Physical Review A – April 1998
(Volume 57, Issue 4)

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Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Structure of nonlinear gauge transformations
Marek Czachor
pp. R2263-R2266 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection P-wave autodissociating resonant states of positronium hydride
Zong-Chao Yan and Y. K. Ho
pp. R2270-R2273 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Quantum adiabatic particle transport in optical lattices
Jing-Tzyh Alan Chiang and Qian Niu
pp. R2278-R2280 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Roll-hexagon transition in an active optical system
S. Longhi and A. Geraci
pp. R2281-R2284 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Generation and propagation of attosecond x-ray pulses in gaseous media
Ivan P. Christov, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn
pp. R2285-R2288 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Spectral distinguishability in ultrafast parametric down-conversion
W. P. Grice, R. Erdmann, I. A. Walmsley, and D. Branning
pp. R2289-R2292 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Cavity QED with high-Q whispering gallery modes
D. W. Vernooy, A. Furusawa, N. Ph. Georgiades, V. S. Ilchenko, and H. J. Kimble
pp. R2293-R2296 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Trembling cavities in the canonical approach
Ralf Schützhold, Günter Plunien, and Gerhard Soff
pp. 2311-2318 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Inferring the density matrix for a system of an unknown Hamiltonian
A. Rigo, M. Casas, and A. Plastino
pp. 2319-2324 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-energy photon splitting on heavy atoms
R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, and V. M. Strakhovenko
pp. 2325-2338 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Optimal universal and state-dependent quantum cloning
Dagmar Bruß, David P. DiVincenzo, Artur Ekert, Christopher A. Fuchs, Chiara Macchiavello, and John A. Smolin
pp. 2368-2378 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Free-space quantum-key distribution
W. T. Buttler, R. J. Hughes, P. G. Kwiat, G. G. Luther, G. L. Morgan, J. E. Nordholt, C. G. Peterson, and C. M. Simmons
pp. 2379-2382 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Security of quantum cryptography against individual attacks
Boris A. Slutsky, Ramesh Rao, Pang-Chen Sun, and Y. Fainman
pp. 2383-2398 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Prevention of dissipation with two particles
Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 2399-2402 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analog analogue of a digital quantum computation
Edward Farhi and Sam Gutmann
pp. 2403-2406 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Assessing optimality and robustness of control over quantum dynamics
Metin Demiralp and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 2420-2425 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mg 3snf-3sng-3snh-3sni intervals and the Mg+ dipole polarizability
B. J. Lyons and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 2426-2429 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sulfur Kβ x-ray emission from carbonyl sulfide: Variations with polarization and excitation energy at the SK threshold
K. E. Miyano, U. Arp, S. H. Southworth, Timothy E. Meehan, Tiffany R. Walsh, and Frank P. Larkins
pp. 2430-2435 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lifetime measurements of the 7p levels of atomic francium
J. E. Simsarian, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, and W. Z. Zhao
pp. 2448-2458 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Evidence of physical reality in the Kohn-Sham potential: The case of atomic Ne
A. I. Al-Sharif, R. Resta, and C. J. Umrigar
pp. 2466-2469 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Precision measurements and calculations in the B II spectrum: Wavelengths, isotope shifts, and oscillator strengths
Ulf Litzén, Torgil Zethson, Per Jönsson, Jörg Kasten, Rainer Kling, and Françoise Launay
pp. 2477-2484 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Muon transfer rates from hydrogen to 3He and 4He measured at low temperature
S. Tresch, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, F. Mulhauser, C. Piller, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, Y.-A. Thalmann, A. Werthmüller, P. Ackerbauer, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, B. Gartner, R. King, B. Lauss, J. Marton, W. Prymas, J. Zmeskal, C. Petitjean, D. Chatellard, J.-P. Egger, E. Jeannet, F. J. Hartmann, and M. Mühlbauer
pp. 2496-2501 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metastable 4Fo state of Sr- bound by core polarization
Hugo W. van der Hart
pp. 2502-2506 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 19F+ atom in its ground 3P state: The J=0←1 fine-structure interval
John M. Brown, Lyndon R. Zink, and Kenneth M. Evenson
pp. 2507-2510 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Doppler effects in resonant x-ray Raman scattering
Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, and Paweł Sałek
pp. 2511-2526 [View PDF (345 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nuclear electric quadrupole moment of 6Li
J. Cederberg, D. Olson, J. Larson, G. Rakness, K. Jarausch, J. Schmidt, B. Borovsky, P. Larson, and B. Nelson
pp. 2539-2543 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bound excited states of H- and He- in the statically screened Coulomb potential
Jose M. Mercero, Joseph E. Fowler, Cecilia Sarasola, and Jesus M. Ugalde
pp. 2550-2555 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Density-functional-theory response-property calculations with accurate exchange-correlation potentials
S. J. van Gisbergen, F. Kootstra, P. R. Schipper, O. V. Gritsenko, J. G. Snijders, and E. J. Baerends
pp. 2556-2571 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Numerical study of positron-hydrogen scattering
J. M. Larkin, J. H. Eberly, D. G. Lappas, and R. Grobe
pp. 2572-2577 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Intermediate- to high-energy positrons scattered by alkali-metal atoms
David D. Reid and J. M. Wadehra
pp. 2583-2589 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlocal theory of dissociative electron attachment to H2 and HF molecules
G. A. Gallup, Y. Xu, and I. I. Fabrikant
pp. 2596-2607 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Neutral dissociation of hydrogen following photoexcitation of HCl at the chlorine K edge
D. L. Hansen, M. E. Arrasate, J. Cotter, G. R. Fisher, K. T. Leung, J. C. Levin, R. Martin, P. Neill, R. C. Perera, I. A. Sellin, M. Simon, Y. Uehara, B. Vanderford, S. B. Whitfield, and D. W. Lindle
pp. 2608-2611 [View PDF (489 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Solution of the Holstein equation of radiation trapping in one-dimensional geometries by the geometric quantization technique
N. N. Bezuglov, A. F. Molisch, A. N. Klucharev, F. Fuso, and M. Allegrini
pp. 2612-2624 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron nuclear dynamics of charge-transfer collisions of protons with atomic oxygen
Magnus Hedström, Erik Deumens, and Yngve Öhrn
pp. 2625-2628 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Many-body calculations of the static atom-wall interaction potential for alkali-metal atoms
A. Derevianko, W. R. Johnson, and Stephan Fritzsche
pp. 2629-2634 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collision-induced depolarized Raman scattering from dense mercury vapor
A. Bonechi, F. Barocchi, M. Moraldi, C. Bierman, R. Winter, and Lothar Frommhold
pp. 2635-2639 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Semiclassical theory of nonadiabatic transitions in a two-state exponential model
Vladimir I. Osherov, Vladimir G. Ushakov, and Hiroki Nakamura
pp. 2672-2682 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Triply differential cross section for Compton scattering
Z. Kaliman, T. Surić, K. Pisk, and R. H. Pratt
pp. 2683-2691 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Target ionization and projectile charge changing in 0.5–8-MeV/q Liq++He  (q=1,2,3) collisions
O. Woitke, P. A. Závodszky, S. M. Ferguson, J. H. Houck, and J. A. Tanis
pp. 2692-2700 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single electron capture from molecular hydrogen targets by impact of protons and α particles
H. F. Busnengo, S. E. Corchs, and R. D. Rivarola
pp. 2701-2707 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical calculations of dielectronic recombination in crossed electric and magnetic fields
D. C. Griffin, F. Robicheaux, and M. S. Pindzola
pp. 2708-2717 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Triple differential cross-section measurements for Kr(3d) electron-impact ionization
Steven J. Cavanagh and Birgit Lohmann
pp. 2718-2723 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Angular distribution of electronic decay following molecular and Rydberg excitations at the Cl 2p edge of HCl
A. Kivimäki, E. Kukk, J. Karvonen, J. Mursu, E. Nõmmiste, H. Aksela, and S. Aksela
pp. 2724-2730 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Measurements of absolute electron-emission spectra from grazing-incidence ion-surface collisions
R. Minniti, S. B. Elston, C. O. Reinhold, J. Y. Lim, and J. Burgdörfer
pp. 2731-2736 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge-state dependence of energy loss in random solids
B. Rosner, S. Datz, W. Wu, N. L. Jones, D. R. Schultz, and C. O. Reinhold
pp. 2737-2741 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental evidence for a discrete transition to channeling for 1.0-MeV protons in Si〈100〉
Z. Y. Zhao, A. M. Arrale, S. L. Li, D. K. Marble, D. L. Weathers, S. Matteson, J. M. Anthony, B. Gnade, and F. D. McDaniel
pp. 2742-2745 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Feasibility of observing two-electron interference
Tetsuji Kodama, Nobuyuki Osakabe, Junji Endo, Akira Tonomura, Kohji Ohbayashi, Tsuneyuki Urakami, Shinji Ohsuka, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Yutaka Tsuchiya, and Yoshiki Uchikawa
pp. 2781-2785 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Time-resolved photofragmentation of stored silver clusters Agn+ (n=8–21)
U. Hild, G. Dietrich, S. Krückeberg, M. Lindinger, K. Lützenkirchen, L. Schweikhard, C. Walther, and J. Ziegler
pp. 2786-2793 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Optical deflection of molecules
Hirofumi Sakai, A. Tarasevitch, J. Danilov, H. Stapelfeldt, R. W. Yip, C. Ellert, E. Constant, and P. B. Corkum
pp. 2794-2801 [View PDF (1093 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sensitive detection of sodium in a flame using parametric four-wave mixing and seeded parametric four-wave mixing
Mark J. Fernée, Peter F. Barker, Alan E. Knight, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
pp. 2802-2813 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection X-ray photoionization in the presence of a bichromatic laser field
D. B. Milošević and F. Ehlotzky
pp. 2859-2866 [View PDF (1102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Tuning the hydrogen atom in crossed fields between the Zeeman and Stark limits
D. A. Sadovskií and B. I. Z̑hilinskií
pp. 2867-2884 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of the π-periodic motion of two ions in a Paul trap
Marijan Koštrun, Winthrop W. Smith, and Juha Javanainen
pp. 2895-2904 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic spin polarization by Raman cooling
H. J. Lee and S. Chu
pp. 2905-2908 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser cooling of trapped atoms to the ground state: A dark state in position space
G. Morigi, J. I. Cirac, K. Ellinger, and P. Zoller
pp. 2909-2914 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Controlling ionization products through laser-induced continuum structure
S. Cavalieri, R. Eramo, L. Fini, M. Materazzi, O. Faucher, and D. Charalambidis
pp. 2915-2919 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Raman scattering from a Bose condensate
Jesús Martínez-Linares and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 2931-2937 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Soliton generation in the nonlinear interaction of two waves
Alexander A. Zabolotskii
pp. 2958-2970 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Beam modes beyond the paraxial approximation: A scalar treatment
C. J. Sheppard and S. Saghafi
pp. 2971-2979 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-nondemolition measurements using cold trapped atoms: Comparison between theory and experiment
A. Sinatra, J. F. Roch, K. Vigneron, Ph. Grelu, J.-Ph. Poizat, Kaige Wang, and P. Grangier
pp. 2980-2995 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Polarization of the 61st harmonic from 1053-nm laser radiation in neon
D. Schulze, M. Dörr, G. Sommerer, J. Ludwig, P. V. Nickles, T. Schlegel, W. Sandner, M. Drescher, U. Kleineberg, and U. Heinzmann
pp. 3003-3007 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Acoustical and optical branches in the spectral waves of a laser
Christophe Szwaj, Serge Bielawski, and Dominique Derozier
pp. 3022-3027 [View PDF (546 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear phase shift as a result of cascaded third-order processes
S. Saltiel, K. Koynov, P. Tzankov, A. Boardman, and S. Tanev
pp. 3028-3035 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of excess quantum noise in a geometrically stable laser
Å. M. Lindberg, M. A. van Eijkelenborg, K. Joosten, G. Nienhuis, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 3036-3039 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]