Physical Review A – June 1999
(Volume 59, Issue 6)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Role of exchange and kinematic in the generation of low-energy polarized electron pairs
M. Streun, G. Baum, W. Blask, and J. Berakdar
pp. R4109-R4112 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Collisions of cold magnesium atoms in a weak laser field
Mette Machholm, Paul S. Julienne, and Kalle-Antti Suominen
pp. R4113-R4116 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Complete view of Stark wave-packet evolution
M. B. Campbell, T. J. Bensky, and R. R. Jones
pp. R4117-R4120 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Floquet analysis of the dynamical stabilization of the kicked hydrogen atom
S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, P. Kristöfel, J. Burgdörfer, S. Watanabe, and F. B. Dunning
pp. R4121-R4124 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Collisional relaxation in a fermionic gas
Gabriele Ferrari
pp. R4125-R4128 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons
W. Tittel, J. Brendel, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden
pp. 4150-4163 [View PDF (1146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Using parity kicks for decoherence control
D. Vitali and P. Tombesi
pp. 4178-4186 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lorentz-covariant quantum mechanics and preferred frame
P. Caban and J. Rembieliński
pp. 4187-4196 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Reduction criterion of separability and limits for a class of distillation protocols
Michał Horodecki and Paweł Horodecki
pp. 4206-4216 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Disentanglement-free state of two pairs of two-level atoms
Chui-Ping Yang and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 4217-4222 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Distributed quantum computation over noisy channels
J. I. Cirac, A. K. Ekert, S. F. Huelga, and C. Macchiavello
pp. 4249-4254 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Atomic configuration-interaction electron-electron counterbalance densities
José M. Mercero, Joseph E. Fowler, Cecilia Sarasola, and Jesus M. Ugalde
pp. 4255-4258 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lamb shift of an atom in a dielectric medium
Peter W. Milonni, Martin Schaden, and Larry Spruch
pp. 4259-4263 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetic-field-stimulated transitions of excited states in fast muonic helium ions
Vladimir S. Melezhik and Peter Schmelcher
pp. 4264-4269 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Competition between decay and dissociation of core-excited carbonyl sulfide studied by x-ray scattering
M. Magnuson, J. Guo, C. Såthe, J.-E. Rubensson, J. Nordgren, P. Glans, L. Yang, P. Sałek, and H. Ågren
pp. 4281-4287 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic states of the triply charged molecular ion N23+ and laser-induced Coulomb explosion
André D. Bandrauk, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, and Keiji Morokuma
pp. 4309-4315 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Positronium S-state spectrum: Analytic results at O(mα6)
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky
pp. 4316-4330 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Solution of the Holstein equation of radiation trapping by the geometric quantization technique. II. Two- and three-dimensional geometries
N. N. Bezuglov, A. F. Molisch, A. N. Klucharev, F. Fuso, and M. Allegrini
pp. 4340-4357 [View PDF (405 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonant processes in a frozen gas
J. S. Frasier, V. Celli, and T. Blum
pp. 4358-4367 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fine-structure resolved measurements of photoelectron angular distributions of Ge- at visible photon wavelengths
W. W. Williams, D. L. Carpenter, A. M. Covington, and J. S. Thompson
pp. 4368-4373 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge and velocity dependence of the ratio of double to single ionization of H- by Arq+ and Xeq+
F. Melchert, E. Salzborn, D. B. Uskov, L. P. Presnyakov, Catalina Gonzalez, and J. H. McGuire
pp. 4379-4384 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum diffraction and threshold law for the Temkin-Poet model of electron-hydrogen ionization
Naoyuki Miyashita, Daiji Kato, and Shinichi Watanabe
pp. 4385-4389 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-impact double ionization of a model helium atom
M. S. Pindzola, D. Mitnik, and F. Robicheaux
pp. 4390-4398 [View PDF (526 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dielectronic excitation of Ne K-shell electrons in 2–170-keV N7++Ne collisions
C. Bedouet, F. Frémont, J. Y. Chesnel, X. Husson, H. Merabet, N. Vaeck, N. Zitane, B. Sulik, M. Grether, A. Spieler, and N. Stolterfoht
pp. 4399-4406 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron scattering from optically pumped lithium atoms
V. Karaganov, Igor Bray, and P. J. Teubner
pp. 4407-4417 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Application of the hidden-crossing method to positronium formation
S. J. Ward, J. H. Macek, and S. Yu. Ovchinnikov
pp. 4418-4427 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ionization and fragmentation of C60 in charge-transfer collisions of 2-MeV lithium ions
A. Itoh, H. Tsuchida, T. Majima, and N. Imanishi
pp. 4428-4437 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Detailed analysis of the 3d-1→4pπ-2 normal Auger spectra in HBr and DBr
R. Püttner, Y. F. Hu, G. M. Bancroft, H. Aksela, E. Nõmmiste, J. Karvonen, A. Kivimäki, and S. Aksela
pp. 4438-4445 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Formation of negative ions from fluorine projectiles scattered off a MgO(100) surface: Theory
Stefan A. Deutscher, Andrei G. Borisov, and Victor Sidis
pp. 4446-4455 [View PDF (448 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reduced charge state of MeV carbon cluster constituents exiting thin carbon foils
A. Brunelle, S. Della-Negra, J. Depauw, D. Jacquet, Y. Le Beyec, and M. Pautrat
pp. 4456-4460 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Carbon-cluster formation from polymers caused by MeV-ion impacts and keV-cluster-ion impacts
C. W. Diehnelt, M. J. Van Stipdonk, and E. A. Schweikert
pp. 4470-4474 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Nonlinear interactions of multilevel atoms with a near-resonant standing wave
T. J. O’Kane, R. E. Scholten, P. M. Farrell, and M. R. Walkiewicz
pp. 4485-4493 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Coherent population transfer in three-level Λ systems by chirped laser pulses: Minimization of the intermediate-level population
Ignacio R. Solá, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Bo Y. Chang, Jesus Santamaria, and Klaas Bergmann
pp. 4494-4501 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dissociation of molecular chlorine in a Coulomb explosion: Potential curves, bound states, and deviation from Coulombic behavior for Cl2n+ (n=2,3,4,6,8,10)
J. S. Wright, G. A. DiLabio, D. R. Matusek, P. B. Corkum, M. Yu. Ivanov, Ch. Ellert, R. J. Buenker, A. B. Alekseyev, and G. Hirsch
pp. 4512-4521 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser cooling of ions stored in a Penning trap: A phase-space picture
G. Zs. Horvath and R. C. Thompson
pp. 4530-4546 [View PDF (1383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Core-scattered combination orbits in the M=0 Stark spectrum of helium
M. L. Keeler and T. J. Morgan
pp. 4559-4563 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy of trapped atoms
Claudio L. Cesar and Daniel Kleppner
pp. 4564-4570 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear level-crossing models
N. V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 4580-4588 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Raman motional displacements of a trapped ion in the strong excitation regime
Heping Zeng, Fucheng Lin, Yuzhu Wang, and Yusaburo Segawa
pp. 4589-4594 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Spatial coherence and density correlations of trapped Bose gases
M. Naraschewski and R. J. Glauber
pp. 4595-4607 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground-state energy of the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
W.-J. Huang and S.-C. Gou
pp. 4608-4613 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Weak-force detection using a double Bose-Einstein condensate
J. F. Corney, G. J. Milburn, and Weiping Zhang
pp. 4630-4635 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Longitudinal focusing of an atomic cloud using pulsed magnetic forces
E. Maréchal, S. Guibal, J.-L. Bossennec, R. Barbé, J.-C. Keller, and O. Gorceix
pp. 4636-4640 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Longitudinal atom optics using localized oscillating fields: A fully quantum-mechanical treatment
D. E. Pritchard, R. A. Rubenstein, A. Dhirani, D. A. Kokorowski, E. T. Smith, T. D. Hammond, and B. Rohwedder
pp. 4641-4652 [View PDF (378 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Zero sound modes of dilute Fermi gases with arbitrary spin
S.-K. Yip and Tin-Lun Ho
pp. 4653-4656 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Two-variable reduction of the San Miguel–Feng–Moloney model for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Thomas Erneux, Jan Danckaert, K. Panajotov, and I. Veretennicoff
pp. 4660-4667 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical properties of dye molecules as a function of the surrounding dielectric medium
G. Lamouche, P. Lavallard, and T. Gacoin
pp. 4668-4674 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lyapunov-potential description for laser dynamics
Catalina Mayol, Raúl Toral, and Claudio R. Mirasso
pp. 4690-4698 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Maxwell-Bloch approach to excess quantum noise
S. M. Dutra, K. Joosten, G. Nienhuis, N. J. van Druten, A. M. van der Lee, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 4699-4702 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Use of phase-locking in four-wave Raman mixing for generating ultrashort optical pulses
Hiroyuki Kawano, Tomonori Mori, Yasuyuki Hirakawa, and Totaro Imasaka
pp. 4703-4715 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-state transformation by dispersive and absorbing four-port devices
L. Knöll, S. Scheel, E. Schmidt, D.-G. Welsch, and A. V. Chizhov
pp. 4716-4726 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fluorescence lifetimes and linewidths of dye in photonic crystals
Mischa Megens, Judith E. Wijnhoven, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos
pp. 4727-4731 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electromagnetically induced absorption
A. Lezama, S. Barreiro, and A. M. Akulshin
pp. 4732-4735 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Modification of Planck blackbody radiation by photonic band-gap structures
Christopher M. Cornelius and Jonathan P. Dowling
pp. 4736-4746 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Master-equation model of a single-quantum-dot microsphere laser
Oliver Benson and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 4756-4763 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of the spatiotemporal dynamics of simple transverse patterns in a pulsed transversely excited atmospheric CO2 laser
F. Encinas-Sanz, Oscar G. Calderón, R. Gutiérrez-Castrejón, and J. M. Guerra
pp. 4764-4772 [View PDF (1264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of an electromagnetically induced grating in cold sodium atoms
Masaharu Mitsunaga and Nobuyuki Imoto
pp. 4773-4776 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of conical emission from a single self-trapped beam
B. D. Paul, M. L. Dowell, A. Gallagher, and J. Cooper
pp. 4784-4796 [View PDF (1429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Electron-momentum densities of singly charged ions
Toshikatsu Koga, Hisashi Matsuyama, E. Romera, J. S. Dehesa, and Ajit J. Thakkar
pp. 4805-4808 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron attachment to valence-excited CO
Sanjay Kumar and D. Mathur
pp. 4809-4812 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Near-Coulombic behavior in the dissociative ionization of CO2 due to impact by Ar8+
J. H. Sanderson, T. Nishide, H. Shiromaru, Y. Achiba, and N. Kobayashi
pp. 4817-4820 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reevaluation of experiments and new theoretical calculations for electron-impact excitation of C3+
P. H. Janzen, L. D. Gardner, D. B. Reisenfeld, D. W. Savin, J. L. Kohl, and K. Bartschat
pp. 4821-4824 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Low-energy quenching of positronium by helium
Sadhan K. Adhikari, P. K. Biswas, and R. A. Sultanov
pp. 4829-4832 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Observation of Larmor spin precession of laser-cooled Rb atoms via paramagnetic Faraday rotation
T. Isayama, Y. Takahashi, N. Tanaka, K. Toyoda, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki
pp. 4836-4839 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase-sensitive ionization through multiphoton-excitation schemes involving even numbers of photons
E. Papastathopoulos, D. Xenakis, and D. Charalambidis
pp. 4840-4842 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]