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Physical Review A – December 2003
Volume 68, Issue 6

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Quantum information

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Entanglement and spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum spin models
Olav F. Syljuåsen
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Entanglement concentration by ordinary linear optical devices without postselection
Wang Xiang-bin and Fan Heng
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
060302(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Observation of diffractive orbits in the spectrum of excited NO in a magnetic field
A. Matzkin, M. Raoult, and D. Gauyacq
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
061401(R) [View PDF (228 kB)]

Matter waves

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Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of a homogeneous weakly interacting Bose gas in variational perturbation theory through six loops
Boris Kastening
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
061601(R) [View PDF (82 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Squeezing arbitrary cavity-field states through their interaction with a single driven atom
C. J. Villas-Bôas, N. G. de Almeida, R. M. Serra, and M. H. Y. Moussa
Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages)
061801(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Demonstration of a soft-x-ray laser at 13.9 nm with full spatial coherence
Masaharu Nishikino, Momoko Tanaka, Keisuke Nagashima, Maki Kishimoto, Masataka Kado, Tetsuya Kawachi, Kouta Sukegawa, Yoshihiro Ochi, Noboru Hasegawa, and Yoshiaki Kato
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
061802(R) [View PDF (326 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Moving atom-field interaction: Correction to the Casimir-Polder effect from coherent backaction
S. Shresta, B. L. Hu, and Nicholas G. Phillips
Published 2 December 2003 (13 pages)
062101 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Violations of Bell inequalities as lower bounds on the communication cost of nonlocal correlations
Stefano Pironio
Published 4 December 2003 (9 pages)
062102 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Chaos and quantum-classical correspondence via phase-space distribution functions
Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer
Published 4 December 2003 (12 pages)
062103 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Interpretation of non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations as a hidden-variable theory
Jay Gambetta and H. M. Wiseman
Published 9 December 2003 (9 pages)
062104 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Correspondence between continuous-variable and discrete quantum systems of arbitrary dimensions
Časlav Brukner, Myungshik S. Kim, Jian-Wei Pan, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 9 December 2003 (5 pages)
062105 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Decoherence and recoherence from vacuum fluctuations near a conducting plate
Francisco D. Mazzitelli, Juan Pablo Paz, and Alejandro Villanueva
Published 9 December 2003 (6 pages)
062106 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Orthogonality and distinguishability: Criterion for local distinguishability of arbitrary orthogonal states
Ping-Xing Chen and Cheng-Zu Li
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
062107 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Mode entanglement and entangling power in bosonic graphs
Paolo Giorda and Paolo Zanardi
Published 18 December 2003 (15 pages)
062108 [View PDF (1,222 kB)]
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Violation of local realism versus detection efficiency
Serge Massar and Stefano Pironio
Published 22 December 2003 (7 pages)
062109 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Experimentally attainable example of chaotic tunneling: The hydrogen atom in parallel static electric and magnetic fields
Dominique Delande and Jakub Zakrzewski
Published 24 December 2003 (14 pages)
062110 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Completeness and orthonormality in PT-symmetric quantum systems
Stefan Weigert
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
062111 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Semiclassical coherent-state propagator via path integrals with intermediate states of variable width
Fernando Parisio and M. A. M. de Aguiar
Published 30 December 2003 (13 pages)
062112 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Quantum information

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Output state in multiple entanglement swapping
Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Marek Żukowski
Published 2 December 2003 (11 pages)
062301 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Generalized measurements via a programmable quantum processor
Marián Roško, Vladimír Bužek, Paul Robert Chouha, and Mark Hillery
Published 2 December 2003 (8 pages)
062302 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Quantum computation based on d-level cluster state
D. L. Zhou, B. Zeng, Z. Xu, and C. P. Sun
Published 2 December 2003 (11 pages)
062303 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Convex-roof extended negativity as an entanglement measure for bipartite quantum systems
Soojoon Lee, Dong Pyo Chi, Sung Dahm Oh, and Jaewan Kim
Published 4 December 2003 (5 pages)
062304 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Reliability of the beam-splitter–based Bell-state measurement
Yoon-Ho Kim and Warren P. Grice
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
062305 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Multiqubit W states lead to stronger nonclassicality than Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states
Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, Marcin Wieśniak, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Marek Żukowski
Published 9 December 2003 (7 pages)
062306 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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General formalism of Hamiltonians for realizing a prescribed evolution of a qubit
D. M. Tong, Jing-Ling Chen, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Lai, and C. H. Oh
Published 9 December 2003 (5 pages)
062307 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Optimal control theory for unitary transformations
José P. Palao and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 9 December 2003 (13 pages)
062308 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Bures distance as a measure of entanglement for two-mode squeezed thermal states
Paulina Marian, Tudor A. Marian, and Horia Scutaru
Published 10 December 2003 (10 pages)
062309 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Entanglement detection based on interference and particle counting
Géza Tóth, Christoph Simon, and Juan Ignacio Cirac
Published 10 December 2003 (6 pages)
062310 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Quantum-circuit model of Hamiltonian search algorithms
Jérémie Roland and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 15 December 2003 (6 pages)
062311 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Adiabatic quantum search algorithm for structured problems
Jérémie Roland and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 15 December 2003 (7 pages)
062312 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Generalized reduction criterion for separability of quantum states
Sergio Albeverio, Kai Chen, and Shao-Ming Fei
Published 17 December 2003 (7 pages)
062313 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Measurable entanglement criterion for two qubits
Hoshang Heydari, Gunnar Björk, and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
062314 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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One-dimensional quantum walk with unitary noise
Daniel Shapira, Ofer Biham, A. J. Bracken, and Michelle Hackett
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
062315 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Entanglement sharing in the two-atom Tavis-Cummings model
T. E. Tessier, I. H. Deutsch, A. Delgado, and I. Fuentes-Guridi
Published 18 December 2003 (10 pages)
062316 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Continuous-variable entanglement and quantum-state teleportation between optical and macroscopic vibrational modes through radiation pressure
Stefano Pirandola, Stefano Mancini, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 22 December 2003 (14 pages)
062317 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Characterizing entanglement with global and marginal entropic measures
Gerardo Adesso, Fabrizio Illuminati, and Silvio De Siena
Published 23 December 2003 (6 pages)
062318 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Generalized remote state preparation: Trading cbits, qubits, and ebits in quantum communication
Anura Abeyesinghe and Patrick Hayden
Published 24 December 2003 (9 pages)
062319 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Universal quantum control in irreducible state-space sectors: Application to bosonic and spin-boson systems
Paolo Giorda, Paolo Zanardi, and Seth Lloyd
Published 24 December 2003 (10 pages)
062320 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Quantum adiabatic algorithms and large spin tunnelling
A. Boulatov and V. N. Smelyanskiy
Published 24 December 2003 (12 pages)
062321 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Characterization of the positivity of the density matrix in terms of the coherence vector representation
Mark S. Byrd and Navin Khaneja
Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages)
062322 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Broadband channel capacities
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, and Peter W. Shor
Published 31 December 2003 (11 pages)
062323 [View PDF (866 kB)]
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Multipartite entanglement gambling: The power of asymptotic state transformations assisted by a sublinear amount of quantum communication
Ashish V. Thapliyal and John A. Smolin
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
062324 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Mesic molecule formation in collisional Auger transitions of excited mesic hydrogen
A. V. Kravtsov, A. I. Mikhailov, I. A. Mikhailov, and L.I. Ponomarev
Published 2 December 2003 (7 pages)
062501 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Scattering of pμ muonic atoms in solid hydrogen
J. Woźniak, A. Adamczak, G. A. Beer, V. M. Bystritsky, M. Filipowicz, M. C. Fujiwara, T. M. Huber, O. Huot, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, P. Kammel, S. K. Kim, P. E. Knowles, A. R. Kunselman, G. M. Marshall, F. Mulhauser, A. Olin, C. Petitjean, T. A. Porcelli, L. A. Schaller, V. A. Stolupin, and J. Zmeskal ((TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration))
Published 5 December 2003 (14 pages)
062502 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Laplace-transformed denominators in perturbation theory: Linear-scaling second-order treatment of weakly interacting nanostructures
Péter R. Surján, Armand Lázár, and Ágnes Szabados
Published 9 December 2003 (3 pages)
062503 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Two-channel Siegert pseudostate approach to a three-body Coulomb problem: S-wave resonances of Ps-(N=2,3)
Koudai Toyota and Shinichi Watanabe
Published 15 December 2003 (7 pages)
062504 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Third-order relativistic many-body calculations of energies and lifetimes of levels along the silver isoelectronic sequence
U. I. Safronova, I. M. Savukov, M. S. Safronova, and W. R. Johnson
Published 22 December 2003 (9 pages)
062505 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Hyperspherical elliptic coordinate treatment of muon transfer from muonic hydrogen to atomic oxygen
Arnaud Dupays, Bruno Lepetit, J. Alberto Beswick, Carlo Rizzo, and Dimitar Bakalov
Published 30 December 2003 (5 pages)
062506 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Simultaneous transfer ionization of a negative hydrogen ion by positron impact
D. Ghosh and C. Sinha
Published 9 December 2003 (8 pages)
062701 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Charge transfer in slow collisions of C4+ with H below 1 keV/amu
Chien-Nan Liu, Anh-Thu Le, and C. D. Lin
Published 10 December 2003 (5 pages)
062702 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Cross sections for low-energy inelastic H+Li collisions
Andrey K. Belyaev and Paul S. Barklem
Published 15 December 2003 (9 pages)
062703 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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R-matrix implementation giving well-behaved quantum defect matrices of molecular hydrogen
Mourad Telmini and Christian Jungen
Published 17 December 2003 (14 pages)
062704 [View PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of beryllium and its ions
C. P. Ballance, D. C. Griffin, J. Colgan, S. D. Loch, and M. S. Pindzola
Published 18 December 2003 (11 pages)
062705 [View PDF (1,236 kB)]
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Elastic positron scattering by C2H2: Differential cross sections and virtual state formation
Claudia R. C. de Carvalho, Márcio T. do N. Varella, Marco A. P. Lima, and Euclimar P. da Silva
Published 19 December 2003 (6 pages)
062706 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Ab initio study of low-energy electron collisions with ethylene
C. S. Trevisan, A. E. Orel, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 24 December 2003 (9 pages)
062707 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Electron excitation cross sections for the 2s22p2Po→2s2p24P and 2s2p22D transitions in O3+
S. J. Smith, J. A. Lozano, S. S. Tayal, and A. Chutjian
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
062708 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Parameter-free nonadiabatic correlation-polarization potential for vibrational excitation in electron-molecule scattering: Application to e-N2 collisions
Hao Feng, Weiguo Sun, and Michael A. Morrison
Published 24 December 2003 (14 pages)
062709 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Dispersion coefficients for H and He interactions with alkali-metal and alkaline-earth-metal atoms
J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley
Published 30 December 2003 (6 pages)
062710 [View PDF (51 kB)]

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

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Electron channeling radiation experiments at very high electron bunch charges
R. A. Carrigan, Jr., J. Freudenberger, S. Fritzler, H. Genz, A. Richter, A. Ushakov, A. Zilges, and J. P. F. Sellschop
Published 12 December 2003 (8 pages)
062901 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Vicinage forces between molecular and atomic fragments dissociated from small hydrogen clusters and their effects on energy distributions
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco and Rafael Garcia-Molina
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
062902 [View PDF (339 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Time-dependent Boltzmann kinetic model of x rays produced by ultrashort-pulse laser irradiation of argon clusters
J. Abdallah, Jr., G. Csanak, Y. Fukuda, Y. Akahane, M. Aoyama, N. Inoue, H. Ueda, K. Yamakawa, A. Ya. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, and I. Yu. Skobelev
Published 12 December 2003 (8 pages)
063201 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Charge-transfer-induced evaporation in collisions of Li312+ clusters with Cs atoms
C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, B. Concina, J. Leygnier, L. F. Ruiz, B. Zarour, P. A. Hervieux, J. Hanssen, M. F. Politis, and F. Martín
Published 12 December 2003 (12 pages)
063202 [View PDF (327 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Three-photon above-threshold ionization of magnesium
A. Reber, F. Martín, H. Bachau, and R. S. Berry
Published 2 December 2003 (10 pages)
063401 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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s-wave pseudopotential for anisotropic traps
Jochen Pade, Martin Block, and Martin Holthaus
Published 2 December 2003 (6 pages)
063402 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Control of population transfer in degenerate systems by nonresonant Stark shifts
François Légaré
Published 10 December 2003 (5 pages)
063403 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Detailed comparison of theory and experiment of strong-field photodetachment of the negative hydrogen ion
Rainer Reichle, Hanspeter Helm, and Igor Yu. Kiyan
Published 10 December 2003 (11 pages)
063404 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Static electric-field effects in the photodetachment of Cs- at the 3P resonance region
A. A. Khuskivadze, I. I. Fabrikant, and U. Thumm
Published 10 December 2003 (7 pages)
063405 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Quantum localization in the three-dimensional kicked Rydberg atom
Emil Persson, Shuhei Yoshida, Xiao-Min Tong, Carlos O. Reinhold, and Joachim Burgdörfer
Published 11 December 2003 (15 pages)
063406 [View PDF (1,012 kB)]
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Role of symmetry in strong-field ionization of molecules
T. K. Kjeldsen, C. Z. Bisgaard, L. B. Madsen, and H. Stapelfeldt
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
063407 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Strong-field dissociative ionization of a linear triatomic molecule: Relationship between Coulomb-explosion energies and bond angle
K. Zhao, G. Zhang, and W. T. Hill, III
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
063408 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Spectroscopic temperature determination of degenerate Fermi gases
Marijan Koštrun and Robin Côté
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
063409 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Multifrequency resonances in multiple-pulse NMR on a spin-1/2 system
G. B. Furman, S. D. Goren, V. M. Meerovich, V. L. Sokolovsky, G. E. Kibrik, and A. Yu. Polyakov
Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages)
063410 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Sustainable orientation of polar molecules induced by half-cycle pulses
A. Matos-Abiague and J. Berakdar
Published 18 December 2003 (7 pages)
063411 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Observation of caustics in the trajectories of cold atoms in a linear magnetic potential
Wilbert Rooijakkers, Saijun Wu, Pierre Striehl, Mukund Vengalattore, and Mara Prentiss
Published 19 December 2003 (8 pages)
063412 [View PDF (2,044 kB)]
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Time-dependent studies of single and multiple photoionization of H2+
J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux
Published 22 December 2003 (9 pages)
063413 [View PDF (1,125 kB)]
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Coherent excitation of a degenerate two-level system by an elliptically polarized laser pulse
N. V. Vitanov, Z. Kis, and B. W. Shore
Published 30 December 2003 (16 pages)
063414 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Time-dependent radiative transfer in magneto-optical traps
N. N. Bezuglov, A. F. Molisch, A. Fioretti, C. Gabbanini, F. Fuso, and M. Allegrini
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
063415 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Matter waves

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Stabilization of the number of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms in evaporative cooling via three-body recombination loss
Makoto Yamashita and Tetsuya Mukai
Published 2 December 2003 (7 pages)
063601 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Spin-exchange interactions of spin-one bosons in optical lattices: Singlet, nematic, and dimerized phases
Adilet Imambekov, Mikhail Lukin, and Eugene Demler
Published 4 December 2003 (24 pages)
063602 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic behavior in expanding thermal clouds of 87Rb
I. Shvarchuck, Ch. Buggle, D. S. Petrov, M. Kemmann, W. von Klitzing, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and J. T. M. Walraven
Published 4 December 2003 (7 pages)
063603 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Effects of inhomogeneity on the spectrum of the Mott-insulator state
G. Pupillo, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams
Published 10 December 2003 (7 pages)
063604 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Destruction of interference by many-body interactions in cold atomic Bose gases
S. Chen and R. Egger
Published 10 December 2003 (7 pages)
063605 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Superfluid toroidal currents in atomic condensates
Eileen Nugent, Dermot McPeake, and J. F. McCann
Published 15 December 2003 (8 pages)
063606 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Transition of fermionic spectra and monopole oscillations under phase separation in the atomic Bose-Fermi mixture
T. Sogo, T. Suzuki, and H. Yabu
Published 15 December 2003 (8 pages)
063607 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Solitonic transmission of Bose-Einstein matter waves
P. Leboeuf, N. Pavloff, and S. Sinha
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
063608 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Stable vortex dipoles in nonrotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Vadym Vekslerchik, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Juan P. Torres, Dumitru Mihalache, and Lluis Torner
Published 18 December 2003 (5 pages)
063609 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Analysis of the loss of coherence in interferometry with macromolecules
A. Viale, M. Vicari, and N. Zanghì
Published 18 December 2003 (18 pages)
063610 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Steady-state quantum statistics of a non-Markovian atom laser. II
A. S. Bradley, J. J. Hope, and M. J. Collett
Published 22 December 2003 (11 pages)
063611 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation of spin-1/2 atoms with conserved total spin
S. Ashhab and A. J. Leggett
Published 22 December 2003 (7 pages)
063612 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction in one dimension: Single-L states and mesoscopics
P. F. Kartsev
Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages)
063613 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Vortex stability near the surface of a Bose-Einstein condensate
U. Al Khawaja
Published 22 December 2003 (8 pages)
063614 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Molecular signatures in hybrid atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
Chi-Yong Lin, Paolo Tommasini, E. J. V. de Passos, M. S. Hussein, and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza
Published 22 December 2003 (6 pages)
063615 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dynamic fragmentation of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, M. Zhang, S. Yi, L. You, and C. P. Sun
Published 23 December 2003 (9 pages)
063616 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Oscillations of a rapidly rotating annular Bose-Einstein condensate
Alexander L. Fetter
Published 24 December 2003 (7 pages)
063617 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Correlated N-boson systems for arbitrary scattering length
O. Sørensen, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen
Published 31 December 2003 (14 pages)
063618 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Nonlinear optics via double dark resonances
S. F. Yelin, V. A. Sautenkov, M. M. Kash, G. R. Welch, and M. D. Lukin
Published 2 December 2003 (7 pages)
063801 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Light amplification through collective atomic recoil motion modified by a harmonic potential
G. J. Yang, L. Zhang, and W. Shu
Published 2 December 2003 (5 pages)
063802 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Multiorder coherent Raman scattering of a quantum probe field
Fam Le Kien, Anil K. Patnaik, and K. Hakuta
Published 2 December 2003 (13 pages)
063803 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Quantum-trajectory simulations of a two-level atom cascaded to a cavity QED laser
Muhammad Salihi Abdul Hadi, Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, and Torla Haji Hassan
Published 2 December 2003 (6 pages)
063804 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Quantum statistics of overlapping modes in open resonators
Gregor Hackenbroich, Carlos Viviescas, and Fritz Haake
Published 4 December 2003 (6 pages)
063805 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Normal or anomalous dispersion and gain in a resonant coherent medium
Hoonsoo Kang, Lingling Wen, and Yifu Zhu
Published 5 December 2003 (5 pages)
063806 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Testing CPT and Lorentz symmetry with hydrogen masers
M. A. Humphrey, D. F. Phillips, E. M. Mattison, R. F. C. Vessot, R. E. Stoner, and R. L. Walsworth
Published 9 December 2003 (14 pages)
063807 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Enhanced hyperpolarizability via electron correlations in donor-σ-acceptor systems
Yuuichi Orimoto and Yuriko Aoki
Published 10 December 2003 (6 pages)
063808 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Polarization quantum properties in a type-II optical parametric oscillator below threshold
Roberta Zambrini, Alessandra Gatti, Luigi Lugiato, and Maxi San Miguel
Published 10 December 2003 (14 pages)
063809 [View PDF (876 kB)]
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Bichromatic electromagnetically induced transparency in cold rubidium atoms
J. Wang, Yifu Zhu, K. J. Jiang, and M. S. Zhan
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
063810 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Resonance expansion versus the rotating-wave approximation
A. B. Klimov, I. Sainz, and S. M. Chumakov
Published 11 December 2003 (8 pages)
063811 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of delayed self-interference for single photons
Nicklas Ohlsson, Mattias Nilsson, and Stefan Kröll
Published 12 December 2003 (8 pages)
063812 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Observation of electromagnetically induced absorption in open systems regardless of angular momentum
Soo Kyoung Kim, Han Seb Moon, Kyoungdae Kim, and Jung Bog Kim
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
063813 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Many-body entanglement in decoherence processes
Helen McAneney, Jinhyoung Lee, and M. S. Kim
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
063814 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Quantum optics of dispersive dielectric media
Z. Lenac
Published 15 December 2003 (13 pages)
063815 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Slow light in Doppler-broadened two-level systems
G. S. Agarwal and Tarak Nath Dey
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
063816 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Direct observation of photon pairs at a single output port of a beam-splitter interferometer
Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Mete Atatüre, Matthew D. Shaw, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin C. Teich, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam, and John Martinis
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
063817 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Propagation of the ultrashort pulsed beam with ultrabroad bandwidth in the dispersive medium
Xiquan Fu, Liejia Qian, Shuangchun Wen, and Dianyuan Fan
Published 19 December 2003 (6 pages)
063818 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Transverse Fresnel-Fizeau drag effects in strongly dispersive media
I. Carusotto, M. Artoni, G. C. La Rocca, and F. Bassani
Published 19 December 2003 (11 pages)
063819 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Filamentation and temporal reshaping of a femtosecond pulse in fused silica
Zhaoxin Wu, Hongbing Jiang, Quan Sun, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong
Published 23 December 2003 (8 pages)
063820 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Photon statistics: Nonlinear spectroscopy of single quantum systems
Shaul Mukamel
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
063821 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Gaussian quantum operator representation for bosons
Joel F. Corney and Peter D. Drummond
Published 24 December 2003 (22 pages)
063822 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Subfemtosecond pulse generation in a three-level system by molecular modulation
Jian Wu and Heping Zeng
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
063823 [View PDF (107 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Addendum to “Electron structure of a dipole-bound anion confined in a spherical box”: The case of a finite dipole
S. Ronen
Published 10 December 2003 (3 pages)
064101 [View PDF (38 kB)]

Quantum information

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Spin squeezing as a measure of entanglement in a two-qubit system
A. Messikh, Z. Ficek, and M. R. B. Wahiddin
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
064301 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Information-theoretical approach to control of quantum-mechanical systems
Shiro Kawabata
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
064302 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Bounds on the probability of success of postselected nonlinear sign shifts implemented with linear optics
E. Knill
Published 18 December 2003 (3 pages)
064303 [View PDF (42 kB)]

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

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Experimental energy loss of slow H+ and H2+ in channeling conditions
J. E. Valdés, C. Parra, J. Díaz-Valdés, C. D. Denton, C. Agurto, F. Ortega, N. R. Arista, and P. Vargas
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
064901 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Coulomb explosion of deuterium cationic clusters
I. A. Howard, J. A. Alonso, N. H. March, A. Rubio, and C. Van Alsenoy
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
065201 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Interaction-induced light scattering in a fullerene surrounded by an ultrathin argon “atmosphere”: Molecular dynamics simulation
A. Dawid and Z. Gburski
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
065202 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Classical cutoffs for laser-induced nonsequential double ionization
D. B. Milošević and W. Becker
Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages)
065401 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Highly polarized 3He by spin exchange with potassium
Guodong Wang, Wenjin Shao, and Emlyn W. Hughes
Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages)
065402 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Ionization of many-electron atoms by ultrafast laser pulses with peak intensities greater than 1019W/cm2
K. Yamakawa, Y. Akahane, Y. Fukuda, M. Aoyama, N. Inoue, and H. Ueda
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
065403 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Matter waves

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Anomalous particle-number fluctuations in a three-dimensional interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
Shujuan Liu, Hongwei Xiong, Guoxiang Huang, and Zhijun Xu
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
065601 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Inequivalent classes of closed three-level systems
Andrei B. Klimov, Hubert de Guise, and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
065801 [View PDF (46 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Mott scattering in strong laser fields”
Y. Attaourti and B. Manaut
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (53 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Negative group delay for Dirac particles traveling through a potential well [Phys. Rev. A 68, 052105 (2003)]
Xi Chen and Chun-Fang Li
Published 10 December 2003 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Optimized time-dependent perturbation theory for pulse-driven quantum dynamics in atomic or molecular systems [Phys. Rev. A 68, 051402 (2003)]
D. Daems, S. Guerin, H.R. Jauslin, A. Keller, and O. Atabek
Published 15 December 2003 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
 
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