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Physical Review A – July 1998
Volume 58, Issue 1

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Fundamental concepts

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Testing Bell’s inequality using the Aharonov-Casher effect
Arun Kumar Pati
pp. R1-R3 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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)]
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Precision microwave measurement of the 23P1–23P0 interval in atomic helium
C. H. Storry and E. A. Hessels
pp. R8-R11 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Kinetic energy in density-functional theory
R. K. Nesbet
pp. R12-R15 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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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)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Floquet-Bloch theory of photoeffect in intense laser fields
F. H. M. Faisal and J. Z. Kamiński
pp. R19-R22 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)]
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Laser-assisted, low-energy electron-potential scattering in a CO2 laser field
N. J. Kylstra and C. J. Joachain
pp. R26-R29 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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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)]
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Fractional frequency collective parametric resonances of an ion cloud in a Paul trap
M. A. N. Razvi, X. Z. Chu, R. Alheit, G. Werth, and R. Blümel
pp. R34-R37 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (134 kB)]

Matter waves

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Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential as an open quantum system
Janne Ruostekoski and Dan F. Walls
pp. R50-R53 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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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 (136 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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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 (54 kB)]
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Raman self-conversion of femtosecond laser pulses and generation of single-cycle radiation
A. Nazarkin and G. Korn
pp. R61-R64 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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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)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Dynamics of decoherence in continuous atom-optical quantum nondemolition measurements
Roberto Onofrio and Lorenza Viola
pp. 69-76 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Energy shifts resulting from surface curvature of quantum nanostructures
Mario Encinosa and Babak Etemadi
pp. 77-81 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Detecting the effects of linear acceleration on the optical response of matter
Richard Neutze and G. E. Stedman
pp. 82-90 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Path integrals on a flux cone
E. S. Moreira, Jr.
pp. 91-95 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Self-similar interpolation in quantum mechanics
V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova, and S. Gluzman
pp. 96-115 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Quantum and classical descriptions of a measuring apparatus
Ori Hay and Asher Peres
pp. 116-122 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Standard quantum limits for broadband position measurement
Hideo Mabuchi
pp. 123-127 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Complete positivity of nonlinear evolution: A case study
Marek Czachor and Maciej Kuna
pp. 128-134 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Superentangled states
Rob Clifton, David V. Feldman, Hans Halvorson, Michael L. G. Redhead, and Alexander Wilce
pp. 135-145 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum channels showing superadditivity in classical capacity
Masahide Sasaki, Kentaro Kato, Masayuki Izutsu, and Osamu Hirota
pp. 146-158 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Coordinate-space approach to the bound-electron self-energy: Coulomb field calculation
P. Indelicato and Peter J. Mohr
pp. 165-179 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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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)]
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Classical limit states of the helium atom
J. A. West, Z. D. Gaeta, and C. R. Stroud, Jr.
pp. 186-195 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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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)]
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Franck-Condon principle and the hadronic and muonic Auger effect
J. E. Russell
pp. 204-229 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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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 (168 kB)]
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Precision measurement of the lifetime of the 1s2s3S1 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)]
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Positronium-hydrogen atom scattering using the six-state close-coupling approximation
Prabal K. Sinha and A. S. Ghosh
pp. 242-249 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)]
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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 (1,512 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (215 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (117 kB)]
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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 (148 kB)]
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Threshold laws for the breakup of atomic particles into several charged fragments
M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky
pp. 321-335 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Analytical formulas for Coulomb integrals involved in scattering problems
L. U. Ancarani and P. A. Hervieux
pp. 336-347 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Demkov-Osherov model reformulated in terms of conventional scattering theory
J. H. Macek and M. J. Cavagnero
pp. 348-356 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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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 (259 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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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)]
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Angular-momentum-driven chaos in small clusters
Ersin Yurtsever
pp. 377-382 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Al12 and the Al@Al12 clusters
Joseph E. Fowler and Jesus M. Ugalde
pp. 383-388 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)]
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Classical motion of a photoelectron interacting with its ionic core: Slow photoelectron imaging
Christian Bordas
pp. 400-410 [View PDF (2,740 kB)]
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Final-state-interaction effects on one- and two-photon detachment of H- in the presence of a static electric field
Min-Qi Bao, Ilya I. Fabrikant, and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 411-425 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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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 (146 kB)]
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Saddle-node bifurcation for Rydberg atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields
J. P. Salas and V. Lanchares
pp. 434-439 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Wave-packet dynamics and quantum beats
B. M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 440-449 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Femtosecond time-resolved Rydberg wave-packet dynamics in the two-electron system calcium
M. Strehle, U. Weichmann, and G. Gerber
pp. 450-455 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Multiphoton ionization of H2+ by intense light: A comparison of Floquet and wave-packet results
L. B. Madsen, M. Plummer, and J. F. McCann
pp. 456-465 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission of nondispersive Rydberg wave packets
Dominique Delande and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 466-477 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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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)]
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H-atom ionization by elliptically polarized microwave fields: Three-dimensional analysis
Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 488-497 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Photoassociation intensities and radiative trap loss in lithium
R. Côté and A. Dalgarno
pp. 498-508 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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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)]
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Probing electronic radial wave packets using impulsive momentum retrieval
M. B. Campbell, T. J. Bensky, and R. R. Jones
pp. 514-520 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Schrödinger-like equation for a nonrelativistic electron in a photon field of arbitrary intensity
Dong-Sheng Guo, R. R. Freeman, and Yong-Shi Wu
pp. 521-525 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Matter waves

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Kinetic properties of a Bose-Einstein gas at finite temperature
Teresa Lopez-Arias and Augusto Smerzi
pp. 526-530 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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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 (120 kB)]
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Quantum kinetic theory. III. Quantum kinetic master equation for strongly condensed trapped systems
C. W. Gardiner and P. Zoller
pp. 536-556 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Sagnac experiment with electrons: Reanalysis of a rotationally induced phase shift for charged particles
Richard Neutze and Franz Hasselbach
pp. 557-565 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Phase collapse and excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates
Klaus Mølmer
pp. 566-575 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Detection of condensate vortex states
E. V. Goldstein, E. M. Wright, and P. Meystre
pp. 576-579 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Persistent currents in a toroidal trap
Juha Javanainen, Sun Mok Paik, and Sung Mi Yoo
pp. 580-583 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Effective potentials for dilute Bose-Einstein condensates
John L. Bohn, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene
pp. 584-597 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Enhancement of nonlinear-optical signals under coherent-population-trapping conditions
W. Harshawardhan and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 598-604 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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“Interaction-free” imaging
Andrew G. White, Jay R. Mitchell, Olaf Nairz, and Paul G. Kwiat
pp. 605-613 [View PDF (706 kB)]
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Metamorphosis of the monochromatic spectrum in a double-cavity laser as a function of the feedback rate
Alejandro A. Duarte and Hernán G. Solari
pp. 614-619 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Self-homodyne tomography of a twin-beam state
Giacomo M. D’Ariano, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar
pp. 636-648 [View PDF (1,203 kB)]
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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 (112 kB)]
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Macroscopic field superpositions from collective interactions
A. Delgado, A. B. Klimov, J. C. Retamal, and C. Saavedra
pp. 655-662 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Decoherence in nonclassical motional states of a trapped ion
M. Murao and P. L. Knight
pp. 663-669 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Optical bistable response of an open linear Frenkel chain: Exciton-exciton annihilation and boundary effects
V. A. Malyshev, H. Glaeske, and K.-H. Feller
pp. 670-678 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Nonlinear squeezing in the motion of a trapped atom
S. Wallentowitz and W. Vogel
pp. 679-685 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Origin and restoration of missing interference in emission in a laser-driven V system
G. S. Agarwal
pp. 686-689 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Inversionless gain versus efficient gain: The autoionizing states configuration
Bruno Zambon
pp. 690-699 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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QED commutation relations for inhomogeneous Kramers-Kronig dielectrics
Stefan Scheel, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
pp. 700-706 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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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)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Higher-order corrections to the excited states using the logarithmic perturbation method
W. N. Mei and D. S. Chuu
pp. 713-716 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Perturbed harmonic oscillator and odd coherent states
S. Sivakumar
pp. 717-719 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Effect of multiple scattering on broadening and the frequency shift of spectral lines
S. Datta, S. Roy, M. Roy, and M. Moles
pp. 720-723 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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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 (99 kB)]
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Boundary-condition-determined wave function for the ground state of positronium ion ēee
S. H. Patil
pp. 728-731 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Lifetime of the 3p2P3/2 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 (79 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Positronium formation from alkali-metal atoms
S. Bhattacharyya and B. Talukdar
pp. 736-739 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Interaction-induced absorption in argon-krypton mixture clusters: Molecular-dynamics study
A. Dawid and Z. Gburski
pp. 740-743 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Thermal isomerization in Cs4Cl3 -
C. Ashman, S. N. Khanna, M. R. Pederson, and D. V. Porezag
pp. 744-747 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Interference pattern with a dark center from two atoms driven by a coherent laser field
T. Rudolph and Z. Ficek
pp. 748-751 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Photon-number distribution of squeezed states: A graphical treatment
Swapan Mandal
pp. 752-754 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Core-excitation effects in multiphoton processes
E. J. Robinson
pp. 755-757 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Rabi frequency and nonlinearity of a two-level atom for an ultrashort optical pulse
G. M. Genkin
pp. 758-760 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Preparation of motional macroscopic quantum-interference states of a trapped ion
Shi-Biao Zheng
pp. 761-763 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Enhancement of mutual coherence of two fluorescing atoms by incoherent pumping
Gordon Yeoman
pp. 764-766 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Squeezing in the resonance fluorescence of a bichromatically driven two-level atom
M. Jakob and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
pp. 767-770 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Theory of quantum resonance: A renormalization-group approach
Marco Frasca
pp. 771-774 [View PDF (97 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Particle-number-conserving Bogoliubov method which demonstrates the validity of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a highly condensed Bose gas”
M. D. Girardeau
pp. 775-778 [View PDF (82 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Polarization spectra of excited-state-Mg(3p)–rare-gas-atom optical collisions [Phys. Rev. A 50, 423 (1994)]
R. A. Lasell, D. A. Olsgaard, M. D. Havey, and Dmitriy V. Kuprianov
pp. 779 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Erratum: Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of correlated photoionization processes in helium [Phys. Rev. A 57, 318 (1998)]
M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux
pp. 779-780 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Erratum: Evanescent light-wave atomic funnel: A tandem hollow-fiber, hollow-beam approach [Phys. Rev. A 57, 1957 (1998)]
Jianping Yin, Yifu Zhu, and Yuzhu Wang
pp. 780 [View PDF (59 kB)]
 
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