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Quantum information

Polarization state of a biphoton: Quantum ternary logic A. V. Burlakov, M. V. Chekhova, O. A. Karabutova, D. N. Klyshko, and S. P. Kulik pp. R4209-R4212 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Fluorine Auger-electron production in collisions of H+ and Li2+ with fluorocarbon targets J. L. Shinpaugh, L. H. Toburen, and E. L. Justiniano pp. R4213-R4216 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Detection and analysis of interloping molecular resonances C. P. Ballance, K. A. Berrington, and B. M. McLaughlin pp. R4217-R4220 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Photoionization of Fe XV Nasreen Haque and Anil K. Pradhan pp. R4221-R4224 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Two-color control of localization: From lattices to spin systems Joanna Karczmarek, Malcolm Stott, and Misha Ivanov pp. R4225-R4228 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Wave-packet reconstruction in a two-electron atom via impulsive isolated core excitation Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell pp. R4229-R4232 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic diffusion in an optical quasicrystal with five-fold symmetry L. Guidoni, B. Dépret, A. di Stefano, and P. Verkerk pp. R4233-R4236 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Source of metastable H(2s) atoms using the Stark chirped rapid-adiabatic-passage technique L. P. Yatsenko, B. W. Shore, T. Halfmann, K. Bergmann, and A. Vardi pp. R4237-R4240 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bright, slow, and continuous beam of laser-cooled cesium atoms P. Berthoud, E. Fretel, and P. Thomann pp. R4241-R4244 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Quantum interference in a driven two-level atom Z. Ficek and T. Rudolph pp. R4245-R4248 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-photon stimulated emission in laser-driven alkali-metal atoms using an orthogonal pump-probe geometry Olivier Pfister, William J. Brown, Michael D. Stenner, and Daniel J. Gauthier pp. R4249-R4252 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Quantum state reconstruction for strongly excited Rydberg atom wave packets via a two-state Ramsey fringe inversion method Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell pp. 4253-4258 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Contradiction of quantum mechanics with local hidden variables for quadrature phase measurements on pair-coherent states and squeezed macroscopic superpositions of coherent states A. Gilchrist, P. Deuar, and M. D. Reid pp. 4259-4271 [View PDF (383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect with longitudinally polarized neutrons B. E. Allman, W.-T. Lee, O. I. Motrunich, and S. A. Werner pp. 4272-4284 [View PDF (480 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantitative wave-particle duality and nonerasing quantum erasure Peter D. Schwindt, Paul G. Kwiat, and Berthold-Georg Englert pp. 4285-4290 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dirac-Maxwell solitons C. Sean Bohun and F. I. Cooperstock pp. 4291-4300 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optics of nonuniformly moving media U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki pp. 4301-4312 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric phase in relativistic quantum theory Zheng-Chuan Wang and Bo-Zang Li pp. 4313-4317 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric approach to quantum systems with position-dependent effective mass A. R. Plastino, A. Rigo, M. Casas, F. Garcias, and A. Plastino pp. 4318-4325 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniqueness of paths in quantum mechanics Peter Holland pp. 4326-4330 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Bound on the number of functions that can be distinguished with k quantum queries Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann, and Michael Sipser pp. 4331-4333 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cellular structures for computation in the quantum regime S. C. Benjamin and N. F. Johnson pp. 4334-4337 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum entanglement and the maximum-entropy states from the Jaynes principle A. K. Rajagopal pp. 4338-4340 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sufficient conditions for a disentanglement Tal Mor and Daniel R. Terno pp. 4341-4343 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement splitting of pure bipartite quantum states Dagmar Bruß pp. 4344-4348 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantifying nonorthogonality Oliver Cohen pp. 4349-4353 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical model for bulk-ensemble NMR quantum computation Rüdiger Schack and Carlton M. Caves pp. 4354-4362 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence and programmable quantum computation Jeff P. Barnes and Warren S. Warren pp. 4363-4374 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Electronic structures of the bound excited quartet states of the helium anion Jose M. Mercero, Jose M. Elorza, Jesus M. Ugalde, and Russell J. Boyd pp. 4375-4378 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of G-H and H-I fine-structure intervals in n=7, 9, and 10 helium Rydberg states G. D. Stevens and S. R. Lundeen pp. 4379-4386 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong-interaction limit of density-functional theory Michael Seidl pp. 4387-4395 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of contracted Schrödinger and coupled-cluster theories David A. Mazziotti pp. 4396-4408 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotope-shift and hyperfine-constant measurements of near-infrared xenon transitions in glow discharges and on a metastable Xe(3P2) beam G. D’Amico, G. Pesce, and A. Sasso pp. 4409-4416 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of 39K scattering lengths using photoassociation spectroscopy of the 0g- state James P. Burke, Chris H. Greene, John L. Bohn, H. Wang, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley pp. 4417-4426 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the scattering lengths of 39K from 1u photoassociation line shapes C. J. Williams, E. Tiesinga, P. S. Julienne, H. Wang, W. C. Stwalley, and P. L. Gould pp. 4427-4438 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fully relativistic ab initio calculations of the energies of chiral molecules including parity-violating weak interactions Jon K. Laerdahl and Peter Schwerdtfeger pp. 4439-4453 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Positronium scattering by helium Jennifer E. Blackwood, C. P. Campbell, Mary T. McAlinden, and H. R. Walters pp. 4454-4460 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-state formalism for positronium Gregory S. Adkins and Richard N. Fell pp. 4461-4475 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body calculations of energy levels, hyperfine constants, electric-dipole matrix elements, and static polarizabilities for alkali-metal atoms M. S. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, and A. Derevianko pp. 4476-4487 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibronic theory for the x-ray absorption spectrum of CF4 molecules Shin-ichi Itoh, Satoshi Tanaka, and Yosuke Kayanuma pp. 4488-4493 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between predissociative and radiative decays in the e 3Σu+ and d 3Πu- states of H2 and D2 Tatsuro Kiyoshima, Sugiya Sato, Sergey O. Adamson, Elena A. Pazyuk, and Andrey V. Stolyarov pp. 4494-4503 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Electron capture and excitation in collisions of Si2+ ions with He atoms at intermediate energies S. Suzuki, N. Shimakura, J.-P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, M. Kimura, and P. C. Stancil pp. 4504-4509 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical calculation of the cross sections of dielectronic recombination on He+ Yu Zou, Li-Bo Zhao, and Quan-Yu Fang pp. 4510-4518 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inner-valence photoionization of HCN: An example of the complete breakdown of the quasiparticle picture of photoionization M. Wells and Robert R. Lucchese pp. 4519-4531 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approximate wave functions for two electrons in the continuum of a Coulomb charge J. E. Miraglia, M. G. Bustamante, and P. A. Macri pp. 4532-4541 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-threshold excitation of the E 3Σg+ state of N2 by electron impact G. Poparić, M. Vićić, and D. S. Belić pp. 4542-4545 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical study of single-electron capture and ionization processes in Aq++(H,H2) collisions Clara Illescas and A. Riera pp. 4546-4560 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Saturated transitions in exactly soluble models of two-state curve crossing with time-dependent potentials V. A. Yurovsky and A. Ben-Reuven pp. 4561-4566 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computational investigation of positron scattering from C60 F. A. Gianturco and Robert R. Lucchese pp. 4567-4576 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic effects in the photoionization of Ne-like iron N. Haque, H. S. Chakraborty, P. C. Deshmukh, S. T. Manson, A. Z. Msezane, N. C. Deb, Z. Felfli, and T. W. Gorczyca pp. 4577-4581 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Processes involving electron capture and multiple ionization in collisions of fast H+ and He2+ ions with lead atoms P. C. McCartney, M. B. Shah, J. Geddes, and H. B. Gilbody pp. 4582-4589 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Integral cross sections for electron scattering by ground-state Ba atoms D. V. Fursa, S. Trajmar, I. Bray, I. Kanik, G. Csanak, R. E. Clark, and J. Abdallah pp. 4590-4599 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of two-photon Compton cross sections B. S. Sandhu, R. Dewan, B. Singh, and B. S. Ghumman pp. 4600-4605 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic partial-wave analysis using the velocity basis of the Poincaré group A. Bohm and H. Kaldass pp. 4606-4615 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple-electron capture processes in 70-keV 15N7++Ar collisions: A triple-coincidence study E. D. Emmons, A. A. Hasan, and R. Ali pp. 4616-4626 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lithium excitation by slow H+ and He2+ ions J. W. Turkstra, D. Meyer, R. Hoekstra, R. Morgenstern, and J. Schweinzer pp. 4627-4634 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Close-coupled calculation of collisions of magnetostatically trapped metastable helium atoms V. Venturi, I. B. Whittingham, P. J. Leo, and G. Peach pp. 4635-4646 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photodetachment of He- in the vicinity of the He* (n=3, 4, and 5) thresholds Chien-Nan Liu and Anthony F. Starace pp. 4647-4666 [View PDF (429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiationless resonant Raman scattering at the Ar K edge T. LeBrun, S. H. Southworth, G. B. Armen, M. A. MacDonald, and Y. Azuma pp. 4667-4672 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference effects in the decay of resonance states in three-body Coulomb systems Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Inga Yu. Tolstikhina, and Chusei Namba pp. 4673-4692 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Light-induced diffusion and desorption of alkali metals in a siloxane film: Theory and experiment S. N. Atutov, V. Biancalana, P. Bicchi, C. Marinelli, E. Mariotti, M. Meucci, A. Nagel, K. A. Nasyrov, S. Rachini, and L. Moi pp. 4693-4700 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Cluster-size dependence of electron capture and excitation cross sections in proton-Nan collisions F. Martín, M. F. Politis, B. Zarour, P. A. Hervieux, J. Hanssen, and M. E. Madjet pp. 4701-4705 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Fragment-emission patterns from the Coulomb explosion of diatomic molecules in intense laser fields M. Schmidt, S. Dobosz, P. Meynadier, P. D’Oliveira, D. Normand, E. Charron, and A. Suzor-Weiner pp. 4706-4714 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binding of neutral atoms to ferromagnetic wire V. M. Tkachuk pp. 4715-4717 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-dependent calculation of ionization in potassium at midinfrared wavelengths P. Maragakis, E. Cormier, and P. Lambropoulos pp. 4718-4729 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperfine structure and isotope shift of 82Rb D1 and D2 transitions X. Zhao, S. G. Crane, R. Guckert, and D. J. Vieira pp. 4730-4733 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective oscillations of an interacting trapped Fermi gas L. Vichi and S. Stringari pp. 4734-4737 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double-structure potential due to multiphoton processes in a magneto-optical trap Jin Woo Jun, Soo Chang, Ho Seong Lee, Vladimir Minogin, and Wonho Jhe pp. 4738-4742 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic algebraic approach to the system of a three-level atom in the Λ configuration Jing-Bo Xu and Xu-Bo Zou pp. 4743-4752 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonresonant excess photon detachment of negative hydrogen ions M. S. Gulley, Xin Miao Zhao, H. C. Bryant, Charlie E. Strauss, David J. Funk, A. Stintz, D. C. Rislove, G. A. Kyrala, W. B. Ingalls, and W. A. Miller pp. 4753-4763 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution laser spectroscopy of diamagnetic helium in the chaotic regime K. Karremans, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst pp. 4764-4773 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrationally autoionizing electron wave packets in a combined Coulombic and electric field V. G. Stavros and H. H. Fielding pp. 4774-4780 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple phase control in Mg through the continuum A. Lyras and H. Bachau pp. 4781-4787 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman-induced magnetic resonance imaging of atoms in a magneto-optical trap T. A. Savard, S. R. Granade, K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, and J. E. Thomas pp. 4788-4795 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Guiding cold atoms in a hollow laser beam Xinye Xu, V. G. Minogin, Kwanil Lee, Yuzhu Wang, and Wonho Jhe pp. 4796-4804 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of strong coupling and pulse delay in a system involving double autoionization resonance Takashi Nakajima pp. 4805-4811 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of atomic recoil on the absorption spectrum of driven V-type atoms Hong Y. Ling and Anthony Williams pp. 4812-4822 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temporal coherence of high-order harmonics C. Lyngå, M. B. Gaarde, C. Delfin, M. Bellini, T. W. Hänsch, A. L’ Huillier, and C.-G. Wahlström pp. 4823-4830 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Integral boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: Atom in a laser field A. M. Ermolaev, I. V. Puzynin, A. V. Selin, and S. I. Vinitsky pp. 4831-4845 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Mutual coherence of optical and matter waves G. A. Prataviera, E. V. Goldstein, and P. Meystre pp. 4846-4850 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective oscillations of a classical gas confined in harmonic traps David Guéry-Odelin, Francesca Zambelli, Jean Dalibard, and Sandro Stringari pp. 4851-4856 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-domain formation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensation Tomoya Isoshima, Kazushige Machida, and Tetsuo Ohmi pp. 4857-4863 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of vortices in inhomogeneous Bose condensates subject to rotation: A three-dimensional analysis Juan J. García-Ripoll and Victor M. Pérez-García pp. 4864-4874 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic control of Bose-Einstein condensation in optical traps A. Bulatov, B. E. Vugmeister, and H. Rabitz pp. 4875-4881 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex rings and mutual drag in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates B. Jackson, J. F. McCann, and C. S. Adams pp. 4882-4885 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom focusing by far-detuned and resonant standing wave fields: Thin-lens regime J. L. Cohen, B. Dubetsky, and P. R. Berman pp. 4886-4901 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon approach to an array of traps containing Bose-Einstein condensates Juha Javanainen pp. 4902-4909 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of a vortex in a small trapped Bose-Einstein condensate Marion Linn and Alexander L. Fetter pp. 4910-4917 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Optical rectification in a traveling-wave geometry U. Peschel, K. Bubke, D. C. Hutchings, J. S. Aitchison, and J. M. Arnold pp. 4918-4926 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time dependence of operators in minimal and multipolar nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics.  I. Electromagnetic fields in the neighborhood of an atom E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran pp. 4927-4935 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time dependence of operators in minimal and multipolar nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics. II. Analysis of the functional forms of operators in the two frameworks E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran pp. 4936-4942 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of quantum nondemolition measurements with an electro-optic feed-forward amplifier Ben C. Buchler, Ping Koy Lam, and Timothy C. Ralph pp. 4943-4950 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of transient spontaneous emission by an atom in a planar microcavity Ottavia Jedrkiewicz and Rodney Loudon pp. 4951-4964 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical state truncation Stephen M. Barnett and David T. Pegg pp. 4965-4973 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum nondemolition measurement of spin via the paramagnetic Faraday rotation Y. Takahashi, K. Honda, N. Tanaka, K. Toyoda, K. Ishikawa, and T. Yabuzaki pp. 4974-4979 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of quantum noise in optical phase conjugation via four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor M. Y. Lanzerotti, R. W. Schirmer, Alexander L. Gaeta, and G. S. Agarwal pp. 4980-4985 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-dot laser with periodic pumping Christian Wiele, Fritz Haake, and Yuri M. Golubev pp. 4986-4995 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-dependent nonlinear optics with double-Λ atoms E. A. Korsunsky and D. V. Kosachiov pp.