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  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
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  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probability of photoassociation from a quasicontinuum approach Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie pp. R789-R792 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiclassical dynamics of strongly driven systems M. Yu. Ivanov, O. V. Tikhonova, and M. V. Fedorov pp. R793-R796 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitability in a nonlinear optical cavity Weiping Lu, Dejin Yu, and Robert G. Harrison pp. R809-R811 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Quantum conditional probability and hidden-variables models James D. Malley pp. 812-820 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Local description of quantum inseparability Anna Sanpera, Rolf Tarrach, and Guifré Vidal pp. 826-830 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometry of the Hilbert space and the quantum Zeno effect A. K. Pati and S. V. Lawande pp. 831-835 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical analysis of seemingly interaction-free measurements A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto pp. 836-839 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time of arrival in quantum and Bohmian mechanics C. R. Leavens pp. 840-847 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weyl functions and their use in the study of quantum interference S. Chountasis and A. Vourdas pp. 848-855 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling near the base of a barrier C. Eltschka, H. Friedrich, M. J. Moritz, and J. Trost pp. 856-861 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Bures distance between two displaced thermal states Gh.-S. Paraoanu and Horia Scutaru pp. 869-871 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic geometric phase in periodic linear systems Y. C. Ge and M. S. Child pp. 872-882 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Volume of the set of separable states Karol Życzkowski, Paweł Horodecki, Anna Sanpera, and Maciej Lewenstein pp. 883-892 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum robots and environments Paul Benioff pp. 893-904 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum convolutional error-correcting codes H. F. Chau pp. 905-909 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elliptical ion traps and trap arrays for quantum computation Ralph G. DeVoe pp. 910-914 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum computation and decision trees Edward Farhi and Sam Gutmann pp. 915-928 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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

•	Infinity-free semiclassical evaluation of Casimir effects Martin Schaden and Larry Spruch pp. 935-953 [View PDF (423 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

•	Analysis of the electron self-energy for tightly bound electrons Ingvar Lindgren, Hans Persson, Sten Salomonson, and Per Sunnergren pp. 1001-1015 [View PDF (554 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Shapes of pressure- and Doppler-broadened spectral lines in the core and near wings Roman Ciuryło pp. 1029-1039 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Recurrences without closed orbits F. Robicheaux and J. Shaw pp. 1043-1047 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization labeling spectroscopy of the 3 1Π and 6 1Σ+ states in NaK A. Pashov, I. Jackowska, W. Jastrzȩbski, and P. Kowalczyk pp. 1048-1054 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Relativistic calculations for Fe XXIII: Atomic structure Chen Guo-xin and P. P. Ong pp. 1070-1081 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic dipole polarizabilities of H2+ and D2+ ground states J. Shertzer and Chris H. Greene pp. 1082-1086 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the ratio of the cesium D-line transition strengths Robert J. Rafac and Carol E. Tanner pp. 1087-1097 [View PDF (544 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Even-parity triply excited states of lithium Ying Zhang and Kwong T. Chung pp. 1098-1102 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

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

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

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Spin-exchange effects on tensor polarization of deuterium atoms H. J. Bulten, Z.-L. Zhou, J. F. van den Brand, M. Ferro-Luzzi, and J. Lang pp. 1146-1151 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ab initio molecular treatment of charge transfer by Si4+ ions in helium M. C. Bacchus-Montabonel and P. Ceyzeriat pp. 1162-1165 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

•	Relativistic calculations for Fe XXIII: Electron-impact excitation Chen Guo-xin and P. P. Ong pp. 1183-1194 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonstationary theory of wave-packet potential scattering D. R. Bitouk and M. V. Fedorov pp. 1195-1203 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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. Santos, G. M. Sigaud, E. C. Montenegro, M. B. Shah, and W. E. Meyerhof pp. 1204-1211 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inner radiation emitted during β± decay and related problems Alexei M. Frolov and Vedene H. Smith pp. 1212-1220 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

•	Long-range interactions of metastable helium atoms Zong-Chao Yan and J. F. Babb pp. 1247-1252 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Kinematic explanation of the observation of very narrow linewidths from dissociative-recombination reactions Kenneth A. Hardy pp. 1256-1260 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Autoionization of a quasicontinuum: Population trapping, self-trapping, and stabilization Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell pp. 1267-1274 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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

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

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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

•	Two-electron atoms in short intense laser pulses Armin Scrinzi and Bernard Piraux pp. 1310-1321 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ionization via high-Rydberg states with multiple V-type resonances R. Parzyński and A. Grudka pp. 1335-1345 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Laser catalysis with pulses Amichay Vardi and Moshe Shapiro pp. 1352-1360 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Intracavity self-induced transparency of a multilevel absorber M. Müller, V. P. Kalosha, and J. Herrmann pp. 1372-1381 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal localization of wave packets on invariant structures W. Schweizer, W. Jans, and T. Uzer pp. 1382-1388 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of collective effects in the multiphoton ionization of atomic deuterium P. Bowe, F. Giammanco, R. W. O’Neill, P. J. van der Burgt, and J. A. Slevin pp. 1389-1398 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

Matter waves

•	Excitation spectrum and instability of a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate D. Gordon and C. M. Savage pp. 1440-1444 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

•	Bose-Einstein condensation in an external potential at zero temperature: General theory Tai Tsun Wu pp. 1465-1474 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Bose-Einstein condensates in spatially periodic potentials Kirstine Berg-Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer pp. 1480-1484 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Bose-Einstein condensation of a finite number of particles confined to harmonic traps R. K. Pathria pp. 1490-1495 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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

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

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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. Chilla, J. J. Rocca, and A. L. Osterheld pp. 1509-1514 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Emission spectrum in driven two-level systems Hao Wang, Valder N. Freire, and Xian-Geng Zhao pp. 1531-1536 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical analysis of the metastable driven and damped quantized anharmonic oscillator Bjarne Vestergaard and Juha Javanainen pp. 1537-1544 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

•	Threshold and nonlinear behavior of lasers of Λ and V configurations Gennady A. Koganov and Reuben Shuker pp. 1559-1562 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Two-wave two-wavelength mixing in photochromic molecular systems D. Dantsker and A. Persoons pp. 1567-1573 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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

•	Kohn-Sham formulation of density-functional theory Abraham Klein and Reiner M. Dreizler pp. 1581-1584 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	High-resolution experimental determination of the angular distribution and spin