• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
• ARTICLES
  • 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
• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Enhancement of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom V. V. Flambaum pp. R2611-R2613 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Irrelevance of photon events distinguishability in a class of Bell experiments Marek Żukowski, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Emilio Santos pp. R2614-R2617 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum eraser and the decoherence time of a measurement process Y. Abranyos, M. Jakob, and J. Bergou pp. R2618-R2621 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Quantum cryptography using femtosecond-pulsed parametric down-conversion A. V. Sergienko, M. Atatüre, Z. Walton, G. Jaeger, B. E. Saleh, and M. C. Teich pp. R2622-R2625 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optimal manipulations with qubits: Universal-NOT gate V. Bužek, M. Hillery, and R. F. Werner pp. R2626-R2629 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Dipole polarizability of the hydrogen molecular ion J. M. Taylor, A. Dalgarno, and J. F. Babb pp. R2630-R2632 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Statistics of photodissociation spectra: Nonuniversal properties Oded Agam pp. R2633-R2636 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isotope shift in the oxygen electron affinity Michel R. Godefroid and Charlotte Froese Fischer pp. R2637-R2640 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Validity of the independent-particle approximation in x-ray photoemission: The exception, not the rule D. L. Hansen, O. Hemmers, H. Wang, D. W. Lindle, P. Focke, I. A. Sellin, C. Heske, H. S. Chakraborty, P. C. Deshmukh, and S. T. Manson pp. R2641-R2644 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Doubly charged negative silicon-carbon clusters produced in sputtering Hubert Gnaser pp. R2645-R2648 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Effects of core scattering on level statistics in helium atoms in scaled external fields K. Karremans, A. Kips, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst pp. R2649-R2652 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mean-field approach to dipole-dipole interaction in an optical lattice C. Menotti and H. Ritsch pp. R2653-R2656 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Polarization-dependent Rabi frequency beats in the coherent response of Tm3+ in YAG C. Greiner, B. Boggs, T. Loftus, T. Wang, and T. W. Mossberg pp. R2657-R2660 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Quantum dynamics of evaporatively cooled Bose-Einstein condensates P. D. Drummond and J. F. Corney pp. R2661-R2664 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stability of standing matter waves in a trap A. E. Muryshev, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, and G. V. Shlyapnikov pp. R2665-R2668 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Wave-function monopoles in Bose-Einstein condensates Th. Busch and J. R. Anglin pp. R2669-R2672 [View PDF (600 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Quantum analysis of the photonic blockade mechanism Klaus M. Gheri, Wieland Alge, and Philippe Grangier pp. R2673-R2676 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Lasing on the self-photopumped nickel-like 4f 1P1→4d 1P1 x-ray transition Joseph Nilsen, James Dunn, Albert L. Osterheld, and Yuelin Li pp. R2677-R2680 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elimination of the band gap of a resonant optical material by electromagnetically induced transparency G. S. Agarwal and Robert W. Boyd pp. R2681-R2684 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Experimental study of a subsystem in an entangled two-photon state Dmitry V. Strekalov, Yoon-Ho Kim, and Yanhua Shih pp. 2685-2688 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Operational time of arrival in quantum phase space Piotr Kochański and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz pp. 2689-2699 [View PDF (621 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Feedback control of quantum systems using continuous state estimation A. C. Doherty and K. Jacobs pp. 2700-2711 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced diffusion and the continuous spontaneous localization model L. F. Santos and C. O. Escobar pp. 2712-2715 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heterodyne measurement of vibrational wave packets of diatomic molecules A. Zucchetti, W. Vogel, D.-G. Welsch, and I. A. Walmsley pp. 2716-2725 [View PDF (650 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum correlations violate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen assumptions Thomas F. Jordan pp. 2726-2728 [View PDF (31 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Karin Münch-Berndl, and Nino Zanghì pp. 2729-2736 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Multiparty quantum communication complexity Harry Buhrman, Wim van Dam, Peter Høyer, and Alain Tapp pp. 2737-2741 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grover’s quantum search algorithm for an arbitrary initial amplitude distribution Eli Biham, Ofer Biham, David Biron, Markus Grassl, and Daniel A. Lidar pp. 2742-2745 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grover’s quantum searching algorithm is optimal Christof Zalka pp. 2746-2751 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confirming entanglement in continuous variable quantum teleportation Sze M. Tan pp. 2752-2758 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Teleportation of a zero- and one-photon running-wave state by projection synthesis C. J. Villas-Bôas, N. G. de Almeida, and M. H. Moussa pp. 2759-2763 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-qubit copying machine for economical quantum eavesdropping Chi-Sheng Niu and Robert B. Griffiths pp. 2764-2776 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized methods for the development of quantum logic gates for an NMR quantum information processor Mark D. Price, Shyamal S. Somaroo, Amy E. Dunlop, Timothy F. Havel, and David G. Cory pp. 2777-2780 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Electric-dipole amplitudes, lifetimes, and polarizabilities of the low-lying levels of atomic ytterbium S. G. Porsev, Yu. G. Rakhlina, and M. G. Kozlov pp. 2781-2785 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized Franck-Condon principle for resonant photoemission Paweł Sałek, Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Olle Björneholm, and Svante Svensson pp. 2786-2791 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher-order recoil corrections to energy levels of two-body systems Krzysztof Pachucki and Savely G. Karshenboim pp. 2792-2798 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collision spectroscopy of Ar8++H2 at low velocities (v<1 a.u.) S. Bliman, M. Cornille, B. A. Huber, H. Lebius, A. Langereis, J. Nordgren, and R. Bruch pp. 2799-2807 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic multireference many-body perturbation theory for quasidegenerate systems: Energy levels of ions of the oxygen isoelectronic sequence Marius J. Vilkas, Yasuyuki Ishikawa, and Konrad Koc pp. 2808-2821 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic coupled-cluster static dipole polarizabilities of the alkali metals from Li to element 119 Ivan S. Lim, Markus Pernpointner, Michael Seth, Jon K. Laerdahl, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Pavel Neogrady, and Miroslav Urban pp. 2822-2828 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the infrared 2F7/2-2D5/2 transition in a single 171Yb+ ion P. Taylor, M. Roberts, G. M. Macfarlane, G. P. Barwood, W. R. Rowley, and P. Gill pp. 2829-2833 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-state properties of the positronium negative ion Ps- Alexei M. Frolov pp. 2834-2839 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimization of Gaussian basis sets for density-functional calculations Dirk Porezag and Mark R. Pederson pp. 2840-2847 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy levels of triply ionized carbon (C IV): Polarization method A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman pp. 2848-2852 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field dependence of the energy of a molecule in a magnetic field A. Holas and N. H. March pp. 2853-2866 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 2S1/2-2D5/2 clock transition in a single 171Yb+ ion M. Roberts, P. Taylor, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. Clarke, W. R. Rowley, and P. Gill pp. 2867-2872 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Associative detachment, dissociative attachment, and vibrational excitation of HCl by low-energy electrons M. Čížek, J. Horáček, and W. Domcke pp. 2873-2881 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron collisions with diatomic anions H. B. Pedersen, N. Djurić, M. J. Jensen, D. Kella, C. P. Safvan, H. T. Schmidt, L. Vejby-Christensen, and L. H. Andersen pp. 2882-2899 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spherical many-center scattering systems Yuri F. Migal pp. 2900-2906 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State-selective electron capture in (0.5–50)-keV/u C5+-He collisions studied by cold-target recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy E. Y. Kamber, M. A. Abdallah, C. L. Cocke, and M. Stöckli pp. 2907-2916 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental study of single- and double-electron transfer in slow Ne8++He collisions using photon and electron spectroscopy A. Langereis, J. Nordgren, S. Bliman, M. Cornille, R. Bruch, R. A. Phaneuf, and D. Schneider pp. 2917-2930 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational relaxation matrix for fast non-Markovian collisions Alexandre P. Kouzov pp. 2931-2939 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double ionization of noble gases by positron impact J. Moxom, D. M. Schrader, G. Laricchia, Jun Xu, and L. D. Hulett pp. 2940-2943 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Initial- and final-state alignment and orientation effects in Ca energy pooling Harold V. Parks and Stephen R. Leone pp. 2944-2958 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projectile Z dependence of Cu K-shell vacancy production in 10-MeV/amu ion-solid collisions R. L. Watson, J. M. Blackadar, and V. Horvat pp. 2959-2969 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociative recombination and excitation of H2O+ and HDO+ M. J. Jensen, R. C. Bilodeau, O. Heber, H. B. Pedersen, C. P. Safvan, X. Urbain, D. Zajfman, and L. H. Andersen pp. 2970-2976 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental and theoretical determination of the triple differential cross section for Kr(4p) electron-impact ionization S. J. Cavanagh, Birgit Lohmann, J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, and H. R. Walters pp. 2977-2982 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Green’s function and an exact optical potential for electron-molecule scattering including nuclear dynamics Joachim Brand, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Hans-Dieter Meyer pp. 2983-2999 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gross ionization cross sections for rare-gas atoms and simple molecules in 6-MeV/amu fully stripped–ion impact T. Matsuo, T. Kohno, S. Makino, M. Mizutani, T. Tonuma, A. Kitagawa, T. Murakami, and H. Tawara pp. 3000-3007 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiplet effects on the shape of the 3p photoelectron spectrum of atomic Ni K. Tiedtke, Ch. Gerth, B. Kanngießer, B. Obst, P. Zimmermann, M. Martins, and A. Tutay pp. 3008-3012 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fivefold differential cross section of fast (e,2e) ionization of H2, D2, and T2 by a Franck-Condon approach P. Weck, B. Joulakian, and P. A. Hervieux pp. 3013-3019 [View PDF (452 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Contribution of bound-electron pair production to the dispersion relation for Delbrück scattering J. P. Carney and R. H. Pratt pp. 3020-3024 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State-selective electron capture by multicharged ions of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen from ground-state atomic hydrogen M. Purkait, M. Das, and C. R. Mandal pp. 3025-3028 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Neutralization of hyperthermal multiply charged ions at surfaces: Comparison between the extended dynamical overbarrier model and experiment J. Ducrée, H. J. Andrä, and U. Thumm pp. 3029-3043 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stopping power in the independent-particle model: Harmonic oscillator results R. Cabrera-Trujillo pp. 3044-3052 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Monte Carlo computer simulation of copper clusters Şakir Erkoç and Riad Shaltaf pp. 3053-3057 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many low-lying isomers of the cationic and neutral niobium trimer and tetramer Joseph E. Fowler, América García, and Jesus M. Ugalde pp. 3058-3070 [View PDF (447 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization forces in collisions between low-energy electrons and sodium clusters V. Kasperovich, G. Tikhonov, K. Wong, P. Brockhaus, and V. V. Kresin pp. 3071-3075 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of ion energies from the explosion of large hydrogen iodide clusters irradiated by intense femtosecond laser pulses J. W. Tisch, N. Hay, E. Springate, E. T. Gumbrell, M. H. Hutchinson, and J. P. Marangos pp. 3076-3080 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Optimal pulse sequences for population transfer in multilevel systems Ignacio R. Solá, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, and David J. Tannor pp. 3081-3090 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-dependent relaxation effects in a three-level system driven by a strong coherent field Olga Kocharovskaya, Y. V. Radeonychev, Paul Mandel, and M. O. Scully pp. 3091-3110 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of high harmonic generation as a three-step process M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky pp. 3111-3124 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical solution of time-dependent Schrödinger equation for multiphoton processes: A matrix iterative method M. Nurhuda and F. H. Faisal pp. 3125-3133 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculations of the helium atom in magnetic fields with B-spline-type functions Haoxue Qiao and Baiwen Li pp. 3134-3137 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatial deorientation of upper-Stark-state-selected supersonic beams of CH3F, CH3Cl, CH3Br, and CH3I Peter W. Harland, Wan-Ping Hu, Claire Vallance, and Philip R. Brooks pp. 3138-3143 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large angular-momentum changing in a short half-cycle pulse interaction with a Rydberg atom I. Bersons and A. Kulsh pp. 3144-3147 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-photon laser-cooling mechanism in multilevel interaction schemes Soo Chang, Taeg Yong Kwon, Ho Seong Lee, and V. G. Minogin pp. 3148-3159 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order harmonic generation in magnetic and parallel magnetic and electric fields Dejan B. Milošević and Anthony F. Starace pp. 3160-3173 [View PDF (777 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasicontinuum modeling of photoassociation Matt Mackie and Juha Javanainen pp. 3174-3187 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Non-Markovian dynamics in pulsed- and continuous-wave atom lasers H. P. Breuer, D. Faller, B. Kappler, and F. Petruccione pp. 3188-3196 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cold-cesium-atom spin-polarization interferometry É. Maréchal, R. Long, J.-L. Bossennec, R. Barbé, J.-C. Keller, and O. Gorceix pp. 3197-3203 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time evolution of the condensed state of interacting bosons with reduced number fluctuation in a leaky box Akira Shimizu and Jun-ichi Inoue pp. 3204-3219 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative dynamics of a kink state in a Bose-condensed gas P. O. Fedichev, A. E. Muryshev, and G. V. Shlyapnikov pp. 3220-3224 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Quantum interference effects induced by interacting dark resonances M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully pp. 3225-3228 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum interference and atom-atom entanglement in a two-mode, two-cavity micromaser Metod Škarja, Norma Mankoč Borštnik, Markus Löffler, and Herbert Walther pp. 3229-3232 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order harmonic generation in relativistic ionization of magnetically dressed atoms R. E. Wagner, Q. Su, and R. Grobe pp. 3233-3243 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced generation of attosecond pulses in dispersion-controlled hollow-core fiber Ivan P. Christov pp. 3244-3250 [View PDF (419 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pattern formation in singly resonant second-harmonic generation with competing parametric oscillation P. Lodahl and M. Saffman pp. 3251-3261 [View PDF (467 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•

Chaotic nature of the stored current in an electron storage ring detected by a two-photon correlator for soft-x-ray synchrotron radiation R. Z. Tai, Y. Takayama, N. Takaya, T. Miyahara, S. Yamamoto, H. Sugiyama, J. Urakawa, H. Hayano, and M. Ando pp. 3262-3266 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon statistics of a single atom laser Bobby Jones, Shohini Ghose, James P. Clemens, Perry R. Rice, and Leno M. Pedrotti pp. 3267-3275 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Forward and backscattered ultrahigh-intensity Compton spectra in a uniform magnetic field Y. I. Salamin pp. 3276-3283 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum noise and polarization properties of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers Jean-Luc Vey, Christian Degen, Karsten Auen, and Wolfgang Elsäßer pp. 3284-3295 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•	Broadcasting of entanglement and universal quantum cloners Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Guruprasad Kar pp. 3296-3299 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Continued-fraction expansion of the Born-Oppenheimer potential-energy function for diatomic molecules Marcin Molski pp. 3300-3303 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy differences and magnetic dipole (M1) decay rates for the W52+ and Bi61+ members of the nearly-Z-independent (3d3/2)33d5/2 J=3–J=2 transition Donald R. Beck pp. 3304-3305 [View PDF (33 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Virtual annihilation contribution to orthopositronium decay rate Gregory S. Adkins, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky pp. 3306-3307 [View PDF (30 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Pulse-order invariance of the initial-state population in multistate chains driven by delayed laser pulses N. V. Vitanov pp. 3308-3310 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (