Physical Review A – July 1999
(Volume 60, Issue 1)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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) ]

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Add to article collection 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

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Add to article collection 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) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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) ]

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Add to article collection 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

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection 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) ]

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Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

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

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

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection 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)

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection 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) ]