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Physical Review A – March 1999
Volume 59, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Semiclassical time-dependent propagation in three dimensions for a Coulomb potential
Gerd van de Sand and Jan M. Rost
pp. R1723-R1726 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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 (80 kB)]
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Mirroring behavior of partial photodetachment and photoionization cross sections in the neighborhood of a resonance
Chien-Nan Liu and Anthony F. Starace
pp. R1731-R1733 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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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 (144 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Biaxial spatial orientation of atomic angular momentum
Valery Milner and Yehiam Prior
pp. R1738-R1741 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Interplay of electron correlation and intense field dynamics in the double ionization of helium
A. Becker and F. H. M. Faisal
pp. R1742-R1745 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Resonance technique to probe 129Xe surface interactions
K. L. Sauer, R. J. Fitzgerald, and W. Happer
pp. R1746-R1749 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Long spin relaxation times in a single-beam blue-detuned optical trap
Roee Ozeri, Lev Khaykovich, and Nir Davidson
pp. R1750-R1753 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Optical control and entanglement of atomic Schrödinger fields
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. R1754-R1757 [View PDF (119 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Low-energy relativistic effects and nonlocality in time-dependent tunneling
Gastón García-Calderón, Alberto Rubio, and Jorge Villavicencio
pp. 1758-1761 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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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)]
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Unitary equivalence and phase properties of the quantum parametric and generalized harmonic oscillators
M. Maamache, J.-P. Provost, and G. Vallée
pp. 1777-1780 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Sensitivity to measurement errors in the quantum kicked top
J. K. Breslin and G. J. Milburn
pp. 1781-1787 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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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 (84 kB)]
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Energy-reflection symmetry of Lie-algebraic problems: Where the quasiclassical and weak-coupling expansions meet
M. Shifman and A. Turbiner
pp. 1791-1798 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Entanglement processing and statistical inference: The Jaynes principle can produce fake entanglement
Ryszard Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Paweł Horodecki
pp. 1799-1803 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Time-of-arrival states
J. Oppenheim, B. Reznik, and W. G. Unruh
pp. 1804-1808 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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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)]
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Quantum tomography of mesoscopic superpositions of radiation states
G. M. D’Ariano, C. Macchiavello, and L. Maccone
pp. 1816-1819 [View PDF (523 kB)]

Quantum information

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Capacity of quantum Gaussian channels
A. S. Holevo, M. Sohma, and O. Hirota
pp. 1820-1828 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Quantum secret sharing
Mark Hillery, Vladimír Bužek, and André Berthiaume
pp. 1829-1834 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Comprehensive analysis of electron correlations in three-electron atoms
Toru Morishita and C. D. Lin
pp. 1835-1843 [View PDF (2,146 kB)]
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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 (335 kB)]
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Configuration localized Morse wave functions: Application to vibrational transitions in anharmonic diatomic molecules
M. Carvajal, J. M. Arias, and J. Gómez-Camacho
pp. 1852-1858 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Modified Thomas-Fermi-Dirac approach for the evaluation of atomic ground-state properties
I. Porras and A. Moya
pp. 1859-1864 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Measurements of 2s2S1/2-2p2P1/2,3/2 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 (255 kB)]
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Measured lifetimes of metastable levels of Mn X, Mn XI, Mn XII, and Mn XIII ions
D. P. Moehs and D. A. Church
pp. 1884-1889 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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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)]
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Theoretical and experimental binding energies for the d7s24F 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)]
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Photoelectron spectra of N2+: Rotational line profiles studied with He I–excited angle-resolved spectroscopy and with synchrotron radiation
G. Öhrwall, P. Baltzer, and J. Bozek
pp. 1903-1912 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Multichannel Schwinger’s principle for rearrangement collisions: Positronium formation in positron-hydrogen collisions
Sabyasachi Kar and Puspajit Mandal
pp. 1913-1925 [View PDF (782 kB)]
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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)]
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Casimir-Polder long-range interaction potentials between alkali-metal atoms
M. Marinescu and L. You
pp. 1936-1954 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Multiple ionization of CO due to electron impact
Cechan Tian and C. R. Vidal
pp. 1955-1965 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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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 (376 kB)]
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Convergence and completeness of the pseudostate expansion for proton-hydrogen collisions in two-center close-coupling calculations
Nobuyuki Toshima
pp. 1981-1987 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Collisional fragmentation of fast HeH+ ions: The He2++H- channel
M. Barbatti, L. P. G. de Assis, Ginette Jalbert, L. F. S. Coelho, I. Borges, Jr., and N. V. de Castro Faria
pp. 1988-1993 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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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)]
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Analytical calculation of cold-atom scattering
V. V. Flambaum, G. F. Gribakin, and C. Harabati
pp. 1998-2005 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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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 (216 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of the Mg atom from the ground and metastable states: R-matrix calculation with pseudostates
V. Gedeon, V. Lengyel, O. Zatsarinny, and C. A. Kocher
pp. 2016-2029 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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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 (248 kB)]
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Standing-wave rearrangement scattering formalism for multiarrangement quantum-defect theory
A. Matzkin
pp. 2043-2052 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Photodetachment cross section of H- in a gradient electric field
Guangcan Yang, Jian-min Mao, and Mengli Du
pp. 2053-2057 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Positronium–hydrogen-atom scattering in a five-state model
Sadhan K. Adhikari and P. K. Biswas
pp. 2058-2064 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Auger decay of multiply excited atomic systems
Kwong T. Chung
pp. 2065-2070 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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 (348 kB)]
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Exciting, cooling, and vortex trapping in a Bose-condensed gas
R. J. Marshall, G. H. C. New, K. Burnett, and S. Choi
pp. 2085-2093 [View PDF (931 kB)]
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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)]
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Asymmetries and dark angular windows in relativistic free-free transitions in a powerful laser field
J. Z. Kamiński and F. Ehlotzky
pp. 2105-2110 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Photon correlation in an ion-trap system
M. Jakob and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
pp. 2111-2119 [View PDF (1,930 kB)]
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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 (456 kB)]
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Enhancement of dielectronic recombination by an electric field
Lung Ko, Victor Klimenko, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 2126-2133 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Selective excitation of the vibrational-rotational states and dissociation of diatomic molecules by picosecond infrared laser pulses: Modeling for HF in the ground electronic state
I. V. Andrianov and G. K. Paramonov
pp. 2134-2138 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Classical evolution of quantum elliptic states
Paolo Bellomo and C. R. Stroud, Jr.
pp. 2139-2145 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Vibrational relaxation of trapped molecules
R. C. Forrey, V. Kharchenko, N. Balakrishnan, and A. Dalgarno
pp. 2146-2152 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Charge-resonance-enhanced ionization of molecular ions in intense laser pulses: Geometric and orientation effects
André D. Bandrauk and Jonathan Ruel
pp. 2153-2162 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Reconstructing wave packets by quantum-state holography
I. Sh. Averbukh, M. Shapiro, C. Leichtle, and W. P. Schleich
pp. 2163-2173 [View PDF (1,307 kB)]
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Nonlinear Raman vibrational excitation of a trapped ion
Heping Zeng, Yuzhu Wang, and Yusaburo Segawa
pp. 2174-2185 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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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 (98 kB)]

Matter waves

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Schrödinger wave functions in strong periodic potentials with applications to atom optics
M. Horne, I. Jex, and A. Zeilinger
pp. 2190-2202 [View PDF (1,295 kB)]
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Vortex stabilization in Bose-Einstein condensate of alkali-metal atom gas
Tomoya Isoshima and Kazushige Machida
pp. 2203-2212 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Visibility limit in multiparticle eigenstates of definite relative phase
John H. Marburger, III and Kunal K. Das
pp. 2213-2215 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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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)]
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Barrier resonances in Bose-Einstein condensation
Juan J. G. Ripoll and Víctor M. Pérez-García
pp. 2220-2231 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Numerical approach to the ground and excited states of a Bose-Einstein condensed gas confined in a completely anisotropic trap
B. I. Schneider and D. L. Feder
pp. 2232-2242 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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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)]
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Dephasing of Josephson oscillations between two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Pierre Villain and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 2250-2260 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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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)]
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Matter-wave interference using two-level atoms and resonant optical fields
B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman
pp. 2269-2278 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Propagation of nonclassical light through an absorbing and dispersive slab
M. Artoni and R. Loudon
pp. 2279-2290 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Motion-induced radiation from a dynamically deforming mirror
Faez Miri and Ramin Golestanian
pp. 2291-2294 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Linewidth of four-level microcavity lasers
Leno M. Pedrotti, Michael Sokol, and Perry R. Rice
pp. 2295-2301 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Phase-dependent electromagnetically induced transparency
E. A. Korsunsky, N. Leinfellner, A. Huss, S. Baluschev, and L. Windholz
pp. 2302-2305 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Non-Markovian quantum trajectories for spectral detection
M. W. Jack, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls
pp. 2306-2321 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Optical interaction-free measurement of semitransparent objects
Ju-Seog Jang
pp. 2322-2329 [View PDF (718 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence quenching and spectral line narrowing via quantum interference in a four-level atom driven by two coherent fields
Fu-li Li and Shi-Yao Zhu
pp. 2330-2341 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Quantum Maxwell-Bloch equations for spatially inhomogeneous semiconductor lasers
Holger F. Hofmann and Ortwin Hess
pp. 2342-2358 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Dispersion in femtosecond entangled two-photon interference
Jan Peřina, Jr., Alexander V. Sergienko, Bradley M. Jost, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 2359-2368 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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N two-level atoms in a driven optical cavity: Quantum dynamics of forward photon scattering for weak incident fields
R. J. Brecha, P. R. Rice, and M. Xiao
pp. 2392-2417 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Ultralow threshold laser using a single quantum dot and a microsphere cavity
Matthew Pelton and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 2418-2421 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Multichannel communication using an infinite dimensional spatiotemporal chaotic system
J. K. White and J. V. Moloney
pp. 2422-2426 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Radiative atom-atom interactions in optically dense media: Quantum corrections to the Lorentz-Lorenz formula
Michael Fleischhauer and Susanne F. Yelin
pp. 2427-2441 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Cumulant expansion for studying damped quantum solitons
Eduard Schmidt, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
pp. 2442-2457 [View PDF (1,936 kB)]
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Production of coherence of a nonallowed transition in the stationary regime of a Raman scattering process
Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta
pp. 2458-2467 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Cavity-loss-induced generation of entangled atoms
M. B. Plenio, S. F. Huelga, A. Beige, and P. L. Knight
pp. 2468-2475 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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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)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Analytic solution of two-state time-independent coupled Schrödinger equations in an exponential model
Vladimir I. Osherov and Hiroki Nakamura
pp. 2486-2489 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Application of density-functional theory to atomic resonances
Ş. Erkoç and H. J. F. Jansen
pp. 2490-2493 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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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)]
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Evaluation of hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to muonium hyperfine splitting
R. N. Faustov, A. Karimkhodzhaev, and A. P. Martynenko
pp. 2498-2499 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical versus semiclassical calculations of dc-field-induced tunneling rates of Li 1s22s2S, 1s22p2Po, and 1s23d2D
Spyros I. Themelis and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
pp. 2500-2503 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Absolute differential and total cross sections for single electron capture in low-energy Kr+-Ar collisions
H. Martínez and P. G. Reyes
pp. 2504-2507 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Measurement of the photoionization cross section of the 6P3/2 state of cesium
B. M. Patterson, T. Takekoshi, and R. J. Knize
pp. 2508-2510 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Tunneling control by high-frequency driving
Ilya Vorobeichik and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 2511-2514 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical interference between optical transitions: The effect of laser intensity noise
J. C. Camparo and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 2515-2517 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Long-time-scale revivals in ion traps
H. Moya-Cessa, A. Vidiella-Barranco, J. A. Roversi, Dagoberto S. Freitas, and S. M. Dutra
pp. 2518-2520 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Guided random-walk calculation of energies and 〈√r2〉 values of the 1Σg state of H2 in a magnetic field
Mario Encinosa
pp. 2521-2523 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Analytic solution for retardation in two-atom systems
Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara
pp. 2524-2527 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Self-channeling and pulse shortening of femtosecond pulses in multiphoton-ionized dispersive dielectric solids
S. Henz and J. Herrmann
pp. 2528-2531 [View PDF (119 kB)]
 
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