corner
corner
PROLA » Phys. Rev. A » Volume 69 » Issue 4
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >

Physical Review A – April 2004
Volume 69, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

•
Cloning the entanglement of a pair of quantum bits
Louis-Philippe Lamoureux, Patrick Navez, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 5 April 2004 (4 pages)
040301(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
•
Maximally disordered distillable quantum states
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 6 April 2004 (4 pages)
040302(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•
Inconsistencies between lifetime and polarizability measurements in Cs
M. S. Safronova and Charles W. Clark
Published 22 April 2004 (4 pages)
040501(R) [View PDF (44 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•
Differential ionization cross-section calculations for hydrogenic targets with Z⩽4 using a propagating exterior complex scaling method
Philip L. Bartlett and Andris T. Stelbovics
Published 14 April 2004 (4 pages)
040701(R) [View PDF (554 kB)]
•
Triatomic continuum resonances for large negative scattering lengths
F. Bringas, M. T. Yamashita, and T. Frederico
Published 15 April 2004 (4 pages)
040702(R) [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•
Characterization of quasi-one-dimensional Rydberg atoms using multiply directed half-cycle pulses
W. Zhao, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 8 April 2004 (4 pages)
041401(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
•
Redistributing populations of Rydberg atoms with half-cycle pulses
S. X. Hu and L. A. Collins
Published 14 April 2004 (4 pages)
041402(R) [View PDF (195 kB)]
•
Collective atomic recoil lasing including friction and diffusion effects
G. R. M. Robb, N. Piovella, A. Ferraro, R. Bonifacio, Ph. W. Courteille, and C. Zimmermann
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
041403(R) [View PDF (155 kB)]

Matter waves

•
Raman amplification of matter waves
Dominik Schneble, Gretchen K. Campbell, Erik W. Streed, Micah Boyd, David E. Pritchard, and Wolfgang Ketterle
Published 14 April 2004 (4 pages)
041601(R) [View PDF (402 kB)]
•
Bloch oscillations in Fermi gases
M. Rodríguez and P. Törmä
Published 15 April 2004 (4 pages)
041602(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
•
Observation of superradiant Raman scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Yutaka Yoshikawa, Toshiaki Sugiura, Yoshio Torii, and Takahiro Kuga
Published 22 April 2004 (4 pages)
041603(R) [View PDF (188 kB)]
•
Echo spectroscopy of bulk Bogoliubov excitations in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
E. Gershnabel, N. Katz, R. Ozeri, E. Rowen, J. Steinhauer, and N. Davidson
Published 23 April 2004 (4 pages)
041604(R) [View PDF (144 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•
Generation of ultrabright tunable polarization entanglement without spatial, spectral, or temporal constraints
Marco Fiorentino, Gaétan Messin, Christopher E. Kuklewicz, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Published 5 April 2004 (4 pages)
041801(R) [View PDF (254 kB)]
•
Optimal control of attosecond pulse synthesis from high-order harmonic generation
A. Ben Haj Yedder, C. Le Bris, O. Atabek, S. Chelkowski, and A. D. Bandrauk
Published 20 April 2004 (4 pages)
041802(R) [View PDF (120 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•
Precise measurement of the lattice spacing of LaB6 standard powder by the x-ray extended range technique using synchrotron radiation
C. T. Chantler, C. Q. Tran, and D. J. Cookson
Published 5 April 2004 (11 pages)
042101 [View PDF (341 kB)]
•
Separability of quantum states and the violation of Bell-type inequalities
Elena R. Loubenets
Published 5 April 2004 (8 pages)
042102 [View PDF (100 kB)]
•
Weak measurement of the arrival times of single photons and pairs of entangled photons
S. E. Ahnert and M. C. Payne
Published 7 April 2004 (4 pages)
042103 [View PDF (45 kB)]
•
Dynamical parameter estimation using realistic photodetection
P. Warszawski, Jay Gambetta, and H. M. Wiseman
Published 9 April 2004 (8 pages)
042104 [View PDF (135 kB)]
•
Variational functions in degenerate open quantum systems
Matthias Jakob and Stig Stenholm
Published 20 April 2004 (17 pages)
042105 [View PDF (144 kB)]
•
Problems and aspects of energy-driven wave-function collapse models
Philip Pearle
Published 21 April 2004 (15 pages)
042106 [View PDF (148 kB)]
•
Stochastic representation of a class of non-Markovian completely positive evolutions
Adrián A. Budini
Published 21 April 2004 (12 pages)
042107 [View PDF (258 kB)]
•
Quantum-state tomography for spin-l systems
Holger F. Hofmann and Shigeki Takeuchi
Published 23 April 2004 (8 pages)
042108 [View PDF (94 kB)]
•
Spectral representation of the nonretarded dispersive force between a sphere and a substrate
C. E. Román-Velázquez, Cecilia Noguez, C. Villarreal, and R. Esquivel-Sirvent
Published 23 April 2004 (5 pages)
042109 [View PDF (95 kB)]
•
Decoherence, entanglement, and chaos in the Dicke model
Xi-Wen Hou and Bambi Hu
Published 23 April 2004 (6 pages)
042110 [View PDF (306 kB)]
•
Bohmian histories and decoherent histories
James B. Hartle
Published 29 April 2004 (7 pages)
042111 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Quantum information

•
Entropic uncertainty relations for the ground state of a coupled system
M. S. Santhanam
Published 1 April 2004 (8 pages)
042301 [View PDF (91 kB)]
•
Mesoscopic cavity quantum electrodynamics with quantum dots
L. Childress, A. S. Sørensen, and M. D. Lukin
Published 5 April 2004 (8 pages)
042302 [View PDF (274 kB)]
•
Bell states in a resonant quantum waveguide network
Gursoy B. Akguc, Linda E. Reichl, Anil Shaji, and Michael G. Snyder
Published 5 April 2004 (14 pages)
042303 [View PDF (1,172 kB)]
•
Entanglement versus chaos in disordered spin chains
L. F. Santos, G. Rigolin, and C. O. Escobar
Published 9 April 2004 (6 pages)
042304 [View PDF (307 kB)]
•
Controlled generation of maximally entangled qudits using twin photons
Leonardo Neves, S. Pádua, and Carlos Saavedra
Published 13 April 2004 (4 pages)
042305 [View PDF (88 kB)]
•
Probabilistic quantum encoder for single-photon qubits
T. B. Pittman, B. C Jacobs, and J. D. Franson
Published 14 April 2004 (4 pages)
042306 [View PDF (245 kB)]
•
Generation of spatially separated spin entanglement in a triple-quantum-dot system
Ping Zhang, Qi-Kun Xue, Xian-Geng Zhao, and X. C. Xie
Published 14 April 2004 (6 pages)
042307 [View PDF (466 kB)]
•
Entanglement generated between a single atom and a laser pulse
Andrew Silberfarb and Ivan H. Deutsch
Published 16 April 2004 (8 pages)
042308 [View PDF (239 kB)]
•
Optimal quantum circuit synthesis from controlled-unitary gates
Jun Zhang, Jiri Vala, Shankar Sastry, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 16 April 2004 (6 pages)
042309 [View PDF (171 kB)]
•
Quantitative model for the effective decoherence of a quantum computer with imperfect unitary operations
Stefano Bettelli
Published 16 April 2004 (14 pages)
042310 [View PDF (606 kB)]
•
Improving the performance of probabilistic programmable quantum processors
Mark Hillery, Mário Ziman, and Vladimír Bužek
Published 16 April 2004 (8 pages)
042311 [View PDF (78 kB)]
•
Mediated entanglement and correlations in a star network of interacting spins
A. Hutton and S. Bose
Published 16 April 2004 (7 pages)
042312 [View PDF (128 kB)]
•
Optimal cloning for finite distributions of coherent states
P. T. Cochrane, T. C. Ralph, and A. Dolińska
Published 20 April 2004 (6 pages)
042313 [View PDF (159 kB)]
•
Quantum-error correction on linear-nearest-neighbor qubit arrays
Austin G. Fowler, Charles D. Hill, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Published 20 April 2004 (4 pages)
042314 [View PDF (328 kB)]
•
Concatenating dynamical decoupling with decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation
Yong Zhang, Zheng-Wei Zhou, Bo Yu, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 20 April 2004 (6 pages)
042315 [View PDF (105 kB)]
•
Atom-photon entanglement generation and distribution
B. Sun, M. S. Chapman, and L. You
Published 21 April 2004 (6 pages)
042316 [View PDF (332 kB)]
•
No information flow using statistical fluctuations and quantum cryptography
Jan-Åke Larsson
Published 22 April 2004 (8 pages)
042317 [View PDF (77 kB)]
•
Components for optical qubits encoded in sideband modes
E. H. Huntington and T. C. Ralph
Published 22 April 2004 (5 pages)
042318 [View PDF (77 kB)]
•
Optical simulation of quantum algorithms using programmable liquid-crystal displays
Graciana Puentes, Cecilia La Mela, Silvia Ledesma, Claudio Iemmi, Juan Pablo Paz, and Marcos Saraceno
Published 27 April 2004 (5 pages)
042319 [View PDF (244 kB)]
•
Adiabatic time evolution in spin systems
V. Murg and J. I. Cirac
Published 28 April 2004 (11 pages)
042320 [View PDF (323 kB)]
•
Effect of finite detector efficiencies on the security evaluation of quantum key distribution
Marcos Curty and Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published 28 April 2004 (10 pages)
042321 [View PDF (219 kB)]
•
Quantum-state tomography for quadrupole nuclei and its application on a two-qubit system
F. A. Bonk, R. S. Sarthour, E. R. deAzevedo, J. D. Bulnes, G. L. Mantovani, J. C. C. Freitas, T. J. Bonagamba, A. P. Guimarães, and I. S. Oliveira
Published 29 April 2004 (9 pages)
042322 [View PDF (431 kB)]
•
Designing robust gate implementations for quantum-information processing
Janus H. Wesenberg
Published 30 April 2004 (6 pages)
042323 [View PDF (93 kB)]
•
Exploiting entanglement in communication channels with correlated noise
Jonathan Ball, Andrzej Dragan, and Konrad Banaszek
Published 30 April 2004 (9 pages)
042324 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•
Nuclear recoil effects in antiprotonic and muonic atoms
Andrzej Veitia and Krzysztof Pachucki
Published 1 April 2004 (4 pages)
042501 [View PDF (54 kB)]
•
Isotope shifts of the 4s2 1S0→4s5p 1P1 transition and hyperfine splitting of the 4s5p 1P1 state in calcium
A. Mortensen, J. J. T. Lindballe, I. S. Jensen, P. Staanum, D. Voigt, and M. Drewsen
Published 1 April 2004 (6 pages)
042502 [View PDF (604 kB)]
•
Potential of the ground state of NaRb
O. Docenko, M. Tamanis, R. Ferber, A. Pashov, H. Knöckel, and E. Tiemann
Published 2 April 2004 (7 pages)
042503 [View PDF (447 kB)]
•
Borromean binding in H2 with Yukawa potential: A nonadiabatic quantum Monte Carlo study
Luca Bertini, Massimo Mella, Dario Bressanini, and Gabriele Morosi
Published 2 April 2004 (5 pages)
042504 [View PDF (72 kB)]
•
Laser-induced fluorescence spectra of Ba+*-He exciplexes produced in cold He gas
Yoshimitsu Fukuyama, Yoshiki Moriwaki, and Yukari Matsuo
Published 7 April 2004 (6 pages)
042505 [View PDF (280 kB)]
•
Hyperfine quenching of the metastable 3P0,2 states in divalent atoms
Sergey G. Porsev and Andrei Derevianko
Published 7 April 2004 (6 pages)
042506 [View PDF (58 kB)]
•
Unusually large polarizabilities and previously unidentified atomic states in Ba
C.-H. Li, S. M. Rochester, M. G. Kozlov, and D. Budker
Published 7 April 2004 (5 pages)
042507 [View PDF (171 kB)]
•
Electron affinity of Ce and electronic states of Ce−
Xiaoyan Cao and Michael Dolg
Published 9 April 2004 (5 pages)
042508 [View PDF (50 kB)]
•
Electronic structure of the CdKr lowest Rydberg state determined from laser-excitation spectra using supersonic beam and double optical resonance methods
J. Koperski and M. Czajkowski
Published 14 April 2004 (9 pages)
042509 [View PDF (228 kB)]
•
Properties of metastable alkaline-earth-metal atoms calculated using an accurate effective core potential
Robin Santra, Kevin V. Christ, and Chris H. Greene
Published 14 April 2004 (10 pages)
042510 [View PDF (100 kB)]
•
Boson correlation energies via variational minimization with the two-particle reduced density matrix: Exact N-representability conditions for harmonic interactions
Gergely Gidofalvi and David A. Mazziotti
Published 16 April 2004 (8 pages)
042511 [View PDF (87 kB)]
•
Exchange-correlation potentials in ground- and excited-state Kohn-Sham theory
Manoj K. Harbola
Published 19 April 2004 (5 pages)
042512 [View PDF (55 kB)]
•
Relativistic energy, fine structure, and hyperfine structure of the high-lying core-excited states 5P(n) (n=1–7) and 5So(m) (m=1–5) for Be-like boron and carbon
BingCong Gou and Fei Wang
Published 21 April 2004 (8 pages)
042513 [View PDF (73 kB)]
•
Reference-state one-particle density-matrix theory
James P. Finley
Published 22 April 2004 (16 pages)
042514 [View PDF (149 kB)]
•
Accurate S-state helium wave functions in momentum space
J. Sapirstein
Published 26 April 2004 (5 pages)
042515 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•
Collisional quenching of antiprotonic helium atoms in gaseous helium
Boyan D. Obreshkov, Dimitar D. Bakalov, Bruno Lepetit, and Krzysztof Szalewicz
Published 1 April 2004 (6 pages)
042701 [View PDF (163 kB)]
•
General time-dependent formulation of quantum scattering theory
Stuart C. Althorpe
Published 2 April 2004 (12 pages)
042702 [View PDF (352 kB)]
•
Electronic excitation of N2 by positron impact
Puspitapallab Chaudhuri, Márcio T. do N. Varella, Claudia R. C. de Carvalho, and Marco A. P. Lima
Published 2 April 2004 (5 pages)
042703 [View PDF (208 kB)]
•
Initial wave packets and the various power-law decreases of scattered wave packets at long times
Manabu Miyamoto
Published 5 April 2004 (4 pages)
042704 [View PDF (68 kB)]
•
Modified two-potential approach to tunneling problems
S. A. Gurvitz, P. B. Semmes, W. Nazarewicz, and T. Vertse
Published 6 April 2004 (8 pages)
042705 [View PDF (212 kB)]
•
Partial cross sections of doubly excited helium below the ionization threshold I7
Y. H. Jiang, R. Püttner, R. Hentges, J. Viefhaus, M. Poiguine, U. Becker, J. M. Rost, and G. Kaindl
Published 6 April 2004 (8 pages)
042706 [View PDF (132 kB)]
•
Single and double detachment from H−
K. Fritioff, J. Sandström, P. Andersson, D. Hanstorp, F. Hellberg, R. Thomas, W. Geppert, M. Larsson, F. Österdahl, G. F. Collins, D. J. Pegg, H. Danared, A. Källberg, and N. D. Gibson
Published 8 April 2004 (5 pages)
042707 [View PDF (76 kB)]
•
Beam-loss spectroscopy of cold collisions in a bright sodium beam
Jaime Ramirez-Serrano, W. DeGraffenreid, John Weiner, Eite Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne
Published 9 April 2004 (8 pages)
042708 [View PDF (284 kB)]
•
Scaling laws for single and multiple electron loss from projectiles in collisions with a many-electron target
A. C. F. Santos and R. D. DuBois
Published 9 April 2004 (11 pages)
042709 [View PDF (439 kB)]
•
Protonium formation in collinear collisions between antiprotons and hydrogen molecular ions: Quantum-classical hybrid method versus adiabatic approximation
Kazuhiro Sakimoto
Published 9 April 2004 (9 pages)
042710 [View PDF (929 kB)]
•
Ionization, excitation, and electron transfer in MeV-energy collisions between light nuclei and C5+(1s) ions studied with a Sturmian basis
Thomas G. Winter
Published 13 April 2004 (10 pages)
042711 [View PDF (134 kB)]
•
Multiplet structure of Feshbach resonances in nonzero partial waves
C. Ticknor, C. A. Regal, D. S. Jin, and J. L. Bohn
Published 16 April 2004 (6 pages)
042712 [View PDF (257 kB)]
•
Ejected electron spectrum of Xe between the 2P3∕2 and 2P1∕2 ionic limits
J. G. Childers, B. A. deHarak, and N. L. S. Martin
Published 16 April 2004 (7 pages)
042713 [View PDF (109 kB)]
•
Photoionization cross sections of O II, O III, O IV, and O V: Benchmarking R-matrix theory and experiments
Sultana N. Nahar
Published 19 April 2004 (9 pages)
042714 [View PDF (1,057 kB)]
•
Cold collisions of atomic hydrogen with antihydrogen atoms: An optical potential approach
B. Zygelman, Alejandro Saenz, P. Froelich, and S. Jonsell
Published 20 April 2004 (15 pages)
042715 [View PDF (416 kB)]
•
Buffer-gas-induced shift and broadening of hyperfine resonances in alkali-metal vapors
P. J. Oreto, Y.-Y. Jau, A. B. Post, N. N. Kuzma, and W. Happer
Published 20 April 2004 (8 pages)
042716 [View PDF (101 kB)]
•
Triple photoionization of Ne and Ar near threshold
J. B. Bluett, D. Lukić, and R. Wehlitz
Published 23 April 2004 (7 pages)
042717 [View PDF (306 kB)]
•
Resonant charge exchange and relevant transport cross sections for excited states of oxygen and nitrogen atoms
A. V. Eletskii, M. Capitelli, R. Celiberto, and A. Laricchiuta
Published 30 April 2004 (8 pages)
042718 [View PDF (70 kB)]

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

•
Quantum-mechanical model for valence-electron emission from metal surfaces
M. N. Faraggi, M. S. Gravielle, and V. M. Silkin
Published 7 April 2004 (8 pages)
042901 [View PDF (104 kB)]
•
Angular dependence of electron emission induced by grazing-ion–surface collisions
M. S. Gravielle, J. E. Miraglia, G. G. Otero, E. A. Sánchez, and O. Grizzi
Published 21 April 2004 (9 pages)
042902 [View PDF (182 kB)]
•
Intrinsic single- and multiple-pulse laser-induced damage in silicate glasses in the femtosecond-to-nanosecond region
Oleg Efimov, Saulius Juodkazis, and Hiroaki Misawa
Published 21 April 2004 (7 pages)
042903 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•
Ionization of cluster atoms in a strong laser field
M. B. Smirnov and V. P. Krainov
Published 5 April 2004 (6 pages)
043201 [View PDF (95 kB)]
•
Decay of hollow atoms in Ne10+-C60 collisions
S. Martin, L. Chen, R. Brédy, J. Bernard, A. Salmoun, and B. Wei
Published 14 April 2004 (7 pages)
043202 [View PDF (614 kB)]
•
Structure and stability of copper clusters: A tight-binding molecular dynamics study
Mukul Kabir, Abhijit Mookerjee, and A. K. Bhattacharya
Published 16 April 2004 (10 pages)
043203 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•
Controlling ground-state rotational dynamics of molecules by shaped femtosecond laser pulses
M. Renard, E. Hertz, B. Lavorel, and O. Faucher
Published 8 April 2004 (6 pages)
043401 [View PDF (270 kB)]
•
Doppler cooling of Ca+ ions in a Penning trap
K. Koo, J. Sudbery, D. M. Segal, and R. C. Thompson
Published 8 April 2004 (5 pages)
043402 [View PDF (45 kB)]
•
Dissociation and ionization dynamics of H2+ with short laser pulses: The L2 approach
S. Barmaki, H. Bachau, and M. Ghalim
Published 9 April 2004 (7 pages)
043403 [View PDF (324 kB)]
•
Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics versus the conventional quantum mechanics: Effect of the relative phasing of bichromatic fields on high-order harmonic generation
Avner Fleischer, Vitali Averbukh, and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 13 April 2004 (8 pages)
043404 [View PDF (200 kB)]
•
Electron-electron dynamics in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization
C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, H. Schomerus, X. Liu, and W. Becker
Published 16 April 2004 (17 pages)
043405 [View PDF (1,451 kB)]
•
High-order harmonic generation by excited helium: The atomic polarization effect
Vitali Averbukh
Published 20 April 2004 (9 pages)
043406 [View PDF (107 kB)]
•
Time-dependent unitary perturbation theory for intense laser-driven molecular orientation
D. Sugny, A. Keller, O. Atabek, D. Daems, S. Guérin, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 20 April 2004 (11 pages)
043407 [View PDF (244 kB)]
•
Analytical investigation of one-dimensional Rydberg atoms interacting with half-cycle pulses
I. Bersons and R. Veilande
Published 20 April 2004 (8 pages)
043408 [View PDF (145 kB)]
•
Phase-dependent angular distributions of photoelectrons in an infinite sequence of linearly polarized few-cycle pulses
Jingtao Zhang, Xunli Feng, Zhizhan Xu, and Dong-Sheng Guo
Published 21 April 2004 (6 pages)
043409 [View PDF (364 kB)]
•
Semiclassical analysis of quantum localization of the periodically kicked Rydberg atom
S. Yoshida, F. Großmann, E. Persson, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 28 April 2004 (10 pages)
043410 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Matter waves

•
Bosons confined in optical lattices: The numerical renormalization group revisited
Lode Pollet, Stefan Rombouts, Kris Heyde, and Jorge Dukelsky
Published 1 April 2004 (10 pages)
043601 [View PDF (166 kB)]
•
Decoherence of Bose-Einstein condensates in microtraps
C. Henkel and S. A. Gardiner
Published 1 April 2004 (5 pages)
043602 [View PDF (336 kB)]
•
Ground state of two-component degenerate fermionic gases
Tomasz Karpiuk, Mirosław Brewczyk, and Kazimierz Rzążewski
Published 5 April 2004 (9 pages)
043603 [View PDF (800 kB)]
•
Spatial period doubling in Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice
M. Machholm, A. Nicolin, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith
Published 7 April 2004 (4 pages)
043604 [View PDF (145 kB)]
•
Collective oscillations of a confined Bose gas at finite temperaturein the random-phase approximation
Xia-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, A. Minguzzi, and M. P. Tosi
Published 9 April 2004 (11 pages)
043605 [View PDF (854 kB)]
•
Vortex formation in a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Tarun Kanti Ghosh
Published 9 April 2004 (6 pages)
043606 [View PDF (107 kB)]
•
Collapse transition in mixtures of bosons and fermions
S. T. Chui and V. N. Ryzhov
Published 14 April 2004 (8 pages)
043607 [View PDF (106 kB)]
•
Spatiotemporal dynamics of circular flow modes in a ring array of Bose-Einstein condensates
N. Tsukada
Published 14 April 2004 (7 pages)
043608 [View PDF (196 kB)]
•
Vortex configurations of bosons in an optical lattice
Congjun Wu, Han-dong Chen, Jiang-piang Hu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 14 April 2004 (5 pages)
043609 [View PDF (688 kB)]
•
Formation of shock waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Bogdan Damski
Published 16 April 2004 (8 pages)
043610 [View PDF (322 kB)]
•
Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions: The role of heat capacity of the coolant
L. D. Carr and Y. Castin
Published 20 April 2004 (5 pages)
043611 [View PDF (56 kB)]
•
Landau-Zener problem for trilinear systems
Artur Ishkhanyan, Matt Mackie, Andrew Carmichael, Phillip L. Gould, and Juha Javanainen
Published 20 April 2004 (6 pages)
043612 [View PDF (216 kB)]
•
Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of a homogenous weakly interacting Bose gas in variational perturbation theory through seven loops
Boris Kastening
Published 21 April 2004 (8 pages)
043613 [View PDF (113 kB)]
•
Phase transition of trapped interacting Bose gases and the renormalization group
G. Metikas, O. Zobay, and G. Alber
Published 21 April 2004 (11 pages)
043614 [View PDF (330 kB)]
•
Four-wave neutron-resonance spin echo
S. V. Grigoriev, W. H. Kraan, and M. Th. Rekveldt
Published 21 April 2004 (11 pages)
043615 [View PDF (177 kB)]
•
Particle-number scaling of the phase sensitivity in realistic Bayesian twin-mode Heisenberg-limited interferometry
Raphael C. Pooser and Olivier Pfister
Published 22 April 2004 (6 pages)
043616 [View PDF (90 kB)]
•
Kelvin mode of a vortex in a nonuniform Bose-Einstein condensate
Alexander L. Fetter
Published 23 April 2004 (7 pages)
043617 [View PDF (79 kB)]
•
Vortex lattices in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates: Modes and correlation functions
Gordon Baym
Published 27 April 2004 (9 pages)
043618 [View PDF (100 kB)]
•
Vortex core structure and global properties of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Gordon Baym and C. J. Pethick
Published 27 April 2004 (9 pages)
043619 [View PDF (105 kB)]
•
Stability of static solitonic excitations of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in finite range of interspecies scattering length a12
Dániel Schumayer and Barnabás Apagyi
Published 27 April 2004 (8 pages)
043620 [View PDF (193 kB)]
•
Quadrupole and scissors modes and nonlinear mode coupling in trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Kenichi Kasamatsu, Makoto Tsubota, and Masahito Ueda
Published 29 April 2004 (10 pages)
043621 [View PDF (607 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•
Electromagnetically induced transparency and storing of a pair of pulses of light
A. Raczyński, J. Zaremba, and S. Zielińska-Kaniasty
Published 1 April 2004 (5 pages)
043801 [View PDF (151 kB)]
•
Spontaneous emission of an excited atom in a random absorbing medium
Wei Guo
Published 1 April 2004 (6 pages)
043802 [View PDF (128 kB)]
•
Quantum controllable optical selective resonant excitation in a dense medium
Heping Zeng and Han Xu
Published 2 April 2004 (4 pages)
043803 [View PDF (67 kB)]
•
Superconducting analogs of quantum optical phenomena: Macroscopic quantum superpositions and squeezing in a superconducting quantum-interference device ring
M. J. Everitt, T. D. Clark, P. B. Stiffell, A. Vourdas, J. F. Ralph, R. J. Prance, and H. Prance
Published 5 April 2004 (8 pages)
043804 [View PDF (1,072 kB)]
•
Transmission spectrum of an optical cavity containing N atoms
Sabrina Leslie, Neil Shenvi, Kenneth R. Brown, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 6 April 2004 (8 pages)
043805 [View PDF (174 kB)]
•
Field-state measurement in a micromaser using retrodictive quantum theory
E.-K. Tan, John Jeffers, and Stephen M. Barnett
Published 7 April 2004 (12 pages)
043806 [View PDF (423 kB)]
•
Quantum-state extraction from high-Q cavities
M. Khanbekyan, L. Knöll, A. A. Semenov, W. Vogel, and D.-G. Welsch
Published 7 April 2004 (9 pages)
043807 [View PDF (264 kB)]
•
Pulse-train nonuniformity in a fiber soliton ring laser mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique
B. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, P. Shum, and H. Y. Tam
Published 8 April 2004 (7 pages)
043808 [View PDF (285 kB)]
•
Noise spectroscopy of nonlinear magneto-optical resonances in Rb vapor
M. Martinelli, P. Valente, H. Failache, D. Felinto, L. S. Cruz, P. Nussenzveig, and A. Lezama
Published 9 April 2004 (10 pages)
043809 [View PDF (159 kB)]
•
Quantum-state transfer between fields and atoms in electromagnetically induced transparency
A. Dantan and M. Pinard
Published 9 April 2004 (8 pages)
043810 [View PDF (236 kB)]
•
Effect of the upper-level decay on the resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing in a modified double-Λ system
Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta
Published 14 April 2004 (8 pages)
043811 [View PDF (101 kB)]
•
Enhanced index and negative dispersion without absorption in driven cascade media
Xiang-ming Hu and Jun Xu
Published 15 April 2004 (9 pages)
043812 [View PDF (393 kB)]
•
Atoms, dipole waves, and strongly focused light beams
S. J. van Enk
Published 16 April 2004 (8 pages)
043813 [View PDF (236 kB)]
•
Effects of spontaneously generated coherence on the conditions for exhibiting lasing without inversion in a V system
Yanfeng Bai, Hong Guo, Hui Sun, Dingan Han, Cheng Liu, and Xuzong Chen
Published 19 April 2004 (5 pages)
043814 [View PDF (71 kB)]
•
Polarization-sensitive quantum-optical coherence tomography
Mark C. Booth, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 21 April 2004 (9 pages)
043815 [View PDF (535 kB)]
•
Large enhancement of fully resonant sum-frequency generation through quantum control via continuum states
A. K. Popov, V. V. Kimberg, and Thomas F. George
Published 21 April 2004 (15 pages)
043816 [View PDF (812 kB)]
•
Cavity solitons in broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers below threshold
Xavier Hachair, Stéphane Barland, Luca Furfaro, Massimo Giudici, Salvador Balle, Jorge R. Tredicce, Massimo Brambilla, Tommaso Maggipinto, Ida M. Perrini, Giovanna Tissoni, and Luigi Lugiato
Published 21 April 2004 (13 pages)
043817 [View PDF (2,848 kB)]
•
Derivation of general dispersion relations and sum rules for meromorphic nonlinear optical spectroscopy
Kai-Erik Peiponen, Jarkko J. Saarinen, and Yuri Svirko
Published 27 April 2004 (6 pages)
043818 [View PDF (55 kB)]
•
Nonclassical photon pairs generated from a room-temperature atomic ensemble
Wei Jiang, Chao Han, Peng Xue, L.-M. Duan, and G.-C. Guo
Published 28 April 2004 (5 pages)
043819 [View PDF (102 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

•
Heisenberg limit for displacements with semiclassical states
Alfredo Luis
Published 1 April 2004 (4 pages)
044101 [View PDF (41 kB)]
•
Configuration-interaction calculation for the isotope shift in Mg I
J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and M. G. Kozlov
Published 13 April 2004 (4 pages)
044102 [View PDF (34 kB)]
•
Control of the lateral Casimir force between corrugated surfaces
E. V. Blagov, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 21 April 2004 (4 pages)
044103 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Quantum information

•
Entanglement characteristics of subharmonic modes reflected from a cavity for type-II second-harmonic generation
Zehui Zhai, Yongming Li, and Jiangrui Gao
Published 7 April 2004 (4 pages)
044301 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•
Search for bound and quasibound states in the spin-polarized atomic tritium trimer
Moses Salci, Sergey B. Levin, and Nils Elander
Published 13 April 2004 (4 pages)
044501 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•
C6 dipole-dipole dispersion coefficients for the n-alkanes: Test of an additivity procedure
A. Jiemchooroj, Bo E. Sernelius, and P. Norman
Published 1 April 2004 (3 pages)
044701 [View PDF (130 kB)]
•
Converged cross-section results for double photoionization of helium atoms in hyperspherical partial wave theory at 6 eV above threshold
J. N. Das, K. Chakrabarti, and S. Paul
Published 2 April 2004 (3 pages)
044702 [View PDF (252 kB)]
•
Off-diagonal properties of the Feynman propagator and the Green function for a bare Coulomb field
I. A. Howard and N. H. March
Published 13 April 2004 (4 pages)
044703 [View PDF (145 kB)]
•
Ionization of rubidium by 50-eV electrons
M. A. Haynes, B. Lohmann, I. Bray, and K. Bartschat
Published 16 April 2004 (4 pages)
044704 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Matter waves

•
Dimensional reduction in Bose-Einstein-condensed alkali-metal vapors
L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
Published 5 April 2004 (4 pages)
045601 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•
Optimum quantum states for interferometers with fixed and moving mirrors
Alfredo Luis
Published 22 April 2004 (4 pages)
045801 [View PDF (40 kB)]

ERRATA

•
Erratum: Structure of excitation and fluorescence spectra recorded at the 10u+(5 1P1)–X 10g+ transition of Cd2 [Phys. Rev. A 68, 042508 (2003)]
M. Łukomski, J. Koperski, E. Czuchaj, and M. Czajkowski
Published 9 April 2004 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
•
Publisher's Note: “Cosmological” quasiparticle production in harmonically trapped superfluid gases [Phys. Rev. A 69, 033602 (2004)]
Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer
Published 12 April 2004 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
•
Erratum: Calculation of the interspecies s-wave scattering length in an ultracold Na-Rb vapor [Phys. Rev. A 68, 042708 (2003)]
S. B. Weiss, M. Bhattacharya, and N. P. Bigelow
Published 14 April 2004 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
•
Erratum: Optomechanical scheme for the detection of weak impulsive forces [Phys. Rev. A 64, 051401(R) (2001)]
David Vitali, Stefano Mancini, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 22 April 2004 (1 page)
049904(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
•
Publisher's Note: Pulse-train nonuniformity in a fiber soliton ring laser mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique [Phys. Rev. A 69, 043808 (2004)]
B. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, P. Shum, and H. Y. Tam
Published 27 April 2004 (1 page)
049905(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
 
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >