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Physical Review A – September 1999
Volume 60, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Algebraic construction of the coherent states of the Morse potential based on supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Mihály G. Benedict and Balázs Molnár
pp. R1737-R1740 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Ab initio calculations of off-diagonal hyperfine interaction in cesium
A. Derevianko, M. S. Safronova, and W. R. Johnson
pp. R1741-R1742 [View PDF (28 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Contribution of the quasifree mechanism to the ratio of double-to-single ionization
M. A. Kornberg and J. E. Miraglia
pp. R1743-R1746 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Determination of the fine-structure properties of the 2p subshell of atomic chlorine
S. B. Whitfield, S. Hallman, M. O. Krause, C. D. Caldwell, and R. D. Cowan
pp. R1747-R1750 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Near-threshold structures in electron-collision-induced alignment of core-excited atomic states
A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, K. Bartschat, B. Feuerstein, and W. Mehlhorn
pp. R1751-R1754 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Saturation of wave-packet interferences: Direct observation of spin precession in potassium atoms
Céline Nicole, Mohamed Aziz Bouchene, Sébastien Zamith, Noureddine Melikechi, and Bertrand Girard
pp. R1755-R1758 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Interrupted evaporative cooling of 87Rb atoms trapped in a high magnetic field
B. Desruelle, V. Boyer, S. G. Murdoch, G. Delannoy, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and M. Lécrivain
pp. R1759-R1762 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Measurement of the bichromatic optical force on Rb atoms
M. R. Williams, F. Chi, M. T. Cashen, and H. Metcalf
pp. R1763-R1766 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Observation of the Wannier-Stark fan and the fractional ladder in an accelerating optical lattice
K. W. Madison, M. C. Fischer, and M. G. Raizen
pp. R1767-R1770 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Detailed comparison of above-threshold-ionization spectra from accurate numerical integrations and high-resolution measurements
M. J. Nandor, M. A. Walker, L. D. Van Woerkom, and H. G. Muller
pp. R1771-R1774 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Matter waves

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Optical response of a superfluid state in dilute atomic Fermi-Dirac gases
J. Ruostekoski
pp. R1775-R1778 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Dissipative dynamics of a vortex state in a trapped Bose-condensed gas
P. O. Fedichev and G. V. Shlyapnikov
pp. R1779-R1782 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Measurement of Berry’s phase using an atom interferometer
C. L. Webb, R. M. Godun, G. S. Summy, M. K. Oberthaler, P. D. Featonby, C. J. Foot, and K. Burnett
pp. R1783-R1786 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Transitions in coherent oscillations between two trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Raghavan, A. Smerzi, and V. M. Kenkre
pp. R1787-R1790 [View PDF (123 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Semiclassical wave-packet propagation on potential surfaces coupled by ultrashort laser pulses
Frank Grossmann
pp. 1791-1796 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Classical-like states of spin s=1/2
D. Arsenović, N. Burić, and D. M. Davidović
pp. 1797-1801 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Reciprocity between moduli and phases in time-dependent wave functions
R. Englman and A. Yahalom
pp. 1802-1810 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Faraday quantum clock and nonlocal photon pair correlations
Y. Japha and G. Kurizki
pp. 1811-1816 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Finite Kerr medium: Macroscopic quantum superposition states and Wigner functions on the sphere
Sergey M. Chumakov, Alejandro Frank, and Kurt Bernardo Wolf
pp. 1817-1823 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Spectra and magnetic properties of large spins in external fields
V. A. Kalatsky and V. L. Pokrovsky
pp. 1824-1844 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Resonances of the system of a particle in an oscillating spherical cavity
K. Colanero and M.-C. Chu
pp. 1845-1849 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Mobile flux line in an Aharonov-Bohm system
Erik Sjöqvist and Marie Ericsson
pp. 1850-1853 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm scattering of charged particles and neutral atoms: The role of absorption
Jürgen Audretsch and Vladimir D. Skarzhinsky
pp. 1854-1863 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Variational approach to the tunneling-time problem
Christian Bracher, Manfred Kleber, and Mustafa Riza
pp. 1864-1873 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Complementarity and the uncertainty relations
Gunnar Björk, Jonas Söderholm, Alexei Trifonov, Tedros Tsegaye, and Anders Karlsson
pp. 1874-1882 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Creation of relativistic positronium. II. Photoproduction cross sections including Coulomb corrections
Haakon A. Olsen
pp. 1883-1887 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Quantum information

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General teleportation channel, singlet fraction, and quasidistillation
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 1888-1898 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Quantum cryptographic device using single-photon phase modulation
Jean-Marc Mérolla, Yuri Mazurenko, Jean-Pierre Goedgebuer, Laurent Duraffourg, Henri Porte, and William T. Rhodes
pp. 1899-1905 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Microscopic analogs of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger experiment on an NMR quantum computer
Ushio Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Ozawa, Chikara Amano, and Toshio Fukumi
pp. 1906-1911 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Method of areas for manipulating the entanglement properties of one copy of a two-particle pure entangled state
Lucien Hardy
pp. 1912-1923 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Experimental realization of a two-bit phase damping quantum code
Debbie Leung, Lieven Vandersypen, Xinlan Zhou, Mark Sherwood, Constantino Yannoni, Mark Kubinec, and Isaac Chuang
pp. 1924-1943 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Robustness of decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation
D. Bacon, D. A. Lidar, and K. B. Whaley
pp. 1944-1955 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Higher-order methods for simulations on quantum computers
A. T. Sornborger and E. D. Stewart
pp. 1956-1965 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Good quantum-convolutional error-correction codes and their decoding algorithm exist
H. F. Chau
pp. 1966-1974 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Angular distribution and polarization of atomic radiative emission in electric and magnetic fields
V. L. Jacobs and A. B. Filuk
pp. 1975-1987 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Vibrational structure of the O 1s ionization spectrum of CO2
N. V. Dobrodey, H. Köppel, and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 1988-2001 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the absorption spectra of the lithium dimer
H.-K. Chung, K. Kirby, and J. F. Babb
pp. 2002-2008 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Calculations of some weakly bound diatomic molecular negative ions
Yong Li and C. D. Lin
pp. 2009-2014 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Measurement of Kα and Kβ fluorescence cross sections for elements in the range 44<~Z<~68 at 59.5 keV
G. Budak, A. Karabulut, L. Demir, and Y. S̗ahin
pp. 2015-2017 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Kα and Kβ x-ray emission spectra of metallic scandium
Dimitrios F. Anagnostopoulos, Ruth Sharon, Detlev Gotta, and Moshe Deutsch
pp. 2018-2033 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Improved electron-beam ion-trap lifetime measurement of the Ne8+ 1s2s3S1 level
E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, A. J. Smith, S. B. Utter, M. F. Gu, and D. W. Savin
pp. 2034-2038 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the 4p level photoemission spectra of Ba metal and related systems
Masahide Ohno
pp. 2039-2046 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Valence-hole localization in core-valence doubly ionized states of ionic molecules and its impact on KLV Auger spectroscopy
H. D. Schulte, L. S. Cederbaum, and F. Tarantelli
pp. 2047-2062 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Observation of a shape resonance in the a3∑u+ state of 7Li2
R. Côté, A. Dalgarno, A. M. Lyyra, and Li Li
pp. 2063-2068 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Overlapping identical resonances and radiative interference effects in recombination of heavy multicharged ions
A. V. Nefiodov, L. N. Labzowsky, and D. L. Moores
pp. 2069-2075 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Sum rules and spectral patterns of dichroism in inner-shell photoelectron spectra
A. Verweyen, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, and N. M. Kabachnik
pp. 2076-2090 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation cross sections of vibrationally excited X1Σg+ H2 and D2 molecules to Rydberg states
R. Celiberto, A. Laricchiuta, U. T. Lamanna, R. K. Janev, and M. Capitelli
pp. 2091-2103 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Validity of the n-3 scaling law in dielectronic recombination processes
Jian-Guo Wang, Takako Kato, and Izumi Murakami
pp. 2104-2111 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Five-body calculations of D2 fragmentation by Xe19+ impact
C. R. Feeler, R. E. Olson, R. D. DuBois, T. Schlathölter, O. Hadjar, R. Hoekstra, and R. Morgenstern
pp. 2112-2117 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Consistent definitions for, and relationships among, cross sections for elastic scattering of hydrogen ions, atoms, and molecules
Predrag S. Krstić and David R. Schultz
pp. 2118-2130 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Ionization of Rydberg atoms of sodium by 360–4400 eV alkali-metal ions
Oleg Makarov and K. B. MacAdam
pp. 2131-2138 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Retardation effects on the Efimov states
Yukap Hahn
pp. 2139-2144 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Strong electric-field effects on the structure profiles of doubly excited resonances in He ground-state photoionization
T. K. Fang and Y. K. Ho
pp. 2145-2150 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Ab initio cross sections for low-energy inelastic H+Na collisions
A. K. Belyaev, J. Grosser, J. Hahne, and T. Menzel
pp. 2151-2158 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Auger resonant Raman effect for dissociative core-excited states: General treatment and application to the HCl case
Zbigniew W. Gortel, Robert Teshima, and Dietrich Menzel
pp. 2159-2175 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Asymmetric (e,2e) measurement of vibrational intensities in the 100-eV electron-impact ionization of N2 to the N2+X2Σg+ and A2Πu states
J. P. Doering and J. Yang
pp. 2176-2181 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Coupled-channel eikonal approach to electron capture
Nobuyuki Toshima and Terumi Nakagawa
pp. 2182-2185 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Theoretical studies of low-energy electron-CO2 scattering: Total, elastic, and differential cross sections
T. N. Rescigno, D. A. Byrum, W. A. Isaacs, and C. W. McCurdy
pp. 2186-2193 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Electron scattering by a large molecule: Application to (n,n) nanotubes
Ch. Adessi and M. Devel
pp. 2194-2199 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Dissociative photoionization of H2 and D2 by (30–37)-eV photons via 1Πu states
I. Sánchez and F. Martín
pp. 2200-2206 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Proton stopping in dense molecular hydrogen: A molecular-confinement model
S. A. Cruz, J. Soullard, and E. G. Gamaly
pp. 2207-2214 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Quasiresonance ionization of large multicharged clusters in a strong laser field
Isidore Last and Joshua Jortner
pp. 2215-2221 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Spheroidal shell model for fission of doubly charged silver clusters
Masato Nakamura
pp. 2222-2229 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Semiclassical theory of two-photon polarization-dependent fractional optical collisions: Application to the Mg-He(3s21S0→3p1P1→5s1S0, 4d1D2) optical collision
D. V. Kupriyanov, I. M. Sokolov, A. V. Slavgorodskii, and A. I. Trubilko
pp. 2230-2254 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Low-energy electron-He scattering in a low-frequency laser field
N. J. Kylstra and C. J. Joachain
pp. 2255-2268 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Excitation of the He 11S–23S transition by electrons and photons: A QED approach
Sujata Bhattacharyya and Sanchita Mitra
pp. 2269-2274 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Approaching the classical limit in the diamagnetic helium atom
K. Karremans, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst
pp. 2275-2284 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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One-dimensional Thomas-Fermi model of atoms, molecules, and small clusters exposed to an intense laser field
Mirosław Brewczyk and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
pp. 2285-2295 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Investigation of Rydberg states by analyzing resonant laser-assisted elastic electron-atom scattering
Svetlana Vučić
pp. 2296-2300 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Electron correlation versus stabilization: A two-electron model atom in an intense laser pulse
D. Bauer and F. Ceccherini
pp. 2301-2307 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Light-induced ground-state coherence, constructive interference, and two-photon laser cooling mechanism in multilevel atoms
Soo Chang, Taeg Yong Kwon, Ho Seong Lee, and Vladimir Minogin
pp. 2308-2311 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Matter waves

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Bloch-like quantum multiple reflections of atoms
Luis Santos and Luis Roso
pp. 2312-2318 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation: Local density versus correlated basis approach for trapped bosons
A. Fabrocini and A. Polls
pp. 2319-2323 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Prospects for p-wave paired Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer states of fermionic atoms
L. You and M. Marinescu
pp. 2324-2329 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Semiclassical corrections to a static Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature
Jens O. Andersen and Eric Braaten
pp. 2330-2345 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Quantum nondemolition measurements of collective atomic spin
A. Kuzmich, L. Mandel, J. Janis, Y. E. Young, R. Ejnisman, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 2346-2350 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Splitting a trap containing a Bose-Einstein condensate: Atom number fluctuations
Juha Javanainen and Misha Yu. Ivanov
pp. 2351-2359 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Chaotic dynamics in erbium-doped fiber ring lasers
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Matthew B. Kennel, Michael Buhl, and Clifford Tureman Lewis
pp. 2360-2374 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Spatial instability of counterpropagating waves in nonlinear distributed feedback structures
A. A. Afanas’ev, E. G. Tolkacheva, J. Tredicce, and V. M. Volkov
pp. 2375-2379 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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State determination in continuous measurement
A. C. Doherty, S. M. Tan, A. S. Parkins, and D. F. Walls
pp. 2380-2392 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Tuning, enhancing, and writing quantum images with input squeezed light
John Jeffers and Gian-Luca Oppo
pp. 2393-2402 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Stability properties of the monochromatic spectrum in a double-cavity laser
Alejandro A. Duarte and Hernán G. Solari
pp. 2403-2412 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Dispersion law of photorefractive waves in sillenites
M. P. Petrov, V. V. Bryksin, V. M. Petrov, S. Wevering, and E. Krätzig
pp. 2413-2419 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Quantum fluctuations in traveling-wave amplification of optical images
Ivan V. Sokolov, Mikhail I. Kolobov, and Luigi A. Lugiato
pp. 2420-2430 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Spontaneous-emission spectrum in an absorbing Fabry-Perot cavity
M. S. Tomaš and Z. Lenac
pp. 2431-2437 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Efficiency of second-harmonic generation with Bessel beams
J. Arlt, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
pp. 2438-2441 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Configuration-space quantum-soliton model including loss and gain
John M. Fini, Peter L. Hagelstein, and Hermann A. Haus
pp. 2442-2457 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Heterodyne and adaptive phase measurements on states of fixed mean photon number
D. Berry, H. M. Wiseman, and Zhong-Xi Zhang
pp. 2458-2466 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Semiclassical theory of emission spectra of optical microcavities
Ruo Peng Wang and M. M. Dumitrescu
pp. 2467-2473 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Quantum jumps in a two-level atom: Simple theories versus quantum trajectories
H. M. Wiseman and G. E. Toombes
pp. 2474-2490 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Microcavity effect of dyes adsorbed on a levitated droplet
H. Yukawa, S. Arnold, and K. Miyano
pp. 2491-2496 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Multiatom effects in cavity QED with atomic beams
H. J. Carmichael and B. C. Sanders
pp. 2497-2504 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Electron dynamics and photon-emission spectra in an ultrashort laser pulse and a uniform magnetic field
F. H. M. Faisal and Y. I. Salamin
pp. 2505-2516 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Multimode instability in ring fiber lasers
E. M. Pessina, F. Prati, J. Redondo, Eugenio Roldán, and G. J. de Valcárcel
pp. 2517-2528 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Quantum theory of excess noise
P. J. Bardroff and S. Stenholm
pp. 2529-2533 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission and level shifts in absorbing disordered dielectrics and dense atomic gases: A Green’s-function approach
Michael Fleischhauer
pp. 2534-2539 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Observation of the dynamic Stark effect on electromagnetically induced transparency
Changjiang Wei and Neil B. Manson
pp. 2540-2546 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Absorption spectra of two-level atoms interacting with a strong polychromatic pump field and an arbitrarily intense probe field
Tai Hyun Yoon, Myung Sai Chung, and Hai-Woong Lee
pp. 2547-2553 [View PDF (95 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Exact solutions of n-level systems and gauge theories
Merced Montesinos and Abdel Pérez-Lorenzana
pp. 2554-2557 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Electron affinities and E1 f values for 11 bound states of La- formed by 6p and 5d attachment
Steven M. O’Malley and Donald R. Beck
pp. 2558-2561 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Addendum: “Bethe stopping-power theory for heavy-target atoms”
P. T. Leung
pp. 2562-2564 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Addendum: Doubly excited 1,3Se, 1,3Po, and 1,3De resonances in He below the n=2 He+ threshold
Ming-Keh Chen
pp. 2565-2568 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Correlation effects on fine-structure energy levels and oscillator strengths in Fe X
N. C. Deb, G. P. Gupta, and A. Z. Msezane
pp. 2569-2572 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Coherent polychotomous waves from an attractive well
G. Kälbermann
pp. 2573-2576 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Casimir-Polder interaction at finite temperature
G. H. Goedecke and Roy C. Wood
pp. 2577-2580 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of atom-atom interactions
H. Wennerström, J. Daicic, and B. W. Ninham
pp. 2581-2584 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Crossed-beam experiment: High-order harmonic generation and dynamical symmetry
Vitali Averbukh, Ofir E. Alon, and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 2585-2586 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Generation and propagation of attosecond pulses in He gas with sub-10-fs driver pulses
Nguyen Hong Shon, Akira Suda, and Katsumi Midorikawa
pp. 2587-2590 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Influence of the number of atoms in a ring-shaped magneto-optical trap: Observation of bifurcation
D. Felinto, L. G. Marcassa, V. S. Bagnato, and S. S. Vianna
pp. 2591-2594 [View PDF (67 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Nonlocality, counterfactuals, and quantum mechanics”
Henry P. Stapp
pp. 2595-2598 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Nonlocality counterfactuals, and quantum mechanics’ ”
W. G. Unruh
pp. 2599-2600 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Further comment on “Eigenvalue spectrum of the independent-fermion kinetic-energy kernel”
J. K. Percus
pp. 2601-2602 [View PDF (29 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Effective optical anisotropy in evanescent wave propagation in atomic vapor [Phys. Rev. A 57, R4079 (1998)]
Krzysztof Kiersnowski, Leszek Józefowski, and Tomasz Dohnalik
pp. 2603 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Magneto-optical trapping of Yb atoms and a limit on the branching ratio of the1P1 state [Phys. Rev. A 59, R934 (1999)]
K. Honda, Y. Takahashi, T. Kuwamoto, M. Fujimoto, K. Toyoda, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki
pp. 2603 [View PDF (11 kB)]
 
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