Physical Review A – March 1999
(Volume 59, Issue 3)

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Fundamental concepts

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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Real-time study of the femtosecond harpooning reaction in Ba⋯FCH3
V. Stert, P. Farmanara, W. Radloff, F. Noack, S. Skowronek, J. Jimenez, and A. González Ureña
pp. R1727-R1730 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Add to article collection Very high multiplicity distributions of electrons emitted in multicapture collision between Xe25+ and C60
Serge Martin, Li Chen, Alain Denis, and Jean Désesquelles
pp. R1734-R1737 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Biaxial spatial orientation of atomic angular momentum
Valery Milner and Yehiam Prior
pp. R1738-R1741 [View PDF (543 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Resonance technique to probe 129Xe surface interactions
K. L. Sauer, R. J. Fitzgerald, and W. Happer
pp. R1746-R1749 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Long spin relaxation times in a single-beam blue-detuned optical trap
Roee Ozeri, Lev Khaykovich, and Nir Davidson
pp. R1750-R1753 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Optical control and entanglement of atomic Schrödinger fields
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. R1754-R1757 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Low-energy relativistic effects and nonlocality in time-dependent tunneling
Gastón García-Calderón, Alberto Rubio, and Jorge Villavicencio
pp. 1758-1761 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Worldline path integral for the massive Dirac propagator: A four-dimensional approach
C. Alexandrou, R. Rosenfelder, and A. W. Schreiber
pp. 1762-1776 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sensitivity to measurement errors in the quantum kicked top
J. K. Breslin and G. J. Milburn
pp. 1781-1787 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection States that minimize the evolution time to become an orthogonal state
Jonas Söderholm, Gunnar Björk, Tedros Tsegaye, and Alexei Trifonov
pp. 1788-1790 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Entanglement processing and statistical inference: The Jaynes principle can produce fake entanglement
Ryszard Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Paweł Horodecki
pp. 1799-1803 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-of-arrival states
J. Oppenheim, B. Reznik, and W. G. Unruh
pp. 1804-1808 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Diffraction in time in terms of Wigner distributions and tomographic probabilities
Vladimir Man’ko, Marcos Moshinsky, and Anju Sharma
pp. 1809-1815 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum tomography of mesoscopic superpositions of radiation states
G. M. D’Ariano, C. Macchiavello, and L. Maccone
pp. 1816-1819 [View PDF (523 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Capacity of quantum Gaussian channels
A. S. Holevo, M. Sohma, and O. Hirota
pp. 1820-1828 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum secret sharing
Mark Hillery, Vladimír Bužek, and André Berthiaume
pp. 1829-1834 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Comprehensive analysis of electron correlations in three-electron atoms
Toru Morishita and C. D. Lin
pp. 1835-1843 [View PDF (2146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution spectroscopy of the 1S-2S transition in atomic hydrogen
A. Huber, B. Gross, M. Weitz, and T. W. Hänsch
pp. 1844-1851 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground state of CH2+: Experimental aspects and theoretical implications
A. Baer, M. Grieser, L. Knoll, J. Levin, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, Z. Vager, R. Wester, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman
pp. 1865-1868 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground-state hyperfine measurement in laser-trapped radioactive 21Na
M. A. Rowe, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, G. Gwinner, S.-Q. Shang, and P. A. Vetter
pp. 1869-1873 [View PDF (608 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurements of 2s 2S1/2-2p 2P1/2,3/2 transition energies in lithiumlike heavy ions. II. Experimental results for Ag44+ and discussion along the isoelectronic series
Ph. Bosselmann, U. Staude, D. Horn, K.-H. Schartner, F. Folkmann, A. E. Livingston, and P. H. Mokler
pp. 1874-1883 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-mechanical calculation of Stark widths of Ne VII n=3, Δn=0 transitions
Yuri V. Ralchenko, Hans R. Griem, Igor Bray, and Dmitry V. Fursa
pp. 1890-1895 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical and experimental binding energies for the d7s2 4F levels in Ru-, including calculated hyperfine structure and M1 decay rates
Peggy L. Norquist, Donald R. Beck, René C. Bilodeau, Michael Scheer, Raphaël A. Srawley, and Harold K. Haugen
pp. 1896-1902 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Spin polarization and quantum-statistical effects in ultracold ionizing collisions
C. Orzel, M. Walhout, U. Sterr, P. S. Julienne, and S. L. Rolston
pp. 1926-1935 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Multiple ionization of CO due to electron impact
Cechan Tian and C. R. Vidal
pp. 1955-1965 [View PDF (498 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dynamic role of coupled-channel wave phases on the structural determination of angular distributions
Min-Ho Lee, Nark Nyul Choi, and Sung-Ho Suck Salk
pp. 1966-1980 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Collisional fragmentation of fast HeH+ ions: The He2++H- channel
M. Barbatti, L. P. de Assis, Ginette Jalbert, L. F. Coelho, I. Borges, and N. V. de Castro Faria
pp. 1988-1993 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Total and state-selective electron capture cross sections for N4+-H collisions
Emil Y. Sidky, Wolfgang Fritsch, and C. D. Lin
pp. 1994-1997 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytical calculation of cold-atom scattering
V. V. Flambaum, G. F. Gribakin, and C. Harabati
pp. 1998-2005 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Total cross sections of electron and positron collisions with C3F8 and C3H8 molecules and differential elastic and vibrational excitation cross sections by electron impact on these molecules
Hiroshi Tanaka, Yoshio Tachibana, Masashi Kitajima, Osamu Sueoka, Hideki Takaki, Akira Hamada, and Mineo Kimura
pp. 2006-2015 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection L23[L23]-MM[L23] and L23[M2]-MM[M2] Auger vacancy satellite spectra of argon
F. von Busch, U. Kuetgens, J. Doppelfeld, and S. Fritzsche
pp. 2030-2042 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photodetachment cross section of H- in a gradient electric field
Guangcan Yang, Jian-min Mao, and Mengli Du
pp. 2053-2057 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Positronium–hydrogen-atom scattering in a five-state model
Sadhan K. Adhikari and P. K. Biswas
pp. 2058-2064 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Auger decay of multiply excited atomic systems
Kwong T. Chung
pp. 2065-2070 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative lifetimes and collisional deactivation cross sections of the 5d6p states of laser-ablated Ba in He gas
Yukari Matsuo, Takashi Nakajima, Tohru Kobayashi, and Michio Takami
pp. 2071-2077 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Light narrowing of rubidium magnetic-resonance lines in high-pressure optical-pumping cells
S. Appelt, A. Ben-Amar Baranga, A. R. Young, and W. Happer
pp. 2078-2084 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Exciting, cooling, and vortex trapping in a Bose-condensed gas
R. J. Marshall, G. H. New, K. Burnett, and S. Choi
pp. 2085-2093 [View PDF (932 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 1-bit memory using one electron: Parametric oscillations in a Penning trap
C. H. Tseng, D. Enzer, G. Gabrielse, and F. L. Walls
pp. 2094-2104 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photon correlation in an ion-trap system
M. Jakob and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
pp. 2111-2119 [View PDF (1930 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser cooling of metastable He atoms in an inhomogeneous electric field
R. Schumann, C. Schubert, U. Eichmann, R. Jung, and G. von Oppen
pp. 2120-2125 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Enhancement of dielectronic recombination by an electric field
Lung Ko, Victor Klimenko, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 2126-2133 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical evolution of quantum elliptic states
Paolo Bellomo and C. R. Stroud
pp. 2139-2145 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Vibrational relaxation of trapped molecules
R. C. Forrey, V. Kharchenko, N. Balakrishnan, and A. Dalgarno
pp. 2146-2152 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reconstructing wave packets by quantum-state holography
I. Sh. Averbukh, M. Shapiro, C. Leichtle, and W. P. Schleich
pp. 2163-2173 [View PDF (1307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear Raman vibrational excitation of a trapped ion
Heping Zeng, Yuzhu Wang, and Yusaburo Segawa
pp. 2174-2185 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of autoionizing Rydberg-electron wave packets in Xe
J. A. Ramswell, V. G. Stavros, J. Lei, Q. Hong, and H. H. Fielding
pp. 2186-2189 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Vortex stabilization in Bose-Einstein condensate of alkali-metal atom gas
Tomoya Isoshima and Kazushige Machida
pp. 2203-2212 [View PDF (580 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Visibility limit in multiparticle eigenstates of definite relative phase
John H. Marburger and Kunal K. Das
pp. 2213-2215 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-domain high-finesse atom interferometry
H. Hinderthür, F. Ruschewitz, H.-J. Lohe, S. Lechte, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer
pp. 2216-2219 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Barrier resonances in Bose-Einstein condensation
Juan J. Ripoll and Víctor M. Pérez-García
pp. 2220-2231 [View PDF (369 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum kinetic theory for evaporative cooling of trapped atoms: Growth of Bose-Einstein condensate
Makoto Yamashita, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
pp. 2243-2249 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dephasing of Josephson oscillations between two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Pierre Villain and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 2250-2260 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of Larmor precession angles of tunneling neutrons
Masahiro Hino, Norio Achiwa, Seiji Tasaki, Toru Ebisawa, Takeshi Kawai, Tsunekazu Akiyoshi, and Dai Yamazaki
pp. 2261-2268 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Motion-induced radiation from a dynamically deforming mirror
Faez Miri and Ramin Golestanian
pp. 2291-2294 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Linewidth of four-level microcavity lasers
Leno M. Pedrotti, Michael Sokol, and Perry R. Rice
pp. 2295-2301 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase-dependent electromagnetically induced transparency
E. A. Korsunsky, N. Leinfellner, A. Huss, S. Baluschev, and L. Windholz
pp. 2302-2305 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Non-Markovian quantum trajectories for spectral detection
M. W. Jack, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls
pp. 2306-2321 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dispersion in femtosecond entangled two-photon interference
Jan Peřina, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bradley M. Jost, Bahaa E. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 2359-2368 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Femtosecond spectroscopy of condensed phases with chirped supercontinuum probing
S. A. Kovalenko, A. L. Dobryakov, J. Ruthmann, and N. P. Ernsting
pp. 2369-2384 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cooperative effects in the light and dark periods of two dipole-interacting atoms
Almut Beige and Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
pp. 2385-2391 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ultralow threshold laser using a single quantum dot and a microsphere cavity
Matthew Pelton and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 2418-2421 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cumulant expansion for studying damped quantum solitons
Eduard Schmidt, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
pp. 2442-2457 [View PDF (1937 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cavity-loss-induced generation of entangled atoms
M. B. Plenio, S. F. Huelga, A. Beige, and P. L. Knight
pp. 2468-2475 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Minimizing feature width in atom optically fabricated chromium nanostructures
W. R. Anderson, C. C. Bradley, J. J. McClelland, and R. J. Celotta
pp. 2476-2485 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Application of density-functional theory to atomic resonances
Ş. Erkoç and H. J. Jansen
pp. 2490-2493 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement and ab initio calculation of the Ne photoabsorption spectrum in the region of the K edge
M. Coreno, L. Avaldi, R. Camilloni, K. C. Prince, M. de Simone, J. Karvonen, R. Colle, and S. Simonucci
pp. 2494-2497 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Evaluation of hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to muonium hyperfine splitting
R. N. Faustov, A. Karimkhodzhaev, and A. P. Martynenko
pp. 2498-2499 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]