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Physical Review A – November 2002
Volume 66, Issue 5

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Quantum information

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Quantum-information processing in bosonic lattices
Radu Ionicioiu and Paolo Zanardi
Published 7 November 2002 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (124 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Nearly real trajectories in complex semiclassical dynamics
Troy Van Voorhis and Eric J. Heller
Published 4 November 2002 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Regge poles and residues for singular scattering potentials
C. R. Handy, C. J. Tymczak, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)
051401(R) [View PDF (103 kB)]
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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)
051402(R) [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Strong-field and plasma aspects of multiphoton radiative recombination
C. Leone, S. Bivona, R. Burlon, and G. Ferrante
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
051403(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Electron diffraction in above-threshold ionization of molecules
M. Lein, J. P. Marangos, and P. L. Knight
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
051404(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]

Matter waves

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Collapse of Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dipole interactions
Pavel M. Lushnikov
Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages)
051601(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]
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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)
051602(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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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)
052101 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Classical aspects of quantum walls in one dimension
Tamás Fülöp, Taksu Cheon, and Izumi Tsutsui
Published 14 November 2002 (10 pages)
052102 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Casimir force in absorbing multilayers
M. S. Tomaš
Published 14 November 2002 (7 pages)
052103 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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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)
052104 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Perturbative approach to non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations
Jay Gambetta and H. M. Wiseman
Published 18 November 2002 (16 pages)
052105 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Weak measurement of arrival time
J. Ruseckas and B. Kaulakys
Published 19 November 2002 (6 pages)
052106 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Measuring energy, estimating Hamiltonians, and the time-energy uncertainty relation
Y. Aharonov, S. Massar, and S. Popescu
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
052107 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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How entangled pairs act as measuring rods on manifolds of generalized coherent states
Daniel I. Fivel
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052108 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Bohm’s interpretation and maximally entangled states
Thomas Durt and Yves Pierseaux
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
052109 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dispersion relations between tunneling times
Eran Rosenthal and Bilha Segev
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
052110 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Generation of phase-covariant quantum cloning
V. Karimipour and A. T. Rezakhani
Published 25 November 2002 (6 pages)
052111 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Bell inequalities resistant to detector inefficiency
Serge Massar, Stefano Pironio, Jérémie Roland, and Bernard Gisin
Published 26 November 2002 (12 pages)
052112 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Perspective on semiclassical quantization: How periodic orbits converge to quantizing tori
Shuangbo Yang and Michael E. Kellman
Published 26 November 2002 (11 pages)
052113 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations of spin measurements in two moving inertial frames
Jakub Rembieliński and Kordian Andrzej Smoliński
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
052114 [View PDF (220 kB)]

Quantum information

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Bounds for state-dependent quantum cloning
Yong-Jian Han, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 12 November 2002 (6 pages)
052301 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Information-theoretical meaning of quantum-dynamical entropy
Robert Alicki
Published 13 November 2002 (6 pages)
052302 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Entanglement of two atomic samples by quantum-nondemolition measurements
Antonio Di Lisi and Klaus Mølmer
Published 13 November 2002 (7 pages)
052303 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Entanglement of mesoscopic systems
Heide Narnhofer and Walter Thirring
Published 14 November 2002 (8 pages)
052304 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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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)
052305 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Quantum gates using linear optics and postselection
E. Knill
Published 14 November 2002 (5 pages)
052306 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Quantum relays and noise suppression using linear optics
B. C. Jacobs, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson
Published 15 November 2002 (6 pages)
052307 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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S-matrix approach to the construction of decoherence-free subspaces
Moshe Shapiro and Paul Brumer
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
052308 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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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)
052309 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Multi-output programmable quantum processor
Yafei Yu, Jian Feng, and Mingsheng Zhan
Published 19 November 2002 (5 pages)
052310 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Quantum gambling using three nonorthogonal states
Won-Young Hwang and Keiji Matsumoto
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
052311 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Maximal entanglement of squeezed vacuum states via swapping with number-phase measurement
Akira Kitagawa and Katsuji Yamamoto
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
052312 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Entanglement required in achieving entanglement-assisted channel capacities
Garry Bowen
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
052313 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Trade-offs in the quantum search algorithm
Lov K. Grover
Published 21 November 2002 (5 pages)
052314 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Structural physical approximations of unphysical maps and generalized quantum measurements
Jaromír Fiurášek
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052315 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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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)
052316 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Decoherence slowing down in a symmetry-broken environment
S. Paganelli, F. de Pasquale, and S. M. Giampaolo
Published 22 November 2002 (6 pages)
052317 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Multipartite entanglement for entanglement teleportation
Jinhyoung Lee, Hyegeun Min, and Sung Dahm Oh
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052318 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Quantum walks in optical lattices
W. Dür, R. Raussendorf, V. M. Kendon, and H.-J. Briegel
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
052319 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Fetching marked items from an unsorted database in NMR ensemble computing
L. Xiao and G. L. Long
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052320 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Chains of quasiclassical information for bipartite correlations and the role of twin observables
Fedor Herbut
Published 22 November 2002 (6 pages)
052321 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Preparing encoded states in an oscillator
B. C. Travaglione and G. J. Milburn
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052322 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Natural entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates
Christoph Simon
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
052323 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Quantumlike bits and logic gates based on classical oscillators
Yuri F. Orlov
Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages)
052324 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Mixed configuration-interaction and many-body perturbation-theory calculations of energies and oscillator strengths of J=1 odd states of neon
I. M. Savukov, W. R. Johnson, and H. G. Berry
Published 11 November 2002 (5 pages)
052501 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Renormalized ladder-type expansions for many-particle propagators
John M. Herbert
Published 12 November 2002 (12 pages)
052502 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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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)
052503 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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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)
052504 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Branching-ratio measurements of multiphoton decays of positronium
P. A. Vetter and S. J. Freedman
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
052505 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Determination of the Cs20g-(P3/2) potential curve and of Cs6P1/2,3/2 atomic radiative lifetimes from photoassociation spectroscopy
C. Amiot, O. Dulieu, R. F. Gutterres, and F. Masnou-Seeuws
Published 21 November 2002 (9 pages)
052506 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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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)
052507 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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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)]
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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)
052509 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Lifetime of 1s2s2p4P5/2o 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)
052510 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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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)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)
052701 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Scaling limit of virtual states of triatomic systems
M. T. Yamashita, T. Frederico, A. Delfino, and Lauro Tomio
Published 8 November 2002 (7 pages)
052702 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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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)
052703 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Resonance structures in the multichannel quantum-defect theory for the photofragmentation processes involving one closed and many open channels
Chun-Woo Lee
Published 12 November 2002 (7 pages)
052704 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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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)]
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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)
052706 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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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)
052707 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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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)
052708 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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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)
052709 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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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)
052710 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Correlated eikonal initial state in ion-atom collisions
M. F. Ciappina, S. Otranto, and C. R. Garibotti
Published 15 November 2002 (5 pages)
052711 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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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)
052712 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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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)
052713 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Electron-hydrogen scattering in the Faddeev-Merkuriev integral-equation approach
Z. Papp and C.-Y. Hu
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
052714 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination for oxygenlike ions relevant to astrophysical applications
M. H. Chen
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
052715 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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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)
052716 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Inverted potential by the phase-integral method: He-Na elastic scattering
A. Zerarka, Y. Boumedjane, and J. Hans
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
052717 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Collisional dynamics of ultracold OH molecules in an electrostatic field
Alexandr V. Avdeenkov and John L. Bohn
Published 22 November 2002 (10 pages)
052718 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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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)]
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Contributions to the generalized oscillator strength for the inner-shell C 1s⃗3sσg transition in CO2 from the vibronic coupling mechanism
Alexandre B. Rocha and Carlos E. Bielschowsky
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
052720 [View PDF (50 kB)]

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

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Theory of average charge and energy loss of cluster ions in foils
Toshiaki Kaneko
Published 20 November 2002 (13 pages)
052901 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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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)
052902 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Predicted infrared and Raman spectra for neutral Ti8C12 isomers
Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson, M. L. Lyn, and A. W. Castleman, Jr.
Published 8 November 2002 (6 pages)
053201 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Multiple plasmons and anharmonic effects in small metallic clusters
L. G. Gerchikov, C. Guet, and A. N. Ipatov
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
053202 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)
053401 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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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)
053402 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic atom guide with in situ loading
M. Vengalattore, W. Rooijakkers, and M. Prentiss
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
053403 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Two-color pulsed laser excitation of dipolar molecules: Absolute laser carrier-phase effects
Alex Brown
Published 12 November 2002 (10 pages)
053404 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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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)
053405 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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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)
053406 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Quantum control of double ionization of calcium
Maxim Sukharev, Eric Charron, and Annick Suzor-Weiner
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
053407 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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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 (252 kB)]
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Phase-dependent interaction in a four-level atomic configuration
Giovanna Morigi, Sonja Franke-Arnold, and Gian-Luca Oppo
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
053409 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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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)
053410 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Two-color stabilization of atomic hydrogen in circularly polarized laser fields
D. Bauer and F. Ceccherini
Published 19 November 2002 (11 pages)
053411 [View PDF (721 kB)]
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Photodissociation of H2+ and HD+ in an intense laser field
A. Kondorskiy and H. Nakamura
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
053412 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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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)
053413 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Theory of phase characterization of harmonics through interference with the fundamental
M. G. Makris, L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, and P. Lambropoulos
Published 22 November 2002 (7 pages)
053414 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Ion momentum distributions for He single and double ionization in strong laser fields
J. Chen and C. H. Nam
Published 25 November 2002 (7 pages)
053415 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Microwave ionization of alkali-metal Rydberg states in a realistic numerical experiment
Andreas Krug and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 26 November 2002 (10 pages)
053416 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Matter waves

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Wave-function recombination instability in cold-atom interferometers
James A. Stickney and Alex A. Zozulya
Published 8 November 2002 (5 pages)
053601 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Equivalent linear two-body method for Bose-Einstein condensates in time-dependent harmonic traps
Yeong E. Kim and Alexander L. Zubarev
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
053602 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensates in strong electric fields: Effective gauge potentials and rotating states
J. M. Kailasvuori, T. H. Hansson, and G. M. Kavoulakis
Published 11 November 2002 (5 pages)
053603 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Coreless vortex ground state of the rotating spinor condensate
J.-P. Martikainen, A. Collin, and K.-A. Suominen
Published 11 November 2002 (6 pages)
053604 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Reflection of matter waves in potential structures
Markku Jääskeläinen and Stig Stenholm
Published 11 November 2002 (8 pages)
053605 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Giant hole and circular superflow in a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Kenichi Kasamatsu, Makoto Tsubota, and Masahito Ueda
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
053606 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics of boson lattice models
Anatoli Polkovnikov, Subir Sachdev, and S. M. Girvin
Published 12 November 2002 (17 pages)
053607 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Interaction of dark solitons with localized impurities in Bose-Einstein condensates
Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis, G. Theocharis, F. K. Diakonos, Peter Schmelcher, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 12 November 2002 (9 pages)
053608 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Focusing of atoms with spatially localized light pulses
Lars Egil Helseth
Published 12 November 2002 (5 pages)
053609 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Axisymmetric versus nonaxisymmetric vortices in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
T. Mizushima, K. Machida, and T. Kita
Published 12 November 2002 (8 pages)
053610 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of a trapped interacting Bose-Fermi gas mixture
Yong-li Ma and Siu-Tat Chui
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
053611 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates: Crossover to lower dimensionality
Kunal K. Das
Published 14 November 2002 (7 pages)
053612 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Fermionization of a bosonic gas under highly elongated confinement: A diffusion quantum Monte Carlo study
D. Blume
Published 15 November 2002 (8 pages)
053613 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the three- to one-dimensional crossover for a trapped Bose gas
G. E. Astrakharchik and S. Giorgini
Published 15 November 2002 (6 pages)
053614 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Floquet analysis of atom-optics tunneling experiments
Robert Luter and L. E. Reichl
Published 18 November 2002 (5 pages)
053615 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Effect of cold collisions on spin coherence and resonance shifts in a magnetically trapped ultracold gas
D. M. Harber, H. J. Lewandowski, J. M. McGuirk, and E. A. Cornell
Published 22 November 2002 (6 pages)
053616 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Imaging population distribution between two coupled atomic Bose-Einstein condensates by using short laser pulses
Aranyabhuti Bhattacherjee and Man Mohan
Published 25 November 2002 (6 pages)
053617 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Simulations of thermal Bose fields in the classical limit
M. J. Davis, S. A. Morgan, and K. Burnett
Published 25 November 2002 (15 pages)
053618 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Loading a Bose-Einstein condensate onto an optical lattice: An application of optimal control theory to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Shlomo E. Sklarz and David J. Tannor
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
053619 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Flat-phase loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice
Shlomo E. Sklarz, Inbal Friedler, David J. Tannor, Yehuda B. Band, and Carl J. Williams
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
053620 [View PDF (632 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Application of quantum inequalities to quantum optics
Piotr Marecki
Published 1 November 2002 (8 pages)
053801 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Transverse mode dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Spatiotemporal versus modal expansion descriptions
Josep Mulet and Salvador Balle
Published 5 November 2002 (8 pages)
053802 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Measurement of angular distribution of radiation from dye molecules coupled to evanescent wave
Hyun Ho Choi, Hyoung Joo Kim, Jaewoo Noh, Chang-Woo Lee, and Wonho Jhe
Published 8 November 2002 (7 pages)
053803 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Anomalous dispersion of transparent atomic two- and three-level ensembles
A. Rocco, A. Wicht, R.-H. Rinkleff, and K. Danzmann
Published 11 November 2002 (5 pages)
053804 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Tailoring single-photon and multiphoton probabilities of a single-photon on-demand source
A. L. Migdall, D. Branning, and S. Castelletto
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
053805 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Stochastic initiation of superradiance in a cavity: Decoherence through pseudospin exchange
Hyunchul Nha and H. J. Carmichael
Published 14 November 2002 (6 pages)
053806 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Two-atom spontaneous emission in a planar microcavity
Kikuo Ujihara and Ho Trung Dung
Published 14 November 2002 (10 pages)
053807 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Theory of excess noise in unstable resonator lasers
C. Lamprecht and H. Ritsch
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
053808 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Pulse-mode quantum projection synthesis: Effects of mode mismatch on optical state truncation and preparation
Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 19 November 2002 (12 pages)
053809 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Spatial antibunching of photons with parametric down-conversion
W. A. T. Nogueira, S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken
Published 19 November 2002 (5 pages)
053810 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Optimal quantum control in nanostructures: Theory and application to a generic three-level system
Alfio Borzì, Georg Stadler, and Ulrich Hohenester
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
053811 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Observation of laser transverse modes analogous to a SU(2) wave packet of a quantum harmonic oscillator
Y. F. Chen and Y. P. Lan
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
053812 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Mode structure and photon number correlations in squeezed quantum pulses
T. Opatrný, N. Korolkova, and G. Leuchs
Published 22 November 2002 (14 pages)
053813 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Correlation spectroscopy of excitons and biexcitons on a single quantum dot
Valéry Zwiller, Per Jonsson, Hans Blom, Sören Jeppesen, Mats-Erik Pistol, Lars Samuelson, A. A. Katznelson, E. Yu. Kotelnikov, Vadim Evtikhiev, and Gunnar Björk
Published 22 November 2002 (7 pages)
053814 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Improved measurement of multimode squeezed light via an eigenmode approach
Ryan S. Bennink and Robert W. Boyd
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
053815 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Quantum-interference effects on the index of refraction in an Er3+-doped yttrium aluminum garnet crystal
Hui-Fang Zhang, Jin-Hui Wu, Xue-Mei Su, and Jin-Yue Gao
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
053816 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Transverse-mode dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with optical feedback
M. S. Torre, C. Masoller, and Paul Mandel
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
053817 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Rate-equation approach to atomic-laser light statistics
Laurent Chusseau, Jacques Arnaud, and Fabrice Philippe
Published 26 November 2002 (7 pages)
053818 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Targeting steady states in a laser
Bernard Ségard, Sophie Matton, and Pierre Glorieux
Published 26 November 2002 (5 pages)
053819 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Coherent phase locking, collective oscillations, and stability in coupled vertical-cavity-surface emitting laser arrays
S. Riyopoulos
Published 26 November 2002 (17 pages)
053820 [View PDF (1,028 kB)]
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Dark propagation modes in optical lattices
M. Schiavoni, L. Sanchez-Palencia, F.-R. Carminati, F. Renzoni, and G. Grynberg
Published 26 November 2002 (5 pages)
053821 [View PDF (79 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

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Simulation of chaos-assisted tunneling in a semiclassical regime on existing quantum computers
A. D. Chepelianskii and D. L. Shepelyansky
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
054301 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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More efficient entanglement purification
Nasser Metwally
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Quantum computing with trapped ions in an optical cavity via Raman transition
Mang Feng
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
054303 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Complete functional theory for the fermion density of independent particles subject to harmonic confinement in d dimensions for an arbitrary number of closed shells
I. A. Howard, N. H. March, and L. M. Nieto
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Zero- and negative-energy solutions of the coupled T-matrix equations: Application to positronium-hydrogen singlet scattering
P. K. Biswas, T. Frederico, and J. S. E. Germano
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
054701 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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D-wave resonances in positronium hydride
Joseph DiRienzi and Richard J. Drachman
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
054702 [View PDF (49 kB)]

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

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Nonlinear effects in the energy loss of a slow dipole in a free-electron gas
M. Alducin, R. Díez Muiño, J. I. Juaristi, and P. M. Echenique
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
054901 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Matter waves

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Temperature dependence of density profiles for a cloud of noninteracting fermions moving inside a harmonic trap in one dimension
Z. Akdeniz, P. Vignolo, A. Minguzzi, and M. P. Tosi
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
055601 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Self-organized patterns and spatial solitons in liquid-crystal microcavities
S. Hoogland, J. J. Baumberg, S. Coyle, J. Baggett, M. J. Coles, and H. J. Coles
Published 8 November 2002 (4 pages)
055801 [View PDF (675 kB)]
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Frequency modulation and pulse compression by coherent multimode molecular motion
Fam Le Kien, K. Hakuta, and A. V. Sokolov
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
055802 [View PDF (65 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum search protocol for an atomic array’ ”
Marlan O. Scully and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 7 November 2002 (2 pages)
056301 [View PDF (27 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Fidelity of a t-error-correcting quantum code with more than t errors [Phys. Rev. A 64, 022314 (2001)]
Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Published 5 November 2002 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Low-dimensional Bose gases [Phys. Rev. A 66, 013615 (2002)]
U. Al Khawaja, J. O. Andersen, N. P. Proukakis, and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 21 November 2002 (2 pages)
059902(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Analytical local electron-electron interaction model potentials for atoms [Phys. Rev. A 66, 022717 (2002)]
Johannes Neugebauer, Markus Reiher, and Juergen Hinze
Published 26 November 2002 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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