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Physical Review A – February 2002
Volume 65, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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High-accuracy relativistic many-body calculations of van der Waals coefficients C6 for alkaline-earth-metal atoms
Sergey G. Porsev and Andrei Derevianko
Published 11 January 2002 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Polar and azimuthal dependence of the molecular frame photoelectron angular distributions of spatially oriented linear molecules
R. R. Lucchese, A. Lafosse, J. C. Brenot, P. M. Guyon, J. C. Houver, M. Lebech, G. Raseev, and D. Dowek
Published 17 January 2002 (4 pages)
020702(R) [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Observation of a nearly isotropic, high-energy Coulomb explosion group in the fragmentation of D2 by short laser pulses
A. Staudte, C. L. Cocke, M. H. Prior, A. Belkacem, C. Ray, H. W. Chong, T. E. Glover, R. W. Schoenlein, and U. Saalmann
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
020703(R) [View PDF (208 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Cooling atoms in an optical trap by selective parametric excitation
N. Poli, R. J. Brecha, G. Roati, and G. Modugno
Published 3 January 2002 (4 pages)
021401(R) [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Two-species magneto-optical trap with 40K and 87Rb
J. Goldwin, S. B. Papp, B. DeMarco, and D. S. Jin
Published 3 January 2002 (4 pages)
021402(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Teaching optimal control theory to distill robust pulses even under experimental constraints
Thomas Hornung, Marcus Motzkus, and Regina de Vivie-Riedle
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
021403(R) [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Rydberg atoms in circular polarization: Classical stabilization in optical frequency fields
Will Chism and L. E. Reichl
Published 11 January 2002 (4 pages)
021404(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Transient phase-space localization
C. L. Stokely, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, and A. K. Pattanayak
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
021405(R) [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Correlated electron emission in laser-induced nonsequence double ionization of helium
Li-Bin Fu, Jie Liu, and Shi-Gang Chen
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
021406(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Matter waves

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Systematic formulation of slow polaritons in atomic gases
G. Juzeliūnas and H. J. Carmichael
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
021601(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Modulational instability in Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
V. V. Konotop and M. Salerno
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
021602(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Mean-field instability of trapped dilute boson-fermion mixtures
R. Roth and H. Feldmeier
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
021603(R) [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Evaporative cooling of atomic chromium
Jonathan D. Weinstein, Robert deCarvalho, Cindy I. Hancox, and John M. Doyle
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
021604(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Limitations of entanglement between photons and atoms coupled out from a Bose-Einstein condensate
T. Gasenzer, D. C. Roberts, and K. Burnett
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
021605(R) [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Continuous detection of an atom laser beam
Michael Köhl, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Tilman Esslinger
Published 10 January 2002 (3 pages)
021606(R) [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Macroscopic quantum-state reduction: Uniting Bose-Einstein condensates by interference measurements
Klaus Mølmer
Published 11 January 2002 (3 pages)
021607(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Raman technique for single-cycle pulses
S. E. Harris, D. R. Walker, and D. D. Yavuz
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
021801(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Preparation of decoherence-free, subradiant states in a cavity
Péter Földi, Mihály G. Benedict, and Attila Czirják
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
021802(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Quantum anticentrifugal force
M. A. Cirone, K. Rza̧żewski, W. P. Schleich, F. Straub, and J. A. Wheeler
Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages)
022101 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Structure of the Coulomb and unitarity corrections to the cross section of e+e- pair production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, and V. G. Serbo
Published 4 January 2002 (5 pages)
022102 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Multitime measurements in quantum mechanics
M. S. Wang
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
022103 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Quantum control without access to the controlling interaction
D. Janzing, F. Armknecht, R. Zeier, and Th. Beth
Published 10 January 2002 (8 pages)
022104 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Existential contextuality and the models of Meyer, Kent, and Clifton
D. M. Appleby
Published 10 January 2002 (5 pages)
022105 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Quantum open systems and turbulence
L. F. Santos and C. O. Escobar
Published 11 January 2002 (4 pages)
022106 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Preserving entanglement under perturbation and sandwiching all separable states
Robert B. Lockhart and Michael J. Steiner
Published 14 January 2002 (4 pages)
022107 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Semiclassical Casimir energies at finite temperature
Martin Schaden and Larry Spruch
Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages)
022108 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Concepts of radial and angular kinetic energies
Jens Peder Dahl and Wolfgang P. Schleich
Published 15 January 2002 (9 pages)
022109 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Minimum number of photons needed to distinguish two transparencies
Graeme Mitchison, Serge Massar, and Stefano Pironio
Published 16 January 2002 (6 pages)
022110 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Quantum metastability in a class of moving potentials
Chung-Chieh Lee and Choon-Lin Ho
Published 16 January 2002 (8 pages)
022111 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Quantum information

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Probabilistic implementation of universal quantum processors
Mark Hillery, Vladimír Bužek, and Mário Ziman
Published 3 January 2002 (7 pages)
022301 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Origin of noisy states whose teleportation fidelity can be enhanced through dissipation
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
022302 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Distinguishing n Hamiltonians on Cn by a single measurement
D. Janzing and Th. Beth
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
022303 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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General scheme for superdense coding between multiparties
X. S. Liu, G. L. Long, D. M. Tong, and Feng Li
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
022304 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Quantum probabilities as Bayesian probabilities
Carlton M. Caves, Christopher A. Fuchs, and Rüdiger Schack
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
022305 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Quantum mechanics gives stability to a Nash equilibrium
A. Iqbal and A. H. Toor
Published 4 January 2002 (5 pages)
022306 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Mutual catalysis of entanglement transformations for pure entangled states
Xun-Li Feng, Zhong-Yang Wang, and Zhi-Zhan Xu
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
022307 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations
Julio Gea-Banacloche
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
022308 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Positioning and clock synchronization through entanglement
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone
Published 4 January 2002 (9 pages)
022309 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Continuous-variable quantum teleportation through lossy channels
A. V. Chizhov, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
Published 10 January 2002 (9 pages)
022310 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Decoherence of the quantum gate in Milburn’s model of decoherence
Kyoungtae Kimm and Hwang-h. Kwon
Published 11 January 2002 (5 pages)
022311 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Ensemble quantum-information processing by NMR: Implementation of gates and the creation of pseudopure states using dipolar coupled spins as qubits
T. S. Mahesh, Neeraj Sinha, K. V. Ramanathan, and Anil Kumar
Published 11 January 2002 (6 pages)
022312 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Quantum logic for trapped atoms via molecular hyperfine interactions
Gavin K. Brennen, Ivan H. Deutsch, and Carl J. Williams
Published 11 January 2002 (9 pages)
022313 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Quantum memory for photons: Dark-state polaritons
M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin
Published 15 January 2002 (12 pages)
022314 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Scaling considerations in ground-state quantum computation
Ari Mizel, M. W. Mitchell, and Marvin L. Cohen
Published 15 January 2002 (6 pages)
022315 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Remote-state preparation in higher dimension and the parallelizable manifold Sn-1
Bei Zeng and Peng Zhang
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
022316 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Conditional efficient multiuser quantum cryptography network
Peng Xue, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages)
022317 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Possible realization of Josephson charge qubits in two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Zeng-Bing Chen and Yong-De Zhang
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
022318 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Squeezing is good at low information rates
Masaki Sohma and Osamu Hirota
Published 15 January 2002 (6 pages)
022319 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Optimally conclusive discrimination of nonorthogonal entangled states by local operations and classical communications
Yi-Xin Chen and Dong Yang
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
022320 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Resource reduction via repeaters in entanglement distribution
A. Hutton and S. Bose
Published 17 January 2002 (10 pages)
022321 [View PDF (243 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Core-ionized states and spectra of Be and Mg dimers
N. V. Dobrodey, A. I. Streltsov, and L. S. Cederbaum
Published 3 January 2002 (10 pages)
022501 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Hyperfine splitting of hydrogenlike thallium
M. Tomaselli, T. Kühl, W. Nörtershäuser, S. Borneis, A. Dax, D. Marx, H. Wang, and S. Fritzsche
Published 4 January 2002 (9 pages)
022502 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Powerful effective one-electron Hamiltonian for describing many-atom interacting systems
J. O. Lugo, L. I. Vergara, P. G. Bolcatto, and E. C. Goldberg
Published 4 January 2002 (9 pages)
022503 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Spontaneous electric multipole emission in a condensed medium and toroidal moments
Eugene V. Tkalya
Published 4 January 2002 (5 pages)
022504 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Photoproduction of relativistic positronium atoms on extended targets
S. R. Gevorkyan and S. S. Grigoryan
Published 10 January 2002 (5 pages)
022505 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Symmetric rotor of lithiumlike hollow atoms
Lars Bojer Madsen and Klaus Mølmer
Published 10 January 2002 (12 pages)
022506 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body calculations of energies of n=3 states in aluminumlike ions
U. I. Safronova, C. Namba, J. R. Albritton, W. R. Johnson, and M. S. Safronova
Published 11 January 2002 (9 pages)
022507 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Effect of hard-core repulsion on the structures of a trapped two-dimensional three-boson system
C. G. Bao, Y. Z. He, G. M. Huang, and T. Y. Shi
Published 11 January 2002 (7 pages)
022508 [View PDF (854 kB)]
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Orthopositronium-sodium scattering using the close-coupling approximation in the integral representation
Prabal K. Sinha, Puspitapallab Chaudhuri, and A. S. Ghosh
Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages)
022509 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Radiative lifetimes and Landé factors of Rydberg 6pnp and 6pnf states of Pb I by multichannel-quantum-defect theory
Zhenwen Dai, Z. S. Li, and Jiang Zhankui
Published 16 January 2002 (7 pages)
022510 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Contraction relations for Grassmann products of reduced density matrices and implications for density matrix reconstruction
John M. Herbert and John E. Harriman
Published 16 January 2002 (18 pages)
022511 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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L1 atomic-level width of elements 62<~Z<~83
P.-A. Raboud, M. Berset, J.-Cl. Dousse, and Y.-P. Maillard
Published 17 January 2002 (10 pages)
022512 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Photodissociation of NaH
Anindita Bhattacharjee and Krishna Rai Dastidar
Published 3 January 2002 (5 pages)
022701 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Low-energy electron scattering by CH3F, CH2F2, CHF3, and CF4
Márcio T. do N. Varella, Carl Winstead, Vincent McKoy, Masashi Kitajima, and Hiroshi Tanaka
Published 4 January 2002 (17 pages)
022702 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Classical and quantal atomic form factors for nlm⃗n′l′m transitions
M. R. Flannery and D. Vrinceanu
Published 4 January 2002 (10 pages)
022703 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Positronium-positronium scattering using the stochastic variational method
I. A. Ivanov, J. Mitroy, and K. Varga
Published 4 January 2002 (9 pages)
022704 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Scaling of Coulomb Born cross sections for electron-impact excitation of singly charged ions
Yong-Ki Kim
Published 10 January 2002 (5 pages)
022705 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Off-shell T matrices in one, two, and three dimensions
S. A. Morgan, M. D. Lee, and K. Burnett
Published 15 January 2002 (11 pages)
022706 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Photoionization of singly charged sulfur ions in the extreme-ultraviolet region:  Absolute continuum cross section and resonance structures
B. Kristensen, T. Andersen, F. Folkmann, H. Kjeldsen, and J. B. West
Published 15 January 2002 (6 pages)
022707 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Symmetrized amplitudes of the helium-atom double photoionization
A. S. Kheifets and Igor Bray
Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages)
022708 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Double photoionization of beryllium
J. Colgan and M. S. Pindzola
Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages)
022709 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Theoretical differential and total cross sections of water-molecule ionization by electron impact
C. Champion, J. Hanssen, and P. A. Hervieux
Published 16 January 2002 (9 pages)
022710 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Description of ionization in the molecular approach to atomic collisions. II
L. F. Errea, C. Harel, H. Jouin, L. Méndez, B. Pons, A. Riera, and I. Sevila
Published 16 January 2002 (9 pages)
022711 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Laser-induced Compton scattering at relativistically high radiation powers
P. Panek, J. Z. Kamiński, and F. Ehlotzky
Published 16 January 2002 (8 pages)
022712 [View PDF (182 kB)]

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

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Energy and electron spectra after grazing-ion–surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia
Published 4 January 2002 (7 pages)
022901 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Energy loss of an electric dipole in a free-electron gas
Néstor R. Arista
Published 10 January 2002 (7 pages)
022902 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Study of incoherent x-radiation induced by relativistic electrons in crystals
V. B. Gavrikov, V. P. Likhachev, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, and A. L. Bonini
Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages)
022903 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Atomic alkali-metal gas cells at liquid-helium temperatures: Loading by light-induced atom desorption
A. Hatakeyama, K. Enomoto, N. Sugimoto, and T. Yabuzaki
Published 16 January 2002 (9 pages)
022904 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Hartree-Fock approach for metal-cluster fission
Andrey Lyalin, Andrey Solov’yov, Walter Greiner, and Sergey Semenov
Published 3 January 2002 (5 pages)
023201 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Capture of low-energy electrons by simple closed-shell metal clusters
P.-A. Hervieux, M. E. Madjet, and H. Benali
Published 4 January 2002 (7 pages)
023202 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Strong interatomic effects accompanying core ionization of atomic clusters
N. V. Dobrodey, A. I. Streltsov, and L. S. Cederbaum
Published 10 January 2002 (12 pages)
023203 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Subthermal linewidths in photoassociation spectra of cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms
Mette Machholm, Paul S. Julienne, and Kalle-Antti Suominen
Published 3 January 2002 (4 pages)
023401 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Boundary-free scaling calculation of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for laser-atom interactions
Z. X. Zhao, B. D. Esry, and C. D. Lin
Published 3 January 2002 (7 pages)
023402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Measuring moving nuclear wave packets using laser Coulomb-explosion imaging
Szczepan Chelkowski and André D. Bandrauk
Published 3 January 2002 (11 pages)
023403 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Resonant enhancements of high-order harmonic generation
C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, R. Kopold, W. Becker, and J. M. Rost
Published 4 January 2002 (5 pages)
023404 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Time-resolved study of energy-transfer collisions in a sample of cold rubidium atoms
R. A. D. S. Zanon, K. M. F. Magalhães, A. L. de Oliveira, and L. G. Marcassa
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
023405 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Relativistic classical Monte Carlo simulations of stabilization of hydrogenlike ions in intense laser pulses
L. N. Gaier and C. H. Keitel
Published 10 January 2002 (8 pages)
023406 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical study of spontaneous spin polarization and hysteresis in cesium vapor
A. Andalkar, R. B. Warrington, M. V. Romalis, S. K. Lamoreaux, B. R. Heckel, and E. N. Fortson
Published 11 January 2002 (8 pages)
023407 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Efficient grid treatment of the ionization dynamics of laser-driven H2+
Daniel Dundas
Published 11 January 2002 (11 pages)
023408 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Optimization of population transfer by adiabatic passage
S. Guérin, S. Thomas, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 15 January 2002 (12 pages)
023409 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Approaching Bose-Einstein condensation of metastable neon: Over 109 trapped atoms
S. J. M. Kuppens, J. G. C. Tempelaars, V. P. Mogendorff, B. J. Claessens, H. C. W. Beijerinck, and E. J. D. Vredenbregt
Published 15 January 2002 (11 pages)
023410 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Dynamic Stark shift and alignment-to-orientation conversion
Matthew C. Kuntz, Robert C. Hilborn, and Alison M. Spencer
Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages)
023411 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Magnetic-field imaging of weakly bound levels of the ground-state Na2 dimer
T. Laue, E. Tiesinga, C. Samuelis, H. Knöckel, and E. Tiemann
Published 16 January 2002 (8 pages)
023412 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Matter waves

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Squeezing and entanglement in quasiparticle excitations of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
J. Rogel-Salazar, G. H. C. New, S. Choi, and K. Burnett
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
023601 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Stability of rotating states in a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
G. M. Kavoulakis
Published 4 January 2002 (6 pages)
023602 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Vortex lattice formation in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Makoto Tsubota, Kenichi Kasamatsu, and Masahito Ueda
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
023603 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Measurement theory and interference of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Ashhab and A. J. Leggett
Published 17 January 2002 (10 pages)
023604 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Influence of an ultrafast transient refractive-index grating on nonlinear optical phenomena
Th. Schneider and J. Reif
Published 3 January 2002 (10 pages)
023801 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Quantum trajectories for realistic detection
P. Warszawski, H. M. Wiseman, and H. Mabuchi
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
023802 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Unexpected role of excess noise in spontaneous emission
C. Lamprecht and H. Ritsch
Published 4 January 2002 (12 pages)
023803 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Radiative decoupling and coupling of nuclear oscillators by stepwise Doppler-energy shifts
P. Schindelmann, U. van Bürck, W. Potzel, G. V. Smirnov, S. L. Popov, E. Gerdau, Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, J. Jäschke, H. D. Rüter, A. I. Chumakov, and R. Rüffer
Published 4 January 2002 (17 pages)
023804 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Semiconductor-cavity QED in high-Q regimes: Detuning effect
Yu-xi Liu, N. Imoto, Ş. K. Özdemir, Guang-ri Jin, and C. P. Sun
Published 4 January 2002 (7 pages)
023805 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Width of the electromagnetically induced transparency resonance in atomic vapor
C. Y. Ye and A. S. Zibrov
Published 4 January 2002 (5 pages)
023806 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics in the presence of energy relaxation and pure dephasing: A unified quantum master-equation approach
Ruixue Xu, YiJing Yan, and Xin-Qi Li
Published 10 January 2002 (8 pages)
023807 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Multiparameter entanglement in femtosecond parametric down-conversion
Mete Atatüre, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Matthew D. Shaw, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 11 January 2002 (4 pages)
023808 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Coherently driven and coherently pumped micromaser
F. Casagrande, A. Lulli, and V. Santagostino
Published 11 January 2002 (7 pages)
023809 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Dynamics of an atomic wave packet in a standing-wave cavity field: A cavity-assisted single-atom detection
Young-Tak Chough, Sun-Hyun Youn, Hyunchul Nha, Sang Wook Kim, and Kyungwon An
Published 11 January 2002 (10 pages)
023810 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Optical bistability in lasers induced by active molecules with a large permanent dipole moment
Oscar G. Calderón, Sonia Melle, and Isabel Gonzalo
Published 15 January 2002 (6 pages)
023811 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Accurate quantum nondemolition measurements of optical solitons
Victor V. Kozlov and Denis A. Ivanov
Published 15 January 2002 (9 pages)
023812 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Macroscopic quantum fluctuations in noise-sustained optical patterns
Roberta Zambrini, Stephen M. Barnett, Pere Colet, and Maxi San Miguel
Published 15 January 2002 (12 pages)
023813 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Comparative study of the transient evolution of Hanle electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption resonances
P. Valente, H. Failache, and A. Lezama
Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages)
023814 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Stochastic initiation of superradiance in a cavity: An approximation scheme within quantum trajectory theory
James P. Clemens and H. J. Carmichael
Published 16 January 2002 (8 pages)
023815 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Biphoton focusing for two-photon excitation
Magued B. Nasr, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Mark C. Booth, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, Malvin C. Teich, Michael Kempe, and Ralf Wolleschensky
Published 17 January 2002 (6 pages)
023816 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Accidental degeneracy beats: A distinct type of beat phenomenon in nonlinear optical spectroscopy
K. A. Merchant, David E. Thompson, and M. D. Fayer
Published 17 January 2002 (16 pages)
023817 [View PDF (549 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Larmor precession and tunneling time of a relativistic neutral spinning particle through an arbitrary potential barrier
Zhi-Jian Li, Jiu-Qing Liang, and D. H. Kobe
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Quantum information

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Distillation of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state from arbitrary tripartite states
Yi-Na Mo, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
024301 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Entanglement transfer experiment in NMR quantum information processing
N. Boulant, E. M. Fortunato, M. A. Pravia, G. Teklemariam, D. G. Cory, and T. F. Havel
Published 10 January 2002 (3 pages)
024302 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Geometric observation for Bures fidelity between two states of a qubit
Jing-Ling Chen, Libin Fu, Abraham A. Ungar, and Xian-Geng Zhao
Published 11 January 2002 (3 pages)
024303 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Inference schemes and entanglement determination
J. Batle, M. Casas, A. R. Plastino, and A. Plastino
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
024304 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Hamiltonian formulation of weighted-ensemble density-functional theory
Jacob Katriel and Federico Zahariev
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
024501 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Reconstruction of atomic effective potentials from isotropic scattering factors
E. Romera, J. J. Torres, and J. C. Angulo
Published 11 January 2002 (4 pages)
024502 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Calculations of the 1sμ2se-electron-excited S(L=0) states in helium-muonic atoms
Alexei M. Frolov
Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages)
024701 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Fine-structure-resolved measurements of photoelectron angular distributions by single-photon detachment of Sn- at visible wavelengths
V. T. Davis, J. Ashokkumar, and J. S. Thompson
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
024702 [View PDF (55 kB)]

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

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Molecular target and projectile angular scattering effects in stopping power and charge exchange at low-to-intermediate projectile energies
R. Cabrera-Trujillo, Y. Öhrn, John R. Sabin, and E. Deumens
Published 3 January 2002 (4 pages)
024901 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Realistic three-dimensional computations of microwave-ionization curves of hydrogen Rydberg atoms
G. N. Rockwell, V. F. Hoffman, Th. Clausen, and R. Blümel
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
025401 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Matter waves

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Bloch waves and bloch bands of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Biao Wu, Roberto B. Diener, and Qian Niu
Published 16 January 2002 (4 pages)
025601 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Efficient frequency conversion of incoherent fluorescent light
M. Katsuragawa, J. Q. Liang, Fam Le Kien, and K. Hakuta
Published 3 January 2002 (4 pages)
025801 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Phase-shift amplification for precision measurements without nonclassical states
Alfredo Luis
Published 4 January 2002 (4 pages)
025802 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Measurements of intensity fluctuations in a laser with a saturable absorber
Mansour Mortazavi, Fuad Rawwagah, and Surendra Singh
Published 10 January 2002 (4 pages)
025803 [View PDF (55 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quasicontinuum modeling of photoassociation”
Amichay Vardi, Moshe Shapiro, and James R. Anglin
Published 4 January 2002 (3 pages)
027401 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Quasicontinuum modeling of photoassociation’ ”
Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie
Published 4 January 2002 (2 pages)
027402 [View PDF (18 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Calculation of the contribution of the quasifree mechanism to the two-electron photoionization cross section [Phys. Rev. A 64, 012713 (2001)]
R. Krivec, M. Ya. Amusia, and V. B. Mandelzweig
Published 4 January 2002 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum algorithms for fermionic simulations [Phys. Rev. A 64, 022319 2001)]
G. Ortiz, J. E. Gubernatis, E. Knill, and R. Laflamme
Published 15 January 2002 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (15 kB)]
 
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