Physical Review A – December 1997
(Volume 56, Issue 6)

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Add to article collection Revisiting Bell’s theorem for a class of down-conversion experiments
Sandu Popescu, Lucien Hardy, and Marek Żukowski
pp. R4353-R4356 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection 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 (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection 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 (612 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Time-dependent control of ultracold atoms in magnetic traps
N. V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen
pp. R4377-R4380 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Add to article collection Driving the driven atom: Spectral signatures
C. C. Yu, J. R. Bochinski, T. M. Kordich, T. W. Mossberg, and Z. Ficek
pp. R4381-R4384 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Ion-recoil energy measurement in photoionization of laser-cooled rubidium
Steffen Wolf and Hanspeter Helm
pp. R4385-R4388 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Predictions for laser-cooled Rb clocks
S. J. Kokkelmans, B. J. Verhaar, K. Gibble, and D. J. Heinzen
pp. R4389-R4392 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Controlling quantum coherence by circularly polarized fields
Jiushu Shao and Peter Hänggi
pp. R4397-R4400 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

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Add to article collection 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 (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dissipative dynamics in a quantum register
Paolo Zanardi
pp. 4445-4451 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Aspects of entangled translucent eavesdropping in quantum cryptography
Howard E. Brandt, John M. Myers, and Samuel J. Lomonaco
pp. 4456-4465 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection 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
pp. 4477-4482 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bound μ+μ- system
U. D. Jentschura, G. Soff, V. G. Ivanov, and S. G. Karshenboim
pp. 4483-4495 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection H2+ ion in strong magnetic field: A variational study
J. C. Lopez, P. Hess, and A. Turbiner
pp. 4496-4500 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nuclear sizes and the isotope shift
J. L. Friar, J. Martorell, and D. W. Sprung
pp. 4579-4586 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Auger transition rates for metastable states of antiprotonic helium He+p̅
V. I. Korobov and Isao Shimamura
pp. 4587-4594 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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. Walters
pp. 4644-4655 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection S-wave resonances in positron scattering by He+
Akinori Igarashi and Isao Shimamura
pp. 4733-4736 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dissociative recombination of the A 2Πu and the X 2Σg states of N2+ in a glow discharge
Sebastian Oddone, J. W. Sheldon, K. A. Hardy, and J. R. Peterson
pp. 4737-4741 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection 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 (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (1539 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Engineering two-mode interactions in ion traps
J. Steinbach, J. Twamley, and P. L. Knight
pp. 4815-4825 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Incoherent dynamics in neutron-matter interaction
Ludovico Lanz and Bassano Vacchini
pp. 4826-4838 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection First and second sound in a uniform Bose gas
A. Griffin and E. Zaremba
pp. 4839-4844 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superfluid state of atomic 6Li in a magnetic trap
M. Houbiers, R. Ferwerda, H. T. Stoof, W. I. McAlexander, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet
pp. 4864-4878 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical quasiparticle dynamics in trapped Bose condensates
Martin Fliesser, András Csordás, Robert Graham, and Péter Szépfalusy
pp. 4879-4889 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection 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 (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Add to article collection Fast elastic e-H(2s) scattering in laser fields
Svetlana Vučić and Robin Hewitt
pp. 4899-4904 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (1455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (1876 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Add to article collection 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 (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (434 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (962 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Squeezing enhancement by competing nonlinearities: Almost perfect squeezing without instabilities
C. Cabrillo, J. L. Roldán, and P. García-Fernandez
pp. 5131-5134 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dipole-dipole interaction in optical cavities
E. V. Goldstein and P. Meystre
pp. 5135-5146 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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 (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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