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Physical Review A – May 2004
Volume 69, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Effects of confinement on the permanent electric-dipole moment of Xe atoms in liquid Xe
Boris Ravaine and Andrei Derevianko
Published 25 May 2004 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (96 kB)]

Quantum information

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Geometric manipulation of the quantum states of two-level atoms
Mingzhen Tian, Zeb W. Barber, Joe A. Fischer, and Wm. Randall Babbitt
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Geometric phase gate without dynamical phases
R. G. Unanyan and M. Fleischhauer
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
050302(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Entanglement-assisted alignment of reference frames using a dense covariant coding
E. Bagan, M. Baig, and R. Muñoz-Tapia
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
050303(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Tailoring photonic entanglement in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces
Hugues de Riedmatten, Ivan Marcikic, Valerio Scarani, Wolfgang Tittel, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
050304(R) [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Estimation of the local density of states on a quantum computer
Joseph Emerson, Seth Lloyd, David Poulin, and David Cory
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
050305(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Experimental Hamiltonian identification for controlled two-level systems
S. G. Schirmer, A. Kolli, and D. K. L. Oi
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
050306(R) [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Condition for unambiguous state discrimination using local operations and classical communication
Anthony Chefles
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
050307(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Feshbach resonances in inner-shell photodetachment: The case of Te−
H. Kjeldsen, F. Folkmann, T. S. Jacobsen, and J. B. West
Published 27 May 2004 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Convergent calculations of double ionization of helium: From (γ,2e) to (e,3e) processes
A. S. Kheifets and Igor Bray
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]

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

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Dynamic dependence of interaction potentials for keV atoms at metal surfaces
A. Schüller, G. Adamov, S. Wethekam, K. Maass, A. Mertens, and H. Winter
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Polarization effects in two-photon nonresonant ionization of argon with extreme-ultraviolet and infrared femtosecond pulses
P. O’Keeffe, R. López-Martens, J. Mauritsson, A. Johansson, A. L’Huillier, V. Véniard, R. Taïeb, A. Maquet, and M. Meyer
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
051401(R) [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Measurement of hydrogenic tunneling rates in a high-intensity laser focus
B. Buerke and D. D. Meyerhofer
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
051402(R) [View PDF (107 kB)]

Matter waves

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One particle in a box: The simplest model for a Fermi gas in the unitary limit
Ludovic Pricoupenko and Yvan Castin
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
051601(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Fluctuations and flux: The limits of multistate atom lasers
N. P. Robins, C. M. Savage, J. J. Hope, J. E. Lye, C. S. Fletcher, S. A. Haine, and J. D. Close
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
051602(R) [View PDF (314 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Observation and characterization of an optical spring
Benjamin S. Sheard, Malcolm B. Gray, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, David E. McClelland, and Stanley E. Whitcomb
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
051801(R) [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Group velocity of a probe light in an ensemble of Λ atoms under two-photon resonance
Y. Li and C. P. Sun
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
051802(R) [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Precision stabilization of femtosecond lasers to high-finesse optical cavities
R. Jason Jones, Isabell Thomann, and Jun Ye
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
051803(R) [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Cavity QED with optically transported atoms
J. A. Sauer, K. M. Fortier, M. S. Chang, C. D. Hamley, and M. S. Chapman
Published 19 May 2004 (4 pages)
051804(R) [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Single sub-50-attosecond pulse generation from chirp-compensated harmonic radiation using material dispersion
Kyung Taec Kim, Chul Min Kim, Moon-Gu Baik, G. Umesh, and Chang Hee Nam
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
051805(R) [View PDF (480 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Simulating quantum Brownian motion with single trapped ions
S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, F. Intravaia, F. Petruccione, and A. Messina
Published 7 May 2004 (8 pages)
052101 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Bitwise Bell-inequality violations for an entangled state involving 2N ions
D. T. Pope and G. J. Milburn
Published 7 May 2004 (11 pages)
052102 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Tests for nonrandomness in quantum jumps
D. J. Berkeland, D. A. Raymondson, and V. M. Tassin
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Jumplike unravelings for non-Markovian open quantum systems
Jay Gambetta, T. Askerud, and H. M. Wiseman
Published 10 May 2004 (11 pages)
052104 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Disentanglement and decoherence by open system dynamics
P. J. Dodd and J. J. Halliwell
Published 12 May 2004 (6 pages)
052105 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Disentanglement by dissipative open system dynamics
P. J. Dodd
Published 12 May 2004 (10 pages)
052106 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Quantum-information entropies of the eigenstates and the coherent state of the Pöschl-Teller potential
Rajneesh Atre, Anil Kumar, Nagaraja Kumar, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi
Published 14 May 2004 (6 pages)
052107 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Quantum tunneling time
Z. S. Wang, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Lai, and C. H. Oh
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
052108 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Is the dynamics of open quantum systems always linear?
Karen M. Fonseca Romero, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi
Published 17 May 2004 (8 pages)
052109 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Electromagnetic field quantization in a linear isotropic dielectric
Reza Matloob
Published 18 May 2004 (8 pages)
052110 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Action scales for quantum decoherence and their relation to structures in phase space
Daniel Alonso, S. Brouard, José P. Palao, and R. Sala Mayato
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
052111 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Quantum phase space points for Wigner functions in finite-dimensional spaces
Alfredo Luis
Published 20 May 2004 (5 pages)
052112 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Prior information: How to circumvent the standard joint-measurement uncertainty relation
Michael J. W. Hall
Published 20 May 2004 (12 pages)
052113 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Impossibility of distant indirect measurement of the quantum Zeno effect
M. Hotta and M. Morikawa
Published 20 May 2004 (7 pages)
052114 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Convolutionless Non-Markovian master equations and quantum trajectories: Brownian motion
Walter T. Strunz and Ting Yu
Published 24 May 2004 (14 pages)
052115 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Transition to classical chaos in a coupled quantum system through continuous measurement
Shohini Ghose, Paul Alsing, Ivan Deutsch, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Salman Habib
Published 24 May 2004 (8 pages)
052116 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Packet narrowing and quantum entanglement in photoionization and photodissociation
M. V. Fedorov, M. A. Efremov, A. E. Kazakov, K. W. Chan, C. K. Law, and J. H. Eberly
Published 26 May 2004 (10 pages)
052117 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Self-energy correction to the two-photon decay width in hydrogenlike atoms
Ulrich D. Jentschura
Published 27 May 2004 (8 pages)
052118 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum partial teleportation as optimal cloning at a distance
Radim Filip
Published 3 May 2004 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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State interrogation in nuclear magnetic resonance quantum-information processing
Garett M. Leskowitz and Leonard J. Mueller
Published 6 May 2004 (9 pages)
052302 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Parallel quantum computing in a single ensemble quantum computer
Gui Lu Long and L. Xiao
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
052303 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Measuring polynomial invariants of multiparty quantum states
M. S. Leifer, N. Linden, and A. Winter
Published 7 May 2004 (8 pages)
052304 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Detecting quantum entanglement by means of local operations and classical communication
Yan-Kui Bai, Shu-Shen Li, and Hou-Zhi Zheng
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
052305 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Separability conditions and limit temperatures for entanglement detection in two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ models
N. Canosa and R. Rossignoli
Published 11 May 2004 (7 pages)
052306 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Efficient multiparty quantum-secret-sharing schemes
Li Xiao, Gui Lu Long, Fu-Guo Deng, and Jian-Wei Pan
Published 11 May 2004 (5 pages)
052307 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Universality of entanglement and quantum-computation complexity
Román Orús and José I. Latorre
Published 12 May 2004 (13 pages)
052308 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Decoherence of two Josephson charge qubits coupled via σxσx-type coupling and exposed to σx noise
Ahmad Abliz, Shu-Shen Li, Lian-Liang Sun, Song-Lin Feng, and Hou-Zhi Zheng
Published 12 May 2004 (6 pages)
052309 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Information rate of a waveguide
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Published 13 May 2004 (5 pages)
052310 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Entanglement with classical fields
K. F. Lee and J. E. Thomas
Published 13 May 2004 (14 pages)
052311 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Local cloning of Bell states and distillable entanglement
Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, and Anirban Roy
Published 13 May 2004 (5 pages)
052312 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Continuous-variable quantum nondemolishing interaction at a distance
Radim Filip
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
052313 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement of four distant atoms trapped in different optical cavities
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 14 May 2004 (7 pages)
052314 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Propagation of quantum information through a spin system
Tobias J. Osborne and Noah Linden
Published 14 May 2004 (6 pages)
052315 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Frustration, interaction strength, and ground-state entanglement in complex quantum systems
Christopher M. Dawson and Michael A. Nielsen
Published 14 May 2004 (11 pages)
052316 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Entanglement echoes in quantum computation
Davide Rossini, Giuliano Benenti, and Giulio Casati
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
052317 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Entanglement preparation and quantum communication with atoms in optical cavities
Peng Xue, Chao Han, Bo Yu, Xiu-Min Lin, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 17 May 2004 (6 pages)
052318 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Secure direct communication with a quantum one-time pad
Fu-Guo Deng and Gui Lu Long
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
052319 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Gaussian entanglement of formation
M. M. Wolf, G. Giedke, O. Krüger, R. F. Werner, and J. I. Cirac
Published 17 May 2004 (8 pages)
052320 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Experimental realization of a programmable quantum-state discriminator and a phase-covariant quantum multimeter
Jan Soubusta, Antonín Černoch, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Miloslav Dušek
Published 17 May 2004 (7 pages)
052321 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Effect of ancilla’s structure on quantum error correction using the seven-qubit Calderbank-Shor-Steane code
P. J. Salas and A. L. Sanz
Published 17 May 2004 (11 pages)
052322 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Localization of two-dimensional quantum walks
Norio Inui, Yoshinao Konishi, and Norio Konno
Published 19 May 2004 (9 pages)
052323 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Practical scheme for error control using feedback
Mohan Sarovar, Charlene Ahn, Kurt Jacobs, and Gerard J. Milburn
Published 19 May 2004 (11 pages)
052324 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Stochastic Liouville equation approach for the effect of noise in quantum computations
Y. C. Cheng and R. J. Silbey
Published 19 May 2004 (15 pages)
052325 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Superselection rules and quantum protocols
Alexei Kitaev, Dominic Mayers, and John Preskill
Published 21 May 2004 (20 pages)
052326 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Entanglement detection in optical lattices of bosonic atoms with collective measurements
Géza Tóth
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
052327 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Generation of entangled ancilla states for use in linear optics quantum computing
J. D. Franson, M. M. Donegan, and B. C. Jacobs
Published 25 May 2004 (7 pages)
052328 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Implementation of generalized quantum measurements: Superadditive quantum coding, accessible information extraction, and classical capacity limit
Masahiro Takeoka, Mikio Fujiwara, Jun Mizuno, and Masahide Sasaki
Published 26 May 2004 (14 pages)
052329 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Multipartite entanglement, quantum-error-correcting codes, and entangling power of quantum evolutions
A. J. Scott
Published 27 May 2004 (10 pages)
052330 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Entangled subspaces and quantum symmetries
A. J. Bracken
Published 27 May 2004 (7 pages)
052331 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Assessment of density-functional approximations: Long-range correlationsand self-interaction effects
J. Jung, P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and R. W. Godby
Published 4 May 2004 (7 pages)
052501 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Long-wavelength quantum electrodynamics
Krzysztof Pachucki
Published 11 May 2004 (10 pages)
052502 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Evaluation of the self-energy correction to the g factor of S states in H-like ions
V. A. Yerokhin, P. Indelicato, and V. M. Shabaev
Published 14 May 2004 (14 pages)
052503 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Thomas-Fermi model: Nonextensive statistical mechanics approach
Evgeny Martinenko and Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
052504 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of the origin of the Ti Kα″ satellites
N. Shigeoka, H. Oohashi, T. Tochio, Y. Ito, T. Mukoyama, A. M. Vlaicu, and S. Fukushima
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
052505 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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S-wave Ps-Li and Ps-Na scattering
Sumana Chakraborty, Prabal K. Sinha, and A. S. Ghosh
Published 17 May 2004 (7 pages)
052506 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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General complex rotated finite-element method for predissociation studies of diatomic molecules: An application on the (1–6)1Σg+ states of H2
Stefan Andersson and Nils Elander
Published 18 May 2004 (21 pages)
052507 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Time-dependent density-functional calculations with asymptotically correct exchange-correlation potentials
Igor Vasiliev and Richard M. Martin
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
052508 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Relativistic Dirac-Fock exchange and Breit interaction energy functionals based on the local-density approximation and the self-consistent multiplicative constant method
Valentin V. Karasiev, Eduardo V. Ludeña, and Olga A. Shukruto
Published 20 May 2004 (11 pages)
052509 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Adiabatic connection for near degenerate excited states
Fan Zhang and Kieron Burke
Published 25 May 2004 (6 pages)
052510 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Excitation energies, oscillator strengths, and lifetimes of levels along the gold isoelectronic sequence
U. I. Safronova and W. R. Johnson
Published 25 May 2004 (9 pages)
052511 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Reexamining if long-lived N− anions are produced in fast dissociative electron-capture collisions
I. Ben-Itzhak, O. Heber, I. Gertner, A. Bar-David, and B. Rosner
Published 3 May 2004 (5 pages)
052701 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Positron scattering and annihilation from hydrogenlike ions
S. A. Novikov, M. W. J. Bromley, and J. Mitroy
Published 4 May 2004 (15 pages)
052702 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Isotope shifts of double-excitation resonances in helium
Y. H. Jiang, R. Püttner, M. Martins, R. Follath, J. M. Rost, and G. Kaindl
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
052703 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Electron capture by Ne3+ ions from atomic hydrogen
R. Rejoub, M. E. Bannister, C. C. Havener, D. W. Savin, C. J. Verzani, J. G. Wang, and P. C. Stancil
Published 10 May 2004 (7 pages)
052704 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Cold collisions involving rotationally hot oxygen molecules
K. Tilford, M. Hoster, P. M. Florian, and R. C. Forrey
Published 12 May 2004 (7 pages)
052705 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Elastic cross sections for electron-ketenylidene (C2O) collisions
M. M. Fujimoto, M.-T. Lee, and S. E. Michelin
Published 12 May 2004 (6 pages)
052706 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Convergence of the method of the hyperspherical R matrix with semiclassical outgoing waves
P. Selles, L. Malegat, A. Huetz, A. K. Kazansky, S. A. Collins, D. P. Seccombe, and T. J. Reddish
Published 12 May 2004 (10 pages)
052707 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Wave-packet dynamics for general contact interactions on a circular setup:Revivals, bouncing, and trapping
Alexandre G. M. Schmidt and M. G. E. da Luz
Published 12 May 2004 (8 pages)
052708 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Supplementary absolute differential cross sections for the excitation of atomic hydrogen’s n=3 and 4 levels by electron impact
Christopher J. Sweeney, Alan Grafe, and Tong W. Shyn
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
052709 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Neutron scattering in the magnetic field of a linear current: Exact S matrix and cross section
V. I. Osherov and V. G. Ushakov
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
052710 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Partial wave analysis of scattering with the nonlocal Aharonov-Bohm effect and the anomalous cross section induced by quantum interference
De-Hone Lin
Published 14 May 2004 (8 pages)
052711 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Protonium formation in the p̅ -H collision at low energies by a diabatic approach
M. Hesse, A. T. Le, and C. D. Lin
Published 14 May 2004 (7 pages)
052712 [View PDF (967 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of Be-like ions
J.-C. Chang, H.-L. Sun, W.-Y. Cheng, and K.-N. Huang
Published 19 May 2004 (8 pages)
052713 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Cold-target recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy studies of capture from atomic and molecular hydrogen by O8+ and Ar8+
E. Edgu-Fry, A. Wech, J. Stuhlman, T. G. Lee, C. D. Lin, and C. L. Cocke
Published 19 May 2004 (9 pages)
052714 [View PDF (591 kB)]
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Single- and double-electron-capture collision of Cq+ (q=3,4) with CO at keV energies
Hui Gao and Victor H. S. Kwong
Published 20 May 2004 (6 pages)
052715 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Cold electron scattering in SF6 and C6F6: Bound and virtual state channels
D. Field, N. C. Jones, and J.-P. Ziesel
Published 20 May 2004 (11 pages)
052716 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Positronium formation in the ground and excited states (n=2 levels) in a positron-negative hydrogen-ion collision
D. Ghosh and C. Sinha
Published 21 May 2004 (8 pages)
052717 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Elastic resonant and nonresonant differential scattering of quasifree electrons from B4+(1s) and B3+(1s2) ions
E. P. Benis, T. J. M. Zouros, T. W. Gorczyca, A. D. González, and P. Richard
Published 28 May 2004 (20 pages)
052718 [View PDF (834 kB)]

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

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Effects of the surface Miller index on the resonant neutralization of hydrogen anions near Ag surfaces
Himadri Chakraborty, Thomas Niederhausen, and Uwe Thumm
Published 12 May 2004 (8 pages)
052901 [View PDF (242 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Time-dependent spectrum of thermionic emission from hot clusters: Model and example of C60
F. Lépine and C. Bordas
Published 5 May 2004 (9 pages)
053201 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Modified genetic algorithms to model cluster structures in medium-size silicon clusters
Victor E. Bazterra, Ofelia Oña, María C. Caputo, Marta B. Ferraro, Patricio Fuentealba, and Julio C. Facelli
Published 5 May 2004 (7 pages)
053202 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Ionization of C70 and C60 molecules by slow highly charged ions: A comparison
J. Jensen, H. Zettergren, H. T. Schmidt, H. Cederquist, S. Tomita, S. B. Nielsen, J. Rangama, P. Hvelplund, B. Manil, and B. A. Huber
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
053203 [View PDF (379 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Blackbody radiation shift of the 133Cs hyperfine transition frequency
Salvatore Micalizio, Aldo Godone, Davide Calonico, Filippo Levi, and Luca Lorini
Published 6 May 2004 (8 pages)
053401 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Ionization by short uv laser pulses: Secondary above-threshold-ionization peaks of the electron spectrum investigated through a modified Coulomb-Volkov approach
V. D. Rodríguez, E. Cormier, and R. Gayet
Published 6 May 2004 (8 pages)
053402 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Quantum erasure within the optical Stern-Gerlach model
M. Chianello, M. Tumminello, A. Vaglica, and G. Vetri
Published 7 May 2004 (6 pages)
053403 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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First-principles calculations for the tunnel ionization rate of atoms and molecules
T. Otobe, K. Yabana, and J.-I. Iwata
Published 7 May 2004 (11 pages)
053404 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Electronic structure of atoms in magnetic quadrupole traps
Igor Lesanovsky, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Peter Schmelcher
Published 12 May 2004 (13 pages)
053405 [View PDF (1,089 kB)]
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Interactions of a two-level atom and a field with a time-varying frequency
Yaping Yang, Jingping Xu, Gaoxiang Li, and Hong Chen
Published 12 May 2004 (6 pages)
053406 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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vuv fluorescence from selective high-order multiphoton excitation of N2
Ryan N. Coffee and George N. Gibson
Published 12 May 2004 (8 pages)
053407 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Optimal control of quantum dissipative dynamics: Analytic solution for cooling the three-level Λ system
Shlomo E. Sklarz, David J. Tannor, and Navin Khaneja
Published 13 May 2004 (9 pages)
053408 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Simple soluble molecular ionization model
Gerald V. Dunne and Christopher S. Gauthier
Published 14 May 2004 (14 pages)
053409 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization of xenon atoms in a bichromatic phase-controlled laser field of linear and circular polarizations
Jingtao Zhang, Shaohui Li, and Zhizhan Xu
Published 17 May 2004 (6 pages)
053410 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Absolute Rb one-color two-photon ionization cross-section measurement near a quantum interference
T. Takekoshi, G. M. Brooke, B. M. Patterson, and R. J. Knize
Published 20 May 2004 (6 pages)
053411 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Laser sideband cooling with positive detuning
Ch. Schwedes, Th. Becker, J. von Zanthier, H. Walther, and E. Peik
Published 25 May 2004 (5 pages)
053412 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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H2+ ion in a strong magnetic field: Lowest excited states
A. V. Turbiner and J. C. López Vieyra
Published 27 May 2004 (10 pages)
053413 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Matter waves

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Interactions of vortices with rarefaction solitary waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate and their role in the decay of superfluid turbulence
Natalia G. Berloff
Published 5 May 2004 (7 pages)
053601 [View PDF (688 kB)]
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Oscillations of Bose-Einstein condensates with vortex lattices: Finite temperatures
Armen Sedrakian and Ira Wasserman
Published 6 May 2004 (14 pages)
053602 [View PDF (900 kB)]
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Resonant formation of strongly correlated paired states in rotating Bose gases
S. G. Bhongale, J. N. Milstein, and M. J. Holland
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
053603 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Creation and mobility of discrete solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
V. Ahufinger, A. Sanpera, P. Pedri, L. Santos, and M. Lewenstein
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
053604 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Generating macroscopic-quantum-superposition states in momentum and internal-state space from Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interactions
J. Higbie and D. M. Stamper-Kurn
Published 7 May 2004 (7 pages)
053605 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Phonon evaporation in freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensates
C. Tozzo and F. Dalfovo
Published 7 May 2004 (12 pages)
053606 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate induced by fluctuations of the laser intensity
J. Garnier, F. Kh. Abdullaev, and B. B. Baizakov
Published 10 May 2004 (10 pages)
053607 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement of many atoms in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 10 May 2004 (5 pages)
053608 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Magnetic solitons of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice
Zheng-Wei Xie, Weiping Zhang, S. T. Chui, and W. M. Liu
Published 12 May 2004 (5 pages)
053609 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Transverse laser modes in Bose-Einstein condensates
Graeme Whyte, Patrik Öhberg, and Johannes Courtial
Published 13 May 2004 (8 pages)
053610 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Beyond-mean-field results for atomic Bose-Einstein condensates at interaction strengths near Feshbach resonances: A many-body dimensional perturbation-theory calculation
B. A. McKinney, M. Dunn, and D. K. Watson
Published 13 May 2004 (15 pages)
053611 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of confined fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices
Marcos Rigol and Alejandro Muramatsu
Published 14 May 2004 (13 pages)
053612 [View PDF (2,003 kB)]
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Excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
K. Braun-Munzinger, J. A. Dunningham, and K. Burnett
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
053613 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Raman photoassociation of Bose-Fermi mixtures and the subsequent prospects for atom-molecule Cooper pairing
Matt Mackie, Olavi Dannenberg, Jyrki Piilo, Kalle-Antti Suominen, and Juha Javanainen
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
053614 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Collisional oscillations of trapped boson-fermion mixtures in the approach to the collapse instability
P. Capuzzi, A. Minguzzi, and M. P. Tosi
Published 17 May 2004 (7 pages)
053615 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Quench dynamics across quantum critical points
K. Sengupta, Stephen Powell, and Subir Sachdev
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
053616 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Quantum theory of a vortex line in an optical lattice
J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 18 May 2004 (15 pages)
053617 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Interference of small and of large quantum particles behind an asymmetric grating
Mirjana Božić, Dušan Arsenović, and Leposava Vušković
Published 18 May 2004 (9 pages)
053618 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with anharmonic confinement
A. D. Jackson, G. M. Kavoulakis, and E. Lundh
Published 18 May 2004 (7 pages)
053619 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Classical aspects of ultracold atom wave packet motion through microstructured waveguide bends
M. W. J. Bromley and B. D. Esry
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
053620 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Phase dynamics of a multimode Bose-Einstein condensate controlled by decay
H. L. Haroutyunyan and G. Nienhuis
Published 20 May 2004 (12 pages)
053621 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Vortex line in a neutral finite-temperature superfluid Fermi gas
N. Nygaard, G. M. Bruun, B. I. Schneider, C. W. Clark, and D. L. Feder
Published 20 May 2004 (9 pages)
053622 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Noisy dynamics of a vortex in a partially Bose-Einstein condensed gas
R. A. Duine, B. W. A. Leurs, and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 21 May 2004 (5 pages)
053623 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Improved optimization of perturbation theory: Applications to the oscillator energy levels and Bose-Einstein condensate critical temperature
Jean-Loïc Kneur, André Neveu, and Marcus B. Pinto
Published 24 May 2004 (8 pages)
053624 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Weakly interacting Bose gas in the vicinity of the normal-fluid–superfluid transition
Nikolay Prokof’ev, Oliver Ruebenacker, and Boris Svistunov
Published 25 May 2004 (11 pages)
053625 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Nonlocal modulations on the temporal and spectral profiles of an entangled photon pair
Silvia Viciani, Alessandro Zavatta, and Marco Bellini
Published 3 May 2004 (9 pages)
053801 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Optical bistability in sideband output modes induced by a squeezed vacuum
L. P. Maia, G. A. Prataviera, and S. S. Mizrahi
Published 3 May 2004 (7 pages)
053802 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Analytical treatment of self-phase-modulation beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation
M. S. Syrchin, A. M. Zheltikov, and M. Scalora
Published 6 May 2004 (6 pages)
053803 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Phase transitions in generalized spin-boson (Dicke) models
Clive Emary and Tobias Brandes
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
053804 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Effect of vacuum-induced coherence on single- and two-photon absorption in a four-level Y-type atomic system
B. P. Hou, S. J. Wang, W. L. Yu, and W. L. Sun
Published 7 May 2004 (6 pages)
053805 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Optical phase conjugation in third-order nonlinear photonic crystals
Ping Xie and Zhao-Qing Zhang
Published 10 May 2004 (5 pages)
053806 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Wave representation of geometrical laser beam trajectories in a hemiconfocal cavity
Y. F. Chen, C. H. Jiang, Y. P. Lan, and K. F. Huang
Published 10 May 2004 (6 pages)
053807 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Mechanocaloric and thermomechanical effects in Bose-Einstein-condensed systems
G. C. Marques, V. S. Bagnato, S. R. Muniz, and D. Spehler
Published 10 May 2004 (8 pages)
053808 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Probing the atom-field bound state
D. Mogilevtsev and S. Kilin
Published 10 May 2004 (5 pages)
053809 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence in photonic band gap waveguide architectures: Engineering the vacuum for all-optical switching
Marian Florescu and Sajeev John
Published 11 May 2004 (21 pages)
053810 [View PDF (1,692 kB)]
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Time-resolved ellipticity gating of high-order harmonic emission
R. López-Martens, J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, A. L’Huillier, O. Tcherbakoff, A. Zaïr, E. Mével, and E. Constant
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
053811 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Cascaded second-order contribution to the third-order nonlinear susceptibility
Christian Kolleck
Published 18 May 2004 (5 pages)
053812 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Nonlinear optical measurements using a 4f coherent imaging system with phase objects
G. Boudebs and S. Cherukulappurath
Published 18 May 2004 (6 pages)
053813 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Continuous-variable entanglement of phase-locked light beams
H. H. Adamyan and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan
Published 18 May 2004 (11 pages)
053814 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Antiphase state in passively Q-switched Yb:YAG microchip multimode lasers with a saturable absorber GaAs
Qiulin Zhang, Baohua Feng, Dongxiang Zhang, Panming Fu, Zhiguo Zhang, Zhiwei Zhao, Peizhen Deng, Jun Xu, Xiaodong Xu, Yonggang Wang, and Xiaoyu Ma
Published 20 May 2004 (6 pages)
053815 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Dynamics of multimode semiconductor lasers
A. M. Yacomotti, L. Furfaro, X. Hachair, F. Pedaci, M. Giudici, J. Tredicce, J. Javaloyes, S. Balle, E. A. Viktorov, and Paul Mandel
Published 24 May 2004 (9 pages)
053816 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Time control of two-photon interference
M. A. Sagioro, C. Olindo, C. H. Monken, and S. Pádua
Published 25 May 2004 (5 pages)
053817 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Atomic four-level N systems
C. Goren, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, M. Rosenbluh, and H. Friedmann
Published 26 May 2004 (10 pages)
053818 [View PDF (797 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Entanglement in a first-order quantum phase transition
Julien Vidal, Rémy Mosseri, and Jorge Dukelsky
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
054101 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Operator-sum representation of time-dependent density operators and its applications
D. M. Tong, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Oh, Jing-Ling Chen, and L. Ma
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
054102 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Quantum information

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Improving the capacity of the Boström-Felbinger protocol
Qing-yu Cai and Bai-wen Li
Published 10 May 2004 (3 pages)
054301 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Quantum information: Jaynes and Shannon entropies in a two-electron entangled artificial atom
Claudio Amovilli and Norman H. March
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Mode entanglement of electrons in the one-dimensional Frenkel-Kontorova model
Xiaoguang Wang, Haibin Li, and Bambi Hu
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
054303 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Phase-space approach to continuous variable quantum teleportation
Masashi Ban
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
054304 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Entanglement of electron spins of noninteracting electron gases
Sangchul Oh and Jaewan Kim
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
054305 [View PDF (270 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Bethe logarithm for the helium atom
Vladimir I. Korobov
Published 7 May 2004 (3 pages)
054501 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Relaxation effect and radiative corrections in many-electron atoms
Andrei Derevianko, Boris Ravaine, and W. R. Johnson
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
054502 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Atomic resonance interaction in dielectric media
Mathias Boström and Barry W. Ninham
Published 12 May 2004 (2 pages)
054701 [View PDF (22 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Two-color magneto-optical trap for metastable helium
A. S. Tychkov, J. C. J. Koelemeij, T. Jeltes, W. Hogervorst, and W. Vassen
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
055401 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Matter waves

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Integral equation for inhomogeneous condensed bosons generalizing the Gross-Pitaevskii differential equation
G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March, and R. Pucci
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
055601 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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High-speed generation of macroscopic quantum-interference states for the motion of a trapped ion
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
055801 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Entanglement between two atoms in an overdamped cavity injected with squeezed vacuum
Gao-xiang Li, K. Allaart, and D. Lenstra
Published 17 May 2004 (4 pages)
055802 [View PDF (57 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Grover search with pairs of trapped ions”
Charles D. Hill and Hsi-Sheng Goan
Published 17 May 2004 (3 pages)
056301 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Analytic value of the atomic three-electron correlation integral with Slater wave functions”
Frank E. Harris, Alexei M. Frolov, and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.
Published 28 May 2004 (2 pages)
056501 [View PDF (17 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Optimal control theory for unitary transformations [Phys. Rev. A 68, 062308 (2003)]
José P. Palao and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 4 May 2004 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Erratum: Model calculation for energy loss in ion-surface collisions [Phys. Rev. A 67, 062901 (2003)]
J. E. Miraglia and M. S. Gravielle
Published 4 May 2004 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Decay rates of excited muonic molecular ions [Phys. Rev. A 68, 032502 (2003)]
E. Lindroth, J. Wallenius, and S. Jonsell
Published 17 May 2004 (2 pages)
059903(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
 
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