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Physical Review A – September 2003
Volume 68, Issue 3

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Optical application and measurement of torque on microparticles of isotropic nonabsorbing material
Alexis I. Bishop, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 10 September 2003 (8 pages)
033802 [View PDF (345 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Clock transition for a future optical frequency standard with trapped atoms
Irène Courtillot, Audrey Quessada, Richard P. Kovacich, Anders Brusch, Dmitri Kolker, Jean-Jacques Zondy, Giovanni D. Rovera, and Pierre Lemonde
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
030501(R) [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Quantal and classical radiative cascade in Rydberg plasmas
M. R. Flannery and D. Vrinceanu
Published 11 September 2003 (4 pages)
030502(R) [View PDF (442 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Threshold ionization laws for electron-hydrogen scattering and their dominant region of configuration space
Philip L. Bartlett, Andris T. Stelbovics, and Igor Bray
Published 23 September 2003 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen at incident electron energies of 15.6, 17.6, 25, and 40 eV
J. G. Childers, K. E. James, M. Hughes, Igor Bray, M. Baertschy, and M. A. Khakoo
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
030702(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Electron emission during combined attosecond pulses
J. P. Hansen, T. Sørevik, and L. B. Madsen
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
031401(R) [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Light-induced trapping of molecular wave packets in the continuum
Bo Y. Chang, Herschel Rabitz, and Ignacio R. Sola
Published 19 September 2003 (4 pages)
031402(R) [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Observation of the Hopf bifurcation in parametrically driven trapped atoms
Kihwan Kim, Heung-Ryoul Noh, Young-Hee Yeon, and Wonho Jhe
Published 25 September 2003 (4 pages)
031403(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Unexpected instabilities in the dynamic Kingdon trap
I. Garrick-Bethell and R. Blümel
Published 25 September 2003 (4 pages)
031404(R) [View PDF (157 kB)]

Matter waves

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Shrinking of a condensed fermionic cloud in a trap approaching the Bose-Einstein condensation limit
A. Perali, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
031601(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Correlation functions and momentum distribution of one-dimensional Bose systems
G. E. Astrakharchik and S. Giorgini
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
031602(R) [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Role of quantum statistics in the photoassociation of Bose-Einstein condensates
M. K. Olsen and L. I. Plimak
Published 23 September 2003 (4 pages)
031603(R) [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic phase transition and Bose-Einstein condensation in spinor Bose gases
Qiang Gu and Richard A. Klemm
Published 25 September 2003 (4 pages)
031604(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Excitation spectrum of vortex lattices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Choi, L. O. Baksmaty, S. J. Woo, and N. P. Bigelow
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
031605(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Tunneling dynamics in relativistic and nonrelativistic wave equations
F. Delgado, J. G. Muga, A. Ruschhaupt, G. García-Calderón, and J. Villavicencio
Published 5 September 2003 (9 pages)
032101 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Violation of local realism by a system with N spin-1/2 particles
Xiao-Hua Wu and Hong-Shi Zong
Published 19 September 2003 (3 pages)
032102 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Violation of local uncertainty relations as a signature of entanglement
Holger F. Hofmann and Shigeki Takeuchi
Published 22 September 2003 (6 pages)
032103 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Decoherence from a chaotic environment: An upside-down “oscillator” as a model
Robin Blume-Kohout and Wojciech H. Zurek
Published 23 September 2003 (14 pages)
032104 [View PDF (2,119 kB)]
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Quantum jumps and entropy production
Heinz-Peter Breuer
Published 26 September 2003 (7 pages)
032105 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Quantum information

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Realistic simulations of single-spin nondemolition measurement by magnetic resonance force microscopy
Todd A. Brun and Hsi-Sheng Goan
Published 5 September 2003 (14 pages)
032301 [View PDF (839 kB)]
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Nonadditive generalization of the quantum Kullback-Leibler divergence for measuring the degree of purification
Sumiyoshi Abe
Published 10 September 2003 (3 pages)
032302 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Global-fidelity limits of state-dependent cloning of mixed states
Alexey E. Rastegin
Published 10 September 2003 (6 pages)
032303 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Use of quadrupolar nuclei for quantum-information processing by nuclear magnetic resonance: Implementation of a quantum algorithm
Ranabir Das and Anil Kumar
Published 10 September 2003 (8 pages)
032304 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Experimental demonstration of an entanglement swapping operation and improved control in NMR quantum-information processing
N. Boulant, K. Edmonds, J. Yang, M. A. Pravia, and D. G. Cory
Published 11 September 2003 (7 pages)
032305 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Direct estimation of functionals of density operators by local operations and classical communication
Carolina Moura Alves, Paweł Horodecki, Daniel K. L. Oi, L. C. Kwek, and Artur K. Ekert
Published 15 September 2003 (4 pages)
032306 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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State permutations from manipulation of near-level-crossings
Nicole F. Bell, R. F. Sawyer, Raymond R. Volkas, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Published 15 September 2003 (6 pages)
032307 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Generalizations of entanglement based on coherent states and convex sets
Howard Barnum, Emanuel Knill, Gerardo Ortiz, and Lorenza Viola
Published 16 September 2003 (21 pages)
032308 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Unified criterion for security of secret sharing in terms of violation of Bell inequalities
Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Marek Żukowski
Published 17 September 2003 (7 pages)
032309 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Measurement-induced nonlinearity in linear optics
Stefan Scheel, Kae Nemoto, William J. Munro, and Peter L. Knight
Published 22 September 2003 (13 pages)
032310 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Verification procedures for quantum noiseless subsystems
Lorenza Viola and Emanuel Knill
Published 22 September 2003 (5 pages)
032311 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Relation between classical communication capacity and entanglement capability for two-qubit unitary operations
Dominic W. Berry and Barry C. Sanders
Published 23 September 2003 (12 pages)
032312 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Cloning a real d-dimensional quantum state on the edge of the no-signaling condition
Patrick Navez and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 24 September 2003 (6 pages)
032313 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Quantum walks based on an interferometric analogy
Mark Hillery, Janos Bergou, and Edgar Feldman
Published 26 September 2003 (10 pages)
032314 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Cyclic networks of quantum gates
Peter Cabauy and Paul Benioff
Published 26 September 2003 (14 pages)
032315 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Experimental controlled-NOT logic gate for single photons in the coincidence basis
T. B. Pittman, M. J. Fitch, B. C Jacobs, and J. D. Franson
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
032316 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Strong superadditivity of the entanglement of formation follows from its additivity
A. A. Pomeransky
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
032317 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Entanglement and correlation in anisotropic quantum spin systems
Ulrich Glaser, Helmut Büttner, and Holger Fehske
Published 30 September 2003 (8 pages)
032318 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Relative likelihood of encountering conical intersections and avoided intersections on the potential energy surfaces of polyatomic molecules
Donald G. Truhlar and C. Alden Mead
Published 3 September 2003 (2 pages)
032501 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Decay rates of excited muonic molecular ions
E. Lindroth, J. Wallenius, and S. Jonsell
Published 8 September 2003 (6 pages)
032502 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Energy levels and lifetimes of Nd IV, Pm IV, Sm IV, and Eu IV
V. A. Dzuba, U. I. Safronova, and W. R. Johnson
Published 8 September 2003 (4 pages)
032503 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Isotope shift of the thallium (6s6p2) 4P1/2 state
R. H. Wynar, M. Iinuma, W. Nagourney, and E. N. Fortson
Published 10 September 2003 (4 pages)
032504 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Soft-x-ray Kossel structures from W/C multilayers under various electron ionization conditions
P. Jonnard, J.-M. André, C. Bonnelle, F. Bridou, and B. Pardo
Published 10 September 2003 (7 pages)
032505 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Origin of AuLβ2 visible satellites
H. Oohashi, T. Tochio, Y. Ito, and A. M. Vlaicu
Published 10 September 2003 (6 pages)
032506 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Exchange-correlation potentials in the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation framework
Y. M. Niquet, M. Fuchs, and X. Gonze
Published 11 September 2003 (13 pages)
032507 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Optical pumping of metastable NH radicals into the paramagnetic ground state
Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Boris G. Sartakov, Allard P. Mosk, Rienk T. Jongma, and Gerard Meijer
Published 15 September 2003 (7 pages)
032508 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Trapped planar three-boson system with spin 1 and with hard-core interactions
C. G. Bao and T. Y. Shi
Published 24 September 2003 (9 pages)
032509 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Multichannel quantum defect theory and high-resolution spectroscopy of the hyperfine structure of high Rydberg states of 83Kr
H. J. Wörner, U. Hollenstein, and F. Merkt
Published 26 September 2003 (16 pages)
032510 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Calculation of binding energy for muonic three-body systems in the hyperspherical approach
M. R. Eskandari and M. Mahdavi
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
032511 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Two-loop corrections to the decay rate of parapositronium
Gregory S. Adkins, Nathan M. McGovern, Richard N. Fell, and J. Sapirstein
Published 29 September 2003 (11 pages)
032512 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Cross section and asymmetry parameter calculations for the C 1s photoionization of CH4, CF4, and CCl4
Alexandra P. P. Natalense, Luiz M. Brescansin, and Robert R. Lucchese
Published 4 September 2003 (7 pages)
032701 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Pseudopotential model of ultracold atomic collisions in quasi-one- and two-dimensional traps
E. L. Bolda, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne
Published 8 September 2003 (8 pages)
032702 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Collision-sequence interference in collision-induced spectra at low densities
John Courtenay Lewis and Roger M. Herman
Published 8 September 2003 (9 pages)
032703 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Vibrational relaxation and dissociative recombination of H2+ induced by slow electrons
V. Ngassam, O. Motapon, A. Florescu, L. Pichl, I. F. Schneider, and A. Suzor-Weiner
Published 9 September 2003 (8 pages)
032704 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Relating the 4sσ-1 inner-valence photoelectron spectrum of HBr with the Br 3d-15lλ resonant Auger spectra: An approach to the assignments
R. Püttner, Y. F. Hu, G. M. Bancroft, A. Kivimäki, M. Jurvansuu, H. Aksela, and S. Aksela
Published 10 September 2003 (11 pages)
032705 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Fragmentation of positronium in collision with He atoms: A classical theoretical approach
L. Sarkadi
Published 10 September 2003 (8 pages)
032706 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Comparative study of electron and positron scattering from benzene (C6H6) and hexafluorobenzene (C6F6) molecules
C. Makochekanwa, O. Sueoka, and M. Kimura
Published 11 September 2003 (8 pages)
032707 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Total electron scattering cross sections of PH3 and SiH4 molecules in the energy range 90–3500 eV
W. M. Ariyasinghe, T. Wijerathna, and D. Powers
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
032708 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Three-body momentum exchange in singly ionizing 2-MeV/u C6+-helium collisions
D. Fischer, A. B. Voitkiv, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
Published 12 September 2003 (7 pages)
032709 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Magnetic circular dichroism in the ion yield of polarized chromium atoms at the 2p edge
G. Prümper, S. Kröger, R. Müller, M. Martins, J. Viefhaus, P. Zimmermann, and U. Becker
Published 12 September 2003 (6 pages)
032710 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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2e- transfer and excitation formalism in ion-atom collisions at high energies
A. Zerarka, V. G. Foester, and J. Hans
Published 12 September 2003 (6 pages)
032711 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of all ionization stages of beryllium
J. Colgan, S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola, C. P. Ballance, and D. C. Griffin
Published 15 September 2003 (9 pages)
032712 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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High-resolution study of the Kβ2 x-ray spectra of mid-Z atoms bombarded with 20-MeV/amu 12C ions
J. Rzadkiewicz, D. Chmielewska, Z. Sujkowski, J.-Cl. Dousse, D. Castella, D. Corminboeuf, J. Hoszowska, P.-A. Raboud, M. Polasik, K. Słabkowska, and M. Pajek
Published 16 September 2003 (14 pages)
032713 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Collective coordinates and an accompanying metric force in structural isomerization dynamics of molecules
Tomohiro Yanao and Kazuo Takatsuka
Published 17 September 2003 (16 pages)
032714 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Electron collisions with tetrafluoroethylene (C2F4) and ethylene (C2H4) molecules
Czesław Szmytkowski, Stanisław Kwitnewski, and Elżbieta Ptasińska-Denga
Published 17 September 2003 (5 pages)
032715 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Vibrational deactivation of F2(ν=1,j=0) by 3He at very low energy: A comparative study with the He-N2 collision
T. Stoecklin, A. Voronin, and J. C. Rayez
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
032716 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Suppression of the spontaneous emission of atoms and molecules
Einat Frishman and Moshe Shapiro
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
032717 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Cold collisions of ground-state calcium atoms in a laser field: A theoretical study
Béatrice Bussery-Honvault, Jean-Michel Launay, and Robert Moszynski
Published 23 September 2003 (14 pages)
032718 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation cross sections of the higher argon 3p5np (n=5,6,7) levels
Tobin Weber, John B. Boffard, and Chun C. Lin
Published 23 September 2003 (11 pages)
032719 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Application of the hyperspherical hidden-crossing method to positronium formation in positron-lithium collisions
S. J. Ward and J. Shertzer
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
032720 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Electron capture by Ne2+ ions from atomic hydrogen
T. Mroczkowski, D. W. Savin, R. Rejoub, P. S. Krstić, and C. C. Havener
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
032721 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Pressure shift and broadening of the 254-nm intercombination line of mercury by N2
James P. Jacobs and R. Bruce Warrington
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
032722 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Jump phenomenon induced by potential strength variation and the influence of exotic resonant states
Cornelia Grama, N. Grama, and I. Zamfirescu
Published 30 September 2003 (12 pages)
032723 [View PDF (146 kB)]

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

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Laser vaporized Li2, Na2, K2, and LiNa molecules observed by cavity ring-down spectroscopy
I. Labazan and S. Milošević
Published 19 September 2003 (8 pages)
032901 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Potential-energy surfaces for charge exchange between singly charged ions and a LiF surface
Ludger Wirtz, Joachim Burgdörfer, Michal Dallos, Thomas Müller, and Hans Lischka
Published 23 September 2003 (13 pages)
032902 [View PDF (1,046 kB)]
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Computer-simulation calculations of the electronic stopping of fast heavy charges by a classical harmonic oscillator
M. M. Jakas, F. J. Pérez de la Rosa, and E. R. Custidiano
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
032903 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Dynamical ionization ignition of clusters in intense short laser pulses
D. Bauer and A. Macchi
Published 29 September 2003 (10 pages)
033201 [View PDF (1,619 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Analysis of resonance structure in the above-threshold ionization photoelectron spectra of magnesium
G. D. Gillen and L. D. Van Woerkom
Published 5 September 2003 (9 pages)
033401 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Parity-violating contributions to nuclear magnetic shielding
Alessandro Soncini, Francesco Faglioni, and Paolo Lazzeretti
Published 10 September 2003 (4 pages)
033402 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Roles of resonances and recollisions in strong-field atomic phenomena. II. High-order harmonic generation
Richard Taïeb, Valérie Véniard, Joseph Wassaf, and Alfred Maquet
Published 11 September 2003 (8 pages)
033403 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Extreme nonlinear optics of two-level systems
T. Tritschler, O. D. Mücke, and M. Wegener
Published 12 September 2003 (8 pages)
033404 [View PDF (894 kB)]
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Reduced model for the description of radiation-matter interaction including atomic recoil
J. Javaloyes, G. L. Lippi, and A. Politi
Published 12 September 2003 (13 pages)
033405 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Weakly bound atomic trimers in ultracold traps
M. T. Yamashita, T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio, and A. Delfino
Published 15 September 2003 (5 pages)
033406 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Adiabatic passage and dissociation controlled by interference of two laser-induced continuum structures
A. K. Popov, V. V. Kimberg, and Thomas F. George
Published 22 September 2003 (9 pages)
033407 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Model study on the photoassociation of a pair of trapped atoms into an ultralong-range molecule
B. Deb and L. You
Published 22 September 2003 (10 pages)
033408 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Effect of tunneling on ionization of Rydberg states in intense fields: Hydrogenic atoms
James S. Cohen
Published 24 September 2003 (9 pages)
033409 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Combined effect of electric field and spin-orbit interaction on doubly excited Feshbach resonance states of helium below the N=2 threshold
I. A. Ivanov and Y. K. Ho
Published 25 September 2003 (9 pages)
033410 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Frequency-domain interpretation of the plateaus in laser-assisted recombination and high-order harmonic generation
Taiwang Cheng, Xiaofeng Li, Shuyan Ao, Ling-An Wu, and Panming Fu
Published 25 September 2003 (6 pages)
033411 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Observed photodetachment in parallel electric and magnetic fields
John N. Yukich, Tobias Kramer, and Christian Bracher
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
033412 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Matter waves

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Analytical expression for the first-order density matrix of a d-dimensional harmonically confined Fermi gas at finite temperature
Brandon P. van Zyl
Published 5 September 2003 (10 pages)
033601 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Natural orbitals and Bose-Einstein condensates in traps: A diffusion Monte Carlo analysis
J. L. DuBois and H. R. Glyde
Published 10 September 2003 (12 pages)
033602 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Neutron-multiwave-interference experiments with many resonance coils
S. V. Grigoriev, Yu. O. Chetverikov, A. V. Syromyatnikov, W. H. Kraan, and M. Th. Rekveldt
Published 12 September 2003 (9 pages)
033603 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Theory of a compound large-angle atom beam splitter
A. Zh. Muradyan, A. A. Poghosyan, and P. R. Berman
Published 12 September 2003 (7 pages)
033604 [View PDF (1,321 kB)]
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Collective excitations in trapped boson-fermion mixtures: From demixing to collapse
P. Capuzzi, A. Minguzzi, and M. P. Tosi
Published 12 September 2003 (12 pages)
033605 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Quantum corrections to dilute Bose liquids
Paulo F. Bedaque, Aurel Bulgac, and Gautam Rupak
Published 19 September 2003 (5 pages)
033606 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Localization in splitting of matter waves
Markku Jääskeläinen and Stig Stenholm
Published 19 September 2003 (12 pages)
033607 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Properties of a dilute Bose gas near a Feshbach resonance
Lan Yin and Zhen-Hua Ning
Published 19 September 2003 (5 pages)
033608 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Evolution of the macroscopically entangled states in optical lattices
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Published 19 September 2003 (13 pages)
033609 [View PDF (853 kB)]
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Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory versus local-density approximation for superfluid trapped fermionic atoms
Marcella Grasso and Michael Urban
Published 19 September 2003 (10 pages)
033610 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Instabilities of off-centered vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Tomoya Isoshima, Jukka Huhtamäki, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 25 September 2003 (7 pages)
033611 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Pair dynamics in the formation of molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Pascal Naidon and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
Published 25 September 2003 (13 pages)
033612 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Finite-temperature excitations of a trapped Bose-Fermi mixture
Xia-Ji Liu and Hui Hu
Published 29 September 2003 (9 pages)
033613 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Superfluorescence polarization: Signature of collisional redistribution
A. Kumarakrishnan, S. Chudasama, and X. L. Han
Published 10 September 2003 (10 pages)
033801 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Optical application and measurement of torque on microparticles of isotropic nonabsorbing material
Alexis I. Bishop, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 10 September 2003 (8 pages)
033802 [View PDF (345 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Biphoton double-slit experiment
G. Brida, E. Cagliero, G. Falzetta, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, and E. Predazzi
Published 11 September 2003 (6 pages)
033803 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Interplay between Coulomb interaction and quantum interference in three-level resonant asymmetric double quantum wells
P. M. Alsing, D. H. Huang, D. A. Cardimona, and T. Apostolova
Published 12 September 2003 (11 pages)
033804 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Description and analysis of low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with isotropic optical feedback by a distant reflector
A. V. Naumenko, N. A. Loiko, M. Sondermann, and T. Ackemann
Published 12 September 2003 (16 pages)
033805 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Phase-matching analysis of high-order harmonics generated by truncated Bessel beams in the sub-10-fs regime
C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, M. Nisoli, E. Priori, S. Stagira, M. Pascolini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, V. Tosa, and K. Midorikawa
Published 19 September 2003 (14 pages)
033806 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Energy fluctuations induced by stochastic frequency changes in atom traps
I. Gallardo and R. Jáuregui
Published 22 September 2003 (8 pages)
033807 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Complete conversion of sum-frequency generation enhanced by controllable linear gratings induced by an electro-optic effect in a periodic optical superlattice
Fei Xu, Jun Liao, Xi-Jing Zhang, Jing-Liang He, Hui-Tian Wang, and N. B. Ming
Published 22 September 2003 (7 pages)
033808 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Non-Markovian decay of a three-level cascade atom in a structured reservoir
B. J. Dalton and B. M. Garraway
Published 23 September 2003 (13 pages)
033809 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Three-dimensional Casimir force between absorbing multilayer dielectrics
Christian Raabe, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 25 September 2003 (19 pages)
033810 [View PDF (2,505 kB)]
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TE-TM dynamics in a semiconductor laser subject to polarization-rotated optical feedback
T. Heil, A. Uchida, P. Davis, and T. Aida
Published 25 September 2003 (8 pages)
033811 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Three-dimensional light distribution near the focus of a tightly focused beam of few-cycle optical pulses
Kristine Marie Romallosa, Johnrob Bantang, and Caesar Saloma
Published 25 September 2003 (5 pages)
033812 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Methods of asymptotic analysis in cavity quantum electrodynamics
Claudia Eberlein and Shin-Tza Wu
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
033813 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spatial quantum correlations in the fluorescence of traveling-wave second-harmonic generation
Pierre Scotto
Published 29 September 2003 (15 pages)
033814 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the stretched-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser
M. Salhi, H. Leblond, and F. Sanchez
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
033815 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Measurement of correlated multiple light scattering in ultracold atomic 85Rb
P. Kulatunga, C. I. Sukenik, S. Balik, M. D. Havey, D. V. Kupriyanov, and I. M. Sokolov
Published 29 September 2003 (10 pages)
033816 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Entangled-state preparation via dissipation-assisted adiabatic passages
Carsten Marr, Almut Beige, and Gerhard Rempe
Published 29 September 2003 (11 pages)
033817 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Anticipated chaos in a nonsymmetric coupled external-cavity-laser system
Paul Rees, Paul S. Spencer, Iestyn Pierce, S. Sivaprakasam, and K. Alan Shore
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
033818 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Observation of high-contrast coherence fringes in high-order harmonic generation
S. Kazamias, D. Douillet, C. Valentin, F. Weihe, F. Augé, Th. Lefrou, G. Grillon, S. Sebban, and Ph. Balcou
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
033819 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Cavity-QED-based quantum phase gate
M. Suhail Zubairy, Moochan Kim, and Marlan O. Scully
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
033820 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Relations between bosonic quadrature squeezing and atomic spin squeezing
Xiaoguang Wang and Barry C. Sanders
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
033821 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Two-frequency emission and polarization dynamics at lasing threshold in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
M. Sondermann, M. Weinkath, T. Ackemann, J. Mulet, and S. Balle
Published 29 September 2003 (11 pages)
033822 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Optomechanical characterization of acoustic modes in a mirror
T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann, and M. Pinard
Published 30 September 2003 (8 pages)
033823 [View PDF (435 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Test of quantum action for the inverse square potential
D. Huard, H. Kröger, G. Melkonyan, K. J. M. Moriarty, and L. P. Nadeau
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
034101 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Uncertainty reconciles complementarity with joint measurability
P. Busch and C. R. Shilladay
Published 19 September 2003 (4 pages)
034102 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Quantum information

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Entanglement between a qubit and the environment in the spin-boson model
T. A. Costi and Ross H. McKenzie
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
034301 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Estimating the postmeasurement state
Jürgen Audretsch, Lajos Diósi, and Thomas Konrad
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
034302 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Quantum-information processing using Josephson junctions coupled through cavities
Shi-Liang Zhu, Z. D. Wang, and Kaiyu Yang
Published 10 September 2003 (4 pages)
034303 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Proper magnetic fields for nonadiabatic geometric quantum gates in NMR
Kazuto Oshima and Koji Azuma
Published 10 September 2003 (3 pages)
034304 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Quantum gates with topological phases
Radu Ionicioiu
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
034305 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Generation of arbitrary superpositions of the Dicke states of excitons in optically driven quantum dots
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 17 September 2003 (4 pages)
034306 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Bound entangled states violate a nonsymmetric local uncertainty relation
Holger F. Hofmann
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
034307 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Kraus representation of destruction of states for one qudit
Paweł Caban, Kordian A. Smoliński, and Zbigniew Walczak
Published 29 September 2003 (2 pages)
034308 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Experimental eavesdropping attack against Ekert’s protocol based on Wigner’s inequality
F. A. Bovino, A. M. Colla, G. Castagnoli, S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. L. Rastello
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
034309 [View PDF (482 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Singular nonadiabatic coupling at intersections of potential-energy surfaces by infinite-order perturbation theory
Florian Dufey
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
034501 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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van der Waals coefficients for positronium-atom interactions
J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley
Published 19 September 2003 (3 pages)
035201 [View PDF (29 kB)]

Matter waves

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Free expansion of lowest-Landau-level states of trapped atoms: A wave-function microscope
N. Read and N. R. Cooper
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
035601 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Stability of dark solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an optical lattice
P. G. Kevrekidis, R. Carretero-González, G. Theocharis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and B. A. Malomed
Published 19 September 2003 (4 pages)
035602 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic flow of expanding Bose-Einstein condensates
V. A. Brazhnyi, A. M. Kamchatnov, and V. V. Konotop
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
035603 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Two characteristic temperatures for a Bose-Einstein condensate of a finite number of particles
Z. Idziaszek and K. Rza̧żewski
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
035604 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Generation of entangled states for many multilevel atoms in a thermal cavity and ions in thermal motion
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
035801 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Backaction-induced spin-squeezed states in a detuned quantum-nondemolition measurement
Jing Zhang, Kunchi Peng, and Samuel L. Braunstein
Published 8 September 2003 (4 pages)
035802 [View PDF (48 kB)]
 
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