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Physical Review A – August 2004
Volume 70, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Conditional production of superpositions of coherent states with inefficient photon detection
A. P. Lund, H. Jeong, T. C. Ralph, and M. S. Kim
Published 17 August 2004 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Quantum information

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Scheme for on-resonance generation of entanglement in time-dependent asymmetric two-qubit-cavity systems
Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Neil F. Johnson, and Luis Quiroga
Published 20 August 2004 (4 pages)
020301(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Multipartite continuous-variable entanglement from concurrent nonlinearities
Olivier Pfister, Sheng Feng, Gregory Jennings, Raphael Pooser, and Daruo Xie
Published 20 August 2004 (4 pages)
020302(R) [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Electron scattering on stored mononucleotide anions
H. Bluhme, M. J. Jensen, S. Brøndsted Nielsen, U. V. Pedersen, K. Seiersen, A. Svendsen, and L. H. Andersen
Published 5 August 2004 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (164 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Experimental demonstration of intracavity solid-state laser cooling of Yb3+:ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF glass
B. Heeg, M. D. Stone, A. Khizhnyak, G. Rumbles, G. Mills, and P. A. DeBarber
Published 9 August 2004 (4 pages)
021401(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Formation and detection of ultracold ground-state polar molecules
C. Haimberger, J. Kleinert, M. Bhattacharya, and N. P. Bigelow
Published 27 August 2004 (4 pages)
021402(R) [View PDF (102 kB)]

Matter waves

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Measurement of the interaction strength in a Bose-Fermi mixture with 87Rb and 40K
J. Goldwin, S. Inouye, M. L. Olsen, B. Newman, B. D. DePaola, and D. S. Jin
Published 11 August 2004 (4 pages)
021601(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Nontopological vortex in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
Q-Han Park and J. H. Eberly
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
021602(R) [View PDF (177 kB)]
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High-light-intensity photoassociation in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Thomas Gasenzer
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
021603(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Measurement and control of the frequency chirp rate of high-order harmonic pulses
J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, R. López-Martens, K. Varjú, W. Kornelis, J. Biegert, U. Keller, M. B. Gaarde, K. J. Schafer, and A. L’Huillier
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
021801(R) [View PDF (400 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Survival law in a potential model
Stefano De Leo and Pietro P. Rotelli
Published 5 August 2004 (11 pages)
022101 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Bell inequalities for position measurements
Jan-Åke Larsson
Published 13 August 2004 (5 pages)
022102 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Macroscopic objects in quantum mechanics: A combinatorial approach
Itamar Pitowsky
Published 16 August 2004 (6 pages)
022103 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Linear positivity and virtual probability
James B. Hartle
Published 16 August 2004 (18 pages)
022104 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Relationship between the Wigner function and the probability density function in quantum phase space representation
Qian Shu Li, Gong Min Wei, and Li Qiang Lü
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
022105 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Deterministic Dicke-state preparation with continuous measurement and control
John K. Stockton, Ramon van Handel, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published 26 August 2004 (11 pages)
022106 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Constraints on relaxation rates for N-level quantum systems
S. G. Schirmer and A. I. Solomon
Published 30 August 2004 (13 pages)
022107 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Electromagnetic field quantization in a linear isotropic permeable dielectric medium
Reza Matloob
Published 31 August 2004 (9 pages)
022108 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Quantum information

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Scaling of entanglement at a quantum phase transition for a two-dimensional array of quantum dots
Jiaxiang Wang and Sabre Kais
Published 4 August 2004 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Distinguishing mixed quantum states: Minimum-error discrimination versus optimum unambiguous discrimination
Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou
Published 5 August 2004 (6 pages)
022302 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Entanglement and bifurcations in Jahn-Teller models
Andrew P. Hines, Christopher M. Dawson, Ross H. McKenzie, and G. J. Milburn
Published 5 August 2004 (12 pages)
022303 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Distinguishability of maximally entangled states
Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, Anirban Roy, and Debasis Sarkar
Published 10 August 2004 (7 pages)
022304 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Improved storage of coherent and squeezed states in an imperfect ring cavity
Petr Marek and Radim Filip
Published 10 August 2004 (6 pages)
022305 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Distinguishing the elements of a full product basis set needs only projective measurements and classical communication
Ping-Xing Chen and Cheng-Zu Li
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
022306 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Engineering an interaction and entanglement between distant atoms
Stefano Mancini and Sougato Bose
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
022307 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Evolution speed in some coupled-spin models
R. F. Sawyer
Published 12 August 2004 (5 pages)
022308 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Distinguishability of complete and unextendible product bases
S. De Rinaldis
Published 12 August 2004 (5 pages)
022309 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Gates for the Kane quantum computer in the presence of dephasing
Charles D. Hill and Hsi-Sheng Goan
Published 12 August 2004 (9 pages)
022310 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Multiqubit maximally entangled states in the NMR model
Bin Zhou, Ruibao Tao, and Shun-Qing Shen
Published 19 August 2004 (9 pages)
022311 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Probabilistic and information-theoretic interpretation of quantum evolutions
J. Oppenheim and B. Reznik
Published 19 August 2004 (9 pages)
022312 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Entanglement at the boundary of spin chains near a quantum critical point and in systems with boundary critical points
T. Stauber and F. Guinea
Published 19 August 2004 (5 pages)
022313 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Spatial search by quantum walk
Andrew M. Childs and Jeffrey Goldstone
Published 23 August 2004 (11 pages)
022314 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Logical operations realized on the Ising chain of N qubits
Masanari Asano, Norihiro Tateda, and Chikara Ishii
Published 23 August 2004 (6 pages)
022315 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Entropic uncertainty relations and entanglement
Otfried Gühne and Maciej Lewenstein
Published 24 August 2004 (8 pages)
022316 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Transmission of optical coherent-state qubits
S. Glancy, H. M. Vasconcelos, and T. C. Ralph
Published 25 August 2004 (7 pages)
022317 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Extremal entanglement and mixedness in continuous variable systems
Gerardo Adesso, Alessio Serafini, and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 25 August 2004 (18 pages)
022318 [View PDF (933 kB)]
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Conditional sign flip via teleportation
Gian Luca Giorgi, Ferdinando de Pasquale, and Simone Paganelli
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
022319 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Dynamical entanglement transfer for quantum-information networks
Mauro Paternostro, W. Son, M. S. Kim, Giuseppe Falci, and G. Massimo Palma
Published 26 August 2004 (9 pages)
022320 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Parametric source of two-photon states with a tunable degree of entanglement and mixing: Experimental preparation of Werner states and maximally entangled mixed states
C. Cinelli, G. Di Nepi, F. De Martini, M. Barbieri, and P. Mataloni
Published 27 August 2004 (11 pages)
022321 [View PDF (827 kB)]
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Measures of entanglement in multipartite bound entangled states
Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, Paul M. Goldbart, and William J. Munro
Published 27 August 2004 (5 pages)
022322 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Transfer of an unknown quantum state, quantum networks, and memory
Asoka Biswas and G. S. Agarwal
Published 27 August 2004 (5 pages)
022323 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Decoherence in a system of strongly coupled quantum oscillators. I. Symmetric network
M. A. de Ponte, M. C. de Oliveira, and M. H. Y. Moussa
Published 30 August 2004 (16 pages)
022324 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Decoherence in a system of strongly coupled quantum oscillators. II. Central-oscillator network
M. A. de Ponte, M. C. de Oliveira, and M. H. Y. Moussa
Published 30 August 2004 (14 pages)
022325 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Entanglement-changing power of two-qubit unitary operations
Ming-Yong Ye, Dong Sun, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 30 August 2004 (5 pages)
022326 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Quantum estimation by local observables
Masahiro Hotta and Masanao Ozawa
Published 30 August 2004 (13 pages)
022327 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Minimum Rényi and Wehrl entropies at the output of bosonic channels
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Brent J. Yen
Published 30 August 2004 (8 pages)
022328 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Efficient many-party controlled teleportation of multiqubit quantum information via entanglement
Chui-Ping Yang, Shih-I Chu, and Siyuan Han
Published 30 August 2004 (8 pages)
022329 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Preparation of pseudopure states in a cluster of dipolar-coupled spins using multiple-quantum dynamics
Jae-Seung Lee and A. K. Khitrin
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
022330 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Functional derivative of noninteracting kinetic energy density functional
Shubin Liu and Paul W. Ayers
Published 5 August 2004 (5 pages)
022501 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Three long-lived excited states of Tm−
Steven M. O’Malley and Donald R. Beck
Published 9 August 2004 (7 pages)
022502 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Time-dependent variational principle with constraints for parametrized wave functions
Katsuhisa Ohta
Published 9 August 2004 (9 pages)
022503 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Effect of dtμ quasinucleus structure on energy levels of the (dtμ)Xee exotic molecule
O. I. Kartavtsev, A. V. Malykh, and V. P. Permyakov
Published 9 August 2004 (9 pages)
022504 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Electron-bound states in the field of dipolar molecules
M. Bawin
Published 12 August 2004 (3 pages)
022505 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Three-loop reducible radiative photon contributions to Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting
Michael I. Eides and Valery A. Shelyuto
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
022506 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Circular dichroism in valence photoelectron spectroscopy of free unoriented chiral molecules: Camphor and bromocamphor
T. Lischke, N. Böwering, B. Schmidtke, N. Müller, T. Khalil, and U. Heinzmann
Published 19 August 2004 (12 pages)
022507 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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3d spectator hole satellites of the Cu Kβ1,3 and Kβ2,5 emission spectrum
H. Enkisch, C. Sternemann, M. Paulus, M. Volmer, and W. Schülke
Published 19 August 2004 (7 pages)
022508 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Leptonic annihilation in hydrogen-antihydrogen collisions
P. Froelich, S. Jonsell, A. Saenz, S. Eriksson, B. Zygelman, and A. Dalgarno
Published 20 August 2004 (4 pages)
022509 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Simulations of antihydrogen formation
F. Robicheaux
Published 20 August 2004 (5 pages)
022510 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dissipation-induced stationary entanglement in dipole-dipole interacting atomic samples
S. Nicolosi, A. Napoli, A. Messina, and F. Petruccione
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
022511 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Short-range corrections to the correlation hole
Thomas M. Henderson and Rodney J. Bartlett
Published 24 August 2004 (12 pages)
022512 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Three-electron integral in a Gaussian basis set with linear terms
Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa
Published 27 August 2004 (4 pages)
022513 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Towards a practical pair density-functional theory for many-electron systems
Filipp Furche
Published 30 August 2004 (10 pages)
022514 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Spin- and angle-resolved spectroscopy of S 2p photoionization in the hydrogen sulfide molecule
G. Turri, G. Snell, B. Langer, M. Martins, E. Kukk, S. E. Canton, R. C. Bilodeau, N. Cherepkov, J. D. Bozek, A. L. Kilcoyne, and N. Berrah
Published 30 August 2004 (7 pages)
022515 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Complete characterization of the Ar 2p3∕2 photoionization via Auger-electron–photoelectron coincidence experiments
P. Bolognesi, A. De Fanis, M. Coreno, and L. Avaldi
Published 4 August 2004 (5 pages)
022701 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Experimental study of total cross sections for positron and electron scattering by SF6 molecules
C. Makochekanwa, M. Kimura, and O. Sueoka
Published 11 August 2004 (8 pages)
022702 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Helium atom in a box: Doubly excited levels within the S-wave model
Darío M. Mitnik
Published 19 August 2004 (11 pages)
022703 [View PDF (787 kB)]
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Ionization of Ar by energetic proton impact
L. Gulyás and T. Kirchner
Published 20 August 2004 (7 pages)
022704 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Ionization of excited xenon atoms by electrons
Daniel A. Erwin and Joseph A. Kunc
Published 20 August 2004 (6 pages)
022705 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Partial-wave Green-function expansions for general potentials
D. L. Foulis
Published 23 August 2004 (8 pages)
022706 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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State-selective electron capture in collisions of ground and metastable N2+ ions with H(1s)
P. Barragán, L. F. Errea, L. Méndez, A. Macías, I. Rabadán, and A. Riera
Published 24 August 2004 (9 pages)
022707 [View PDF (927 kB)]
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Double- and single-electron transfer in H++K collisions from 0.3 to 4keV:Separation of direct double transfer and two-step successive single-electron transfer
Shigeo Hayakawa, Kazunori Kadomura, Mineo Kimura, and C. M. Dutta
Published 25 August 2004 (6 pages)
022708 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the dissociative recombination of HeH+
Hidekazu Takagi
Published 26 August 2004 (10 pages)
022709 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Observation of the angle-resolved resonant Auger emission from the [1s2p](3,1P)3p2 1P doubly excited 2p-2h states of Ne
M. Oura, Y. Tamenori, T. Hayaishi, Y. Kanai, H. Yoshii, K. Tsukamoto, and F. Koike
Published 26 August 2004 (7 pages)
022710 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Time-dependent close-coupling theory for e+H elastic and inelastic scattering
M. C. Witthoeft, S. D. Loch, and M. S. Pindzola
Published 26 August 2004 (7 pages)
022711 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Scattering parameters for cold Li–Rb and Na–Rb collisions derived from variable phase theory
H. Ouerdane and M. J. Jamieson
Published 27 August 2004 (7 pages)
022712 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Photodetachment of the outer shell of C− in the ground state
H. L. Zhou, S. T. Manson, A. Hibbert, L. Vo Ky, N. Feautrier, and J.-C. Chang
Published 30 August 2004 (7 pages)
022713 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Multielectron effects in the 4d photoionization of atomic indium
M. Huttula, S. Heinäsmäki, E. Kukk, R. Sankari, H. Aksela, and S. Aksela
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
022714 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Measurement of the polarization of the K-shell resonance line emission of S13+ and S14+ at relativistic electron beam energies
D. L. Robbins, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, H. Chen, P. Beiersdorfer, M. J. May, J. Dunn, K. J. Reed, and A. J. Smith
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
022715 [View PDF (229 kB)]

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

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Auger neutralization rate for slow Ar+ ions in front of KCl(001)
K. Kimura, T. Tsujioka, S. Tanaka, A. Nakamoto, K. Nakajima, and M. Suzuki
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
022901 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Confinement resonances in photoelectron angular distributions from endohedral atoms
M. Ya. Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, V. K. Dolmatov, S. T. Manson, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 10 August 2004 (5 pages)
023201 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Angular distribution of electrons emitted from Na clusters
A. Pohl, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
Published 17 August 2004 (7 pages)
023202 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Electronic structure and thermal behavior of a magic Na59+ cluster
Kirsi Manninen, Hannu Häkkinen, and Matti Manninen
Published 20 August 2004 (6 pages)
023203 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Evolution of the structural and bonding properties of aluminum-lithium clusters
S. Chacko, D. G. Kanhere, and V. V. Paranjape
Published 25 August 2004 (9 pages)
023204 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Infrared electron modes in light deformed clusters
V. O. Nesterenko, P. G. Reinhard, W. Kleinig, and D. S. Dolci
Published 25 August 2004 (11 pages)
023205 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Excitation spectra of a 3He impurity on 4He clusters
S. Fantoni, R. Guardiola, and J. Navarro
Published 27 August 2004 (11 pages)
023206 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Extended theory of Kapitza-Dirac scattering
Leonard Rosenberg
Published 2 August 2004 (6 pages)
023401 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Numerical study of magneto-optical traps through a hierarchical tree method
R. S. de Oliveira, E. P. Raposo, and S. S. Vianna
Published 2 August 2004 (7 pages)
023402 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Non-Faraday rotation of photon-echo polarization in ytterbium vapor
N. N. Rubtsova, V. N. Ishchenko, E. B. Khvorostov, S. A. Kochubei, V. A. Reshetov, and I. V. Yevseyev
Published 10 August 2004 (10 pages)
023403 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Mott scattering in an elliptically polarized laser field
Y. Attaourti, B. Manaut, and S. Taj
Published 11 August 2004 (5 pages)
023404 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Self-generated cooperative light emission induced by atomic recoil
J. Javaloyes, M. Perrin, G. L. Lippi, and A. Politi
Published 13 August 2004 (10 pages)
023405 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Time-resolved sequential double ionization of D2 molecules in an intense few-cycle laser pulse
X. M. Tong and C. D. Lin
Published 16 August 2004 (4 pages)
023406 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Effects of field-induced quantum coherence on the absorptive line shape of a four-level system with three closely spaced upper levels
Saswata Ghosh and Swapan Mandal
Published 19 August 2004 (10 pages)
023407 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Circular dichroism in laser-assisted proton-hydrogen collisions
Thomas Niederhausen, Bernold Feuerstein, and Uwe Thumm
Published 19 August 2004 (8 pages)
023408 [View PDF (1,046 kB)]
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Pulsed optically pumped frequency standard
Aldo Godone, Salvatore Micalizio, and Filippo Levi
Published 19 August 2004 (11 pages)
023409 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Hydrogen atom moving across a magnetic field
Yu. E. Lozovik and S. Yu. Volkov
Published 23 August 2004 (8 pages)
023410 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Beryllium in strong magnetic fields
Omar-Alexander Al-Hujaj and Peter Schmelcher
Published 24 August 2004 (11 pages)
023411 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Few-photon electron-positron pair creation in the collision of a relativistic nucleus and an intense x-ray laser beam
C. Müller, A. B. Voitkiv, and N. Grün
Published 25 August 2004 (9 pages)
023412 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Laser-peak-intensity calibration using recoil-ion momentum imaging
A. S. Alnaser, X. M. Tong, T. Osipov, S. Voss, C. M. Maharjan, B. Shan, Z. Chang, and C. L. Cocke
Published 26 August 2004 (6 pages)
023413 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Wavelength-dependent ac Stark shift of the 1S0‐3P1 transition at 657 nm in Ca
Carsten Degenhardt, Hardo Stoehr, Uwe Sterr, Fritz Riehle, and Christian Lisdat
Published 27 August 2004 (6 pages)
023414 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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All-optical processing in coherent nonlinear spectroscopy
Dan Oron, Nirit Dudovich, and Yaron Silberberg
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
023415 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Matter waves

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Vortices and hysteresis in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with anharmonic confinement
A. D. Jackson and G. M. Kavoulakis
Published 4 August 2004 (5 pages)
023601 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Avoiding infrared catastrophes in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
P. G. Kevrekidis, G. Theocharis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and A. Trombettoni
Published 10 August 2004 (5 pages)
023602 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Oscillations of atomic fermions in a one-dimensional optical lattice
T. A. B. Kennedy
Published 12 August 2004 (6 pages)
023603 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in cigar-shaped traps
A. M. Kamchatnov and V. S. Shchesnovich
Published 12 August 2004 (9 pages)
023604 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Superfluid–Mott-insulator transition of spin-2 cold bosons in an optical lattice in a magnetic field
Shuo Jin, Jing-Min Hou, Bing-Hao Xie, Li-Jun Tian, and Mo-Lin Ge
Published 19 August 2004 (8 pages)
023605 [View PDF (799 kB)]
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Three-level atom optics via the tunneling interaction
K. Eckert, M. Lewenstein, R. Corbalán, G. Birkl, W. Ertmer, and J. Mompart
Published 19 August 2004 (5 pages)
023606 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Composite fermions, trios, and quartets in a Fermi-Bose mixture
M. Yu. Kagan, I. V. Brodsky, D. V. Efremov, and A. V. Klaptsov
Published 19 August 2004 (6 pages)
023607 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Theory of spinor Fermi and Bose gases in tight atom waveguides
M. D. Girardeau and M. Olshanii
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
023608 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Propagation of sound in a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice
C. Menotti, M. Krämer, A. Smerzi, L. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari
Published 26 August 2004 (8 pages)
023609 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Self-consistent fragmented excited states of trapped condensates
L. S. Cederbaum and A. I. Streltsov
Published 27 August 2004 (4 pages)
023610 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Damping of Bogoliubov excitations in optical lattices
Shunji Tsuchiya and Allan Griffin
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
023611 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein quantum phase transition in an optical lattice model
Michael Aizenman, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, Jan Philip Solovej, and Jakob Yngvason
Published 31 August 2004 (12 pages)
023612 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Heating and atom loss during upward ramps of Feshbach resonance levels in Bose-Einstein condensates
Thorsten Köhler, Krzysztof Góral, and Thomas Gasenzer
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
023613 [View PDF (229 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum ellipsometry using correlated-photon beams
Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr., Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Kenneth J. Bycenski, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 9 August 2004 (7 pages)
023801 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Superluminal propagation via coherent manipulation of the Raman gain process
G. S. Agarwal and Shubhrangshu Dasgupta
Published 12 August 2004 (5 pages)
023802 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Collective excitations in circular atomic configurations and single-photon traps
Hanno Hammer
Published 12 August 2004 (11 pages)
023803 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Efficient extraction of quantum Hamiltonians from optimal laboratory data
JM Geremia and Herschel A. Rabitz
Published 13 August 2004 (6 pages)
023804 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Creation of atomic coherent superposition states via the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage using a Λ-type system with a manifold of levels
Yueping Niu, Shangqing Gong, Ruxin Li, and Shiqi Jin
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
023805 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Recurrent fourth-order interference dips and peaks with a comblike two-photon entangled state
Alessandro Zavatta, Silvia Viciani, and Marco Bellini
Published 19 August 2004 (5 pages)
023806 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Limiting of microjoule femtosecond pulses in air-guided modes of a hollow photonic-crystal fiber
S. O. Konorov, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, I. Bugar, D. Chorvat, Jr., D. Chorvat, E. E. Serebryannikov, M. J. Bloemer, M. Scalora, R. B. Miles, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 20 August 2004 (6 pages)
023807 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Intrinsic entanglement degradation by multimode detection
A. Aiello and J. P. Woerdman
Published 20 August 2004 (12 pages)
023808 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Resonance patterns in a stadium-shaped microcavity
Soo-Young Lee, M. S. Kurdoglyan, Sunghwan Rim, and Chil-Min Kim
Published 20 August 2004 (8 pages)
023809 [View PDF (1,214 kB)]
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Optical discrimination between spatial decoherence and thermalization of a massive object
C. Henkel, M. Nest, P. Domokos, and R. Folman
Published 23 August 2004 (10 pages)
023810 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Optical frequency- and vibrational time-resolved two-dimensional spectroscopy by real-time impulsive resonant coherent Raman scattering in polydiacetylene
Nobuhisa Ishii, Eiji Tokunaga, Shunsuke Adachi, Tatsumi Kimura, Hiro Matsuda, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 24 August 2004 (7 pages)
023811 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Generation of highly nonclassical n-photon polarization states by superbunching at a photon bottleneck
Holger F. Hofmann
Published 24 August 2004 (7 pages)
023812 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Tunable phase control for subluminal to superluminal light propagation
Mostafa Sahrai, Habib Tajalli, Kishore T. Kapale, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 24 August 2004 (8 pages)
023813 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Comparison of theory and experiment for a one-atom laser in a regime of strong coupling
A. D. Boozer, A. Boca, J. R. Buck, J. McKeever, and H. J. Kimble
Published 25 August 2004 (16 pages)
023814 [View PDF (2,021 kB)]
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Expectation-value approach to photon statistics in cavity QED
Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura
Published 25 August 2004 (7 pages)
023815 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Optical measurement of torque exerted on an elongated object by a noncircular laser beam
Simon J. Parkin, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 26 August 2004 (6 pages)
023816 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Coherent backscattering of light by two atoms in the saturated regime
T. Wellens, B. Grémaud, D. Delande, and C. Miniatura
Published 26 August 2004 (14 pages)
023817 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Coherence properties of a quasi-Gaussian submilliradiant divergence soft-x-ray laser pumped by capillary discharges
A. Ritucci, G. Tomassetti, A. Reale, F. Flora, and L. Mezi
Published 27 August 2004 (5 pages)
023818 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Quantum feedback in a weakly driven cavity QED system
J. E. Reiner, W. P. Smith, L. A. Orozco, H. M. Wiseman, and Jay Gambetta
Published 27 August 2004 (16 pages)
023819 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Cooperative quantum jumps for three dipole-interacting atoms
Volker Hannstein and Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
Published 30 August 2004 (9 pages)
023820 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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41.8-nm Xe8+ laser driven in a plasma waveguide
A. Butler, A. J. Gonsalves, C. M. McKenna, D. J. Spence, S. M. Hooker, S. Sebban, T. Mocek, I. Betttaibi, and B. Cros
Published 30 August 2004 (10 pages)
023821 [View PDF (721 kB)]
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Magneto-optical rotation and cross-phase modulation via coherently driven four-level atomsin a tripod configuration
David Petrosyan and Yuri P. Malakyan
Published 30 August 2004 (9 pages)
023822 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Ghost imaging using homodyne detection
M. Bache, E. Brambilla, A. Gatti, and L. A. Lugiato
Published 31 August 2004 (16 pages)
023823 [View PDF (477 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

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Completely positive non-Markovian decoherence
Jinhyoung Lee, Inbo Kim, Doyeol Ahn, Helen McAneney, and M. S. Kim
Published 4 August 2004 (4 pages)
024301 [View PDF (50 kB)]

ARTICLES

Quantum information

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Quantum error correction for continuously detected errors with any number of error channels per qubit
Charlene Ahn, Howard Wiseman, and Kurt Jacobs
Published 20 August 2004 (3 pages)
024302 [View PDF (34 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

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Characterization of maximally entangled two-qubit states via the Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality
Zeqian Chen
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
024303 [View PDF (52 kB)]

ARTICLES

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Relativistic correlation energies of heliumlike atoms
G. Pestka, H. Tatewaki, and J. Karwowski
Published 23 August 2004 (3 pages)
024501 [View PDF (47 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Expectation values of the e+Li system
J. Mitroy
Published 25 August 2004 (3 pages)
024502 [View PDF (30 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Forward-to-backward differential-cross-section ratio in electron-impact vibrational excitation via the 2Π resonance of CO
G. B. Poparić, S. M. D. Galijaš, and D. S. Belić
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
024701 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Optical model for positronium formation in e+‐Na collision
Y. Ke, Y. Zhou, and G. Nan
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
024702 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Ionization suppression of Cl2 molecules in intense laser fields
E. P. Benis, J. F. Xia, X. M. Tong, M. Faheem, M. Zamkov, B. Shan, P. Richard, and Z. Chang
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
025401 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Matter waves

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First-order quantum phase transition driven by rotons in a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate irradiated by a laser
A. Minguzzi, N. H. March, and M. P. Tosi
Published 13 August 2004 (3 pages)
025601 [View PDF (39 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Controlled hole burning in the Fock space via conditional measurements on beam splitters
B. M. Escher, A. T. Avelar, T. M. da Rocha Filho, and B. Baseia
Published 11 August 2004 (3 pages)
025801 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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dc-field-induced enhancement and inhibition of spontaneous emission in a cavity
G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak
Published 20 August 2004 (3 pages)
025802 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Teleporting entanglements of cavity-field states
Geisa Pires, N. G. de Almeida, A. T. Avelar, and B. Baseia
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
025803 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Relation between electromagnetically induced absorption resonances and nonlinear magneto-optics in Λ systems
D. Budker and S. M. Rochester
Published 25 August 2004 (3 pages)
025804 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Observation of Faraday resonances on the S-D two-photon transition of Rb atoms
Ramiz Hamid, Mustafa Çetintaş, and Mehmet Çelik
Published 26 August 2004 (4 pages)
025805 [View PDF (60 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum measurement and decoherence”
Dominique Gobert, Jan von Delft, and Vinay Ambegaokar
Published 17 August 2004 (4 pages)
026101 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum measurement and decoherence’ ”
G. W. Ford and R. F. O’Connell
Published 17 August 2004 (3 pages)
026102 [View PDF (111 kB)]

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Publisher's Note: Angle-differential cross sections and spin-asymmetry parameters for spin-polarized electron-impact excitation of spin-polarized cesium atoms [Phys. Rev. A 70, 012707 (2004)]
G. Baum, S. Förster, N. Palvlović, C. Roth, K. Bartschat, and I. Bray
Published 4 August 2004 (1 page)
029901 [View PDF (5 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Test of the Pluvinage wave function for the helium ground state[Phys. Rev. A 70, 012712 (2004)]
S. Jones, Joseph H. Macek, and D. H. Madison
Published 19 August 2004 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
 
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