Physical Review A – May 2000
(Volume 61, Issue 5)

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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Quantum-communication protocol employing weak measurements
Alonso Botero and Benni Reznik
Published 31 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Hyperfine-resolved spectrum of the molecular dication DCl2+
Ramadan Abusen, Frederick R. Bennett, Simon G. Cox, Iain R. McNab, David N. Sharp, Ralph C. Shiell, Fiona E. Smith, and John M. Walley
Published 31 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 5p 2Pj→5d 2D3/2 transition matrix elements in atomic 87Rb
S. B. Bayram, M. Havey, M. Rosu, A. Sieradzan, A. Derevianko, and W. R. Johnson
Published 7 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Role of bending in the dissociation of selective resonant inner-shell excitation as observed in CO2
P. Morin, M. Simon, C. Miron, N. Leclercq, E. Kukk, J. D. Bozek, and N. Berrah
Published 24 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Suppression of Penning ionization by spin polarization of cold He(2 3S) atoms
Norbert Herschbach, Paul J. Tol, Wim Hogervorst, and Wim Vassen
Published 13 April 2000 (3 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Power-dependent loss from an ytterbium magneto-optic trap
T. Loftus, J. R. Bochinski, R. Shivitz, and T. W. Mossberg
Published 7 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Enhanced ionization of molecular hydrogen in very strong fields
Alejandro Saenz
Published 12 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Bose-Einstein condensation with magnetic dipole-dipole forces
Krzysztof Góral, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski, and Tilman Pfau
Published 24 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Liquid-gas phase transition in Bose-Einstein condensates with time evolution
A. Gammal, T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio, and Ph. Chomaz
Published 30 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Dissipation and vortex creation in Bose-Einstein condensed gases
B. Jackson, J. F. McCann, and C. S. Adams
Published 5 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Properties of excitations in systems with a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Péter Szépfalusy and Gergely Szirmai
Published 14 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Photonic excess noise and wave localization
C. W. Beenakker, M. Patra, and P. W. Brouwer
Published 30 March 2000 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Single atom in free space as a quantum aperture
S. J. van Enk and H. J. Kimble
Published 31 March 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection First-order interference of nonclassical light emitted spontaneously at different times
Yoon-Ho Kim, Maria V. Chekhova, Sergei P. Kulik, Yanhua Shih, and Morton H. Rubin
Published 14 April 2000 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Dynamics of nonlocality for a two-mode squeezed state in a thermal environment
Hyunseok Jeong, Jinhyoung Lee, and M. S. Kim
Published 29 March 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Interferometric information gain versus interaction-free measurement
Günther Krenn, Johann Summhammer, and Karl Svozil
Published 30 March 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Fundamental limit on “interaction-free” measurements
Steven H. Simon and P. M. Platzman
Published 3 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Position-momentum Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state of distantly separated trapped atoms
A. S. Parkins and H. J. Kimble
Published 5 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Alternative quantum perturbation theory without divergences
Wenhua Hai, Mang Feng, Xiwen Zhu, Lei Shi, Kelin Gao, and Ximing Fang
Published 6 April 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Molecular localization induced by collisions
Vincenzo Grecchi and Andrea Sacchetti
Published 7 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Path-integral approach to the Schrödinger current
A. Marchewka and Z. Schuss
Published 10 April 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonlocal aspects of a quantum wave
Y. Aharonov and L. Vaidman
Published 11 April 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Foundations of quantum mechanics: Connection with stochastic processes
L. S. Olavo
Published 14 April 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-of-arrival distributions from position-momentum and energy-time joint measurements
A. D. Baute, I. L. Egusquiza, J. G. Muga, and R. Sala Mayato
Published 17 April 2000 (11 pages)
052111 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection QED corrections to the radiative recombination of an electron with a bare nucleus
V. M. Shabaev, V. A. Yerokhin, T. Beier, and J. Eichler
Published 18 April 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Geometrical approach to two-level Hamiltonians
L. Carmel and A. Mann
Published 19 April 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Mapping Wigner distribution functions into semiclassical distribution functions
G. W. Bund and M. C. Tijero
Published 19 April 2000 (8 pages)
052114 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Optimal universal disentangling machine for two-qubit quantum states
Sibasish Ghosh, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay, Anirban Roy, Debasis Sarkar, and Guruprasad Kar
Published 30 March 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Analysis of errors in linear-optics quantum computation
Shigeki Takeuchi
Published 31 March 2000 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Reducing the complexity of linear optics quantum circuits
John C. Howell and John A. Yeazell
Published 3 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Security against individual attacks for realistic quantum key distribution
Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published 6 April 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Analysis of radiatively stable entanglement in a system of two dipole-interacting three-level atoms
I. V. Bargatin, B. A. Grishanin, and V. N. Zadkov
Published 7 April 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Distributed entanglement
Valerie Coffman, Joydip Kundu, and William K. Wootters
Published 10 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Protecting quantum information encoded in decoherence-free states against exchange errors
Daniel A. Lidar, David Bacon, Julia Kempe, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 10 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Fragility of a class of highly entangled states with n qubits
D. Janzing and Th. Beth
Published 10 April 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal compression for mixed signal states
Michal Horodecki
Published 11 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum search heuristics
Tad Hogg
Published 14 April 2000 (7 pages)
052311 [View PDF (359 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum key distribution without alternative measurements
Adán Cabello
Published 18 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Generalized quantum search with parallelism
Robert M. Gingrich, Colin P. Williams, and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 19 April 2000 (8 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Nonadiabatic representation for the i 3Πg-j 3Δg- complex of H2 and D2
S. O. Adamson, E. A. Pazyuk, N. E. Kuz’menko, A. V. Stolyarov, and T. Kiyoshima
Published 6 April 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Calculation of α2 corrections to parapositronium decay
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky
Published 6 April 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Excitation energies and transition rates in magnesiumlike ions
U. I. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, and H. G. Berry
Published 7 April 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Spectra of liquid helium and hydrogen-doped liquid helium
A. Trottier, A. I. Jirasek, H. F. Tiedje, and R. L. Brooks
Published 7 April 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Correlated one-electron and two-electron densities for the ground state of the lithium atom
F. J. Gálvez, E. Buendía, and A. Sarsa
Published 10 April 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Complete set of solutions of multireference coupled-cluster equations: The state-universal formalism
Karol Kowalski and Piotr Piecuch
Published 10 April 2000 (8 pages)
052506 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Investigation of PbO as a system for measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron
D. DeMille, F. Bay, S. Bickman, D. Kawall, D. Krause, S. E. Maxwell, and L. R. Hunter
Published 10 April 2000 (8 pages)
052507 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical resolution of the H- resonance spectrum up to the n=4 threshold. I. States of 1Po, 1Do, and 1Fo symmetries
Mirosław Bylicki and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 12 April 2000 (18 pages)
052508 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical resolution of the H- resonance spectrum up to the n=4 threshold. II. States of 1S and 1D symmetries
Mirosław Bylicki and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 12 April 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Evidence for strong configuration mixing in n=3 excited levels in neonlike ions
Nobuyuki Nakamura, Daiji Kato, and Shunsuke Ohtani
Published 12 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Local kinetic-energy density of the Airy gas
L. Vitos, B. Johansson, J. Kollár, and H. L. Skriver
Published 13 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Bound states of negatively charged ions induced by a magnetic field
Victor G. Bezchastnov, Peter Schmelcher, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Published 14 April 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection High accuracy for atomic calculations involving logarithmic sums
S. P. Goldman and G. W. Drake
Published 14 April 2000 (7 pages)
052513 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Robust estimates of hydrogen-impact ionization cross sections over a wide energy range
A. F. Barghouty
Published 29 March 2000 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection van der Waals energy of an atom in the proximity of thin metal films
M. Boström and Bo E. Sernelius
Published 29 March 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Plane-wave Born treatment of projectile-electron excitation and loss in relativistic collisions with atomic targets
A. B. Voitkiv, N. Grün, and W. Scheid
Published 5 April 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Dissociative electron attachment to vibrationally and rotationally excited H2 and HF molecules
Y. Xu, G. A. Gallup, and I. I. Fabrikant
Published 6 April 2000 (7 pages)
052705 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Simultaneous excitation and ionization of He-like uranium ions in relativistic collisions with gaseous targets
T. Ludziejewski, Th. Stöhlker, D. C. Ionescu, P. Rymuza, H. Beyer, F. Bosch, C. Kozhuharov, A. Krämer, D. Liesen, P. H. Mokler, Z. Stachura, P. Świat, A. Warczak, and R. W. Dunford
Published 7 April 2000 (10 pages)
052706 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-dependent close-coupling calculations for the electron-impact ionization of helium
M. S. Pindzola and F. J. Robicheaux
Published 7 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron-impact excitation cross sections of neon
J. Ethan Chilton, M. D. Stewart, and Chun C. Lin
Published 7 April 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Ionization in collisions between (200–2000)-keV protons and He+(1s, 2s, or 3s) ions studied using a Sturmian basis
Thomas G. Winter and Janis R. Winter
Published 10 April 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum-mechanical description of ionization, capture, and excitation in proton collisions with atomic oxygen
T. Kirchner, H. J. Lüdde, M. Horbatsch, and R. M. Dreizler
Published 11 April 2000 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection L-shell ionization in near-central collisions of heavy ions with low-Z atoms
M. Kavčič, M. Budnar, A. Mühleisen, P. Pelicon, Ž. Šmit, M. Žitnik, D. Castella, D. Corminboeuf, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Hoszowska, P. A. Raboud, and K. Tökési
Published 13 April 2000 (12 pages)
052711 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-impact ionization of Li+
M. S. Pindzola, D. M. Mitnik, J. Colgan, and D. C. Griffin
Published 13 April 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Treatment of the tμ+D2 reaction by the methods of quantum reactive scattering
V. Zeman, E. A. Armour, and R. T Pack
Published 13 April 2000 (14 pages)
052713 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Rayleigh scattering from excited states of atoms and ions
J. P. Carney, R. H. Pratt, Lynn Kissel, S. C. Roy, and S. K. Sen Gupta
Published 13 April 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum approach to rotation-state relaxation theory
V. L. Vaks and V. V. Mityugov
Published 14 April 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Photoionization from excited Mg atoms
T. K. Fang and T. N. Chang
Published 18 April 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Electronic capture by He2+ from atomic and molecular hydrogen
M. M. Sant’Anna, W. S. Melo, A. C. Santos, V. L. de Jesus, M. B. Shah, G. M. Sigaud, E. C. Montenegro, H. F. Busnengo, S. E. Corchs, R. D. Rivarola, and L. Gulyás
Published 18 April 2000 (9 pages)
052717 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Projectile charge dependence of electron emission from foils
Y. Sato, A. Higashi, D. Ohsawa, Y. Fujita, Y. Hashimoto, and S. Muto
Published 3 April 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Plasmon production by the decay of hollow Ne atoms near an Al surface
N. Stolterfoht, D. Niemann, V. Hoffmann, M. Rösler, and R. A. Baragiola
Published 17 April 2000 (8 pages)
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Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Small clusters of II-VI materials: ZniSi, i=1–9
Jon M. Matxain, Joseph E. Fowler, and Jesus M. Ugalde
Published 14 April 2000 (8 pages)
053201 [View PDF (399 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Combined experimental and theoretical treatment of the dipole polarizability of P4 clusters
U. Hohm, A. Loose, G. Maroulis, and D. Xenides
Published 14 April 2000 (6 pages)
053202 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Two-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of evanescent-wave guided atoms in a hollow fiber
X. M. Liu and G. J. Milburn
Published 30 March 2000 (7 pages)
053401 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Using atomic interference to probe atom-surface interactions
Roberta Marani, Laurent Cognet, Veronique Savalli, Nathalie Westbrook, Christoph I. Westbrook, and Alain Aspect
Published 6 April 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Stochastic phase-space localization for a single trapped particle
Stefano Mancini, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 7 April 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Spectroscopy of the electric-quadrupole transition 2S1/2(F=0)–2D3/2(F=2) in trapped 171Yb+
Chr. Tamm, D. Engelke, and V. Bühner
Published 10 April 2000 (9 pages)
053405 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Recurrence spectroscopy in time-dependent fields
M. R. Haggerty and J. B. Delos
Published 11 April 2000 (18 pages)
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Add to article collection Magneto-optical trapping of chromium atoms
C. C. Bradley, J. J. McClelland, W. R. Anderson, and R. J. Celotta
Published 14 April 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Expansion and cooling of a bright rubidium three-dimensional optical molasses
Laurence Pruvost, Isabelle Serre, Hong Tuan Duong, and Joshua Jortner
Published 14 April 2000 (9 pages)
053408 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Cooper pairing in ultracold 40K using Feshbach resonances
John L. Bohn
Published 17 April 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamics of diamagnetic Zeeman states ionized by half-cycle pulses
C. Rangan, K. J. Schafer, and A. R. Rau
Published 18 April 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Modified “δ-kick cooling” using magnetic field gradients
S. H. Myrskog, J. K. Fox, H. S. Moon, J. B. Kim, and A. M. Steinberg
Published 19 April 2000 (6 pages)
053412 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Phonon exchange in dilute Fermi-Bose mixtures: Tailoring the Fermi-Fermi interaction
M. J. Bijlsma, B. A. Heringa, and H. T. Stoof
Published 5 April 2000 (11 pages)
053601 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Limits to sympathetic evaporative cooling of a two-component Fermi gas
M. Crescimanno, C. G. Kaoy, and R. Peterson
Published 5 April 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Collisional relaxation in diffuse clouds of trapped bosons
G. M. Kavoulakis, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith
Published 6 April 2000 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Creating a low-dimensional quantum gas using dark states in an inelastic evanescent-wave mirror
R. J. Spreeuw, D. Voigt, B. T. Wolschrijn, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell
Published 6 April 2000 (7 pages)
053604 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Zero-temperature phase diagram of binary boson-fermion mixtures
L. Viverit, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith
Published 13 April 2000 (8 pages)
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