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Fundamental concepts

Necessary and sufficient detector-efficiency conditions for the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox Jan-Åke Larsson pp. R3145-R3149 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Convergent close-coupling calculation of electron-barium scattering Dmitry V. Fursa and Igor Bray pp. R3150-R3153 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Double K-shell excitation of Li by 10.6-MeV/nucleon N7+ projectiles J. A. Tanis, J.-Y. Chesnel, F. Frémont, M. Grether, B. Skogvall, B. Sulik, M. Tschersich, and N. Stolterfoht pp. R3154-R3157 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Computation of the position and the width of the B- 1s22s22p2 1D shape resonance Christos Sinanis, Yannis Komninos, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides pp. R3158-R3160 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Low-energy electron-impact ionization of helium Igor Bray, Dmitry V. Fursa, J. Röder, and H. Ehrhardt pp. R3161-R3164 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Time-dependent mean-field description for multiple electron transfer in slow ion-cluster collisions K. Yabana, T. Tazawa, Y. Abe, and P. Bożek pp. R3165-R3168 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Coherent Doppler narrowing in a thin vapor cell: Observation of the Dicke regime in the optical domain Stephan Briaudeau, Solomon Saltiel, Gerard Nienhuis, Daniel Bloch, and Martial Ducloy pp. R3169-R3172 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic trapping of atomic chromium Jonathan D. Weinstein, Robert deCarvalho, Jinha Kim, David Patterson, Bretislav Friedrich, and John M. Doyle pp. R3173-R3175 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase control of Autler-Townes doublet in ionization continuum by two-color laser fields U. Lambrecht, M. Nurhuda, and F. H. Faisal pp. R3176-R3179 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Structure and stability of bosonic clouds: Alkali-metal atoms with negative scattering length A. Parola, L. Salasnich, and L. Reatto pp. R3180-R3183 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Quantum-state sensitivity to initial conditions Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja pp. 3184-3187 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified spectral method in phase space: Calculation of the Wigner function. I. Fundamentals M. Hug, C. Menke, and W. P. Schleich pp. 3188-3205 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified spectral method in phase space: Calculation of the Wigner function. II. Generalizations M. Hug, C. Menke, and W. P. Schleich pp. 3206-3224 [View PDF (4340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Common eigenkets of three-particle compatible observables Hong-yi Fan and Ying Zhang pp. 3225-3228 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental demonstration of quantum correlations over more than 10 km W. Tittel, J. Brendel, B. Gisin, T. Herzog, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin pp. 3229-3232 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Invariant representations of finite rotation matrices and some applications N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace pp. 3233-3244 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact boundary conditions at finite distance for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation M. Mangin-Brinet, J. Carbonell, and C. Gignoux pp. 3245-3255 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical coherent-state path integrals for scattering Frank Grossmann pp. 3256-3261 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partial revivals of wave packets: An action-angle phase-space description Quan-Lin Jie, Shun-Jin Wang, and Lian-Fu Wei pp. 3262-3267 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eight-component two-fermion equations Ruth Häckl, Viktor Hund, and Hartmut Pilkuhn pp. 3268-3275 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipation and decoherence in a quantum register Paolo Zanardi pp. 3276-3284 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Null test of quantum mechanics using two-photon down-conversion Mark Hillery pp. 3285-3290 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent invariants and Green functions in the probability representation of quantum mechanics V. I. Man’ko, L. Rosa, and P. Vitale pp. 3291-3303 [View PDF (3266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bell’s inequality and detector inefficiency Jan-Åke Larsson pp. 3304-3308 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lagrange-distributed approximating-functional approach to wave-packet propagation: Application to the time-independent wave-packet reactant-product decoupling method G. W. Wei, S. C. Althorpe, D. S. Zhang, D. J. Kouri, and D. K. Hoffman pp. 3309-3316 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solvable three-boson model with attractive δ-function interactions J. G. Muga and R. F. Snider pp. 3317-3329 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Entropic bounds on coding for noisy quantum channels Nicolas J. Cerf pp. 3330-3347 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective pure states for bulk quantum computation E. Knill, I. Chuang, and R. Laflamme pp. 3348-3363 [View PDF (919 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limits for compression of quantum information carried by ensembles of mixed states Michał Horodecki pp. 3364-3369 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Fine and quadrupole structure of the weakly bound systems (dtμ)11dee and (ddμ)11dee D. Bakalov, K. Bakalova, V. Korobov, H. J. Monkhorst, and I. Shimamura pp. 3370-3375 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doubly excited 5s5p(3P1)np autoionizing Rydberg states of indium H. Maeda, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner pp. 3376-3380 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1/N expansion in the vibron model: Diatomic molecules S. Kuyucak and M. K. Roberts pp. 3381-3402 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen molecule in a strong parallel magnetic field Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman pp. 3403-3418 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of hyperfine coupling constants of the 5d 2Dj levels in Cs using polarization quantum-beat spectroscopy Wo Yei, A. Sieradzan, E. Cerasuolo, and M. D. Havey pp. 3419-3424 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternative approach to the optimized effective potential method L. Fritsche and Jianmin Yuan pp. 3425-3432 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact exchange-correlation kernel for dynamic response properties and excitation energies in density-functional theory Andreas Görling pp. 3433-3436 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical model of nuclear motion in the Auger emission spectrum of the core-excited BF3 molecule Satoshi Tanaka, Yosuke Kayanuma, and Kiyoshi Ueda pp. 3437-3442 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime measurements in odd-parity Rydberg series of neutral lead by time-resolved laser spectroscopy Z. S. Li, S. Svanberg, E. Biémont, P. Palmeri, and Jiang Zhankui pp. 3443-3449 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Pauli repulsion on the molecular exchange-correlation Kohn-Sham potential: A comparative calculation of Ne2 and N2 O. V. Gritsenko, P. R. Schipper, and E. J. Baerends pp. 3450-3457 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total electron density from the s-electron density Á. Nagy and E. Bene pp. 3458-3461 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Negative ions of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus W. P. Wijesundera and F. A. Parpia pp. 3462-3468 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Photon-atom scattering of 13.95-, 17.75-, 26.36-, and 59.54-keV photons by Cu, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Ta, and W Ibrahim S. Elyaseery, A. Shukri, C. S. Chong, A. A. Tajuddin, and D. A. Bradley pp. 3469-3477 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Levinson theorem for Dirac particles in two dimensions Qiong-gui Lin pp. 3478-3488 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic calculation for photoionization of the ground state of neonlike Fe XVII M. Mohan, M. Le Dourneuf, A. Hibbert, and P. G. Burke pp. 3489-3492 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total dielectronic recombination rate coefficient for Ar-like tungsten A. Peleg, E. Behar, P. Mandelbaum, and J. L. Schwob pp. 3493-3503 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy elastic scattering of electrons by ethylene L. M. Brescansin, L. E. Machado, and M.-T. Lee pp. 3504-3510 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of scattering amplitudes as continuous functions of energy: R-matrix theory without a box C. W. McCurdy, T. N. Rescigno, W. A. Isaacs, and D. E. Manolopoulos pp. 3511-3517 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoionization of lithium from the 1s22p state Kwong T. Chung pp. 3518-3522 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	4d-1 multiplet structure of rare-earth atoms studied by photoelectron-ion coincidence spectroscopy Ch. Gerth, A. G. Kochur, M. Groen, T. Luhmann, M. Richter, and P. Zimmermann pp. 3523-3533 [View PDF (891 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering from a truncated von Neumann–Wigner potential T. A. Weber and D. L. Pursey pp. 3534-3545 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of dielectronic processes in Ne10++He collisions at low keV energies J.-Y. Chesnel, B. Sulik, H. Merabet, C. Bedouet, F. Frémont, X. Husson, M. Grether, A. Spieler, and N. Stolterfoht pp. 3546-3553 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent approach to scattering by Chebyshev-polynomial expansion and the fast-Fourier-transform algorithm J. B. Wang and T. T. Scholz pp. 3554-3559 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beam current-density dependence of the polarization of emission lines from foil-excited atoms: Beam dose dependent or field dependent Yasuyuki Kimura and Keishi Ishii pp. 3560-3564 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equal-energy-sharing (e,2e) ionizing collisions in argon D. K. Waterhouse, I. E. McCarthy, and J. F. Williams pp. 3565-3572 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-transfer cross sections in collisions of Beq+  (q=1–4) and Bq+  (q=1–5) with ground-state atomic hydrogen M. Das, M. Purkait, and C. R. Mandal pp. 3573-3582 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical threshold law when the Wannier exponent diverges P. Chocian, W. Ihra, and P. F. O’Mahony pp. 3583-3588 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron collisions with nitrous oxide Carl Winstead and Vincent McKoy pp. 3589-3597 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature-dependent depolarization cross sections of the 5d6p 3P1 and 3D1 states of laser-ablated Ba in He gas in the range 10–300 K Takashi Nakajima, Nobuaki Yonekura, Yukari Matsuo, Qin Hui, and Michio Takami pp. 3598-3602 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-range diatomic s+p potentials of heavy rare gases M. R. Doery, E. J. Vredenbregt, J. G. Tempelaars, H. C. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar pp. 3603-3620 [View PDF (436 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb three-body effects in electron-impact ionization of argon B. Rouvellou, S. Rioual, J. Röder, A. Pochat, J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, H. R. Walters, and R. J. Allan pp. 3621-3626 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociative recombination of NO+ L. Vejby-Christensen, D. Kella, H. B. Pedersen, and L. H. Andersen pp. 3627-3634 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	L- and M-electron populations of fast xenon ions traveling in gases V. Horvat, R. L. Watson, and J. M. Blackadar pp. 3635-3640 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double photoionization and ionization excitation of the metastable helium S states Hugo W. van der Hart, Kurt W. Meyer, and Chris H. Greene pp. 3641-3645 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-free heavy-lepton pair production for photon and ion impact on atomic nuclei Ali Belkacem and Allan H. Sørensen pp. 3646-3651 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of a relativistic (e,2e) experiment in coplanar asymmetric geometry S. Keller and R. M. Dreizler pp. 3652-3659 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Strong projectile-dependent forward-backward asymmetry of electron ejection by swift heavy ions in solids H. Rothard, M. Jung, M. Caron, J.-P. Grandin, B. Gervais, A. Billebaud, A. Clouvas, and R. Wünsch pp. 3660-3664 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hollow nitrogen atoms probing the jellium edge in front of a Au(111) surface J. Thomaschewski, J. Bleck-Neuhaus, M. Grether, A. Spieler, and N. Stolterfoht pp. 3665-3673 [View PDF (586 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Molecular-dynamics simulations of collisions of Ne with La@C82 J. A. Spirko and A. P. Hickman pp. 3674-3682 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural characterization of niobium-cluster anions from density-functional calculations René Fournier, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen pp. 3683-3691 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Channel switching in above-threshold ionization of xenon V. Schyja, T. Lang, and H. Helm pp. 3692-3697 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase and rise-time dependence using rf pulses in multiphoton processes W. M. Griffith, Michael W. Noel, and T. F. Gallagher pp. 3698-3704 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double electron capture between an α particle and a helium atom in the presence of an intense laser field Shu-Min Li, Yan-Gang Miao, Zi-Fang Zhou, Ji Chen, and Yao-Yang Liu pp. 3705-3711 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temporal dynamics of a two-electron wave packet B. J. Lyons, D. W. Schumacher, D. I. Duncan, R. R. Jones, and T. F. Gallagher pp. 3712-3718 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical formulas for the third-order diamagnetic energy of a hydrogen atom V. D. Ovsiannikov pp. 3719-3723 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum and semiclassical calculations of cold-atom collisions in light fields K.-A. Suominen, Y. B. Band, I. Tuvi, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne pp. 3724-3738 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperspherical close-coupling calculations for helium in a strong magnetic field M. Braun, W. Schweizer, and H. Elster pp. 3739-3747 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence in ion traps due to laser intensity and phase fluctuations S. Schneider and G. J. Milburn pp. 3748-3752 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ortho-para separation of molecules using optical orientation of atoms in hyperfine Zeeman states Chun He pp. 3753-3762 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bragg scattering of an atomic beam by a standing laser wave with time-periodic amplitude modulation A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch pp. 3763-3769 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-correlation effects in intense-field ionization of hydrogen molecules S. X. Hu, W. X. Qu, and Z. Z. Xu pp. 3770-3774 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dark magnetic resonance in an electron-nuclear spin system R. Rakhmatullin, E. Hoffmann, G. Jeschke, and A. Schweiger pp. 3775-3780 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical suppression of the Autler-Townes doublet in the presence of a cavity Peng Zhou and S. Swain pp. 3781-3787 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Echo in optical lattices: Stimulated revival of breathing oscillations A. Bulatov, A. Kuklov, B. E. Vugmeister, and H. Rabitz pp. 3788-3792 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state of the lithium atom in strong magnetic fields M. V. Ivanov and P. Schmelcher pp. 3793-3800 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Laser-induced rotation of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate Karl-Peter Marzlin and Weiping Zhang pp. 3801-3804 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pumping two dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates with Raman light scattering C. M. Savage, Janne Ruostekoski, and Dan F. Walls pp. 3805-3808 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for trapped interacting bosons in lower dimensions Tor Haugset and Hårek Haugerud pp. 3809-3817 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear mixing of quasiparticles in an inhomogeneous Bose condensate S. A. Morgan, S. Choi, K. Burnett, and M. Edwards pp. 3818-3829 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference fringes of the atom interferometer comprised of four copropagating traveling laser beams Shinya Yanagimachi, Yasuo Omi, and Atsuo Morinaga pp. 3830-3836 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bose-Einstein solitons in highly asymmetric traps Víctor M. Pérez-García, Humberto Michinel, and Henar Herrero pp. 3837-3842 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Polarization partition noise and intensity fluctuation linewidth in a nearly symmetric vector laser S. Ciuchi, M. San Miguel, and N. B. Abraham pp. 3843-3857 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gain without inversion in the frequency up-conversion regime S. F. Yelin, M. D. Lukin, M. O. Scully, and Paul Mandel pp. 3858-3868 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical solution for the Mollow and Autler-Townes probe absorption spectra of a three-level atom in a squeezed vacuum M. Bosticky, Z. Ficek, and B. J. Dalton pp. 3869-3879 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional revivals in systems with two time scales G. S. Agarwal and J. Banerji pp. 3880-3884 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signal-to-noise ratio of preamplified homodyne detection in quantum tomography Marcelo A. Marchiolli, Salomon S. Mizrahi, and Victor V. Dodonov pp. 3885-3897 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Squeezed light in a frontal-phase-modulated signal-recycled interferometer Vijay Chickarmane, S. V. Dhurandhar, T. C. Ralph, M. Gray, H-A. Bachor, and D. E. McClelland pp. 3898-3912 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous emission from a dielectric slab H. P. Urbach and G. L. Rikken pp. 3913-3930 [View PDF (478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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