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Physical Review A – August 1998
Volume 58, Issue 2

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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Population of Stark wave-packet states by cw laser excitation
J. F. Baugh, W. P. Garver, C. E. Burkhardt, and J. J. Leventhal
pp. R785-R788 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Probability of photoassociation from a quasicontinuum approach
Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie
pp. R789-R792 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Semiclassical dynamics of strongly driven systems
M. Yu. Ivanov, O. V. Tikhonova, and M. V. Fedorov
pp. R793-R796 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Stimulated Raman molecule production in Bose-Einstein condensates
P. S. Julienne, K. Burnett, Y. B. Band, and W. C. Stwalley
pp. R797-R800 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Matter waves

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Critical temperature and Ginzburg-Landau equation for a trapped Fermi gas
M. A. Baranov and D. S. Petrov
pp. R801-R804 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Theory of shape-preserving short pulses in inhomogeneously broadened three-level media
Ashiqur Rahman and J. H. Eberly
pp. R805-R808 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Excitability in a nonlinear optical cavity
Weiping Lu, Dejin Yu, and Robert G. Harrison
pp. R809-R811 [View PDF (105 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Quantum conditional probability and hidden-variables models
James D. Malley
pp. 812-820 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Supersymmetry, shape invariance, and solvability of AN-1 and BCN Calogero-Sutherland model
Pijush K. Ghosh, Avinash Khare, and M. Sivakumar
pp. 821-825 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Local description of quantum inseparability
Anna Sanpera, Rolf Tarrach, and Guifré Vidal
pp. 826-830 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Geometry of the Hilbert space and the quantum Zeno effect
A. K. Pati and S. V. Lawande
pp. 831-835 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Dynamical analysis of seemingly interaction-free measurements
A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
pp. 836-839 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Time of arrival in quantum and Bohmian mechanics
C. R. Leavens
pp. 840-847 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Weyl functions and their use in the study of quantum interference
S. Chountasis and A. Vourdas
pp. 848-855 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Tunneling near the base of a barrier
C. Eltschka, H. Friedrich, M. J. Moritz, and J. Trost
pp. 856-861 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Connection between the closeness of classical orbits and the factorization of the radial Schrödinger equation
Y. F. Liu, W. J. Huo, and J. Y. Zeng
pp. 862-868 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Bures distance between two displaced thermal states
Gh.-S. Paraoanu and Horia Scutaru
pp. 869-871 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic geometric phase in periodic linear systems
Y. C. Ge and M. S. Child
pp. 872-882 [View PDF (259 kB)]

Quantum information

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Volume of the set of separable states
Karol Życzkowski, Paweł Horodecki, Anna Sanpera, and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 883-892 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Quantum robots and environments
Paul Benioff
pp. 893-904 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Quantum convolutional error-correcting codes
H. F. Chau
pp. 905-909 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Elliptical ion traps and trap arrays for quantum computation
Ralph G. DeVoe
pp. 910-914 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Quantum computation and decision trees
Edward Farhi and Sam Gutmann
pp. 915-928 [View PDF (298 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Chiral dissociation dynamics of molecular ratchets: Preferential senses of rotary motion in microscopic systems
Kazuhiko Fukui, John H. Frederick, and Joseph I. Cline
pp. 929-934 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Infinity-free semiclassical evaluation of Casimir effects
Martin Schaden and Larry Spruch
pp. 935-953 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Influence of nuclear size on QED corrections in hydrogenlike heavy ions
T. Beier, P. J. Mohr, H. Persson, and G. Soff
pp. 954-963 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Relativistic optimized-potential method: Exact transverse exchange and Møller-Plesset-based correlation potential
E. Engel, A. Facco Bonetti, S. Keller, I. Andrejkovics, and R. M. Dreizler
pp. 964-992 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Relativistic exchange-correlation energy functional: Gauge dependence of the no-pair correlation energy
A. Facco Bonetti, E. Engel, R. M. Dreizler, I. Andrejkovics, and H. Müller
pp. 993-1000 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Analysis of the electron self-energy for tightly bound electrons
Ingvar Lindgren, Hans Persson, Sten Salomonson, and Per Sunnergren
pp. 1001-1015 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body calculations of energy levels, hyperfine constants, and transition rates for sodiumlike ions, Z=11–16
M. S. Safronova, A. Derevianko, and W. R. Johnson
pp. 1016-1028 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Shapes of pressure- and Doppler-broadened spectral lines in the core and near wings
Roman Ciuryło
pp. 1029-1039 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Measurement of L-shell fluorescence yields of some elements in the atomic range 65<~Z<~74 using photoionization
Önder Şimşek, Oğuz Doǧan, Ümit Turgut, and Mehmet Ertuğrul
pp. 1040-1042 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Recurrences without closed orbits
F. Robicheaux and J. Shaw
pp. 1043-1047 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Polarization labeling spectroscopy of the 31Π and 61Σ+ states in NaK
A. Pashov, I. Jackowska, W. Jastrzȩbski, and P. Kowalczyk
pp. 1048-1054 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Radiative corrections to the hyperfine-structure splitting of hydrogenlike systems
P. Sunnergren, H. Persson, S. Salomonson, S. M. Schneider, I. Lindgren, and G. Soff
pp. 1055-1069 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Relativistic calculations for Fe XXIII: Atomic structure
Chen Guo-xin and P. P. Ong
pp. 1070-1081 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic dipole polarizabilities of H2+ and D2+ ground states
J. Shertzer and Chris H. Greene
pp. 1082-1086 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Measurement of the ratio of the cesium D-line transition strengths
Robert J. Rafac and Carol E. Tanner
pp. 1087-1097 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Even-parity triply excited states of lithium
Ying Zhang and Kwong T. Chung
pp. 1098-1102 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Ab initio pseudopotential and density-functional all-electron study of ionization and excitation energies of actinide atoms
Wenjian Liu, Wolfgang Küchle, and Michael Dolg
pp. 1103-1110 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Magnetic dipole transition rates from measured lifetimes of levels of Be-like and B-like argon ions
D. P. Moehs and D. A. Church
pp. 1111-1114 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Dynamics on the ground-state potential surfaces of H3 and its isotopomeres from their uv spectra
D. Azinovic, R. Bruckmeier, Ch. Wunderlich, H. Figger, G. Theodorakopoulos, and I. D. Petsalakis
pp. 1115-1128 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Positronium in crossed electric and magnetic fields: The existence of a long-lived ground state
J. Shertzer, J. Ackermann, and P. Schmelcher
pp. 1129-1138 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Line shapes of saturated absorption spectroscopy in optically thick media
O. Di Lorenzo-Filho and J. R. Rios Leite
pp. 1139-1145 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Spin-exchange effects on tensor polarization of deuterium atoms
H. J. Bulten, Z.-L. Zhou, J. F. J. van den Brand, M. Ferro-Luzzi, and J. Lang
pp. 1146-1151 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Effect of a thermal bath on electronic resonance decay: A numerical path-integral study
Heiko Plöhn, Michael Thoss, Manfred Winterstetter, and Wolfgang Domcke
pp. 1152-1161 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Ab initio molecular treatment of charge transfer by Si4+ ions in helium
M. C. Bacchus-Montabonel and P. Ceyzeriat
pp. 1162-1165 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Hyperspherical close-coupling study of hyperfine transitions in low-energy p+pμ and e±+Ps scattering
Akinori Igarashi, Isao Shimamura, and Nobuyuki Toshima
pp. 1166-1173 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Scattering of low-energy electrons by polar molecules: An analytic approach
J. Gómez-Camacho, F. Pérez-Bernal, and J. M. Arias
pp. 1174-1182 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Relativistic calculations for Fe XXIII: Electron-impact excitation
Chen Guo-xin and P. P. Ong
pp. 1183-1194 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Nonstationary theory of wave-packet potential scattering
D. R. Bitouk and M. V. Fedorov
pp. 1195-1203 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Absolute measurements of electron-loss cross sections of He+ and C3+ with atomic hydrogen at intermediate velocities
M. M. Sant’Anna, W. S. Melo, A. C. F. Santos, G. M. Sigaud, E. C. Montenegro, M. B. Shah, and W. E. Meyerhof
pp. 1204-1211 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Inner radiation emitted during β± decay and related problems
Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.
pp. 1212-1220 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Electron correlations in L-subshell photoionization of intermediate-Z elements (47<~Z<~51)
W. Jitschin and R. Stötzel
pp. 1221-1224 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Time-dependent theory of the Auger resonant Raman effect for diatomic molecules: Concepts and model calculations for N2 and CO
Zbigniew W. Gortel, Robert Teshima, and Dietrich Menzel
pp. 1225-1246 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Long-range interactions of metastable helium atoms
Zong-Chao Yan and J. F. Babb
pp. 1247-1252 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Electron capture from pair production by Au79+ at 10.8 GeV/nucleon
A. Belkacem, N. Claytor, T. Dinneen, B. Feinberg, and Harvey Gould
pp. 1253-1255 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Kinematic explanation of the observation of very narrow linewidths from dissociative-recombination reactions
Kenneth A. Hardy
pp. 1256-1260 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Angular distributions of projectiles following electron capture from C60 by 2.5-keV Ar8+
B. Walch, U. Thumm, M. Stöckli, C. L. Cocke, and S. Klawikowski
pp. 1261-1266 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Autoionization of a quasicontinuum: Population trapping, self-trapping, and stabilization
Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell
pp. 1267-1274 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Near-threshold electron-impact excitation of the vacuum-ultraviolet resonance transitions in Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe
V. Zeman, K. Bartschat, C. Norén, and J. W. McConkey
pp. 1275-1281 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Secondary-electron emission from specularly reflected MeV protons
Kenji Kimura, Suguru Ooki, Gou Andou, Kaoru Nakajima, and Michi-hiko Mannami
pp. 1282-1286 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Dynamical interaction effects on the Coulomb explosion of H2+ at glancing-angle incidence on solid surfaces
You-Nian Wang, Z. L. Mišković, and Wing-Ki Liu
pp. 1287-1295 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Multiphoton ac Stark effect in a bichromatically driven two-level atom
T. G. Rudolph, H. S. Freedhoff, and Z. Ficek
pp. 1296-1309 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Two-electron atoms in short intense laser pulses
Armin Scrinzi and Bernard Piraux
pp. 1310-1321 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Strong-field short-pulse photoionization of Rydberg atoms: Interference stabilization and distribution of the photoelectron density in space and time
M. V. Fedorov and O. V. Tikhonova
pp. 1322-1334 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Ionization via high-Rydberg states with multiple V-type resonances
R. Parzyński and A. Grudka
pp. 1335-1345 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic cooling and optimal control in off-resonance dipole optical potentials
A. Bulatov, B. Vugmeister, A. Burin, and H. Rabitz
pp. 1346-1351 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Laser catalysis with pulses
Amichay Vardi and Moshe Shapiro
pp. 1352-1360 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Theory of the effect of odd-photon destructive interference on optical shifts in resonantly enhanced multiphoton excitation and ionization
M. G. Payne, Lu Deng, and W. R. Garrett
pp. 1361-1371 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Intracavity self-induced transparency of a multilevel absorber
M. Müller, V. P. Kalosha, and J. Herrmann
pp. 1372-1381 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Optimal localization of wave packets on invariant structures
W. Schweizer, W. Jans, and T. Uzer
pp. 1382-1388 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Observation of collective effects in the multiphoton ionization of atomic deuterium
P. Bowe, F. Giammanco, R. W. O’Neill, P. J. M. van der Burgt, and J. A. Slevin
pp. 1389-1398 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Photoelectron initial conditions for tunneling ionization in a linearly polarized laser
S. J. McNaught, J. P. Knauer, and D. D. Meyerhofer
pp. 1399-1411 [View PDF (722 kB)]
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Theory of spin-exchange optical pumping of 3He and 129Xe
S. Appelt, A. Ben-Amar Baranga, C. J. Erickson, M. V. Romalis, A. R. Young, and W. Happer
pp. 1412-1439 [View PDF (504 kB)]

Matter waves

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Excitation spectrum and instability of a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate
D. Gordon and C. M. Savage
pp. 1440-1444 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Thermodynamic properties of an ideal Fermi gas in an external potential with U=brt in any dimensional space
Mingzhe Li, Zijun Yan, Jincan Chen, Lixuan Chen, and Chuanhong Chen
pp. 1445-1449 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Quantum kinetic theory. IV. Intensity and amplitude fluctuations of a Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature including trap loss
D. Jaksch, C. W. Gardiner, K. M. Gheri, and P. Zoller
pp. 1450-1464 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in an external potential at zero temperature: General theory
Tai Tsun Wu
pp. 1465-1474 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Precision neutron-interferometric measurement of the coherent neutron-scattering length in silicon
A. Ioffe, D. L. Jacobson, M. Arif, M. Vrana, S. A. Werner, P. Fischer, G. L. Greene, and F. Mezei
pp. 1475-1479 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensates in spatially periodic potentials
Kirstine Berg-Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer
pp. 1480-1484 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in one-dimensional power-law traps: A path-integral Monte Carlo simulation
Sean Pearson, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen
pp. 1485-1489 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation of a finite number of particles confined to harmonic traps
R. K. Pathria
pp. 1490-1495 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Absence of bistable behavior in the optical response of a dimer
V. A. Malyshev, H. Glaeske, and K.-H. Feller
pp. 1496-1500 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Noise-free quantum-nondemolition measurement using optical solitons
Jean-Michel Courty, Stefan Spälter, Friedrich König, Andreas Sizmann, and Gerd Leuchs
pp. 1501-1508 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Two-dimensional near-field and far-field imaging of a Ne-like Ar capillary discharge table-top soft-x-ray laser
C. H. Moreno, M. C. Marconi, V. N. Shlyaptsev, B. R. Benware, C. D. Macchietto, J. L. A. Chilla, J. J. Rocca, and A. L. Osterheld
pp. 1509-1514 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Dynamics of a driven two-level atom coupled to a frequency-tunable cavity
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 1515-1530 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Emission spectrum in driven two-level systems
Hao Wang, Valder N. Freire, and Xian-Geng Zhao
pp. 1531-1536 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Semiclassical analysis of the metastable driven and damped quantized anharmonic oscillator
Bjarne Vestergaard and Juha Javanainen
pp. 1537-1544 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Observation of transient electromagnetically induced transparency in a rubidium Λ system
H. X. Chen, A. V. Durrant, J. P. Marangos, and J. A. Vaccaro
pp. 1545-1548 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Simple vectorial model for the spectrum of a two-level atom in an intense low-frequency field
P. P. Corso, L. Lo Cascio, and F. Persico
pp. 1549-1558 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Threshold and nonlinear behavior of lasers of Λ and V configurations
Gennady A. Koganov and Reuben Shuker
pp. 1559-1562 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Quasi-one-dimensional character of sound propagation in elongated Bose-Einstein condensed clouds
G. M. Kavoulakis and C. J. Pethick
pp. 1563-1566 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Two-wave two-wavelength mixing in photochromic molecular systems
D. Dantsker and A. Persoons
pp. 1567-1573 [View PDF (241 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Exact wave function of a harmonic plus an inverse harmonic potential with time-dependent mass and frequency
Chung-In Um, Shang-Moon Shin, Kyu-Hwang Yeon, and Thomas F. George
pp. 1574-1577 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Energy dependence of the molecular-orbital x-ray interference structure in U92+-Pb collsions
K. Schulze, J. Anton, W.-D. Sepp, and B. Fricke
pp. 1578-1580 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Kohn-Sham formulation of density-functional theory
Abraham Klein and Reiner M. Dreizler
pp. 1581-1584 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Precision Stark spectroscopy of sodium 2P and 2D states
J. F. Baugh, C. E. Burkhardt, J. J. Leventhal, and T. Bergeman
pp. 1585-1588 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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High-resolution experimental determination of the angular distribution and spin polarization of xenon 7d′ and 9s′ photoelectrons and comparison with theoretical results
M. Spieweck, M. Drescher, F. Gierschner, R. Irrgang, and U. Heinzmann
pp. 1589-1591 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Self-calibrating method for measuring local multiphoton-ionization yields as a function of absolute intensity
C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal, B. Witzel, H. Schröder, and K.-L. Kompa
pp. 1592-1594 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Jump time in Landau-Zener tunneling
L. S. Schulman
pp. 1595-1596 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence spectrum in a weak squeezed field with an arbitrary bandwidth
Z. Ficek, J. Seke, and R. Kralicek
pp. 1597-1600 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Steady-state analysis of ac subharmonic generation in photorefractive sillenite crystals
Per M. Johansen, Henrik C. Pedersen, Evgeny V. Podivilov, and Boris I. Sturman
pp. 1601-1604 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Demonstration of large amplification in multipulse-pumped lithiumlike aluminum soft-x-ray lasers
Tsuneyuki Ozaki and Hiroto Kuroda
pp. 1605-1608 [View PDF (80 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Differential and integral cross sections for excitation of the electronic states of nitric oxide by low-energy electron impact: Observation of a 2Πr⃗2Φ excitation process [Phys. Rev. A 54, 2977 (1996)]
B. Mojarrabi, L. Campbell, P. J. O. Teubner, M. J. Brunger, and D. C. Cartwright
pp. 1609 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Erratum: Transition energy and lifetime for the ground-state hyperfine splitting of high-Z lithiumlike ions [Phys. Rev. A 57, 149 (1998)]
V. M. Shabaev, M. B. Shabaeva, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, A. N. Artemyev, T. Kühl, M. Tomaselli, and O. M. Zherebtsov
pp. 1610 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum oscillator with fluctuating time-dependent frequency [Phys. Rev. A 57, 2347 (1998)]
Loris Ferrari
pp. 1610-1611 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Erratum: Laser spectroscopic studies of state-dependent collisional quenching of the lifetimes of metastable antiprotonic helium atoms [Physical Review A 57, 1698 (1998)]
M. Hori, H. A. Torii, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, F. E. Maas, H. Tamura, B. Ketzer, F. J. Hartmann, R. Pohl, C. Maierl, M. Hasinoff, T. von Egidy, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, I. Sugai, D. Horváth, E. Widmann, J. Eades, and T. Yamazaki
pp. 1612-1627 [View PDF (386 kB)]
 
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