• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
• ARTICLES
  • 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
• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Radiative transitions and van der Waals coefficients for francium M. Marinescu, D. Vrinceanu, and H. R. Sadeghpour pp. R4259-R4262 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Exploring a quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms B. DeMarco and D. S. Jin pp. R4267-R4270 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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 (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Casimir force between a dielectric sphere and a wall: A model for amplification of vacuum fluctuations L. H. Ford pp. 4279-4286 [View PDF (499 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Translational shape invariance and the inherent potential algebra Asim Gangopadhyaya, Jeffry V. Mallow, and Uday P. Sukhatme pp. 4287-4292 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Patterns of time propagation on the grid of potential curves Valentin N. Ostrovsky and Hiroki Nakamura pp. 4293-4299 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Complement of the Hamiltonian D. T. Pegg pp. 4307-4313 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Clones and other interference effects in the evolution of angular-momentum coherent states P. Rozmej and R. Arvieu pp. 4314-4329 [View PDF (579 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantization of non-Hamiltonian physical systems A. O. Bolivar pp. 4330-4335 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Nonlocality of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state in the Wigner representation Konrad Banaszek and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz pp. 4345-4347 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Delayed single-photon self-interference R. Krishna Mohan, Baozhu Luo, Stefan Kröll, and Alois Mair pp. 4348-4358 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling time through a rectangular barrier Veríssimo M. de Aquino, Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, Mario Goto, and Hiromi Iwamoto pp. 4359-4367 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Quantum teleportation of a field state M. Suhail Zubairy pp. 4368-4372 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Teleportation of N-dimensional states Stig Stenholm and Patrick J. Bardroff pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal copying of one quantum bit Chi-Sheng Niu and Robert B. Griffiths pp. 4377-4393 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum teleportation using three-particle entanglement Anders Karlsson and Mohamed Bourennane pp. 4394-4400 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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

•

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 (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Coulomb deexcitation and isotope exchange of excited mesic hydrogen A. V. Kravtsov and A. I. Mikhailov pp. 4426-4430 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of muon spin relaxation of Mu + CO Ralph Eric Turner and R. F. Snider pp. 4431-4446 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical values of the dipole polarizabilities of H2+(0,0) and D2+(0,0) R. E. Moss pp. 4447-4448 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

•	Optical properties of helium including relativistic corrections A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman pp. 4470-4472 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Bound-state properties of negatively charged hydrogenlike ions Alexei M. Frolov pp. 4479-4483 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Angular distributions and rotational excitations for electron scattering from ozone molecules F. A. Gianturco, P. Paioletti, and N. Sanna pp. 4484-4493 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Photoionization with excitation and double photoionization of the helium isoelectronic sequence Anatoli S. Kheifets and Igor Bray pp. 4501-4511 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•

Absolute cross sections for excitation of the 2s 2S→2p 2P transition in B2+ and for electron-impact single ionization of B2+ O. Woitke, N. Djurić, G. H. Dunn, M. E. Bannister, A. C. Smith, B. Wallbank, N. R. Badnell, and M. S. Pindzola pp. 4512-4517 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•

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 (4930 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

•	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. Lundsgaard, C. D. Lin, and N. Toshima pp. 4565-4571 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact excitation and collisional transfer into the nF levels of helium J. Ethan Chilton and Chun C. Lin pp. 4572-4580 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Electron-ion recombination of Fe IV Sultana N. Nahar, Manuel A. Bautista, and Anil K. Pradhan pp. 4593-4602 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Geometrical basis for molecular stopping anisotropy Sten P. Apell, S. B. Trickey, and John R. Sabin pp. 4616-4621 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binary mechanism in grazing ion-surface collisions M. S. Gravielle pp. 4622-4629 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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

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

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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

•	Two-mode two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with atomic motion Amitabh Joshi pp. 4662-4667 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

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

•	Population-loss-induced narrowing of dark resonances Ferruccio Renzoni and Ennio Arimondo pp. 4717-4722 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

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

•	Generalized Floquet formulation of time-dependent current-density-functional theory Dmitry A. Telnov and Shih-I Chu pp. 4749-4756 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ionization of Rydberg atoms by Coriolis forces T. Uzer, Ernestine Lee, and David Farrelly pp. 4761-4767 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Submicron rectangular cylinders as atom guides S. Al-Awfi and M. Babiker pp. 4768-4778 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Fermi accelerator in atom optics Farhan Saif, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Mauro Fortunato, and Wolfgang P. Schleich pp. 4779-4783 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Amplifying an atomic wave signal using a Bose-Einstein condensate C. K. Law and N. P. Bigelow pp. 4791-4795 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical temperature of trapped hard-sphere Bose gases Sean Pearson, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen pp. 4796-4800 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution amplitude and phase gratings in atom optics P. R. Berman, B. Dubetsky, and J. L. Cohen pp. 4801-4810 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions: A quantum Monte Carlo study Sean Pearson, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen pp. 4811-4815 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortices in Bose-Einstein-condensed atomic clouds Emil Lundh, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith pp. 4816-4823 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures in weakly and strongly segregated phases P. Ao and S. T. Chui pp. 4836-4840 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generic model of an atom laser B. Kneer, T. Wong, K. Vogel, W. P Schleich, and D. F. Walls pp. 4841-4853 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonergodic behavior of interacting bosons in harmonic traps Thomas Papenbrock and George F. Bertsch pp. 4854-4861 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Quantum superposition states in third-harmonic generation S. T. Gevorkyan pp. 4862-4867 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluorescence control through multiple interference mechanisms E. Paspalakis, C. H. Keitel, and P. L. Knight pp. 4868-4877 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of bistable inversionless lasers Guo Qin Ge and L. M. Chen pp. 4878-4885 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of dynamical suppression of spontaneous emission P. R. Berman pp. 4886-4891 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Fermion and boson beam-splitter statistics Rodney Loudon pp. 4904-4909 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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

•	Combined longitudinal and transverse noise enhancement in lasers Krista Joosten and Gerard Nienhuis pp. 4937-4945 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Characterization of third-harmonic generation in Fibonacci optical superlattices Xianjie Liu, Zhenlin Wang, Jun Wu, and Naiben Ming pp. 4956-4960 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Electronic-field correlation functions Tomáš Tyc pp. 4967-4971 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Two thermodynamically stable states in SiO- and PN- Gennady L. Gutsev, Puru Jena, and Rodney J. Bartlett pp. 4972-4974 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identical motion in classical and quantum mechanics A. J. Makowski and S. Konkel pp. 4975-4977 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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

•	Experimental measurement of the C II L-shell photoabsorption spectrum P. Nicolosi and P. Villoresi pp. 4985-4988 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic information in the characterization of atomic photoionization L. A. LaJohn and R. H. Pratt pp. 4989-4992 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved spin-orbit inversion method D. R. Lun, M. Eberspächer, K. Amos, W. Scheid, and S. J. Buckman pp. 4993-4996 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Semiclassical limit of the scattering Coulomb wave function Inés Samengo pp. 5001-5003 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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

•	Chemical effects on the Bethe-Bloch stopping formula within the statistical model Dieter Semrad pp. 5008-5010 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (