• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in external fields
  • Matter waves
  • Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Magnetic dipole hyperfine interactions in 137Ba+ and the accuracies of the neutral weak interaction matrix elements Bijaya K. Sahoo, Geetha Gopakumar, Rajat K. Chaudhuri, B. P. Das, Holger Merlitz, Uttam Sinha Mahapatra, and Debashis Mukherjee Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages) 040501 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Identification and characterization of the dielectronic process in the formation of two K-shell vacancies in atomic Li by fast electron impact J. Rangama, D. Hennecart, N. Stolterfoht, J. A. Tanis, B. Sulik, F. Frémont, X. Husson, and J.-Y. Chesnel Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages) 040701 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Two-dimensional momentum imaging of Rydberg states using half-cycle pulse ionization and velocity map imaging A. Wetzels, A. Gürtler, F. Roşca-Prună, S. Zamith, M. J. Vrakking, F. Robicheaux, and W. J. van der Zande Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages) 041401 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Competition between sequential and direct paths in a two-photon transition Béatrice Chatel, Jérôme Degert, Sabine Stock, and Bertrand Girard Published 22 October 2003 (4 pages) 041402 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Low-light-level nonlinear optics with slow light Danielle A. Braje, Vlatko Balić, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages) 041801 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

How to measure the duration of subfemtosecond xuv laser pulses using asymmetric photoionization André D. Bandrauk, Szczepan Chelkowski, and Nguyen Hong Shon Published 21 October 2003 (4 pages) 041802 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Perturbation approach to the self-energy of non-S hydrogenic states Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, and Gerhard Soff Published 3 October 2003 (17 pages) 042101 [View PDF (932 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entangled light in moving frames Robert M. Gingrich, Attila J. Bergou, and Christoph Adami Published 7 October 2003 (4 pages) 042102 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of the electron electric dipole moment in gadolinium garnets T. N. Mukhamedjanov, V. A. Dzuba, and O. P. Sushkov Published 7 October 2003 (8 pages) 042103 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like proof of Bell’s theorem involving observers who do not share a reference frame Adán Cabello Published 9 October 2003 (6 pages) 042104 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-dependent observable effect for free particles using the arrival time distribution Md. Manirul Ali, A. S. Majumdar, Dipankar Home, and Shyamal Sengupta Published 9 October 2003 (5 pages) 042105 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization operator contributions to the Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting Michael I. Eides and Valery A. Shelyuto Published 9 October 2003 (10 pages) 042106 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon polarization and Wigner’s little group Paweł Caban and Jakub Rembieliński Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages) 042107 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical tunneling in real time: Wave-packet dynamics in static and driven barrier potentials Markus Saltzer and Joachim Ankerhold Published 13 October 2003 (12 pages) 042108 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring Pancharatnam’s relative phase for SO(3) evolutions using spin polarimetry Peter Larsson and Erik Sjöqvist Published 20 October 2003 (5 pages) 042109 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified de Broglie approach applied to the Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon equations James Baker-Jarvis and Pavel Kabos Published 21 October 2003 (8 pages) 042110 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum polarization calculations for hydrogenlike and alkali-metal-like ions J. Sapirstein and K. T. Cheng Published 21 October 2003 (10 pages) 042111 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Off-diagonal generalization of the mixed-state geometric phase Stefan Filipp and Erik Sjöqvist Published 23 October 2003 (10 pages) 042112 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Physical realizations of quantum operations Francesco Buscemi, G. Mauro D’Ariano, and Massimiliano F. Sacchi Published 23 October 2003 (7 pages) 042113 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Classical data compression with quantum side information I. Devetak and A. Winter Published 3 October 2003 (6 pages) 042301 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Sympathetic cooling of 9Be+ and 24Mg+ for quantum logic M. D. Barrett, B. DeMarco, T. Schaetz, V. Meyer, D. Leibfried, J. Britton, J. Chiaverini, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland Published 3 October 2003 (8 pages) 042302 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Practicality of time-optimal two-qubit Hamiltonian simulation Henry L. Haselgrove, Michael A. Nielsen, and Tobias J. Osborne Published 6 October 2003 (8 pages) 042303 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possibility of producing the event-ready two-photon polarization entangled state with normal photon detectors Wang Xiang-Bin Published 6 October 2003 (6 pages) 042304 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimum-error discrimination between symmetric mixed quantum states C.-L. Chou and L. Y. Hsu Published 7 October 2003 (5 pages) 042305 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Contextual realization of the universal quantum cloning machine and of the universal-NOT gate by quantum-injected optical parametric amplification D. Pelliccia, V. Schettini, F. Sciarrino, C. Sias, and F. De Martini Published 9 October 2003 (11 pages) 042306 [View PDF (641 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric measure of entanglement and applications to bipartite and multipartite quantum states Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart Published 9 October 2003 (12 pages) 042307 [View PDF (815 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elliptic Rydberg states as direction indicators Netanel H. Lindner, Asher Peres, and Daniel R. Terno Published 9 October 2003 (11 pages) 042308 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy requirements for quantum data compression and 1-1 coding Luke Rallan and Vlatko Vedral Published 9 October 2003 (10 pages) 042309 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conal representation of quantum states and non-trace-preserving quantum operations Pablo Arrighi and Christophe Patricot Published 10 October 2003 (11 pages) 042310 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement dynamics in one-dimensional quantum cellular automata Gavin K. Brennen and Jamie E. Williams Published 13 October 2003 (12 pages) 042311 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Separable balls around the maximally mixed multipartite quantum states Leonid Gurvits and Howard Barnum Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages) 042312 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperentanglement-assisted Bell-state analysis S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken Published 14 October 2003 (5 pages) 042313 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional linear-optical measurement schemes generate effective photon nonlinearities G. G. Lapaire, Pieter Kok, Jonathan P. Dowling, and J. E. Sipe Published 14 October 2003 (11 pages) 042314 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlled order rearrangement encryption for quantum key distribution Fu-Guo Deng and G. L. Long Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 042315 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Criterion for testing multiparticle negative-partial-transpose entanglement B. Zeng, D. L. Zhou, P. Zhang, Z. Xu, and L. You Published 20 October 2003 (4 pages) 042316 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-step quantum direct communication protocol using the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair block Fu-Guo Deng, Gui Lu Long, and Xiao-Shu Liu Published 20 October 2003 (6 pages) 042317 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Clifford group, stabilizer states, and linear and quadratic operations over GF(2) Jeroen Dehaene and Bart De Moor Published 20 October 2003 (10 pages) 042318 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum computation with optical coherent states T. C. Ralph, A. Gilchrist, G. J. Milburn, W. J. Munro, and S. Glancy Published 20 October 2003 (11 pages) 042319 [View PDF (816 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scheme for generating Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states of n photons Yoav Sagi Published 20 October 2003 (4 pages) 042320 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum computing with atomic Josephson junction arrays Lin Tian and P. Zoller Published 20 October 2003 (10 pages) 042321 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Overhead and noise threshold of fault-tolerant quantum error correction Andrew M. Steane Published 22 October 2003 (19 pages) 042322 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Covariant cloning machines for four-level systems Thomas Durt and Bob Nagler Published 22 October 2003 (10 pages) 042323 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Teleportation-based number-state manipulation with number-sum measurement Akira Kitagawa and Katsuji Yamamoto Published 23 October 2003 (9 pages) 042324 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conditional generation of arbitrary multimode entangled states of light with linear optics J. Fiurášek, S. Massar, and N. J. Cerf Published 23 October 2003 (9 pages) 042325 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum coherence in the presence of unobservable quantities Kae Nemoto and Samuel L. Braunstein Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages) 042326 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometrical conditions for completely positive trace-preserving maps and their application to a quantum repeater and a state-dependent quantum cloning machine A. Carlini and M. Sasaki Published 23 October 2003 (10 pages) 042327 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental requirements for Grover’s algorithm in optical quantum computation Jennifer L. Dodd, Timothy C. Ralph, and G. J. Milburn Published 24 October 2003 (8 pages) 042328 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon-number superselection and the entangled coherent-state representation Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Peter L. Knight Published 24 October 2003 (9 pages) 042329 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement, quantum phase transition, and scaling in the XXZ chain Shi-Jian Gu, Hai-Qing Lin, and You-Quan Li Published 24 October 2003 (4 pages) 042330 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum cryptography using pulsed homodyne detection T. Hirano, H. Yamanaka, M. Ashikaga, T. Konishi, and R. Namiki Published 29 October 2003 (7 pages) 042331 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Extreme ultraviolet spectra of highly charged Xe ions E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, J. K. Lepson, and H. Chen Published 8 October 2003 (7 pages) 042501 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical approach to effective rotational energy and bifurcation in rotational dynamics of H2X molecules A. P. Pyshchev Published 10 October 2003 (10 pages) 042502 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin virial theorem in the time-dependent density-functional theory Á. Nagy Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages) 042503 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantal density-functional theory of excited states: The state arbitrariness of the model noninteracting system Marlina Slamet, Ranbir Singh, Lou Massa, and Viraht Sahni Published 20 October 2003 (9 pages) 042504 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K-edge x-ray absorption spectra of Cs and Xe J. Padežnik Gomilšek, A. Kodre, I. Arčon, and M. Hribar Published 20 October 2003 (7 pages) 042505 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predissociation in the B 1Πu state of 6Li7Li: Accidental perturbations beyond the ungerade-gerade symmetry breaking P. Cacciani, V. Kokoouline, N. Bouloufa, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and R. Vetter Published 22 October 2003 (9 pages) 042506 [View PDF (628 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bethe logarithm for the lithium atom from exponentially correlated Gaussian functions Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa Published 27 October 2003 (5 pages) 042507 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of excitation and fluorescence spectra recorded at the 10u+(5 1P1)–X 10g+ transition of Cd2 M. Łukomski, J. Koperski, E. Czuchaj, and M. Czajkowski Published 29 October 2003 (13 pages) 042508 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Electron loss from 0.74- and 1.4-MeV/u low-charge-state argon and xenon ions colliding with neon, nitrogen, and argon R. D. DuBois, A. C. Santos, R. E. Olson, Th. Stöhlker, F. Bosch, A. Bräuning-Demian, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, C. Kozhuharov, R. Mann, A. Oršić Muthig, U. Spillmann, S. Tachenov, W. Barth, L. Dahl, B. Franzke, J. Glatz, L. Gröning, S. Richter, D. Wilms, A. Krämer, K. Ullmann, and O. Jagutzki Published 3 October 2003 (8 pages) 042701 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute high-resolution rate coefficients for dissociative recombination of electrons with HD+: Comparison of results from three heavy-ion storage rings A. Al-Khalili et al. Published 6 October 2003 (14 pages) 042702 [View PDF (889 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excited-state evolution probed by convoy-electron emission in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Y. Takabayashi, T. Ito, T. Azuma, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, H. Tawara, E. Takada, T. Murakami, M. Seliger, K. Tökési, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer Published 8 October 2003 (12 pages) 042703 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Range of validity for perturbative treatments of relativistic sum rules Scott M. Cohen Published 9 October 2003 (9 pages) 042704 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin exchange in polarized deuterium B. von Przewoski, H. O. Meyer, J. Balewski, W. W. Daehnick, J. Doskow, W. Haeberli, R. Ibald, B. Lorentz, P. V. Pancella, R. E. Pollock, F. Rathmann, T. Rinckel, Swapan K. Saha, B. Schwartz, P. Thörngren-Engblom, A. Wellinghausen, T. J. Whitaker, and T. Wise Published 10 October 2003 (4 pages) 042705 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Split diabatic representation B. D. Esry and H. R. Sadeghpour Published 10 October 2003 (8 pages) 042706 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Postcollisional decay in Ne multiple ionization by H2+ ions in breakup collisions M. M. Sant’Anna, H. Luna, A. C. Santos, C. McGrath, M. B. Shah, E. G. Cavalcanti, G. M. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro Published 13 October 2003 (5 pages) 042707 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the interspecies s-wave scattering length in an ultracold Na-Rb vapor S. B. Weiss, M. Bhattacharya, and N. P. Bigelow Published 20 October 2003 (6 pages) 042708 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron capture from aligned p-state Rydberg atoms C. S. Hwang and K. B. MacAdam Published 22 October 2003 (12 pages) 042709 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	(e,2e) ionization-excitation of H2 M. Takahashi, Y. Khajuria, and Y. Udagawa Published 22 October 2003 (7 pages) 042710 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distribution of hypersatellite and satellite radiation emitted after resonant transfer and excitation into U91+ ions S. Zakowicz, Z. Harman, N. Grün, and W. Scheid Published 23 October 2003 (7 pages) 042711 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron-electron interaction studied in strong central fields by resonant transfer and excitation with H-like U ions X. Ma, P. H. Mokler, F. Bosch, A. Gumberidze, C. Kozhuharov, D. Liesen, D. Sierpowski, Z. Stachura, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Warczak Published 23 October 2003 (10 pages) 042712 [View PDF (626 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation and polarization effects in photodetachment of the negative iodide ion M. Kutzner, J. T. Brown, and J. Thorarinson Published 23 October 2003 (5 pages) 042713 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron-impact dissociation of CH+ ions: Measurement of C+ fragment ions M. E. Bannister, H. F. Krause, C. R. Vane, N. Djurić, D. B. Popović, M. Stepanović, G. H. Dunn, Y.-S. Chung, A. C. Smith, and B. Wallbank Published 23 October 2003 (6 pages) 042714 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation effects in the resonant and nonresonant manganese 3s→2p photon emission in MnF2 J. Jiménez-Mier, D. L. Ederer, and T. Schuler Published 23 October 2003 (8 pages) 042715 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Inseparable positron annihilation and positronium formation in positron-atom collisions: Description in terms of an absorption potential Akinori Igarashi, Mineo Kimura, Isao Shimamura, and Nobuyuki Toshima Published 23 October 2003 (8 pages) 042716 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic couplings in low-energy collisions of hydrogen ground-state atoms L. Wolniewicz Published 23 October 2003 (8 pages) 042717 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Emission of polarized photons from unpolarized electrons moving in crystals V. M. Strakhovenko Published 10 October 2003 (12 pages) 042901 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explanation of the observed trend in the mean excitation energy of a target as determined using several projectiles R. Cabrera-Trujillo, J. R. Sabin, and J. Oddershede Published 23 October 2003 (5 pages) 042902 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental energy straggling of protons in SiO2 J. H. dos Santos, P. L. Grande, M. Behar, J. F. Dias, N. R. Arista, J. C. Eckardt, and G. H. Lantschner Published 23 October 2003 (6 pages) 042903 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Basis-set limit binding energies of Ben and Mgn (n=2,3,4) clusters Jae Shin Lee Published 9 October 2003 (7 pages) 043201 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trends in near-threshold photoionization of off-the-center endohedral atoms A. S. Baltenkov, V. K. Dolmatov, S. T. Manson, A. Z. Msezane, and V. A. Pikhut Published 20 October 2003 (8 pages) 043202 [View PDF (774 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural features and energetics of Znn-mCdm (n=7,8) microclusters and Zn50, Cd50, and Zn25Cd25 nanoparticles: Molecular-dynamics simulations Lynda Amirouche and Şakir Erkoç Published 29 October 2003 (6 pages) 043203 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Population transfer by an amplitude-modulated pulse N. V. Vitanov, L. P. Yatsenko, and K. Bergmann Published 2 October 2003 (8 pages) 043401 [View PDF (429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoelectron spectra in intense laser fields: The effect of resonance with autoionizing Rydberg states Miyabi Hiyama and Kiyohiko Someda Published 3 October 2003 (8 pages) 043402 [View PDF (513 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intramolecular energy-transfer processes induced by an external electric field Vladimir I. Makarov, Sergei A. Kochubei, and Igor V. Khmelinskii Published 8 October 2003 (15 pages) 043403 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Practical scaling law for photoelectron angular distributions Dong-Sheng Guo, Jingtao Zhang, Zhizhan Xu, Xiaofeng Li, Panming Fu, and R. R. Freeman Published 13 October 2003 (5 pages) 043404 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Retroreflection-induced bichromatic adiabatic passage L. P. Yatsenko, B. W. Shore, N. V. Vitanov, and K. Bergmann Published 14 October 2003 (13 pages) 043405 [View PDF (888 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization and high-order harmonic generation in aligned benzene by a short intense circularly polarized laser pulse Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser, Petra R. Ždánská, and Nimrod Moiseyev Published 20 October 2003 (8 pages) 043406 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlling H- detachment with few-cycle pulses S. X. Hu and Anthony F. Starace Published 20 October 2003 (16 pages) 043407 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlling harmonic generation in molecules with intense laser and static magnetic fields: Orientation effects André D. Bandrauk and HuiZhong Lu Published 20 October 2003 (7 pages) 043408 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inducing a sign inversion in one state of a two-state superposition using ultrafast pulse shaping Joshua B. Ballard, Alan N. Arrowsmith, Lutz Hüwel, Xingcan Dai, and Stephen R. Leone Published 22 October 2003 (9 pages) 043409 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-space manipulation of stored ions using the δ-kick method S. Goldberg, D. Strasser, O. Heber, M. L. Rappaport, A. Diner, and D. Zajfman Published 22 October 2003 (7 pages) 043410 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-photon resonant atomic excitation in spatially incoherent laser beams Victor Peet and Sergei Shchemeljov Published 22 October 2003 (8 pages) 043411 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation dynamics between electrons and ions in the fragmentation of D2 molecules by short laser pulses X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin Published 24 October 2003 (12 pages) 043412 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elucidating the mechanisms of double ionization using intense half-cycle, single-cycle, and double half-cycle pulses G. Lagmago Kamta and Anthony F. Starace Published 27 October 2003 (12 pages) 043413 [View