• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
• ARTICLES
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

Qubit-qubit interaction in quantum computers Julio Gea-Banacloche pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Orientation-dependent dissociative charge transfer W. Wu, M. H. Prior, and H. Bräuning pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (1336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Oscillatory alignment phenomena in Rydberg-atom–rare-gas collisions William A. Isaacs and Michael A. Morrison pp. R9-R12 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anomalous final-state distributions of electrons captured from directed Rydberg states D. M. Homan, K. B. MacAdam, and M. J. Cavagnero pp. R13-R15 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Control of photodetachment through a two-color low-frequency field S. Bivona, R. Burlon, and C. Leone pp. R16-R19 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

CO2-laser optical lattice with cold rubidium atoms S. Friebel, C. D’Andrea, J. Walz, M. Weitz, and T. W. Hänsch pp. R20-R23 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase change of a probe due to oscillation of cold atoms in an optical standing wave M. Kozuma, K. Nakagawa, W. Jhe, and M. Ohtsu pp. R24-R27 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Josephson effect between trapped Bose-Einstein condensates Ivar Zapata, Fernando Sols, and Anthony J. Leggett pp. R28-R31 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Collective excitations of Bose-Einstein-condensed gases at finite temperatures R. J. Dodd, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark, and K. Burnett pp. R32-R35 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Coherent spectroscopic effects in the propagation of ultrashort pulses through a two-level system Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert W. Schirmer, and Alexander L. Gaeta pp. R36-R39 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Effects of zero-point energy in elementary-system interactions I. R. Senitzky pp. 40-47 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperspherical wave functions with orthogonal and permutational symmetry Nir Barnea and Akiva Novoselsky pp. 48-58 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QED theory of the nuclear recoil effect in atoms V. M. Shabaev pp. 59-67 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solvable three-state model of a driven double-well potential and coherent destruction of tunneling Laro Schatzer and Stefan Weigert pp. 68-78 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic transitions in a two-level quantum system: Pulse-shape dependence of the transition probability for a two-level atom driven by a pulsed radiation field P. R. Berman, Lixin Yan, Keng-Hwee Chiam, and Ruwang Sung pp. 79-92 [View PDF (428 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflectionless potentials for the one-dimensional Dirac equation: Pseudoscalar potentials Y. Nogami and F. M. Toyama pp. 93-97 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinematics and hydrodynamics of spinning particles Erasmo Recami and Giovanni Salesi pp. 98-105 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized coherent states for the Pöschl-Teller potential and a classical limit M. G. Crawford and E. R. Vrscay pp. 106-113 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt correlation and Clauser-Horne correlation do not lead to the largest violations of Bell’s inequality M. Ardehali pp. 114-119 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Quantum computation with quantum dots Daniel Loss and David P. DiVincenzo pp. 120-126 [View PDF (180 kB) ]

•	Theory of fault-tolerant quantum computation Daniel Gottesman pp. 127-137 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Approximate relativistic optimized potential method T. Kreibich, E. K. Gross, and E. Engel pp. 138-148 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition energy and lifetime for the ground-state hyperfine splitting of high-Z lithiumlike ions V. M. Shabaev, M. B. Shabaeva, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, A. N. Artemyev, T. Kühl, M. Tomaselli, and O. M. Zherebtsov pp. 149-156 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution carbon 1s photoelectron spectrum of ethene: Ab initio calculation of vibrational structure with dynamic localization of the core hole J. Bozek, T. X. Carroll, J. Hahne, L. J. Sæthre, J. True, and T. D. Thomas pp. 157-161 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical treatment of quasibound resonances in two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectroscopy F. Di Teodoro and E. F. McCormack pp. 162-173 [View PDF (1255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auger width of metastable states in antiprotonic helium J. Révai and A. T. Kruppa pp. 174-179 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of the 1s2s 1S0–1s2p 3P1,0 transitions in heliumlike nitrogen J. K. Thompson, D. J. Howie, and E. G. Myers pp. 180-188 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange-correlation density functional beyond the gradient approximation Michael Filatov and Walter Thiel pp. 189-199 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Velocity-dependent screening in metals A. F. Lifschitz and N. R. Arista pp. 200-207 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential cross sections for rovibrational (v′=0→1,2,3,4) excitation of the electronic ground state of O2 by electron impact M. J. Brunger, A. G. Middleton, and P. J. Teubner pp. 208-214 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projectile angular distribution in He single ionization by proton impact as a function of the ejected-electron energy V. D. Rodríguez and R. O. Barrachina pp. 215-220 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State-selective electron-capture measurements for N4+-H and N4+-H2 collisions F. W. Bliek, G. R. Woestenenk, R. Hoekstra, and R. Morgenstern pp. 221-226 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zeros in (inverse) bremsstrahlung matrix elements C. David Shaffer, R. H. Pratt, and Sung Dahm Oh pp. 227-234 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Probabilities for M-shell ionization in intermediate-velocity collisions of medium-mass atoms with 4He2+ ions Ch. Herren, B. Boschung, J.-Cl. Dousse, B. Galley, J. Hoszowska, J. Kern, Ch. Rhême, M. Polasik, T. Ludziejewski, P. Rymuza, and Z. Sujkowski pp. 235-245 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact ionization cross section of rubidium Yong-Ki Kim, Jacek Migdałek, Wojciech Siegel, and Jacek Bieroń pp. 246-254 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reverse energy pooling in a K-Na mixture G. De Filippo, S. Guldberg-Kjær, S. Milošević, J. O. Pedersen, and M. Allegrini pp. 255-266 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of electron-impact excitation into the 3p54p levels of argon using Fourier-transform spectroscopy J. Ethan Chilton, John B. Boffard, R. Scott Schappe, and Chun C. Lin pp. 267-277 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute cross sections for near-threshold electron-impact excitation of the 2s 2S→2p 2P transition in C3+ M. E. Bannister, Y.-S. Chung, N. Djurić, B. Wallbank, O. Woitke, S. Zhou, G. H. Dunn, and A. C. Smith pp. 278-281 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Final ion-charge resolving electron spectroscopy for the investigation of atomic photoionization processes: Xe in the region of the 4d→εf resonance T. Luhmann, Ch. Gerth, M. Groen, M. Martins, B. Obst, M. Richter, and P. Zimmermann pp. 282-291 [View PDF (973 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the ratio of differential cross sections for double and single ionization of He by (4–10)-MeV protons W. R. DeHaven, C. Dilley, A. Landers, E. Y. Kamber, and C. L. Cocke pp. 292-296 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparative study of Si-2p core-excitation spectra in the tetrahedral molecules SiX4 (with X=H, D, F, Cl, Br, CH3) Ralph Püttner, Michael Domke, and Günter Kaindl pp. 297-307 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Truncated dipole series in the electron-hydrogen and positron-hydrogen systems T. Purr, H. Friedrich, and A. T. Stelbovics pp. 308-311 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State-selective differential cross sections for double-electron capture in 0.25–0.75-MeV He2+-He collisions R. Dörner, V. Mergel, L. Spielberger, O. Jagutzki, J. Ullrich, and H. Schmidt-Böcking pp. 312-317 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of correlated photoionization processes in helium M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux pp. 318-324 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact double ionization of magnesium M. J. Ford, B. El-Marji, J. P. Doering, J. H. Moore, M. A. Coplan, and J. W. Cooper pp. 325-330 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute differential and integral cross sections for charge transfer of keV O+ with N2 B. G. Lindsay, R. L. Merrill, H. C. Straub, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings pp. 331-337 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Extended classical over-barrier model for collisions of highly charged ions with conducting and insulating surfaces Jens J. Ducrée, Fulvio Casali, and Uwe Thumm pp. 338-350 [View PDF (498 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of negative ions in grazing scattering from insulator surfaces C. Auth, A. Mertens, H. Winter, A. G. Borisov, and V. Sidis pp. 351-361 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-energy and stopping power of large energetic clusters in solids: Implications to Coulomb explosion Z. L. Mišković, W.-K. Liu, and You-Nian Wang pp. 362-368 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Explosion of atomic clusters heated by high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses T. Ditmire, E. Springate, J. W. Tisch, Y. L. Shao, M. B. Mason, N. Hay, J. P. Marangos, and M. H. Hutchinson pp. 369-382 [View PDF (638 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong long-range forces between C60 and Na atoms and microclusters Vitaly V. Kresin, V. Kasperovich, G. Tikhonov, and K. Wong pp. 383-387 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Motional wave-packet splitting and ion-trap interferometry Heping Zeng pp. 388-391 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized multiphoton-ionization cross sections of the rare gases for 500-fs, 248.6-nm pulses C. J. Uiterwaal, D. Xenakis, D. Charalambidis, P. Maragakis, H. Schröder, and P. Lambropoulos pp. 392-400 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom cooling in one dimension with high-intensity laser light M. R. Williams, M. J. Bellanca, L. Liu, C. Xie, W. F. Buell, T. H. Bergeman, and H. J. Metcalf pp. 401-411 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double poles of the S matrix in laser-assisted electron-atom scattering N. J. Kylstra and C. J. Joachain pp. 412-431 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fabry-Pérot-like transmission spectrum of an atom through a two-Gaussian laser arrangement Luis Santos and Luis Roso pp. 432-435 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the Stark shift of the Cs hyperfine splitting in an atomic fountain E. Simon, P. Laurent, and A. Clairon pp. 436-439 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decay of oriented Rydberg wave packets excited with far-infrared radiation G. M. Lankhuijzen, M. Drabbels, F. Robicheaux, and L. D. Noordam pp. 440-445 [View PDF (734 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of electronic radial probability distributions using time-resolved isolated core excitation R. R. Jones pp. 446-451 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent density-functional theory for strong-field multiphoton processes: Application to the study of the role of dynamical electron correlation in multiple high-order harmonic generation Xiao-Min Tong and Shih-I Chu pp. 452-461 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of incoherent ionization in population transfer via continuum R. G. Unanyan, N. V. Vitanov, and S. Stenholm pp. 462-466 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional relativistic calculation of strong-field photoionization by the phase-space-averaging method H. Schmitz, K. Boucke, and H.-J. Kull pp. 467-475 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subharmonic resonances in the strong-field dissociation of homonuclear molecular ions Peter Dietrich pp. 476-483 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Collective excitations of trapped binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensed gases Robert Graham and Dan Walls pp. 484-487 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong-field driving of a dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate Mirosław Brewczyk, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski, and Charles W. Clark pp. 488-492 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states R. Graham, T. Wong, M. J. Collett, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls pp. 493-502 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapses and revivals of collective excitations in trapped Bose condensates R. Graham, D. F. Walls, M. J. Collett, M. Fliesser, and E. M. Wright pp. 503-510 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Macroscopic superpositions of Bose-Einstein condensates Janne Ruostekoski, M. J. Collett, Robert Graham, and Dan F. Walls pp. 511-517 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sound propagation in a cylindrical Bose-condensed gas E. Zaremba pp. 518-521 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Solitary attractors and low-order filamentation in anisotropic self-focusing media A. A. Zozulya, D. Z. Anderson, A. V. Mamaev, and M. Saffman pp. 522-534 [View PDF (2536 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlling instability and squeezing from a cascaded frequency doubler K. V. Kheruntsyan, G. Yu. Kryuchkyan, N. T. Mouradyan, and K. G. Petrosyan pp. 535-547 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mimicking a squeezed-bath interaction: Quantum-reservoir engineering with atoms N. Lütkenhaus, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller pp. 548-558 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dependence of transient dynamics in a class-C laser upon variation of inversion with time J. T. Malos, D. Y. Tang, and N. R. Heckenberg pp. 559-566 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	What we can learn about single photons in a two-photon interference experiment D. V. Strekalov, T. B. Pittman, and Y. H. Shih pp. 567-570 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Threshold characteristics and intensity fluctuations of lasers with excess quantum noise M. A. van Eijkelenborg, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 571-579 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of symmetries in the transition to turbulence in optics Jorge Farjas, Daniel Hennequin, Didier Dangoisse, and Pierre Glorieux pp. 580-584 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous resonance fluorescence and dressed-state inversion by squeezed light in a Fabry-Pérot microcavity W. S. Smyth, S. Swain, Z. Ficek, and M. Scott pp. 585-598 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Moving spatial solitons in active nonlinear-optical resonators K. Staliunas, V. B. Taranenko, G. Slekys, R. Viselga, and C. O. Weiss pp. 599-604 [View PDF (706 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pure states in a one-atom micromaser N. Nayak pp. 605-608 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Few-cycle pulses in two-level media Lee W. Casperson pp. 609-621 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of optical-pulse propagation through an amplifying slab Maurizio Artoni and Rodney Loudon pp. 622-628 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical analysis of a bimode laser V. Zehnlé pp. 629-643 [View PDF (296 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiative transitions of atomic systems in bubbles and sonoluminescence R. Jáuregui, R. Esquivel-Sirvent, and C. Villarreal pp. 644-649 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superposition-preserving photon-number amplifier Gunnar Björk, Jonas Söderholm, and Anders Karlsson pp. 650-658 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Generalized probability for Hardy’s nonlocality contradiction José L. Cereceda pp. 659-662 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	High-order multiphoton ionization at metal surfaces by laser fields of moderate power S. Varró and F. Ehlotzky pp. 663-666 [View PDF (694 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Microcavity-induced modification of the dipole-dipole interaction Girish S. Agarwal and S. Dutta Gupta pp. 667-670 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State reconstruction for a collection of two-level systems G. S. Agarwal pp. 671-673 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Defining the (atom) laser [Phys. Rev. A 56, 2068 (1997)] H. M. Wiseman pp. 674 [View PDF (26 kB) ]