• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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Fundamental concepts

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

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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) ]

Precision microwave measurement of the 23P1–23P0 interval in atomic helium C. H. Storry and E. A. Hessels pp. R8-R11 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Kinetic energy in density-functional theory R. K. Nesbet pp. R12-R15 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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) ]

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

Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential as an open quantum system Janne Ruostekoski and Dan F. Walls pp. R50-R53 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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) ]

Raman self-conversion of femtosecond laser pulses and generation of single-cycle radiation A. Nazarkin and G. Korn pp. R61-R64 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Dynamics of decoherence in continuous atom-optical quantum nondemolition measurements Roberto Onofrio and Lorenza Viola pp. 69-76 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy shifts resulting from surface curvature of quantum nanostructures Mario Encinosa and Babak Etemadi pp. 77-81 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detecting the effects of linear acceleration on the optical response of matter Richard Neutze and G. E. Stedman pp. 82-90 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Standard quantum limits for broadband position measurement Hideo Mabuchi pp. 123-127 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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

•	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) ]

•	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

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Franck-Condon principle and the hadronic and muonic Auger effect J. E. Russell pp. 204-229 [View PDF (450 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	Positronium-hydrogen atom scattering using the six-state close-coupling approximation Prabal K. Sinha and A. S. Ghosh pp. 242-249 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Demkov-Osherov model reformulated in terms of conventional scattering theory J. H. Macek and M. J. Cavagnero pp. 348-356 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	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)

•	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) ]

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

•	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

•	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) ]

•	Classical motion of a photoelectron interacting with its ionic core: Slow photoelectron imaging Christian Bordas pp. 400-410 [View PDF (2740 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Saddle-node bifurcation for Rydberg atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields J. P. Salas and V. Lanchares pp. 434-439 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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 (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (591 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	H-atom ionization by elliptically polarized microwave fields: Three-dimensional analysis Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski pp. 488-497 [View PDF (500 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase collapse and excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates Klaus Mølmer pp. 566-575 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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

•	Enhancement of nonlinear-optical signals under coherent-population-trapping conditions W. Harshawardhan and G. S. Agarwal pp. 598-604 [View PDF (329 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	“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) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Origin and restoration of missing interference in emission in a laser-driven V system G. S. Agarwal pp. 686-689 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inversionless gain versus efficient gain: The autoionizing states configuration Bruno Zambon pp. 690-699 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	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

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbed harmonic oscillator and odd coherent states S. Sivakumar pp. 717-719 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	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 (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) ]

•	Boundary-condition-determined wave function for the ground state of positronium ion ēee S. H. Patil pp. 728-731 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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

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