Physical Review A – January 2002
(Volume 65, Issue 1)

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Engineering quantum dynamics
Seth Lloyd and Lorenza Viola
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Entanglement sharing among quantum particles with more than two orthogonal states
Kenneth A. Dennison and William K. Wootters
Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages)
010301 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Measurement of the electron affinity of thulium
V. T. Davis and J. S. Thompson
Published 12 December 2001 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Kinetic energy as a density functional
R. K. Nesbet
Published 14 December 2001 (3 pages)
010502 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Limit of the vibrational sudden approximation for H++H2 collisions
L. F. Errea, A. Macías, L. Méndez, I. Rabadán, and A. Riera
Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages)
010701 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Branching ratios in the dissociative recombination of polyatomic ions: The H3+ case
D. Strasser, J. Levin, H. B. Pedersen, O. Heber, A. Wolf, D. Schwalm, and D. Zajfman
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
010702 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Simultaneous ionization-excitation of helium to He+(2p) magnetic sublevels by proton impact
H. Merabet, R. Bruch, J. Hanni, A. L. Godunov, and J. H. McGuire
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Orientation dependence of multiple ionization of diatomic molecules in collisions with fast highly charged ions
B. Siegmann, U. Werner, R. Mann, Z. Kaliman, N. M. Kabachnik, and H. O. Lutz
Published 14 December 2001 (3 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Threshold laws for three-body recombination
B. D. Esry, Chris H. Greene, and H. Suno
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
010705 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

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Add to article collection Temperature-dependent relaxation times in a trapped Bose-condensed gas
T. Nikuni and A. Griffin
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
011601 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Bistability and instability of three-level atoms inside an optical cavity
Hai Wang, D. J. Goorskey, and Min Xiao
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Slow-light pulses in moving media
J. Fiurášek, U. Leonhardt, and R. Parentani
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Squeezing more from a quantum nondemolition measurement
Ben C. Buchler, Ping Koy Lam, Hans-A. Bachor, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Timothy C. Ralph
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Dramatic extension of the high-order harmonic cutoff by using a long-wavelength driving field
Bing Shan and Zenghu Chang
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Dynamics of quantum entanglement
Karol Życzkowski, Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
Published 10 December 2001 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Bargmann invariants and off-diagonal geometric phases for multilevel quantum systems: A unitary-group approach
N. Mukunda, Arvind, S. Chaturvedi, and R. Simon
Published 10 December 2001 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Conformal symmetry and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Pijush K. Ghosh
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
012103 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Integration of the Schrödinger equation by canonical transformations
Gin-yih Tsaur and Jyhpyng Wang
Published 10 December 2001 (7 pages)
012104 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sufficient conditions for three-particle entanglement and their tests in recent experiments
Michael Seevinck and Jos Uffink
Published 12 December 2001 (7 pages)
012107 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Zeno dynamics yields ordinary constraints
P. Facchi, S. Pascazio, A. Scardicchio, and L. S. Schulman
Published 13 December 2001 (5 pages)
012108 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Time-dependent quantum-mechanical calculation of ground and excited states of anharmonic and double-well oscillators
Amlan K. Roy, Neetu Gupta, and B. M. Deb
Published 14 December 2001 (7 pages)
012109 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optimized quantum nondemolition measurement of a field quadrature
Matteo G. Paris
Published 14 December 2001 (5 pages)
012110 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Surface impedance and the Casimir force
V. B. Bezerra, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and C. Romero
Published 14 December 2001 (9 pages)
012111 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stationarity coefficients and short-time deviations from exponential decay in atomic resonance states
Theodoros Mercouris and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 14 December 2001 (8 pages)
012112 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

Add to article collection Exploring Hilbert space: Accurate characterization of quantum information
A. G. White, D. F. James, W. J. Munro, and P. G. Kwiat
Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Storing unitary operators in quantum states
Jaehyun Kim, Yongwook Cheong, Jae-Seung Lee, and Soonchil Lee
Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages)
012302 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Multipartite entangled coherent states
Xiaoguang Wang and Barry C. Sanders
Published 5 December 2001 (7 pages)
012303 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum cloning machines for equatorial qubits
Heng Fan, Keiji Matsumoto, Xiang-Bin Wang, and Miki Wadati
Published 10 December 2001 (7 pages)
012304 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Heating and decoherence suppression using decoupling techniques
D. Vitali and P. Tombesi
Published 10 December 2001 (9 pages)
012305 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Continuous-variable Bell-type correlations from two bright squeezed beams
E. H. Huntington and T. C. Ralph
Published 11 December 2001 (9 pages)
012306 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum computing with quantum dots on quantum linear supports
K. R. Brown, D. A. Lidar, and K. B. Whaley
Published 11 December 2001 (19 pages)
012307 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum error-correcting codes associated with graphs
D. Schlingemann and R. F. Werner
Published 11 December 2001 (8 pages)
012308 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Decoherence and dissipation during a quantum XOR gate operation
Michael Thorwart and Peter Hänggi
Published 11 December 2001 (11 pages)
012309 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Degrees of concealment and bindingness in quantum bit commitment protocols
R. W. Spekkens and T. Rudolph
Published 11 December 2001 (10 pages)
012310 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum key distribution between N partners: Optimal eavesdropping and Bell’s inequalities
Valerio Scarani and Nicolas Gisin
Published 12 December 2001 (8 pages)
012311 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Conditional beam-splitting attack on quantum key distribution
John Calsamiglia, Stephen M. Barnett, and Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published 12 December 2001 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Continuous-variable teleportation of single-photon states
Toshiki Ide, Holger F. Hofmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, and Akira Furusawa
Published 12 December 2001 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Simple scheme for efficient linear optics quantum gates
T. C. Ralph, A. G. White, W. J. Munro, and G. J. Milburn
Published 12 December 2001 (6 pages)
012314 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optimum detection for extracting maximum information from symmetric qubit sets
Jun Mizuno, Mikio Fujiwara, Makoto Akiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Stephen M. Barnett, and Masahide Sasaki
Published 12 December 2001 (10 pages)
012315 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Estimation of SU(2) operation and dense coding: An information geometric approach
Akio Fujiwara
Published 12 December 2001 (9 pages)
012316 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Impossibility criterion for obtaining pure entangled states from mixed states by purifying protocols
Ping-Xing Chen, Lin-Mei Liang, Cheng-Zu Li, and Ming-Qiu Huang
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
012317 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Feasible quantum communication complexity protocol
Ernesto F. Galvão
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
012318 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interferometric tests of teleportation
T. C. Ralph
Published 13 December 2001 (12 pages)
012319 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection From classical state swapping to quantum teleportation
N. David Mermin
Published 14 December 2001 (6 pages)
012320 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Perturbation theory for quantum computation with a large number of qubits
G. P. Berman, G. D. Doolen, D. I. Kamenev, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
012321 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Robustness of adiabatic quantum computation
Andrew M. Childs, Edward Farhi, and John Preskill
Published 14 December 2001 (10 pages)
012322 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Irreversibility in asymptotic manipulations of a distillable entangled state
G. Vidal and J. I. Cirac
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
012323 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Solving the line-shape problem with speed-dependent broadening and shifting and with Dicke narrowing. I. Formalism
D. A. Shapiro, R. Ciuryło, J. R. Drummond, and A. D. May
Published 5 December 2001 (5 pages)
012501 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Solving the line-shape problem with speed-dependent broadening and shifting and with Dicke narrowing. II. Application
R. Ciuryło, D. A. Shapiro, J. R. Drummond, and A. D. May
Published 5 December 2001 (8 pages)
012502 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical resolution of the H- resonance spectrum up to the n=5 threshold: States of 3Po symmetry
Mirosław Bylicki and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 12 December 2001 (11 pages)
012504 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Configuration-interaction calculations of PsH and e+Be
M. W. Bromley and J. Mitroy
Published 13 December 2001 (9 pages)
012505 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Speed-dependent line-shape models analysis from molecular dynamics simulations: The collision regime
P. N. Hoang, P. Joubert, and D. Robert
Published 14 December 2001 (6 pages)
012507 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Generalized diatomics-in-molecules method for polyatomic anions
A. K. Belyaev, A. S. Tiukanov, and W. Domcke
Published 14 December 2001 (15 pages)
012508 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Positronium scattering from closed-shell atoms and ions
J. Mitroy and I. A. Ivanov
Published 14 December 2001 (12 pages)
012509 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Diffusion and excitation transfer of excited alkali-metal atoms
M. Bouledroua, A. Dalgarno, and R. Côté
Published 5 December 2001 (5 pages)
012701 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Angular correlation theory for double photoionization in a rare-gas atom
Dipankar Chattarji and Chiranjib Sur
Published 11 December 2001 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Observing atom motion by electron-atom Compton scattering
Maarten Vos
Published 11 December 2001 (5 pages)
012703 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonadiabatic effects in photoelectron spectra of HCl and DCl. I. Experiment
F. Burmeister, S. L. Sorensen, O. Björneholm, A. Naves de Brito, R. F. Fink, R. Feifel, I. Hjelte, K. Wiesner, A. Giertz, M. Bässler, C. Miron, H. Wang, M. N. Piancastelli, L. Karlsson, and S. Svensson
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
012704 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonadiabatic effects in the photoelectron spectra of HCl and DCl. II. Theory
L. Mauritz Andersson, Florian Burmeister, Hans O. Karlsson, and Osvaldo Goscinski
Published 12 December 2001 (6 pages)
012705 [View PDF (348 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection “Single-sided” focusing of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
James H. Rose
Published 13 December 2001 (6 pages)
012707 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical study of orientation effects in multiple ionization of molecules by fast ion impact
Z. Kaliman, N. Orlić, N. M. Kabachnik, and H. O. Lutz
Published 14 December 2001 (7 pages)
012708 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photoionization of singly and doubly charged neon ions following inner-shell excitation
H. Yamaoka, M. Oura, K. Kawatsura, T. Hayaishi, T. Sekioka, A. Agui, A. Yoshigoe, and F. Koike
Published 14 December 2001 (8 pages)
012709 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Frozen-core model of the double photoionization of beryllium
A. S. Kheifets and Igor Bray
Published 14 December 2001 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Total cross-section calculations on proton-impact ionization of hydrogen
Emil Y. Sidky and C. D. Lin
Published 14 December 2001 (11 pages)
012711 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Rb-Xe spin relaxation in dilute Xe mixtures
I. A. Nelson and T. G. Walker
Published 14 December 2001 (6 pages)
012712 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Quantitative laser mass spectroscopy of sputtered versus evaporated metal atoms
Eftihia Varoucha, Nektarios A. Papadogiannis, Dimitrios Charalambidis, Alejandro Saenz, Hartmut Schröder, and Bernd Witzel
Published 11 December 2001 (7 pages)
012901 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Relaxation of optical excitations in metal clusters due to the electron-phonon interaction
L. G. Gerchikov, C. Guet, and A. N. Ipatov
Published 11 December 2001 (6 pages)
013201 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic clusters submitted to an intense short laser pulse: A density-functional approach
Valérie Véniard, Richard Taïeb, and Alfred Maquet
Published 11 December 2001 (7 pages)
013202 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Quantum revivals in periodically driven systems close to nonlinear resonances
Farhan Saif and Fortunato
Published 10 December 2001 (5 pages)
013401 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nuclear correlation in ionization and harmonic generation of H2+ in short intense laser pulses
Weixing Qu, Zhaoyang Chen, Zhizhan Xu, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 10 December 2001 (10 pages)
013402 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Subrecoil Raman spectroscopy of cold cesium atoms
J. Ringot, P. Szriftgiser, and J. C. Garreau
Published 11 December 2001 (7 pages)
013403 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Absorption-free optical control of spin systems: The quantum Zeno effect in optical pumping
T. Nakanishi, K. Yamane, and M. Kitano
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
013404 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ionization of alkali-metal atoms by ultrashort laser pulses
G. Duchateau and R. Gayet
Published 14 December 2001 (6 pages)
013405 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Add to article collection Self-trapping mechanisms in the dynamics of three coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Roberto Franzosi and Vittorio Penna
Published 4 December 2001 (5 pages)
013601 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytical results for trapped weakly interacting bosons in two dimensions
Velimir Bardek and Stjepan Meljanac
Published 10 December 2001 (5 pages)
013602 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stochastic dynamics of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
R. A. Duine and H. T. Stoof
Published 11 December 2001 (25 pages)
013603 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Simple method for excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Bogdan Damski, Zbyszek P. Karkuszewski, Krzysztof Sacha, and Jakub Zakrzewski
Published 11 December 2001 (7 pages)
013604 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear coupling between scissors modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate
U. Al Khawaja and H. T. Stoof
Published 12 December 2001 (7 pages)
013605 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Tc for homogeneous dilute Bose gases: A second-order result
Peter Arnold, Guy Moore, and Boris Tomášik
Published 13 December 2001 (18 pages)
013606 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Towards a quantum Hall effect for atoms using electric fields
Marie Ericsson and Erik Sjöqvist
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
013607 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical-cavity-assisted four-wave parametric amplification of atomic fields
Hong Y. Ling
Published 14 December 2001 (13 pages)
013608 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Existence and stability of coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
Benedict J. Cusack, Tristram J. Alexander, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages)
013609 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Microscopic model of semiconductor laser without inversion
I. E. Protsenko and M. Travagnin
Published 4 December 2001 (10 pages)
013801 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transverse pattern formation of optical vortices in a microchip laser with a large Fresnel number
Y. F. Chen and Y. P. Lan
Published 5 December 2001 (6 pages)
013802 [View PDF (913 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lasing without inversion via decay-induced coherence
Olga Kocharovskaya, Andrey B. Matsko, and Yuri Rostovtsev
Published 5 December 2001 (7 pages)
013803 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Conditional evolution in single-atom cavity QED
Andrei N. Soklakov and Rüdiger Schack
Published 5 December 2001 (8 pages)
013804 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Synchronization and multimode dynamics of mutually coupled semiconductor lasers
Claudio R. Mirasso, Miroslav Kolesik, Marcelo Matus, J. K. White, and Jerome V. Moloney
Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages)
013805 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Analytical solution for uv filaments
Jens Schwarz and Jean-Claude Diels
Published 5 December 2001 (10 pages)
013806 [View PDF (438 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Laser action in strongly scattering rare-earth-metal-doped dielectric nanophosphors
G. R. Williams, S. B. Bayram, S. C. Rand, T. Hinklin, and R. M. Laine
Published 11 December 2001 (6 pages)
013807 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photodecomposition waves driven by broadband incoherent radiation
V. I. Tcheremiskine, L. D. Mikheev, M. L. Sentis, and V. S. Zuev
Published 11 December 2001 (8 pages)
013808 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]