N. V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen
pp. R4377-R4380 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Driving the driven atom: Spectral signatures
C. C. Yu, J. R. Bochinski, T. M. V. Kordich, T. W. Mossberg, and Z. Ficek
pp. R4381-R4384 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Ion-recoil energy measurement in photoionization of laser-cooled rubidium
Steffen Wolf and Hanspeter Helm
pp. R4385-R4388 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Predictions for laser-cooled Rb clocks
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, B. J. Verhaar, K. Gibble, and D. J. Heinzen
pp. R4389-R4392 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Diffraction electron-atom scattering in an intense low-frequency laser field
A. Jaroń and J. Z. Kamiński
pp. R4393-R4396 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Controlling quantum coherence by circularly polarized fields
Jiushu Shao and Peter Hänggi
pp. R4397-R4400 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Drift instability and locking behavior of optical patterns
J. P. Seipenbusch, T. Ackemann, B. Schäpers, B. Berge, and W. Lange
pp. R4401-R4404 [View PDF (229 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Satellite test of special relativity using the global positioning system
Peter Wolf and Gérard Petit
pp. 4405-4409 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Variational perturbation theory for the quantum-statistical density matrix
J. Krzyweck
pp. 4410-4419 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Observation of geometric and dynamical phases by neutron interferometry
B. E. Allman, H. Kaiser, S. A. Werner, A. G. Wagh, V. C. Rakhecha, and J. Summhammer
pp. 4420-4439 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Production of photons by the parametric resonance in the dynamical Casimir effect
Jeong-Young Ji, Hyun-Hee Jung, Jong-Woong Park, and Kwang-Sup Soh
pp. 4440-4444 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Dissipative dynamics in a quantum register
Paolo Zanardi
pp. 4445-4451 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Statistical inference, distinguishability of quantum states, and quantum entanglement
V. Vedral, M. B. Plenio, K. Jacobs, and P. L. Knight
pp. 4452-4455 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Aspects of entangled translucent eavesdropping in quantum cryptography
Howard E. Brandt, John M. Myers, and Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr.
pp. 4456-4465 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Perturbative expansions for the fidelities and spatially correlated dissipation of quantum bits
Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 4466-4470 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Large-order analysis of the convergent renormalized strong-coupling perturbation theory for the quartic anharmonic oscillator
L. Skála, J. Čížek, V. Kapsa, and E. J. Weniger
pp. 4471-4476 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Jaynes information entropy of small molecules: Numerical evidence of the Collins conjecture
Juan Carlos Ramírez, Catalina Soriano, Rodolfo O. Esquivel, Robin P. Sagar, Minhhuy Ho⁁, and Vedene H. Smith, , Jr.
pp. 4477-4482 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Bound μ+μ- system
U. D. Jentschura, G. Soff, V. G. Ivanov, and S. G. Karshenboim
pp. 4483-4495 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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H2+ ion in strong magnetic field: A variational study
J. C. Lopez, P. Hess, and A. Turbiner
pp. 4496-4500 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Speed-dependent collisional effects on the 326.1-nm Cd line perturbed by Xe
S. Brym, R. Ciuryło, R. S. Trawiński, and A. Bielski
pp. 4501-4507 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Vacuum-polarization corrections to the hyperfine-structure splitting of highly charged 83209Bi ions
Leonti Labzowsky, Andrei Nefiodov, Günter Plunien, Gerhard Soff, and Pekka Pyykkö
pp. 4508-4516 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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L- and M-shell-electron shake processes following 1s photoionization in argon and krypton
J.-Cl. Dousse and J. Hoszowska
pp. 4517-4531 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Electron affinities of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, and thallium
Ephraim Eliav, Yasuyuki Ishikawa, Pekka Pyykkö, and Uzi Kaldor
pp. 4532-4536 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Doubly excited 1,3Se, 1,3Po, and 1,3De resonances in He below the n=2 He+ threshold
Ming-Keh Chen
pp. 4537-4544 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Angle-resolved energy dependence of the 4p4nd(2S1/2) (n=4–7) correlation satellites in Kr from 38.5 to 250 eV: Experiment and theory
N. Berrah, A. Farhat, B. Langer, B. M. Lagutin, Ph. V. Demekhin, I. D. Petrov, V. L. Sukhorukov, R. Wehlitz, S. B. Whitfield, J. Viefhaus, and U. Becker
pp. 4545-4553 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Kα1,2 and Kβ1,3 x-ray emission lines of the 3d transition metals
G. Hölzer, M. Fritsch, M. Deutsch, J. Härtwig, and E. Förster
pp. 4554-4568 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Pressure broadening of Rb D1 and D2 lines by 3He, 4He, N2, and Xe: Line cores and near wings
M. V. Romalis, E. Miron, and G. D. Cates
pp. 4569-4578 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Nuclear sizes and the isotope shift
J. L. Friar, J. Martorell, and D. W. L. Sprung
pp. 4579-4586 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Auger transition rates for metastable states of antiprotonic helium He+p̅
V. I. Korobov and Isao Shimamura
pp. 4587-4594 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Density matrices and density functionals in strong magnetic fields
A. Holas and N. H. March
pp. 4595-4605 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Electron-impact excitation of helium at 26.5 eV
Dmitry Fursa, Igor Bray, Brendan P. Donnelly, Damien T. McLaughlin, and Albert Crowe
pp. 4606-4611 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Population, alignment, and coherence of the foil-excited n=2 hydrogen atoms: Polarization observation of the field-dependent quantum beats in the Lyman-α line
Yasuyuki Kimura, Tetsuo Nishida, and Keishi Ishii
pp. 4612-4622 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Absolute charge-exchange cross sections for the interaction between slow Xeq+ (15<~q<~43) projectiles and neutral He, Ar, and Xe
N. Selberg, C. Biedermann, and H. Cederquist
pp. 4623-4632 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Calculation of fine-structure effects in O+-O collisions
A. P. Hickman, M. Medikeri-Naphade, C. D. Chapin, and D. L. Huestis
pp. 4633-4643 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Theoretical and experimental investigation of the triple-differential cross sections for electron-impact ionization of Kr(4p) and Xe(5p) at 1-keV impact energy
J. Rasch, M. Zitnik, L. Avaldi, Colm T. Whelan, G. Stefani, R. Camilloni, R. J. Allan, and H. R. J. Walters
pp. 4644-4655 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Final-state distributions in resonant charge transfer by ions on Rydberg atoms
D. S. Fisher, C. W. Fehrenbach, S. R. Lundeen, E. A. Hessels, and B. D. DePaola
pp. 4656-4664 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Excitation-energy-dependent resonant photoemission: C 1s-π* spectra of carbon monoxide
V. Carravetta, F. Kh. Gel’mukhanov, H. Ågren, S. Sundin, S. J. Osborne, A. Naves de Brito, O. Björneholm, A. Ausmees, and S. Svensson
pp. 4665-4674 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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L-shell ionization in near-central collisions of MeV protons with low-Z atoms
M. Kavčič, Ž. Šmit, M. Budnar, and Z. Halabuka
pp. 4675-4682 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Double-electron capture and population of Rydberg levels in slow Ar8++He collisions
S. Bliman, M. Cornille, B. A. Huber, and J. F. Wyart
pp. 4683-4691 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Dependence of radiative stabilization on the projectile charge state after double-electron-transfer processes in slow, highly charged ion-molecule collisions
Franciszek Krok, Inga Yu. Tolstikhina, Hiroyuki A. Sakaue, Ichihiro Yamada, Kazumoto Hosaka, Masahiro Kimura, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Shunsuke Ohtani, and Hiroyuki Tawara
pp. 4692-4699 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Electron capture from coherent elliptic Rydberg states
J. C. Day, B. D. DePaola, T. Ehrenreich, S. B. Hansen, E. Horsdal-Pedersen, Y. Leontiev, and K. S. Mogensen
pp. 4700-4714 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination rates in H-like Ar17+ to Ne-like Ar8+
K. B. Fournier, M. Cohen, and W. H. Goldstein
pp. 4715-4732 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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S-wave resonances in positron scattering by He+
Akinori Igarashi and Isao Shimamura
pp. 4733-4736 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dissociative recombination of the A2Πu and the X2Σg states of N2+ in a glow discharge
Sebastian Oddone, J. W. Sheldon, K. A. Hardy, and J. R. Peterson
pp. 4737-4741 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Strong interference effects in the e-+Sc3+ recombination cross section
T. W. Gorczyca, M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, and N. R. Badnell
pp. 4742-4745 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Measurements of photoelectron angular distributions by single-photon detachment of Al-, Si-, and P- at visible photon wavelengths
A. M. Covington, D. Calabrese, W. W. Williams, J. S. Thompson, and T. J. Kvale
pp. 4746-4754 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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b1Σg+–X3Σg- (0,0) band of oxygen isotopomers in relation to tests of the symmetrization postulate in 16O2
H. Naus, A. de Lange, and W. Ubachs
pp. 4755-4763 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Dispersion coefficients for the nP-nP asymptote of homonuclear alkali-metal dimers
M. Marinescu
pp. 4764-4773 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Emission of low-energy electrons from slow N6+ ions interacting with a Au surface
D. Niemann, M. Grether, A. Spieler, N. Stolterfoht, C. Lemell, F. Aumayr, and H. P. Winter
pp. 4774-4780 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Electronic energy loss of slow protons channeled in metals
J. E. Valdés, P. Vargas, and N. R. Arista
pp. 4781-4785 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Energy loss of fast clusters through matter
D. Ben-Hamu, A. Baer, H. Feldman, J. Levin, O. Heber, Z. Amitay, Z. Vager, and D. Zajfman
pp. 4786-4794 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Nonlinear calculations of the stopping power for slow hydrogen and helium projectiles in solids
Neng-ping Wang and István Nagy
pp. 4795-4798 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Energy gain in collisions of highly charged ions with C60
U. Thumm, A. Bárány, H. Cederquist, L. Hägg, and C. J. Setterlind
pp. 4799-4806 [View PDF (1,539 kB)]
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Backward- and forward-electron-emission measurements for MeV H0 projectiles incident on thin carbon foils: Correlation with the charge state of the emergent projectile
Z. Vidović, A. Billebaud, M. Fallavier, R. Kirsch, J.-C. Poizat, and J. Remillieux
pp. 4807-4814 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Matter waves

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Engineering two-mode interactions in ion traps
J. Steinbach, J. Twamley, and P. L. Knight
pp. 4815-4825 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Incoherent dynamics in neutron-matter interaction
Ludovico Lanz and Bassano Vacchini
pp. 4826-4838 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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First and second sound in a uniform Bose gas
A. Griffin and E. Zaremba
pp. 4839-4844 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Non-ground-state Bose-Einstein condensates of trapped atoms
V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova, and V. S. Bagnato
pp. 4845-4854 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Frequency shift and mode coupling in the nonlinear dynamics of a Bose-condensed gas
F. Dalfovo, C. Minniti, and L. P. Pitaevskii
pp. 4855-4863 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Superfluid state of atomic 6Li in a magnetic trap
M. Houbiers, R. Ferwerda, H. T. C. Stoof, W. I. McAlexander, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet
pp. 4864-4878 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Classical quasiparticle dynamics in trapped Bose condensates
Martin Fliesser, András Csordás, Robert Graham, and Péter Szépfalusy
pp. 4879-4889 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Structure and vibrational spectra of low-energy silicon clusters
A. Sieck, D. Porezag, Th. Frauenheim, M. R. Pederson, and K. Jackson
pp. 4890-4898 [View PDF (180 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Fast elastic e-H(2s) scattering in laser fields
Svetlana Vučić and Robin Hewitt
pp. 4899-4904 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Generalized eikonal wave function of an electron in stimulated bremsstrahlung in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave
H. K. Avetissian, A. G. Markossian, G. F. Mkrtchian, and S. V. Movsissian
pp. 4905-4909 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Strong-field multiphoton ionization of hydrogen: Nondipolar asymmetry and ponderomotive scattering
Yousef I. Salamin
pp. 4910-4917 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Laser-assisted (e,2e) collisions in helium
D. Khalil, A. Maquet, R. Taïeb, C. J. Joachain, and A. Makhoute
pp. 4918-4928 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Simple and robust extension of the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage technique to N-level systems
Vladimir S. Malinovsky and David J. Tannor
pp. 4929-4937 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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High-order nonlinear susceptibilities of helium
Wei-Chih Liu
pp. 4938-4945 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Description of a two-electron atom or ion in an ac field using interparticle coordinates, with an application to H-
Binwei Yang, Marcel Pont, Robin Shakeshaft, Ernst van Duijn, and Bernard Piraux
pp. 4946-4959 [View PDF (1,455 kB)]
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Generation of attosecond pulses in macroscopic media
Philippe Antoine, Dejan B. Milošević, Anne L’Huillier, Mette B. Gaarde, Pascal Salières, and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 4960-4969 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Thermalization of trapped ions: A quantum perturbation approach
S. K. Lamoreaux
pp. 4970-4975 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Microwave ionization of sodium with subnanosecond 8-GHz pulses
R. B. Watkins, R. B. Vrijen, W. M. Griffith, M. Gatzke, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 4976-4984 [View PDF (1,876 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization in K via a Cooper minimum in the continuum
D. I. Duncan, J. de Boer, H. G. Muller, and L. D. Noordam
pp. 4985-4991 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Optical preparation of oriented and aligned reagents
Ke-Li Han
pp. 4992-4995 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Electron nuclear dynamics of LiH and HF in an intense laser field
J. Broeckhove, M. D. Coutinho-Neto, E. Deumens, and Y. Öhrn
pp. 4996-5003 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic dynamics of atoms in nonuniform magnetic fields
V. I. Yukalov
pp. 5004-5013 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Strong-field index enhancement via selective population of dressed states
Markus Löffler, Dmitri E. Nikonov, Olga A. Kocharovskaya, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 5014-5021 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Canonical formalism and quantization for a class of classical fields with application to radiative atomic decay in dielectrics
A. Tip
pp. 5022-5041 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Gaussian-Wigner distributions and hierarchies of nonclassical states in quantum optics: The single-mode case
Arvind, N. Mukunda, and R. Simon
pp. 5042-5052 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Spontaneous pulsations in gas class-A lasers with weakly anisotropic cavities
L. P. Svirina, V. G. Gudelev, and Yu. P. Zhurik
pp. 5053-5064 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Coherence and decoherence in the interaction of light with atoms
H. J. Carmichael
pp. 5065-5099 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Level shift and depopulation by blackbody radiation of a Rydberg atom between two metallic plates
Takashi Nakajima, P. Lambropoulos, and H. Walther
pp. 5100-5110 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Coupled pattern formation near threshold in a broad-area cascade laser
J. García-Ojalvo, R. Vilaseca, and M. C. Torrent
pp. 5111-5120 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Theoretical and experimental study of eigenstate locking in polarization self-modulated lasers
M. Vallet, M. Brunel, G. Ropars, A. Le Floch, and F. Bretenaker
pp. 5121-5130 [View PDF (961 kB)]
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Squeezing enhancement by competing nonlinearities: Almost perfect squeezing without instabilities
C. Cabrillo, J. L. Roldán, and P. García-Fernandez
pp. 5131-5134 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Dipole-dipole interaction in optical cavities
E. V. Goldstein and P. Meystre
pp. 5135-5146 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Photon accelerator: Large blueshifting of femtosecond pulses in semiconductors
V. I. Berezhiani, S. M. Mahajan, and I. G. Murusidze
pp. 5147-5151 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Polarization state of the output of soft-x-ray lasers through the paraxial Maxwell-Bloch approach
D. Benredjem, A. Sureau, B. Rus, and C. Möller
pp. 5152-5161 [View PDF (242 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Long beating wavelength in the Schwarz-Hora effect
Yu. N. Morokov
pp. 5162-5164 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Performance of superconvergent perturbation theory
Ernst Joachim Weniger
pp. 5165-5168 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Scaling properties and local forms of the correlation-energy functional
Ramiro Pino and Roberto López-Boada
pp. 5169-5172 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Higher-order nuclear-size corrections in atomic hydrogen
J. L. Friar and G. L. Payne
pp. 5173-5175 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Polarizabilities of cesium (10–13)D3/2,5/2 states
J. Xia, J. Clarke, J. Li, and W. A. van Wijngaarden
pp. 5176-5178 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Semiclassical wave functions and energy levels of Bose-condensed gases in spherically symmetric traps
András Csordás, Robert Graham, and Péter Szépfalusy
pp. 5179-5182 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Cold-electron production for optical-field ionization x-ray lasers using mixed gases
K. Nagashima, T. Matoba, and H. Takuma
pp. 5183-5186 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Coherent propagation effects and pulse self-compression under the conditions of two-photon resonant difference-frequency generation
A. Nazarkin and G. Korn
pp. 5187-5190 [View PDF (118 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Pre- and postselected quantum systems, counterfactual measurements, and consistent histories [Phys. Rev. A 51, 4373 (1995)]
O. Cohen
pp. 5191 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Erratum: Local-density-functional calculations of the energy of atoms [Phys. Rev. A 55, 191 (1997)]
Svetlana Kotochigova, Zachary H. Levine, Eric L. Shirley, M. D. Stiles, and Charles W. Clark
pp. 5191-5192 [View PDF (39 kB)]
 
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