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Physical Review A – April 2003
Volume 67, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

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Single-photon two-qubit entangled states: Preparation and measurement
Yoon-Ho Kim
Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages)
040301(R) [View PDF (211 kB)]
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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)
040302(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Optimizing the fast Rydberg quantum gate
M. S. Safronova, Carl J. Williams, and Charles W. Clark
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
040303(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Input states for quantum gates
A. Gilchrist, W. J. Munro, and A. G. White
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
040304(R) [View PDF (278 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)
040701(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Spheroidal close-coupling scheme to describe ionization processes in one-electron diatomic systems
B. Pons
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
040702(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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)
041401(R) [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Coherent control of matter-wave interference in molecular predissociation
Jérôme Degert, Christoph Meier, Béatrice Chatel, and Bertrand Girard
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
041402(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Laser cooling of a trapped two-component Fermi gas
Z. Idziaszek, L. Santos, M. Baranov, and M. Lewenstein
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
041403(R) [View PDF (191 kB)]
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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)
041404(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Matter waves

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Ground-state properties of hard-core bosons in one-dimensional harmonic traps
T. Papenbrock
Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages)
041601(R) [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Macroscopic dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate containing a vortex lattice
Marco Cozzini and Sandro Stringari
Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages)
041602(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]
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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)
041603(R) [View PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Quantum reflection engineering: The bichromatic evanescent-wave mirror
R. Côté and B. Segev
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
041604(R) [View PDF (204 kB)]
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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)
041605(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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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)
041606(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Controlling optical bistability in a three-level atomic system
Amitabh Joshi, Andy Brown, Hai Wang, and Min Xiao
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
041801(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
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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)
041802(R) [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Spatial Raman solitons
D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, and M. Y. Shverdin
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
041803(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]
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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)
041804(R) [View PDF (287 kB)]
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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)
041805(R) [View PDF (166 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects by indirect measurement with finite errors
Kazuki Koshino and Akira Shimizu
Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages)
042101 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Spin and statistics in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: The spin-zero case
Murray Peshkin
Published 4 April 2003 (4 pages)
042102 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Continuous quantum measurement and the quantum to classical transition
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Salman Habib, and Kurt Jacobs
Published 8 April 2003 (12 pages)
042103 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Quantum-state engineering assisted by entanglement
Matteo G. A. Paris, Mary Cola, and Rodolfo Bonifacio
Published 10 April 2003 (10 pages)
042104 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Universally valid reformulation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle on noise and disturbance in measurement
Masanao Ozawa
Published 11 April 2003 (6 pages)
042105 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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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)
042106 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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How one shutter can close N slits
Y. Aharonov and L. Vaidman
Published 22 April 2003 (3 pages)
042107 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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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)
042108 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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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)
042109 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Nonpositive evolutions in open system dynamics
F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, and M. Piani
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
042110 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Continuous-variable quantum erasing
Radim Filip
Published 25 April 2003 (5 pages)
042111 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Evolution of entanglement under echo dynamics
Tomaž Prosen, Thomas H. Seligman, and Marko Žnidarič
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
042112 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Classicality of spin-coherent states via entanglement and distinguishability
D. Markham and V. Vedral
Published 28 April 2003 (10 pages)
042113 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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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)
042114 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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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)
042115 [View PDF (511 kB)]

Quantum information

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Effect of unitary noise on Grover’s quantum search algorithm
Daniel Shapira, Shay Mozes, and Ofer Biham
Published 1 April 2003 (17 pages)
042301 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Violation of majorization relations in entangled states and its detection by means of generalized entropic forms
R. Rossignoli and N. Canosa
Published 2 April 2003 (6 pages)
042302 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Polynomial invariants of four qubits
Jean-Gabriel Luque and Jean-Yves Thibon
Published 2 April 2003 (5 pages)
042303 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Distinguishing two-qubit states using local measurements and restricted classical communication
Mark Hillery and Jihane Mimih
Published 4 April 2003 (9 pages)
042304 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Quantum quincunx in cavity quantum electrodynamics
Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, Ben Tregenna, and Peter L. Knight
Published 4 April 2003 (4 pages)
042305 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Optimal phase-covariant cloning for qubits and qutrits
Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano and Chiara Macchiavello
Published 11 April 2003 (9 pages)
042306 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Quantum key distribution with a single photon from a squeezed coherent state
Masahiro Matsuoka and Takuya Hirano
Published 15 April 2003 (7 pages)
042307 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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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)
042308 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Mixed-quantum-state detection with inconclusive results
Yonina C. Eldar
Published 15 April 2003 (14 pages)
042309 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Local observables for entanglement detection of depolarized states
G. Mauro D’Ariano, Chiara Macchiavello, and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 17 April 2003 (5 pages)
042310 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Possible realization of entanglement, logical gates, and quantum-information transfer with superconducting-quantum-interference-device qubits in cavity QED
Chui-Ping Yang, Shih-I Chu, and Siyuan Han
Published 17 April 2003 (8 pages)
042311 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Protocols for entanglement transformations of bipartite pure states
G. Mauro D’Ariano and Massimiliano F. Sacchi
Published 17 April 2003 (7 pages)
042312 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Geometric theory of nonlocal two-qubit operations
Jun Zhang, Jiri Vala, Shankar Sastry, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 18 April 2003 (18 pages)
042313 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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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)
042314 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Decoherence can be useful in quantum walks
Viv Kendon and Ben Tregenna
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
042315 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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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)
042316 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Optimal encryption of quantum bits
P. Oscar Boykin and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
042317 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Teleportation of an atomic momentum state
Shahid Qamar, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
042318 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Decoherence and gate performance of coupled solid-state qubits
Markus J. Storcz and Frank K. Wilhelm
Published 23 April 2003 (17 pages)
042319 [View PDF (1,114 kB)]
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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)
042320 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Correlation-assisted quantum communication
Mário Ziman and Vladimír Bužek
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
042321 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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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)
042322 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Entangling power and operator entanglement in qudit systems
Xiaoguang Wang, Barry C. Sanders, and Dominic W. Berry
Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages)
042323 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Relativistic study of vuv radiation properties from Kr-Xe gas mixtures
Branislav Jansík, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, and Hans Ågren
Published 10 April 2003 (10 pages)
042501 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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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)
042502 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Quasiparticle density-matrix representation of nonlinear time-dependent density-functional response functions
Oleg Berman and Shaul Mukamel
Published 15 April 2003 (13 pages)
042503 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (54 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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)
042701 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Loss of coherence due to bremsstrahlung
Giorgio Calucci
Published 3 April 2003 (6 pages)
042702 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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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)
042703 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Resonant magnetic vortices
Yves Décanini and Antoine Folacci
Published 8 April 2003 (6 pages)
042704 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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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)
042705 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Universality in the three-body problem for 4He atoms
Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer
Published 11 April 2003 (12 pages)
042706 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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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. D. Mansfield, Ph. V. Demekhin, B. M. Lagutin, and V. L. Sukhorukov
Published 17 April 2003 (10 pages)
042707 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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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)
042708 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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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)
042709 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by XH3YH3 (X, Y=C, Si, Ge, Sn)
C. A. S. Maia and M. H. F. Bettega
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
042710 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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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)
042711 [View PDF (753 kB)]
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Singular inverse square potential, limit cycles, and self-adjoint extensions
M. Bawin and S. A. Coon
Published 23 April 2003 (5 pages)
042712 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Mesic atom deexcitation via an external Auger process
A. V. Kravtsov, A. I. Mikhailov, and I. A. Mikhailov
Published 25 April 2003 (7 pages)
042713 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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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)
042714 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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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 (838 kB)]
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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)
042716 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Hyperspherical partial-wave theory applied to electron–hydrogen-atom ionization calculation for equal-energy-sharing kinematics
J. N. Das, S. Paul, and K. Chakrabarti
Published 29 April 2003 (12 pages)
042717 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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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 (140 kB)]

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

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Acceleration and deceleration of convoy electrons in grazing-ion–surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia
Published 15 April 2003 (9 pages)
042901 [View PDF (303 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Electron-stimulated desorption of positive ions from Na nanoclusters adsorbed on Pt(111) and Ar, H2O, and SF6 spacer layers
Ryutaro Souda and Jens Günster
Published 17 April 2003 (6 pages)
043201 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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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)
043202 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Fragmentation of fullerenes
Ryan T. Chancey, Lene Oddershede, Frank E. Harris, and John R. Sabin
Published 22 April 2003 (7 pages)
043203 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Asymmetric emission of high-energy electrons in the two-dimensional hydrodynamic expansion of large xenon clusters irradiated by intense laser fields
V. Kumarappan, M. Krishnamurthy, and D. Mathur
Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages)
043204 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Extreme multiphoton coupling in molecular systems
George N. Gibson
Published 3 April 2003 (12 pages)
043401 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Resonances in the double-ionization signal of two-electron model atoms
R. Panfili and W.-C. Liu
Published 7 April 2003 (10 pages)
043402 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Feasibility study to create a polychromatic guidestar in atomic sodium
Jens Biegert and Jean-Claude Diels
Published 7 April 2003 (11 pages)
043403 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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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)
043404 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Fragmentation of H2+ in strong 800-nm laser pulses: Initial-vibrational-state dependence
Bernold Feuerstein and Uwe Thumm
Published 15 April 2003 (8 pages)
043405 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Continuous source of translationally cold dipolar molecules
S. A. Rangwala, T. Junglen, T. Rieger, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
043406 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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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)
043407 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Photoassociation spectroscopy of cold calcium atoms
Carsten Degenhardt, Tomas Binnewies, Guido Wilpers, Uwe Sterr, Fritz Riehle, Christian Lisdat, and Eberhard Tiemann
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
043408 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Revealing quantum-control mechanisms through Hamiltonian encoding in different representations
Abhra Mitra, Ignacio R. Solá, and Herschel Rabitz
Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages)
043409 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Microwave-induced dielectronic recombination above the classical ionization limit in a static field
C. M. Evans, E. S. Shuman, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages)
043410 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Matter waves

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Ballistic matter waves with angular momentum: Exact solutions and applications
Christian Bracher, Tobias Kramer, and Manfred Kleber
Published 4 April 2003 (20 pages)
043601 [View PDF (648 kB)]
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Mechanical response functions of finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates
Stephen Choi, Vladimir Chernyak, and Shaul Mukamel
Published 7 April 2003 (16 pages)
043602 [View PDF (833 kB)]
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Dynamic correlation functions in one-dimensional quasicondensates
D. L. Luxat and A. Griffin
Published 8 April 2003 (13 pages)
043603 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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First-order coherence in an atomic condensate at finite temperature
Alberto Montina
Published 10 April 2003 (8 pages)
043604 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Effective-mass analysis of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices: Stabilization and levitation
H. Pu, L. O. Baksmaty, W. Zhang, N. P. Bigelow, and P. Meystre
Published 11 April 2003 (8 pages)
043605 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Quantum coherence of double-well Bose-Einstein condensates: An SU(2) coherent-state path-integral approach
Yi Zhou, Hui Zhai, Rong Lü, Zhan Xu, and Lee Chang
Published 15 April 2003 (5 pages)
043606 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Finite one-dimensional impenetrable Bose systems: Occupation numbers
P. J. Forrester, N. E. Frankel, T. M. Garoni, and N. S. Witte
Published 17 April 2003 (17 pages)
043607 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Fluctuation corrections to the mean-field interaction for a trapped Fermi gas
Jin Woo Jun
Published 17 April 2003 (6 pages)
043608 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Nondestructive dynamic detectors for Bose-Einstein condensates
J. E. Lye, J. J. Hope, and J. D. Close
Published 22 April 2003 (13 pages)
043609 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Algorithm for preparation of multilayer systems with high critical angle of total reflection
I. Carron and V. Ignatovich
Published 22 April 2003 (8 pages)
043610 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Formation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate and an entangled atomic gas by Feshbach resonance
V. A. Yurovsky and A. Ben-Reuven
Published 23 April 2003 (8 pages)
043611 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Effect of atom loss on collapse and revivals of phase coherence in small atomic samples
Michael W. Jack
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
043612 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Enhanced generation of twin single-photon states via quantum interference in parametric down-conversion: Application to two-photon quantum photolithography
Christopher C. Gerry
Published 2 April 2003 (4 pages)
043801 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Nonclassical statistics of intracavity coupled χ(2) waveguides: The quantum optical dimer
M. Bache, Yu. B. Gaididei, and P. L. Christiansen
Published 4 April 2003 (15 pages)
043802 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Subthreshold optical parametric oscillator with nonorthogonal polarization eigenmodes
A. Aiello, G. Nienhuis, and J. P. Woerdman
Published 8 April 2003 (15 pages)
043803 [View PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Generation of a pulsed polarization entangled-photon pair via a two-crystal geometry
Bao-Sen Shi and Akihisa Tomita
Published 10 April 2003 (4 pages)
043804 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of elliptically polarized light
A. B. Matsko, I. Novikova, M. S. Zubairy, and G. R. Welch
Published 11 April 2003 (18 pages)
043805 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Possibility of single-atom detection on a chip
Peter Horak, Bruce G. Klappauf, Albrecht Haase, Ron Folman, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Peter Domokos, and E. A. Hinds
Published 11 April 2003 (9 pages)
043806 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Single-atom and two-atom Ramsey interferometry with quantized fields
G. S. Agarwal, P. K. Pathak, and M. O. Scully
Published 11 April 2003 (9 pages)
043807 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Splitting of the peak of electromagnetically induced transparency by the higher-order spatial harmonics of the atomic coherence
S. A. Babin, D. V. Churkin, E. V. Podivilov, V. V. Potapov, and D. A. Shapiro
Published 11 April 2003 (5 pages)
043808 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Generation of photon pairs using polarization-dependent two-photon absorption
T. Nakanishi, K. Sugiyama, and M. Kitano
Published 11 April 2003 (4 pages)
043809 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Inhibition of electromagnetically induced absorption due to excited-state decoherence in Rb vapor
H. Failache, P. Valente, G. Ban, V. Lorent, and A. Lezama
Published 15 April 2003 (7 pages)
043810 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Casimir force and the quantum theory of lossy optical cavities
Cyriaque Genet, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud
Published 22 April 2003 (18 pages)
043811 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Local-field effects in pattern formation in large-aspect-ratio lasers
Oscar G. Calderón, Eduardo Cabrera, M. Antón, and J. M. Guerra
Published 22 April 2003 (9 pages)
043812 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Trapping atoms in the vacuum field of a cavity
C. Schön and J. I. Cirac
Published 22 April 2003 (8 pages)
043813 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Observation of transverse patterns in an isotropic microchip laser
Y. F. Chen and Y. P. Lan
Published 22 April 2003 (6 pages)
043814 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Reconstruction of a multimode entangled state using a two-photon phase-sensitive linear amplifier
Mashhood Ahmad, Shahid Qamar, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 23 April 2003 (8 pages)
043815 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Modeling of saturation and refraction in x-ray lasers
D. Benredjem, J. Kuba, C. Möller, and O. Z. Zabaydullin
Published 25 April 2003 (5 pages)
043816 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Interference between the halves of a double-well trap containing a Bose-Einstein condensate
Zhao-xian Yu and Zhi-yong Jiao
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
043817 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Deterministic optical Fock-state generation
K. R. Brown, K. M. Dani, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and K. B. Whaley
Published 28 April 2003 (16 pages)
043818 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Gravity field measurements using cold atoms with direct optical readout
A. B. Matsko, N. Yu, and L. Maleki
Published 28 April 2003 (12 pages)
043819 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Quantum correlations across a metallic screen
M. Al-Amri and M. Babiker
Published 29 April 2003 (10 pages)
043820 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Influence of damping on the vanishing of the linear electro-optic effect in chiral isotropic media
G. S. Agarwal and Robert W. Boyd
Published 29 April 2003 (5 pages)
043821 [View PDF (57 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Pancharatnam phase for the Jaynes-Cummings model modified by a sudden perturbation of the two-level system
Istok Mendaš
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
044101 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Quantum information

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Generation of an entangled state of two three-level atoms in cavity QED
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 22 April 2003 (3 pages)
044301 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Quantum secret sharing based on reusable Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states as secure carriers
Saber Bagherinezhad and Vahid Karimipour
Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages)
044302 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Modified Wigner inequality for secure quantum-key distribution
S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. L. Rastello
Published 30 April 2003 (4 pages)
044303 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Theory of Čerenkov pair production
Yugo Nagata and Hideo Nitta
Published 4 April 2003 (3 pages)
044701 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Spin asymmetries in spatially resolved processes of ionization of heavy atoms by relativistic electrons
Marco Kampp, N. C. Pyper, Colm T. Whelan, and H. R. J. Walters
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
044702 [View PDF (42 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Fragmentation statistics of large H2O and NH3 clusters from molecular-dynamics simulations
T. A. Beu
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
045201 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Design of a biased Stark trap of molecules that move adiabatically in an electric field
N. E. Shafer-Ray, K. A. Milton, B. R. Furneaux, E. R. I. Abraham, and G. R. Kalbfleisch
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
045401 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Matter waves

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Expansion of a dipolar condensate
S. Yi and L. You
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
045601 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Trap environment effects over quantum statistics and atom-photon correlations in the collective atomic-recoil laser
G. A. Prataviera
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
045602 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Formation of a two-component Bose condensate during the chemical-potential curve crossing
M. A. Kayali and N. A. Sinitsyn
Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages)
045603 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Atomic spin squeezing in a Λ system
A. Dantan, M. Pinard, V. Josse, N. Nayak, and P. R. Berman
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
045801 [View PDF (91 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Conceptual inadequacy of the Shannon information in quantum measurements [Phys. Rev. A 63, 022113 (2001)]
Časlav Brukner and Anton Zeilinger
Published 11 April 2003 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
 
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