Physical Review A – April 2003
(Volume 67, Issue 4)

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Quantum information

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Add to article collection Single-photon two-qubit entangled states: Preparation and measurement
Yoon-Ho Kim
Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Relations for classical communication capacity and entanglement capability of two-qubit operations
Dominic W. Berry and Barry C. Sanders
Published 4 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimizing the fast Rydberg quantum gate
M. S. Safronova, Carl J. Williams, and Charles W. Clark
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Input states for quantum gates
A. Gilchrist, W. J. Munro, and A. G. White
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Add to article collection Cold collisions of spin-polarized metastable hydrogen atoms
R. C. Forrey, S. Jonsell, A. Saenz, P. Froelich, and A. Dalgarno
Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Add to article collection Interference-induced transparency and coherent control of quantum systems by frequency-chirped pulses
A. Nazarkin, R. Netz, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Coherent control of matter-wave interference in molecular predissociation
Jérôme Degert, Christoph Meier, Béatrice Chatel, and Bertrand Girard
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Laser cooling of a trapped two-component Fermi gas
Z. Idziaszek, L. Santos, M. Baranov, and M. Lewenstein
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Validity of the two-level approximation in the interaction of few-cycle light pulses with atoms
Jing Cheng and Jianying Zhou
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Matter waves

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Add to article collection Ground-state properties of hard-core bosons in one-dimensional harmonic traps
T. Papenbrock
Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Macroscopic dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate containing a vortex lattice
Marco Cozzini and Sandro Stringari
Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Controlling two-species Mott-insulator phases in an optical lattice to form an array of dipolar molecules
M. G. Moore and H. R. Sadeghpour
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum reflection engineering: The bichromatic evanescent-wave mirror
R. Côté and B. Segev
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamics of trapped two-component Fermi gas: Temperature dependence of the transition from collisionless to collisional regime
F. Toschi, P. Vignolo, S. Succi, and M. P. Tosi
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Interference scheme to measure light-induced nonlinearities in Bose-Einstein condensates
K. V. Krutitsky, K.-P. Marzlin, and J. Audretsch
Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Add to article collection Controlling optical bistability in a three-level atomic system
Amitabh Joshi, Andy Brown, Hai Wang, and Min Xiao
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Coherence length of photons from a single quantum system
F. Jelezko, A. Volkmer, I. Popa, K. K. Rebane, and J. Wrachtrup
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Spatial Raman solitons
D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, and M. Y. Shverdin
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonlinear optics in the angstrom regime: Hard-x-ray frequency doubling in perfect crystals
A. Nazarkin, S. Podorov, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum diffraction and interference of spatially correlated photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Ryosuke Shimizu, Keiichi Edamatsu, and Tadashi Itoh
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Add to article collection Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects by indirect measurement with finite errors
Kazuki Koshino and Akira Shimizu
Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Spin and statistics in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: The spin-zero case
Murray Peshkin
Published 4 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Continuous quantum measurement and the quantum to classical transition
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Salman Habib, and Kurt Jacobs
Published 8 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum-state engineering assisted by entanglement
Matteo G. Paris, Mary Cola, and Rodolfo Bonifacio
Published 10 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum jumps between dressed states: A proposed cavity-QED test using feedback
J. E. Reiner, H. M. Wiseman, and H. Mabuchi
Published 11 April 2003 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection How one shutter can close N slits
Y. Aharonov and L. Vaidman
Published 22 April 2003 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Density-matrix operatorial solution of the non-Markovian master equation for quantum Brownian motion
F. Intravaia, S. Maniscalco, and A. Messina
Published 22 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum-to-classical correspondence of the Heisenberg principle
De-Hone Lin, Jee-Gong Chang, and Chi-Chuan Hwang
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Nonpositive evolutions in open system dynamics
F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, and M. Piani
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Continuous-variable quantum erasing
Radim Filip
Published 25 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Evolution of entanglement under echo dynamics
Tomaž Prosen, Thomas H. Seligman, and Marko Žnidarič
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Classicality of spin-coherent states via entanglement and distinguishability
D. Markham and V. Vedral
Published 28 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Bargmann invariants, null phase curves, and a theory of the geometric phase
N. Mukunda, Arvind, E. Ercolessi, G. Marmo, G. Morandi, and R. Simon
Published 29 April 2003 (16 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum entanglement with acousto-optic modulators: Two-photon beats and Bell experiments with moving beam splitters
André Stefanov, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin, and Antoine Suarez
Published 29 April 2003 (13 pages)
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Quantum information

Add to article collection Effect of unitary noise on Grover’s quantum search algorithm
Daniel Shapira, Shay Mozes, and Ofer Biham
Published 1 April 2003 (17 pages)
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Add to article collection Polynomial invariants of four qubits
Jean-Gabriel Luque and Jean-Yves Thibon
Published 2 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Distinguishing two-qubit states using local measurements and restricted classical communication
Mark Hillery and Jihane Mimih
Published 4 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum quincunx in cavity quantum electrodynamics
Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, Ben Tregenna, and Peter L. Knight
Published 4 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal phase-covariant cloning for qubits and qutrits
Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano and Chiara Macchiavello
Published 11 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum key distribution with a single photon from a squeezed coherent state
Masahiro Matsuoka and Takuya Hirano
Published 15 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Tackling systematic errors in quantum logic gates with composite rotations
Holly K. Cummins, Gavin Llewellyn, and Jonathan A. Jones
Published 15 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Mixed-quantum-state detection with inconclusive results
Yonina C. Eldar
Published 15 April 2003 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Local observables for entanglement detection of depolarized states
G. Mauro D’Ariano, Chiara Macchiavello, and Matteo G. Paris
Published 17 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Protocols for entanglement transformations of bipartite pure states
G. Mauro D’Ariano and Massimiliano F. Sacchi
Published 17 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Geometric theory of nonlocal two-qubit operations
Jun Zhang, Jiri Vala, Shankar Sastry, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 18 April 2003 (18 pages)
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Add to article collection Entanglement generation and Hamiltonian simulation in continuous-variable systems
Barbara Kraus, Klemens Hammerer, Géza Giedke, and J. Ignacio Cirac
Published 22 April 2003 (14 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoherence can be useful in quantum walks
Viv Kendon and Ben Tregenna
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Experimental implementation of the quantum random-walk algorithm
Jiangfeng Du, Hui Li, Xiaodong Xu, Mingjun Shi, Jihui Wu, Xianyi Zhou, and Rongdian Han
Published 22 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Optimal encryption of quantum bits
P. Oscar Boykin and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Teleportation of an atomic momentum state
Shahid Qamar, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Decoherence and gate performance of coupled solid-state qubits
Markus J. Storcz and Frank K. Wilhelm
Published 23 April 2003 (17 pages)
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Add to article collection Performing joint measurements and transformations on several qubits by operating on a single “control” qubit
Dominik Janzing, Thomas Decker, and Thomas Beth
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Correlation-assisted quantum communication
Mário Ziman and Vladimír Bužek
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Robust method for estimating the Lindblad operators of a dissipative quantum process from measurements of the density operator at multiple time points
N. Boulant, T. F. Havel, M. A. Pravia, and D. G. Cory
Published 28 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Entangling power and operator entanglement in qudit systems
Xiaoguang Wang, Barry C. Sanders, and Dominic W. Berry
Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Add to article collection Relativistic study of vuv radiation properties from Kr-Xe gas mixtures
Branislav Jansík, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, and Hans Ågren
Published 10 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Metastable states of the Condo type in exotic helium atoms
Boyan D. Obreshkov, Vladimir I. Korobov, and Dimitr D. Bakalov
Published 10 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Quasiparticle density-matrix representation of nonlinear time-dependent density-functional response functions
Oleg Berman and Shaul Mukamel
Published 15 April 2003 (13 pages)
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Add to article collection Energies, transition rates, and electron electric-dipole-moment enhancement factors for Ce IV and Pr V
I. M. Savukov, W. R. Johnson, U. I. Safronova, and M. S. Safronova
Published 17 April 2003 (5 pages)
042504 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lowest open channels, bound states, and narrow resonances of dipositronium
C. G. Bao and T. Y. Shi
Published 29 April 2003 (5 pages)
042505 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Add to article collection Time evolution and use of multiple times in the N-body problem
J. H. McGuire and A. L. Godunov
Published 2 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Loss of coherence due to bremsstrahlung
Giorgio Calucci
Published 3 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Observation of dielectronic recombination through two-electron–one-photon correlative stabilization in an electron-beam ion trap
Y. Zou, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and J. Ullrich
Published 7 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Resonant magnetic vortices
Yves Décanini and Antoine Folacci
Published 8 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Radiative charge-transfer lifetime of the excited state of (NaCa)+
Oleg P. Makarov, R. Côté, H. Michels, and W. W. Smith
Published 11 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Universality in the three-body problem for 4He atoms
Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer
Published 11 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Trends in autoionization of Rydberg states converging to the 4s threshold in the Kr-Rb+-Sr2+ isoelectonic sequence: Theory and experiment
A. Neogi, E. T. Kennedy, J.-P. Mosnier, P. van Kampen, J. T. Costello, G. O’Sullivan, M. W. Mansfield, Ph. V. Demekhin, B. M. Lagutin, and V. L. Sukhorukov
Published 17 April 2003 (10 pages)
042707 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonant vibrational excitation of CO2 by electron impact: Nuclear dynamics on the coupled components of the 2Πu resonance
C. W. McCurdy, W. A. Isaacs, H.-D. Meyer, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 17 April 2003 (19 pages)
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Add to article collection Direct double photoionization of the valence shell of Be
F. Citrini, L. Malegat, P. Selles, and A. K. Kazansky
Published 17 April 2003 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by XH3YH3 (X, Y=C, Si, Ge, Sn)
C. A. Maia and M. H. Bettega
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Circular dichroism in K-shell ionization from fixed-in-space CO and N2
B. Zimmermann, K. Wang, and V. McKoy
Published 22 April 2003 (3 pages)
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Add to article collection Singular inverse square potential, limit cycles, and self-adjoint extensions
M. Bawin and S. A. Coon
Published 23 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Mesic atom deexcitation via an external Auger process
A. V. Kravtsov, A. I. Mikhailov, and I. A. Mikhailov
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Electron-impact ionization of Oq+ ions for q=1–4
S. D. Loch, J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, M. Westermann, F. Scheuermann, K. Aichele, D. Hathiramani, and E. Salzborn
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Add to article collection Multichannel study of spin-exchange and hyperfine-induced frequency shift and line broadening in cold collisions of hydrogen atoms
B. Zygelman, A. Dalgarno, M. J. Jamieson, and P. C. Stancil
Published 28 April 2003 (16 pages)
042715 [View PDF (839 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of the x-ray mass attenuation coefficient and the imaginary part of the form factor of silicon using synchrotron radiation
C. Q. Tran, C. T. Chantler, Z. Barnea, D. Paterson, and D. J. Cookson
Published 28 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Threshold krypton charge-state distributions coincident with K-shell fluorescence
G. B. Armen, E. P. Kanter, B. Krässig, J. C. Levin, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young
Published 29 April 2003 (12 pages)
042718 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Acceleration and deceleration of convoy electrons in grazing-ion–surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia
Published 15 April 2003 (9 pages)
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Clusters (including fullerenes)

Add to article collection Angular distribution of emitted electrons in sodium clusters: A semiclassical approach
E. Giglio, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
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Add to article collection Fragmentation of fullerenes
Ryan T. Chancey, Lene Oddershede, Frank E. Harris, and John R. Sabin
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
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Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Add to article collection Extreme multiphoton coupling in molecular systems
George N. Gibson
Published 3 April 2003 (12 pages)
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Add to article collection Resonances in the double-ionization signal of two-electron model atoms
R. Panfili and W.-C. Liu
Published 7 April 2003 (10 pages)
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Add to article collection Feasibility study to create a polychromatic guidestar in atomic sodium
Jens Biegert and Jean-Claude Diels
Published 7 April 2003 (11 pages)
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Add to article collection Alignment-dependent ionization probability of molecules in a double-pulse laser field
Z. X. Zhao, X. M. Tong, and C. D. Lin
Published 10 April 2003 (5 pages)
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Add to article collection Fragmentation of H2+ in strong 800-nm laser pulses: Initial-vibrational-state dependence
Bernold Feuerstein and Uwe Thumm
Published 15 April 2003 (8 pages)
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Add to article collection Continuous source of translationally cold dipolar molecules
S. A. Rangwala, T. Junglen, T. Rieger, P. W. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Two-photon Doppler cooling of alkaline-earth-metal and ytterbium atoms
Wictor C. Magno, Reinaldo L. Cavasso Filho, and Flavio C. Cruz
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
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