Physical Review A – November 2002
(Volume 66, Issue 5)

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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Quantum-information processing in bosonic lattices
Radu Ionicioiu and Paolo Zanardi
Published 7 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Add to article collection Nearly real trajectories in complex semiclassical dynamics
Troy Van Voorhis and Eric J. Heller
Published 4 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Regge poles and residues for singular scattering potentials
C. R. Handy, C. J. Tymczak, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Cold-atom gas at very high densities in an optical surface microtrap
M. Hammes, D. Rychtarik, H.-C. Nägerl, and R. Grimm
Published 14 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Rapid Communication
Add to article collection Simultaneous trapping of rubidium and metastable argon in a magneto-optical trap
C. I. Sukenik and H. C. Busch
Published 15 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Strong-field and plasma aspects of multiphoton radiative recombination
C. Leone, S. Bivona, R. Burlon, and G. Ferrante
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron diffraction in above-threshold ionization of molecules
M. Lein, J. P. Marangos, and P. L. Knight
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Collapse of Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dipole interactions
Pavel M. Lushnikov
Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Thermodynamics of an interacting trapped Bose-Einstein gas in the classical field approximation
Krzysztof Góral, Mariusz Gajda, and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Generalized Bogoliubov transformation for confined fields: Applications for the Casimir effect
J. C. da Silva, F. C. Khanna, A. Matos Neto, and A. E. Santana
Published 12 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Classical aspects of quantum walls in one dimension
Tamás Fülöp, Taksu Cheon, and Izumi Tsutsui
Published 14 November 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Casimir force in absorbing multilayers
M. S. Tomaš
Published 14 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Measurement-based approach to quantum arrival times
J. A. Damborenea, I. L. Egusquiza, G. C. Hegerfeldt, and J. G. Muga
Published 15 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Perturbative approach to non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations
Jay Gambetta and H. M. Wiseman
Published 18 November 2002 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection Weak measurement of arrival time
J. Ruseckas and B. Kaulakys
Published 19 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Measuring energy, estimating Hamiltonians, and the time-energy uncertainty relation
Y. Aharonov, S. Massar, and S. Popescu
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection How entangled pairs act as measuring rods on manifolds of generalized coherent states
Daniel I. Fivel
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Bohm’s interpretation and maximally entangled states
Thomas Durt and Yves Pierseaux
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Dispersion relations between tunneling times
Eran Rosenthal and Bilha Segev
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Generation of phase-covariant quantum cloning
V. Karimipour and A. T. Rezakhani
Published 25 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Bell inequalities resistant to detector inefficiency
Serge Massar, Stefano Pironio, Jérémie Roland, and Bernard Gisin
Published 26 November 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Perspective on semiclassical quantization: How periodic orbits converge to quantizing tori
Shuangbo Yang and Michael E. Kellman
Published 26 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations of spin measurements in two moving inertial frames
Jakub Rembieliński and Kordian Andrzej Smoliński
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Quantum information

Add to article collection Bounds for state-dependent quantum cloning
Yong-Jian Han, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 12 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Information-theoretical meaning of quantum-dynamical entropy
Robert Alicki
Published 13 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Entanglement of two atomic samples by quantum-nondemolition measurements
Antonio Di Lisi and Klaus Mølmer
Published 13 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Entanglement of mesoscopic systems
Heide Narnhofer and Walter Thirring
Published 14 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Demonstration of feed-forward control for linear optics quantum computation
T. B. Pittman, B. C. Jacobs, and J. D. Franson
Published 14 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum gates using linear optics and postselection
E. Knill
Published 14 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum relays and noise suppression using linear optics
B. C. Jacobs, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson
Published 15 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection S-matrix approach to the construction of decoherence-free subspaces
Moshe Shapiro and Paul Brumer
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Multipartite bound entanglement and three-setting Bell inequalities
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, L. C. Kwek, Jingling Chen, and C.h. Oh
Published 18 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Multi-output programmable quantum processor
Yafei Yu, Jian Feng, and Mingsheng Zhan
Published 19 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum gambling using three nonorthogonal states
Won-Young Hwang and Keiji Matsumoto
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Maximal entanglement of squeezed vacuum states via swapping with number-phase measurement
Akira Kitagawa and Katsuji Yamamoto
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Entanglement required in achieving entanglement-assisted channel capacities
Garry Bowen
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Trade-offs in the quantum search algorithm
Lov K. Grover
Published 21 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Structural physical approximations of unphysical maps and generalized quantum measurements
Jaromír Fiurášek
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Communication channels analogous to one out of two oblivious transfers based on quantum uncertainty
Kaoru Shimizu and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 22 November 2002 (15 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoherence slowing down in a symmetry-broken environment
S. Paganelli, F. de Pasquale, and S. M. Giampaolo
Published 22 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Multipartite entanglement for entanglement teleportation
Jinhyoung Lee, Hyegeun Min, and Sung Dahm Oh
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum walks in optical lattices
W. Dür, R. Raussendorf, V. M. Kendon, and H.-J. Briegel
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Fetching marked items from an unsorted database in NMR ensemble computing
L. Xiao and G. L. Long
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Preparing encoded states in an oscillator
B. C. Travaglione and G. J. Milburn
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Natural entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates
Christoph Simon
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantumlike bits and logic gates based on classical oscillators
Yuri F. Orlov
Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Renormalized ladder-type expansions for many-particle propagators
John M. Herbert
Published 12 November 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Expectation values of rq between Dirac and quasirelativistic wave functions in the quantum-defect approximation
L. C. Owono Owono, M. G. Kwato Njock, and B. Oumarou
Published 18 November 2002 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection Measurement of the Stark shift within the 6P1/2-7S1/2 378-nm transition in atomic thallium
S. C. Doret, P. D. Friedberg, A. J. Speck, D. S. Richardson, and P. K. Majumder
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Branching-ratio measurements of multiphoton decays of positronium
P. A. Vetter and S. J. Freedman
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Determination of the Cs2 0g-(P3/2) potential curve and of Cs 6P1/2,3/2 atomic radiative lifetimes from photoassociation spectroscopy
C. Amiot, O. Dulieu, R. F. Gutterres, and F. Masnou-Seeuws
Published 21 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection M1 transition rate in Cl12+ from an electron-beam ion trap and heavy-ion storage ring
E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, G. Gwinner, E. H. Pinnington, and A. Wolf
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental studies of the NaRb ground-state potential up to the v=76 level
O. Docenko, O. Nikolayeva, M. Tamanis, R. Ferber, E. A. Pazyuk, and A. V. Stolyarov
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
052508 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Vibrational and rotational cooling of H3+
H. Kreckel, S. Krohn, L. Lammich, M. Lange, J. Levin, M. Scheffel, D. Schwalm, J. Tennyson, Z. Vager, R. Wester, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Lifetime of 1s2s2p 4P5/2o in V20+ using beam-foil techniques
T. Nandi, P. Marketos, P. Joshi, R.P. Singh, C.P. Safvan, P. Verma, A. Mandal, A. Roy, and R.K. Bhowmik
Published 26 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Relativistic many-body calculations of transition rates from core-excited states in sodiumlike ions
U. I. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, M. S. Safronova, and J. R. Albritton
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
052511 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Multiple ionization of diatomic molecules in collisions with 50–300-keV hydrogen and helium ions
B. Siegmann, U. Werner, Z. Kaliman, Z. Roller-Lutz, N. M. Kabachnik, and H. O. Lutz
Published 1 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Scaling limit of virtual states of triatomic systems
M. T. Yamashita, T. Frederico, A. Delfino, and Lauro Tomio
Published 8 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Influence of the exchange interaction on Ly-α radiation of multicharged ions
A. Devdariani, E. Leboucher-Dalimier, P. Sauvan, and P. Angelo
Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Young-type interference patterns in electron emission spectra produced by impact of swift ions on H2 molecules
M. E. Galassi, R. D. Rivarola, P. D. Fainstein, and N. Stolterfoht
Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages)
052705 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ultrarelativistic limit for the two-electron photoionization cross section
M. Ya. Amusia, E. G. Drukarev, R. Krivec, and V. B. Mandelzweig
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Case study of the Ar9+-He collision system at low velocity
S. Bliman, R. Bruch, M. Cornille, A. Langereis, and J. Nordgren
Published 14 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron-impact ionization of all ionization stages of krypton
S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola, C. P. Ballance, D. C. Griffin, D. M. Mitnik, N. R. Badnell, M. G. O’Mullane, H. P. Summers, and A. D. Whiteford
Published 14 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Molecular three-continuum approximation for ionization of H2 by electron impact
C. R. Stia, O. A. Fojón, P. F. Weck, J. Hanssen, B. Joulakian, and R. D. Rivarola
Published 14 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection High-field measurement of the 129Xe-Rb spin-exchange rate due to binary collisions
Yuan-Yu Jau, Nicholas N. Kuzma, and William Happer
Published 15 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Correlated eikonal initial state in ion-atom collisions
M. F. Ciappina, S. Otranto, and C. R. Garibotti
Published 15 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Near-threshold photodetachment of heavy alkali-metal anions
C. Bahrim, U. Thumm, A. A. Khuskivadze, and I. I. Fabrikant
Published 20 November 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Photodetachment of negative helium ions below and above the 1s ionization threshold: A complex scaled configuration-interaction approach
José Luis Sanz-Vicario, Eva Lindroth, and Nicklas Brandefelt
Published 21 November 2002 (20 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron-hydrogen scattering in the Faddeev-Merkuriev integral-equation approach
Z. Papp and C.-Y. Hu
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Dielectronic recombination for oxygenlike ions relevant to astrophysical applications
M. H. Chen
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Total electron scattering cross sections of CH4, C2H2, C2H4, and C2H6 in the energy range 200–1400 eV
W. M. Ariyasinghe and D. Powers
Published 22 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Inverted potential by the phase-integral method: He-Na elastic scattering
A. Zerarka, Y. Boumedjane, and J. Hans
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Collisional dynamics of ultracold OH molecules in an electrostatic field
Alexandr V. Avdeenkov and John L. Bohn
Published 22 November 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-dependent independent-particle model calculation of multiple capture and ionization processes in p-Ar, p̅ -Ar, and He2+-Ar collisions
T. Kirchner, M. Horbatsch, and H. J. Lüdde
Published 22 November 2002 (12 pages)
052719 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Theory of average charge and energy loss of cluster ions in foils
Toshiaki Kaneko
Published 20 November 2002 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Computer-simulation calculations of the electronic stopping of slow, heavy charges by a classical harmonic oscillator
E. R. Custidiano, F. J. Pérez de la Rosa, and M. M. Jakas
Published 26 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Predicted infrared and Raman spectra for neutral Ti8C12 isomers
Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson, M. L. Lyn, and A. W. Castleman
Published 8 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Multiple plasmons and anharmonic effects in small metallic clusters
L. G. Gerchikov, C. Guet, and A. N. Ipatov
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Ultracold ground-state molecule production in sodium
Fredrik K. Fatemi, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett, and Eite Tiesinga
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Semiclassical analysis of long-wavelength multiphoton processes: The periodically driven harmonic oscillator
Ronald F. Fox and Luz V. Vela-Arevalo
Published 11 November 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Ferromagnetic atom guide with in situ loading
M. Vengalattore, W. Rooijakkers, and M. Prentiss
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Damped Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in optical lattices
A. R. Kolovsky, A. V. Ponomarev, and H. J. Korsch
Published 12 November 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Chaotic scattering from hydrogen atoms in a circularly polarized laser field
Elias Okon, William Parker, Will Chism, and Linda E. Reichl
Published 15 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum control of double ionization of calcium
Maxim Sukharev, Eric Charron, and Annick Suzor-Weiner
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Theoretical studies of the long-range Coulomb potential effect on photoionization by strong lasers
K. Mishima, M. Hayashi, J. Yi, S. H. Lin, H. L. Selzle, and E. W. Schlag
Published 18 November 2002 (10 pages)
053408 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase-dependent interaction in a four-level atomic configuration
Giovanna Morigi, Sonja Franke-Arnold, and Gian-Luca Oppo
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Origin of light-induced states in intense laser fields and their observability in photoelectron spectra
Tomokazu Yasuike and Kiyohiko Someda
Published 19 November 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-color stabilization of atomic hydrogen in circularly polarized laser fields
D. Bauer and F. Ceccherini
Published 19 November 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Photodissociation of H2+ and HD+ in an intense laser field
A. Kondorskiy and H. Nakamura
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Rydberg-atom population transfer by population trapping in a chirped microwave pulse
J. Lambert, Michael W. Noel, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 22 November 2002 (7 pages)
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