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  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
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  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
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Quantum information

Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm as a test of quantum computation David Collins, K. W. Kim, and W. C. Holton pp. R1633-R1636 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Magneto-optical trapping of radioactive 82Rb atoms R. Guckert, X. Zhao, S. G. Crane, A. Hime, W. A. Taylor, D. Tupa, D. J. Vieira, and H. Wollnik pp. R1637-R1640 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Polarization, correlation, and distortion effects in excitation processes Jamal Berakdar pp. R1641-R1644 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

‘Characterization of the intermediate and final states of the 2p3/2-14p resonant Auger spectra of HCl J. Mursu, A. Kivimäki, H. Aksela, and S. Aksela pp. R1645-R1648 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Signature of metastable electrons in highly charged ion-surface interactions J. Ducrée, J. Mrogenda, E. Reckels, M. Rüther, A. Heinen, Ch. Vitt, M. Venier, J. Leuker, and H. J. Andrä pp. R1649-R1652 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Scattering-theory formulation of stopping powers of a solid target for protons and antiprotons with velocity-dependent screening I. Nagy and B. Apagyi pp. R1653-R1656 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Single-atom dynamics revealed by photon correlations V. Gomer, F. Strauch, B. Ueberholz, S. Knappe, and D. Meschede pp. R1657-R1660 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Engineering the Hamiltonian of a trapped atom R. L. de Matos Filho and W. Vogel pp. R1661-R1664 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Berry’s phase in the presence of a stochastically evolving environment: A geometric mechanism for energy-level broadening Frank Gaitan pp. 1665-1677 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aspects of classical and quantum motion on a flux cone E. S. Moreira pp. 1678-1686 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ladder proof of nonlocality without inequalities and without probabilities Adán Cabello pp. 1687-1693 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized quantum measurements and local realism Marek Żukowski, Ryszard Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Paweł Horodecki pp. 1694-1698 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Markovian quantum state diffusion L. Diósi, N. Gisin, and W. T. Strunz pp. 1699-1712 [View PDF (402 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path-integral approach to the dynamic Casimir effect with fluctuating boundaries Ramin Golestanian and Mehran Kardar pp. 1713-1722 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reconstruction of Liouvillian superoperators Vladimír Bužek pp. 1723-1727 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solutions of the Schrödinger equation for an attractive 1/r6 potential Bo Gao pp. 1728-1734 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of open systems governed by the Milburn equation V. Bužek and M. Konôpka pp. 1735-1739 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bohmian analysis of momentum transfer in welcher Weg measurements H. M. Wiseman pp. 1740-1756 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross section of high-energy photon splitting in the electric fields of heavy atoms R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, and V. M. Strakhovenko pp. 1757-1764 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum correspondence for linear canonical transformations on general Hamiltonian systems Kyu Hwang Yeon, Dan F. Walls, Chung In Um, Thomas F. George, and Lakshmi N. Pandey pp. 1765-1774 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Derivation of the equations of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics using the principle of minimum Fisher information Marcel Reginatto pp. 1775-1778 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential virial theorem and quantum fluid dynamics Manoj K. Harbola pp. 1779-1782 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum radiation in external background fields Ralf Schützhold, Günter Plunien, and Gerhard Soff pp. 1783-1793 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weyl and Wigner functions in an extended phase-space formalism S. Chountasis and A. Vourdas pp. 1794-1798 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Moment equations for probability distributions in classical and quantum mechanics L. E. Ballentine and S. M. McRae pp. 1799-1809 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Decoherence and relevant universality in quantum algorithms via a dynamic theory for quantum measurement C. P. Sun, H. Zhan, and X. F. Liu pp. 1810-1821 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single quantum querying of a database Barbara M. Terhal and John A. Smolin pp. 1822-1826 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal cloning of pure states R. F. Werner pp. 1827-1832 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computing local invariants of quantum-bit systems Markus Grassl, Martin Rötteler, and Thomas Beth pp. 1833-1839 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Influence of changes in the valence electronic configuration on the Kβ-to-Kα x-ray intensity ratios of the 3d transition metals Marek Polasik pp. 1840-1845 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear dynamics of the hydrogen molecule A. López-Castillo pp. 1846-1858 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution x-ray spectrum of a laser-produced barium plasma in the 9.10–9.36-Å wavelength range R. Doron, E. Behar, M. Fraenkel, P. Mandelbaum, A. Zigler, J. L. Schwob, A. Ya. Faenov, and T. A. Pikuz pp. 1859-1866 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave operator theory of quantum dynamics Philippe Durand and Ivana Paidarová pp. 1867-1878 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum resonance in ethylene: Evidence from vibrationally resolved core photoionization S. L. Sorensen, M. Wiklund, S. Sundin, A. Ausmees, A. Kikas, and S. Svensson pp. 1879-1884 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Failure of multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock wave functions in the nonrelativistic limit Y.-K. Kim, F. Parente, J. P. Marques, P. Indelicato, and J. P. Desclaux pp. 1885-1888 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of the 1De autodetaching resonance in H- and D- D. C. Rislove, Charlie E. Strauss, H. C. Bryant, M. S. Gulley, David J. Funk, Xin Miao Zhao, and W. A. Miller pp. 1889-1897 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetries of highly excited atomic hydrogen: Quadratic Zeeman splitting distorted by fine-structure effects D. A. Arbatsky and P. A. Braun pp. 1898-1901 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state energies of isoelectronic atomic series from density-functional theory: Exploring the accuracy of density functionals Andrzej A. Jarzęcki and Ernest R. Davidson pp. 1902-1909 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recurrence spectroscopy of atoms in electric fields: Failure of classical scaling laws near bifurcations John A. Shaw and F. Robicheaux pp. 1910-1917 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signature of the existence of the positronium molecule J. Usukura, K. Varga, and Y. Suzuki pp. 1918-1931 [View PDF (722 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NaK Λ doubling and permanent electric dipoles in low-lying 1Π states: Experiment and theory M. Tamanis, M. Auzinsh, I. Klincare, O. Nikolayeva, R. Ferber, E. A. Pazyuk, A. V. Stolyarov, and A. Zaitsevskii pp. 1932-1943 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements and modeling of electric-dipole-forbidden 2p1/2-2p3/2 transitions in fluorinelike U81+ through berylliumlike U88+ P. Beiersdorfer, A. L. Osterheld, and S. R. Elliott pp. 1944-1953 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy differences between density-functional-theory functional values for the near-exact and the Hartree-Fock densities by the line-integral method V. Karasiev and R. López-Boada pp. 1954-1959 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angle-resolved photoelectron spectrum of rotational states in H2+ G. Öhrwall and P. Baltzer pp. 1960-1965 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Reevaluation of electron-capture cross sections in C4++  H collisions H. C. Tseng and C. D. Lin pp. 1966-1970 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binary-encounter electron emission after fast heavy-ion impact on complex rare- and molecular-gas targets U. Bechthold, J. Ullrich, U. Ramm, G. Kraft, S. Hagmann, D. R. Schultz, C. O. Reinhold, and H. Schmidt-Böcking pp. 1971-1979 [View PDF (4473 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution to a multichannel Bethe potential and its application to pion-nucleus reactions V. Antonelli and E. Torrente Lujan pp. 1980-1987 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbit interaction and molecular-field effects in the L2,3VV Auger-electron spectra of HCl Reinhold F. Fink, Mika Kivilompolo, Helena Aksela, and Seppo Aksela pp. 1988-2000 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectronic recombination in Li+ P. A. Závodszky, J. H. Houck, J. A. Tanis, W. G. Graham, E. Jasper, J. R. Mowat, W. W. Jacobs, and T. Rinckel pp. 2001-2006 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast x-ray processes with hollow atoms Kengo Moribayashi, Akira Sasaki, and T. Tajima pp. 2007-2015 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonrelativistic two-photon electron bremsstrahlung in a Coulomb field, including retardation M. Dondera and Viorica Florescu pp. 2016-2022 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collision-induced transitions between the Zeeman-split (J,m) levels of Rb(5 2P1/2, 5 2P3/2) Matthew D. Rotondaro and Glen P. Perram pp. 2023-2029 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shakeoff measurement of the l=3 states of barium Heider N. Ereifej and J. G. Story pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections for K-shell ionization of niobium by electron impact Xiufeng Peng, Fuqing He, Xianguan Long, Zhengming Luo, and Zhu An pp. 2034-2036 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influences from the C 1s shape resonance on the vibrational progression in the Auger decay of CO S. Sundin, A. Ausmees, O. Björneholm, S. L. Sorensen, M. Wiklund, A. Kikas, and S. Svensson pp. 2037-2042 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Charge-exchange cross sections and beam lifetimes for stored and decelerated bare uranium ions Th. Stöhlker, T. Ludziejewski, H. Reich, F. Bosch, R. W. Dunford, J. Eichler, B. Franzke, C. Kozhuharov, G. Menzel, P. H. Mokler, F. Nolden, P. Rymuza, Z. Stachura, M. Steck, P. Swiat, A. Warczak, and T. Winkler pp. 2043-2050 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laser spectroscopic measurements of binding energies and fine-structure splittings of Co-, Ni-, Rh-, and Pd- Michael Scheer, Cicely A. Brodie, René C. Bilodeau, and Harold K. Haugen pp. 2051-2062 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of electronic exchange on single and multiple processes in collisions between bare ions and noble-gas atoms T. Kirchner, L. Gulyás, H. J. Lüdde, E. Engel, and R. M. Dreizler pp. 2063-2076 [View PDF (677 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Siegert pseudostate formulation of scattering theory: One-channel case Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Valentin N. Ostrovsky, and Hiroki Nakamura pp. 2077-2096 [View PDF (346 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multichannel photoionization spectroscopy of Ar: Total cross section and threshold photoelectrons Hugo W. van der Hart and Chris H. Greene pp. 2097-2105 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic, diffusion, and viscosity cross sections for collisions involving excited atomic hydrogen R. Celiberto, U. T. Lamanna, and M. Capitelli pp. 2106-2114 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General analytic formula for total dielectronic recombination rate coefficients of Ni-like ions E. Behar, R. Doron, P. Mandelbaum, and J. L. Schwob pp. 2115-2120 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fast ion-beam photoelectron spectroscopy of Ca-: Cross sections and asymmetry parameters D. H. Lee, D. J. Pegg, and D. Hanstorp pp. 2121-2127 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alignment caused by photoionization and in radiative electron capture into excited states of hydrogenic high-Z ions Jörg Eichler, A. Ichihara, and T. Shirai pp. 2128-2135 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental investigation of the initial-state alignment dependence in the energy pooling process: Ca(4s4p3P1)+Ca(4s4p 3P1)→Ca(4s4p 1P1)+Ca(4s2) Harold V. Parks, Eileen M. Spain, John E. Smedley, and Stephen R. Leone pp. 2136-2147 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inversion relations for exclusive and inclusive cross sections within the independent electron approximation M. M. Sant’Anna, E. C. Montenegro, and J. H. McGuire pp. 2148-2159 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic Levinson theorem in two dimensions Shi-Hai Dong, Xi-Wen Hou, and Zhong-Qi Ma pp. 2160-2167 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Electronic energy loss of helium ions in aluminum using the extended-sum-rule method A. F. Lifschitz and N. R. Arista pp. 2168-2173 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hybridization of ionic levels at metal surfaces P. Kürpick and U. Thumm pp. 2174-2182 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited-state subshell population of hydrogen atoms after transmission of relativistic H- ions through thin foils P. Kürpick, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, and B. Gervais pp. 2183-2190 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple scattering effects on stopping power of large clusters in solids Z. L. Mišković, W.-K. Liu, and You-Nian Wang pp. 2191-2195 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Magnetic and electronic properties of rhodium clusters Chang-Hong Chien, Estela Blaisten-Barojas, and Mark R. Pederson pp. 2196-2202 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Ladder climbing and multiphoton dissociation of polyatomic molecules excited with short pulses: Basic theory and applications to HCO Peter Schwendner, Christian Beck, and Reinhard Schinke pp. 2203-2213 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization of many-electron atoms by a quasistatic electric field Dimitri Fisher, Yitzhak Maron, and Lev P. Pitaevskii pp. 2214-2224 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-atom scattering at small angles in a CO2 laser field Jinfeng Sun, Shenghai Zhang, Yuhai Jiang, and Gongqi Yu pp. 2225-2228 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accurate ionization thresholds of atoms subject to half-cycle pulses S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, B. E. Tannian, R. A. Popple, and F. B. Dunning pp. 2229-2241 [View PDF (435 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rapid adiabatic passage in laser cooling of fast stored ion beams B. Wanner, R. Grimm, A. Gruber, D. Habs, H.-J. Miesner, J. S. Nielsen, and D. Schwalm pp. 2242-2251 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential intracavity phase spectroscopy and its application to a three-level system in samarium Scott A. Diddams, Jean-Claude Diels, and Briggs Atherton pp. 2252-2264 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frequency-modulated excitation of a two-level atom Michael W. Noel, W. M. Griffith, and T. F. Gallagher pp. 2265-2273 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom dynamics between conducting plates S. Al-Awfi and M. Babiker pp. 2274-2281 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alkali-metal-atom polarization imaging in high-pressure optical-pumping cells A. Ben-Amar Baranga, S. Appelt, C. J. Erickson, A. R. Young, and W. Happer pp. 2282-2294 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic population transfer by delayed laser pulses in multistate systems N. V. Vitanov pp. 2295-2309 [View PDF (305 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac Stark effect in a doubly driven three-level atom Changjiang Wei, Dieter Suter, Andrew S. Windsor, and Neil B. Manson pp. 2310-2318 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray-atom scattering in the presence of a laser field D. B. Milošević and F. Ehlotzky pp. 2319-2326 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distortion of spectral line profiles of laser-cooled ions in a radio-frequency ion trap Taro Hasegawa, Daisuke Tanooka, and Tadao Shimizu pp. 2327-2331 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy absorption by charge-resonance-enhanced ionization during atom-ion collisions in an intense laser field Liang Feng and Yu-kun Ho pp. 2332-2336 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diatomic molecule under pulsed field: One-dimensional versus full-dimensional studies J. T. Lin, D. S. Chuu, and T. F. Jiang pp. 2337-2341 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Interference stabilization of Rydberg atoms in a strong laser field and phase locking of an array of cavities: Common properties of the phenomena V. V. Apollonov, S. I. Derzhavin, V. I. Kislov, V. V. Kuzminov, D. A. Mashkovsky, and A. M. Prokhorov pp. 2342-2344 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent population trapping in cesium: Dark lines and coherent microwave emission Jacques Vanier, Aldo Godone, and Filippo Levi pp. 2345-2358 [View PDF (684 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Statistical mechanics of ideal Bose atoms in a harmonic trap N. L. Balazs and T. Bergeman pp. 2359-2372 [View PDF (296 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherence of atomic matter-wave fields E. V. Goldstein, O. Zobay, and P. Meystre pp. 2373-2384 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensed gases in highly deformed traps S. Stringari pp. 2385-2388 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the quantum degeneracy of a dilute Bose gas with squeezed light Bereket Berhane and T. A. Kennedy pp. 2389-2398 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Homodyne measurements on a Bose-Einstein condensate J. F. Corney and G. J. Milburn pp. 2399-2406 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multilayer “dielectric” mirror for atoms Luis Santos and Luis Roso pp. 2407-2412 [View PDF (749 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conical lens for atom focusing B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman pp. 2413-2416 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solitary waves in clouds of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms A. D. Jackson, G. M. Kavoulakis, and C. J. Pethick pp. 2417-2422 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical description of a trapped semi-ideal Bose gas at finite temperature