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Physical Review A – December 1998
Volume 58, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Radiative transitions and van der Waals coefficients for francium
M. Marinescu, D. Vrinceanu, and H. R. Sadeghpour
pp. R4259-R4262 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Time-delay spectroscopy of autoionizing resonances
Stefano Cavalieri and Roberto Eramo
pp. R4263-R4266 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Exploring a quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms
B. DeMarco and D. S. Jin
pp. R4267-R4270 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Single and double ionization of diatomic molecules in strong laser fields
C. Guo, M. Li, J. P. Nibarger, and G. N. Gibson
pp. R4271-R4274 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Matter waves

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Method for quantum-limited detection of narrow-linewidth transitions in cold atomic ensembles
Takayuki Kurosu, Götz Zinner, Tilmann Trebst, and Fritz Riehle
pp. R4275-R4278 [View PDF (72 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Casimir force between a dielectric sphere and a wall: A model for amplification of vacuum fluctuations
L. H. Ford
pp. 4279-4286 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Translational shape invariance and the inherent potential algebra
Asim Gangopadhyaya, Jeffry V. Mallow, and Uday P. Sukhatme
pp. 4287-4292 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Patterns of time propagation on the grid of potential curves
Valentin N. Ostrovsky and Hiroki Nakamura
pp. 4293-4299 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Adiabatic theorem without a gap condition: Two-level system coupled to quantized radiation field
J. E. Avron and A. Elgart
pp. 4300-4306 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Complement of the Hamiltonian
D. T. Pegg
pp. 4307-4313 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Clones and other interference effects in the evolution of angular-momentum coherent states
P. Rozmej and R. Arvieu
pp. 4314-4329 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Quantization of non-Hamiltonian physical systems
A. O. Bolivar
pp. 4330-4335 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Space-time properties of free-motion time-of-arrival eigenfunctions
J. G. Muga, C. R. Leavens, and J. P. Palao
pp. 4336-4344 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Nonlocality of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state in the Wigner representation
Konrad Banaszek and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 4345-4347 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Delayed single-photon self-interference
R. Krishna Mohan, Baozhu Luo, Stefan Kröll, and Alois Mair
pp. 4348-4358 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Tunneling time through a rectangular barrier
Veríssimo M. de Aquino, Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, Mario Goto, and Hiromi Iwamoto
pp. 4359-4367 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum teleportation of a field state
M. Suhail Zubairy
pp. 4368-4372 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Teleportation of N-dimensional states
Stig Stenholm and Patrick J. Bardroff
pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Optimal copying of one quantum bit
Chi-Sheng Niu and Robert B. Griffiths
pp. 4377-4393 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Quantum teleportation using three-particle entanglement
Anders Karlsson and Mohamed Bourennane
pp. 4394-4400 [View PDF (342 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculations of the hyperfine structure constants and determination of the nuclear quadrupole moment of yttrium 90
Jacek Bieroń, Ian P. Grant, and Charlotte Froese Fischer
pp. 4401-4405 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Influence of oxygen admixtures on the lifetime of metastable antiprotonic helium atoms
R. Pohl, F. J. Hartmann, B. Ketzer, C. Maierl, T. von Egidy, J. Eades, E. Widmann, T. Yamazaki, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, R. S. Hayano, M. Hori, T. Ishikawa, H. A. Torii, I. Sugai, and D. Horváth
pp. 4406-4415 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Observation of the far wing of Lyman α due to neutral atom and ion collisions in a laser-produced plasma
J. F. Kielkopf and N. F. Allard
pp. 4416-4425 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Coulomb deexcitation and isotope exchange of excited mesic hydrogen
A. V. Kravtsov and A. I. Mikhailov
pp. 4426-4430 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Theory of muon spin relaxation of Mu + CO
Ralph Eric Turner and R. F. Snider
pp. 4431-4446 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Theoretical values of the dipole polarizabilities of H2+(0,0) and D2+(0,0)
R. E. Moss
pp. 4447-4448 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Measurement of the N+ 2s2p3 5S2o level lifetime using a heavy-ion storage ring
E. Träbert, A. Wolf, E. H. Pinnington, J. Linkemann, E. J. Knystautas, A. Curtis, N. Bhattacharya, and H. G. Berry
pp. 4449-4452 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Negative-energy contributions to transition amplitudes in heliumlike ions
A. Derevianko, Igor M. Savukov, W. R. Johnson, and D. R. Plante
pp. 4453-4461 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Extended Coulomb approximation for multichannel-quantum-defect-theory computations of dipole moments: Method of calculation and application to H2
A. Matzkin, Ch. Jungen, and S. C. Ross
pp. 4462-4469 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Optical properties of helium including relativistic corrections
A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman
pp. 4470-4472 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Probing the spatial dispersion in a dense atomic vapor near a dielectric interface
H. van Kampen, V. A. Sautenkov, E. R. Eliel, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 4473-4478 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Bound-state properties of negatively charged hydrogenlike ions
Alexei M. Frolov
pp. 4479-4483 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Angular distributions and rotational excitations for electron scattering from ozone molecules
F. A. Gianturco, P. Paioletti, and N. Sanna
pp. 4484-4493 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Saturation effect in the excitation of heliumlike Si projectiles in the intermediate velocity range
U. Tiwari, A. K. Saha, L. C. Tribedi, M. B. Kurup, P. N. Tandon, and L. Gulyas
pp. 4494-4500 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Photoionization with excitation and double photoionization of the helium isoelectronic sequence
Anatoli S. Kheifets and Igor Bray
pp. 4501-4511 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Absolute cross sections for excitation of the 2s2S⃗2p2P transition in B2+ and for electron-impact single ionization of B2+
O. Woitke, N. Djurić, G. H. Dunn, M. E. Bannister, A. C. H. Smith, B. Wallbank, N. R. Badnell, and M. S. Pindzola
pp. 4512-4517 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Channel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged krypton
T. Fuchs, C. Biedermann, R. Radtke, E. Behar, and R. Doron
pp. 4518-4525 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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H0(n=3,4) Stark states produced in the interaction of 800-MeV H- ions with thin foils
P. B. Keating, M. S. Gulley, H. C. Bryant, E. P. MacKerrow, W. A. Miller, D. C. Rislove, Stanley Cohen, J. B. Donahue, D. H. Fitzgerald, David J. Funk, S. C. Frankle, R. L. Hutson, R. J. Macek, M. A. Plum, N. G. Stanciu, O. B. van Dyck, and C. A. Wilkinson
pp. 4526-4538 [View PDF (4,930 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination for boronlike ions
M. H. Chen, K. J. Reed, D. S. Guo, and D. W. Savin
pp. 4539-4547 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Intermediate-coupling calculations of the effects of interacting resonances on dielectronic recombination in a static electric field
D. C. Griffin, D. Mitnik, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux
pp. 4548-4555 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Production of relativistic positronium in collisions of photons and electrons with nuclei and atoms
S. R. Gevorkyan, E. A. Kuraev, A. Schiller, V. G. Serbo, and A. V. Tarasov
pp. 4556-4564 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Electron capture from a directed Stark-Rydberg state: Fore-and-aft ratios
D. M. Homan, O. P. Makarov, O. P. Sorokina, K. B. MacAdam, M. F. V. Lundsgaard, C. D. Lin, and N. Toshima
pp. 4565-4571 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation and collisional transfer into the nF levels of helium
J. Ethan Chilton and Chun C. Lin
pp. 4572-4580 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Identification of the Beutler-Fano formula in eigenphase shifts and eigentime delays near a resonance
Chun-Woo Lee
pp. 4581-4592 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Electron-ion recombination of Fe IV
Sultana N. Nahar, Manuel A. Bautista, and Anil K. Pradhan
pp. 4593-4602 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Measurement of the cross sections for electron-impact excitation into the 5p56p levels of xenon
John T. Fons and Chun C. Lin
pp. 4603-4615 [View PDF (242 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Geometrical basis for molecular stopping anisotropy
Sten P. Apell, S. B. Trickey, and John R. Sabin
pp. 4616-4621 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Binary mechanism in grazing ion-surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle
pp. 4622-4629 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of neutral and charged Nbn (n=8,9,10) clusters
Henrik Grönbeck, Arne Rosén, and Wanda Andreoni
pp. 4630-4636 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Highly charged carbon ions formed by femtosecond laser excitation of C60: A step towards an x-ray laser
R. C. Constantinescu, S. Hunsche, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, H. G. Muller, C. LeBlanc, and F. Salin
pp. 4637-4646 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Local and global properties of light-bound atomic lattices investigated by Bragg diffraction
Matthias Weidemüller, Axel Görlitz, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Andreas Hemmerich
pp. 4647-4661 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Two-mode two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with atomic motion
Amitabh Joshi
pp. 4662-4667 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Avoided crossings of diamagnetic hydrogen as functions of magnetic field strength and angular momentum
J. R. Walkup, M. Dunn, D. K. Watson, and T. C. Germann
pp. 4668-4682 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Stimulated hyper-Raman adiabatic passage. I. The basic problem and examples
L. P. Yatsenko, S. Guérin, T. Halfmann, K. Böhmer, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
pp. 4683-4690 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Stimulated hyper-Raman adiabatic passage. II. Static compensation of dynamic Stark shifts
S. Guérin, L. P. Yatsenko, T. Halfmann, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
pp. 4691-4704 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence and absorption spectra from a two-level atom driven by coherent and stochastic fields
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 4705-4716 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Population-loss-induced narrowing of dark resonances
Ferruccio Renzoni and Ennio Arimondo
pp. 4717-4722 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Direct evidence of the generality of charge-asymmetric dissociation of molecular iodine ionized by strong laser fields
G. N. Gibson, M. Li, C. Guo, and J. P. Nibarger
pp. 4723-4727 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nonlinear motional effects in the spectroscopy of a trapped and laser-driven atom
M. Jakob, B. Kneer, and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
pp. 4728-4740 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Uniform, rapidly convergent algorithm for quantum optimal control of objectives with a positive semidefinite Hessian matrix
Wusheng Zhu and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 4741-4748 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Generalized Floquet formulation of time-dependent current-density-functional theory
Dmitry A. Telnov and Shih-I Chu
pp. 4749-4756 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Stochastic cooling of atoms using lasers
M. G. Raizen, J. Koga, B. Sundaram, Y. Kishimoto, H. Takuma, and T. Tajima
pp. 4757-4760 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ionization of Rydberg atoms by Coriolis forces
T. Uzer, Ernestine Lee, and David Farrelly
pp. 4761-4767 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Submicron rectangular cylinders as atom guides
S. Al-Awfi and M. Babiker
pp. 4768-4778 [View PDF (318 kB)]

Matter waves

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Fermi accelerator in atom optics
Farhan Saif, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Mauro Fortunato, and Wolfgang P. Schleich
pp. 4779-4783 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Matter-wave optics in the time domain: Results of a cold-neutron experiment
Th. Hils, J. Felber, R. Gähler, W. Gläser, R. Golub, K. Habicht, and P. Wille
pp. 4784-4790 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Amplifying an atomic wave signal using a Bose-Einstein condensate
C. K. Law and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 4791-4795 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Critical temperature of trapped hard-sphere Bose gases
Sean Pearson, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen
pp. 4796-4800 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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High-resolution amplitude and phase gratings in atom optics
P. R. Berman, B. Dubetsky, and J. L. Cohen
pp. 4801-4810 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Sean Pearson, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen
pp. 4811-4815 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Vortices in Bose-Einstein-condensed atomic clouds
Emil Lundh, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith
pp. 4816-4823 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Dynamical quantum noise in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
M. J. Steel, M. K. Olsen, L. I. Plimak, P. D. Drummond, S. M. Tan, M. J. Collett, D. F. Walls, and R. Graham
pp. 4824-4835 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures in weakly and strongly segregated phases
P. Ao and S. T. Chui
pp. 4836-4840 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Generic model of an atom laser
B. Kneer, T. Wong, K. Vogel, W. P Schleich, and D. F. Walls
pp. 4841-4853 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Nonergodic behavior of interacting bosons in harmonic traps
Thomas Papenbrock and George F. Bertsch
pp. 4854-4861 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum superposition states in third-harmonic generation
S. T. Gevorkyan
pp. 4862-4867 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Fluorescence control through multiple interference mechanisms
E. Paspalakis, C. H. Keitel, and P. L. Knight
pp. 4868-4877 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Quantum theory of bistable inversionless lasers
Guo Qin Ge and L. M. Chen
pp. 4878-4885 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Analysis of dynamical suppression of spontaneous emission
P. R. Berman
pp. 4886-4891 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Theoretical study of quantum dissipation and laser-noise effects on the atomic response
O. El Akramine, A. Makhoute, M. Zitane, and M. Tij
pp. 4892-4903 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Fermion and boson beam-splitter statistics
Rodney Loudon
pp. 4904-4909 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Coherent Raman scattering with incoherent light for a multiply resonant mixture: A factorized time correlator diagram analysis
Jason C. Kirkwood, A. C. Albrecht, Darin J. Ulness, and Michael J. Stimson
pp. 4910-4925 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Enhanced optical nonlinearity by photoinduced molecular orientation in absorbing liquids
L. Marrucci, D. Paparo, G. Abbate, E. Santamato, M. Kreuzer, P. Lehnert, and T. Vogeler
pp. 4926-4936 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Combined longitudinal and transverse noise enhancement in lasers
Krista Joosten and Gerard Nienhuis
pp. 4937-4945 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Antiphase dynamics and self-pulsing due to a low-frequency spatial population grating in a multimode laser
G. Kozyreff and Paul Mandel
pp. 4946-4955 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Characterization of third-harmonic generation in Fibonacci optical superlattices
Xianjie Liu, Zhenlin Wang, Jun Wu, and Naiben Ming
pp. 4956-4960 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Breaking the Stokes–anti-Stokes symmetry in Raman heterodyne detection of magnetic-resonance transitions
Rudolf Neuhaus, Matthew J. Sellars, Stephen J. Bingham, and Dieter Suter
pp. 4961-4966 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Electronic-field correlation functions
Tomáš Tyc
pp. 4967-4971 [View PDF (138 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Two thermodynamically stable states in SiO- and PN-
Gennady L. Gutsev, Puru Jena, and Rodney J. Bartlett
pp. 4972-4974 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Identical motion in classical and quantum mechanics
A. J. Makowski and S. Konkel
pp. 4975-4977 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Interaction-induced dipole and absorption spectra of collisional Ar-Xe pairs
Ivan M. Grigoriev, Michael V. Tonkov, and Lothar Frommhold
pp. 4978-4980 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Variation of photofragment angular distributions near the isolated Lorentzian resonances: Influence of the continuum-continuum interaction
Sungyul Lee
pp. 4981-4984 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Experimental measurement of the C II L-shell photoabsorption spectrum
P. Nicolosi and P. Villoresi
pp. 4985-4988 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Atomic information in the characterization of atomic photoionization
L. A. LaJohn and R. H. Pratt
pp. 4989-4992 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Improved spin-orbit inversion method
D. R. Lun, M. Eberspächer, K. Amos, W. Scheid, and S. J. Buckman
pp. 4993-4996 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Analysis of doubly excited state resonances below the Li(5p) threshold in Li- photodetachment
Chien-Nan Liu and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 4997-5000 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Semiclassical limit of the scattering Coulomb wave function
Inés Samengo
pp. 5001-5003 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Multistep-capture-and-loss model for stabilization processes of hollow Ar atoms formed in a solid
Keiko Suto and Takashi Kagawa
pp. 5004-5007 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Chemical effects on the Bethe-Bloch stopping formula within the statistical model
Dieter Semrad
pp. 5008-5010 [View PDF (101 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Relativistic effects on angular distribution and polarization of dielectronic satellite lines of hydrogenlike ions [Phys. Rev. A 52, 2057 (1995)]
M. H. Chen and J. H. Scofield
pp. 5011 [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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