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Physical Review A – July 2003
Volume 68, Issue 1

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Quantum information

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Unambiguous discrimination of mixed states
Terry Rudolph, Robert W. Spekkens, and Peter S. Turner
Published 17 July 2003 (4 pages)
010301(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Relativistic Bennett-Brassard cryptographic scheme, relativistic errors, and how to correct them
Marek Czachor and Marcin Wilczewski
Published 17 July 2003 (4 pages)
010302(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Nonlocal properties and local invariants for bipartite systems
Sergio Albeverio, Shao-Ming Fei, Preeti Parashar, and Wen-Li Yang
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
010303(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Non-Hamiltonian dynamics and trajectory methods in quantum phase spaces
Jérôme Daligault
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
010501(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Large-angle elastic resonant and nonresonant scattering of electrons from B3+(1s2) and B4+(1s) ions: Comparison of experiment and theory
T. J. M. Zouros, E. P. Benis, and T. W. Gorczyca
Published 17 July 2003 (4 pages)
010701(R) [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Characterization of elastic scattering near a Feshbach resonance in 87Rb
Thomas Volz, Stephan Dürr, Sebastian Ernst, Andreas Marte, and Gerhard Rempe
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
010702(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Plasma formation from ultracold Rydberg gases
T. Pohl, T. Pattard, and J. M. Rost
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
010703(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms
M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, K. M. O’Hara, and J. E. Thomas
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
011401(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic dynamics of polyatomic molecules and ions in strong laser fields
Alexei N. Markevitch, Stanley M. Smith, Dmitri A. Romanov, H. Bernhard Schlegel, Misha Yu. Ivanov, and Robert J. Levis
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
011402(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Investigation of sub-Doppler cooling in an ytterbium magneto-optical trap
R. Maruyama, R. H. Wynar, M. V. Romalis, A. Andalkar, M. D. Swallows, C. E. Pearson, and E. N. Fortson
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
011403(R) [View PDF (207 kB)]

Matter waves

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Production of a Fermi gas of atoms in an optical lattice
G. Modugno, F. Ferlaino, R. Heidemann, G. Roati, and M. Inguscio
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
011601(R) [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Zero-temperature damping of Bose-Einstein condensate oscillations by vortex-antivortex pair creation
Petr O. Fedichev, Uwe R. Fischer, and Alessio Recati
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
011602(R) [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Unitarity-limited elastic collision rate in a harmonically trapped Fermi gas
M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, K. M. O’Hara, and J. E. Thomas
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
011603(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Pulsed Raman output coupler for an atom laser
J. Ruostekoski, T. Gasenzer, and D. A. W. Hutchinson
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
011604(R) [View PDF (124 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Transition from hexagons to optical turbulence
Damià Gomila and Pere Colet
Published 24 July 2003 (4 pages)
011801(R) [View PDF (383 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Spin squeezing and pairwise entanglement for symmetric multiqubit states
Xiaoguang Wang and Barry C. Sanders
Published 2 July 2003 (6 pages)
012101 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Transient dynamics in magnetic force microscopy for a single-spin measurement
G. P. Berman, F. Borgonovi, G. V. López, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 9 July 2003 (8 pages)
012102 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Normal forms and entanglement measures for multipartite quantum states
Frank Verstraete, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor
Published 15 July 2003 (7 pages)
012103 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Nonlocality of two-mode squeezing with internal noise
Sonja Daffer, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz, and John K. McIver
Published 15 July 2003 (7 pages)
012104 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Collisional decoherence reexamined
Klaus Hornberger and John E. Sipe
Published 21 July 2003 (16 pages)
012105 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Electron structure of a dipole-bound anion confined in a spherical box
S. Ronen
Published 22 July 2003 (7 pages)
012106 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Optimization of a neutron-spin test of the quantum Zeno effect
Paolo Facchi, Yoichi Nakaguro, Hiromichi Nakazato, Saverio Pascazio, Makoto Unoki, and Kazuya Yuasa
Published 22 July 2003 (8 pages)
012107 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Unitary relation for the time-dependent SU(1,1) systems
Dae-Yup Song
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
012108 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Elementary Aharonov-Bohm system in three space dimensions: Quantum attraction with no classical force
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and Ryan Requist
Published 24 July 2003 (7 pages)
012109 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Moving atom-field interaction: Quantum motional decoherence and relaxation
S. Shresta and B. L. Hu
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
012110 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Decoherence of entangled kaons and its connection to entanglement measures
Reinhold A. Bertlmann, Katharina Durstberger, and Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
Published 30 July 2003 (9 pages)
012111 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Quantum information

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Teleportation and entanglement distillation in the presence of correlation among bipartite mixed states
Mitsuru Hamada
Published 2 July 2003 (7 pages)
012301 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Analysis of absorbing times of quantum walks
Tomohiro Yamasaki, Hirotada Kobayashi, and Hiroshi Imai
Published 2 July 2003 (9 pages)
012302 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Countering quantum noise with supplementary classical information
Jonathan Barrett
Published 2 July 2003 (5 pages)
012303 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Solving the liar detection problem using the four-qubit singlet state
Adán Cabello
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
012304 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Quantum inference of states and processes
Miroslav Ježek, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Zdeněk Hradil
Published 9 July 2003 (7 pages)
012305 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Measurement does not always aid state discrimination
Kieran Hunter
Published 9 July 2003 (3 pages)
012306 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Unambiguous quantum-state filtering
Masahiro Takeoka, Masashi Ban, and Masahide Sasaki
Published 9 July 2003 (7 pages)
012307 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Robustness of quantum gates in the presence of noise
Aram W. Harrow and Michael A. Nielsen
Published 11 July 2003 (13 pages)
012308 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Entanglement in SU(2)-invariant quantum spin systems
John Schliemann
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
012309 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Spin-based all-optical quantum computation with quantum dots: Understanding and suppressing decoherence
T. Calarco, A. Datta, P. Fedichev, E. Pazy, and P. Zoller
Published 14 July 2003 (21 pages)
012310 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Internal-state dephasing of trapped ions
S. Brouard and J. Plata
Published 14 July 2003 (4 pages)
012311 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Proposal for founding mistrustful quantum cryptography on coin tossing
Adrian Kent
Published 15 July 2003 (5 pages)
012312 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Entangled graphs. II. Classical correlations in multiqubit entangled systems
Martin Plesch and Vladimír Bužek
Published 15 July 2003 (6 pages)
012313 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Purity of Gaussian states: Measurement schemes and time evolution in noisy channels
Matteo G. A. Paris, Fabrizio Illuminati, Alessio Serafini, and Silvio De Siena
Published 15 July 2003 (9 pages)
012314 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Testing Bell’s inequality and measuring the entanglement using superconducting nanocircuits
Guang-Ping He, Shi-Liang Zhu, Z. D. Wang, and Hua-Zhong Li
Published 15 July 2003 (6 pages)
012315 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Detected-jump-error-correcting quantum codes, quantum error designs, and quantum computation
G. Alber, Th. Beth, Ch. Charnes, A. Delgado, M. Grassl, and M. Mussinger
Published 21 July 2003 (10 pages)
012316 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Effect of noise on quantum teleportation
Deepak Kumar and P. N. Pandey
Published 22 July 2003 (6 pages)
012317 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Arbitrary two-qubit computation in 23 elementary gates
Stephen S. Bullock and Igor L. Markov
Published 22 July 2003 (7 pages)
012318 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Experiment towards continuous-variable entanglement swapping: Highly correlated four-partite quantum state
Oliver Glöckl, Stefan Lorenz, Christoph Marquardt, Joel Heersink, Michael Brownnutt, Christine Silberhorn, Qing Pan, Peter van Loock, Natalia Korolkova, and Gerd Leuchs
Published 22 July 2003 (8 pages)
012319 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Robust quantum gates and a bus architecture for quantum computing with rare-earth-ion-doped crystals
Janus Wesenberg and Klaus Mølmer
Published 22 July 2003 (5 pages)
012320 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Fast nonadiabatic two-qubit gates for the Kane quantum computer
Charles D. Hill and Hsi-Sheng Goan
Published 22 July 2003 (11 pages)
012321 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Single-step distillation protocol with generalized beam splitters
M. A. Martín-Delgado and M. Navascués
Published 23 July 2003 (5 pages)
012322 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Transverse-mode beam splitter of a light beam and its application to quantum cryptography
Hiroyuki Sasada and Megumi Okamoto
Published 23 July 2003 (7 pages)
012323 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Quantum cryptography using single-particle entanglement
Jae-Weon Lee, Eok Kyun Lee, Yong Wook Chung, Hai-Woong Lee, and Jaewan Kim
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
012324 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Moving magnetically induced anions: Possibility of a description of quantum states
Victor G. Bezchastnov and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Published 3 July 2003 (11 pages)
012501 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Thirteen pump-probe resonances of the sodium D1 line
Vincent Wong, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr., Ryan S. Bennink, and Alberto M. Marino
Published 8 July 2003 (8 pages)
012502 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Relativistic multireference many-body perturbation-theory calculations on the multiple openshell states in siliconlike Ar and aluminumlike Fe ions
Marius J. Vilkas and Yasuyuki Ishikawa
Published 9 July 2003 (13 pages)
012503 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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H2+ molecular ion in a strong magnetic field: Ground state
A. V. Turbiner and J. C. López Vieyra
Published 11 July 2003 (19 pages)
012504 [View PDF (1,179 kB)]
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Correlation energy per particle from the coupling-constant integration
F. Colonna, D. Maynau, and A. Savin
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
012505 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Scaling predictions for radii of weakly bound triatomic molecules
M. T. Yamashita, R. S. Marques de Carvalho, Lauro Tomio, and T. Frederico
Published 16 July 2003 (7 pages)
012506 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Allowed and spin-forbidden electric dipole transitions in Ca I
Charlotte Froese Fischer and Georgio Tachiev
Published 22 July 2003 (6 pages)
012507 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Static and dynamic dipole polarizability of the helium atom using wave functions involving logarithmic terms
Mauro Masili and Anthony F. Starace
Published 23 July 2003 (11 pages)
012508 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Modeling of high-resolution Kα emission spectra from Fe XVIII through Fe XXIV
V. Decaux, V. L. Jacobs, P. Beiersdorfer, D. A. Liedahl, and S. M. Kahn
Published 30 July 2003 (12 pages)
012509 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Influence of chemical environment on resonant core excitation of C(1s) in CO2, OCS, and CS2 by electron impact
T. Kroin, S. E. Michelin, A. S. Falck, F. Arretche, M.-T. Lee, and Ione Iga
Published 2 July 2003 (7 pages)
012701 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Outer-shell photodetachment of the metastable Be- 1s22s2p2 4Pe state
José Luis Sanz-Vicario and Eva Lindroth
Published 2 July 2003 (9 pages)
012702 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Unified theoretical treatment of dissociative recombination of D3h triatomic ions: Application to H3+ and D3+
Viatcheslav Kokoouline and Chris H. Greene
Published 9 July 2003 (23 pages)
012703 [View PDF (1,594 kB)]
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Ab initio study of charge transfer in B2+ low-energy collisions with atomic hydrogen
A. R. Turner, D. L. Cooper, J. G. Wang, and P. C. Stancil
Published 9 July 2003 (9 pages)
012704 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Charge transfer in slow collisions of H+ with Na
Anh-Thu Le, Chien-Nan Liu, and C. D. Lin
Published 9 July 2003 (5 pages)
012705 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Polarization effects in the elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by XH4 (X=C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb)
M. H. F. Bettega, M. T. do N. Varella, and M. A. P. Lima
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
012706 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Generalized Levinson theorem for singular potentials in two dimensions
Denis Sheka, Boris Ivanov, and Franz G. Mertens
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
012707 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Optical-model potential for electron and positron elastic scattering by atoms
Francesc Salvat
Published 14 July 2003 (17 pages)
012708 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Semiclassical description of photoionization microscopy
Ch. Bordas, F. Lépine, C. Nicole, and M. J. J. Vrakking
Published 15 July 2003 (13 pages)
012709 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Nonstationary multistate Coulomb and multistate exponential models for nonadiabatic transitions
V. N. Ostrovsky
Published 15 July 2003 (11 pages)
012710 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Electron-correlation effects in the angular distribution of photoelectrons from Kr investigated by rotating the polarization axis of undulator radiation
Kai Godehusen, Hans-Christoph Mertins, Tobias Richter, Peter Zimmermann, and Michael Martins
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
012711 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Electron-impact detachment from Cl-
K. Fritioff, J. Sandström, D. Hanstorp, A. Ehlerding, M. Larsson, G. F. Collins, D. J. Pegg, H. Danared, A. Källberg, and A. Le Padellec
Published 16 July 2003 (8 pages)
012712 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Requirements of scattering data for model-independent analyses
M. Eberspächer and K. Amos
Published 21 July 2003 (13 pages)
012713 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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E1-E2 interference in the vuv photoionization of He
E. P. Kanter, B. Krässig, S. H. Southworth, R. Guillemin, O. Hemmers, D. W. Lindle, R. Wehlitz, M. Ya. Amusia, L. V. Chernysheva, and N. L. S. Martin
Published 22 July 2003 (10 pages)
012714 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Appearance and disappearance of the second Born effects in the (e,3e) reaction on He
A. Dorn, A. Kheifets, C. D. Schröter, C. Höhr, G. Sakhelashvili, R. Moshammer, J. Lower, and J. Ullrich
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
012715 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Ab initio study of one- and two-electron transfer processes in collisions of Ne2+ with He at low to intermediate energies
T. W. Imai, M. Kimura, J. P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, J. G. Wang, P. C. Stancil, and Lukas Pichl
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
012716 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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State-dependent associative ionization in xenon
R. H. Lipson, X. K. Hu, J. B. A. Mitchell, and C. Froese-Fischer
Published 24 July 2003 (5 pages)
012717 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Dynamic response of target electrons on elastic scattering cross sections for heavy-ion impact on a high-Z atom
Yasushi Hoshino and Yoshiaki Kido
Published 24 July 2003 (5 pages)
012718 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Multichannel inverse scattering problem in one dimension: Thresholds and bound states
M. Braun, S. A. Sofianos, and H. Leeb
Published 25 July 2003 (8 pages)
012719 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Bethe stopping power theory for heavy-element targets and relativistic projectiles
Scott M. Cohen
Published 25 July 2003 (14 pages)
012720 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Electron capture into large-l Rydberg states of multiply charged ions escaping from solid surfaces
N. N. Nedeljković, Lj. D. Nedeljković, and M. A. Mirković
Published 25 July 2003 (10 pages)
012721 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Emission spectra of Rb*Hen exciplexes in a cold 4He gas
K. Hirano, K. Enomoto, M. Kumakura, Y. Takahashi, and T. Yabuzaki
Published 25 July 2003 (12 pages)
012722 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Enhancement of dielectronic recombination in crossed electric and magnetic fields
Victor Klimenko, Lung Ko, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 30 July 2003 (10 pages)
012723 [View PDF (187 kB)]

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

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Effect of projected band gap on neutralization of Cs ions during grazing scattering from a Cu(111) surface
A. G. Borisov, A. Mertens, S. Wethekam, and H. Winter
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
012901 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Charge-state dependence of kinetic electron emission induced by slow ions in metals
J. I. Juaristi, R. Díez Muiño, A. Dubus, and M. Rösler
Published 15 July 2003 (7 pages)
012902 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Atomic description and velocity effects for surface-plasmon neutralization rates in He+(1s)/Al systems
F. A. Gutierrez and H. Jouin
Published 24 July 2003 (12 pages)
012903 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Nonmetal-metal transition in Znn (n=2–20) clusters
Jinlan Wang, Guanghou Wang, and Jijun Zhao
Published 9 July 2003 (6 pages)
013201 [View PDF (353 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Branching and angular distribution of photofragments in two-frequency intense-field multiphoton dissociation of HD+
Bibhas Dutta, Sanjay Sen, Samir Saha, and S. S. Bhattacharyya
Published 2 July 2003 (10 pages)
013401 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization of Kr atoms in an infinite sequence of circularly polarized few-cycle pulses
Jingtao Zhang and Zhizhan Xu
Published 2 July 2003 (6 pages)
013402 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Theory of light-induced drift. V. Roles of accommodation of normal and tangential momenta in surface light-induced drift
Frank O. Goodman
Published 11 July 2003 (8 pages)
013403 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Laser-modified charge-transfer processes in proton collisions with lithium atoms
M. S. Pindzola, T. Minami, and D. R. Schultz
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
013404 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Ionization of Stark states with half-cycle pulses: Interference effects in the continuum
Corneliu Manescu, Jeffrey L. Krause, and Kenneth J. Schafer
Published 11 July 2003 (10 pages)
013405 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Disalignment transitions in cold collisions of 3P atoms with structureless targets in a magnetic field
R. V. Krems and A. Dalgarno
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
013406 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Stark resonances stemming from continuum thresholds
Gabriel Álvarez and Bala Sundaram
Published 15 July 2003 (8 pages)
013407 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Dynamics of strong-field photoionization in two dimensions for short-range binding potentials
Jacek Matulewski, Andrzej Raczyński, and Jarosław Zaremba
Published 18 July 2003 (6 pages)
013408 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Correlation effects in two-photon single and double ionization of helium
S. Laulan and H. Bachau
Published 21 July 2003 (6 pages)
013409 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Rotational cooling of polar molecules by Stark-tuned cavity resonance
C. H. Raymond Ooi
Published 22 July 2003 (7 pages)
013410 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Sensitive detection of radiation trapping in cold-atom clouds
Matthew Beeler, Ronald Stites, Soo Kim, Laura Feeney, and Samir Bali
Published 24 July 2003 (6 pages)
013411 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Collapse of the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage due to geometrical factors and how to overcome it
Ignacio R. Sola and Vladimir S. Malinovsky
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
013412 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Role of spin-orbit interaction in the production of spin-polarized photoelectrons using a dressing laser
Takashi Nakajima and L. A. A. Nikolopoulos
Published 28 July 2003 (8 pages)
013413 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Matter waves

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Perturbation theory of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates
Shingo Ohtsuka and Susumu Kurihara
Published 7 July 2003 (24 pages)
013601 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate near a Feshbach resonance
R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 9 July 2003 (17 pages)
013602 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Feshbach resonance described by boson-fermion coupling
T. Domański
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
013603 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Quantum-correlated double-well tunneling of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
H. T. Ng, C. K. Law, and P. T. Leung
Published 14 July 2003 (6 pages)
013604 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Intrinsic localized modes in arrays of atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
F. Kh. Abdullaev and V. V. Konotop
Published 15 July 2003 (5 pages)
013605 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Atomic-matter-wave scanner
Hilmar Oberst, Shigenori Kasashima, Victor I. Balykin, and Fujio Shimizu
Published 16 July 2003 (4 pages)
013606 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Diffraction phases in atom interferometers
M. Büchner, R. Delhuille, A. Miffre, C. Robilliard, J. Vigué, and C. Champenois
Published 16 July 2003 (4 pages)
013607 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Analytical results for energy spectrum and eigenstates of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a Mott insulator state
Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang
Published 22 July 2003 (7 pages)
013608 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Proper treatment of the zero mode in quantum field theory for trapped Bose-Einstein condensation
M. Okumura and Y. Yamanaka
Published 23 July 2003 (12 pages)
013609 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice
J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 24 July 2003 (11 pages)
013610 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Influence of nonadiabaticity and nonlinearity on the operation of cold-atom beam splitters
James A. Stickney and Alex A. Zozulya
Published 25 July 2003 (13 pages)
013611 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Normal modes and stability of phase-separated trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
A. A. Svidzinsky and S. T. Chui
Published 28 July 2003 (12 pages)
013612 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Dynamics of quantum phases in a spinor condensate
S. Yi, Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, and L. You
Published 30 July 2003 (16 pages)
013613 [View PDF (245 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Spatial solitons and Anderson localization
Kestutis Staliunas
Published 2 July 2003 (7 pages)
013801 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Quantum theory of the far-off-resonance continuous-wave Raman laser: Heisenberg-Langevin approach
P. A. Roos, S. K. Murphy, L. S. Meng, J. L. Carlsten, T. C. Ralph, A. G. White, and J. K. Brasseur
Published 2 July 2003 (12 pages)
013802 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Nonlinear interaction of two photons with a one-dimensional atom: Spatiotemporal quantum coherence in the emitted field
Kunihiro Kojima, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki
Published 2 July 2003 (13 pages)
013803 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Quantum interference with beamlike type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Yoon-Ho Kim
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
013804 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Model for bichromatic laser emission from a laser dye with nanoparticle scatterers
P. Vaveliuk, A. M. de Brito Silva, and P. C. de Oliveira
Published 3 July 2003 (9 pages)
013805 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Theory of the forces exerted by Laguerre-Gaussian light beams on dielectrics
Rodney Loudon
Published 7 July 2003 (15 pages)
013806 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Optimally squeezed spin states
A. G. Rojo
Published 9 July 2003 (6 pages)
013807 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Quantum-state transfer from light to macroscopic oscillators
Jing Zhang, Kunchi Peng, and Samuel L. Braunstein
Published 9 July 2003 (5 pages)
013808 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Completely positive Bloch-Boltzmann equations
Robert Alicki and Stanisław Kryszewski
Published 11 July 2003 (9 pages)
013809 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Observation of arbitrary group velocities of light from superluminal to subluminal on a single atomic transition line
Kyoungdae Kim, Han Seb Moon, Chunghee Lee, Soo Kyoung Kim, and Jung Bog Kim
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
013810 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Frequency down-conversion through Bose condensation of light
Patrick Navez
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
013811 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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X-ray laser without inversion in a three-level ladder system
D. Braunstein and R. Shuker
Published 15 July 2003 (14 pages)
013812 [View PDF (1,574 kB)]
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Polarization-mode hopping in single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Theory and experiment
Bob Nagler, Michael Peeters, Jan Albert, Guy Verschaffelt, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Irina Veretennicoff, Jan Danckaert, Sylvain Barbay, Giovanni Giacomelli, and Francesco Marin
Published 15 July 2003 (8 pages)
013813 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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High-order harmonic generation at a repetition rate of 100 kHz
F. Lindner, W. Stremme, M. G. Schätzel, F. Grasbon, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, R. Hartmann, and L. Strüder
Published 18 July 2003 (8 pages)
013814 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Polarization squeezing of intense pulses with a fiber-optic Sagnac interferometer
Joel Heersink, Tobias Gaber, Stefan Lorenz, Oliver Glöckl, Natalia Korolkova, and Gerd Leuchs
Published 22 July 2003 (9 pages)
013815 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Compound pulse solitons in a fiber ring laser
D. Y. Tang, B. Zhao, D. Y. Shen, C. Lu, W. S. Man, and H. Y. Tam
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
013816 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Continuous measurement with traveling-wave probes
Andrew Silberfarb and Ivan H. Deutsch
Published 25 July 2003 (9 pages)
013817 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Polariton condensation and lasing in optical microcavities: The decoherence-driven crossover
M. H. Szymanska, P. B. Littlewood, and B. D. Simons
Published 25 July 2003 (15 pages)
013818 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Dark-state evolution and self-phase modulation in a Λ medium
V. Chaltykyan, G. Grigoryan, and G. Nikogosyan
Published 28 July 2003 (7 pages)
013819 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Effective Hamiltonians for periodically driven systems
Saar Rahav, Ido Gilary, and Shmuel Fishman
Published 28 July 2003 (18 pages)
013820 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical system
S. Rankin, E. Yao, and F. Papoff
Published 28 July 2003 (5 pages)
013821 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Multipole interaction between atoms and their photonic environment
Martijn Wubs, L. G. Suttorp, and A. Lagendijk
Published 28 July 2003 (16 pages)
013822 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Sub-Poissonian statistics in order-to-chaos transition
Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan and Suren B. Manvelyan
Published 30 July 2003 (9 pages)
013823 [View PDF (155 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Heisenberg’s quantization of dissipative systems
Merced Montesinos
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Curvature-induced toroidal bound states
Mario Encinosa and Lonnie Mott
Published 18 July 2003 (4 pages)
014102 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Charge-dyon bound system in the spherical quantum well
L. G. Mardoyan, L. S. Petrosyan, and H. A. Sarkisyan
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
014103 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Quantum shutter transient solutions and the delay time for the δ potential
Alberto Hernández and Gastón García-Calderón
Published 24 July 2003 (4 pages)
014104 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Quantum information

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Entanglement capability of a self-inverse Hamiltonian evolution
Xiaoguang Wang and Barry C. Sanders
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
014301 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Resonant spectroscopy of the antihydrogen atom
Leonti Labzowsky and Dmitri Solovyev
Published 8 July 2003 (3 pages)
014501 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Role of the bound-state wave function in capture-loss rates: Slow proton in an electron gas
M. Alducin, A. Arnau, and I. Nagy
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
014701 [View PDF (53 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Control of interferences in an Autler-Townes doublet: Symmetry of control parameters
M. Wollenhaupt, A. Assion, O. Bazhan, Ch. Horn, D. Liese, Ch. Sarpe-Tudoran, M. Winter, and T. Baumert
Published 18 July 2003 (4 pages)
015401 [View PDF (451 kB)]

Matter waves

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Dark and bright solitons in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate
Shun-Jin Wang, Cheng-Long Jia, Dun Zhao, Hong-Gang Luo, and Jun-Hong An
Published 2 July 2003 (3 pages)
015601 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Dynamic quantum depletion in phase-imprinted generation of dark solitons
C. K. Law
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
015602 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Enhancement of four-wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensate by introducing a mismatch
E. Infeld and M. Trippenbach
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
015603 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Dynamics of femtosecond filamentation from saturation of self-focusing laser pulses
A. Couairon
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
015801 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Subfemtosecond-pulse generation by rotational molecular modulation and pulse-spacing increase
Jian Wu and Heping Zeng
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
015802 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Observation of an oscillatory correlation function of multimode two-photon pairs
Hayato Goto, Yasuo Yanagihara, Haibo Wang, Tomoyuki Horikiri, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 11 July 2003 (3 pages)
015803 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Off-Raman resonance effects on hyperfine coherences
Sihong Gu and J. A. Behr
Published 24 July 2003 (4 pages)
015804 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Fast pulsing dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser operating in the low-frequency fluctuation regime
M. Sciamanna, C. Masoller, F. Rogister, P. Mégret, N. B. Abraham, and M. Blondel
Published 24 July 2003 (4 pages)
015805 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Effect of quantum interference on optical bistability in the three-level V-type atomic system
Amitabh Joshi, Wenge Yang, and Min Xiao
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
015806 [View PDF (54 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Solution of the Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent linear potential”
H. Bekkar, F. Benamira, and M. Maamache
Published 8 July 2003 (2 pages)
016101 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Solution of the Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent linear potential’ ”
I. Guedes
Published 8 July 2003 (1 page)
016102 [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Comment I on “Dense coding in entangled states”
Antoni Wójcik and Andrzej Grudka
Published 9 July 2003 (1 page)
016301 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Comment II on “Dense coding in entangled states”
O. Akhavan and A. T. Rezakhani
Published 9 July 2003 (1 page)
016302 [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Comment on “Analytic value of the atomic three-electron correlation integral with Slater wave functions”
James S. Sims and Stanley A. Hagstrom
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
016501 [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Comment on “Three-dimensional kicked hydrogen atom”
A. Matos-Abiague and K. A. Kouzakov
Published 28 July 2003 (3 pages)
017401 [View PDF (32 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Cluster-size distribution effects in laser-cluster interaction experiments [Phys. Rev. A 64, 055201 (2001)]
K. J. Mendham, N. Hay, M. B. Mason, J. W. G. Tisch, and J. P. Marangos
Published 3 July 2003 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Erratum: Metastable states in the antiprotonic helium atom decaying via Auger transitions [Phys. Rev. A 67, 062501 (2003)]
Vladimir I. Korobov
Published 28 July 2003 (1 page)
019902(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
 
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