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Physical Review A – October 2003
Volume 68, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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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(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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. J. Vrakking, F. Robicheaux, and W. J. van der Zande
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
041401(R) [View PDF (146 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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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(R) [View PDF (242 kB)]
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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(R) [View PDF (377 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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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)]
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Entangled light in moving frames
Robert M. Gingrich, Attila J. Bergou, and Christoph Adami
Published 7 October 2003 (4 pages)
042102 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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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 (60 kB)]
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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 (115 kB)]
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Photon polarization and Wigner’s little group
Paweł Caban and Jakub Rembieliński
Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages)
042107 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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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 (195 kB)]
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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 (97 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (96 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]

Quantum information

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Classical data compression with quantum side information
I. Devetak and A. Winter
Published 3 October 2003 (6 pages)
042301 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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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 (104 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (69 kB)]
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Minimum-error discrimination between symmetric mixed quantum states
C.-L. Chou and L. Y. Hsu
Published 7 October 2003 (5 pages)
042305 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (814 kB)]
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Elliptic Rydberg states as direction indicators
Netanel H. Lindner, Asher Peres, and Daniel R. Terno
Published 9 October 2003 (11 pages)
042308 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Energy requirements for quantum data compression and 1-1 coding
Luke Rallan and Vlatko Vedral
Published 9 October 2003 (10 pages)
042309 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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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 (220 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Hyperentanglement-assisted Bell-state analysis
S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken
Published 14 October 2003 (5 pages)
042313 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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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)]
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Controlled order rearrangement encryption for quantum key distribution
Fu-Guo Deng and G. L. Long
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
042315 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (176 kB)]
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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 (116 kB)]
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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 (815 kB)]
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Scheme for generating Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states of n photons
Yoav Sagi
Published 20 October 2003 (4 pages)
042320 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Quantum computing with atomic Josephson junction arrays
Lin Tian and P. Zoller
Published 20 October 2003 (10 pages)
042321 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Overhead and noise threshold of fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Andrew M. Steane
Published 22 October 2003 (19 pages)
042322 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Covariant cloning machines for four-level systems
Thomas Durt and Bob Nagler
Published 22 October 2003 (10 pages)
042323 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (155 kB)]
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Quantum coherence in the presence of unobservable quantities
Kae Nemoto and Samuel L. Braunstein
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
042326 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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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 (229 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (108 kB)]
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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 (201 kB)]
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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 (88 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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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)]
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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)]
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Spin virial theorem in the time-dependent density-functional theory
Á. Nagy
Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages)
042503 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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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 (128 kB)]
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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 (90 kB)]
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Predissociation in the B1Πu 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)]
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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 (52 kB)]
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Structure of excitation and fluorescence spectra recorded at the 10u+(51P1)–X10g+ transition of Cd2
M. Łukomski, J. Koperski, E. Czuchaj, and M. Czajkowski
Published 29 October 2003 (13 pages)
042508 [View PDF (251 kB)]

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. F. 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 (211 kB)]
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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)]
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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)]
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Range of validity for perturbative treatments of relativistic sum rules
Scott M. Cohen
Published 9 October 2003 (9 pages)
042704 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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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 (54 kB)]
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Split diabatic representation
B. D. Esry and H. R. Sadeghpour
Published 10 October 2003 (8 pages)
042706 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Postcollisional decay in Ne multiple ionization by H2+ ions in breakup collisions
M. M. Sant’Anna, H. Luna, A. C. F. 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)]
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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 (64 kB)]
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Electron capture from aligned p-state Rydberg atoms
C. S. Hwang and K. B. MacAdam
Published 22 October 2003 (12 pages)
042709 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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(e,2e) ionization-excitation of H2
M. Takahashi, Y. Khajuria, and Y. Udagawa
Published 22 October 2003 (7 pages)
042710 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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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 (94 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (294 kB)]
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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. H. Smith, and B. Wallbank
Published 23 October 2003 (6 pages)
042714 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Correlation effects in the resonant and nonresonant manganese 3s⃗2p photon emission in MnF2
J. Jiménez-Mier, D. L. Ederer, and T. Schuler
Published 23 October 2003 (8 pages)
042715 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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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)]
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Nonadiabatic couplings in low-energy collisions of hydrogen ground-state atoms
L. Wolniewicz
Published 23 October 2003 (8 pages)
042717 [View PDF (87 kB)]

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

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Emission of polarized photons from unpolarized electrons moving in crystals
V. M. Strakhovenko
Published 10 October 2003 (12 pages)
042901 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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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)]
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Experimental energy straggling of protons in SiO2
J. H. R. 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 (92 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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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 (61 kB)]
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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 (773 kB)]
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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 (210 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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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 (428 kB)]
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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 (512 kB)]
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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 (233 kB)]
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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 (69 kB)]
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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 (887 kB)]
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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 (289 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (127 kB)]
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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)]
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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 (370 kB)]
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Three-photon resonant atomic excitation in spatially incoherent laser beams
Victor Peet and Sergei Shchemeljov
Published 22 October 2003 (8 pages)
043411 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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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 (208 kB)]
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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 PDF (1,361 kB)]
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Kinetics of multiple ionization of rare-gas atoms in a circularly polarized laser field
Alexey S. Kornev, Elena B. Tulenko, and Boris A. Zon
Published 29 October 2003 (9 pages)
043414 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Matter waves

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Violation of self-similarity in the expansion of a one-dimensional Bose gas
P. Pedri, L. Santos, P. Öhberg, and S. Stringari
Published 1 October 2003 (6 pages)
043601 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Skyrmion excitation in a two-dimensional spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Hui Zhai, Wei Qiang Chen, Zhan Xu, and Lee Chang
Published 3 October 2003 (6 pages)
043602 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Dimensional and temperature crossover in trapped Bose gases
U. Al Khawaja, N. P. Proukakis, J. O. Andersen, M. W. J. Romans, and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 6 October 2003 (9 pages)
043603 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Dirac monopoles and dipoles in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
C. M. Savage and J. Ruostekoski
Published 6 October 2003 (6 pages)
043604 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Quantum phase transition of condensed bosons in optical lattices
Jun-Jun Liang, J.-Q. Liang, and W.-M. Liu
Published 8 October 2003 (6 pages)
043605 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Generation of atom-photon entangled states in atomic Bose-Einstein condensate via electromagnetically induced transparency
Le-Man Kuang and Lan Zhou
Published 8 October 2003 (9 pages)
043606 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein-condensate heating by atomic losses
Jacek Dziarmaga and Krzysztof Sacha
Published 8 October 2003 (5 pages)
043607 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Dynamics of a classical gas including dissipative and mean-field effects
P. Pedri, D. Guéry-Odelin, and S. Stringari
Published 9 October 2003 (4 pages)
043608 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Propagation of ultracold atoms through bends in waveguides
M. W. J. Bromley and B. D. Esry
Published 9 October 2003 (10 pages)
043609 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic modes of a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas
J. N. Fuchs, X. Leyronas, and R. Combescot
Published 9 October 2003 (12 pages)
043610 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Bragg spectroscopy with an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate
R. Geursen, N. R. Thomas, and A. C. Wilson
Published 9 October 2003 (5 pages)
043611 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Insulator-superfluid transition of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice in magnetic field
A. A. Svidzinsky and S. T. Chui
Published 10 October 2003 (8 pages)
043612 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Evolution of a dark soliton in a parabolic potential: Application to Bose-Einstein condensates
V. A. Brazhnyi and V. V. Konotop
Published 13 October 2003 (10 pages)
043613 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Creation and evolution of trains of dark solitons in a trapped one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate
V. A. Brazhnyi and A. M. Kamchatnov
Published 13 October 2003 (7 pages)
043614 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Asymptotically improved convergence of optimized perturbation theory in the Bose-Einstein condensation problem
Jean-Loïc Kneur, Marcus B. Pinto, and Rudnei O. Ramos
Published 13 October 2003 (30 pages)
043615 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Gauge-P representation and N-boson problem with binary interactions
Alberto Montina
Published 14 October 2003 (9 pages)
043616 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Solitons, solitonic vortices, and vortex rings in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate
S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou
Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages)
043617 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic microtraps
C. Schroll, W. Belzig, and C. Bruder
Published 15 October 2003 (14 pages)
043618 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Stability of the quantized circulation of an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating torus
Rina Kanamoto, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda
Published 20 October 2003 (12 pages)
043619 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Gray solitons and phonons in repulsive Bose-Einstein condensates confined in one-dimensional nonharmonic traps
A. Radouani
Published 20 October 2003 (5 pages)
043620 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Three-level atom interferometer with bichromatic laser fields
Kazuhito Honda, Shinya Yanagimachi, and Atsuo Morinaga
Published 20 October 2003 (11 pages)
043621 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Entanglement and spin squeezing of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms
M. Zhang, Kristian Helmerson, and L. You
Published 21 October 2003 (11 pages)
043622 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
D. B. M. Dickerscheid, D. van Oosten, P. J. H. Denteneer, and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 23 October 2003 (13 pages)
043623 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Fermion pairing in Bose-Fermi mixtures
F. Matera
Published 24 October 2003 (9 pages)
043624 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensate collapse and dynamical squeezing of vacuum fluctuations
E. A. Calzetta and B. L. Hu
Published 27 October 2003 (16 pages)
043625 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Mean-field analysis of the stability of a K-Rb Fermi-Bose mixture
M. Modugno, F. Ferlaino, F. Riboli, G. Roati, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio
Published 29 October 2003 (5 pages)
043626 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Temporal beam splitter and temporal interference
J. T. Mendonça, A. M. Martins, and A. Guerreiro
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
043801 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Adiabatic-following criterion, estimation of the nonadiabatic excitation fraction, and quantum jumps
R. N. Shakhmuratov and J. Odeurs
Published 6 October 2003 (13 pages)
043802 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Observation of quantum-classical correspondence from high-order transverse patterns
Y. F. Chen, Y. P. Lan, and K. F. Huang
Published 6 October 2003 (5 pages)
043803 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Time-gated high-order harmonic generation
O. Tcherbakoff, E. Mével, D. Descamps, J. Plumridge, and E. Constant
Published 6 October 2003 (4 pages)
043804 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission from a two-level atom in two-band anisotropic photonic crystals
Yaping Yang, M. Fleischhauer, and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 8 October 2003 (21 pages)
043805 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Generation of spatial antibunching with free-propagating twin beams
D. P. Caetano and P. H. Souto Ribeiro
Published 8 October 2003 (5 pages)
043806 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Scattering theory of plasmon-assisted entanglement transfer and distillation
J. L. van Velsen, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages)
043807 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Generalized radiation-field quantization method and the Petermann excess-noise factor
Yuh-Jen Cheng and A. E. Siegman
Published 8 October 2003 (8 pages)
043808 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Spin squeezing via atom-cavity field coupling
Claudiu Genes, P. R. Berman, and A. G. Rojo
Published 8 October 2003 (10 pages)
043809 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Role of atomic coherence effects in four-wave mixing using autoionizing resonances
M. P. Anscombe, R. de Nalda, I. Kuçukkara, and J. P. Marangos
Published 8 October 2003 (14 pages)
043810 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Eliminating ground-state dipole moments in quantum optics via canonical transformation
Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Luciana C. Dávila Romero, and David L. Andrews
Published 9 October 2003 (6 pages)
043811 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Resonant nonstationary amplification of polychromatic laser pulses and conical emission in an optically dense ensemble of neon metastable atoms
S. N. Bagayev, V. S. Egorov, I. B. Mekhov, P. V. Moroshkin, I. A. Chekhonin, E. M. Davliatchine, and E. Kindel
Published 10 October 2003 (10 pages)
043812 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Entanglement and four-wave mixing effects in the dissipation-free nonlinear interaction of two photons at a single atom
Holger F. Hofmann, Kunihiro Kojima, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki
Published 10 October 2003 (7 pages)
043813 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Photon-number resolution using time-multiplexed single-photon detectors
M. J. Fitch, B. C. Jacobs, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson
Published 10 October 2003 (6 pages)
043814 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Optical pumping method for squeezing and entanglement in the ground-state spin subsystems of macroscopic atomic ensembles
D. V. Kupriyanov, I. M. Sokolov, and A. V. Slavgorodskii
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
043815 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media
Ho Trung Dung, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Stefan Scheel, and Jürgen Kästel
Published 13 October 2003 (15 pages)
043816 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Enhancing nonlinear frequency conversion using spatially dependent coherence
Z. Kis and E. Paspalakis
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
043817 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Switching from positive to negative dispersion in transparent degenerate and near-degenerate systems
C. Goren, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, M. Rosenbluh, and H. Friedmann
Published 14 October 2003 (10 pages)
043818 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Joint measurement of photon-number sum and phase-difference operators in a two-mode field
Xu Bo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 14 October 2003 (6 pages)
043819 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Measurement-induced spin squeezing in a cavity
Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda
Published 20 October 2003 (9 pages)
043820 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Photon-added detection
A. M. Brańczyk, Tobias J. Osborne, Alexei Gilchrist, and T. C. Ralph
Published 20 October 2003 (5 pages)
043821 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Realization of multimode operators with passive linear optics and photodetection
J. Clausen, L. Knöll, and D.-G. Welsch
Published 22 October 2003 (13 pages)
043822 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Quantum approach to electromagnetic energy transfer between two dielectric bodies
Maciej Janowicz, Daniel Reddig, and Martin Holthaus
Published 22 October 2003 (17 pages)
043823 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Multiphoton amplification processes and quantum-path interferences in a coherently driven atomic vapor
J. J. Fernández-Soler, J. L. Font, R. Vilaseca, Daniel J. Gauthier, and A. Kul’minskii
Published 24 October 2003 (13 pages)
043824 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Compression of γ-ray photons into ultrashort pulses
Elena Kuznetsova, Roman Kolesov, and Olga Kocharovskaya
Published 27 October 2003 (6 pages)
043825 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Cooperative fluorescence effects for dipole-dipole interacting systems with experimentally relevant level configurations
Volker Hannstein and Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
Published 29 October 2003 (9 pages)
043826 [View PDF (114 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Galilean covariance of a reduced density matrix
Paweł Caban, Kordian A. Smoliński, and Zbigniew Walczak
Published 21 October 2003 (3 pages)
044101 [View PDF (41 kB)]

Quantum information

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Thermal entanglement in the two-qubit Heisenberg XY model under a nonuniform external magnetic field
Yang Sun, Yuguang Chen, and Hong Chen
Published 6 October 2003 (4 pages)
044301 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Generation and evolution of spin entanglement in nonrelativistic QED
Ru-Fen Liu and Chia-Chu Chen
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
044302 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Quantum data hiding with spontaneous parameter down-conversion
Guang-Can Guo and Guo-Ping Guo
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
044303 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Simple wave functions for (1s)(ns)1,3S and (1s)(np)1,3P states of He and isoelectronic ions
S. H. Patil
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
044501 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Nonrelativistic variationally optimized exchange potentials for Ne-like atomic ions having large atomic number
I. A. Howard, N. H. March, and J. D. Talman
Published 20 October 2003 (4 pages)
044502 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Static polarizabilities of hydrogen in the B-spline basis set
Mohammad I. Bhatti, Kevin D. Coleman, and Warren F. Perger
Published 22 October 2003 (4 pages)
044503 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Photoabsorption cross section and ion-yield spectra of helium double-excitation resonances
K. C. Prince, R. Richter, M. de Simone, M. Alagia, and M. Coreno
Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages)
044701 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Adiabatic stabilization against photoionization in a constant magnetic field
Jacek Matulewski, Andrzej Raczyński, and Jarosław Zaremba
Published 23 October 2003 (3 pages)
045401 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Matter waves

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Nonadiabatic effects in the dynamics of collapsing Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Métens, G. Dewel, and P. Borckmans
Published 3 October 2003 (3 pages)
045601 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Spin and statistics in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: The spin-zero case”
R. E. Allen and A. R. Mondragon
Published 14 October 2003 (2 pages)
046101 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Spin and statistics in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: The spin-zero case’ ”
Murray Peshkin
Published 14 October 2003 (2 pages)
046102 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Comment on “Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations”
Wayne M. Itano
Published 14 October 2003 (2 pages)
046301 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Reply I to “Comment on ‘Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations’ ”
S. J. van Enk and H. J. Kimble
Published 14 October 2003 (1 page)
046302 [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Reply II to “Comment on ‘Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations’ ”
Julio Gea-Banacloche
Published 14 October 2003 (2 pages)
046303 [View PDF (28 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules [Phys. Rev. A 67, 063805 (2003)]
A. Adelswärd, S. Wallentowitz, and W. Vogel
Published 20 October 2003 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Three-dimensional Casimir force between absorbing multilayer dielectrics [Phys. Rev. A 68, 033810 (2003)]
Christian Raabe, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 21 October 2003 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Sub-Riemannian geometry and time optimal control of three spin systems: Quantum gates and coherence transfer [Phys. Rev. A 65, 032301 (2002)]
Navin Khaneja, Steffen J. Glaser, and Roger Brockett
Published 24 October 2003 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
 
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