Physical Review A – June 2000
(Volume 61, Issue 6)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Appearing and disappearing strong-field (2d+time) resonances in H atoms
E. J. Galvez, P. M. Koch, D. Richards, and S. A. Zelazny
Published 5 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Strong mode dependence of the 3.8-eV resonance in CO2 vibrational excitation by electron impact
M. Kitajima, S. Watanabe, H. Tanaka, M. Takekawa, M. Kimura, and Y. Itikawa
Published 2 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-photon detachment of H-
Kwong T. Chung and Shih-I Chu
Published 2 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Close-coupled calculation of field-free collisions of cold metastable helium atoms
V. Venturi and I. B. Whittingham
Published 8 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Interference of direct and resonant channels in electron-impact ionization of C3+ ions: Unified R-matrix calculation and experiment
H. Teng, H. Knopp, S. Ricz, S. Schippers, K. A. Berrington, and A. Müller
Published 16 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Charge-transfer dissociation of vibrationally cold HeH+: Evidence for and lifetime of the a 3Σ+ metastable state
D. Strasser, K. G. Bhushan, H. B. Pedersen, R. Wester, O. Heber, A. Lafosse, M. L. Rappaport, N. Altstein, and D. Zajfman
Published 16 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Probing magneto-optic trap dynamics through weak excitation of a coupled narrow-linewidth transition
T. Loftus, J. R. Bochinski, and T. W. Mossberg
Published 2 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Wannier-Stark ladders in driven optical lattices
M. Glück, M. Hankel, A. R. Kolovsky, and H. J. Korsch
Published 2 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Optical-dipole trapping of Sr atoms at a high phase-space density
Tetsuya Ido, Yoshitomo Isoya, and Hidetoshi Katori
Published 2 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Ideal gases in time-dependent traps
Georg M. Bruun and Charles W. Clark
Published 8 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Resonance fluorescence spectrum of a trapped ion undergoing quantum jumps
V. Bühner and Chr. Tamm
Published 3 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Cavity ringdown heterodyne spectroscopy: High sensitivity with microwatt light power
Jun Ye and John L. Hall
Published 17 May 2000 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Time of arrival in the presence of interactions
J. León, J. Julve, P. Pitanga, and F. J. de Urríes
Published 3 May 2000 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Bell’s inequalities for states with positive partial transpose
R. F. Werner and M. M. Wolf
Published 15 May 2000 (4 pages)
062102 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-electrodynamic level shifts in an absorbing medium
Reza Matloob
Published 15 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonadiabatic transitions in multilevel systems
Michael Wilkinson and Michael A. Morgan
Published 16 May 2000 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Reconstructing the time evolution of a quantized oscillator
R. Gutzeit, S. Wallentowitz, and W. Vogel
Published 16 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Continuous measurement and non-Markovian quantum trajectories
M. W. Jack and M. J. Collett
Published 16 May 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Casimir and van der Waals forces between two plates or a sphere (lens) above a plate made of real metals
G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 17 May 2000 (12 pages)
062107 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Separability in N composite quantum systems
B. Kraus, J. I. Cirac, S. Karnas, and M. Lewenstein
Published 8 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Amount of information obtained by a quantum measurement
S. Massar and S. Popescu
Published 12 May 2000 (10 pages)
062303 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Information transfer and fidelity in quantum copiers
P. Deuar and W. J. Munro
Published 12 May 2000 (13 pages)
062304 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Simulations of quantum-logic operations in a quantum computer with a large number of qubits
G. P. Berman, G. D. Doolen, G. V. López, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 15 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-state teleportation
L. Henderson, L. Hardy, and V. Vedral
Published 15 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal estimation of two-qubit pure-state entanglement
Antonio Acín, Rolf Tarrach, and Guifré Vidal
Published 16 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum cryptography using larger alphabets
H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci and W. Tittel
Published 16 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Entangling dipole-dipole interactions for quantum logic with neutral atoms
Gavin K. Brennen, Ivan H. Deutsch, and Poul S. Jessen
Published 16 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Realizing probabilistic identification and cloning of quantum states via universal quantum logic gates
Chuan-Wei Zhang, Zi-Yang Wang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 16 May 2000 (9 pages)
062310 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Controlled source of entangled photonic qubits
C. Saavedra, K. M. Gheri, P. Törmä, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
Published 17 May 2000 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Evidence for bound entangled states with negative partial transpose
David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal, and Ashish V. Thapliyal
Published 17 May 2000 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Distillability and partial transposition in bipartite systems
W. Dür, J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, and D. Bruß
Published 17 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Information erasure
Barbara Piechocinska
Published 17 May 2000 (9 pages)
062314 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Absolute isotropic spectral intensities in collision-induced light scattering by helium pairs over a large frequency domain
Florent Rachet, Yves Le Duff, Christophe Guillot-Noël, and Michael Chrysos
Published 3 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Collapse of d and f orbitals in the isoelectronic sequence of singly ionized ytterbium
J. Migdalek and W. Siegel
Published 9 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Local properties of three-body atomic wave functions
R. Krivec, V. B. Mandelzweig, and K. Varga
Published 9 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Ultraviolet-visible fluorescence of 2p-excited argon
R. Flesch, H.-W. Jochims, J. Plenge, and E. Rühl
Published 10 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Auger decay rates of antiprotonic helium
O. I. Kartavtsev, D. E. Monakhov, and S. I. Fedotov
Published 15 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole transition probabilities within the ground configuration of F+
A. G. Calamai, G. Gwinner, X. Tordoir, E. Träbert, and A. Wolf
Published 17 May 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Calculation of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom
V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and J. S. Ginges
Published 17 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Intermediate Hamiltonian formulation of the valence-universal coupled-cluster method for atoms
L. Meissner and P. Malinowski
Published 17 May 2000 (14 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Photoionization of atomic beryllium from the ground state
Dae-Soung Kim, Swaraj S. Tayal, Hsiao-Ling Zhou, and Steven T. Manson
Published 3 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Excitation of vibrational levels of HF up to v=4 by electron impact
A.-Ch. Sergenton, L. Jungo, and M. Allan
Published 8 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Many-body effects in the photoionization of radon
Mickey Kutzner, Paul Pelley, Lauralea Banks, Richard Robertson, and Lloyd Caesar
Published 8 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection B-spline-based multichannel K-matrix method for atomic photoionization
T. K. Fang and T. N. Chang
Published 10 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Simultaneous transfer ionization in a positron-helium atom system
B. Nath and C. Sinha
Published 10 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Photoabsorption and photoion spectroscopy of atomic uranium in the region of 6p and 5d excitations
P. van Kampen, Ch. Gerth, M. Martins, P. K. Carroll, J. Hirsch, E. T. Kennedy, O. Meighan, J.-P. Mosnier, P. Zimmermann, and J. T. Costello
Published 10 May 2000 (7 pages)
062706 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Vibrational cooling of H2+ and D2+ in a storage ring studied by means of two-dimensional fragment imaging
M. Saito, Y. Haruyama, T. Tanabe, I. Katayama, K. Chida, T. Watanabe, Y. Arakaki, I. Nomura, T. Honma, K. Noda, and K. Hosono
Published 12 May 2000 (7 pages)
062707 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effects of postcapture electron-ion collisions on dielectronic recombination demonstrated on Ne-like ions
E. Behar, R. Doron, P. Mandelbaum, and J. L. Schwob
Published 15 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Internuclear potential effects on the triply differential cross section for ion-atom ionization
M. D. Sanchez, W. R. Cravero, and C. R. Garibotti
Published 16 May 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Crossing symmetry in the high-energy limit and pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
U. Eichmann, J. Reinhardt, and W. Greiner
Published 17 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Chaotic scattering in collinear Ze-e- three-body Coulomb systems
Bin Duan, Zaiqiao Bai, and Yan Gu
Published 17 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Ionization of atomic hydrogen by antiproton impact
A. Igarashi, S. Nakazaki, and A. Ohsaki
Published 17 May 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Evaluation of antiproton-impact ionization of He atoms below 40 keV
T. G. Lee, H. C. Tseng, and C. D. Lin
Published 17 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Neutron Compton scattering by proton and deuteron systems with entangled spatial and spin degrees of freedom
E. B. Karlsson and S. W. Lovesey
Published 17 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Add to article collection Vicinage effect on the charge state of fast clusters in solids
Z. L. Mišković, S. G. Davison, F. O. Goodman, W.-K. Liu, and Y.-N. Wang
Published 8 May 2000 (4 pages)
062901 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Explosion of atomic clusters irradiated by high-intensity laser pulses: Scaling of ion energies with cluster and laser parameters
E. Springate, N. Hay, J. W. Tisch, M. B. Mason, T. Ditmire, M. H. Hutchinson, and J. P. Marangos
Published 4 May 2000 (7 pages)
063201 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Atomic-electron excitation by a local phase shift of the wave function
J. R. Vázquez de Aldana and Luis Roso
Published 3 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Variation of harmonic generation from He interacting with short laser pulses of 5 eV as a function of pulse rise time and intensity
Stavroula Dionissopoulou, Theodoros Mercouris, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 3 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Generation of circularly polarized high-order harmonics by two-color coplanar field mixing
Dejan B. Milošević, Wilhelm Becker, and Richard Kopold
Published 4 May 2000 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Polarization-state dependence of the ionization dynamics of a chiral molecule in intense laser light
M. Krishnamurthy and D. Mathur
Published 8 May 2000 (5 pages)
063404 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Imaging atomic Stark spectra
S. N. Pisharody, J. G. Zeibel, and R. R. Jones
Published 8 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Optical forces in a three-level atom
P. V. Panat and S. V. Lawande
Published 9 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics theory of high-order harmonic generation
Lianghui Gao, Xiaofeng Li, Panming Fu, R. R. Freeman, and Dong-Sheng Guo
Published 9 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Particle-in-cell simulations of multiple ionization of small molecules in a strong laser field
Kenichi Ishikawa and Thomas Blenski
Published 10 May 2000 (11 pages)
063408 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ionization of Rydberg atoms by a precessing electric field of constant amplitude
C. H. Cheng and T. F. Gallagher
Published 16 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Observation of radiation pressure exerted by evanescent waves
D. Voigt, B. T. Wolschrijn, R. Jansen, N. Bhattacharya, R. J. Spreeuw, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell
Published 16 May 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Ground and excited states of the hydrogen negative ion in strong magnetic fields
O.-A. Al-Hujaj and P. Schmelcher
Published 16 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum interferometry of degenerate Rydberg states using a temporary dc Stark splitting
I. I. Ryabtsev and I. M. Beterov
Published 17 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Phase-dependent effects in bichromatic high-order harmonic generation
C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, D. B. Milošević, and G. G. Paulus
Published 17 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Interacting atoms under strong quantum confinement
E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, F. H. Mies, and P. S. Julienne
Published 17 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron-atom scattering in a circularly polarized laser field
Aurelia Cionga, Fritz Ehlotzky, and Gabriela Zloh
Published 17 May 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Heating of trapped ions from the quantum ground state
Q. A. Turchette, Kielpinski, B. E. King, D. Leibfried, D. M. Meekhof, C. J. Myatt, M. A. Rowe, C. A. Sackett, C. S. Wood, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland
Published 17 May 2000 (8 pages)
063418 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Macroscopic quantum fluctuations in the Josephson dynamics of two weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates
Augusto Smerzi and Srikanth Raghavan
Published 4 May 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Small-amplitude normal modes of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Marion Linn and Alexander L. Fetter
Published 11 May 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum-mechanical analysis of atom lithography
Chang Jae Lee
Published 11 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Bose condensates in a harmonic trap near the critical temperature
T. Bergeman, D. L. Feder, N. L. Balazs, and B. I. Schneider
Published 11 May 2000 (14 pages)
063605 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Adiabatic output coupling of a Bose gas at finite temperatures
S. Choi, Y. Japha, and K. Burnett
Published 15 May 2000 (18 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamic structure factor and momentum distribution of a trapped Bose gas
F. Zambelli, L. Pitaevskii, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and S. Stringari
Published 16 May 2000 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Narrowing of interference fringes in diffraction of prepared atoms by standing waves
A. M. Ishkhanyan
Published 16 May 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Creation of a persistent current and vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate of alkali-metal atoms
Tomoya Isoshima, Mikio Nakahara, Tetsuo Ohmi, and Kazushige Machida
Published 16 May 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Hydrodynamic approach to vortex lifetimes in trapped Bose condensates
Emil Lundh and P. Ao
Published 17 May 2000 (7 pages)
063612 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase separation of Bose gases at finite temperature
Hualin Shi, Wei-Mou Zheng, and Siu-Tat Chui
Published 17 May 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Matter-wave phase measurement: A noninterferometric approach
K. A. Nugent and D. Paganin
Published 17 May 2000 (9 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Nonadiabatic three-dimensional model of high-order harmonic generation in the few-optical-cycle regime
E. Priori, G. Cerullo, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, S. De Silvestri, P. Villoresi, L. Poletto, P. Ceccherini, C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, and C. de Lisio
Published 5 May 2000 (8 pages)
063801 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Method of small rotations and effective Hamiltonians in nonlinear quantum optics
A. B. Klimov and L. L. Sanchez-Soto
Published 5 May 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoherence as phase diffusion
Pérola Milman, Yvan Castin, and Luiz Davidovich
Published 8 May 2000 (6 pages)
063803 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]