Physical Review A – December 2002
(Volume 66, Issue 6)

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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Efficient transfer of coherence through Ising spin chains
Navin Khaneja and Steffen J. Glaser
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum-information processing and multiatom-entanglement engineering with a thermal cavity
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 20 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Angular distributions of the atomic scandium 3d and 4s photoelectrons in the region of the 3p→3d giant resonance
S. B. Whitfield, T. Myers, M. Bjelland, R. Wehlitz, J. Jiménez-Mier, P. Olalde-Velasco, and M. O. Krause
Published 5 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Interference between dissociating states in H2O2 and HOCl causes orientation of OH diatomic products
Andrew J. Alexander
Published 26 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection High-order harmonic cutoff extension of the O2 molecule due to ionization suppression
Bing Shan, Xiao-Min Tong, Zengxiu Zhao, Zenghu Chang, and C. D. Lin
Published 6 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Origin of correlated electron emission in double ionization of atoms
S. L. Haan, P. S. Wheeler, R. Panfili, and J. H. Eberly
Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Saturation in heteronuclear photoassociation of 6Li7Li
U. Schlöder, C. Silber, T. Deuschle, and C. Zimmermann
Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with many vortices
T. Kita, T. Mizushima, and K. Machida
Published 18 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonlinear atom optics with bright matter-wave soliton trains
V. Y. Leung, A. G. Truscott, and K. G. Baldwin
Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Consistent resolution of some relativistic quantum paradoxes
Robert B. Griffiths
Published 5 December 2002 (21 pages)
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Add to article collection Magnetic Casimir effect
G. Metalidis and P. Bruno
Published 5 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Bohr’s correspondence principle: The cases for which it is exact
Adam J. Makowski and Katarzyna J. Górska
Published 6 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Inequalities that test locality in quantum mechanics
Dennis Dieks
Published 6 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Solution of the relativistic Dirac-Woods-Saxon problem
Guo Jian-You, Fang Xiang Zheng, and Xu Fu-Xin
Published 6 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Focusing vacuum fluctuations. II
L. H. Ford and N. F. Svaiter
Published 10 December 2002 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantitative conditional quantum erasure in two-atom resonance fluorescence
Matthias Jakob and János Bergou
Published 12 December 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum-information entropies for highly excited states of single-particle systems with power-type potentials
J. S. Dehesa, A. Martínez-Finkelshtein, and V. N. Sorokin
Published 20 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-reversal-violating rotation of a polarization plane of light in gas placed in an electric field
V. G. Baryshevsky and D. N. Matsukevich
Published 30 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Conditions for compatibility of quantum-state assignments
Carlton M. Caves, Christopher A. Fuchs, and Rüdiger Schack
Published 31 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Correlation of energy and free energy for the thermal Casimir force between real metals
V. B. Bezerra, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 31 December 2002 (13 pages)
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Quantum information

Add to article collection Grover’s quantum search algorithm for an arbitrary initial mixed state
Eli Biham and Dan Kenigsberg
Published 4 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Cyclical quantum memory for photonic qubits
T. B. Pittman and J. D. Franson
Published 5 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Lossy purification and detection of entangled coherent states
J. Clausen, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
Published 6 December 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental investigation of the robustness of partially entangled qubits over 11 km
R. T. Thew, S. Tanzilli, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
Published 6 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Detection of entanglement with few local measurements
O. Gühne, P. Hyllus, D. Bruß, A. Ekert, M. Lewenstein, C. Macchiavello, and A. Sanpera
Published 9 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Conditional quantum logic using two atomic qubits
I. E. Protsenko, G. Reymond, N. Schlosser, and P. Grangier
Published 9 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum homogenization for continuous variables: Realization with linear optical elements
Daniel Nagaj, Peter Štelmachovič, Vladimír Bužek, and Myungshik Kim
Published 9 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-bin entangled qubits for quantum communication created by femtosecond pulses
I. Marcikic, H. de Riedmatten, W. Tittel, V. Scarani, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
Published 10 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Realization of symmetric sharing of entanglement in semiconductor microcrystallites coupled by a cavity field
Yu-xi Liu, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 12 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Bounds on entanglement in qudit subsystems
Vivien M. Kendon, Karol Życzkowski, and William J. Munro
Published 12 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Largest separable balls around the maximally mixed bipartite quantum state
Leonid Gurvits and Howard Barnum
Published 12 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Teleportation via thermally entangled states of a two-qubit Heisenberg XX chain
Ye Yeo
Published 20 December 2002 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Lower bound on inconclusive probability of unambiguous discrimination
Yuan Feng, Shengyu Zhang, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 20 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Universal quantum logic from Zeeman and anisotropic exchange interactions
Lian-Ao Wu and Daniel A. Lidar
Published 20 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental preparation of the Werner state via spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Yong-Sheng Zhang, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 26 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm for three-qubit functions using pure coherent molecular superpositions
Jiri Vala, Zohar Amitay, Bo Zhang, Stephen R. Leone, and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 26 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection General-purpose parallel simulator for quantum computing
Jumpei Niwa, Keiji Matsumoto, and Hiroshi Imai
Published 30 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Functional Bell inequalities can serve as a stronger entanglement witness than conventional Bell inequalities
Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Marek Żukowski
Published 30 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection General impossible operations in quantum information
Arun K. Pati
Published 30 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Macroscopic entanglement jumps in model spin systems
Indrani Bose and Emily Chattopadhyay
Published 31 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Characterization of nonlocal gates
K. Hammerer, G. Vidal, and J. I. Cirac
Published 31 December 2002 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Implementation schemes in NMR of quantum processors and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm by using virtual spin representation
Alexander R. Kessel and Natalia M. Yakovleva
Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Lithium hyperfine splitting
Krzysztof Pachucki
Published 9 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Spectral line shape of the P(2) transition in CO-Ar: Uncorrelated ab initio calculation
R. Wehr, A. Vitcu, R. Ciuryło, F. Thibault, J. R. Drummond, and A. D. May
Published 12 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Positron and positronium interactions with Cu
M. W. Bromley and J. Mitroy
Published 17 December 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Ionization potentials of internal conversion electrons for the superheavy elements 112, 114, 116, and 118
Nicola Gaston, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Witold Nazarewicz
Published 26 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental measurement of Ag vapor polarizability using optical interferometry and x-ray radiography
Min Hu and Bruce R. Kusse
Published 26 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-photon E1M1 decay of 23P0 states in heavy heliumlike ions
I. M. Savukov and W. R. Johnson
Published 31 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Fast-electron-impact study on excitations of 4p, 4s, and 3d electrons of krypton
Zhen-sheng Yuan, Lin-fan Zhu, Xiao-jing Liu, Zhi-ping Zhong, Wen-bin Li, Hua-dong Cheng, and Ke-zun Xu
Published 6 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Calculation of rate constants for dissociative attachment of low-energy electrons to hydrogen halides HCl, HBr, and HI and their deuterated analogs
Karel Houfek, Martin Čížek, and Jiří Horáček
Published 6 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Theoretical study on electron-free radical collisions: An application to SiH and SiF
M.-T. Lee, M. F. Lima, Antonio M. Sobrinho, and I. Iga
Published 6 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Measurement of the photoionization cross section of the 5S1/2 state of rubidium
J. R. Lowell, T. Northup, B. M. Patterson, T. Takekoshi, and R. J. Knize
Published 13 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection High-angular-momentum resonances in positron scattering by a He+ ion
Y. K. Ho and Z.-C. Yan
Published 19 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Angular distribution for the elastic scattering of electrons from Ar+(3s23p5 2P) above the first inelastic threshold
S. J. Brotton, P. McKenna, G. Gribakin, and I. D. Williams
Published 20 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Time-dependent close-coupling studies of the electron-impact ionization of excited-state helium
J. Colgan and M. S. Pindzola
Published 20 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Photoionization of Ne+ using synchrotron radiation
A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, I. R. Covington, M. F. Gharaibeh, G. Hinojosa, C. A. Shirley, R. A. Phaneuf, I. Álvarez, C. Cisneros, I. Dominguez-Lopez, M. M. Sant’Anna, A. S. Schlachter, B. M. McLaughlin, and A. Dalgarno
Published 30 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Slow convergence of the Born approximation for electron-atom ionization
S. Jones and D. H. Madison
Published 31 December 2002 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Green functions for generalized point interactions in one dimension: A scattering approach
Alexandre G. Schmidt, Bin Kang Cheng, and M. G. da Luz
Published 31 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Emission of singly and doubly charged light fragments from C60r+ (r=4–9) in Xe25+-C60 collisions
S. Martin, L. Chen, R. Brédy, J. Bernard, M. C. Buchet-Poulizac, A. Allouche, and J. Désesquelles
Published 26 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Numerical optimization of laser fields to control molecular orientation
A. Ben Haj-Yedder, A. Auger, C. M. Dion, E. Cancès, A. Keller, C. Le Bris, and O. Atabek
Published 5 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Transfer of orbital angular momentum to an optically trapped low-index particle
V. Garcés-Chávez, K. Volke-Sepulveda, S. Chávez-Cerda, W. Sibbett, and K. Dholakia
Published 6 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonclassical effects in cold trapped ions inside a cavity
F. L. Semião, A. Vidiella-Barranco, and J. A. Roversi
Published 10 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Resonant oscillation modes of sympathetically cooled ions in a radio-frequency trap
Taro Hasegawa and Tadao Shimizu
Published 12 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal control of quantum systems: Origins of inherent robustness to control field fluctuations
Herschel Rabitz
Published 13 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Intensity effects in ultracold photoassociation line shapes
A. Simoni, P. S. Julienne, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams
Published 13 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Magnetic decoupling of Rb spin relaxation in H2 buffer gas
P. I. Borel, C. J. Erickson, and D. K. Walter
Published 20 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Nondipole effects in photon emission by laser-driven ions
C. C. Chirilă, N. J. Kylstra, R. M. Potvliege, and C. J. Joachain
Published 20 December 2002 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection High-order multiphoton photoelectric effect at midinfrared laser wavelengths
A. T. Georges
Published 20 December 2002 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Momentum spread of spontaneously decaying cold gas in thermal radiation
C. H. Ooi, Karl-Peter Marzlin, and Jürgen Audretsch
Published 26 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Parametric excitations of trapped ions in a linear rf ion trap
X. Zhao, V. L. Ryjkov, and H. A. Schuessler
Published 26 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Alternative representation of time-dependent Hamiltonians with application to laser-driven systems
Ido Gilary and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 30 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Uniform electromagnetic field as viscous medium for moving particles
M. Ya. Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, Z. Felfli, A. Z. Msezane, and A. B. Voitkiv
Published 31 December 2002 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Role of long quantum orbits in high-order harmonic generation
D. B. Milošević and W. Becker
Published 31 December 2002 (14 pages)
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Matter waves

Add to article collection Convergence of the linear δ expansion for the shift in Tc for Bose-Einstein condensation
Eric Braaten and Eugeniu Radescu
Published 12 December 2002 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamics of a matter-wave bright soliton in an expulsive potential
L. D. Carr and Y. Castin
Published 12 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Superfluidity and mean-field energy loops: Hysteretic behavior in Bose-Einstein condensates
Erich J. Mueller
Published 16 December 2002 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Ground-state properties of a dilute Bose-Fermi mixture
L. Viverit and S. Giorgini
Published 19 December 2002 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Stability of gap solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Karen Marie Hilligsøe, Markus K. Oberthaler, and Karl-Peter Marzlin
Published 20 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Strong acoustic turbulence and the speed of Bose-Einstein condensation
S. Khlebnikov
Published 26 December 2002 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional double square well: Analytical solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
K. W. Mahmud, J. N. Kutz, and W. P. Reinhardt
Published 26 December 2002 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Three-beam interference and which-way information in neutron interferometry
M. Zawisky, M. Baron, and R. Loidl
Published 31 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Collision of gravitationally bound Bose-Einstein condensates
Dae-Il Choi
Published 31 December 2002 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Bose-Einstein condensates in 85Rb gases at higher densities
A. R. Sakhel, J. L. DuBois, and H. R. Glyde
Published 31 December 2002 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Add to article collection Spontaneous emission of an atom in front of a mirror
Almut Beige, Jiannis Pachos, and Herbert Walther
Published 5 December 2002 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Atomic interference phenomena in solids with a long-lived spin coherence
Elena Kuznetsova, Olga Kocharovskaya, Philip Hemmer, and Marlan O. Scully
Published 6 December 2002 (13 pages)
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