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  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
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  • 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
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Uncoupling correlated calculations in atomic physics: Very high accuracy and ease S. P. Goldman pp. R677-R680 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Microscopic lens effect in photoelectron imaging spectroscopy C. Bordas and J. C. Pinaré pp. R681-R684 [View PDF (2901 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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 (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Intensity-resolved multiphoton ionization: Circumventing spatial averaging M. A. Walker, P. Hansch, and L. D. Van Woerkom pp. R701-R704 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase operator for two-state systems A. Müller pp. 731-736 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probability distribution of arrival times in quantum mechanics V. Delgado pp. 762-770 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (5822 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anti-Zeno effect in parametric down-conversion A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto pp. 781-787 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level-density fluctuations at the bottom of a potential M. Brack, S. C. Creagh, and J. Law pp. 788-797 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum dissipation and decay in a medium I. Joichi, Sh. Matsumoto, and M. Yoshimura pp. 798-805 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Divergence property of Fourier and Ritz expansions Marco A. Núñez and Eduardo Piña pp. 806-814 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical and nonclassical interference Krzysztof Wódkiewicz and G. H. Herling pp. 815-821 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Multiparticle generalization of entanglement swapping S. Bose, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight pp. 822-829 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-channel capacity of very noisy channels David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, and John A. Smolin pp. 830-839 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bounds on decoherence and error L. S. Schulman pp. 840-844 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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. Gustavsson pp. 879-887 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron affinity in density-functional theory in the local-spin-density approximation Alessio Filippetti pp. 914-919 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of chemical properties and PT-odd effects in thallium fluoride Harry M. Quiney, Jon K. Laerdahl, Knut Fægri, and Trond Saue pp. 920-944 [View PDF (385 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical treatment of electron-molecule scattering within the vibron model M. S. Hussein and M. P. Pato pp. 976-983 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant dissociative photoionization of H2 and D2 I. Sánchez and F. Martín pp. 1006-1017 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Separable wave equation for three Coulomb interacting particles F. D. Colavecchia, G. Gasaneo, and C. R. Garibotti pp. 1018-1024 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Franck-Condon electron-impact dissociative-excitation cross sections of molecular hydrogen producing H(1s)+H(2l) through X 1Σg+(v=0)→{B 1Σu+, B′ 1Σu+, C 1Πu} Itamar Borges, Ginette Jalbert, and Carlos Eduardo Bielschowsky pp. 1025-1032 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of positronium formation in positron-hydrogen collisions D. R. Plante and M. S. Pindzola pp. 1038-1044 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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 (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron scattering by CH4 molecules at intermediate energies (400–5000 eV) G. García and F. Manero pp. 1069-1073 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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 (1888 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (1687 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant coherent excitation of surface channeled ions K. Kimura and M. Mannami pp. 1121-1125 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave-packet propagation in diamagnetic Rydberg atoms W. Schweizer and W. Jans pp. 1186-1190 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum superposition states of Bose-Einstein condensates J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, K. Mølmer, and P. Zoller pp. 1208-1218 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonreciprocal optical patterns due to symmetry breaking Yu. A. Logvin pp. 1219-1222 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in high-Q cavities Elena V. Goldstein, Ewan M. Wright, and P. Meystre pp. 1223-1229 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic treatment of binary interactions in the nonequilibrium dynamics of partially Bose-condensed trapped gases N. P. Proukakis, K. Burnett, and H. T. Stoof pp. 1230-1247 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (370 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesoscopic Fermi gas in a harmonic trap J. Schneider and H. Wallis pp. 1253-1259 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical underpinnings of gravitationally induced quantum interference Philip D. Mannheim pp. 1260-1264 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying excitations of double Bose-Einstein condensates B. D. Esry and Chris H. Greene pp. 1265-1271 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hartree-Fock treatment of the two-component Bose-Einstein condensate Patrik Öhberg and Stig Stenholm pp. 1272-1279 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitations of a Bose-condensed gas in anisotropic traps D. A. Hutchinson and E. Zaremba pp. 1280-1285 [View PDF (981 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Quantum trajectory simulations of the fluorescence intensity from a two-level atom driven by a multichromatic field S. F. Chien, M. R. Wahiddin, and Z. Ficek pp. 1295-1303 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple analytical approximations for the gain and refractive index spectra in quantum-well lasers Salvador Balle pp. 1304-1312 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (740 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-resolved quantum measurements using active detectors Ole Steuernagel and Herschel Rabitz pp. 1329-1332 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetically induced grating: Homogeneously broadened medium Hong Yuan Ling, Yong-Qing Li, and Min Xiao pp. 1338-1344 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-state reconstruction in the one-atom maser C. T. Bodendorf, G. Antesberger, M. S. Kim, and H. Walther pp. 1371-1378 [View PDF (2593 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum radiation in a plane cavity with moving mirrors D. F. Mundarain and P. A. Maia Neto pp. 1379-1390 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Designs for a compact Ni-like-tungsten x-ray laser Chris D. Decker and Richard A. London pp. 1395-1399 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exponential gain in resonant four-wave mixing via dressed inversions C. H. Keitel pp. 1412-1416 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (542 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	He0+N2 collisions at 1.0 keV E. J. Quintana and E. Pollack pp. 1448-1450 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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