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Physical Review A – April 1999
Volume 59, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Deterministic Bell states and measurement of the motional state of two trapped ions
E. Solano, R. L. de Matos Filho, and N. Zagury
pp. R2539-R2543 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Large nondipole correlation effects near atomic photoionization thresholds
M. Ya Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, Z. Felfli, and A. Z. Msezane
pp. R2544-R2547 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Semiclassical calculation of transition matrix elements for atoms in external fields
Jörg Main and Günter Wunner
pp. R2548-R2551 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Electron-impact excitation from the (3p54s) metastable states of argon
K. Bartschat and V. Zeman
pp. R2552-R2554 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Strong temperature dependence of laser-enhanced charge transfer in collisions of sodium clusters with sodium atoms
Z. Roller-Lutz, Y. Wang, H. O. Lutz, U. Saalmann, and R. Schmidt
pp. R2555-R2558 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Calculation of the He- 1s2s22S resonance using fully correlated Hylleraas functions
Y. K. Ho and Zong-Chao Yan
pp. R2559-R2562 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Ionization through the Auger decay of doubly excited 4d95p5nln′l′ states in Xe
H. Aksela, S. Alitalo, J. Jauhiainen, A. Kivimäki, T. Matila, T. Kylli, E. Nõmmiste, and S. Aksela
pp. R2563-R2566 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Geometry modifications and alignment of H2O in an intense femtosecond laser pulse
J. H. Sanderson, A. El-Zein, W. A. Bryan, W. R. Newell, A. J. Langley, and P. F. Taday
pp. R2567-R2570 [View PDF (550 kB)]

Matter waves

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Measurement scheme for relative phase diffusion between two Bose-Einstein condensates
J. Ruostekoski and D. F. Walls
pp. R2571-R2574 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Space-time localized structures in the degenerate optical parametric oscillator
M. Tlidi and Paul Mandel
pp. R2575-R2578 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Complete quenching of fluorescence from a two-level atom driven by a weak, narrow-band, nonclassical light field
W. S. Smyth and S. Swain
pp. R2579-R2582 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Efficient phase conjugation via two-photon coherence in an optically dense crystal
B. S. Ham, P. R. Hemmer, and M. S. Shahriar
pp. R2583-R2586 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Preventing laser beam filamentation through use of the squeezed vacuum
Robert W. Boyd and G. S. Agarwal
pp. R2587-R2589 [View PDF (104 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Critique of protective measurements
N. D. Hari Dass and Tabish Qureshi
pp. 2590-2601 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Universal geometric approach to uncertainty, entropy, and information
Michael J. W. Hall
pp. 2602-2615 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Exact quantum states of a general time-dependent quadratic system from classical action
Dae-Yup Song
pp. 2616-2623 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Validity of Feynman’s prescription of disregarding the Pauli principle in intermediate states
F. A. B. Coutinho, Y. Nogami, and Lauro Tomio
pp. 2624-2630 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Quantum information

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Macroscopically distinct quantum-superposition states as a bosonic code for amplitude damping
P. T. Cochrane, G. J. Milburn, and W. J. Munro
pp. 2631-2634 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Quantum communication using a nonlocal Zeno effect
Lucien Hardy and Wim van Dam
pp. 2635-2640 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Lower bounds for attainable fidelities in entanglement purification
G. Giedke, H. J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 2641-2648 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Realizing the quantum baker’s map on a NMR quantum computer
Todd A. Brun and Rüdiger Schack
pp. 2649-2658 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Quantum communication with dark photons
S. J. van Enk, H. J. Kimble, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 2659-2664 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Eavesdropping optimization for quantum cryptography using a positive operator-valued measure
Howard E. Brandt
pp. 2665-2669 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Kinetic-energy systems, density scaling, and homogeneity relations in density-functional theory
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan and Nicholas C. Handy
pp. 2670-2679 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic coupling using a corrected Born-Oppenheimer basis: The vibronic spectrum of HD+
Inbal Tuvi and Y. B. Band
pp. 2680-2683 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Perturbative approach in the WKB analysis: Application to the Stark effect
S. H. Patil
pp. 2684-2690 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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4S resonances of He- below the He+(n=1) threshold
N. Brandefelt and E. Lindroth
pp. 2691-2696 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Ground state and S-wave autodissociating resonant states of positronium hydride
Zong-Chao Yan and Y. K. Ho
pp. 2697-2701 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Long-lived high-spin states of small anions: 6Π state of CO-
A. Dreuw and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 2702-2706 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Calculated self-energy contributions for an ns valence electron using the multiple-commutator method
Leonti Labzowsky, Igor Goidenko, Maria Tokman, and Pekka Pyykkö
pp. 2707-2711 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Nonadiabatic polarization potentials in electron- and positron-molecule scattering: Application to e-+H2
Ahmed Bouferguene, Ignacio Ema, and Charles A. Weatherford
pp. 2712-2718 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Nonlinear calculation of stopping powers for protons and antiprotons in solids: The Barkas effect
N. R. Arista and A. F. Lifschitz
pp. 2719-2722 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Angular dependence of L x-ray production cross sections in uranium at 22.6- and 59.5-keV photon energies
D. Mehta, Sanjiv Puri, Nirmal Singh, M. L. Garg, and P. N. Trehan
pp. 2723-2731 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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X-ray emission by ultrafast inner-shell ionization from vapors of Na, Mg, and Al
Kengo Moribayashi, Akira Sasaki, and T. Tajima
pp. 2732-2737 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Group-theoretical approach to final-state angular correlations in double photoionization of helium
Yanghui Qiu and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. 2738-2743 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Autoionization distribution of atomic high doubly excited states: A “breathing spheres” approach
W. Huang, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner
pp. 2744-2748 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Measurement of electron-impact excitation cross sections out of metastable levels of argon and comparison with ground-state excitation
John B. Boffard, Garrett A. Piech, Mark F. Gehrke, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin
pp. 2749-2763 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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(e,2e) study of cadmium ionization in the 4d95s25p autoionizing region
N. L. S. Martin, R. P. Bauman, and M. Wilson
pp. 2764-2772 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Differential electron-Cu5+ elastic scattering cross sections extracted from electron emission in ion-atom collisions
C. Liao, S. Hagmann, C. P. Bhalla, S. R. Grabbe, C. L. Cocke, and P. Richard
pp. 2773-2777 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Repulsive 1/r3 interaction
Bo Gao
pp. 2778-2786 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination of Ne-like tungsten
E. Behar, P. Mandelbaum, and J. L. Schwob
pp. 2787-2793 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Nonperturbative theory of projectile-electron loss in fast collisions with heavy atomic targets
A. B. Voitkiv, G. M. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro
pp. 2794-2803 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Dissociative recombination of He2+ molecular ions
L. Carata, A. E. Orel, and A. Suzor-Weiner
pp. 2804-2812 [View PDF (302 kB)]

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Charge states and energy loss of 300-MeV/u U73+ ions channeled in a silicon crystal
D. Dauvergne et al.
pp. 2813-2826 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Fragmentation scheme of C604+ ions produced in low-energy collisions of Ar8+ and C60
L. Chen, J. Bernard, A. Denis, S. Martin, and J. Désesquelles
pp. 2827-2835 [View PDF (523 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Coulomb explosion of N2 and CO2 using linearly and circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses
Ph. Hering and C. Cornaggia
pp. 2836-2843 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Adiabatic theory of electron detachment from negative ions in a two-color laser field
M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky
pp. 2844-2851 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Complete population transfer between nonresonant tunneling states induced by a train of laser pulses
N. Tsukada, Y. Nomura, and T. Isu
pp. 2852-2857 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Multiphoton ionization of dissociating D2+ molecules
C. Trump, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner
pp. 2858-2863 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Multiphoton detachment of H- near the one-photon threshold: Exterior complex-scaling–generalized pseudospectral method for complex quasienergy resonances
Dmitry A. Telnov and Shih-I Chu
pp. 2864-2874 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Spectrum of neutral helium in strong magnetic fields
Matthew D. Jones, Gerardo Ortiz, and David M. Ceperley
pp. 2875-2885 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Changes in Floquet-state structure at avoided crossings: Delocalization and harmonic generation
T. Timberlake and L. E. Reichl
pp. 2886-2893 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Polarization effects in high-harmonic generation in the presence of static-electric field
Bingbing Wang, Xiaofeng Li, and Panming Fu
pp. 2894-2902 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Characteristics of correlation satellites below 25 eV in xenon probed by pulsed-field-ionization–zero-kinetic-energy photoelectron spectroscopy
R. C. Shiell, M. Evans, S. Stimson, C.-W. Hsu, C. Y. Ng, and J. W. Hepburn
pp. 2903-2909 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Laser-driven population transfer in four-level atoms: Consequences of non-Abelian geometrical adiabatic phase factors
R. G. Unanyan, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
pp. 2910-2919 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Quantum-state engineering of a trapped ion by coherent-state superpositions
H. Moya-Cessa, S. Wallentowitz, and W. Vogel
pp. 2920-2925 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Photoionization suppression by continuum coherence: Experiment and theory
L. P. Yatsenko, T. Halfmann, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
pp. 2926-2947 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Bifurcations of closed orbits in singlet helium Stark spectra
Annemieke Kips, Wim Vassen, and Wim Hogervorst
pp. 2948-2955 [View PDF (350 kB)]

Matter waves

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Precision Monte Carlo test of the Hartree-Fock approximation for a trapped Bose gas
Markus Holzmann, Werner Krauth, and Martin Naraschewski
pp. 2956-2961 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Markov approximation for the atomic output coupler
M. W. Jack, M. Naraschewski, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls
pp. 2962-2973 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Component separation in harmonically trapped boson-fermion mixtures
Nicolai Nygaard and Klaus Mølmer
pp. 2974-2981 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Photonic band gaps and defect states induced by excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Karl-Peter Marzlin and Weiping Zhang
pp. 2982-2989 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Bosons in a toroidal trap: Ground state and vortices
L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
pp. 2990-2995 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Strong interaction between a two-level atom and the whispering-gallery modes of a dielectric microsphere: Quantum-mechanical consideration
V. V. Klimov, M. Ducloy, and V. S. Letokhov
pp. 2996-3014 [View PDF (997 kB)]
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Cavity-induced coherence effects in spontaneous emissions from preselection of polarization
Anil K. Patnaik and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 3015-3020 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with optical feedback
C. Masoller and N. B. Abraham
pp. 3021-3031 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Dynamics of the quantized radiation field in a cavity vibrating at the fundamental frequency
Ying Wu, M.-C. Chu, and P. T. Leung
pp. 3032-3037 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Giant pulse lasing in three-level systems
J. Mompart, R. Corbalán, and R. Vilaseca
pp. 3038-3043 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Reconstruction of an entangled state in cavity QED
M. S. Kim and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 3044-3048 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Creation of photons in an oscillating cavity with two moving mirrors
Diego A. R. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
pp. 3049-3059 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Resonant Raman amplification of ultrashort pulses in a V-type medium
V. V. Kozlov, P. G. Polynkin, and M. O. Scully
pp. 3060-3070 [View PDF (228 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Mesoscopic superpositions of states: Approach to classicality and diagonalization in a coherent state basis
G. S. Agarwal
pp. 3071-3074 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Optimized Lieb-Oxford bound for the exchange-correlation energy
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan and Nicholas C. Handy
pp. 3075-3077 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Multielectron photoexcitations in x-ray-absorption spectra of 4p elements
J. Padežnik Gomilšek, A. Kodre, I. Arčon, A. M. Loireau-Lozac’h, and S. Bénazeth
pp. 3078-3081 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Enhancement factor for the electron electric dipole moment in francium and gold atoms
T. M. R. Byrnes, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and D. W. Murray
pp. 3082-3083 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Theoretical and experimental study of He free-jet expansions
L. Pedemonte, G. Bracco, and R. Tatarek
pp. 3084-3087 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Rayleigh and Raman scattering from helium for wavelengths down to 16 nm
Thomas Grosges, Bernard Piraux, and Robin Shakeshaft
pp. 3088-3091 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Experimental search for interference effects in the total e-+Sc3+ recombination rate
S. Schippers, T. Bartsch, C. Brandau, A. Müller, J. Linkemann, A. A. Saghiri, and A. Wolf
pp. 3092-3094 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Secondary-electron emission from nonmetallic (perovskite) surfaces under slow proton impact: Absence of apparent threshold
H. Tawara, K. Hosaka, and N. Matsunami
pp. 3095-3097 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Stability of polygonal Coulomb crystals
Sh. Amiranashvili, N. Gusein-zade, and A. Ignatov
pp. 3098-3100 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Observation of periodic structures of atoms in a two-color magneto-optical trap
D. M. B. P. Milori, M. A. G. Martinez, A. M. Tuboy, L. G. Marcassa, J. Flemming, R. Ejnisman, S. C. Zilio, and V. S. Bagnato
pp. 3101-3104 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Perturbation of water by intense light-induced fields of picosecond duration and ion-induced fields of attosecond duration
V. R. Bhardwaj, F. A. Rajgara, K. Vijayalakshmi, V. Kumarappan, D. Mathur, and A. K. Sinha
pp. 3105-3108 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Matter waves

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Density of states of particles in a generic power-law potential in any dimensional space
Mingzhe Li, Lixuan Chen, and Chuanhong Chen
pp. 3109-3111 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Center-of-mass response of confined systems
L. F. Lemmens, F. Brosens, and J. T. Devreese
pp. 3112-3115 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Nonlinear optical generation in a hydrogen discharge
D. W. Tokaryk, G. Z. Zhang, and B. P. Stoicheff
pp. 3116-3119 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Second-harmonic generation in a plane nonlinear optical antiwaveguide
Boris V. Gisin
pp. 3120-3123 [View PDF (98 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Harmonic oscillator with time-dependent mass and frequency and a perturbative potential”
M. Maamache, K. Bencheikh, and H. Hachemi
pp. 3124-3126 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Comment on “Induced transitions and energy of a damped oscillator”
George J. Papadopoulos and Ioannis A. Hadjiagapiou
pp. 3127-3128 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Impossibility of distinguishing between identical particles in quantum collision processes
Gy. Bencze and Colston Chandler
pp. 3129-3132 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Reply to “Possibility of distinguishing between identical particles in quantum collision processes”
Igor Bray
pp. 3133-3135 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Comment on “Single two-level ion in an anharmonic oscillator trap: Time evolution of the Q function and population inversion”
C. F. Lo and K. L. Liu
pp. 3136-3137 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Single two-level ion in an anharmonic oscillator trap: Time evolution of the Q function and population inversion’”
S. Shelly Sharma, N. K. Sharma, and Larry Zamick
pp. 3138-3140 [View PDF (85 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Second-order squeezed states [Phys. Rev. A 55, 3051 (1997)]
Paulina Marian
pp. 3141 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Analysis of multiphoton ionization of metal atoms in the saturation regime using subpicosecond KrF laser pulses [Phys. Rev. A 58, 3836 (1998)]
B. Witzel, C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal, H. Schröder, D. Charalambidis, and K.-L. Kompa
pp. 3141 [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
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