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  • Fundamental concepts
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  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Unbroken supersymmetry in the Aharonov-Casher effect S. Bruce, L. Roa, C. Saavedra, and A. B. Klimov pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Consistent quantum counterfactuals Robert B. Griffiths pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Scaling limit of weakly bound triatomic states T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio, A. Delfino, and A. E. Amorim pp. R9-R12 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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 (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Transparency near a photonic band edge E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight pp. R33-R36 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Short- and long-time decay laws and the energy distribution of a decaying state K. Unnikrishnan pp. 41-44 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic field quantization in an absorbing medium Reza Matloob pp. 50-55 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observing the spin of a free electron B. M. Garraway and S. Stenholm pp. 63-79 [View PDF (1076 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Counterfactual entanglement and nonlocal correlations in separable states Oliver Cohen pp. 80-84 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Markovian quantum-state diffusion: Perturbation approach Ting Yu, Lajos Diósi, Nicolas Gisin, and Walter T. Strunz pp. 91-103 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roles of phase cancellation removing spuriously quantized states in semiclassical mechanics Atsuko Inoue-Ushiyama and Kazuo Takatsuka pp. 112-120 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations, time-correlation functions, and geometric phase Arun Kumar Pati pp. 121-125 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Optimal minimal measurements of mixed states G. Vidal, J. I. Latorre, P. Pascual, and R. Tarrach pp. 126-135 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strategies and networks for state-dependent quantum cloning Anthony Chefles and Stephen M. Barnett pp. 136-144 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum identification system Miloslav Dušek, Ondřej Haderka, Martin Hendrych, and Robert Myška pp. 149-156 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Communication channels secured from eavesdropping via transmission of photonic Bell states Kaoru Shimizu and Nobuyuki Imoto pp. 157-166 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimization approach to entanglement distillation T. Opatrný and G. Kurizki pp. 167-172 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rigorous treatment of distillable entanglement E. M. Rains pp. 173-178 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound on distillable entanglement E. M. Rains pp. 179-184 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Purification via entanglement swapping and conserved entanglement S. Bose, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight pp. 194-197 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Positron and positronium affinities in the work-formalism Hartree-Fock approximation Rajendra R. Zope pp. 218-223 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-dimensional eigenfunctions from their perturbation series for regular and singular perturbations Marco A. Núñez pp. 224-235 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalization of the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn and the Bethe sum rules Sanwu Wang pp. 262-266 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Integral identities and bounds for scattering calculations and the Dirac formalism Jurij W. Darewych pp. 290-294 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-element Z-matrix method: Application to electron-molecule collisions Winifred M. Huo and David Brown pp. 295-305 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational excitations of hydrogen molecules by slow muonic atoms A. Boukour, V. S. Melezhik, and Ch. Leclercq-Willain pp. 323-329 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superelastic scattering with imperfect laser polarization R. E. Scholten, V. Karaganov, P. J. Teubner, and P. M. Farrell pp. 330-336 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jost function for singular potentials S. A. Sofianos, S. A. Rakityansky, and S. E. Massen pp. 337-343 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron correlations in single-electron capture from heliumlike atomic systems Ivan Mančev pp. 351-358 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photodetachment of H- W. H. Kuan, T. F. Jiang, and Kwong T. Chung pp. 364-369 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Markovian energy-corrected sudden model for the rototranslational spectrum of N2 J. V. Buldyreva and L. Bonamy pp. 370-376 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	From collectivity to the single-particle picture in the photoionization of clusters Olaf Frank and Jan M. Rost pp. 392-397 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Competition between one- and two-photon lasing in two cavity modes David Petrosyan and P. Lambropoulos pp. 398-405 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semianalytic theory of laser-assisted resonant cold collisions John L. Bohn and P. S. Julienne pp. 414-425 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order impulse approximation for calculating pulsed-field recombination F. Robicheaux pp. 431-438 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent population trapping in open systems: A coupled/noncoupled-state analysis Ferruccio Renzoni, Albrecht Lindner, and Ennio Arimondo pp. 450-455 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 (1622 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov kinetic equations for a trapped Bose gas Milena Imamović-Tomasović and Allan Griffin pp. 494-503 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adaptive quantum homodyne tomography Giacomo M. D’Ariano and Matteo G. Paris pp. 518-528 [View PDF (1081 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooperative frequency shift law in multimode lasers Wang Kaige pp. 534-537 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intensity squeezing in a Raman laser A. Eschmann and R. J. Ballagh pp. 559-572 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of dressed states in quantum optics Marco Frasca pp. 573-581 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon bunching and multiphoton interference in parametric down-conversion Z. Y. Ou, J.-K. Rhee, and L. J. Wang pp. 593-604 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherence properties of the stochastic oscillator Martti Havukainen and Stig Stenholm pp. 621-629 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lasing threshold for whispering-gallery-mode microsphere lasers Ying Wu and P. T. Leung pp. 630-633 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (402 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagation dynamics in an autoionization medium E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight pp. 642-647 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Combined effects of polarization and nonparaxial propagation on pattern formation F. Papoff, G. D’Alessandro, and G.-L. Oppo pp. 648-662 [View PDF (603 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Pattern formation in quantum Turing machines Ilki Kim and Günter Mahler pp. 692-695 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum logic gate operation between different ions in a trap Li-Xiang Li and Guang-Can Guo pp. 696-699 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Diffusive ionization of a relativistic hydrogenlike atom D. U. Matrasulov pp. 700-703 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	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) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Electromagnetically induced photonic band gap Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Andrey B. Matsko, and Marlan O. Scully pp. 712-714 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photodetachment of the Ca<