• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
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  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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Quantum information

Entanglement-enhanced information transmission over a quantum channel with correlated noise Chiara Macchiavello and G. Massimo Palma Published 17 April 2002 (4 pages) 050301 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum-information processing in strongly detuned optical cavities E. Jané, M. B. Plenio, and D. Jonathan Published 2 May 2002 (4 pages) 050302 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Self-learning estimation of quantum states Th. Hannemann, D. Reiss, Ch. Balzer, W. Neuhauser, P. E. Toschek, and Ch. Wunderlich Published 3 May 2002 (4 pages) 050303 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Comparison of quantum oracles Elham Kashefi, Adrian Kent, Vlatko Vedral, and Konrad Banaszek Published 8 May 2002 (4 pages) 050304 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Minimum-error discrimination between subsets of linearly dependent quantum states Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou Published 9 May 2002 (4 pages) 050305 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Angle-optimized energy-variable method for electron differential cross-section measurements A. Z. Msezane, Z. Felfli, and D. Bessis Published 14 May 2002 (4 pages) 050701 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Cluster calorimetry by femtosecond stimulated emission pumping: Excitation and evaporative cooling of I2-(CO2)n R. Wester, A. V. Davis, A. E. Bragg, and D. M. Neumark Published 22 April 2002 (4 pages) 051201 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Atom reflection in a tapered magnetic guide B. K. Teo and G. Raithel Published 2 May 2002 (4 pages) 051401 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Threshold-related effects in high-order harmonic generation Bogdan Borca, Anthony F. Starace, A. V. Flegel, M. V. Frolov, and N. L. Manakov Published 9 May 2002 (4 pages) 051402 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Three-level system driven by delayed pulses of finite duration Artur Ishkhanyan and Kalle-Antti Suominen Published 13 May 2002 (4 pages) 051403 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Two-body correlations in Bose-Einstein condensates O. Sørensen, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen, and E. Nielsen Published 6 May 2002 (4 pages) 051601 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Efficient frequency up-conversion in resonant coherent media A. S. Zibrov, M. D. Lukin, L. Hollberg, and M. O. Scully Published 24 April 2002 (4 pages) 051801 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Controlling the cavity field with enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in three-level atoms Hai Wang, David Goorskey, and Min Xiao Published 2 May 2002 (4 pages) 051802 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Experimental coherent control of lasers R. Gordon, A. P. Heberle, A. J. Ramsay, and J. R. Cleaver Published 8 May 2002 (4 pages) 051803 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fast scheme for the generation of entangled states of multiple hot trapped ions Shi-Biao Zheng Published 8 May 2002 (4 pages) 051804 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical-wave group-velocity reduction without electromagnetically induced transparency L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, M. Kozuma, and M. G. Payne Published 10 May 2002 (4 pages) 051805 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Finite-precision measurement does not nullify the Kochen-Specker theorem Adán Cabello Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages) 052101 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudopotential approximation in a harmonic trap Martin Block and Martin Holthaus Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages) 052102 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Appearance of classical coherent oscillator states under environment-induced decoherence Kanwarpreet S. Grewal Published 15 April 2002 (6 pages) 052103 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Creation of large-photon-number path entanglement conditioned on photodetection Pieter Kok, Hwang Lee, and Jonathan P. Dowling Published 15 April 2002 (5 pages) 052104 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement and quantal coherence: Study of two limiting cases of rapid system-bath interactions Nicole F. Bell, R. F. Sawyer, and Raymond R. Volkas Published 16 April 2002 (12 pages) 052105 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hierarchy of local minimum solutions of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle David K. Hoffman and Donald J. Kouri Published 16 April 2002 (13 pages) 052106 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbation theory for quantum-mechanical observables J. D. Franson and Michelle M. Donegan Published 17 April 2002 (8 pages) 052107 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical quantization for the spherically symmetric systems under an Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux W. F. Kao, P. G. Luan, and D. H. Lin Published 17 April 2002 (10 pages) 052108 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dimensional enhancement of kinetic energies W. P. Schleich and J. P. Dahl Published 18 April 2002 (6 pages) 052109 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localization and diffusion in Ising-type quantum networks P. Törmä, I. Jex, and W. P. Schleich Published 23 April 2002 (7 pages) 052110 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of off-diagonal geometric phases in polarized-neutron-interferometer experiments Y. Hasegawa, R. Loidl, G. Badurek, M. Baron, N. Manini, F. Pistolesi, and H. Rauch Published 24 April 2002 (10 pages) 052111 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four qubits can be entangled in nine different ways F. Verstraete, J. Dehaene, B. De Moor, and H. Verschelde Published 25 April 2002 (5 pages) 052112 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamical aspects of the Casimir force between real metals at nonzero temperature V. B. Bezerra, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko Published 26 April 2002 (7 pages) 052113 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proposed demonstration of the Einstein-Poldosky-Rosen paradox using trapped electrons Ana M. Martins Published 2 May 2002 (6 pages) 052114 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reevaluation of the role of nuclear uncertainties in experiments on atomic parity violation with isotopic chains Andrei Derevianko and Sergey G. Porsev Published 6 May 2002 (5 pages) 052115 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How macroscopic properties dictate microscopic probabilities Yakir Aharonov and Benni Reznik Published 7 May 2002 (4 pages) 052116 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model for dissipative quantum dynamics and nonlinear coupling: Lennard-Jones potential Mathias Nest Published 8 May 2002 (5 pages) 052117 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Existence of the quantum action H. Kröger Published 8 May 2002 (7 pages) 052118 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence, irreversibility, and selection by decoherence of exclusive quantum states with definite probabilities Roland Omnès Published 8 May 2002 (18 pages) 052119 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear coupling mechanism in a quantum system Jing-Dong Bao Published 8 May 2002 (8 pages) 052120 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniqueness of the solution of the contracted Schrödinger equation Koji Yasuda Published 9 May 2002 (11 pages) 052121 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inverse Schrödinger equation and the exact wave function Hiroshi Nakatsuji Published 10 May 2002 (15 pages) 052122 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalized path integral for the two-dimensional δ-function interaction Horacio E. Camblong and Carlos R. Ordóñez Published 17 May 2002 (11 pages) 052123 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superoscillations and tunneling times Yakir Aharonov, Noam Erez, and Benni Reznik Published 17 May 2002 (5 pages) 052124 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Operation of a quantum phase gate using neutral atoms in microscopic dipole traps I. E. Protsenko, G. Reymond, N. Schlosser, and P. Grangier Published 15 April 2002 (14 pages) 052301 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of entanglement monotones for three-qubit pure states R. M. Gingrich Published 15 April 2002 (7 pages) 052302 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some analogies between quantum cloning and quantum deleting Daowen Qiu Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages) 052303 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuous measurement of entangled qubits Alexander N. Korotkov Published 15 April 2002 (5 pages) 052304 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exponential lower bound on the highest fidelity achievable by quantum error-correcting codes Mitsuru Hamada Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages) 052305 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization squeezing and continuous-variable polarization entanglement Natalia Korolkova, Gerd Leuchs, Rodney Loudon, Timothy C. Ralph, and Christine Silberhorn Published 17 April 2002 (12 pages) 052306 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle reduced density matrix and a useful kind of entangled state for quantum teleportation Jin-yan Zeng, Hong-bo Zhu, and Shou-yong Pei Published 17 April 2002 (11 pages) 052307 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimum-error discrimination between three mirror-symmetric states Erika Andersson, Stephen M. Barnett, Claire R. Gilson, and Kieran Hunter Published 19 April 2002 (4 pages) 052308 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalable architecture for spin-based quantum computers with a single type of gate Dieter Suter and Kyungwon Lim Published 24 April 2002 (5 pages) 052309 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Security of quantum key distribution with entangled photons against individual attacks Edo Waks, Assaf Zeevi, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto Published 25 April 2002 (16 pages) 052310 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probabilistic deletion of copies of linearly independent quantum states Jian Feng, Yun-Feng Gao, Ji-Suo Wang, and Ming-Sheng Zhan Published 25 April 2002 (5 pages) 052311 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generic quantum block compression John Langford Published 2 May 2002 (4 pages) 052312 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum teleportation with close-to-maximal entanglement from a beam splitter Ngoc-Khanh Tran and Olivier Pfister Published 2 May 2002 (9 pages) 052313 [View PDF (777 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum operations, state transformations and probabilities Anthony Chefles Published 3 May 2002 (9 pages) 052314 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classification of nonasymptotic bipartite pure-state entanglement transformations Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Ujjwal Sen Published 3 May 2002 (4 pages) 052315 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum encodings in spin systems and harmonic oscillators Stephen D. Bartlett, Hubert de Guise, and Barry C. Sanders Published 3 May 2002 (4 pages) 052316 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lorentz-invariant look at quantum clock-synchronization protocols based on distributed entanglement Ulvi Yurtsever and Jonathan P. Dowling Published 6 May 2002 (6 pages) 052317 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local transformation of mixed states of two qubits to Bell diagonal states Li-Xiang Cen, Nan-Jian Wu, Fu-Hua Yang, and Jun-Hong An Published 6 May 2002 (6 pages) 052318 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement purification in cavity QED using local operations J. L. Romero, L. Roa, J. C. Retamal, and C. Saavedra Published 7 May 2002 (9 pages) 052319 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noisy quantum game Jing-Ling Chen, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh Published 7 May 2002 (6 pages) 052320 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified Grover’s algorithm for an expectation-value quantum computer David Collins Published 7 May 2002 (8 pages) 052321 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General SU(2) formulation for quantum searching with certainty Jin-Yuan Hsieh and Che-Ming Li Published 7 May 2002 (4 pages) 052322 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadditive information measure and quantum entanglement in a class of mixed states of an Nn system Sumiyoshi Abe Published 8 May 2002 (6 pages) 052323 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cavity QED implementation of the discrete quantum Fourier transform Marlan O. Scully and M. Suhail Zubairy Published 8 May 2002 (4 pages) 052324 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum nonlocality in two three-level systems A. Acín, T. Durt, N. Gisin, and J. I. Latorre Published 8 May 2002 (8 pages) 052325 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum identification schemes with entanglements Takashi Mihara Published 8 May 2002 (4 pages) 052326 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Robustness of multiparty entanglement Christoph Simon and Julia Kempe Published 9 May 2002 (4 pages) 052327 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Backwards-induction outcome in a quantum game A. Iqbal and A. H. Toor Published 13 May 2002 (8 pages) 052328 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Combinations of probabilistic and approximate quantum cloning and deleting Daowen Qiu Published 13 May 2002 (5 pages) 052329 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact gate sequences for universal quantum computation using the XY interaction alone J. Kempe and K. B. Whaley Published 14 May 2002 (6 pages) 052330 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum key distribution for d-level systems with generalized Bell states Vahid Karimipour, Alireza Bahraminasab, and Saber Bagherinezhad Published 14 May 2002 (7 pages) 052331 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Kilohertz-resolution spectroscopy of the 2S1/2-2F7/2 electric octupole transition in a single 171Yb+ ion S. A. Webster, P. Taylor, M. Roberts, G. P. Barwood, and P. Gill Published 15 April 2002 (9 pages) 052501 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence lifetime measurements and theoretical transition probabilities in Tb III E. Biémont, H. P. Garnir, P. Quinet, S. Svanberg, and Z. G. Zhang Published 18 April 2002 (7 pages) 052502 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of excited OCS investigated by resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization Hong-Ping Liu, Jian-Yang Zhang, Shu-Hui Ying, Da-Li Xu, Bo Jiang, Li Wang, and Nan-Quan Lou Published 19 April 2002 (5 pages) 052503 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional approach to obtaining excited states: Study of some open-shell atomic systems Manoj K. Harbola Published 23 April 2002 (6 pages) 052504 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic effects in the pseudorotational motion of triatomic molecules Frank Hagelberg and Erik Deumens Published 29 April 2002 (11 pages) 052505 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Undulations in potential curves analyzed using the Fermi model: LiH, LiHe, LiNe, and H2 examples A. S. Dickinson and F. X. Gadéa Published 6 May 2002 (11 pages) 052506 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grassmann products, cumulants, and two-electron reduced density matrices John E. Harriman Published 6 May 2002 (9 pages) 052507 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional calculations on singly and doubly excited Rydberg states of many-electron atoms Amlan K. Roy and Shih-I Chu Published 7 May 2002 (9 pages) 052508 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear polarization in hydrogenlike 82208Pb81+ Akihiro Haga, Yataro Horikawa, and Yasutoshi Tanaka Published 8 May 2002 (11 pages) 052509 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state atomic ionization energies for Z=2–18 and up to 18 electrons Neng Wu Zheng, Tao Zhou, Tao Wang, Ru Yi Yang, Yu Jie Sun, Feng Wang, and Chao Guang Chen Published 9 May 2002 (5 pages) 052510 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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“Hidden” vibrations in CO: Reinvestigation of resonant Auger decay for the C 1s→π* excitation R. Feifel, L. Karlsson, M.-N. Piancastelli, R. F. Fink, M. Bässler, O. Björneholm, K. Wiesner, C. Miron, H. Wang, A. Giertz, S. L. Sorensen, A. Naves de Brito, and S. Svensson Published 15 April 2002 (8 pages) 052701 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic photoionization cross sections for C II Sultana N. Nahar Published 15 April 2002 (5 pages) 052702 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization of core electrons Mattias N. Wohlfarth and Lorenz S. Cederbaum Published 16 April 2002 (15 pages) 052703 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Comprehensive theoretical and experimental analysis of Coster-Kronig electron spectra from 64-MeV S12+ ions excited through He gas and C-foil targets M. Sataka, M. Imai, K. Kawatsura, K. Komaki, H. Tawara, A. Vasilyev, and U. I. Safronova Published 16 April 2002 (11 pages) 052704 [View PDF (750 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Applicability of a nonrelativistic asymptotic description of high-energy photoionization N. B. Avdonina, E. G. Drukarev, and R. H. Pratt Published 18 April 2002 (6 pages) 052705 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron excitation during inner-shell ionization Takeshi Mukoyama and Masayuki Uda Published 18 April 2002 (4 pages) 052706 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	L-shell ionization study of indium, tin, and rhenium by low-energy electron impact Changhuan Tang, Zhengming Luo, Zhu An, Fuqing He, Xiufeng Peng, and Xianguan Long Published 18 April 2002 (6 pages) 052707 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum coupling in one-dimensional scattering using a transformed harmonic oscillator basis I. Martel, F. Pérez-Bernal, M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, J. M. Arias, and J. Gómez-Camacho Published 24 April 2002 (8 pages) 052708 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell corrections in stopping powers H. Bichsel Published 24 April 2002 (11 pages) 052709 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence of the Siegert-pseudostate and Lagrange-mesh R-matrix methods D. Baye, J. Goldbeter, and J.-M. Sparenberg Published 30 April 2002 (9 pages) 052710 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Absolute cross sections for near-threshold electron-impact excitation of the dipole-allowed transitions 3s2 1S→3s3p 1P in Cl5+ and 3s 2S→3p 2P in Cl6+ N. Djurić, M. E. Bannister, A. M. Derkatch, D. C. Griffin, H. F. Krause, D. B. Popović, A. C. Smith, B. Wallbank, and G. H. Dunn Published 2 May 2002 (7 pages) 052711 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field effects in ultracold molecular collisions Alessandro Volpi and John L. Bohn Published 2 May 2002 (8 pages) 052712 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computing the exchange interaction in electron scattering from polyatomic molecules P. C̆arsky, R. C̆urik, F. A. Gianturco, R. R. Lucchese, and M. Polasek Published 2 May 2002 (8 pages) 052713 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Capture of negative muons and antiprotons by noble-gas atoms James S. Cohen Published 3 May 2002 (7 pages) 052714 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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