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Physical Review A – July 2004
Volume 70, Issue 1

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Quantum information

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Entangling capacities of noisy two-qubit Hamiltonians
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Daniel A. Lidar
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
010301(R) [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Three-party pure quantum states are determined by two two-party reduced states
Lajos Diósi
Published 19 July 2004 (2 pages)
010302(R) [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Hong-Ou-Mandel cloning: Quantum copying without an ancilla
Irfan Ali Khan and John C. Howell
Published 19 July 2004 (4 pages)
010303(R) [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Depolarizing channel as a completely positive map with memory
Sonja Daffer, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz, James D. Cresser, and John K. McIver
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
010304(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Optimal strategy for a single-qubit gate and the trade-off between opposite types of decoherence
Robert Alicki, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki, Lucjan Jacak, and Paweł Machnikowski
Published 22 July 2004 (4 pages)
010501(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Autoionization electrons following double excitation of D2 in 2.4 keV e−+D2 collisions: Experimental and theoretical evidence
J.-Y. Chesnel, D. Martina, P. Sobocinski, O. Kamalou, F. Frémont, J. Fernández, and F. Martín
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
010701(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Circular dichroism at equal energy sharing in photo-double-ionization of He
Andrei Y. Istomin, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
010702(R) [View PDF (109 kB)]

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

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Mapping surfaces using regionally specific hyperfine polarization
K. Zhao and Z. Wu
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
010901(R) [View PDF (381 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Control of the production of highly charged ions in femtosecond-laser cluster fragmentation
S. Zamith, T. Martchenko, Y. Ni, S. A. Aseyev, H. G. Muller, and M. J. J. Vrakking
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
011201(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Atom trapping and guiding with a subwavelength-diameter optical fiber
V. I. Balykin, K. Hakuta, Fam Le Kien, J. Q. Liang, and M. Morinaga
Published 20 July 2004 (4 pages)
011401(R) [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Photodetachment in a strong circularly polarized laser field
Svea Beiser, Michael Klaiber, and Igor Yu. Kiyan
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
011402(R) [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a multicomponent-atom sample in a tightly compressed atom trap
A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and J. Javanainen
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
011403(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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High-order harmonic generation from two-center molecules: Time-profile analysis of nuclear contributions
G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
011404(R) [View PDF (626 kB)]

Matter waves

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Faraday patterns in low-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates
Kestutis Staliunas, Stefano Longhi, and Germán J. de Valcárcel
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
011601(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Continuous measurement of atom-number moments of a Bose-Einstein condensate by photodetection
G. A. Prataviera and M. C. de Oliveira
Published 14 July 2004 (4 pages)
011602(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Vortex sorter for Bose-Einstein condensates
Graeme Whyte, John Veitch, Patrik Öhberg, and Johannes Courtial
Published 15 July 2004 (4 pages)
011603(R) [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Interior gap superfluidity in a two-component Fermi gas of atoms
Bimalendu Deb, Amruta Mishra, Hiranmaya Mishra, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi
Published 23 July 2004 (4 pages)
011604(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Superluminal and slow light propagation in cold atoms
Hoonsoo Kang, Gessler Hernandez, and Yifu Zhu
Published 7 July 2004 (4 pages)
011801(R) [View PDF (167 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Spin and statistics in Galilean covariant field theory
C. R. Hagen
Published 6 July 2004 (4 pages)
012101 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Separability conditions from entropic uncertainty relations
Vittorio Giovannetti
Published 8 July 2004 (10 pages)
012102 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Operations and single-particle interferometry
Johan Åberg
Published 8 July 2004 (10 pages)
012103 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Effects of a thermal reservoir on variational functions in open systems
Matthias Jakob and Stig Stenholm
Published 9 July 2004 (18 pages)
012104 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Hermitian-phase-operator treatment of the superfluid states in a quantum two-well problem
Marijan Koštrun
Published 12 July 2004 (6 pages)
012105 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Genuine quantum trajectories for non-Markovian processes
Heinz-Peter Breuer
Published 12 July 2004 (12 pages)
012106 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Dynamical Casimir-Polder energy between an excited- and a ground-state atom
L. Rizzuto, R. Passante, and F. Persico
Published 12 July 2004 (5 pages)
012107 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Off-diagonal geometric phase in composite systems
X. X. Yi and J. L. Chang
Published 20 July 2004 (4 pages)
012108 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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General criterion for the entanglement of two indistinguishable particles
GianCarlo Ghirardi and Luca Marinatto
Published 22 July 2004 (10 pages)
012109 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Operator-normalized quantum arrival times in the presence of interactions
G. C. Hegerfeldt, D. Seidel, J. G. Muga, and B. Navarro
Published 22 July 2004 (6 pages)
012110 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Spatial localization and relativistic transformation of quantum spins
Hui Li and Jiangfeng Du
Published 29 July 2004 (5 pages)
012111 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Entanglement generation in uniformly accelerating atoms: Reexamination of the Unruh effect
F. Benatti and R. Floreanini
Published 30 July 2004 (12 pages)
012112 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Quantum information

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Dynamics of entanglement between two atomic samples with spontaneous scattering
Antonio Di Lisi, Silvio De Siena, and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 2 July 2004 (11 pages)
012301 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Mutually unbiased bases and trinary operator sets for N qutrits
Jay Lawrence
Published 2 July 2004 (10 pages)
012302 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Preparation and entanglement purification of qubits through Zeno-like measurements
Hiromichi Nakazato, Makoto Unoki, and Kazuya Yuasa
Published 2 July 2004 (12 pages)
012303 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Mimicking time evolution within a quantum ground state: Ground-state quantum computation, cloning, and teleportation
Ari Mizel
Published 7 July 2004 (9 pages)
012304 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Multiqubit controlled unitary gate by adiabatic passage with an optical cavity
Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura
Published 9 July 2004 (8 pages)
012305 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Quantum computations with atoms in optical lattices: Marker qubits and molecular interactions
T. Calarco, U. Dorner, P. S. Julienne, C. J. Williams, and P. Zoller
Published 12 July 2004 (14 pages)
012306 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Capacity of nonlinear bosonic systems
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone
Published 13 July 2004 (6 pages)
012307 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Unambiguous discrimination between mixed quantum states
Yuan Feng, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 14 July 2004 (4 pages)
012308 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Generalized measurement and conclusive teleportation with nonmaximal entanglement
Hyunjae Kim, Yong Wook Cheong, and Hai-Woong Lee
Published 19 July 2004 (7 pages)
012309 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Recognizing small-circuit structure in two-qubit operators
Vivek V. Shende, Stephen S. Bullock, and Igor L. Markov
Published 19 July 2004 (5 pages)
012310 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Bidirectional quantum key distribution protocol with practical faint laser pulses
Fu-Guo Deng and Gui Lu Long
Published 20 July 2004 (7 pages)
012311 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Scaling of multiple postselected quantum gates in optics
T. C. Ralph
Published 27 July 2004 (5 pages)
012312 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Entanglement induced by nonadiabatic chaos
Hiroshi Fujisaki
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
012313 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Search for optimum labeling schemes in qubit systems for quantum-information processing by nuclear magnetic resonance
Ranabir Das, Sukhendu Chakraborty, K. Rukmani, and Anil Kumar
Published 29 July 2004 (9 pages)
012314 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Purity and state fidelity of quantum channels
Paolo Zanardi and Daniel A. Lidar
Published 29 July 2004 (7 pages)
012315 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Quantum disentanglement eraser: A cavity QED implementation
M. Suhail Zubairy, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
012316 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Estimation of a generalized amplitude-damping channel
Akio Fujiwara
Published 29 July 2004 (8 pages)
012317 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Interaction-free quantum computation
Hiroo Azuma
Published 29 July 2004 (5 pages)
012318 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Implementing Shor’s algorithm on Josephson charge qubits
Juha J. Vartiainen, Antti O. Niskanen, Mikio Nakahara, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
012319 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Exact solutions for universal holonomic quantum gates
V. Karimipour and N. Majd
Published 30 July 2004 (5 pages)
012320 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Systematic study of the decay rates of antiprotonic helium states
H. Yamaguchi, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, J. Sakaguchi, E. Widmann, J. Eades, M. Hori, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Horváth, and T. Yamazaki
Published 8 July 2004 (5 pages)
012501 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Energies of isoelectronic atomic ions from a successful metageneralized gradient approximation and other density functionals
Viktor N. Staroverov, Gustavo E. Scuseria, John P. Perdew, Jianmin Tao, and Ernest R. Davidson
Published 14 July 2004 (7 pages)
012502 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Radiation emitted by an oscillating dipole embedded in a periodic stratified structure: A direct matrix analysis
Jean-Michel André, Philippe Jonnard, and Bruno Pardo
Published 20 July 2004 (6 pages)
012503 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Populations and lifetimes in the v=n−ℓ−1=2 and 3 metastable cascades of p̅ He+ measured by pulsed and continuous antiproton beams
M. Hori, J. Eades, E. Widmann, T. Yamazaki, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, H. A. Torii, T. von Egidy, F. J. Hartmann, B. Ketzer, C. Maierl, R. Pohl, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, D. Horváth, and I. Sugai
Published 26 July 2004 (16 pages)
012504 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Bethe logarithm for the hydrogen molecular ion HD+
Vladimir I. Korobov
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
012505 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Calculation of the hyperfine structure constants in 43Ca+ and 87Sr+
Kai-zhi Yu, Li-jin Wu, Bing-cong Gou, and Ting-yun Shi
Published 28 July 2004 (5 pages)
012506 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Absolute frequency of the 88Sr+ 5s 2S1∕2–4d 2D5∕2 reference transition at 445 THz and evaluation of systematic shifts
A. A. Madej, J. E. Bernard, P. Dubé, L. Marmet, and R. S. Windeler
Published 30 July 2004 (13 pages)
012507 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Coherent-population-trapping maser: Noise spectrum and frequency stability
Aldo Godone, Filippo Levi, Salvatore Micalizio, and Claudio Calosso
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
012508 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: Interplay with open-channel resonances
B. Marcelis, E. G. M. van Kempen, B. J. Verhaar, and S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans
Published 1 July 2004 (15 pages)
012701 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Charge transfer in slow collisions of O8+ and Ar8+ ions with H(1s) below 2 keV∕amu
Teck-Ghee Lee, M. Hesse, Anh-Thu Le, and C. D. Lin
Published 6 July 2004 (7 pages)
012702 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Optomechanical probes of resonances in amplifying microresonators
Henning Schomerus, Jan Wiersig, and Martina Hentschel
Published 8 July 2004 (8 pages)
012703 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Ab initio study of low-energy electron collisions with tetrafluoroethene C2F4
C. S. Trevisan, A. E. Orel, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 9 July 2004 (10 pages)
012704 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Resonant Auger decay of Xe* 4d5∕2−16p: A contribution to the complete experiment from fluorescence polarization studies
P. O’Keeffe, S. Aloïse, S. Fritzsche, B. Lohmann, U. Kleiman, M. Meyer, and A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo
Published 12 July 2004 (14 pages)
012705 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Stable complex-rotation eigenvalues that correspond to no full resonances in scattering: Examples in positron scattering by the helium ion
Akinori Igarashi and Isao Shimamura
Published 13 July 2004 (5 pages)
012706 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Angle-differential cross sections and spin-asymmetry parameters for spin-polarized electron-impact excitation of spin-polarized cesium atoms
G. Baum, S. Förster, N. Pavlović, B. Roth, K. Bartschat, and I. Bray
Published 13 July 2004 (13 pages)
012707 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Superexcited states of NO studied by angle-resolved electron-energy-loss spectroscopy
Jian-Min Sun, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Lin-Fan Zhu, Wen-Bin Li, Xiao-Jing Liu, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Ke-Zun Xu
Published 19 July 2004 (6 pages)
012708 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Resonances for Coulombic potentials by complex scaling and free-reflection complex-absorbing potentials
Shachar Klaiman, Ido Gilary, and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 21 July 2004 (6 pages)
012709 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Feshbach resonance in atomic binary collisions in the Wigner threshold law regime
M. Raoult and F. H. Mies
Published 27 July 2004 (21 pages)
012710 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Role of the helium ground state in (e,3e) processes
L. U. Ancarani, T. Montagnese, and C. Dal Cappello
Published 28 July 2004 (10 pages)
012711 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Test of the Pluvinage wave function for the helium ground state
S. Jones, Joseph H. Macek, and D. H. Madison
Published 29 July 2004 (7 pages)
012712 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Variational R-matrix calculations for singly and doubly excited singlet gerade channels in H2
S. Bezzaouia, M. Telmini, and Ch. Jungen
Published 30 July 2004 (13 pages)
012713 [View PDF (692 kB)]

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

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Spin-dependent screening and Auger neutralization of He+ ions in metals
M. Alducin, R. Díez Muiño, and J. I. Juaristi
Published 9 July 2004 (10 pages)
012901 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Direct observation of the initial-state distribution of the first electron transferred to slow highly charged ions interacting with a metal surface
Y. Morishita, R. Hutton, H. A. Torii, K. Komaki, T. Brage, K. Ando, K. Ishii, Y. Kanai, H. Masuda, M. Sekiguchi, F. B. Rosmej, and Y. Yamazaki
Published 15 July 2004 (6 pages)
012902 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Orienting coupled quantum rotors by ultrashort laser pulses
Hiroyuki Shima and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
Published 7 July 2004 (7 pages)
013401 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Stabilization of ultracold molecules using optimal control theory
Christiane P. Koch, José P. Palao, Ronnie Kosloff, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
Published 7 July 2004 (14 pages)
013402 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Pendular-limit representation of energy levels and spectra of symmetric- and asymmetric-top molecules
Reika Kanya and Yasuhiro Ohshima
Published 8 July 2004 (19 pages)
013403 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Theory of evaporative cooling with energy-dependent elastic scattering cross section and application to metastable helium
Paul J. J. Tol, Wim Hogervorst, and Wim Vassen
Published 8 July 2004 (10 pages)
013404 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Suppression of dephasing of optically trapped atoms
M. F. Andersen, A. Kaplan, T. Grünzweig, and N. Davidson
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
013405 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg theory for multiphoton intrashell transitions in Rydberg atoms: Bloch-Siegert shifts and widths
Morten Førre
Published 13 July 2004 (7 pages)
013406 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Intense laser-induced recombination: The inverse above-threshold ionization process
S. X. Hu and L. A. Collins
Published 13 July 2004 (7 pages)
013407 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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Analysis of dynamical tunneling experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate
W. K. Hensinger, A. Mouchet, P. S. Julienne, D. Delande, N. R. Heckenberg, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 15 July 2004 (15 pages)
013408 [View PDF (593 kB)]
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Bidirectional propagation of cold atoms in a “stadium”-shaped magnetic guide
Saijun Wu, Wilbert Rooijakkers, Pierre Striehl, and Mara Prentiss
Published 19 July 2004 (5 pages)
013409 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Radiative collisional heating at the Doppler limit for laser-cooled magnesium atoms
J. Piilo, E. Lundh, and K.-A. Suominen
Published 26 July 2004 (5 pages)
013410 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic quantum path analysis of high-order harmonic generation: Role of the carrier-envelope phase on short and long paths
G. Sansone, C. Vozzi, S. Stagira, and M. Nisoli
Published 28 July 2004 (10 pages)
013411 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Efficient photoemission and ionization of He+ by a combined fundamental laser and high-order harmonic pulse
Kenichi L. Ishikawa
Published 28 July 2004 (9 pages)
013412 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Decoherence of trapped-ion internal and vibrational modes: The effect of fluctuating magnetic fields
S. Brouard and J. Plata
Published 28 July 2004 (6 pages)
013413 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Correlated motion of two atoms trapped in a single-mode cavity field
János K. Asbóth, Peter Domokos, and Helmut Ritsch
Published 29 July 2004 (11 pages)
013414 [View PDF (818 kB)]
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Preparation of coherent superposition in a three-state system by adiabatic passage
N. Sangouard, S. Guérin, L. P. Yatsenko, and T. Halfmann
Published 29 July 2004 (9 pages)
013415 [View PDF (529 kB)]

Matter waves

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Variational approach for the two-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
L. Pricoupenko
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
013601 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Soliton and phonon production by an oscillating obstacle in a quasi-one-dimensional trapped repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate
Abdelaziz Radouani
Published 1 July 2004 (6 pages)
013602 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Probing many-body states of ultracold atoms via noise correlations
Ehud Altman, Eugene Demler, and Mikhail D. Lukin
Published 6 July 2004 (4 pages)
013603 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Spontaneous squeezing of a vortex in an optical lattice
J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 8 July 2004 (5 pages)
013604 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Manifestations of vortices during ultracold-atom propagation through waveguides
M. W. J. Bromley and B. D. Esry
Published 12 July 2004 (9 pages)
013605 [View PDF (950 kB)]
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Transition from three dimensions to one dimension in Bose gases at zero temperature
L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
Published 13 July 2004 (5 pages)
013606 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Experimental study of the thermodynamics of an interacting trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gas
F. Gerbier, J. H. Thywissen, S. Richard, M. Hugbart, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect
Published 19 July 2004 (10 pages)
013607 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate
G. E. Astrakharchik and L. P. Pitaevskii
Published 20 July 2004 (5 pages)
013608 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Stability and correlations in dilute two-dimensional boson systems
Han Guangze, O. Sørensen, A. S. Jensen, and D. V. Fedorov
Published 21 July 2004 (5 pages)
013609 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Stability, effective dimensions, and effective interactions for bosons in deformed fields
O. Sørensen, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen
Published 22 July 2004 (7 pages)
013610 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Occupation number and fluctuations in the finite-temperature Bose-Hubbard model
L. I. Plimak, M. K. Olsen, and M. Fleischhauer
Published 23 July 2004 (7 pages)
013611 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Peierls instability, periodic Bose-Einstein condensates, and density waves in quasi-one-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures of atomic gases
Takahiko Miyakawa, Hiroyuki Yabu, and Toru Suzuki
Published 27 July 2004 (8 pages)
013612 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate
V. A. Yurovsky and A. Ben-Reuven
Published 27 July 2004 (5 pages)
013613 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Improved efficiency of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Matt Mackie, Kari Härkönen, Anssi Collin, Kalle-Antti Suominen, and Juha Javanainen
Published 28 July 2004 (8 pages)
013614 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Efficient rapid production of a Bose-Einstein condensate by overcoming serious three-body loss
Tetsuya Mukai and Makoto Yamashita
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
013615 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Path integral formulation of the tunneling dynamics of a superfluid Fermi gas in an optical potential
M. Wouters, J. Tempere, and J. T. Devreese
Published 30 July 2004 (6 pages)
013616 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Experimental study of nonlinear focusing in a magneto-optical trap using a Z-scan technique
Yingxue Wang and M. Saffman
Published 1 July 2004 (9 pages)
013801 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Correlated imaging, quantum and classical
A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, M. Bache, and L. A. Lugiato
Published 6 July 2004 (10 pages)
013802 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Collapses and revivals of exciton emission in a semiconductor microcavity: Detuning and phase-space filling effects
Guang-Ri Jin and Wu-Ming Liu
Published 13 July 2004 (6 pages)
013803 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Influence of pump pulse structure on a transient collisionally pumped Ni-like Ag x-ray laser
K. A. Janulewicz, P. V. Nickles, R. E. King, and G. J. Pert
Published 13 July 2004 (7 pages)
013804 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Transient enhancement of high-order harmonic generation in expanding molecules
T. Pfeifer, D. Walter, G. Gerber, M. Yu. Emelin, M. Yu. Ryabikin, M. D. Chernobrovtseva, and A. M. Sergeev
Published 13 July 2004 (5 pages)
013805 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Two-photon nonlinearity in general cavity QED systems
Kazuki Koshino and Hajime Ishihara
Published 20 July 2004 (6 pages)
013806 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Generation of multiphoton Fock states by bichromatic adiabatic passage: Topological analysis
M. Amniat-Talab, S. Lagrange, S. Guérin, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 21 July 2004 (7 pages)
013807 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Possibility to measure elastic photon-photon scattering in vacuum
Daniel Eriksson, Gert Brodin, Mattias Marklund, and Lennart Stenflo
Published 22 July 2004 (6 pages)
013808 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Orbital angular momentum of general astigmatic modes
Jorrit Visser and Gerard Nienhuis
Published 23 July 2004 (12 pages)
013809 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Efficiencies for the single-mode operation of a quantum optical nonlinear shift gate
Kunihiro Kojima, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki
Published 23 July 2004 (6 pages)
013810 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Thermal spin flips in atom chips
P. K. Rekdal, S. Scheel, P. L. Knight, and E. A. Hinds
Published 28 July 2004 (9 pages)
013811 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Orbital angular momentum exchange in an optical parametric oscillator
M. Martinelli, J. A. O. Huguenin, P. Nussenzveig, and A. Z. Khoury
Published 28 July 2004 (11 pages)
013812 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Simultaneous near-field and far-field imaging of the 11.9‐nm Ni-like Sn soft-x-ray laser
F. Staub, M. Braud, J. E. Balmer, J. Nilsen, and S. Bajt
Published 28 July 2004 (6 pages)
013813 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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On-demand single-photon state generation via nonlinear absorption
Tao Hong, Michael W. Jack, and Makoto Yamashita
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
013814 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Phase-dependent asymmetries in strong-field photoionization by few-cycle laser pulses
Szczepan Chelkowski, André D. Bandrauk, and Alexander Apolonski
Published 29 July 2004 (9 pages)
013815 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Field quantization in inhomogeneous absorptive dielectrics
L. G. Suttorp and Martijn Wubs
Published 30 July 2004 (18 pages)
013816 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Propagation of an attosecond pulse in a dense two-level medium
Xiaohong Song, Shangqing Gong, Weifeng Yang, and Zhizhan Xu
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
013817 [View PDF (41 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Nonlinear quantum evolution does not imply supraluminal communication
M. Ferrero, D. Salgado, and J. L. Sánchez-Gómez
Published 7 July 2004 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Relativistic effects in two valence-electron atoms and ions and the search for variation of the fine-structure constant
E. J. Angstmann, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum
Published 9 July 2004 (4 pages)
014102 [View PDF (39 kB)]

Quantum information

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Four-photon W state using two-crystal geometry parametric down-conversion
Yongmin Li and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 23 July 2004 (3 pages)
014301 [View PDF (79 kB)]

ARTICLES

Quantum information

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Robust high-fidelity teleportation of an atomic state through the detection of cavity decay
Bo Yu, Zheng-Wei Zhou, Yong Zhang, Guo-Yong Xiang, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 23 July 2004 (4 pages)
014302 [View PDF (182 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Off-diagonal hyperfine interaction between the 6p1∕2 and 6p3∕2 levels in 133Cs
W. R. Johnson, H. C. Ho, Carol E. Tanner, and Andrei Derevianko
Published 2 July 2004 (3 pages)
014501 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Circular dichroism in photoelectron spectroscopy of free chiral molecules: Experiment and theory on methyl-oxirane
S. Turchini, N. Zema, G. Contini, G. Alberti, M. Alagia, S. Stranges, G. Fronzoni, M. Stener, P. Decleva, and T. Prosperi
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
014502 [View PDF (180 kB)]

ARTICLES

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Line shapes of 1s→π* excited molecular clusters
A. A. Pavlychev, R. Flesch, and E. Rühl
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015201 [View PDF (188 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Matter waves

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Dynamics of shallow dark solitons in a trapped gas of impenetrable bosons
D. J. Frantzeskakis, N. P. Proukakis, and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 7 July 2004 (4 pages)
015601 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Pulse-shaping algorithm of a coherent matter-wave-controlling reaction dynamics
Solvejg Jørgensen and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 22 July 2004 (4 pages)
015602 [View PDF (502 kB)]

ARTICLES

Matter waves

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Technique of quantum-state transfer for a double-Λ atomic beam
Xiong-Jun Liu, Hui Jing, Xiao-Ting Zhou, and Mo-Lin Ge
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015603 [View PDF (71 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Matter waves

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Bloch oscillations in the Mott-insulator regime
Andrey R. Kolovsky
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
015604 [View PDF (70 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Surface-impedance approach solves problems with the thermal Casimir force between real metals”
V. B. Svetovoy
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Surface-impedance approach solves problems with the thermal Casimir force between real metals’ ”
B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 30 July 2004 (8 pages)
016102 [View PDF (81 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting electrical circuits: An architecture for quantum computation[Phys. Rev. A 69, 062320 (2004)]
Alexandre Blais, Ren-Shou Huang, Andreas Wallraff, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Scheolkopf
Published 29 July 2004 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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