Physical Review A – December 2000
(Volume 62, Issue 6)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Quantum coherence and interaction-free measurements
Sierk Pötting, Eun Seong Lee, William Schmitt, Ilya Rumyantsev, Bernd Mohring, and Pierre Meystre
Published 14 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Parametric dispersion in electromagnetically induced transparency
M. Müller, F. Homann, R.-H. Rinkleff, A. Wicht, and K. Danzmann
Published 26 October 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum criticality and stability of three-body Coulomb systems
Sabre Kais and Qicun Shi
Published 15 November 2000 (4 pages)
060502 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Three-body effects in the fragmentation of D2 by slow, highly-charged xenon
R. D. DuBois, I. Ali, C. L. Cocke, C. R. Feeler, and R. E. Olson
Published 10 November 2000 (4 pages)
060701 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Landau-Zener transitions in a level-crossing system with periodic modulations of the diagonal energy
Yosuke Kayanuma and Yoshihiko Mizumoto
Published 30 October 2000 (4 pages)
061401 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Critcal velocity of superfluid flow past large obstacles in Bose-Einstein condensates
J. S. Stießberger and W. Zwerger
Published 15 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Exact eigenstates for repulsive bosons in two dimensions
R. A. Smith and N. K. Wilkin
Published 15 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Ponderomotive streaking of the ionization potential as a method for measuring pulse durations in the XUV domain with fs resolution
E. S. Toma, H. G. Muller, P. M. Paul, P. Breger, M. Cheret, P. Agostini, C. Le Blanc, G. Mullot, and G. Cheriaux
Published 26 October 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Power broadening and Doppler effects of coherent dark resonances in Rb
Michael Erhard, Stefan Nußmann, and Hanspeter Helm
Published 3 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Coexistence of in-phase and out-of-phase dynamics in a multimode external-cavity laser diode operating in the low-frequency fluctuations regime
F. Rogister, P. Mégret, O. Deparis, and M. Blondel
Published 15 November 2000 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Measurements of nondegenerate discrete observables
Masanao Ozawa
Published 8 November 2000 (13 pages)
062101 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Control of tunneling by adapted signals
B. I. Ivlev
Published 10 November 2000 (11 pages)
062102 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum effects involving interplay between unitary dynamics and kinematic entanglement
John V. Corbett and Dipankar Home
Published 10 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Focusing vacuum fluctuations
L. H. Ford and N. F. Svaiter
Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages)
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Quantum information

Add to article collection Quantal phase for nonmaximally entangled photons
Björn Hessmo and Erik Sjöqvist
Published 26 October 2000 (4 pages)
062301 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Approximate quantum cloning and the impossibility of superluminal information transfer
D. Bruss, G. M. D’Ariano, C. Macchiavello, and M. F. Sacchi
Published 7 November 2000 (4 pages)
062302 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Family of Grover’s quantum-searching algorithms
A. Galindo and M. A. Martín-Delgado
Published 8 November 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Fidelity and information in the quantum teleportation of continuous variables
Holger F. Hofmann, Toshiki Ide, Takayoshi Kobayashi, and Akira Furusawa
Published 9 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Efficient schemes for reducing imperfect collective decoherences
WonYoung Hwang, Hyukjae Lee, Doyeol (David) Ahn, and Sung Woo Hwang
Published 9 November 2000 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Security of continuous-variable quantum cryptography
T. C. Ralph
Published 9 November 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Teleportation using coupled oscillator states
P. T. Cochrane, G. J. Milburn, and W. J. Munro
Published 10 November 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Multiple observations of quantum clocks
V. Bužek, P. L. Knight, and N. Imoto
Published 10 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Chiral spin liquids and quantum error-correcting codes
N. E. Bonesteel
Published 13 November 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum to classical phase transition in noisy quantum computers
Dorit Aharonov
Published 14 November 2000 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Distillability of two entanglement particles transmitted through a noisy channel
X. X. Yi and G. C. Guo
Published 14 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Error correction for mutually interacting qubits
Julio Gea-Banacloche
Published 14 November 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Three qubits can be entangled in two inequivalent ways
W. Dür, G. Vidal, and J. I. Cirac
Published 14 November 2000 (12 pages)
062314 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Long-range interaction of two metastable rare-gas atoms
A. Derevianko and A. Dalgarno
Published 27 October 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Lifetime measurements of the 7D levels of atomic francium
J. M. Grossman, R. P. Fliller, L. A. Orozco, M. R. Pearson, and G. D. Sprouse
Published 30 October 2000 (7 pages)
062502 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Born-Oppenheimer wave function near level crossing
J. E. Avron and A. Gordon
Published 3 November 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Resonant x-ray Raman Scattering involving avoided crossings in the final-state potential-energy curves
P. Sałek, R. F. Fink, F. Gel’mukhanov, M. N. Piancastelli, R. Feifer, M. Bässler, S. L. Sorensen, C. Miron, H. Wang, I. Hjelte, O. Björneholm, A. Ausmees, S. Svensson, and H. Ågren
Published 9 November 2000 (12 pages)
062506 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Exchange-correlation hole of the Si atom: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Antonio C. Cancio, C. Y. Fong, and J. S. Nelson
Published 9 November 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection L-shell shake processes resulting from 1s photoionization in elements 11<~Z<~17
O. Mauron, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Hoszowska, J. P. Marques, F. Parente, and M. Polasik
Published 10 November 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Measurements and calculations of high-angular-momentum satellite transitions in Li 1s photoionization
W. T. Cheng, E. Kukk, D. Cubaynes, J.-C. Chang, G. Snell, J. D. Bozek, F. J. Wuilleumier, and N. Berrah
Published 13 November 2000 (9 pages)
062509 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic-structure kinetic-energy functional based on atomic local-scaling transformations
V. V. Karasiev, E. V. Ludeña, and A. N. Artemyev
Published 13 November 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Multichannel-quantum-defect-theory treatment of preionized and predissociated triplet gerade levels of H2
A. Matzkin, Ch. Jungen, and S. C. Ross
Published 15 November 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonrelativistic exchange-energy density and exchange potential in the lowest order of the 1/Z expansion for ten-electron atomic ions
I. A. Howard, N. H. March, P. Senet, and V. E. Van Doren
Published 15 November 2000 (8 pages)
062512 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Nonperturbative and relativistic effects in projectile-electron loss in relativistic collisions with atomic targets
A. B. Voitkiv, C. Müller, and N. Grün
Published 27 October 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Extension of the energy-corrected sudden model to anisotropic Raman lines: Application to pure N2
X. Bruet, L. Bonamy, and J. Bonamy
Published 1 November 2000 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Semiclassical photoionization cross section of the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field
Roman Marcinek and Dominique Delande
Published 6 November 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Representation of a complex Green function on a real basis: Integral representation
Robin Shakeshaft
Published 6 November 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Scattering with longitudinally coherent matter beams
F. Robicheaux
Published 6 November 2000 (12 pages)
062706 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Asymmetric branching ratio for the dissociation of HD+(1sσ)
E. Wells, B. D. Esry, K. D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak
Published 7 November 2000 (14 pages)
062707 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effective potential energies and transport cross sections for interactions of hydrogen and nitrogen
James R. Stallcop, Harry Partridge, and Eugene Levin
Published 9 November 2000 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Model absorption potential for electron-molecule scattering in the intermediate-energy range
M.-T. Lee, I. Iga, L. E. Machado, and L. M. Brescansin
Published 9 November 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Influence of atomic radiative and collisional processes on the plasma modeling of Mg10+ at low electron densities
D. M. Mitnik, M. S. Pindzola, and D. C. Griffin
Published 9 November 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Additivity rule for the calculation of electron scattering from polyatomic molecules
Yuhai Jiang, Jinfeng Sun, and Lingde Wan
Published 10 November 2000 (6 pages)
062712 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single versus double ionization of multielectron atoms by electrons
Joseph A. Kunc
Published 10 November 2000 (5 pages)
062713 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge-transfer processes in collisions of H+ ions with H2, D2, CO, and CO2 molecules in the energy range 0.2–4.0 keV
Toshio Kusakabe, Kensuke Asahina, Jiang P. Gu, Gerhard Hirsch, Robert J. Buenker, Mineo Kimura, Hiroyuki Tawara, and Yohta Nakai
Published 14 November 2000 (7 pages)
062714 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Charge-transfer processes in collisions of slow H+ ions with hydrocarbon molecules: CH4, C2H2, C2H6, and C3H8
Toshio Kusakabe, Kensuke Asahina, Akira Iida, Yuji Tanaka, Yan Li, Gerhard Hirsch, Robert J. Buenker, Mineo Kimura, Hiroyuki Tawara, and Yohta Nakai
Published 14 November 2000 (6 pages)
062715 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Thomas mechanism in electron capture to the continuum
V. D. Rodríguez and R. O. Barrachina
Published 14 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Relaxation and polarization effects in valence photodetachment of the negative chloride ion
M. Kutzner, J. A. Robertson, and P. Pelley
Published 14 November 2000 (5 pages)
062717 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection T-matrix calculations for the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the Temkin-Poet model
M. S. Pindzola, D. Mitnik, and F. Robicheaux
Published 14 November 2000 (6 pages)
062718 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser-induced transitions between triply excited hollow states
L. B. Madsen, P. Schlagheck, and P. Lambropoulos
Published 14 November 2000 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Autoionizing resonances in electron-impact ionization of O5+ ions
A. Müller, H. Teng, G. Hofmann, R. A. Phaneuf, and E. Salzborn
Published 15 November 2000 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-dependent mean-field description for multiple charge-transfer processes in Ar8+-Ar collisions
R. Nagano, K. Yabana, T. Tazawa, and Y. Abe
Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages)
062721 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Isotopic effects in the angular dependence of the energy loss and angular distribution of protons and deuterons in Al foils at low energies
M. Famá, J. C. Eckardt, G. H. Lantschner, and N. R. Arista
Published 7 November 2000 (8 pages)
062901 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron emission in grazing-ion–surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle
Published 14 November 2000 (7 pages)
062903 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Negative-ion formation in collisions of low-energy electrons with neutral sodium clusters
V. Kasperovich, G. Tikhonov, K. Wong, and V. V. Kresin
Published 7 November 2000 (6 pages)
063201 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground-state geometries and stability of impurity doped clusters: LinBe and LinMg (n=1–12)
M. Deshpande, A. Dhavale, R. R. Zop, S. Chacko, and D. G. Kanhere
Published 8 November 2000 (7 pages)
063202 [View PDF (449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Structures of magic Ba clusters and magic Ba suboxide clusters
Q. Wang, Q. Sun, J-Z. Yu, B-L. Gu, Y. Kawazoe, and Y. Hashi
Published 13 November 2000 (6 pages)
063203 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Explosion dynamics of rare-gas clusters in an intense laser field
Kenichi Ishikawa and Thomas Blenski
Published 15 November 2000 (11 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Classical subharmonic resonances in microwave ionization of lithium Rydberg atoms
Michael W. Noel, W. M. Griffith, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 30 October 2000 (9 pages)
063401 [View PDF (594 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Pulse-width and isotope effects in femtosecond-pulse strong-field dissociation of H2+ and D2+
C. Trump, H. Rottke, M. Wittmann, G. Korn, W. Sandner, M. Lein, and V. Engel
Published 30 October 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Phase averaging for calculations involving two-color intense-field excitation
Alex Brown
Published 3 November 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Magneto-optical trapping of silver atoms
G. Uhlenberg, J. Dirscherl, and H. Walther
Published 14 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Double-resonance frequency shift in a hydrogen maser
M. A. Humphrey, D. F. Phillips, and R. L. Walsworth
Published 14 November 2000 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Circular dichroism in free-free transitions of high-energy electron-atom scattering
Aurelia Cionga, Fritz Ehlotzky, and Gabriela Zloh
Published 14 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Kinetic theory of magneto-optical traps with finite-linewidth lasers
Jin Woo Jun and Ho Seong Lee
Published 15 November 2000 (11 pages)
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Matter waves

Add to article collection Neutron-wave-interference experiments with two resonance coils
S. V. Grigoriev, W. H. Kraan, F. M. Mulder, and M. Th. Rekveldt
Published 27 October 2000 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Noninteracting fermions in a one-dimensional harmonic atom trap: Exact one-particle properties at zero temperature
F. Gleisberg, W. Wonneberger, U. Schlöder, and C. Zimmermann
Published 3 November 2000 (10 pages)
063602 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Systematic method to study the general structure of Bose-Einstein condensates with arbitrary spin
Ying Wu, Xiaoxue Yang, and Changpu Sun
Published 3 November 2000 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Tc for dilute Bose gases: Beyond leading order in 1/N
Peter Arnold and Boris Tomášik
Published 9 November 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates under rotation
G. M. Kavoulakis, B. Mottelson, and C. J. Pethick
Published 14 November 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Atom-laser coherence length and atomic standing waves
I. Carusotto, M. Artoni, and G. C. La Rocca
Published 14 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamics of two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates in an elongated magnetostatic trap
M. Modugno, F. Dalfovo, C. Fort, P. Maddaloni, and F. Minardi
Published 14 November 2000 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum kinetic theory. VII. The influence of vapor dynamics on condensate growth
M. J. Davis, C. W. Gardiner, and R. J. Ballagh
Published 15 November 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Condensate growth in trapped Bose gases
M. J. Bijlsma, E. Zaremba, and H. T. Stoof
Published 15 November 2000 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection Stationary solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation. I. Case of repulsive nonlinearity
L. D. Carr, Charles W. Clark, and W. P. Reinhardt
Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Stationary solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation. II. Case of attractive nonlinearity
L. D. Carr, Charles W. Clark, and W. P. Reinhardt
Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Analytical estimate of the critical velocity for vortex pair creation in trapped Bose condensates
M. Crescimanno, C. G. Koay, R. Peterson, and R. Walsworth
Published 15 November 2000 (7 pages)
063612 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sum-rule approach to collective oscillations of a boson-fermion mixed condensate of alkali-metal atoms
T. Miyakawa, T. Suzuki, and H. Yabu
Published 15 November 2000 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Heating rates in collisionally opaque alkali-metal atom traps: Role of secondary collisions
H. C. Beijerinck
Published 15 November 2000 (15 pages)
063614 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Superradiant light scattering from trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
Özgür E. Müstecaplioğlu and L. You
Published 15 November 2000 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Theory of coherent photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Marijan Kos̆trun, Matt Mackie, Robin Côté, and Juha Javanainen
Published 15 November 2000 (23 pages)
063616 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (