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Physical Review A – June 2004
Volume 69, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Observation of interference effects in ejected electrons from 16.0-keV e−-SF6 collisions
S. Mondal and R. Shanker
Published 16 June 2004 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

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

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Ion-induced low-energy electron diffraction
T. Bernhard, Z. L. Fang, and H. Winter
Published 17 June 2004 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (120 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Measurement of 129Xe-Cs binary spin-exchange rate coefficient
Yuan-Yu Jau, Nicholas N. Kuzma, and William Happer
Published 7 June 2004 (4 pages)
061401(R) [View PDF (136 kB)]

Matter waves

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Self-energy and critical temperature of weakly interacting bosons
Sascha Ledowski, Nils Hasselmann, and Peter Kopietz
Published 17 June 2004 (4 pages)
061601(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Scattering of dark-state polaritons in optical lattices and quantum phase gate for photons
M. Mašalas and M. Fleischhauer
Published 3 June 2004 (4 pages)
061801(R) [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Dynamic optical bistability in resonantly enhanced Raman generation
I. Novikova, A. S. Zibrov, D. F. Phillips, A. André, and R. L. Walsworth
Published 17 June 2004 (4 pages)
061802(R) [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Temporal characterization of ultrashort x-ray pulses using x-ray anomalous transmission
A. Nazarkin, A. Morak, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
061803(R) [View PDF (113 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Nonperturbative approach to Casimir interactions in periodic geometries
Rauno Büscher and Thorsten Emig
Published 2 June 2004 (18 pages)
062101 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Correction to the Casimir force due to the anomalous skin effect
R. Esquivel and V. B. Svetovoy
Published 3 June 2004 (12 pages)
062102 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Hardy nonlocality via few-body fragmentation imaging
James M. Feagin
Published 7 June 2004 (7 pages)
062103 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Simple model for the detection of a particle by a point detector
Roy S. Bondurant
Published 9 June 2004 (7 pages)
062104 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Resonance poles in the complex-frequency domain for an oscillating barrier
R. Lefebvre and N. Moiseyev
Published 14 June 2004 (7 pages)
062105 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Classical representation of wave functions for integrable systems
Kenneth G. Kay
Published 15 June 2004 (15 pages)
062106 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Non-Markovian quantum trajectories versus master equations: Finite-temperature heat bath
Ting Yu
Published 18 June 2004 (9 pages)
062107 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Consistency of the Shannon entropy in quantum experiments
Piero G. Luca Mana
Published 21 June 2004 (12 pages)
062108 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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“Quality” of a which-way detector
Jesús Martinez-Linares and David A. Harmin
Published 23 June 2004 (10 pages)
062109 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Survival of quantum effects for observables after decoherence
G. P. Berman, A. R. Bishop, F. Borgonovi, and D. A. R. Dalvit
Published 23 June 2004 (6 pages)
062110 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Active and passive quantum erasers for neutral kaons
A. Bramon, G. Garbarino, and B. C. Hiesmayr
Published 23 June 2004 (8 pages)
062111 [View PDF (339 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum-cellular-automata pseudorandom maps
Yaakov S. Weinstein and C. Stephen Hellberg
Published 1 June 2004 (7 pages)
062301 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Adiabatic quantum computation and quantum phase transitions
José Ignacio Latorre and Román Orús
Published 2 June 2004 (5 pages)
062302 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Characterization of pure quantum states of multiple qubits using the Groverian entanglement measure
Yishai Shimoni, Daniel Shapira, and Ofer Biham
Published 2 June 2004 (10 pages)
062303 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Irreversibility of entanglement distillation for a class of symmetric states
Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht, Reinhard F. Werner, and Michael M. Wolf
Published 3 June 2004 (5 pages)
062304 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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De Finetti representation theorem for quantum-process tomography
Christopher A. Fuchs, Rüdiger Schack, and Petra F. Scudo
Published 3 June 2004 (6 pages)
062305 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Quantum logic gates using Stark-shifted Raman transitions in a cavity
Asoka Biswas and G. S. Agarwal
Published 4 June 2004 (5 pages)
062306 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Additivity properties of a Gaussian channel
Vittorio Giovannetti and Seth Lloyd
Published 7 June 2004 (9 pages)
062307 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Two-qubit entanglement dynamics in a symmetry-broken environment
Marco Lucamarini, Simone Paganelli, and Stefano Mancini
Published 7 June 2004 (8 pages)
062308 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Short-time decoherence for general system-environment interactions
Denis Tolkunov and Vladimir Privman
Published 7 June 2004 (7 pages)
062309 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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When catalysis is useful for probabilistic entanglement transformation
Yuan Feng, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 9 June 2004 (5 pages)
062310 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Multiparty entanglement in graph states
M. Hein, J. Eisert, and H. J. Briegel
Published 9 June 2004 (20 pages)
062311 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Nuclear spin qubits in a pseudospin quantum chain
E. Novais and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 14 June 2004 (6 pages)
062312 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Quantum error correction against correlated noise
James P. Clemens, Shabnam Siddiqui, and Julio Gea-Banacloche
Published 14 June 2004 (9 pages)
062313 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Localizable entanglement in antiferromagnetic spin chains
B.-Q. Jin and V. E. Korepin
Published 14 June 2004 (9 pages)
062314 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Correcting quantum errors with the Zeno effect
Noam Erez, Yakir Aharonov, Benni Reznik, and Lev Vaidman
Published 15 June 2004 (5 pages)
062315 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Characterization of low-cost one-to-two qubit cloning
Thomas Durt and Jiangfeng Du
Published 16 June 2004 (10 pages)
062316 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Simulating noisy quantum protocols with quantum trajectories
Gabriel G. Carlo, Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, and Carlos Mejía-Monasterio
Published 18 June 2004 (11 pages)
062317 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Optimal quantum detectors for unambiguous detection of mixed states
Yonina C. Eldar, Mihailo Stojnic, and Babak Hassibi
Published 21 June 2004 (9 pages)
062318 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Quantum entangling power of adiabatically connected Hamiltonians
Alioscia Hamma and Paolo Zanardi
Published 23 June 2004 (5 pages)
062319 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting electrical circuits: An architecture for quantum computation
Alexandre Blais, Ren-Shou Huang, Andreas Wallraff, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf
Published 29 June 2004 (14 pages)
062320 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Minimal universal two-qubit controlled-NOT-based circuits
Vivek V. Shende, Igor L. Markov, and Stephen S. Bullock
Published 30 June 2004 (8 pages)
062321 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Nonzero total-angular-momentum three-body dynamics using hyperspherical elliptic coordinates: Application to muon transfer from muonic hydrogen to atomic oxygen and neon
Arnaud Dupays, Bruno Lepetit, J. Alberto Beswick, Carlo Rizzo, and Dimitar Bakalov
Published 1 June 2004 (8 pages)
062501 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Nonvanishing J=1↔0 equal-frequency two-photon decay: E1M2 decay of the He-like 2 3S1 state
R. W. Dunford
Published 3 June 2004 (5 pages)
062502 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body perturbation calculations on extreme ultraviolet and soft-x-ray transition energies in siliconlike iron
Marius J. Vilkas and Yasuyuki Ishikawa
Published 4 June 2004 (15 pages)
062503 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Stability and structure of two coupled boson systems in an external field
T. Sogo, O. Sørensen, A. S. Jensen, and D. V. Fedorov
Published 7 June 2004 (5 pages)
062504 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Calculation of quasidegenerate energy levels of two-electron ions
O. Yu. Andreev, L. N. Labzowsky, G. Plunien, and G. Soff
Published 8 June 2004 (17 pages)
062505 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Interelectronic-interaction effect on the transition probability in high-Z He-like ions
P. Indelicato, V. M. Shabaev, and A. V. Volotka
Published 10 June 2004 (9 pages)
062506 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Final-state probabilities for the hydrogen atom arising after (e−,e+)-pair annihilation in the positronium hydride PsH
Alexei M. Frolov
Published 18 June 2004 (5 pages)
062507 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Semiclassical quantization of bound and quasistationary states beyond the adiabatic approximation
V. A. Benderskii, E. V. Vetoshkin, and E. I. Kats
Published 28 June 2004 (20 pages)
062508 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Collision-induced dissociation and dissociative capture of H2+ in Ar and Kr
H. Martínez and F. B. Yousif
Published 2 June 2004 (5 pages)
062701 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Vibrationally resolved charge transfer of O3+ with molecular hydrogen
J. G. Wang, P. C. Stancil, A. R. Turner, and D. L. Cooper
Published 2 June 2004 (12 pages)
062702 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Comparison of hyperspherical versus common-reaction-coordinate close-coupling methods for ion-atom collisions at low energies
Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin, L. F. Errea, L. Méndez, A. Riera, and B. Pons
Published 3 June 2004 (10 pages)
062703 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Multipolar polarizations of methane from isotropic and anisotropic collision-induced light scattering
T. Bancewicz, K. Nowicka, J.-L. Godet, and Y. Le Duff
Published 7 June 2004 (8 pages)
062704 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Dynamics of formation of K-hole fractions of sulfur projectiles inside a carbon foil
J. Braziewicz, U. Majewska, K. Słabkowska, M. Polasik, I. Fijał, M. Jaskóła, A. Korman, W. Czarnacki, S. Chojnacki, and W. Kretschmer
Published 7 June 2004 (10 pages)
062705 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Close-coupling and distorted-wave calculations for electron-impact excitation of the (5p56p) states of xenon
K. Bartschat, A. Dasgupta, and D. H. Madison
Published 7 June 2004 (6 pages)
062706 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Triple-differential cross sections for inner-shell electron-impact ionization of carbon
Xiang-Fu Jia, Ming-Hai Liu, Shi-Yan Sun, and Yuan Wu
Published 10 June 2004 (5 pages)
062707 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Experimental study of coherence and correlation in the anisotropy of Ne KL-LLL satellite Auger decay
László Tóth, Sándor Ricz, Endre Takács, Béla Sulik, János Végh, and Imre Kádár
Published 11 June 2004 (6 pages)
062708 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Double-to-single photoionization ratio of lithium at medium energies
R. Wehlitz, M. M. Martinez, J. B. Bluett, D. Lukić, and S. B. Whitfield
Published 14 June 2004 (6 pages)
062709 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Spectator-electron behavior during cascade decay in krypton
G. B. Armen, E. P. Kanter, B. Krässig, J. C. Levin, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young
Published 14 June 2004 (12 pages)
062710 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Low-energy electron scattering of NO: Ab initio analysis of the 3Σ−, 1Δ, and 1Σ+ shape resonances in the local complex potential model
Zhiyong Zhang, Wim Vanroose, C. W. McCurdy, A. E. Orel, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 14 June 2004 (11 pages)
062711 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Cross-section and asymmetry-parameter calculations for the outer- and inner-valence photoionization of ethane
Daniele Toffoli, Mary J. Simpson, and Robert R. Lucchese
Published 15 June 2004 (9 pages)
062712 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Complex potential surface for the 2B1 metastable state of the water anion
Daniel J. Haxton, Zhiyong Zhang, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 16 June 2004 (11 pages)
062713 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Dynamics of dissociative attachment of electrons to water through the 2B1 metastable state of the anion
Daniel J. Haxton, Zhiyong Zhang, H-D. Meyer, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy
Published 16 June 2004 (16 pages)
062714 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Electron capture and excitation in collisions of O+(4S,2D,2P) with H2 molecules
Lukáš Pichl, Yan Li, Heinz-Peter Liebermann, Robert J. Buenker, and Mineo Kimura
Published 17 June 2004 (10 pages)
062715 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Differential cross sections for elastic electron scattering in argon over the angular range 130°–180°
Brygida Mielewska, Ireneusz Linert, George C. King, and Mariusz Zubek
Published 21 June 2004 (8 pages)
062716 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Upper limits for stereoselective photodissociation of free amino acids in the vacuum ultraviolet region and at the C 1s edge
Georg Prümper, Jens Viefhaus, Slobodan Cvejanović, Daniel Rolles, Oliver Geßner, Toralf Lischke, Rainer Hentges, Christian Wienberg, Willy Mahler, Uwe Becker, Burkhard Langer, Tommaso Prosperi, Nicola Zema, Stefano Turchini, Birgitt Zada, and Fred Senf
Published 25 June 2004 (7 pages)
062717 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Multiple ionization of noble gases by swift H2+ ions in breakup and nonbreakup collisions
G. M. Sigaud, M. M. Sant’Anna, H. Luna, A. C. F. Santos, C. McGrath, M. B. Shah, E. G. Cavalcanti, and E. C. Montenegro
Published 28 June 2004 (11 pages)
062718 [View PDF (100 kB)]

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

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Four-wave mixing spectroscopy of gas-surface scattering
V. G. Bordo
Published 3 June 2004 (9 pages)
062901 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Dynamics of alkali-metal atom photodesorption from polymer thin films
J. Brewer, V. G. Bordo, M. J. Kasprowicz, and H.-G. Rubahn
Published 7 June 2004 (7 pages)
062902 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Energy loss of helium ions in zinc
G. H. Lantschner, J. C. Eckardt, A. F. Lifschitz, N. R. Arista, L. L. Araujo, P. F. Duarte, J. H. R. dos Santos, M. Behar, J. F. Dias, P. L. Grande, C. C. Montanari, and J. E. Miraglia
Published 9 June 2004 (6 pages)
062903 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Coulomb-explosion imaging of CH2+: Target-polarization effects and bond-angle distribution
L. Lammich, H. Buhr, H. Kreckel, S. Krohn, M. Lange, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, A. Wolf, D. Strasser, D. Zajfman, Z. Vager, I. Abril, S. Heredia-Avalos, and R. Garcia-Molina
Published 15 June 2004 (10 pages)
062904 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Alkali-metal adsorbate polarization on conducting and insulating surfaces probed with Bose-Einstein condensates
J. M. McGuirk, D. M. Harber, J. M. Obrecht, and E. A. Cornell
Published 22 June 2004 (6 pages)
062905 [View PDF (358 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Energy distributions of ions emitted from argon clusters Coulomb-exploded by intense femtosecond laser pulses
M. Hirokane, S. Shimizu, M. Hashida, S. Okada, S. Okihara, F. Sato, T. Iida, and S. Sakabe
Published 7 June 2004 (4 pages)
063201 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Ground-state properties of artificial bosonic atoms, Bose interaction blockade, and the single-atom pipette
Eugene B. Kolomeisky, Joseph P. Straley, and Ryan M. Kalas
Published 1 June 2004 (16 pages)
063401 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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l dependence of dielectronic recombination from a continuum of finite bandwidth in a static electric field
E. S. Shuman, C. M. Evans, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 1 June 2004 (8 pages)
063402 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Laser collimation of a continuous beam of cold atoms using Zeeman-shift degenerate-Raman-sideband cooling
G. Di Domenico, N. Castagna, G. Mileti, P. Thomann, A. V. Taichenachev, and V. I. Yudin
Published 2 June 2004 (9 pages)
063403 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Laser collimation of an atomic gallium beam
Steven J. Rehse, Karen M. Bockel, and Siu Au Lee
Published 7 June 2004 (5 pages)
063404 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Cold-Rydberg-gas dynamics
A. Walz-Flannigan, J. R. Guest, J.-H. Choi, and G. Raithel
Published 7 June 2004 (9 pages)
063405 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Dynamics of neutral molecules stored in a ring
Floris M. H. Crompvoets, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Jochen Küpper, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer
Published 7 June 2004 (5 pages)
063406 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Relativistic electronic dressing in laser-assisted electron-hydrogen elastic collisions
Y. Attaourti, B. Manaut, and A. Makhoute
Published 9 June 2004 (6 pages)
063407 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Isotopic difference in the heteronuclear loss rate in a two-species surface trap
M. E. Holmes, M. Tscherneck, P. A. Quinto-Su, and N. P. Bigelow
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
063408 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Semiclassical analysis of long-wavelength multiphoton processes: The Rydberg atom
Luz V. Vela-Arevalo and Ronald F. Fox
Published 15 June 2004 (13 pages)
063409 [View PDF (821 kB)]
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General method for complete population transfer in degenerate systems
Jiangbin Gong and Stuart A. Rice
Published 15 June 2004 (9 pages)
063410 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Relativistic electronic dressing in laser-assisted ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron impact
Y. Attaourti and S. Taj
Published 16 June 2004 (8 pages)
063411 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Laser-field-induced modifications of electron-transfer processes in ion-atom collisions
Tom Kirchner
Published 21 June 2004 (7 pages)
063412 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Revivals of coherence in chaotic atom-optics billiards
M. F. Andersen, T. Grünzweig, A. Kaplan, and N. Davidson
Published 21 June 2004 (8 pages)
063413 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Evaluation of nuclear excitation by electronic transition in 235U plasma at local thermodynamic equilibrium
P. Morel, V. Méot, G. Gosselin, D. Gogny, and W. Younes
Published 23 June 2004 (14 pages)
063414 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Asymmetry of above-threshold ionization of metal clusters in two-color laser fields: A time-dependent density-functional study
H. S. Nguyen, A. D. Bandrauk, and C. A. Ullrich
Published 24 June 2004 (8 pages)
063415 [View PDF (877 kB)]
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Intrinsic chirp of attosecond pulses: Single-atom model versus experiment
S. Kazamias and Ph. Balcou
Published 30 June 2004 (6 pages)
063416 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Matter waves

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Precessional motion of a vortex in a finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate
Tomoya Isoshima, Jukka Huhtamäki, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 2 June 2004 (6 pages)
063601 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Cold asymmetrical fermion superfluids
Heron Caldas
Published 4 June 2004 (12 pages)
063602 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Phase separation of atomic Bose-Fermi mixtures in an optical lattice
H. P. Büchler and G. Blatter
Published 8 June 2004 (7 pages)
063603 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Magnetic field dependence of the dynamics of 87Rb spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates
T. Kuwamoto, K. Araki, T. Eno, and T. Hirano
Published 8 June 2004 (6 pages)
063604 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Dissipationless shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interaction between atoms
A. M. Kamchatnov, A. Gammal, and R. A. Kraenkel
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
063605 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Vortex creation in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
G. Nandi, R. Walser, and W. P. Schleich
Published 10 June 2004 (8 pages)
063606 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Effect of soliton and vortex geometry on the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
R. G. Scott, A. M. Martin, and T. M. Fromhold
Published 11 June 2004 (6 pages)
063607 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Analytical solutions of the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations for excitations of a trapped Bose-Einstein-condensed gas
Bambi Hu, Guoxiang Huang, and Yong-li Ma
Published 15 June 2004 (4 pages)
063608 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Double-layer Bose-Einstein condensates with a large number of vortices
Hui Zhai, Qi Zhou, Rong Lü, and Lee Chang
Published 15 June 2004 (12 pages)
063609 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Nature of superfluidity in ultracold Fermi gases near Feshbach resonances
Jelena Stajic, J. N. Milstein, Qijin Chen, M. L. Chiofalo, M. J. Holland, and K. Levin
Published 17 June 2004 (4 pages)
063610 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Decrease in the visibility of the interference fringes in a cold-atom accelerometer
James A. Stickney and Alex A. Zozulya
Published 17 June 2004 (7 pages)
063611 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Dynamics of the formation of bright solitary waves of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
L. Plaja and J. San Román
Published 21 June 2004 (8 pages)
063612 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Stabilization of bright solitons and vortex solitons in a trapless three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate by temporal modulation of the scattering length
Sadhan K. Adhikari
Published 22 June 2004 (6 pages)
063613 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Intensity interferometry with anyons
Thomas D. Gutierrez
Published 22 June 2004 (5 pages)
063614 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Phase transition of interacting Bose gases in general power-law potentials
O. Zobay, G. Metikas, and G. Alber
Published 23 June 2004 (10 pages)
063615 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Transient behaviors of photon switching by quantum interference
Yong-Fan Chen, Guan-Chi Pan, and Ite A. Yu
Published 2 June 2004 (6 pages)
063801 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Sub-Doppler and subnatural narrowing of an absorption line induced by interacting dark resonances in a tripod system
C. Goren, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, M. Rosenbluh, and H. Friedmann
Published 2 June 2004 (5 pages)
063802 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Preparation of multiparty entangled states using pairwise perfectly efficient single-probe photon four-wave mixing
Ying Wu, M. G. Payne, E. W. Hagley, and L. Deng
Published 3 June 2004 (6 pages)
063803 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Coupled-resonator-induced transparency
David D. Smith, Hongrok Chang, Kirk A. Fuller, A. T. Rosenberger, and Robert W. Boyd
Published 3 June 2004 (6 pages)
063804 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Coherent hole burning and Mollow absorption effects in the cycling transition Fe=0↔Fg=1 subject to a magnetic field
Ying Gu, Qingqing Sun, and Qihuang Gong
Published 7 June 2004 (6 pages)
063805 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Validity of rate equations for Zeeman coherences for analysis of nonlinear interaction of atoms with broadband laser radiation
Kaspars Blushs and Marcis Auzinsh
Published 9 June 2004 (9 pages)
063806 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Twin polaritons in semiconductor microcavities
J. Ph. Karr, A. Baas, and E. Giacobino
Published 9 June 2004 (12 pages)
063807 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Large negative and positive delay of optical pulses in coherently prepared dense Rb vapor with buffer gas
Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Irina Novikova, and George R. Welch
Published 14 June 2004 (5 pages)
063808 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Propagation of two-dimensional pulses in electromagnetically induced transparency media
Per Arve, Peter Jänes, and Lars Thylén
Published 14 June 2004 (8 pages)
063809 [View PDF (651 kB)]
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Single-photon scattering and quantum-state transformations in cavity QED
T. W. Chen, C. K. Law, and P. T. Leung
Published 15 June 2004 (6 pages)
063810 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Efficiency of tunable band-gap structures for single-photon emission
Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 18 June 2004 (9 pages)
063811 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Aspects of the dynamics of a two-level atom dispersively coupled to a damped and driven field mode
J. G. Peixoto de Faria and M. C. Nemes
Published 18 June 2004 (11 pages)
063812 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Effect of a transient light shift on the propagation of an ultrashort pulse in a resonant atomic medium
J. C. Delagnes and M. A. Bouchene
Published 22 June 2004 (5 pages)
063813 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Photon-exchange effects on photon-pair transmission
K. J. Resch, G. G. Lapaire, J. S. Lundeen, J. E. Sipe, and A. M. Steinberg
Published 22 June 2004 (5 pages)
063814 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Complete electromagnetically induced transparency in sodium atoms excited by a multimode dye laser
G. Alzetta, S. Gozzini, A. Lucchesini, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, C. Marinelli, and L. Moi
Published 22 June 2004 (9 pages)
063815 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Effective photon-photon interaction in a two-dimensional “photon fluid”
R. Y. Chiao, T. H. Hansson, J. M. Leinaas, and S. Viefers
Published 22 June 2004 (20 pages)
063816 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Quantum-trajectory analysis of an optical Stern-Gerlach experiment
Young-Tak Chough and Kyungwon An
Published 24 June 2004 (11 pages)
063817 [View PDF (416 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Exchange potential via functional differentiation of the Dirac idempotent density matrix
N. H. March and I. A. Howard
Published 2 June 2004 (4 pages)
064101 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Analytic representation of the Efimov effect in the helium trimer
Lawrence L. Lohr and S. M. Blinder
Published 2 June 2004 (4 pages)
064102 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Electron self-energy for higher excited S levels
Ulrich D. Jentschura and Peter J. Mohr
Published 7 June 2004 (2 pages)
064103 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of magnetic and electric dipoles and the geometric phase
Claudio Furtado and Carlos Alberto de Lima Ribeiro
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
064104 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Quantum information

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Representation of the SO(3) group by a maximally entangled state
W. LiMing, Z. L. Tang, and C. J. Liao
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
064301 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Scheme for approximate conditional teleportation of an unknown atomic state without the Bell-state measurement
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 14 June 2004 (3 pages)
064302 [View PDF (27 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Variational calculation for the doubly excited state (2p2)3Pe of helium
Tapan K. Mukherjee and Prasanta K. Mukherjee
Published 14 June 2004 (3 pages)
064501 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Density-functional study of lanthanum, ytterbium, and lutetium dimers
Z. J. Wu, J. S. Shi, S. Y. Zhang, and H. J. Zhang
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
064502 [View PDF (36 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Exact analytical scattering lengths for a class of long-range potentials with r−4 asymptotics
Radosław Szmytkowski and Krzysztof Mielewczyk
Published 2 June 2004 (4 pages)
064701 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Breakup dynamics and isotope effects in D2H+ and H2D+ dissociative recombination
D. Strasser, L. Lammich, H. Kreckel, M. Lange, S. Krohn, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman
Published 15 June 2004 (4 pages)
064702 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Ne+ and Ne2+ ion formation in circularly polarized laser fields: Comparison between theory and experiment
Alexey S. Kornev, Elena B. Tulenko, and Boris A. Zon
Published 7 June 2004 (2 pages)
065401 [View PDF (21 kB)]

Matter waves

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Second-harmonic generation of Bogoliubov excitations in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
Guoxiang Huang, Xin-qi Li, and Jacob Szeftel
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
065601 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum shifts for qubits in heterostructures
M. Al-Amri and M. Babiker
Published 3 June 2004 (4 pages)
065801 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spectroscopy in an extremely thin vapor cell: Comparing the cell-length dependence in fluorescence and in absorption techniques
D. Sarkisyan, T. Varzhapetyan, A. Sarkisyan, Yu. Malakyan, A. Papoyan, A. Lezama, D. Bloch, and M. Ducloy
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
065802 [View PDF (394 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Squeezing in semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime[Phys. Rev. A 69, 031802 (2004)]
J. Ph. Karr, A. Baas, R. Houdré, and E. Giacobino
Published 14 June 2004 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Optical bistability in sideband output modes induced by a squeezed vacuum[Phys. Rev. A 69, 053802 (2004)]
L. P. Maia, G. A. Prataviera, and S. S. Mizrahi
Published 29 June 2004 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
 
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