Physical Review A – March 2002
(Volume 65, Issue 3)

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Fundamental concepts

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Add to article collection Linear optics and projective measurements alone suffice to create large-photon-number path entanglement
Hwang Lee, Pieter Kok, Nicolas J. Cerf, and Jonathan P. Dowling
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Generalized measurements by linear elements
John Calsamiglia
Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimizing completely positive maps using semidefinite programming
Koenraad Audenaert and Bart De Moor
Published 20 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Detailed spectroscopy of the a(1) [3Σ+] state of PbO
L. R. Hunter, S. E. Maxwell, K. A. Ulmer, N. D. Charney, S. K. Peck, D. Krause, S. Ter-Avetisyan, and D. DeMille
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Importance of the H- channel in Ps-H scattering
Jennifer E. Blackwood, Mary T. McAlinden, and H. R. Walters
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Core-hole-induced degeneracy of the valence subshells in the 5p photoemission of atomic europium
M. Martins, K. Godehusen, Ch. Gerth, P. Zimmermann, J. Schulz, Ph. Wernet, and B. Sonntag
Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Simultaneous charge polarization and fragmentation of N2 molecules in slow keV collisions with Kr8+ ions
M. Ehrich, U. Werner, H. O. Lutz, T. Kaneyasu, K. Ishii, K. Okuno, and U. Saalmann
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Classical description of the electron capture to the continuum cusp formation in ion-atom collisions
Clara Illescas, B. Pons, and A. Riera
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Measurement of Rydberg-state lifetimes using cold trapped atoms
A. L. Oliveira, M. W. Mancini, V. S. Bagnato, and L. G. Marcassa
Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Area evolution of a few-cycle pulse laser in a two-level-atom medium
Jian Xiao, Zhongyang Wang, and Zhizhan Xu
Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Molecular reorientation in intense femtosecond laser fields
L. Quaglia, M. Brewczyk, and C. Cornaggia
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Observability of the dynamic stabilization of ground-state hydrogen with superintense femtosecond laser pulses
M. Dondera, H. G. Muller, and M. Gavrila
Published 22 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum path distributions for high-order harmonics in rare gas atoms
Mette B. Gaarde and Kenneth J. Schafer
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Adaptive inelastic magnetic mirror for Bose-Einstein condensates
A. S. Arnold, C. MacCormick, and M. G. Boshier
Published 30 January 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Stability of an atom-molecule Bose-Einstein condensate against collapse
Marijan Koštrun and Juha Javanainen
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Slow light produced by stimulated Raman scattering in solid hydrogen
J. Q. Liang, M. Katsuragawa, Fam Le Kien, and K. Hakuta
Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Phase coherence and control of stored photonic information
A. Mair, J. Hager, D. F. Phillips, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-photon amplification and lasing in laser-driven potassium atoms: Theoretical analysis
J. J. Fernández-Soler, J. L. Font, R. Vilaseca, Daniel J. Gauthier, A. Kul’minskii, and O. Pfister
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Subcollisional linewidth observation in the coherent-population-trapping Rb maser
Aldo Godone, Filippo Levi, and Salvatore Micalizio
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Locally real states of photons and particles
Stuart Mirell
Published 30 January 2002 (22 pages)
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Add to article collection Exact classical limit of quantum mechanics: Central potentials and specific states
Adam J. Makowski
Published 30 January 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Existence of the Wigner function with correct marginal distributions along tilted lines on a lattice
Minoru Horibe, Akiyoshi Takami, Takaaki Hashimoto, and Akihisa Hayashi
Published 4 February 2002 (6 pages)
032105 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Radiative emission due to atomic self-dressing in QED
G. Compagno and D. Valenti
Published 5 February 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Bound entanglement and local realism
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Marek Żukowski, and Piotr Gnaciński
Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for fullerene molecules
Olaf Nairz, Markus Arndt, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Electromagnetic barrier penetration in a dispersive medium: Tunneling times and dispersion relations
Eran Rosenthal and Bilha Segev
Published 12 February 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Nuclear Schiff moment and time-invariance violation in atoms
V. V. Flambaum and J. S. Ginges
Published 20 February 2002 (9 pages)
032113 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum times of arrival for multiparticle states
A. D. Baute, I. L. Egusquiza, and J. G. Muga
Published 20 February 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection δ-function-kicked rotor: Momentum diffusion and the quantum-classical boundary
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Salman Habib, Kurt Jacobs, and Kosuke Shizume
Published 20 February 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Time development of a quasistationary state
Duane A. Dicus, Wayne W. Repko, Roy F. Schwitters, and Todd M. Tinsley
Published 20 February 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Nature of the stochastic processes defined by Bohm’s momentum and quantum force
Boon Leong Lan
Published 26 February 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Clauser-Horne inequality for three-state systems
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, L. C. Kwek, Jing-Ling Chen, Marek Żukowski, and C. H. Oh
Published 26 February 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Entropy of entangled states and SU(1,1) and SU(2) symmetries
A. E. Santana, F. C. Khanna, and M. Revzen
Published 26 February 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum anharmonic oscillator in the Heisenberg picture and multiple scale techniques
G. Auberson and M. Capdequi Peyranère
Published 26 February 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonlocality, closing the detection loophole, and communication complexity
Serge Massar
Published 1 March 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Tunneling decay in a magnetic field
T. Sharpee, M. I. Dykman, and P. M. Platzman
Published 1 March 2002 (15 pages)
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Quantum information

Add to article collection Sub-Riemannian geometry and time optimal control of three spin systems: Quantum gates and coherence transfer
Navin Khaneja, Steffen J. Glaser, and Roger Brockett
Published 30 January 2002 (11 pages)
032301 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretically efficient high-capacity quantum-key-distribution scheme
G. L. Long and X. S. Liu
Published 1 February 2002 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonadiabatic controlled-NOT gate for the Kane solid-state quantum computer
C. Wellard, L. C. Hollenberg, and H. C. Pauli
Published 4 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Discrete teleportation protocol of continuum spectra field states
M. C. Oliveira and G. J. Milburn
Published 5 February 2002 (5 pages)
032304 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum computing in a macroscopic dark period
Ben Tregenna, Almut Beige, and Peter L. Knight
Published 8 February 2002 (9 pages)
032305 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Strictly contractive quantum channels and physically realizable quantum computers
Maxim Raginsky
Published 13 February 2002 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Invisible transmission in quantum cryptography using continuous variables: A proof of Eve’s vulnerability
Patrick Navez, Alessandra Gatti, and Luigi A. Lugiato
Published 13 February 2002 (7 pages)
032307 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lorentz singular-value decomposition and its applications to pure states of three qubits
Frank Verstraete, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor
Published 14 February 2002 (6 pages)
032308 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Entanglement versus noncommutativity in teleportation
Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, Anirban Roy, and Ujjwal Sen
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
032309 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Implementing the quantum random walk
B. C. Travaglione and G. J. Milburn
Published 20 February 2002 (5 pages)
032310 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Static Stern-Gerlach effect in magnetic force microscopy
G. P. Berman, G. D. Doolen, P. C. Hammel, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 20 February 2002 (4 pages)
032311 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Remote operations and interactions for systems of arbitrary-dimensional Hilbert space: State-operator approach
Benni Reznik, Yakir Aharonov, and Berry Groisman
Published 20 February 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Lossless quantum data compression and variable-length coding
Kim Bostroem and Timo Felbinger
Published 20 February 2002 (15 pages)
032313 [View PDF (305 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Computable measure of entanglement
G. Vidal and R. F. Werner
Published 22 February 2002 (11 pages)
032314 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection How much state assignments can differ
Todd A. Brun, J. Finkelstein, and N. David Mermin
Published 22 February 2002 (4 pages)
032315 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum dynamics of two coupled qubits
G. J. Milburn, R. Laflamme, B. C. Sanders, and E. Knill
Published 26 February 2002 (10 pages)
032316 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum nonlocality and applications in quantum-information processing of hybrid entangled states
Zeng-Bing Chen, Guang Hou, and Yong-De Zhang
Published 26 February 2002 (5 pages)
032317 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Qubit rotation by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
Z. Kis and F. Renzoni
Published 26 February 2002 (4 pages)
032318 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical analog of quantum search
Lov K. Grover and Anirvan M. Sengupta
Published 27 February 2002 (5 pages)
032319 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mutually unbiased binary observable sets on N qubits
Jay Lawrence, Časlav Brukner, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 27 February 2002 (5 pages)
032320 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical analog of entanglement
Daniel Collins and Sandu Popescu
Published 27 February 2002 (11 pages)
032321 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fullerene-based electron-spin quantum computer
Wolfgang Harneit
Published 27 February 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Entanglement by a beam splitter: Nonclassicality as a prerequisite for entanglement
M. S. Kim, W. Son, V. Bužek, and P. L. Knight
Published 27 February 2002 (7 pages)
032323 [View PDF (495 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fault-tolerant simple quantum-bit commitment unbreakable by individual attacks
Kaoru Shimizu and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 28 February 2002 (14 pages)
032324 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Classical simulation of noninteracting-fermion quantum circuits
Barbara M. Terhal and David P. DiVincenzo
Published 1 March 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoherence of quantum registers
John H. Reina, Luis Quiroga, and Neil F. Johnson
Published 1 March 2002 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Simulation of many-body interactions by conditional geometric phases
Xiaoguang Wang and Paolo Zanardi
Published 1 March 2002 (8 pages)
032327 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Robust and fragile entanglement of three qubits: Relation to permutation symmetry
A. K. Rajagopal and R. W. Rendell
Published 1 March 2002 (7 pages)
032328 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Magnetically induced anions: Basic theory
Victor G. Bezchastnov, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Peter Schmelcher
Published 5 February 2002 (17 pages)
032501 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photoelectron spectroscopy of GdO-
R. Klingeler, N. Pontius, G. Lüttgens, P. S. Bechthold, M. Neeb, and W. Eberhardt
Published 5 February 2002 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Triply excited 4S resonances of He-
N. Brandefelt and E. Lindroth
Published 6 February 2002 (7 pages)
032503 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Wave-packet isotope separation using phase-locked pulses
J. R. Verlet, V. G. Stavros, and H. H. Fielding
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection QED effects in lithiumlike krypton
S. Madzunkov, E. Lindroth, N. Eklöw, M. Tokman, A. Paál, and R. Schuch
Published 13 February 2002 (12 pages)
032505 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental and theoretical K x-ray spectra of manganese
P. Jonnard, G. Giorgi, and C. Bonnelle
Published 14 February 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron correlation and the eigenvalues of the one-matrix
Garry T. Smith, Hartmut L. Schmider, and Vedene H. Smith
Published 20 February 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Stark transitions in antiprotonic helium
J. E. Russell
Published 20 February 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Improved tensor-product expansions for the two-particle density matrix
Gábor Csányi, Stefan Goedecker, and T. A. Arias
Published 20 February 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Spin dynamics of dense alkali-metal atoms
Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Togo Kojima, Taro Hasegawa, and Yoshihiro Takagi
Published 20 February 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Application of density-functional theory to line broadening: Cs atoms in liquid helium
Takashi Nakatsukasa, Kazuhiro Yabana, and George F. Bertsch
Published 22 February 2002 (6 pages)
032512 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Angle-resolved photoabsorption spectra of core holes with strong spin-orbit interaction: Below the Br 3d thresholds in HBr
R. Püttner, Y.-F. Hu, E. Nõmmiste, G. M. Bancroft, and S. Aksela
Published 27 February 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal use of time-dependent probability density data to extract potential-energy surfaces
Lukas Kurtz, Herschel Rabitz, and Regina de Vivie-Riedle
Published 27 February 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Asymptotically adjusted self-consistent multiplicative parameter exchange-energy-functional method: Application to diatomic molecules
Valentin V. Karasiev and Eduardo V. Ludeña
Published 27 February 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-photon-exchange QED effects in the 1s2s1S and 3S states of heliumlike ions
Björn Åsén, Sten Salomonson, and Ingvar Lindgren
Published 27 February 2002 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection Positronium scattering by atomic hydrogen with inclusion of target excitation channels
Jennifer E. Blackwood, Mary T. McAlinden, and H. R. Walters
Published 27 February 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Analysis of the asymptotic and short-range behavior of quasilocal Hartree-Fock and Dirac-Fock-Coulomb electron-electron interaction potentials
Johannes Neugebauer, Markus Reiher, and Juergen Hinze
Published 1 March 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Fluorescence of low-lying doubly photoexcited states in helium
M. Žitnik, K. Bučar, M. Štuhec, F. Penent, R. I. Hall, and P. Lablanquie
Published 1 March 2002 (12 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Electron-helium scattering within the S-wave model
Chris Plottke, Igor Bray, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Andris T. Stelbovics
Published 30 January 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Quasiclassical theory of dielectronic recombination in plasmas
L. A. Bureyeva, T. Kato, V. S. Lisitsa, and C. Namba
Published 1 February 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Positronium-hydrogen scattering using the stochastic variational method
I. A. Ivanov, J. Mitroy, and K. Varga
Published 5 February 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Use of radiation trapping for measuring electron-impact excitation cross sections for higher resonance levels of rare-gas atoms
M. D. Stewart, J. Ethan Chilton, John B. Boffard, and Chun C. Lin
Published 5 February 2002 (11 pages)
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