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Physical Review A – March 1998
Volume 57, Issue 3

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Fundamental concepts

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From Feynman histories to observables
D. Sokolovski
pp. R1469-R1472 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Microscopic analogs of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger experiment
Seth Lloyd
pp. R1473-R1476 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Quantum information

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Optical simulation of quantum logic
N. J. Cerf, C. Adami, and P. G. Kwiat
pp. R1477-R1480 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Finite-size scaling approach for the Schrödinger equation
Pablo Serra, Juan Pablo Neirotti, and Sabre Kais
pp. R1481-R1484 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Angle-resolved two-dimensional mapping of electron emission following Cl 2p excitations in the HCl molecule
E. Kukk, A. Wills, N. Berrah, B. Langer, J. D. Bozek, O. Nayadin, M. Alsherhi, A. Farhat, and D. Cubaynes
pp. R1485-R1488 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Double photoionization of helium from threshold to high energies
Yanghui Qiu, Jian-Zhi Tang, Joachim Burgdörfer, and Jianyi Wang
pp. R1489-R1492 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Threshold photodetachment of Al-: Electron affinity and fine structure
Michael Scheer, René C. Bilodeau, Jan Thøgersen, and Harold K. Haugen
pp. R1493-R1496 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Elastic and inelastic collisions of 6Li atoms in magnetic and optical traps
M. Houbiers, H. T. C. Stoof, W. I. McAlexander, and R. G. Hulet
pp. R1497-R1500 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Direct observation of atomic localization in optical superlattices
L. Guidoni and P. Verkerk
pp. R1501-R1504 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Matter waves

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Multiply connected Bose-Einstein-condensed alkali-metal gases: Current-carrying states and their decay
Erich J. Mueller, Paul M. Goldbart, and Yuli Lyanda-Geller
pp. R1505-R1508 [View PDF (353 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Continuous and pulsed observations in the quantum Zeno effect
L. S. Schulman
pp. 1509-1515 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Dispersion relation for the ground-state energy of a two-electron atom
I. A. Ivanov and J. Dubau
pp. 1516-1518 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Position-momentum entropic uncertainty relation and complementarity in single-slit and double-slit experiments
Jorge Sánchez-Ruiz
pp. 1519-1525 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Wigner phase-space distribution function for the hydrogen atom
S. Nouri
pp. 1526-1528 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Interference in hyperbolic space
S. Chaturvedi, G. J. Milburn, and Zhongxi Zhang
pp. 1529-1535 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Uniform semiclassical expansions for the direct part of Franck-Condon transitions
Bruno Hüpper and Bruno Eckhardt
pp. 1536-1547 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Fourth-order self-energy contribution to the Lamb shift
S. Mallampalli and J. Sapirstein
pp. 1548-1564 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Quantum stochastic motion in complex space
M. S. Wang
pp. 1565-1571 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Consistency, amplitudes, and probabilities in quantum theory
Ariel Caticha
pp. 1572-1582 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Strict bounds on the Franson inequality
Lev Vaidman and Ori Belkind
pp. 1583-1585 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Renormalization-group method for simple operator problems in quantum mechanics
I. L. Egusquiza and M. A. Valle Basagoiti
pp. 1586-1589 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Radiative level shifts of an accelerated hydrogen atom and the Unruh effect in quantum electrodynamics
R. Passante
pp. 1590-1594 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Limits of the measurability of the local quantum electromagnetic-field amplitude
G. Compagno and F. Persico
pp. 1595-1603 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Choice of consistent family, and quantum incompatibility
Robert B. Griffiths
pp. 1604-1618 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Quantum information

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Entanglement measures and purification procedures
V. Vedral and M. B. Plenio
pp. 1619-1633 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Using a quantum computer to investigate quantum chaos
Rüdiger Schack
pp. 1634-1635 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Resonant formation of ddμ mesomolecules at low D2 gas density
Yu. V. Petrov, V. V. Kuzminov, V. Yu. Petrov, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, J. Marton, and J. Zmeskal
pp. 1636-1645 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Valence and excited states of LiH-
Gennady L. Gutsev, Marcel Nooijen, and Rodney J. Bartlett
pp. 1646-1651 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Energies and oscillator strengths for lithiumlike ions
Zong-Chao Yan, M. Tambasco, and G. W. F. Drake
pp. 1652-1661 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Hyperfine structure of antiprotonic helium energy levels
D. Bakalov and V. I. Korobov
pp. 1662-1667 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Two-stage Rydberg charge exchange: An efficient method for production of antihydrogen
E. A. Hessels, D. M. Homan, and M. J. Cavagnero
pp. 1668-1671 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Kohn-Sham equations for multiplets
Á. Nagy
pp. 1672-1677 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Stability and positron annihilation of positronium hydride L=0,1,2 states: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Dario Bressanini, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi
pp. 1678-1685 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Evolution of the Cu Kα3,4 satellites from threshold to saturation
M. Fritsch, C. C. Kao, K. Hämäläinen, O. Gang, E. Förster, and M. Deutsch
pp. 1686-1697 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Laser spectroscopic studies of state-dependent collisional quenching of the lifetimes of metastable antiprotonic helium atoms
M. Hori, H. A. Torii, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, F. E. Maas, H. Tamura, B. Ketzer, F. J. Hartmann, R. Pohl, C. Maierl, M. Hasinoff, T. von Egidy, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, I. Sugai, D. Horváth, E. Widmann, J. Eades, and T. Yamazaki
pp. 1698-1712 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Muon transfer from excited states of hydrogen and deuterium to nitrogen, neon, and argon
Y.-A. Thalmann, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, S. Tresch, and A. Werthmüller
pp. 1713-1720 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Benchmark calculations for lanthanide atoms: Calibration of ab initio and density-functional methods
Wenjian Liu and Michael Dolg
pp. 1721-1728 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Kohn-Sham potentials and exchange and correlation energy densities from one- and two-electron density matrices for Li2, N2, and F2
P. R. T. Schipper, O. V. Gritsenko, and E. J. Baerends
pp. 1729-1742 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Electron affinities, magnetic dipole decay rates, and hyperfine structure for the excited states of 5p3 Sn-
Steven M. O’Malley and Donald R. Beck
pp. 1743-1746 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Radiative transition processes between initial and final channels
Cheng Zhu, Jian-Guo Wang, Yi-Zhi Qu, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 1747-1752 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Some two-electron properties of sodium
Charlotte Froese Fischer, Per Jönsson, and Michel Godefroid
pp. 1753-1758 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Electron-pair relative-motion densities of atoms in position and momentum spaces
Hisashi Matsuyama, Toshikatsu Koga, E. Romera, and Jesus S. Dehesa
pp. 1759-1766 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Hydrogen molecule in a magnetic field: The lowest states of the Π manifold and the global ground state of the parallel configuration
T. Detmer, P. Schmelcher, and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 1767-1777 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Cross-section measurement for the energy pooling collisions: Cd(5p3P1)+Cd(5p3P1)→Cd(5d3DJ)+Cd(5s1S0)
S. Barsotti, F. Fuso, A. F. Molisch, and M. Allegrini
pp. 1778-1786 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Polarization of Lyman-α radiation from atomic hydrogen excited by electron impact from near threshold to 1800 eV
G. K. James, J. A. Slevin, D. Dziczek, J. W. McConkey, and Igor Bray
pp. 1787-1797 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Elastic collisions of low- to intermediate-energy electrons from carbon dioxide: Experimental and theoretical differential cross sections
H. Tanaka, T. Ishikawa, T. Masai, T. Sagara, L. Boesten, M. Takekawa, Y. Itikawa, and M. Kimura
pp. 1798-1808 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Illustration of the role of saddle-point and molecular-type ionization mechanisms in atomic collisions
Clara Illescas, I. Rabadán, and A. Riera
pp. 1809-1820 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Long-range diagonal adiabatic corrections for the ground molecular state of alkali-metal dimers
M. Marinescu and A. Dalgarno
pp. 1821-1826 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Observation of exchange-scattering effects in cadmium (e,2e) energy spectra
N. L. S. Martin, R. P. Bauman, and M. Wilson
pp. 1827-1831 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Measurements of the electron-impact differential cross sections and generalized oscillator strengths for excitation of the 21S and 31S states in helium at small scattering angles
T. Y. Suzuki, H. Suzuki, F. J. Currell, S. Ohtani, Y. Sakai, T. Takayanagi, and K. Wakiya
pp. 1832-1848 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Light-fronts approach to electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
B. Segev and J. C. Wells
pp. 1849-1861 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Multichannel effective-range theory with long-range interactions
Leonard Rosenberg
pp. 1862-1869 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Lifshitz theory of Casimir forces at finite temperature
B. W. Ninham and J. Daicic
pp. 1870-1880 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Parametrization of a spin-polarized (e,2e) experiment
S. Mazevet, I. E. McCarthy, and E. Weigold
pp. 1881-1891 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Low-energy electron capture by B4+ ions from hydrogen atoms
Marc Pieksma and C. C. Havener
pp. 1892-1894 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Gaussian-type-orbital basis sets for the calculation of continuum properties in molecules: The differential photoionization cross section of molecular nitrogen
Ivo Cacelli, Roberto Moccia, and Antonio Rizzo
pp. 1895-1905 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Double photoionization of helium
J. A. R. Samson, W. C. Stolte, Z.-X. He, J. N. Cutler, Y. Lu, and R. J. Bartlett
pp. 1906-1911 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Near-threshold structures in inner-shell photoabsorption processes of CH4, NH3, H2O, and HF
An-Fu Niu, Yi Zhang, Wei-Hua Zhang, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 1912-1919 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Ionization of excited hydrogen atoms interacting with a metal surface under the influence of an external electric field
P. Kürpick, U. Thumm, and U. Wille
pp. 1920-1924 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Interactions of Ar9+ and metastable Ar8+ with a Si(100) surface at velocities near the image acceleration limit
J. Ducrée, J. Mrogenda, E. Reckels, M. Rüther, A. Heinen, Ch. Vitt, M. Venier, J. Leuker, H. J. Andrä, and R. Díez Muiño
pp. 1925-1937 [View PDF (525 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Electron emission from strongly excited metal clusters
C. A. Ullrich, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
pp. 1938-1943 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Ion dynamics in perturbed quadrupole ion traps
G. Zs. K. Horvath, J.-L. Hernandez-Pozos, K. Dholakia, J. Rink, D. M. Segal, and R. C. Thompson
pp. 1944-1956 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Evanescent light-wave atomic funnel: A tandem hollow-fiber, hollow-beam approach
Jianping Yin, Yifu Zhu, and Yuzhu Wang
pp. 1957-1966 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Effects of atomic orientation on atom-dimer equilibria in alkali-metal vapors
R. J. Hoobler and R. A. Bernheim
pp. 1967-1971 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Quantum-state control in optical lattices
Ivan H. Deutsch and Poul S. Jessen
pp. 1972-1986 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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100-photon microwave ionization of Rydberg atoms in a static electric field
Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, and Dima L. Shepelyansky
pp. 1987-1991 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Classical and quantum dynamics of chirped pulse dissociation of diatomic molecules
Jian-Min Yuan and Wing-Ki Liu
pp. 1992-2001 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Analytic expressions for Autler-Townes transitions in the presence of a linearly polarized pump field
John P. D. Martin
pp. 2002-2013 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Effects of spontaneous emission on nondispersing wave packets in two-electron atoms
Birgit S. Mecking and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 2014-2020 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Matter waves

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Atomic versus molecular diffraction: Influence of breakups and finite size
Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Thorsten Köhler
pp. 2021-2029 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Achieving steady-state Bose-Einstein condensation
J. Williams, R. Walser, C. Wieman, J. Cooper, and M. Holland
pp. 2030-2036 [View PDF (849 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Nonlinear optical Kerr coefficients of disordered media
R. E. de Araujo and A. S. L. Gomes
pp. 2037-2040 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Lasing threshold and mode competition in chaotic cavities
T. Sh. Misirpashaev and C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 2041-2045 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Stochastic model of nonclassical light emission from a microcavity
Seiji Miyashita, Hiromi Ezaki, and Eiichi Hanamura
pp. 2046-2055 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Transverse effects in the laser threshold due to electronic-vibrational coupling
Oscar G. Calderón and Isabel Gonzalo
pp. 2056-2065 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Direct measurement of the quantum state of radiation field from the resonance fluorescence spectrum
M. Suhail Zubairy
pp. 2066-2071 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Squeezing-induced complete transparency in two-level systems
M. R. B. Wahiddin, Z. Ficek, Uzma Akram, K. T. Lim, and M. R. Muhamad
pp. 2072-2075 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Theory of the three-photon entangled state
Timothy E. Keller, Morton H. Rubin, Yanhua Shih, and Ling-An Wu
pp. 2076-2079 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Physical insight into the polarization dynamics of semiconductor vertical-cavity lasers
M. P. van Exter, R. F. M. Hendriks, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 2080-2090 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence in a bichromatic field as a source of nonclassical light
G. Yu. Kryuchkyan, M. Jakob, and A. S. Sargsian
pp. 2091-2095 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Preparation of arbitrary entangled quantum states of a trapped ion
B. Kneer and C. K. Law
pp. 2096-2104 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Control of quantized photon states with cascade phase conjugators by modulation pumping
Tsuyoshi Fukuo and Tetsuo Ogawa
pp. 2105-2112 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Renormalization-group approach to the dynamical Casimir effect
Diego A. R. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
pp. 2113-2119 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Enhanced second-harmonic generation in media with a weak periodicity
J. W. Haus, R. Viswanathan, M. Scalora, A. G. Kalocsai, J. D. Cole, and J. Theimer
pp. 2120-2128 [View PDF (5,613 kB)]
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Number-phase uncertainty relations: Verification by balanced homodyne measurement
T. Opatrný, M. Dakna, and D.-G. Welsch
pp. 2129-2133 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Quantum optics of lossy beam splitters
Stephen M. Barnett, John Jeffers, Alessandra Gatti, and Rodney Loudon
pp. 2134-2145 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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One-probe reconstruction of a quantum state
D. Mogilevtsev
pp. 2146-2149 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium spatiotemporal dynamics of the Wigner distributions in broad-area semiconductor lasers
E. Gehrig and O. Hess
pp. 2150-2162 [View PDF (1,911 kB)]
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Lasing without inversion in three-level systems: Self-pulsing in the cascade schemes
J. Mompart, C. Peters, and R. Corbalán
pp. 2163-2168 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Adaptive single-shot phase measurements: The full quantum theory
H. M. Wiseman and R. B. Killip
pp. 2169-2185 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Dynamics of a cw multimode dye laser
J. Sierks, T. J. Latz, V. M. Baev, and P. E. Toschek
pp. 2186-2203 [View PDF (2,031 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Physical meaning of the photon wave function
Toshio Inagaki
pp. 2204-2207 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Quantum information

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Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-state analyzer
Jian-wei Pan and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 2208-2211 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules
Rodolfo H. Romero and Gustavo A. Aucar
pp. 2212-2215 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Resonance structure in the Li(4s)+e-(εp) partial photodetachment cross section
Gunnar Haeffler, Igor Yu. Kiyan, Dag Hanstorp, and David J. Pegg
pp. 2216-2218 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Classical dynamics of H2+ interacting with an ultrashort intense laser pulse
Weixing Qu, Suxing Hu, and Zhizhan Xu
pp. 2219-2222 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Theory with correlations for ionization in ion-atom collisions
P. A. Macri, J. E. Miraglia, M. S. Grabielle, F. D. Colavecchia, C. R. Garibotti, and G. Gasaneo
pp. 2223-2226 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Evolution of the electronic orbital alignment in metal-atom–rare-gas fractional collisions
T. H. Wong and P. D. Kleiber
pp. 2227-2230 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Effects of alignment on strontium energy pooling collisions
J. A. Neuman and A. Gallagher
pp. 2231-2234 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Electric-field effects on the 1Po shape resonance above the H(N=2) threshold of H-
Y. K. Ho
pp. 2235-2238 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a hydrogen atom in a radiation field through electron self-interference
Maciej Kalinski
pp. 2239-2242 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Near-threshold photoionization by pulses with modulated frequency
A. Raczyński and J. Zaremba
pp. 2243-2246 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Cavity-QED state reduction method to produce atomic Schrödinger-cat states
Christopher C. Gerry and Rainer Grobe
pp. 2247-2250 [View PDF (108 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Validity of the Aharonov-Bergmann-Lebowitz rule
Lev Vaidman
pp. 2251-2253 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Reply to “Validity of the Aharonov Bergmann-Lebowitz rule”
Oliver Cohen
pp. 2254-2255 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Finite-element calculations of the antiprotonic helium atom including relativistic and QED corrections [Phys. Rev. A 56, 1855 (1997)]
Nils Elander and Evgeny Yarevsky
pp. 2256 [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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