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Physical Review A – February 2003
Volume 67, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Generalization of the geometric phase to completely positive maps
Marie Ericsson, Erik Sjöqvist, Johan Brännlund, Daniel K. L. Oi, and Arun K. Pati
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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QED corrections to the binding energy of the eka-radon (Z=118) negative ion
Igor Goidenko, Leonti Labzowsky, Ephraim Eliav, Uzi Kaldor, and Pekka Pyykkö
Published 28 February 2003 (3 pages)
020102(R) [View PDF (37 kB)]

Quantum information

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Dissipation-assisted quantum gates with cold trapped ions
Almut Beige
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
020301(R) [View PDF (101 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Subkilohertz absolute-frequency measurement of the 467-nm electric octupole transition in 171Yb+
P. J. Blythe, S. A. Webster, H. S. Margolis, S. N. Lea, G. Huang, S.-K. Choi, W. R. C. Rowley, P. Gill, and R. S. Windeler
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
020501(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Magnetic trapping of metastable calcium atoms
Dirk P. Hansen, Janis R. Mohr, and Andreas Hemmerich
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
021401(R) [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Observing negligible collision trap losses: The case of alkaline-earth metals
Reinaldo L. Cavasso-Filho, Artemio Scalabrin, Daniel Pereira, and Flavio C. Cruz
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
021402(R) [View PDF (134 kB)]

Matter waves

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Two-fermion bound state in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Weiping Zhang, Han Pu, Chris P. Search, Pierre Meystre, and E. M. Wright
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
021601(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Scissors mode of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Marco Cozzini, Sandro Stringari, Vincent Bretin, Peter Rosenbusch, and Jean Dalibard
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
021602(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Phase dynamics after connection of two separate Bose-Einstein condensates
I. Zapata, F. Sols, and A. J. Leggett
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
021603(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Defect band-gap structures for triggering single-photon emission
Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
021801(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Low-frequency fluctuations and polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with isotropic feedback
M. Sondermann, H. Bohnet, and T. Ackemann
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
021802(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Universality of decoherence for macroscopic quantum superpositions
Walter T. Strunz, Fritz Haake, and Daniel Braun
Published 6 February 2003 (13 pages)
022101 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Decoherence scenarios from microscopic to macroscopic superpositions
Walter T. Strunz and Fritz Haake
Published 6 February 2003 (11 pages)
022102 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Influence of two parallel plates on atomic levels
D. T. Alves, F. A. Barone, C. Farina, and A. C. Tort
Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages)
022103 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for Heisenberg operators
Francisco M. Fernández
Published 10 February 2003 (3 pages)
022104 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Entwined paths, difference equations, and the Dirac equation
G. N. Ord and R. B. Mann
Published 12 February 2003 (7 pages)
022105 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Uncertainty characteristics of generalized quantum measurements
Holger F. Hofmann
Published 13 February 2003 (7 pages)
022106 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Stability of states in a squeezed environment
Kanwarpreet S. Grewal
Published 13 February 2003 (7 pages)
022107 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Qubits from number states and Bell inequalities for number measurements
Jan-Åke Larsson
Published 24 February 2003 (8 pages)
022108 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Effect of initial correlations on short-time decoherence
Eric Lutz
Published 25 February 2003 (7 pages)
022109 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Maximal entanglement versus entropy for mixed quantum states
Tzu-Chieh Wei, Kae Nemoto, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat, William J. Munro, and Frank Verstraete
Published 28 February 2003 (12 pages)
022110 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Schrödinger equation for a noninteracting Bose gas on a spatiotemporal lattice
V. V. Konotop and A. Spire
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022111 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Characterizing the entanglement of symmetric many-particle spin-1/2 systems
John K. Stockton, J. M. Geremia, Andrew C. Doherty, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published 28 February 2003 (17 pages)
022112 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Temperature correction to the Casimir force in cryogenic range and anomalous skin effect
V. B. Svetovoy and M. V. Lokhanin
Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages)
022113 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Normal and lateral Casimir forces between deformed plates
Thorsten Emig, Andreas Hanke, Ramin Golestanian, and Mehran Kardar
Published 28 February 2003 (15 pages)
022114 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum interference with photon pairs created in spatially separated sources
H. de Riedmatten, I. Marcikic, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages)
022301 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Multipartite entangled states in coupled quantum dots and cavity QED
Xiaoguang Wang, Mang Feng, and Barry C. Sanders
Published 6 February 2003 (8 pages)
022302 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Entanglement of electromagnetic fields
S. J. van Enk
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
022303 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Entanglement concentration of continuous-variable quantum states
Jaromír Fiurášek, Ladislav Mišta, Jr., and Radim Filip
Published 13 February 2003 (7 pages)
022304 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Quantum and classical noise in practical quantum-cryptography systems based on polarization-entangled photons
S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. L. Rastello
Published 14 February 2003 (12 pages)
022305 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Information flow and quantum cryptography using statistical fluctuations
D. Home and M. A. B. Whitaker
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
022306 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Teleportation of a Bose-Einstein condensate state by controlled elastic collisions
M. C. de Oliveira
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
022307 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Security of quantum cryptography using balanced homodyne detection
Ryo Namiki and Takuya Hirano
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
022308 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Near-field turbulence effects on quantum-key distribution
Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
022309 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Local permutations of products of Bell states and entanglement distillation
Jeroen Dehaene, Maarten Van den Nest, Bart De Moor, and Frank Verstraete
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022310 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Efficiency and formalism of quantum games
Chiu Fan Lee and Neil F. Johnson
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022311 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Decoupling-free NMR quantum computer on a quantum spin chain
Atsushi Goto, Tadashi Shimizu, Kenjiro Hashi, Hideaki Kitazawa, and Shinobu Ohki
Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages)
022312 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Tailoring teleportation to the quantum alphabet
P. T. Cochrane and T. C. Ralph
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022313 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Adiabatic quantum computing for random satisfiability problems
Tad Hogg
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022314 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Anyons from nonsolvable finite groups are sufficient for universal quantum computation
Carlos Mochon
Published 28 February 2003 (16 pages)
022315 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Entanglement gauge and the non-Abelian geometric phase with two photonic qubits
Karl-Peter Marzlin, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Barry C. Sanders
Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages)
022316 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Phase-covariant quantum cloning of qudits
Heng Fan, Hiroshi Imai, Keiji Matsumoto, and Xiang-Bin Wang
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022317 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Odd numbers of photons and teleportation
S. J. van Enk
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
022318 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Universal quantum gates based on a pair of orthogonal cyclic states: Application to NMR systems
Shi-Liang Zhu and Z. D. Wang
Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages)
022319 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Characterizing the entanglement of bipartite quantum systems
Vittorio Giovannetti, Stefano Mancini, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022320 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Theory of absorption bands in molecular dimers: Interpolating between optical asymmetries
Hans Wagenknecht and Bernd Esser
Published 6 February 2003 (11 pages)
022501 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Ab initio oscillator strengths for transitions between J=1 odd and J=1,2 even excited states of Ne I
I. M. Savukov
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
022502 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Nonrelativistic energy of the hydrogen negative ion in the 2p2 3Pe bound state
Mirosław Bylicki and Eugeniusz Bednarz
Published 24 February 2003 (3 pages)
022503 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Doppler-broadening measurements of positronium thermalization in gases
M. Skalsey, J. J. Engbrecht, C. M. Nakamura, R. S. Vallery, and D. W. Gidley
Published 28 February 2003 (15 pages)
022504 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Universal equation for Efimov states
Eric Braaten, H.-W. Hammer, and M. Kusunoki
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
022505 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Experimental versus simulated Coulomb-explosion images of flexible molecules: Structure of protonated acetylene C2H3+
Lars Knoll, Zeev Vager, and Dominik Marx
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022506 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Modeling LiH potential-energy curves: An approach based on integration in finite space
S. N. Altunata and R. W. Field
Published 28 February 2003 (13 pages)
022507 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Determination of the 160Gd ionization energy
B. A. Bushaw, K. Blaum, and W. Nörtershäuser
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022508 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Exact density matrix for a two-electron model atom and approximate proposals for realistic two-electron systems
C. Amovilli and N. H. March
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022509 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Near-threshold multielectronic effects in the Cu Kα1,2 x-ray spectrum
S. Galambosi, H. Sutinen, A. Mattila, K. Hämäläinen, R. Sharon, C. C. Kao, and M. Deutsch
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022510 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Radial and angular correlations and the classification of intershell 2l2l′3l″ triply excited states of atoms
Toru Morishita and C. D. Lin
Published 28 February 2003 (13 pages)
022511 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Calculation of radiative corrections to hyperfine splittings in the neutral alkali metals
J. Sapirstein and K. T. Cheng
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022512 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Improvements on the quasifree absorption model for electron scattering
F. Blanco and G. García
Published 6 February 2003 (9 pages)
022701 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Measurement of the charge-transfer rate of Fe3+-ion coefficients with H2 and N2 at electron-volt energy
Kelin Gao, Zongxiu Nie, Yurong Jiang, and Jiaomei Li
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
022702 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Determination of discrete transition multipolarity using the generalized oscillator strength
M. Ya. Amusia, L. V. Chernysheva, Z. Felfli, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 7 February 2003 (8 pages)
022703 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Partial dissociative ionization of SF6 by electron impact using an ejected electron-ion coincidence technique
R. K. Singh, R. Hippler, and R. Shanker
Published 14 February 2003 (6 pages)
022704 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Asymptotic energy dependence of projectile excitation in relativistic ion-atom collisions
Dorin-Cezar Ionescu and Thomas Stöhlker
Published 14 February 2003 (9 pages)
022705 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Target Z dependence and additivity of cross sections for electron loss by 6-MeV/amu Xe18+ projectiles
R. L. Watson, Yong Peng, V. Horvat, G. J. Kim, and R. E. Olson
Published 14 February 2003 (7 pages)
022706 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Nondipole asymmetries of Kr 1s photoelectrons
B. Krässig, J.-C. Bilheux, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, S. Hasegawa, E. P. Kanter, S. H. Southworth, L. Young, L. A. LaJohn, and R. H. Pratt
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
022707 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Inelastic processses from vibrationally excited states in slow H++H2 and H+H2+ collisions. II. Dissociation
P. S. Krstić and R. K. Janev
Published 26 February 2003 (11 pages)
022708 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Characterization of high-energy photoionization in terms of the singularities of the atomic potential. I. Photoionization of the ground state of a two-electron atom
T. Surić, E. G. Drukarev, and R. H. Pratt
Published 28 February 2003 (26 pages)
022709 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Characterization of high-energy photoionization in terms of the singularities of the atomic potential. II. Beyond K-shell ionization in a many-electron atom, using the example of a two-electron atom in an excited state
T. Surić, E. G. Drukarev, and R. H. Pratt
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022710 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Error bounds for molecular Hamiltonians inverted from experimental data
J. M. Geremia and Herschel Rabitz
Published 28 February 2003 (11 pages)
022711 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Ionization of helium by antiprotons: Fully correlated, four-dimensional lattice approach
D. R. Schultz and P. S. Krstić
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022712 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Geometrical information on core-excited states obtained from interference quenching of vibrational states in resonant x-ray photoemission
A. Baev, R. Feifel, F. Gel’mukhanov, H. Ågren, M. N. Piancastelli, M. Bässler, C. Miron, S. L. Sorensen, A. Naves de Brito, O. Björneholm, L. Karlsson, and S. Svensson
Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages)
022713 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Influence of chemical bonds on the lifetime of the molecular-field-split 2p levels in H2S
André Machado Bueno, Arnaldo Naves de Brito, Reinhold F. Fink, Margit Bässler, Olle Björneholm, Florian Burmeister, Raimund Feifel, Catalin Miron, Stacey L. Sorensen, Honghong Wang, and Svante Svensson
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
022714 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Charge transfer in keV O+(4S,2D,2P)-He collisions
B. G. Lindsay and R. F. Stebbings
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022715 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Quasifree expansion picture of break-up events: An analysis of ionizing systems
L. F. Errea, L. Méndez, B. Pons, A. Riera, and I. Sevila
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022716 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Generalized oscillator strength and Coulomb excitation
Marita C. Chidichimo and Michael D. Thorsley
Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages)
022717 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Inelastic collision rates of trapped metastable hydrogen
David Landhuis, Lia Matos, Stephen C. Moss, Julia K. Steinberger, Kendra Vant, Lorenz Willmann, Thomas J. Greytak, and Daniel Kleppner
Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages)
022718 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Near-threshold photoionization of the Xe 3d spin-orbit doublet: Relativistic, relaxation, and intershell interaction effects
V. Radojević, D. M. Davidović, and M. Ya. Amusia
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022719 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Magnetic decoupling of 129Xe-Rb and 129Xe-Cs binary spin exchange
Yuan-Yu Jau, Nicholas N. Kuzma, and William Happer
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
022720 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Jordan blocks and Gamow-Jordan eigenfunctions associated with a degeneracy of unbound states
E. Hernández, A. Jáuregui, and A. Mondragón
Published 28 February 2003 (15 pages)
022721 [View PDF (158 kB)]

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

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Self-alignment of a polar molecule colliding with a solid surface
S. K. Sekatskii
Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages)
022901 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Quantum-trajectory Monte Carlo method for internal-state evolution of fast ions traversing amorphous solids
Tatsuya Minami, Carlos O. Reinhold, and Joachim Burgdörfer
Published 28 February 2003 (22 pages)
022902 [View PDF (908 kB)]
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Feedback action of vicinage effect in cluster stopping via nonhomogeneous charge reduction
Z. L. Mišković, T. L. Wilson, and Y.-N. Wang
Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages)
022903 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Fragmentation of cesium-carbon cluster anions CsCn- (n<~10)
A. K. Gupta and M. Krishnamurthy
Published 6 February 2003 (6 pages)
023201 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Coherent control of atomic beam diffraction by standing light waves
Bijoy K. Dey
Published 10 February 2003 (5 pages)
023401 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Contribution of forbidden orbits in the photoabsorption spectra of atoms and molecules in a magnetic field
A. Matzkin, P. A. Dando, and T. S. Monteiro
Published 24 February 2003 (9 pages)
023402 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Helium in superstrong magnetic fields
O.-A. Al-Hujaj and P. Schmelcher
Published 26 February 2003 (11 pages)
023403 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Trapping and cooling single atoms with far-off-resonance intracavity doughnut modes
Stefano Pirandola, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 28 February 2003 (13 pages)
023404 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Matter waves

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Optimization of evaporative cooling towards a large number of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms
Makoto Yamashita, Masato Koashi, Tetsuya Mukai, Masaharu Mitsunaga, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Takaaki Mukai
Published 6 February 2003 (6 pages)
023601 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Unified semiclassical approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates: Application to a BEC in an optical potential
Y. B. Band, I. Towers, and B. A. Malomed
Published 7 February 2003 (11 pages)
023602 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Entangling two Bose-Einstein condensates by stimulated Bragg scattering
B. Deb and G. S. Agarwal
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
023603 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Two-dimensional solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with a disk-shaped trap
Guoxiang Huang, Valeri A. Makarov, and Manuel G. Velarde
Published 13 February 2003 (12 pages)
023604 [View PDF (589 kB)]
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Accelerator-mode-based technique for studying quantum chaos
M. B. d’Arcy, R. M. Godun, D. Cassettari, and G. S. Summy
Published 14 February 2003 (4 pages)
023605 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Bogoliubov theory for mutually coherent condensates
Paolo Tommasini, E. J. V. de Passos, A. F. R. de Toledo Piza, M. S. Hussein, and E. Timmermans
Published 14 February 2003 (17 pages)
023606 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Persistent currents in a circular array of Bose-Einstein condensates
Gh.-S. Paraoanu
Published 14 February 2003 (7 pages)
023607 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Scissors mode of an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate
M. Modugno, G. Modugno, G. Roati, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
023608 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Some exact results for a trapped quantum gas at finite temperature
Brandon P. van Zyl, Rajat K. Bhaduri, Akira Suzuki, and Matthias Brack
Published 24 February 2003 (10 pages)
023609 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Treatment of backscattering in a gas of interacting fermions confined to a one-dimensional harmonic atom trap
Gao Xianlong, F. Gleisberg, F. Lochmann, and W. Wonneberger
Published 24 February 2003 (12 pages)
023610 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Out-of-gap Bose-Einstein solitons in optical lattices
Alexey V. Yulin and Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages)
023611 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in a simple microtrap
S. Schneider, A. Kasper, Ch. vom Hagen, M. Bartenstein, B. Engeser, T. Schumm, I. Bar-Joseph, R. Folman, L. Feenstra, and J. Schmiedmayer
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
023612 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Collisionless and hydrodynamic excitations of trapped boson-fermion mixtures
Xia-Ji Liu and Hui Hu
Published 28 February 2003 (12 pages)
023613 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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One-dimensional model for the dynamics and expansion of elongated Bose-Einstein condensates
Pietro Massignan and Michele Modugno
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
023614 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Nonlinear waves in a cylindrical Bose-Einstein condensate
S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou
Published 28 February 2003 (11 pages)
023615 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Macroscopic quantum coherence in a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate
A. Montina and F. T. Arecchi
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
023616 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Squeezing effect in a driven coupled-oscillator system: A dual role of damping
Hyunchul Nha
Published 6 February 2003 (10 pages)
023801 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Approximate master equations for atom optics
D. J. Atkins, H. M. Wiseman, and P. Warszawski
Published 6 February 2003 (11 pages)
023802 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Coherent transfer of orbital angular momentum from an atomic system to a light field
Daisuke Akamatsu and Mikio Kozuma
Published 6 February 2003 (8 pages)
023803 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Quenching of spontaneous emission through interference of incoherent pump processes
Kishore T. Kapale, Marlan O. Scully, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 7 February 2003 (12 pages)
023804 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Spectroscopic measurement of an atomic wave function
Kishore T. Kapale, Shahid Qamar, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 10 February 2003 (5 pages)
023805 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Anisotropy of the optical poling of glass
M. K. Balakirev, I. V. Kityk, V. A. Smirnov, L. I. Vostrikova, and J. Ebothe
Published 13 February 2003 (6 pages)
023806 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Hexagonal dielectric resonators and microcrystal lasers
Jan Wiersig
Published 13 February 2003 (12 pages)
023807 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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Experimental study of the spatial distribution of quantum correlations in a confocal optical parametric oscillator
M. Martinelli, N. Treps, S. Ducci, S. Gigan, A. Maître, and C. Fabre
Published 13 February 2003 (9 pages)
023808 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Storing and releasing light in a gas of moving atoms
G. Juzeliūnas, M. Mašalas, and M. Fleischhauer
Published 14 February 2003 (5 pages)
023809 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Ultrashort pulse generation in a solid medium with long-lived spin coherence
Roman Kolesov and Olga Kocharovskaya
Published 24 February 2003 (6 pages)
023810 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Generation of entangled coherent states via cross-phase-modulation in a double electromagnetically induced transparency regime
M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and B. S. Ham
Published 24 February 2003 (15 pages)
023811 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Perturbing an electromagnetic induced transparency within an inhomogeneously broadened transition
E. A. Wilson, N. B. Manson, and C. Wei
Published 25 February 2003 (10 pages)
023812 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Few-cycle pulse propagation
P. Kinsler and G. H. C. New
Published 28 February 2003 (8 pages)
023813 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Laser-induced breakdown of the magnetic-field-reversal symmetry in the propagation of unpolarized light
G. S. Agarwal and Shubhrangshu Dasgupta
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
023814 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Method of collective operators for resonance fluorescence near a photonic band edge
D. Mogilevtsev and S. Kilin
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
023815 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Bistability of liquid crystal microcavities
G. D’Alessandro and A. A. Wheeler
Published 28 February 2003 (12 pages)
023816 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Stabilization of the photorefractive double phase-conjugate mirror in BaTiO3
C. Mailhan, N. Fressengeas, M. Goetz, and G. Kugel
Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages)
023817 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Intensity-dependent dispersion under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in coherently prepared multistate atoms
Andrew D. Greentree, Derek Richards, J. A. Vaccaro, A. V. Durrant, S. R. de Echaniz, D. M. Segal, and J. P. Marangos
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
023818 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Orientation dependence of high-order harmonic generation in molecules
M. Lein, P. P. Corso, J. P. Marangos, and P. L. Knight
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
023819 [View PDF (109 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Algebraic approch to master equations with superoperator generators of su(1,1) and su(2) Lie algebras
Huai-Xin Lu, Jie Yang, Yong-De Zhang, and Zeng-Bing Chen
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Classical mechanics and the propagation of the discontinuities of the quantum wave function
Alfredo Luis
Published 26 February 2003 (3 pages)
024102 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian in the magnetic-solenoid field and related exact solutions
S. P. Gavrilov, D. M. Gitman, and A. A. Smirnov
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
024103 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum entanglement of identical particles
Yu Shi
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
024301 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Shor-Preskill-type security proof for concatenated Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol
Won-Young Hwang, Keiji Matsumoto, Hiroshi Imai, Jaewan Kim, and Hai-Woong Lee
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
024302 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Noncyclic geometric quantum computation
Axel Friedenauer and Erik Sjöqvist
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
024303 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Scheme for the implementation of a universal quantum cloning machine via cavity-assisted atomic collisions in cavity QED
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
024304 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Hyperspherical angular adiabatic separation for three-electron atomic systems
J. P. D’Incao
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
024501 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Generalized oscillator strengths for open-shell and closed-shell atoms
Zhifan Chen, N. Cherepkov, and Alfred Z. Msezane
Published 6 February 2003 (3 pages)
024701 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Asymptotic form of the electron-hydrogen scattered wave
A. S. Kadyrov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and A. T. Stelbovics
Published 14 February 2003 (4 pages)
024702 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Matter waves

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Hydrodynamic excitations of trapped dipolar fermions
Krzysztof Góral, Mirosław Brewczyk, and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
025601 [View PDF (71 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “How macroscopic properties dictate microscopic probabilities”
J. Finkelstein
Published 10 February 2003 (3 pages)
026101 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Bose-Einstein condensation in low-dimensional traps”
Wu-Sheng Dai and Mi Xie
Published 14 February 2003 (1 page)
027601 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Comment on “Collective effects and trapping states by a quantum-trajectory treatment of micromaser dynamics”
David B. Johnson and W. C. Schieve
Published 25 February 2003 (3 pages)
027801 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Collective effects and trapping states by a quantum-trajectory treatment of micromaser dynamics’ ”
F. Casagrande, F. Castelli, and A. Lulli
Published 25 February 2003 (3 pages)
027802 [View PDF (29 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Two qubits of a W state violate Bell’s inequality beyond Cirel’son’s bound [Phys. Rev. A 66, 042114 (2002)]
Adán Cabello
Published 10 February 2003 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Dynamics of open quantum systems initially entangled with environment: Beyond the Kraus representation [Phys. Rev. A 64, 062106 (2001)]
Peter Štelmachovič and Vladimír Bužek
Published 13 February 2003 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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