Physical Review A – July 1998
(Volume 58, Issue 1)

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Fundamental concepts

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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Stable bound states of e++Li and e++Na
Jianmin Yuan, B. D. Esry, Toru Morishita, and C. D. Lin
pp. R4-R7 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Nuclear-spin-dependent parity-nonconserving transitions in Ba+ and Ra+
K. P. Geetha, Angom Dilip Singh, B. P. Das, and C. S. Unnikrishnan
pp. R16-R18 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Add to article collection Floquet-Bloch theory of photoeffect in intense laser fields
F. H. Faisal and J. Z. Kamiński
pp. R19-R22 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Spatial separation of atomic states in a laser-cooled ion crystal
W. Alt, M. Block, P. Seibert, and G. Werth
pp. R23-R25 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Temporal phase control of soft-x-ray harmonic emission
Z. Chang, A. Rundquist, H. Wang, I. Christov, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane
pp. R30-R33 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Fractional frequency collective parametric resonances of an ion cloud in a Paul trap
M. A. Razvi, X. Z. Chu, R. Alheit, G. Werth, and R. Blümel
pp. R34-R37 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Localization of cesium atoms on a three-dimensional lattice in momentum space
C. Triché, F. Chevy, and G. Grynberg
pp. R38-R41 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Atomic lattice structures in two-dimensional momentum space
M. Rauner, S. Kuppens, M. Schiffer, G. Birkl, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer
pp. R42-R45 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Population trapping and laser-induced continuum structure in helium: Experiment and theory
T. Halfmann, L. P. Yatsenko, M. Shapiro, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
pp. R46-R49 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Near-resonant spatial images of confined Bose-Einstein condensates in a 4-Dee magnetic bottle
Lene Vestergaard Hau, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Michael M. Burns, and J. A. Golovchenko
pp. R54-R57 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Stimulated Raman scattering in solid hydrogen: Measurement of coherence decay
J. Z. Li, M. Katsuragawa, M. Suzuki, and K. Hakuta
pp. R58-R60 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Scheme for direct observation of the Wigner characteristic function in cavity QED
M. S. Kim, G. Antesberger, C. T. Bodendorf, and H. Walther
pp. R65-R68 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Path integrals on a flux cone
E. S. Moreira
pp. 91-95 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-similar interpolation in quantum mechanics
V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova, and S. Gluzman
pp. 96-115 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum and classical descriptions of a measuring apparatus
Ori Hay and Asher Peres
pp. 116-122 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Complete positivity of nonlinear evolution: A case study
Marek Czachor and Maciej Kuna
pp. 128-134 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superentangled states
Rob Clifton, David V. Feldman, Hans Halvorson, Michael L. Redhead, and Alexander Wilce
pp. 135-145 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Quantum channels showing superadditivity in classical capacity
Masahide Sasaki, Kentaro Kato, Masayuki Izutsu, and Osamu Hirota
pp. 146-158 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Realization of a collective decoding of code-word states
Masahide Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Sasaki-Usuda, Masayuki Izutsu, and Osamu Hirota
pp. 159-164 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Discrete eigenstates of the He+ ion moving in a strong magnetic field
Victor G. Bezchastnov, George G. Pavlov, and Joseph Ventura
pp. 180-185 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical limit states of the helium atom
J. A. West, Z. D. Gaeta, and C. R. Stroud
pp. 186-195 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Selection rules and line strengths of Zeeman-split dark resonances
R. Wynands, A. Nagel, S. Brandt, D. Meschede, and A. Weis
pp. 196-203 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Statistics of electromagnetic transitions as a signature of chaos in many-electron atoms
V. V. Flambaum, A. A. Gribakina, and G. F. Gribakin
pp. 230-237 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Precision measurement of the lifetime of the 1s2s 3S1 metastable level in heliumlike O6+
J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, P. Beiersdorfer, D. W. Savin, and K. Widmann
pp. 238-241 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Large-order dimensional perturbation theory for diatomic molecules within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Shi-Wei Huang, David Z. Goodson, Mario López-Cabrera, and Timothy C. Germann
pp. 250-257 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Binding energy of the metastable Ar- ion
U. V. Pedersen, H. H. Andersen, T. Andersen, and L. Veseth
pp. 258-263 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Collisional quenching and j-mixing rate constants for the 3D levels of Ca+
Martina Knoop, Michel Vedel, and Fernande Vedel
pp. 264-269 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Complete single-ionization momentum spectra for strong perturbation collisions
R. E. Olson, C. J. Wood, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
pp. 270-279 [View PDF (1512 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Space-time approach to scattering from many-body systems
R. Gähler, J. Felber, F. Mezei, and R. Golub
pp. 280-295 [View PDF (463 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Evidence for electron capture to the continuum by protons scattered at non-0° angles from Ar atoms
L. Sarkadi, U. Brinkmann, A. Báder, R. Hippler, K. Tökési, and L. Gulyás
pp. 296-303 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-impact dissociative excitation of CDn+ (n=2-5): Detection of light fragment ions D+ and D2+
N. Djurić, S. Zhou, G. H. Dunn, and M. E. Bannister
pp. 304-308 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical support for a Ramsauer-Townsend minimum in electron-CF4 scattering
W. A. Isaacs, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno
pp. 309-313 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Symmetry-resolved measurements of the core-excited CS2 molecule
A. Karawajczyk, P. Erman, P. Hatherly, E. Rachlew, M. Stankiewicz, and K. Yoshiki Franzén
pp. 314-320 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytical formulas for Coulomb integrals involved in scattering problems
L. U. Ancarani and P. A. Hervieux
pp. 336-347 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Dielectric description of wakes and stopping powers in solids
Isabel Abril, Rafael Garcia-Molina, Cristian D. Denton, F. Javier Pérez-Pérez, and Néstor R. Arista
pp. 357-366 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Electron capture and excitation in proton-Na20 collisions at low velocities
M. F. Politis, P. A. Hervieux, J. Hanssen, M. E. Madjet, and F. Martín
pp. 367-376 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Angular-momentum-driven chaos in small clusters
Ersin Yurtsever
pp. 377-382 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Al12 and the Al@Al12 clusters
Joseph E. Fowler and Jesus M. Ugalde
pp. 383-388 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Temporal dependence of high-order harmonics in the presence of strong ionization
A. Bouhal, P. Salières, P. Breger, P. Agostini, G. Hamoniaux, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Antonetti, R. Constantinescu, and H. G. Muller
pp. 389-399 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging: A method to measure structure and dynamics of molecular nuclear wave packets
Henrik Stapelfeldt, Eric Constant, Hirofumi Sakai, and Paul B. Corkum
pp. 426-433 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Wave-packet dynamics and quantum beats
B. M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 440-449 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spontaneous emission of nondispersive Rydberg wave packets
Dominique Delande and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 466-477 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement-induced quantum fluctuations and bistability of a relativistic electron in a Penning trap
M. Rigo, G. Alber, F. Mota-Furtado, and P. F. O’Mahony
pp. 478-487 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photoassociation intensities and radiative trap loss in lithium
R. Côté and A. Dalgarno
pp. 498-508 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atom guiding and cooling in a dark hollow laser beam
Jianping Yin, Yifu Zhu, Wonho Jhe, and Zuzhu Wang
pp. 509-513 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Probing electronic radial wave packets using impulsive momentum retrieval
M. B. Campbell, T. J. Bensky, and R. R. Jones
pp. 514-520 [View PDF (524 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Kinetic properties of a Bose-Einstein gas at finite temperature
Teresa Lopez-Arias and Augusto Smerzi
pp. 526-530 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum phase diffusion of a two-component dilute Bose-Einstein condensate
C. K. Law, H. Pu, N. P. Bigelow, and J. H. Eberly
pp. 531-535 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Detection of condensate vortex states
E. V. Goldstein, E. M. Wright, and P. Meystre
pp. 576-579 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Persistent currents in a toroidal trap
Juha Javanainen, Sun Mok Paik, and Sung Mi Yoo
pp. 580-583 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effective potentials for dilute Bose-Einstein condensates
John L. Bohn, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene
pp. 584-597 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection “Interaction-free” imaging
Andrew G. White, Jay R. Mitchell, Olaf Nairz, and Paul G. Kwiat
pp. 605-613 [View PDF (706 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Intensity fluctuation spectroscopy of small numbers of dye molecules in a microcavity
S. C. Kitson, P. Jonsson, J. G. Rarity, and P. R. Tapster
pp. 620-627 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spatial coherence of prepulse-induced neonlike x-ray lasers
Peixiang Lu, Ernst Fill, Yuelin Li, Joachim Maruhn, and Georg Pretzler
pp. 628-635 [View PDF (829 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-homodyne tomography of a twin-beam state
Giacomo M. D’Ariano, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar
pp. 636-648 [View PDF (1204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Inversionless amplification in the three-level atoms with and without a hidden inversion in reservoir
Olga Kocharovskaya, Yu. V. Rostovtsev, and A. Imamoglu
pp. 649-654 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Macroscopic field superpositions from collective interactions
A. Delgado, A. B. Klimov, J. C. Retamal, and C. Saavedra
pp. 655-662 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Decoherence in nonclassical motional states of a trapped ion
M. Murao and P. L. Knight
pp. 663-669 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear squeezing in the motion of a trapped atom
S. Wallentowitz and W. Vogel
pp. 679-685 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection QED commutation relations for inhomogeneous Kramers-Kronig dielectrics
Stefan Scheel, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
pp. 700-706 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear frequency conversion with short laser pulses and maximum atomic coherence
Lu Deng, M. G. Payne, and W. R. Garrett
pp. 707-712 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Triple differential cross sections for electron-impact ionization of He+ in coplanar symmetric geometry
Qicun Shi, Xiangfu Jia, Zhangjin Chen, Chenfeng Zhang, and Kezun Xu
pp. 724-727 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lifetime of the 3p 2P3/2 level in sodiumlike bromine (Br XXV)
A. Vasilyev, E. Jasper, H. G. Berry, A. E. Livingston, L. J. Curtis, S. Cheng, and R. W. Dunford
pp. 732-735 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Positronium formation from alkali-metal atoms
S. Bhattacharyya and B. Talukdar
pp. 736-739 [View PDF (89 kB) or