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Physical Review A – October 1999
Volume 60, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Enhancement of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom
V. V. Flambaum
pp. R2611-R2613 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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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)]
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Quantum eraser and the decoherence time of a measurement process
Y. Abranyos, M. Jakob, and J. Bergou
pp. R2618-R2621 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum cryptography using femtosecond-pulsed parametric down-conversion
A. V. Sergienko, M. Atatüre, Z. Walton, G. Jaeger, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich
pp. R2622-R2625 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Optimal manipulations with qubits: Universal-NOT gate
V. Bužek, M. Hillery, and R. F. Werner
pp. R2626-R2629 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Statistics of photodissociation spectra: Nonuniversal properties
Oded Agam
pp. R2633-R2636 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Isotope shift in the oxygen electron affinity
Michel R. Godefroid and Charlotte Froese Fischer
pp. R2637-R2640 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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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)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)]
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Mean-field approach to dipole-dipole interaction in an optical lattice
C. Menotti and H. Ritsch
pp. R2653-R2656 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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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 (59 kB)]

Matter waves

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Quantum dynamics of evaporatively cooled Bose-Einstein condensates
P. D. Drummond and J. F. Corney
pp. R2661-R2664 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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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)]
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Wave-function monopoles in Bose-Einstein condensates
Th. Busch and J. R. Anglin
pp. R2669-R2672 [View PDF (599 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum analysis of the photonic blockade mechanism
Klaus M. Gheri, Wieland Alge, and Philippe Grangier
pp. R2673-R2676 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Lasing on the self-photopumped nickel-like 4f1P1→4d1P1 x-ray transition
Joseph Nilsen, James Dunn, Albert L. Osterheld, and Yuelin Li
pp. R2677-R2680 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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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)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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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)]
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Operational time of arrival in quantum phase space
Piotr Kochański and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 2689-2699 [View PDF (620 kB)]
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Feedback control of quantum systems using continuous state estimation
A. C. Doherty and K. Jacobs
pp. 2700-2711 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Enhanced diffusion and the continuous spontaneous localization model
L. F. Santos and C. O. Escobar
pp. 2712-2715 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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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)]
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Quantum correlations violate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen assumptions
Thomas F. Jordan
pp. 2726-2728 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models
Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Karin Münch-Berndl, and Nino Zanghì
pp. 2729-2736 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Quantum information

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Multiparty quantum communication complexity
Harry Buhrman, Wim van Dam, Peter Høyer, and Alain Tapp
pp. 2737-2741 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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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)]
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Grover’s quantum searching algorithm is optimal
Christof Zalka
pp. 2746-2751 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Confirming entanglement in continuous variable quantum teleportation
Sze M. Tan
pp. 2752-2758 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Teleportation of a zero- and one-photon running-wave state by projection synthesis
C. J. Villas-Bôas, N. G. de Almeida, and M. H. Y. Moussa
pp. 2759-2763 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Two-qubit copying machine for economical quantum eavesdropping
Chi-Sheng Niu and Robert B. Griffiths
pp. 2764-2776 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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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 (72 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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)]
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Generalized Franck-Condon principle for resonant photoemission
Paweł Sałek, Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Olle Björneholm, and Svante Svensson
pp. 2786-2791 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Higher-order recoil corrections to energy levels of two-body systems
Krzysztof Pachucki and Savely G. Karshenboim
pp. 2792-2798 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Collision spectroscopy of Ar8++H2 at low velocities (v<1a.u.)
S. Bliman, M. Cornille, B. A. Huber, H. Lebius, A. Langereis, J. Nordgren, and R. Bruch
pp. 2799-2807 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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. C. Rowley, and P. Gill
pp. 2829-2833 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Bound-state properties of the positronium negative ion Ps-
Alexei M. Frolov
pp. 2834-2839 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Optimization of Gaussian basis sets for density-functional calculations
Dirk Porezag and Mark R. Pederson
pp. 2840-2847 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Energy levels of triply ionized carbon (C IV): Polarization method
A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman
pp. 2848-2852 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Field dependence of the energy of a molecule in a magnetic field
A. Holas and N. H. March
pp. 2853-2866 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Measurement of the 2S1/2-2D5/2 clock transition in a single 171Yb+ ion
M. Roberts, P. Taylor, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. M. Clarke, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill
pp. 2867-2872 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)]
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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 (281 kB)]
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Spherical many-center scattering systems
Yuri F. Migal
pp. 2900-2906 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (179 kB)]
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Rotational relaxation matrix for fast non-Markovian collisions
Alexandre P. Kouzov
pp. 2931-2939 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (176 kB)]
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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)]
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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. J. Walters
pp. 2977-2982 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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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 (192 kB)]
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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 (120 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Contribution of bound-electron pair production to the dispersion relation for Delbrück scattering
J. P. J. Carney and R. H. Pratt
pp. 3020-3024 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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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 (63 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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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 (232 kB)]
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Stopping power in the independent-particle model: Harmonic oscillator results
R. Cabrera-Trujillo
pp. 3044-3052 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Monte Carlo computer simulation of copper clusters
Şakir Erkoç and Riad Shaltaf
pp. 3053-3057 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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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 (446 kB)]
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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 (64 kB)]
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Measurements of ion energies from the explosion of large hydrogen iodide clusters irradiated by intense femtosecond laser pulses
J. W. G. Tisch, N. Hay, E. Springate, E. T. Gumbrell, M. H. R. Hutchinson, and J. P. Marangos
pp. 3076-3080 [View PDF (186 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Optimal pulse sequences for population transfer in multilevel systems
Ignacio R. Solá, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, and David J. Tannor
pp. 3081-3090 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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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 (244 kB)]
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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)]
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Numerical solution of time-dependent Schrödinger equation for multiphoton processes: A matrix iterative method
M. Nurhuda and F. H. M. Faisal
pp. 3125-3133 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Calculations of the helium atom in magnetic fields with B-spline-type functions
Haoxue Qiao and Baiwen Li
pp. 3134-3137 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (51 kB)]
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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 (160 kB)]
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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)]
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Quasicontinuum modeling of photoassociation
Matt Mackie and Juha Javanainen
pp. 3174-3187 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Matter waves

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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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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)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Enhanced generation of attosecond pulses in dispersion-controlled hollow-core fiber
Ivan P. Christov
pp. 3244-3250 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Pattern formation in singly resonant second-harmonic generation with competing parametric oscillation
P. Lodahl and M. Saffman
pp. 3251-3261 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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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 (74 kB)]
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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)]
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Forward and backscattered ultrahigh-intensity Compton spectra in a uniform magnetic field
Y. I. Salamin
pp. 3276-3283 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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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 (230 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Broadcasting of entanglement and universal quantum cloners
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Guruprasad Kar
pp. 3296-3299 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Continued-fraction expansion of the Born-Oppenheimer potential-energy function for diatomic molecules
Marcin Molski
pp. 3300-3303 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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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 (32 kB)]
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Virtual annihilation contribution to orthopositronium decay rate
Gregory S. Adkins, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky
pp. 3306-3307 [View PDF (29 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)]
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Multiphoton ionization of V, Cr, Y, La, and Ir through 0.5-ps ultraviolet laser pulses
B. Witzel, N. A. Papadogiannis, C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal, H. Schröder, and D. Charalambidis
pp. 3311-3312 [View PDF (31 kB)]

Matter waves

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Instability of the nonvortex state toward a quantized vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate under external rotation
Tomoya Isoshima and Kazushige Machida
pp. 3313-3316 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Fate of a Bose-Einstein condensate with an attractive interaction
Masahito Ueda and Kerson Huang
pp. 3317-3320 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Velocity selection for ultracold three-level atoms using two micromaser cavities
Zhi-Ming Zhang, Sheng-Wu Xie, Ying-Li Chen, Yu-Xing Xia, and Shi-Kang Zhou
pp. 3321-3323 [View PDF (85 kB)]
 
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