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Physical Review A – February 1998
Volume 57, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Uncoupling correlated calculations in atomic physics: Very high accuracy and ease
S. P. Goldman
pp. R677-R680 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Microscopic lens effect in photoelectron imaging spectroscopy
C. Bordas and J. C. Pinaré
pp. R681-R684 [View PDF (2,901 kB)]
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Relativistic effects on the H- resonances converging to the H(n=2) threshold
E. Lindroth, A. Bürgers, and N. Brandefelt
pp. R685-R688 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Estimated valence-level Lamb shifts for group 1 and group 11 metal atoms
Pekka Pyykkö, Maria Tokman, and L. N. Labzowsky
pp. R689-R692 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Mechanisms of double ionization of atoms by electron impact
C. Dal Cappello, R. El Mkhanter, and P. A. Hervieux
pp. R693-R696 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Dissociative electron attachment to NO molecules and NO clusters
Yannan Chu, Gilbert Senn, Paul Scheier, Alexander Stamatovic, Tilmann D. Märk, Frank Brüning, Stefan Matejcik, and Eugen Illenberger
pp. R697-R700 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Intensity-resolved multiphoton ionization: Circumventing spatial averaging
M. A. Walker, P. Hansch, and L. D. Van Woerkom
pp. R701-R704 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Enhanced laser cooling and state preparation in an optical lattice with a magnetic field
D. L. Haycock, S. E. Hamann, G. Klose, G. Raithel, and P. S. Jessen
pp. R705-R708 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Eight- and nine-photon resonances in multiphoton ionization of xenon
P. Hansch, M. A. Walker, and L. D. Van Woerkom
pp. R709-R712 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Matter waves

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Measuring the quantum state of cold atoms using momentum-shearing interferometry
Ian A. Walmsley and Nicholas P. Bigelow
pp. R713-R716 [View PDF (685 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Similarities between the radial Schrödinger-Coulomb wave function and the radial Dirac-Coulomb wave function and an application to photoionization of hydrogen
Jwei-Jun Chang
pp. 717-723 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Casimir interaction between a microscopic dipole oscillator and a macroscopic solenoid
R. Blanco, K. Dechoum, H. M. França, and E. Santos
pp. 724-730 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Phase operator for two-state systems
A. Müller
pp. 731-736 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Reducing decoherence in quantum-computer memory with all quantum bits coupling to the same environment
Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 737-741 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Generalized coherent states are unique Bell states of quantum systems with Lie-group symmetries
C. Brif, A. Mann, and M. Revzen
pp. 742-745 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Global and local dynamical invariants and quasienergy states of time-periodic Hamiltonians
D. B. Monteoliva, B. Mirbach, and H. J. Korsch
pp. 746-752 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Invariant formulation and exact solutions for the relativistic charged Klein-Gordon field in a time-dependent spatially homogeneous electric field
Xiao-Chun Gao, Jian Fu, Xin-Hua Li, and Jun Gao
pp. 753-761 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Probability distribution of arrival times in quantum mechanics
V. Delgado
pp. 762-770 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Role that separatrices and stochastic webs play in quantum dynamics
Go. Torres-Vega, Klaus B. Møller, and A. Zúñiga-Segundo
pp. 771-780 [View PDF (5,821 kB)]
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Anti-Zeno effect in parametric down-conversion
A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
pp. 781-787 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Level-density fluctuations at the bottom of a potential
M. Brack, S. C. Creagh, and J. Law
pp. 788-797 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Quantum dissipation and decay in a medium
I. Joichi, Sh. Matsumoto, and M. Yoshimura
pp. 798-805 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Divergence property of Fourier and Ritz expansions
Marco A. Núñez and Eduardo Piña
pp. 806-814 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Classical and nonclassical interference
Krzysztof Wódkiewicz and G. H. Herling
pp. 815-821 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Quantum information

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Multiparticle generalization of entanglement swapping
S. Bose, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight
pp. 822-829 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quantum-channel capacity of very noisy channels
David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, and John A. Smolin
pp. 830-839 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Bounds on decoherence and error
L. S. Schulman
pp. 840-844 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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K-shell excitation studied for H- and He-like bismuth ions in collisions with low-Z target atoms
Th. Stöhlker, D. C. Ionescu, P. Rymuza, F. Bosch, H. Geissel, C. Kozhuharov, T. Ludziejewski, P. H. Mokler, C. Scheidenberger, Z. Stachura, A. Warczak, and R. W. Dunford
pp. 845-854 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Relativistic density-functional theory with the optimized effective potential and self-interaction correction: Application to atomic structure calculations (Z=2–106)
Xiao-Min Tong and Shih-I Chu
pp. 855-863 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Assigning x-ray absorption spectra by means of soft-x-ray emission spectroscopy
K. Gunnelin, P. Glans, P. Skytt, J.-H. Guo, J. Nordgren, and H. Ågren
pp. 864-872 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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X-ray-absorption features from multielectron excitations above Xe L edges
Yoshiaki Ito, Aurel M. Vlaicu, Tatsunori Tochio, Takeshi Mukoyama, Masao Takahashi, Shuichi Emura, and Yoshiro Azuma
pp. 873-878 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nuclear magnetization distribution radii determined by hyperfine transitions in the 1s level of H-like ions 185Re74+ and 187Re74+
J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, P. Beiersdorfer, K. Widmann, B. B. Birkett, A.-M. Mårtensson-Pendrill, and M. G. H. Gustavsson
pp. 879-887 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Polarization-dependent spectra of x-ray dielectronic satellite lines of Be-like Fe
A. S. Shlyaptseva, R. C. Mancini, P. Neill, P. Beiersdorfer, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and K. Widmann
pp. 888-898 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Effect of exchange-correlation functionals and symmetry constraints of electronic structure on the trajectories of reactive molecular collisions
R. W. Warren and B. I. Dunlap
pp. 899-905 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Full three-body primitive semiclassical treatment of H2+
Karl Sohlberg, Robert E. Tuzun, Bobby G. Sumpter, and Donald W. Noid
pp. 906-913 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Electron affinity in density-functional theory in the local-spin-density approximation
Alessio Filippetti
pp. 914-919 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Ab initio Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of chemical properties and PT-odd effects in thallium fluoride
Harry M. Quiney, Jon K. Laerdahl, Knut Fægri, Jr., and, and Trond Saue
pp. 920-944 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Absolute wavelength measurement of the Lyman-α transitions of hydrogenic Mg11+
G. Hölzer, E. Förster, D. Klöpfel, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and K. Widmann
pp. 945-948 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Line shapes and decay dynamics of dissociative resonances above the second dissociation limit of molecular hydrogen
C. H. Cheng, J. T. Kim, E. E. Eyler, and N. Melikechi
pp. 949-957 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Associative ionization between two laser-excited sodium atoms: Theory compared to experiment
Boichanh Huynh, Olivier Dulieu, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
pp. 958-975 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Semiclassical treatment of electron-molecule scattering within the vibron model
M. S. Hussein and M. P. Pato
pp. 976-983 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Differential cross sections for target excitation and positronium formation in positron-helium scattering
Puspitapallab Chaudhuri and Sadhan K. Adhikari
pp. 984-989 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Multiple ionization of atoms and molecules in collisions with fast ions. II. Ion-molecule collisions
N. M. Kabachnik, V. N. Kondratyev, Z. Roller-Lutz, and H. O. Lutz
pp. 990-996 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Polarization effect on He doubly excited states below the N=2 threshold of He+
Jun Yan, Yi-Zhi Qu, Lan Voky, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 997-1005 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Resonant dissociative photoionization of H2 and D2
I. Sánchez and F. Martín
pp. 1006-1017 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Separable wave equation for three Coulomb interacting particles
F. D. Colavecchia, G. Gasaneo, and C. R. Garibotti
pp. 1018-1024 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Non-Franck-Condon electron-impact dissociative-excitation cross sections of molecular hydrogen producing H(1s)+H(2l) through X1Σg+(v=0)→{B1Σu+, B′1Σu+, C1Πu}
Itamar Borges, Jr., Ginette Jalbert, and Carlos Eduardo Bielschowsky
pp. 1025-1032 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Relativistic dielectronic recombination process: Electron and H-like ions
Yi-Zhi Qu, Jian-Guo Wang, Jian-Kui Yuan, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 1033-1037 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of positronium formation in positron-hydrogen collisions
D. R. Plante and M. S. Pindzola
pp. 1038-1044 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Inner-shell photoionization of ground-state lithium: Theoretical calculation in the photon energy region below 130 eV including 1snln′l′ Rydberg resonances series
L. Vo Ky, P. Faucher, A. Hibbert, J.-M. Li, Y.-Z. Qu, J. Yan, J. C. Chang, and F. Bely-Dubau
pp. 1045-1057 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Detailed experimental and theoretical study of collision-induced dissociation of Na2+ ions on He and H2 targets at keV energies
J. A. Fayeton, M. Barat, J. C. Brenot, H. Dunet, Y. J. Picard, U. Saalmann, and R. Schmidt
pp. 1058-1068 [View PDF (818 kB)]
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Electron scattering by CH4 molecules at intermediate energies (400–5000 eV)
G. García and F. Manero
pp. 1069-1073 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Photo-double-ionization of He: Fully differential and absolute electronic and ionic momentum distributions
R. Dörner, H. Bräuning, J. M. Feagin, V. Mergel, O. Jagutzki, L. Spielberger, T. Vogt, H. Khemliche, M. H. Prior, J. Ullrich, C. L. Cocke, and H. Schmidt-Böcking
pp. 1074-1090 [View PDF (1,887 kB)]
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Extension of the Temkin-Poet model to L>0 partial waves: The generalized exchange approximation
A. Temkin, J. Shertzer, and A. K. Bhatia
pp. 1091-1095 [View PDF (1,686 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Inelastic energy loss in low-energy Ne+ scattering from a Si surface
F. Xu, G. Manicò, F. Ascione, A. Bonanno, A. Oliva, and R. A. Baragiola
pp. 1096-1107 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Unified treatment of some Casimir energies and Lamb shifts: A dielectric between two ideal conductors
Martin Schaden, Larry Spruch, and Fei Zhou
pp. 1108-1120 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Resonant coherent excitation of surface channeled ions
K. Kimura and M. Mannami
pp. 1121-1125 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Auger and radiative filling rates of highly charged ions below metal surfaces
R. Díez Muiño, A. Salin, N. Stolterfoht, A. Arnau, and P. M. Echenique
pp. 1126-1135 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Magneto-optical trapping of Fermionic potassium atoms
F. S. Cataliotti, E. A. Cornell, C. Fort, M. Inguscio, F. Marin, M. Prevedelli, L. Ricci, and G. M. Tino
pp. 1136-1138 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Dynamical effects of the dipole-dipole interaction in three-dimensional optical lattices
A. M. Guzmán and P. Meystre
pp. 1139-1148 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Hydrogen atom in combined electric and magnetic fields with arbitrary mutual orientations
Jörg Main, Michael Schwacke, and Günter Wunner
pp. 1149-1157 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Coherent population transfer via a resonant intermediate state: The breakdown of adiabatic passage
Mark N. Kobrak and Stuart A. Rice
pp. 1158-1163 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Non-Hermitian multichannel theory of ultracold collisions modified by intense light fields tuned to the red of the trapping transition
R. Napolitano
pp. 1164-1175 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Electron-nuclear dynamics of multiphoton H2+ dissociative ionization in intense laser fields
S. Chelkowski, C. Foisy, and A. D. Bandrauk
pp. 1176-1185 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Wave-packet propagation in diamagnetic Rydberg atoms
W. Schweizer and W. Jans
pp. 1186-1190 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Matter waves

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Excited states of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic trap
Alexander L. Fetter and Daniel Rokhsar
pp. 1191-1201 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Effects of motional states of a trapped atom on its interaction with nonresonant light
Markus Cirone, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski, and Jan Mostowski
pp. 1202-1207 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Quantum superposition states of Bose-Einstein condensates
J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, K. Mølmer, and P. Zoller
pp. 1208-1218 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Nonreciprocal optical patterns due to symmetry breaking
Yu. A. Logvin
pp. 1219-1222 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in high-Q cavities
Elena V. Goldstein, Ewan M. Wright, and P. Meystre
pp. 1223-1229 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Microscopic treatment of binary interactions in the nonequilibrium dynamics of partially Bose-condensed trapped gases
N. P. Proukakis, K. Burnett, and H. T. C. Stoof
pp. 1230-1247 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Gravitational and collective effects in an output coupler for a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atomic trap
Weiping Zhang and D. F. Walls
pp. 1248-1252 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Fermi gas in a harmonic trap
J. Schneider and H. Wallis
pp. 1253-1259 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Classical underpinnings of gravitationally induced quantum interference
Philip D. Mannheim
pp. 1260-1264 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Low-lying excitations of double Bose-Einstein condensates
B. D. Esry and Chris H. Greene
pp. 1265-1271 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Hartree-Fock treatment of the two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
Patrik Öhberg and Stig Stenholm
pp. 1272-1279 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Excitations of a Bose-condensed gas in anisotropic traps
D. A. W. Hutchinson and E. Zaremba
pp. 1280-1285 [View PDF (981 kB)]
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Feedback control of laser intensity noise
Ben C. Buchler, Elanor H. Huntington, Charles C. Harb, and Timothy C. Ralph
pp. 1286-1294 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum trajectory simulations of the fluorescence intensity from a two-level atom driven by a multichromatic field
S. F. Chien, M. R. B. Wahiddin, and Z. Ficek
pp. 1295-1303 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Simple analytical approximations for the gain and refractive index spectra in quantum-well lasers
Salvador Balle
pp. 1304-1312 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Stability and dynamical properties of the coexisting attractors of an external-cavity semiconductor laser
C. Masoller and N. B. Abraham
pp. 1313-1322 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Experimental observation of a coherently induced transparency on a blue probe in a Doppler-broadened mismatched V-type system
J. R. Boon, E. Zekou, D. J. Fulton, and M. H. Dunn
pp. 1323-1328 [View PDF (739 kB)]
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Time-resolved quantum measurements using active detectors
Ole Steuernagel and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 1329-1332 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Collapse and revival of ultracold atoms in a microwave cavity and of photons in parametric down-conversion
Karl-Peter Marzlin and Jürgen Audretsch
pp. 1333-1337 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced grating: Homogeneously broadened medium
Hong Yuan Ling, Yong-Qing Li, and Min Xiao
pp. 1338-1344 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Classical versus quantum harmonic-generation spectrum of a driven anharmonic oscillator in the high-frequency regime
Vitali Averbukh and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 1345-1354 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Autler-Townes effect with mono- and bichromatic pump fields: Reservoir effects and Floquet-state treatment
M. Jakob and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
pp. 1355-1366 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Control of quantized photon states with external dc bias in semiconductor superlattices
Tsuyoshi Fukuo, Tetsuo Ogawa, and Katsuhiro Nakamura
pp. 1367-1370 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Quantum-state reconstruction in the one-atom maser
C. T. Bodendorf, G. Antesberger, M. S. Kim, and H. Walther
pp. 1371-1378 [View PDF (2,593 kB)]
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Quantum radiation in a plane cavity with moving mirrors
D. F. Mundarain and P. A. Maia Neto
pp. 1379-1390 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of an ultrashort-pulse coherent x-ray source at 45 Å
S. J. Moon and D. C. Eder
pp. 1391-1394 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Designs for a compact Ni-like-tungsten x-ray laser
Chris D. Decker and Richard A. London
pp. 1395-1399 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of a single impurity molecule from the viewpoint of continuous measurement theory
S. Ya. Kilin, T. M. Maevskaya, A. P. Nizovtsev, V. N. Shatokhin, P. R. Berman, C. von Borczyskowski, J. Wrachtrup, and L. Fleury
pp. 1400-1411 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Exponential gain in resonant four-wave mixing via dressed inversions
C. H. Keitel
pp. 1412-1416 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Coherent Raman scattering with incoherent light for a multiply resonant mixture: Theory
Jason C. Kirkwood, Darin J. Ulness, Michael J. Stimson, and A. C. Albrecht
pp. 1417-1426 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Precision measurement of phase-dependent resonance fluorescence spectra
H. Z. Zhao, Z. H. Lu, A. M. Bacon, L. J. Wang, and J. E. Thomas
pp. 1427-1447 [View PDF (397 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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He0+N2 collisions at 1.0 keV
E. J. Quintana and E. Pollack
pp. 1448-1450 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum phase distribution of thermal phase-squeezed states
Ziad H. Musslimani and Y. Ben-Aryeh
pp. 1451-1453 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Spatial-localized structures in degenerate optical parametric oscillators
K. Staliunas and Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo
pp. 1454-1457 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Photon correlations in the spectrum of a superradiant system in a strong cavity field
H. M. Castro-Beltran, S. M. Chumakov, and J. J. Sanchez-Mondragon
pp. 1458-1461 [View PDF (88 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Corrections to O(α7(lnα)mc2) fine-structure splittings and O(α6(lnα)mc2) energy levels in helium”
I. B. Khriplovich, A. I. Milstein, and A. S. Yelkhovsky
pp. 1462-1463 [View PDF (82 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Bose-Einstein condensation in a trap: The case of a dense condensate [Phys. Rev. A 56, 1438 (1997)]
Klaus Ziegler and Alok Shukla
pp. 1464 [View PDF (30 kB)]
 
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