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Physical Review A – July 1999
Volume 60, Issue 1

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Dynamical diffraction of atomic matter waves by crystals of light
M. K. Oberthaler, R. Abfalterer, S. Bernet, C. Keller, J. Schmiedmayer, and A. Zeilinger
pp. 456-472 [View PDF (1,621 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Unbroken supersymmetry in the Aharonov-Casher effect
S. Bruce, L. Roa, C. Saavedra, and A. B. Klimov
pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Consistent quantum counterfactuals
Robert B. Griffiths
pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Scaling limit of weakly bound triatomic states
T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio, A. Delfino, and A. E. A. Amorim
pp. R9-R12 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Benchmark single-differential ionization cross section results for the s-wave model of electron-hydrogen scattering
M. Baertschy, T. N. Rescigno, W. A. Isaacs, and C. W. McCurdy
pp. R13-R16 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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One-step double autoionization into the double-photoionization continuum
R. Wehlitz, M.-T. Huang, K. A. Berrington, S. Nakazaki, and Y. Azuma
pp. R17-R20 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Intermediate-energy electron-impact ionization of molecules
A. L. Monzani, L. E. Machado, M.-T. Lee, and A. M. Machado
pp. R21-R24 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Multiple ionization of N2 in intense, linearly and circularly polarized light fields
S. Banerjee, G. Ravindra Kumar, and D. Mathur
pp. R25-R28 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Quantum-diffractive background gas collisions in atom-trap heating and loss
S. Bali, K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J. E. Thomas
pp. R29-R32 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Transparency near a photonic band edge
E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight
pp. R33-R36 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Quantum interference by two temporally distinguishable pulses
Yoon-Ho Kim, Maria V. Chekhova, Sergei P. Kulik, and Yanhua Shih
pp. R37-R40 [View PDF (246 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Short- and long-time decay laws and the energy distribution of a decaying state
K. Unnikrishnan
pp. 41-44 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Vacuum-polarization screening corrections to the energy levels of lithiumlike ions
A. N. Artemyev, T. Beier, G. Plunien, V. M. Shabaev, G. Soff, and V. A. Yerokhin
pp. 45-49 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Electromagnetic field quantization in an absorbing medium
Reza Matloob
pp. 50-55 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Dynamics of a two-level atom observed via an interaction-free measurement
A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
pp. 56-62 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Observing the spin of a free electron
B. M. Garraway and S. Stenholm
pp. 63-79 [View PDF (1,076 kB)]
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Counterfactual entanglement and nonlocal correlations in separable states
Oliver Cohen
pp. 80-84 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Relativistic solution of hydrogen in a spherical cavity
Yung-Sheng Huang, Chun-Ching Yang, and Sy-Sang Liaw
pp. 85-90 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Non-Markovian quantum-state diffusion: Perturbation approach
Ting Yu, Lajos Diósi, Nicolas Gisin, and Walter T. Strunz
pp. 91-103 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Quality of the supersymmetric WKB quantization condition for non-shape-invariant potentials
Barnali Chakrabarti and Tapan Kumar Das
pp. 104-111 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Roles of phase cancellation removing spuriously quantized states in semiclassical mechanics
Atsuko Inoue-Ushiyama and Kazuo Takatsuka
pp. 112-120 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Fluctuations, time-correlation functions, and geometric phase
Arun Kumar Pati
pp. 121-125 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Quantum information

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Optimal minimal measurements of mixed states
G. Vidal, J. I. Latorre, P. Pascual, and R. Tarrach
pp. 126-135 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Strategies and networks for state-dependent quantum cloning
Anthony Chefles and Stephen M. Barnett
pp. 136-144 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Laser addressing of individual ions in a linear ion trap
H. C. Nägerl, D. Leibfried, H. Rohde, G. Thalhammer, J. Eschner, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Blatt
pp. 145-148 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Quantum identification system
Miloslav Dušek, Ondřej Haderka, Martin Hendrych, and Robert Myška
pp. 149-156 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Communication channels secured from eavesdropping via transmission of photonic Bell states
Kaoru Shimizu and Nobuyuki Imoto
pp. 157-166 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Optimization approach to entanglement distillation
T. Opatrný and G. Kurizki
pp. 167-172 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Rigorous treatment of distillable entanglement
E. M. Rains
pp. 173-178 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Bound on distillable entanglement
E. M. Rains
pp. 179-184 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Qubit-qubit interaction in quantum computers. II. Adder algorithm with diagonal and off-diagonal interactions
Julio Gea-Banacloche
pp. 185-193 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Purification via entanglement swapping and conserved entanglement
S. Bose, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight
pp. 194-197 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Radiative properties of neutral germanium obtained from excited-state lifetime and branching-ratio measurements and comparison with theoretical calculations
Z.-S. Li, J. Norin, A. Persson, C.-G. Wahlström, S. Svanberg, P. S. Doidge, and E. Biémont
pp. 198-208 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Cascade in muonic deuterium atoms
B. Lauss, P. Ackerbauer, W. H. Breunlich, B. Gartner, M. Jeitler, P. Kammel, J. Marton, W. Prymas, J. Zmeskal, D. Chatellard, J.-P. Egger, H. Daniel, F. J. Hartmann, A. Kosak, and C. Petitjean
pp. 209-217 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Positron and positronium affinities in the work-formalism Hartree-Fock approximation
Rajendra R. Zope
pp. 218-223 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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One-dimensional eigenfunctions from their perturbation series for regular and singular perturbations
Marco A. Núñez
pp. 224-235 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical study of photoabsorption spectra of molecular hydrogen in the energy region 11–19 eV
Zhi Ping Zhong, Wei Hua Zhang, Ke Zun Xu, Ren Fei Feng, and Jia-Ming Li
pp. 236-245 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Relativistic coupled-cluster-based linear response theory for ionization potentials of alkali-metal and alkaline-earth-metal atoms
Rajat K. Chaudhuri, Prafulla K. Panda, B. P. Das, Uttam Sinha Mahapatra, and D. Mukherjee
pp. 246-252 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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ΔI=2 staggering in rotational bands of diatomic molecules as a manifestation of interband interactions
Dennis Bonatsos, C. Daskaloyannis, S. B. Drenska, N. Karoussos, J. Maruani, N. Minkov, P. P. Raychev, and R. P. Roussev
pp. 253-261 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Generalization of the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn and the Bethe sum rules
Sanwu Wang
pp. 262-266 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Measurement of the electric quadrupole amplitude within the 1283-nm 6P1/2-6P3/2 transition in atomic thallium
P. K. Majumder and Leo L. Tsai
pp. 267-272 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Broadening of spectral lines due to dynamic multiple scattering and the Tully-Fisher relation
Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos, and Suman Dutta
pp. 273-279 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Padé approximant approach to the Thomas-Fermi problem
L. N. Epele, H. Fanchiotti, C. A. García Canal, and J. A. Ponciano
pp. 280-283 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Closed-form solutions for a noncentral parabolic potential
G. Gasaneo, F. D. Colavecchia, W. R. Cravero, and C. R. Garibotti
pp. 284-289 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Integral identities and bounds for scattering calculations and the Dirac formalism
Jurij W. Darewych
pp. 290-294 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Finite-element Z-matrix method: Application to electron-molecule collisions
Winifred M. Huo and David Brown
pp. 295-305 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Branching ratios among three product channels of the dissociative recombination reaction in Ar2+
M. Guna, L. Simons, K. Hardy, and J. Peterson
pp. 306-313 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Three-body approach to proton-hydrogen charge exchange and elastic scattering
E. O. Alt, A. S. Kadyrov, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov
pp. 314-322 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Rotational excitations of hydrogen molecules by slow muonic atoms
A. Boukour, V. S. Melezhik, and Ch. Leclercq-Willain
pp. 323-329 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Superelastic scattering with imperfect laser polarization
R. E. Scholten, V. Karaganov, P. J. O. Teubner, and P. M. Farrell
pp. 330-336 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Jost function for singular potentials
S. A. Sofianos, S. A. Rakityansky, and S. E. Massen
pp. 337-343 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Charge-transfer processes in collisions of ground-state C+ ions with H2, D2, CO, and CO2 molecules in the energy range from 0.15 to 4.5 keV
Toshio Kusakabe, Kenji Hosomi, Hiroshi Nakanishi, Hiroyuki Tawara, Mamiko Sasao, Yohta Nakai, and Mineo Kimura
pp. 344-350 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Electron correlations in single-electron capture from heliumlike atomic systems
Ivan Mančev
pp. 351-358 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Measurements of differential cross sections for positrons scattered from N2, CO, O2, N2O, and CO2
D. A. Przybyla, W. Addo-Asah, W. E. Kauppila, C. K. Kwan, and T. S. Stein
pp. 359-363 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Photodetachment of H-
W. H. Kuan, T. F. Jiang, and Kwong T. Chung
pp. 364-369 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Non-Markovian energy-corrected sudden model for the rototranslational spectrum of N2
J. V. Buldyreva and L. Bonamy
pp. 370-376 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Impact-velocity dependence of ejected-electron distributions for ionization in proton-hydrogen collisions
Emil Y. Sidky and C. D. Lin
pp. 377-384 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Fast electrons from collisions of highly stripped ions with solid-state targets
D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen and H. Rothard
pp. 385-391 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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From collectivity to the single-particle picture in the photoionization of clusters
Olaf Frank and Jan M. Rost
pp. 392-397 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Competition between one- and two-photon lasing in two cavity modes
David Petrosyan and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 398-405 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Intense-laser-induced alignment in angularly resolved photofragment distributions of H2+
R. Numico, A. Keller, and O. Atabek
pp. 406-413 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Semianalytic theory of laser-assisted resonant cold collisions
John L. Bohn and P. S. Julienne
pp. 414-425 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Neutral dissociation by non-Rydberg doubly excited states
P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, E. Rachlew-Källne, J. Rius i Riu, M. Stankiewicz, K. Yoshiki Franzén, and L. Veseth
pp. 426-430 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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High-order impulse approximation for calculating pulsed-field recombination
F. Robicheaux
pp. 431-438 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Sideband cooling of ions in radio-frequency traps
E. Peik, J. Abel, Th. Becker, J. von Zanthier, and H. Walther
pp. 439-449 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Coherent population trapping in open systems: A coupled/noncoupled-state analysis
Ferruccio Renzoni, Albrecht Lindner, and Ennio Arimondo
pp. 450-455 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Matter waves

Dynamical diffraction of atomic matter waves by crystals of light
M. K. Oberthaler, R. Abfalterer, S. Bernet, C. Keller, J. Schmiedmayer, and A. Zeilinger
pp. 456-472 [View PDF (1,621 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Testing of quantum phase in matter-wave optics
Jaroslav Řeháček, Zdeněk Hradil, Michael Zawisky, Saverio Pascazio, Helmut Rauch, and Jan Peřina
pp. 473-479 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Measuring the quantum state of an electromagnetic field using the atomic Talbot effect
B. Rohwedder, L. Davidovich, and N. Zagury
pp. 480-486 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Bose-condensate tunneling dynamics: Momentum-shortened pendulum with damping
I. Marino, S. Raghavan, S. Fantoni, S. R. Shenoy, and A. Smerzi
pp. 487-493 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Coupled Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov kinetic equations for a trapped Bose gas
Milena Imamović-Tomasović and Allan Griffin
pp. 494-503 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Optical detection of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer phase transition in a trapped gas of fermionic atoms
Weiping Zhang, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet
pp. 504-507 [View PDF (223 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Phase-conjugate four-wave mixing with partially coherent laser fields
Binh Do, Jongwhan Cha, D. S. Elliott, and S. J. Smith
pp. 508-517 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Adaptive quantum homodyne tomography
Giacomo M. D’Ariano and Matteo G. A. Paris
pp. 518-528 [View PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Noiseless phase quadrature amplification via an electro-optic feed-forward technique
Ben C. Buchler, Elanor H. Huntington, and Timothy C. Ralph
pp. 529-533 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Cooperative frequency shift law in multimode lasers
Wang Kaige
pp. 534-537 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Quantum noise in the position measurement of a cavity mirror undergoing Brownian motion
K. Jacobs, I. Tittonen, H. M. Wiseman, and S. Schiller
pp. 538-548 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Copropagation of two waves of different frequencies and arbitrary initial polarization states in an isotropic Kerr medium
E. López Lago and R. de la Fuente
pp. 549-558 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Intensity squeezing in a Raman laser
A. Eschmann and R. J. Ballagh
pp. 559-572 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Theory of dressed states in quantum optics
Marco Frasca
pp. 573-581 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Numerical simulations of atomic decay in cavities and material media
V. Bužek, G. Drobný, Min Gyu Kim, M. Havukainen, and P. L. Knight
pp. 582-592 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Photon bunching and multiphoton interference in parametric down-conversion
Z. Y. Ou, J.-K. Rhee, and L. J. Wang
pp. 593-604 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Theoretical analysis of resonances in the polarization spectrum of a two-level atom driven by a polychromatic field
Tai Hyun Yoon, Sergei A. Pulkin, Jong Rak Park, Myung Sai Chung, and Hai-Woong Lee
pp. 605-613 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Lasing without inversion with frequency up-conversion in a Doppler-broadened V-type three-level system
V. Ahufinger, J. Mompart, and R. Corbalán
pp. 614-620 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Coherence properties of the stochastic oscillator
Martti Havukainen and Stig Stenholm
pp. 621-629 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Lasing threshold for whispering-gallery-mode microsphere lasers
Ying Wu and P. T. Leung
pp. 630-633 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Influence of amplitude-phase coupling on the dynamics of semiconductor lasers subject to optical feedback
T. Heil, I. Fischer, and W. Elsäßer
pp. 634-641 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Propagation dynamics in an autoionization medium
E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight
pp. 642-647 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Combined effects of polarization and nonparaxial propagation on pattern formation
F. Papoff, G. D’Alessandro, and G.-L. Oppo
pp. 648-662 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Quantitative information from time series: Cr:yttrium-aluminum-garnet cross-section measurement
A. M. Yacomotti, O. E. Martínez, and G. B. Mindlin
pp. 663-666 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Picosecond intensity statistics of semiconductor lasers operating in the low-frequency fluctuation regime
D. W. Sukow, T. Heil, I. Fischer, A. Gavrielides, A. Hohl-AbiChedid, and W. Elsäßer
pp. 667-673 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Direct measurement of the Wigner function by photon counting
K. Banaszek, C. Radzewicz, K. Wódkiewicz, and J. S. Krasiński
pp. 674-677 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced generation, gain in delayed wave mixing, and measuring coherent states using quantum-interference windows
I. Pop and L. Moorman
pp. 678-686 [View PDF (183 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Time evolution of the wave packet of a continuously observed free quantum particle
Przemysław Staszewski and Grażyna Staszewska
pp. 687-691 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Quantum information

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Pattern formation in quantum Turing machines
Ilki Kim and Günter Mahler
pp. 692-695 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Quantum logic gate operation between different ions in a trap
Li-Xiang Li and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 696-699 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Diffusive ionization of a relativistic hydrogenlike atom
D. U. Matrasulov
pp. 700-703 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Cooling charged particles in a Paul trap by feedback control
Guang-Cai Zhang, Jing-Ling Shen, Jian-Hua Dai, and Hong-Jun Zhang
pp. 704-707 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Matter waves

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Effect of the detector efficiency on the phase sensitivity in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Taesoo Kim, Yang Ha, Jongtae Shin, Heonoh Kim, Goodong Park, Kisik Kim, Tae-Gon Noh, and Chung Ki Hong
pp. 708-711 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Electromagnetically induced photonic band gap
Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Andrey B. Matsko, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 712-714 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Photodetachment of the Ca- ion at the 3Pkp threshold
D. H. Lee, M. B. Poston, D. J. Pegg, D. Hanstorp, and U. Berzinsh
pp. 715-718 [View PDF (69 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Nonadiabatic dynamics of atoms in nonuniform magnetic fields”
V. E. Shapiro
pp. 719-720 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Nonadiabatic dynamics of atoms in nonuniform magnetic fields’ ”
V. I. Yukalov
pp. 721-724 [View PDF (117 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Eight-component two-fermion equations [Phys. Rev. A 57, 3268 (1998)]
Ruth Häckl, Viktor Hund, and Hartmut Pilkuhn
pp. 725 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum repeaters based on entanglement purification [Phys. Rev. A 59, 169 (1999)]
W. Dür, H.-J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 725 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Erratum: Generation of arbitrary quantum states of traveling fields [Phys. Rev. A 59, 1658 (1999)]
M. Dakna, J. Clausen, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
pp. 726 [View PDF (43 kB)]
 
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