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Physical Review A – June 2003
Volume 67, Issue 6

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Fundamental concepts

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Mean of continuous variables observable via measurement on a single qubit
Paweł Horodecki
Published 17 June 2003 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Decoherence from chaotic internal dynamics in two coupled δ-function-kicked rotors
Hwa-Kyun Park and Sang Wook Kim
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]

Quantum information

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Analytical formula connecting entangled states and the closest disentangled state
Satoshi Ishizaka
Published 3 June 2003 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Universal entanglement transformations without communication
Wim van Dam and Patrick Hayden
Published 11 June 2003 (3 pages)
060302(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Very-high-precision bound-state spectroscopy near a 85Rb Feshbach resonance
N. R. Claussen, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, S. T. Thompson, E. A. Donley, E. Hodby, and C. E. Wieman
Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Correlation structure in nondipole photoionization
M. Ya. Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, L. V. Chernysheva, Z. Felfli, S. T. Manson, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages)
060702(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Spin-flipping transitions in 2Σ molecules induced by collisions with structureless atoms
R. V. Krems, A. Dalgarno, N. Balakrishnan, and G. C. Groenenboom
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
060703(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Box-based convergent close-coupling method for solving Coulomb few-body problems
I. Bray, K. Bartschat, and A. T. Stelbovics
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
060704(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Optimized energetic particle emissions from Xe clusters in intense laser fields
Yuji Fukuda, Koichi Yamakawa, Yutaka Akahane, Makoto Aoyama, Norihiro Inoue, Hideki Ueda, and Yasuaki Kishimoto
Published 19 June 2003 (4 pages)
061201(R) [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Emergence of antiferromagnetic ordering in Mn clusters
P. Bobadova-Parvanova, K. A. Jackson, S. Srinivas, and M. Horoi
Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages)
061202(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Quantum limits of stochastic cooling of a bosonic gas
D. Ivanov, S. Wallentowitz, and I. A. Walmsley
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
061401(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Matter waves

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Noise limits in matter-wave interferometry using degenerate quantum gases
Chris P. Search and Pierre Meystre
Published 4 June 2003 (4 pages)
061601(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Observation of ground-state Ramsey fringes
M. Weel and A. Kumarakrishnan
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
061602(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Multiple-photon resolving fiber-loop detector
J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, O. Haderka, J. Peřina, Jr., and M. Hamar
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
061801(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Efficient photon counting and single-photon generation using resonant nonlinear optics
Mattias Johnsson and Michael Fleischhauer
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
061802(R) [View PDF (241 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Stochastic Schrödinger equations with general complex Gaussian noises
Angelo Bassi
Published 16 June 2003 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Surface-impedance approach solves problems with the thermal Casimir force between real metals
B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 17 June 2003 (15 pages)
062102 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Calculation of radiative corrections to the effect of parity nonconservation in heavy atoms
A. I. Milstein, O. P. Sushkov, and I. S. Terekhov
Published 19 June 2003 (12 pages)
062103 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Reversible transformations from pure to mixed states and the unique measure of information
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim
Published 20 June 2003 (9 pages)
062104 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Implications of Lorentz covariance for the guidance equation in two-slit quantum interference
Peter Holland and Chris Philippidis
Published 20 June 2003 (15 pages)
062105 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Combined effect of coherent Z exchange and the hyperfine interaction in the atomic parity-nonconserving interaction
W. R. Johnson, M. S. Safronova, and U. I. Safronova
Published 24 June 2003 (9 pages)
062106 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Effect of an external field on decoherence
R. F. O’Connell and Jian Zuo
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
062107 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Estimation of purity in terms of correlation functions
Tomaž Prosen, Thomas H. Seligman, and Marko Žnidarič
Published 26 June 2003 (3 pages)
062108 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Kraus representation in the presence of initial correlations
Hiroyuki Hayashi, Gen Kimura, and Yukihiro Ota
Published 26 June 2003 (5 pages)
062109 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Revivals and entanglement from initially entangled mixed states of a damped Jaynes-Cummings model
R. W. Rendell and A. K. Rajagopal
Published 30 June 2003 (11 pages)
062110 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Finite nuclear size and Lamb shift of p-wave atomic states
A. I. Milstein, O. P. Sushkov, and I. S. Terekhov
Published 30 June 2003 (5 pages)
062111 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Energy splitting in symmetric double-well potentials
Feng Zhou, Zhuangqi Cao, and Qishun Shen
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062112 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in two-level systems
Alfredo Luis
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062113 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Vortex lines of the electromagnetic field
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula
Published 30 June 2003 (8 pages)
062114 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Quantum information

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Schmidt numbers of low-rank bipartite mixed states
Hao Chen
Published 3 June 2003 (4 pages)
062301 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Optimal estimation of multiple phases
Chiara Macchiavello
Published 18 June 2003 (5 pages)
062302 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Exploring noiseless subsystems via nuclear magnetic resonance
Evan M. Fortunato, Lorenza Viola, Marco A. Pravia, Emanuel Knill, Raymond Laflamme, Timothy F. Havel, and David G. Cory
Published 19 June 2003 (16 pages)
062303 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Efficient quantum-state tomography for quantum-information processing using a two-dimensional Fourier-transform technique
Ranabir Das, T. S. Mahesh, and Anil Kumar
Published 20 June 2003 (6 pages)
062304 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Tolerant-gate implementation for the trapped-ion quantum-information processor
K. Pahlke and W. Mathis
Published 24 June 2003 (5 pages)
062305 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Entanglement in quantum computers described by the XXZ model with defects
L. F. Santos
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
062306 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Exploiting quantum parallelism of entanglement for a complete experimental quantum characterization of a single-qubit device
Francesco De Martini, Andrea Mazzei, Marco Ricci, and Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano
Published 24 June 2003 (5 pages)
062307 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Construction of extremal local positive-operator-valued measures under symmetry
S. Virmani and M. B. Plenio
Published 25 June 2003 (15 pages)
062308 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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One-way entangled-photon autocompensating quantum cryptography
Zachary D. Walton, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
062309 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Intermediate states in quantum cryptography and Bell inequalities
H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci and N. Gisin
Published 26 June 2003 (10 pages)
062310 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Pattern recognition on a quantum computer
Ralf Schützhold
Published 26 June 2003 (6 pages)
062311 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Quantum Markov channels for qubits
Sonja Daffer, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz, and John K. McIver
Published 26 June 2003 (13 pages)
062312 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Qutrit quantum computer with trapped ions
A. B. Klimov, R. Guzmán, J. C. Retamal, and C. Saavedra
Published 26 June 2003 (7 pages)
062313 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Rates of asymptotic entanglement transformations for bipartite mixed states: Maximally entangled states are not special
Michał Horodecki, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen
Published 26 June 2003 (9 pages)
062314 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Holonomic quantum gates: A semiconductor-based implementation
Paolo Solinas, Paolo Zanardi, Nino Zanghì, and Fausto Rossi
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
062315 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Method for modeling decoherence on a quantum-information processor
G. Teklemariam, E. M. Fortunato, C. C. López, J. Emerson, Juan Pablo Paz, T. F. Havel, and D. G. Cory
Published 30 June 2003 (11 pages)
062316 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Conditions for the local manipulation of tripartite Gaussian states
Liang Wang, Shu-Shen Li, and Hou-Zhi Zheng
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062317 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Fast quantum logic by selective displacement of hot trapped ions
Marek Šašura and Andrew M. Steane
Published 30 June 2003 (19 pages)
062318 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Entanglement-based quantum key distribution without an entangled-photon source
K. Inoue, C. Santori, E. Waks, and Y. Yamamoto
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062319 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Driving non-Gaussian to Gaussian states with linear optics
Daniel E. Browne, Jens Eisert, Stefan Scheel, and Martin B. Plenio
Published 30 June 2003 (9 pages)
062320 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Tuning the entanglement for a one-dimensional magnetic system with anisotropic coupling and impurities
Omar Osenda, Zhen Huang, and Sabre Kais
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062321 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Metastable states in the antiprotonic helium atom decaying via Auger transitions
Vladimir I. Korobov
Published 13 June 2003 (7 pages)
062501 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Determination of the polarizability of Na-like silicon by study of the fine structure of high-L Rydberg states of Si2+
R. A. Komara, M. A. Gearba, S. R. Lundeen, and C. W. Fehrenbach
Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages)
062502 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Combined interferometric and absorption-spectroscopic technique for determining molecular line strengths: Applications to CO2
A. Castrillo, G. Gagliardi, G. Casa, and L. Gianfrani
Published 17 June 2003 (6 pages)
062503 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Energies and polarizabilities of the hydrogen molecular ions
Zong-Chao Yan, Jun-Yi Zhang, and Yue Li
Published 18 June 2003 (6 pages)
062504 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Calculation of muon transfer from muonic hydrogen to atomic oxygen
Arnaud Dupays, Bruno Lepetit, J. Alberto Beswick, Carlo Rizzo, and Dimitar Bakalov
Published 19 June 2003 (6 pages)
062505 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Evaluation of the two-photon exchange diagrams for the (1s)22p3/2 electron configuration in Li-like ions
A. N. Artemyev, V. M. Shabaev, M. M. Sysak, V. A. Yerokhin, T. Beier, G. Plunien, and G. Soff
Published 26 June 2003 (7 pages)
062506 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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1s2s2p23s6P–1s2p33s6So Transitions in O IV
Bin Lin, H. Gordon Berry, Tomohiro Shibata, A. Eugene Livingston, Henri-Pierre Garnir, Thierry Bastin, J. Désesquelles, and Igor Savukov
Published 26 June 2003 (9 pages)
062507 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Smooth exterior complex-scaling, full-angular-momentum, and three-dimensional finite-element method applied to doubly excited states of helium
Nils Elander, Sergey Levin, and Evgeny Yarevsky
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
062508 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Asymmetrical line broadening observed in the photodissociation cross section of Na2 molecules
Yasuyuki Kimura, Hajime Katô, Peng Yi, Min Song, Yaoming Liu, and Li Li
Published 5 June 2003 (7 pages)
062701 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Antiscreening mode of projectile-electron loss
C. C. Montanari, J. E. Miraglia, and N. R. Arista
Published 5 June 2003 (8 pages)
062702 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Three-body Coulomb dynamics in hydrogen ionization by protons and antiprotons at intermediate collision velocities
A. B. Voitkiv and J. Ullrich
Published 10 June 2003 (10 pages)
062703 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Double photoionization of two-electron atoms based on the explicit separation of dominant ionization mechanisms
Tobias Schneider and Jan-Michael Rost
Published 11 June 2003 (9 pages)
062704 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Spin-exchange and spin-destruction rates for the 3He-Na system
P. I. Borel, L. V. Søgaard, W. E. Svendsen, and N. Andersen
Published 16 June 2003 (11 pages)
062705 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Singular potentials and annihilation
A. Yu. Voronin
Published 17 June 2003 (8 pages)
062706 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Auger width and branching ratios for berylliumlike 2s22p23P and 2s2p35S resonances
Sy-Sang Liaw
Published 19 June 2003 (5 pages)
062707 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Generalized oscillator strengths for 5s, 5s′, and 5p excitations of krypton
Wen-bin Li, Lin-fan Zhu, Xiao-jing Liu, Zhen-sheng Yuan, Jian-min Sun, Hua-dong Cheng, Zhi-ping Zhong, and Ke-zun Xu
Published 19 June 2003 (7 pages)
062708 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Variational calculation of positron-atom scattering using configuration-interaction-type wave functions
M. W. J. Bromley and J. Mitroy
Published 20 June 2003 (12 pages)
062709 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Distorted-wave calculation of cross sections for inner-shell ionization by electron and positron impact
Silvina Segui, Michael Dingfelder, and Francesc Salvat
Published 24 June 2003 (12 pages)
062710 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Microscopic response effects in collisions of antiprotons with helium atoms and lithium ions
M. Keim, A. Achenbach, H. J. Lüdde, and T. Kirchner
Published 24 June 2003 (6 pages)
062711 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Double K-shell photoionization of neon
S. H. Southworth, E. P. Kanter, B. Krässig, L. Young, G. B. Armen, J. C. Levin, D. L. Ederer, and M. H. Chen
Published 24 June 2003 (6 pages)
062712 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Tensorial analysis of the long-range interaction between metastable alkaline-earth-metal atoms
Robin Santra and Chris H. Greene
Published 25 June 2003 (15 pages)
062713 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Enhanced nondipole effects in photoelectron angular distributions near giant dipole autoionizing resonances in atoms
V. K. Dolmatov, A. S. Baltenkov, and S. T. Manson
Published 25 June 2003 (6 pages)
062714 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Levinson theorem for the Dirac equation in D+1 dimensions
Xiao-Yan Gu, Zhong-Qi Ma, and Shi-Hai Dong
Published 26 June 2003 (12 pages)
062715 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Time dependence of liquid-helium fluorescence
D. N. McKinsey, C. R. Brome, S. N. Dzhosyuk, R. Golub, K. Habicht, P. R. Huffman, E. Korobkina, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. H. Mattoni, A. K. Thompson, L. Yang, and J. M. Doyle
Published 26 June 2003 (10 pages)
062716 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Orientation observed by Zeeman spectra of dissociated atoms and the interference in photoexcitations
Yasuyuki Kimura, Shunji Kasahara, Hajime Katô, and Masaaki Baba
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
062717 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Alignment effects in electron capture from D2+ molecular ions by Ar2+, N2+, and He2+
I. Reiser, C. L. Cocke, and H. Bräuning
Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages)
062718 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Barriers for asymmetric fission of multiply charged C60 fullerenes
H. Cederquist, J. Jensen, H. T. Schmidt, H. Zettergren, S. Tomita, B. A. Huber, and B. Manil
Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages)
062719 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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High-frequency two-electron photoionization cross section of triplet states
R. Krivec, M. Ya. Amusia, and V. B. Mandelzweig
Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages)
062720 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Observed Landau structure in photodetachment from trapped O-
D. M. Pendergrast and J. N. Yukich
Published 30 June 2003 (5 pages)
062721 [View PDF (53 kB)]

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

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Model calculation for energy loss in ion-surface collisions
J. E. Miraglia and M. S. Gravielle
Published 3 June 2003 (7 pages)
062901 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Surface track potential created by fast protons at LiF surfaces
A. Arnau, M. S. Gravielle, J. E. Miraglia, and V. H. Ponce
Published 13 June 2003 (7 pages)
062902 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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First-principles studies of the geometry and energetics of the Si36 cluster
Q. Sun, Q. Wang, P. Jena, S. Waterman, and Y. Kawazoe
Published 10 June 2003 (6 pages)
063201 [View PDF (985 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the femtosecond-resolved photoelectron spectrum of the NO molecule
Qing-Tian Meng, Guang-Hui Yang, Hai-Lin Sun, Ke-Li Han, and Nan-Quan Lou
Published 16 June 2003 (4 pages)
063202 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Evolution of the electronic and ionic structure of Mg clusters with increase in cluster size
Andrey Lyalin, Ilia A. Solov’yov, Andrey V. Solov’yov, and Walter Greiner
Published 24 June 2003 (13 pages)
063203 [View PDF (1,487 kB)]
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Energetics in charge-separation processes of highly charged fullerene ions
S. Tomita, H. Lebius, A. Brenac, F. Chandezon, and B. A. Huber
Published 25 June 2003 (6 pages)
063204 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Cyclic and linear polymeric structures of AlnH3n (n=3–7) molecules
Hiroaki Kawamura, Vijay Kumar, Qiang Sun, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 26 June 2003 (8 pages)
063205 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Stability of the cubic water octamer
Stephen D. Belair and Joseph S. Francisco
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
063206 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Explosions of water clusters in intense laser fields
V. Kumarappan, M. Krishnamurthy, and D. Mathur
Published 27 June 2003 (9 pages)
063207 [View PDF (497 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Pulse-induced focusing of Rydberg wave packets
D. G. Arbó, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, A. K. Pattanayak, C. L. Stokely, W. Zhao, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning
Published 13 June 2003 (10 pages)
063401 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Confinement and high-order harmonic generation by a repulsive potential
Pietro Paolo Corso, Emilio Fiordilino, and Franco Persico
Published 16 June 2003 (8 pages)
063402 [View PDF (1,211 kB)]
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Solution of the many-electron many-photon problem for strong fields: Application to Li- in one- and two-color laser fields
Theodoros Mercouris and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 17 June 2003 (8 pages)
063403 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Nonsequential double ionization of D2 molecules with intense 20-fs pulses
Hirofumi Sakai, Jakob Juul Larsen, Ida Wendt-Larsen, Johannes Olesen, Paul B. Corkum, and Henrik Stapelfeldt
Published 17 June 2003 (4 pages)
063404 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Dynamics of strong-field above-threshold ionization of argon: Comparison between experiment and theory
Rolf Wiehle, Bernd Witzel, Hanspeter Helm, and Eric Cormier
Published 17 June 2003 (7 pages)
063405 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Sympathetically cooled and compressed positron plasma
B. M. Jelenković, A. S. Newbury, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and T. B. Mitchell
Published 18 June 2003 (9 pages)
063406 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Differential rates for multiphoton pair production by an ultrarelativistic nucleus colliding with an intense laser beam
C. Müller, A. B. Voitkiv, and N. Grün
Published 24 June 2003 (8 pages)
063407 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Mapping of coherent and decohering nuclear wave-packet dynamics in D2+ with ultrashort laser pulses
Bernold Feuerstein and Uwe Thumm
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
063408 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Mott scattering in the presence of a linearly polarized laser field
S.-M. Li, J. Berakdar, J. Chen, and Z.-F. Zhou
Published 26 June 2003 (6 pages)
063409 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Closed orbits and their bifurcations in the crossed-field hydrogen atom
Thomas Bartsch, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner
Published 27 June 2003 (15 pages)
063410 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Semiclassical quantization of the hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields
Thomas Bartsch, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner
Published 27 June 2003 (17 pages)
063411 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Suppression of photon rescattering due to spatial anisotropy in a cold atomic gas
M. Vengalattore, W. Rooijakkers, R. Conroy, and M. Prentiss
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
063412 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Matter waves

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Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in two-dimensional optical lattices
A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch
Published 4 June 2003 (9 pages)
063601 [View PDF (1,162 kB)]
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Stripe formation in Bose-Einstein condensates with large numbers of vortices
Erich J. Mueller and Tin-Lun Ho
Published 16 June 2003 (5 pages)
063602 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Four-wave mixing in degenerate Fermi gases: Beyond the undepleted pump approximation
T. Miyakawa, H. Christ, C. P. Search, and P. Meystre
Published 17 June 2003 (9 pages)
063603 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates in time-dependent traps
Emil Lundh, J.-P. Martikainen, and Kalle-Antti Suominen
Published 18 June 2003 (10 pages)
063604 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Shock waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Igor Kulikov and Michail Zak
Published 18 June 2003 (6 pages)
063605 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Ground-state properties of trapped Bose-Fermi mixtures: Role of exchange correlation
Alexander P. Albus, Fabrizio Illuminati, and Martin Wilkens
Published 19 June 2003 (6 pages)
063606 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Quantum phase transition of spin-2 cold bosons in an optical lattice
Jing-Min Hou and Mo-Lin Ge
Published 20 June 2003 (6 pages)
063607 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Lattice solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
Nikolaos K. Efremidis and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Published 20 June 2003 (9 pages)
063608 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Resonant dynamics in boson-fermion mixtures
M. Wouters, J. Tempere, and J. T. Devreese
Published 25 June 2003 (6 pages)
063609 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Modulational instability of Gross-Pitaevskii-type equations in 1+1 dimensions
G. Theocharis, Z. Rapti, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and V. V. Konotop
Published 26 June 2003 (8 pages)
063610 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Dynamics of fermionic four-wave mixing
H. Christ, C. P. Search, and P. Meystre
Published 30 June 2003 (8 pages)
063611 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Superfluidity and collective modes in a uniform gas of Fermi atoms with a Feshbach resonance
Y. Ohashi and A. Griffin
Published 30 June 2003 (24 pages)
063612 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Surface modes of ultracold atomic clouds with a very large number of vortices
M. A. Cazalilla
Published 30 June 2003 (22 pages)
063613 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Expansion of a quantum degenerate boson-fermion mixture
Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu, and Michele Modugno
Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages)
063614 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Energy and structure of dilute hard- and soft-sphere gases
F. Mazzanti, A. Polls, and A. Fabrocini
Published 30 June 2003 (14 pages)
063615 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Pump-beam-instability limits to Raman-gain-doublet “fast-light” pulse propagation
Michael D. Stenner and Daniel J. Gauthier
Published 5 June 2003 (7 pages)
063801 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Magneto-optical rotation of nonmonochromatic fields and its nonlinear dependence on optical density
G. S. Agarwal and Shubhrangshu Dasgupta
Published 11 June 2003 (5 pages)
063802 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Amplitude and phase representation of quantum invariants for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator
M. Fernández Guasti and H. Moya-Cessa
Published 11 June 2003 (5 pages)
063803 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Berry’s phase in cavity QED: Proposal for observing an effect of field quantization
A. Carollo, M. França Santos, and V. Vedral
Published 16 June 2003 (4 pages)
063804 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules
A. Adelswärd, S. Wallentowitz, and W. Vogel
Published 16 June 2003 (11 pages)
063805 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Superluminal optical pulse propagation in nonlinear coherent media
Ruben G. Ghulghazaryan and Yuri P. Malakyan
Published 17 June 2003 (9 pages)
063806 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Collision-induced constructive quantum interference
Xihua Yang and Hankun Xie
Published 17 June 2003 (7 pages)
063807 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Conditional measurements as probes of quantum dynamics
Shabnam Siddiqui, Daniel Erenso, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh
Published 17 June 2003 (9 pages)
063808 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Quantum coherence in a degenerate two-level atomic ensemble for a transition Fe=0↔Fg=1
Ying Gu, Qingqing Sun, and Qihuang Gong
Published 18 June 2003 (7 pages)
063809 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Detailed velocity-dependent line shapes for degenerate four-wave mixing spectra in a two-level atomic system
Binh Do and D. S. Elliott
Published 19 June 2003 (13 pages)
063810 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Frustrated pulse-area quantization in accelerated superradiant atom-cavity systems
C. Greiner, B. Boggs, and T. W. Mossberg
Published 19 June 2003 (6 pages)
063811 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Input-output relations at dispersing and absorbing planar multilayers for the quantized electromagnetic field containing evanescent components
Mikayel Khanbekyan, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 24 June 2003 (12 pages)
063812 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Dissipations in coupled quantum systems
Hashem Zoubi, Meir Orenstien, and Amiram Ron
Published 24 June 2003 (15 pages)
063813 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Binomial states and the phase distribution measurement of weak optical fields
K. L. Pregnell and D. T. Pegg
Published 24 June 2003 (8 pages)
063814 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Decoherence of collective atomic spin states due to inhomogeneous coupling
C. P. Sun, S. Yi, and L. You
Published 26 June 2003 (5 pages)
063815 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Interaction of an atom with a small dispersive and absorptive dielectric body
Claudia Eberlein and Maciej Janowicz
Published 27 June 2003 (14 pages)
063816 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Generation of high-order harmonics in a self-guided beam
V. Tosa, E. Takahashi, Y. Nabekawa, and K. Midorikawa
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
063817 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Enhancement of steady-state squeezing in the resonance fluorescence of a coherently driven four-level atom of Λ configuration via quantum interference
Fu-li Li, Shao-yan Gao, and Shi-yao Zhu
Published 30 June 2003 (10 pages)
063818 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Suppression of Rabi oscillations for moving atoms
B. Navarro, I. L. Egusquiza, J. G. Muga, and G. C. Hegerfeldt
Published 30 June 2003 (9 pages)
063819 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Generation and characterization of spatially and temporally localized few-cycle optical wave packets
R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, and M. Fortin
Published 30 June 2003 (5 pages)
063820 [View PDF (383 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Phase-space distributions and the classical component of quantum observables
Alfredo Luis
Published 20 June 2003 (3 pages)
064101 [View PDF (34 kB)]

Quantum information

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Time-correlated quantum amplitude-damping channel
Ye Yeo and Andrew Skeen
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
064301 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Ground bound state in the fully adiabatic ∞H2+ ion
Alexei M. Frolov
Published 11 June 2003 (4 pages)
064501 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Kinetic correlation in the final-state wave function in photo-double-ionization of He
S. Otranto and C. R. Garibotti
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
064701 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Matter waves

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Energy-band structure and intrinsic coherent properties in two weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates
Wei-Dong Li, Yunbo Zhang, and J.-Q. Liang
Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages)
065601 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Contrast and linewidth of the coherent population trapping transmission hyperfine resonance line in 87Rb: Effect of optical pumping
J. Vanier, M. W. Levine, D. Janssen, and M. Delaney
Published 19 June 2003 (4 pages)
065801 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Observation of correlated-photon statistics using a single detector
Yoon-Ho Kim and Warren P. Grice
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065802 [View PDF (379 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantitative wave-particle duality in multibeam interferometers”
G. Bimonte and R. Musto
Published 11 June 2003 (4 pages)
066101 [View PDF (45 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Engineering entanglement between two cavity modes [Phys. Rev. A 66, 014304 (2002)]
Manzoor Ikram and Farhan Saif
Published 13 June 2003 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Fundamental solution method applied to time evolution of two-energy-level systems: Exact and adiabatic limit results [Phys. Rev. A 63, 052101 (2001)]
Stefan Giller and Cezary Gonera
Published 17 June 2003 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Analysis of strongly coupled electronic states in diatomic molecules: Low-lying excited states of RbCs [Phys. Rev. A 67, 050501 (2003)]
T. Bergeman, C. E. Fellows, R. F. Gutterres, and C. Amiot
Published 19 June 2003 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Collective oscillations of a one-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein gas [Phys. Rev. A 66, 043610 (2002)]
Chiara Menotti and Sandro Stringari
Published 27 June 2003 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
 
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