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Physical Review A – June 1999
Volume 59, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)]
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Complete view of Stark wave-packet evolution
M. B. Campbell, T. J. Bensky, and R. R. Jones
pp. R4117-R4120 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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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)]

Matter waves

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Collisional relaxation in a fermionic gas
Gabriele Ferrari
pp. R4125-R4128 [View PDF (215 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Population inversion between atomic inner-shell vacancy states created by electron-impact ionization and Coster-Kronig decay
D. Kim, C. Tóth, and C. P. J. Barty
pp. R4129-R4132 [View PDF (78 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Direct determination of the quantum-mechanical density matrix: Parquet theory
Koji Yasuda
pp. 4133-4149 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons
W. Tittel, J. Brendel, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden
pp. 4150-4163 [View PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Reconstruction of a wave function from the Q function using a phase-retrieval method in quantum-state measurements of light
Nobuharu Nakajima
pp. 4164-4171 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Quantum electrodynamics of strong-field Compton scattering and its ponderomotive and drift energies
F. F. Körmendi and Gy. Farkas
pp. 4172-4177 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Using parity kicks for decoherence control
D. Vitali and P. Tombesi
pp. 4178-4186 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Lorentz-covariant quantum mechanics and preferred frame
P. Caban and J. Rembieliński
pp. 4187-4196 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Optimal states for Bell-inequality violations using quadrature-phase homodyne measurements
W. J. Munro
pp. 4197-4201 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-correlated atomic ensembles
E. S. Polzik
pp. 4202-4205 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Quantum information

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Reduction criterion of separability and limits for a class of distillation protocols
Michał Horodecki and Paweł Horodecki
pp. 4206-4216 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Disentanglement-free state of two pairs of two-level atoms
Chui-Ping Yang and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 4217-4222 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Simple example of definitions of truth, validity, consistency, and completeness in quantum mechanics
Paul Benioff
pp. 4223-4237 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Incoherent and coherent eavesdropping in the six-state protocol of quantum cryptography
H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci and N. Gisin
pp. 4238-4248 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Distributed quantum computation over noisy channels
J. I. Cirac, A. K. Ekert, S. F. Huelga, and C. Macchiavello
pp. 4249-4254 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Atomic configuration-interaction electron-electron counterbalance densities
José M. Mercero, Joseph E. Fowler, Cecilia Sarasola, and Jesus M. Ugalde
pp. 4255-4258 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Lamb shift of an atom in a dielectric medium
Peter W. Milonni, Martin Schaden, and Larry Spruch
pp. 4259-4263 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-stimulated transitions of excited states in fast muonic helium ions
Vladimir S. Melezhik and Peter Schmelcher
pp. 4264-4269 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Bound-state calculations of Coulomb three-body systems
Alexei M. Frolov
pp. 4270-4280 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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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 (282 kB)]
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Systematic study of the Ib diatomic molecules Cu2, Ag2, and Au2 using advanced relativistic density functionals
S. Varga, E. Engel, W.-D. Sepp, and B. Fricke
pp. 4288-4294 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Large-scale multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock calculations of the hyperfine-structure constants and determination of the nuclear quadrupole moment of 49Ti
Jacek Bieroń, Charlotte Froese Fischer, and Ian P. Grant
pp. 4295-4299 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Negative pion capture in HD gas and in H2+D2 gas mixtures: Resolution of the isotope puzzle
James S. Cohen
pp. 4300-4308 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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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)]
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Positronium S-state spectrum: Analytic results at O(mα6)
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky
pp. 4316-4330 [View PDF (297 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Exact solution of the one- and three-dimensional quantum kinetic equations with velocity-dependent collision rates: Comparative analysis
T. Privalov and A. Shalagin
pp. 4331-4339 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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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)]
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Resonant processes in a frozen gas
J. S. Frasier, V. Celli, and T. Blum
pp. 4358-4367 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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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 (147 kB)]
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Experimental study of dissociative attachment in H2: Effects of vibrational excitation
O. J. Orient and A. Chutjian
pp. 4374-4378 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (136 kB)]
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Electron-impact double ionization of a model helium atom
M. S. Pindzola, D. Mitnik, and F. Robicheaux
pp. 4390-4398 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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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)]
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Electron scattering from optically pumped lithium atoms
V. Karaganov, Igor Bray, and P. J. O. Teubner
pp. 4407-4417 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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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)]
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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)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Highly ionized but weakly excited metal clusters in collisions with multicharged ions
L. Plagne and C. Guet
pp. 4461-4469 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Nonadiabatic interaction effects on population transfer in H2 by stimulated Raman transition with partially overlapping laser pulses
Swaralipi Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, S. S. Bhattacharyya, and Samir Saha
pp. 4475-4484 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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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 (263 kB)]
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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)]
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Laser-induced resonant structures in a close-coupling calculation of two-frequency multiphoton dissociation of HD+
Avijit Datta and S. S. Bhattacharyya
pp. 4502-4511 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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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)]
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Energy-exchange characteristics in ordinary and nonlinear Compton scattering
J. X. Wang and Y. K. Ho
pp. 4522-4529 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Laser cooling of ions stored in a Penning trap: A phase-space picture
G. Zs. K. Horvath and R. C. Thompson
pp. 4530-4546 [View PDF (1,383 kB)]
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Zeeman frequency shifts in an optical dipole trap used to search for an electric-dipole moment
M. V. Romalis and E. N. Fortson
pp. 4547-4558 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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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)]
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Two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy of trapped atoms
Claudio L. Cesar and Daniel Kleppner
pp. 4564-4570 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Reaction-field-induced interatomic forces between atoms in the presence of a strong magnetic field
Burke Ritchie
pp. 4571-4573 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Scaling of hydrogenic atoms and ions interacting with laser fields: Positronium in a laser field
L. B. Madsen and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 4574-4579 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Nonlinear level-crossing models
N. V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 4580-4588 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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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)]

Matter waves

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Spatial coherence and density correlations of trapped Bose gases
M. Naraschewski and R. J. Glauber
pp. 4595-4607 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Ground-state energy of the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
W.-J. Huang and S.-C. Gou
pp. 4608-4613 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Noncommuting spinor rotation due to balanced geometrical and dynamical phases
Y. Hasegawa and G. Badurek
pp. 4614-4622 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Creating macroscopic quantum superpositions with Bose-Einstein condensates
D. Gordon and C. M. Savage
pp. 4623-4629 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Weak-force detection using a double Bose-Einstein condensate
J. F. Corney, G. J. Milburn, and Weiping Zhang
pp. 4630-4635 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (377 kB)]
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Zero sound modes of dilute Fermi gases with arbitrary spin
S.-K. Yip and Tin-Lun Ho
pp. 4653-4656 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation of a trapped gas in n dimensions
Zijun Yan
pp. 4657-4659 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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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)]
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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 (150 kB)]
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Comparison of wavelength dependence in cascade-, Λ-, and Vee-type schemes for electromagnetically induced transparency
J. R. Boon, E. Zekou, D. McGloin, and M. H. Dunn
pp. 4675-4684 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Interference-induced optical gain without population inversion in cold, trapped atoms
J. Kitching and L. Hollberg
pp. 4685-4689 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Lyapunov-potential description for laser dynamics
Catalina Mayol, Raúl Toral, and Claudio R. Mirasso
pp. 4690-4698 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (278 kB)]
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Fluorescence lifetimes and linewidths of dye in photonic crystals
Mischa Megens, Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos
pp. 4727-4731 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced absorption
A. Lezama, S. Barreiro, and A. M. Akulshin
pp. 4732-4735 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Modification of Planck blackbody radiation by photonic band-gap structures
Christopher M. Cornelius and Jonathan P. Dowling
pp. 4736-4746 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Atom-atom correlations induced by resonant coupling with a laser field
Yves Gontier
pp. 4747-4755 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Master-equation model of a single-quantum-dot microsphere laser
Oliver Benson and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 4756-4763 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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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 (1,264 kB)]
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Observation of an electromagnetically induced grating in cold sodium atoms
Masaharu Mitsunaga and Nobuyuki Imoto
pp. 4773-4776 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Revival and fractional revival in the quantum dynamics of SU(1,1) coherent states
J. Banerji and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 4777-4783 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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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 (1,429 kB)]
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Quantum homodyne tomography with a priori constraints
Konrad Banaszek
pp. 4797-4800 [View PDF (111 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Detector efficiency in the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox: Independent errors
Jan-Åke Larsson
pp. 4801-4804 [View PDF (342 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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)]
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Electron attachment to valence-excited CO
Sanjay Kumar and D. Mathur
pp. 4809-4812 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Multichannel e++H calculations via the modified Faddeev equations
Chi-Yu Hu
pp. 4813-4816 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)]
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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)]
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Asymptotic ratios of single, double, and triple photoionization for lithium at high energies
John W. Cooper
pp. 4825-4828 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Low-energy quenching of positronium by helium
Sadhan K. Adhikari, P. K. Biswas, and R. A. Sultanov
pp. 4829-4832 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Generation of monochromatic radiation by atomic ions in a magnetic field
Vladimir S. Melezhik
pp. 4833-4835 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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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 (147 kB)]
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Phase-sensitive ionization through multiphoton-excitation schemes involving even numbers of photons
E. Papastathopoulos, D. Xenakis, and D. Charalambidis
pp. 4840-4842 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Static field tunneling ionization of H2+
R. Barnett and G. N. Gibson
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules”
S. M. Cohen and P. T. Leung
pp. 4847-4848 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules’ ”
R. H. Romero and G. A. Aucar
pp. 4849 [View PDF (50 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Bethe theory of stopping incorporating electronic excitations of partially stripped projectiles [Phys. Rev. A 55, 2864 (1997)]
R. Cabrera-Trujillo, S. A. Cruz, Jens Oddershede, and John R. Sabin
pp. 4850 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Spectral line shape of nonresonant four-wave mixing in Markovian stochastic fields [Phys. Rev. A 56, 2267 (1997)]
R. Bratfalean and P. Ewart
pp. 4850-4851 [View PDF (48 kB)]
 
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