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Physical Review A – February 1999
Volume 59, Issue 2

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Fundamental concepts

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Weyl series and the trace formula: A prescription for adding them
R. K. Bhaduri, N. D. Whelan, M. Brack, H. G. Miller, and M. V. N. Murthy
pp. R911-R914 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Order-α radiative correction to the rate for parapositronium decay to four photons
Gregory S. Adkins and Eric D. Pfahl
pp. R915-R918 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Variational expansion for antiprotonic helium atoms
V. I. Korobov, D. Bakalov, and H. J. Monkhorst
pp. R919-R921 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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State-selective Rabi and Ramsey magnetic resonance line shapes
G. Xu and D. J. Heinzen
pp. R922-R925 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Inner-shell photoexcitation in an open-shell atom: The Cl 2p⃗ns,md spectrum as a case study
C. D. Caldwell, M. O. Krause, R. D. Cowan, A. Menzel, S. B. Whitfield, S. Hallman, S. P. Frigo, and M. C. Severson
pp. R926-R929 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Quantum-mechanical probabilistic structure of the water dimer with an excess electron
Jongseob Kim, Jin Yong Lee, Kyung Seok Oh, Jung Mee Park, Sik Lee, and Kwang S. Kim
pp. R930-R933 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Magneto-optical trapping of Yb atoms and a limit on the branching ratio of the 1P1 state
K. Honda, Y. Takahashi, T. Kuwamoto, M. Fujimoto, K. Toyoda, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki
pp. R934-R937 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Matter waves

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Spatial observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a confining potential
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich
pp. R938-R941 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Determining the electron forward-scattering amplitude using electron interferometry
Robert C. Forrey, A. Dalgarno, and Jörg Schmiedmayer
pp. R942-R945 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Elimination of Doppler broadening at coherently driven quantum transitions
Alexander K. Popov and Vladimir M. Shalaev
pp. R946-R949 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Simple scheme for state measurement
P. J. Bardroff, M. T. Fontenelle, and S. Stenholm
pp. R950-R953 [View PDF (125 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Photon position operator with commuting components
Margaret Hawton
pp. 954-959 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Localization of events in space-time
M. Toller
pp. 960-970 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics and quantum-state reconstruction for physical systems with Lie-group symmetries
C. Brif and A. Mann
pp. 971-987 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Transition times in the Landau-Zener model
N. V. Vitanov
pp. 988-994 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Levinson’s theorem for the Klein-Gordon equation in two dimensions
Shi-Hai Dong, Xi-Wen Hou, and Zhong-Qi Ma
pp. 995-1002 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Measurable characteristics of a nonrelativistic quantum particle
D. Sokolovski
pp. 1003-1009 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Quantum probability distribution of arrival times and probability current density
V. Delgado
pp. 1010-1020 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Coherent states for the Kepler motion
Tadashi Toyoda and Sumiko Wakayama
pp. 1021-1024 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Creation of entangled states of distant atoms by interference
C. Cabrillo, J. I. Cirac, P. García-Fernández, and P. Zoller
pp. 1025-1033 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Three-body angular basis and simple expression for Wigner d^(β) matrices
A. V. Matveenko
pp. 1034-1037 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Interferometric measurements of the position of a macroscopic body: Towards observation of quantum limits
I. Tittonen, G. Breitenbach, T. Kalkbrenner, T. Müller, R. Conradt, S. Schiller, E. Steinsland, N. Blanc, and N. F. de Rooij
pp. 1038-1044 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Temporal quantum theory
Oliver Rudolph
pp. 1045-1055 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Harmonic oscillators in relativistic quantum mechanics
F. M. Toyama and Y. Nogami
pp. 1056-1062 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Dynamics of particles for circular Rydberg states
Henrik Carlsen and Osvaldo Goscinski
pp. 1063-1069 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum nonlocality without entanglement
Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, Christopher A. Fuchs, Tal Mor, Eric Rains, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, and William K. Wootters
pp. 1070-1091 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Dense coding in photonic quantum communication with enhanced information capacity
Kaoru Shimizu, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Takaaki Mukai
pp. 1092-1097 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Quantum computing with complex instruction sets
G. D. Sanders, K. W. Kim, and W. C. Holton
pp. 1098-1101 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Effective Hamiltonian for atomic collective spectra
Michael E. Kellman
pp. 1102-1108 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Large-dimension limit of higher-angular-momentum states of two-electron atoms
M. Dunn and D. K. Watson
pp. 1109-1124 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Energies of metastable 4So states in the alkaline-earth sequence
Hugo W. van der Hart
pp. 1125-1130 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Expansion of the density-functional energy components Ec and Tc in terms of moments of the electron density
Shubin Liu, Ágnes Nagy, and Robert G. Parr
pp. 1131-1134 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Hyperspherical functions with arbitrary permutational symmetry: Reverse construction
Nir Barnea
pp. 1135-1146 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Wave-packet dynamics of resonant x-ray Raman scattering: Excitation near the Cl LII,III edge of HCl
Paweł Sałek, Faris Gel’mukhanov, and Hans Ågren
pp. 1147-1159 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Isotope effects on antiproton and muon capture by hydrogen and deuterium atoms and molecules
James S. Cohen
pp. 1160-1169 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Hyperfine-structure intervals and isotope shifts in the 3p44s4PJ→3p44p4DJ′ fine-structure multiplet of atomic chlorine by diode laser spectroscopy
D. A. Tate and J. P. Walton
pp. 1170-1177 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Undulations of the potential-energy curves for highly excited electronic states in diatomic molecules related to the atomic orbital undulations
Alexandra Yiannopoulou, Gwang-Hi Jeung, Su Jin Park, Hyo Sug Lee, and Yoon Sup Lee
pp. 1178-1186 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Hybrid approach to relativistic Gaussian basis functions: Theory and applications
Rajat K. Chaudhuri, Prafulla K. Panda, and B. P. Das
pp. 1187-1196 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Geometry effects on the (e,2e) triple differential cross sections of Li+, Na+, and K+
Y. Khajuria and D. N. Tripathi
pp. 1197-1207 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Elastic scattering of electrons by GeH4 in the low- and intermediate-energy range
M.-T. Lee, L. M. Brescansin, and L. E. Machado
pp. 1208-1215 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Cold collisions of Sr*-Sr in a magneto-optical trap
Timothy P. Dinneen, Kurt R. Vogel, Ennio Arimondo, John L. Hall, and Alan Gallagher
pp. 1216-1222 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Coulomb effects on electromagnetic pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
U. Eichmann, J. Reinhardt, S. Schramm, and W. Greiner
pp. 1223-1237 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Algebraic coupled-state calculations of positron-hydrogen scattering near the positronium-formation threshold
T. T. Gien
pp. 1238-1244 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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High-resolution electron-momentum spectroscopy of argon: Validation of technique and approximations
M. J. Brunger, I. E. McCarthy, and E. Weigold
pp. 1245-1252 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Low-energy scattering by nonspherically symmetric targets
Leonard Rosenberg
pp. 1253-1261 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Two- and three-body effects in single ionization of Li by 95-MeV/u Ar18+ projectiles: Analogies with photoionization
N. Stolterfoht, J.-Y. Chesnel, M. Grether, J. A. Tanis, B. Skogvall, F. Frémont, D. Lecler, D. Hennecart, X. Husson, J. P. Grandin, Cs. Koncz, L. Gulyás, and B. Sulik
pp. 1262-1272 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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State-selective charge transfer in slow collisions of partially stripped He-like ions with H2
Anil Kumar and Bidhan C. Saha
pp. 1273-1283 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Interpretation of relativistic (e,2e) experiments in coplanar asymmetric geometry: Atomic-number-dependent effects
S. Keller, R. M. Dreizler, L. U. Ancarani, H. Ast, H. R. J. Walters, and C. T. Whelan
pp. 1284-1290 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Absolute K-shell ionization cross-section measurements of B produced by 0.4–2.0-MeV H+ and He+ ions and by 0.6–1.2-MeV H2+ ions
W. M. Ariyasinghe and D. Powers
pp. 1291-1296 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Calculation of electron-photon coincidence parameters for singlet-triplet mixed 4F states of helium
Dmitry V. Fursa and Igor Bray
pp. 1297-1302 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Ultracold scattering properties of the short-lived Rb isotopes
James P. Burke, Jr. and John L. Bohn
pp. 1303-1308 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Approach to electron translation in low-energy atomic collisions
J. Grosser, T. Menzel, and A. K. Belyaev
pp. 1309-1316 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Double electron removal and fragmentation model of the H2 molecule by highly charged ions
C. J. Wood and R. E. Olson
pp. 1317-1328 [View PDF (2,077 kB)]
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Fully relativistic calculations of and fits to 1s ionization cross sections
Christopher J. Fontes, Douglas H. Sampson, and Hong Lin Zhang
pp. 1329-1335 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Nonlinear dispersion in resonant Auger decay of H2O molecules
M. N. Piancastelli, B. Kempgens, U. Hergenhahn, A. Kivimäki, K. Maier, A. Rüdel, and A. M. Bradshaw
pp. 1336-1340 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Total cross sections for electron scattering on chloromethanes: Formulation of the additivity rule
Grzegorz P. Karwasz, Roberto S. Brusa, Andrea Piazza, and Antonio Zecca
pp. 1341-1347 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Experimental cross sections for electron excitation of the 2s2S⃗2p2P transition in C3+
J. B. Greenwood, Steven J. Smith, A. Chutjian, and E. Pollack
pp. 1348-1354 [View PDF (353 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Effects of strong driving fields in resonant four-wave mixing schemes with down-conversion
S. A. Babin, E. V. Podivilov, D. A. Shapiro, U. Hinze, E. Tiemann, and B. Wellegehausen
pp. 1355-1366 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal separation of high harmonic radiation into two quantum path components
M. B. Gaarde, F. Salin, E. Constant, Ph. Balcou, K. J. Schafer, K. C. Kulander, and A. L’Huillier
pp. 1367-1373 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Population transfer via adiabatic passage in the rubidium quantum ladder system
D. J. Maas, C. W. Rella, P. Antoine, E. S. Toma, and L. D. Noordam
pp. 1374-1381 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Laser-induced alignment dynamics of HCN: Roles of the permanent dipole moment and the polarizability
Claude M. Dion, Arne Keller, Osman Atabek, and André D. Bandrauk
pp. 1382-1391 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Dissociative ionization of benzene in intense laser fields of picosecond duration
V. R. Bhardwaj, K. Vijayalakshmi, and D. Mathur
pp. 1392-1398 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Excitation and ionization of Rydberg atoms by short half-cycle pulses
I. Bersons and A. Kulsh
pp. 1399-1403 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Expanded concept of the adiabatic population transfer using dressed states
H. A. Kim, H. S. Moon, J. B. Kim, A. S. Choe, and J. Lee
pp. 1404-1407 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Population-grating transfer in cold cesium atoms
G. C. Cardoso, V. R. de Carvalho, S. S. Vianna, and J. W. R. Tabosa
pp. 1408-1412 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Superrevivals in the quantum dynamics of a particle confined in a finite square-well potential
Anu Venugopalan and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 1413-1422 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Detachment rates of H2- in an intense linearly polarized laser field
Ernst van Duijn and H. G. Muller
pp. 1423-1433 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Realization of the kicked atom
M. T. Frey, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer
pp. 1434-1443 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Population transfer through the continuum: ir excitation of HeH+
P. Tran
pp. 1444-1450 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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High-intensity two-color interference effect on atomic stabilization
Taiwang Cheng, Jie Liu, and Shigang Chen
pp. 1451-1456 [View PDF (947 kB)]

Matter waves

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Spontaneous spatial symmetry breaking in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
B. D. Esry and Chris H. Greene
pp. 1457-1460 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Collapse of a Bose condensate with attractive interactions
José A. Freire and Daniel P. Arovas
pp. 1461-1467 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in a one-dimensional interacting system due to power-law trapping potentials
M. Bayindir, B. Tanatar, and Z. Gedik
pp. 1468-1472 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Broken cylindrical symmetry in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates
S. T. Chui and P. Ao
pp. 1473-1476 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Collective excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates in triaxially anisotropic parabolic traps
András Csordás and Robert Graham
pp. 1477-1487 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in harmonic double wells
P. Capuzzi and E. S. Hernández
pp. 1488-1494 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Acceptance angle for Bragg reflection of atoms from a standing light wave
Stephan Dürr and Gerhard Rempe
pp. 1495-1499 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Sympathetic cooling of an atomic Bose-Fermi gas mixture
W. Geist, L. You, and T. A. B. Kennedy
pp. 1500-1508 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Phase conjugation of multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates
Elena V. Goldstein and Pierre Meystre
pp. 1509-1513 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Dipolar relaxation collisions in magnetically trapped 7Li
J. M. Gerton, C. A. Sackett, B. J. Frew, and R. G. Hulet
pp. 1514-1516 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Local-field approach to the interaction of an ultracold dense Bose gas with a light field
Konstantin V. Krutitsky, Frank Burgbacher, and Jürgen Audretsch
pp. 1517-1527 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate
M. V. Simkin and E. G. D. Cohen
pp. 1528-1532 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Coherent disintegration and stability of vortices in trapped Bose condensates
H. Pu, C. K. Law, J. H. Eberly, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 1533-1537 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Density operators for fermions
Kevin E. Cahill and Roy J. Glauber
pp. 1538-1555 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Cooper-pair formation in trapped atomic Fermi gases
M. Houbiers and H. T. C. Stoof
pp. 1556-1561 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Temperature-dependent frequency shifts in collective excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Hualin Shi and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 1562-1565 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Nonclassical measure of nonclassical properties
Kisik Kim
pp. 1566-1570 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Resonant optical patterns in sodium vapor in a magnetic field
Ziad H. Musslimani and Len M. Pismen
pp. 1571-1576 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Saturation in a Ni-like Pd soft-x-ray laser at 14.7 nm
R. Tommasini, F. Löwenthal, and J. E. Balmer
pp. 1577-1581 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Effects of intrinsic spontaneous-emission noise on the nonlinear dynamics of an optically injected semiconductor laser
J. B. Gao, S. K. Hwang, and J. M. Liu
pp. 1582-1585 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Operational approach in the weak-field measurement of polarization fluctuations
T. Hakioğlu
pp. 1586-1602 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Enhancement of squeezing in the resonance fluorescence of a laser-dressed atom with finite-bandwidth cavity-field excitation
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 1603-1607 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Transverse coherence length of down-converted light in the two-photon state
E. J. S. Fonseca, C. H. Monken, S. Pádua, and G. A. Barbosa
pp. 1608-1614 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Entanglement and visibility at the output of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Matteo G. A. Paris
pp. 1615-1621 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Spatial pump-meter quantum correlations in a vectorial Kerr-medium model
Miguel Hoyuelos, Alice Sinatra, Pere Colet, Luigi Lugiato, and Maxi San Miguel
pp. 1622-1632 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Stochastic wave-function method for non-Markovian quantum master equations
Heinz-Peter Breuer, Bernd Kappler, and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 1633-1643 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Polarization dynamics of a Brillouin fiber ring laser
S. Randoux and J. Zemmouri
pp. 1644-1653 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Propagation of transient quantum coherence
L. J. Wang and J.-K. Rhee
pp. 1654-1657 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Generation of arbitrary quantum states of traveling fields
M. Dakna, J. Clausen, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
pp. 1658-1661 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Radiation modes of a cavity with a resonantly oscillating boundary
Ying Wu, K. W. Chan, M.-C. Chu, and P. T. Leung
pp. 1662-1666 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Quantum theory of a thresholdless laser
I. Protsenko, P. Domokos, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, J. Hare, J. M. Raimond, and L. Davidovich
pp. 1667-1682 [View PDF (272 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Accurate WKB wave functions for weakly attractive inverse-square potentials
H. Friedrich and J. Trost
pp. 1683-1686 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Excited-state Koopmans theorem for ensembles
M. Levy and Á. Nagy
pp. 1687-1689 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Calculation of the dipole-allowed excitations of the 3p44s4p and 3p43d4p configurations in argon
J. Jiménez-Mier
pp. 1690-1693 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Theory of elastic scattering in strongly absorptive collisions: Application of the Fuller nearside-farside method
J. J. Hollifield and J. N. L. Connor
pp. 1694-1696 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Laser-enhanced antihydrogen formation
Shu-Min Li, Zhang-Jin Chen, Zi-Fang Zhou, and Qing-Qi Wang
pp. 1697-1698 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Revealing broad overlapping resonances by strong laser fields
Ilya Vorobeichik and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 1699-1702 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Rydberg states of atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields
J. P. Santos, F. Mota-Furtado, M. F. Laranjeira, and F. Parente
pp. 1703-1706 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Resonant dynamics of the H atom in an elliptically polarized microwave field
Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 1707-1710 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Matter waves

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Absence of fragmentation of the condensate in a model for bosons in a trap
Ø. Elgarøy and C. J. Pethick
pp. 1711-1714 [View PDF (111 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Geometric phase in coupled neutron interference loops”
Apoorva G. Wagh
pp. 1715-1716 [View PDF (76 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Quantum-channel capacity of very noisy channels [Phys. Rev. A 57, 830 (1998)]
David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, and John A. Smolin
pp. 1717 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Erratum: Evanescent light-wave atomic funnel: A tandem hollow-fiber, hollow-beam approach [Phys. Rev. A 57, 1957 (1998)]
Jianping Yin, Yifu Zhu, and Yuzhu Wang
pp. 1717 [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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