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Physical Review A – September 2004
Volume 70, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

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Quantum reverse engineering and reference-frame alignment without nonlocal correlations
E. Bagan, M. Baig, and R. Muñoz-Tapia
Published 7 September 2004 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Finding a maximally correlated state: Simultaneous Schmidt decomposition of bipartite pure states
Tohya Hiroshima and Masahito Hayashi
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
030302(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Readout scheme of the fullerene-based quantum computer by a single-electron transistor
M. Feng and J. Twamley
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
030303(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Anomalous cooling of the parallel velocity in seeded beams
A. Miffre, M. Jacquey, M. Büchner, G. Trénec, and J. Vigué
Published 15 September 2004 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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P-wave Feshbach resonances of ultracold 6Li
J. Zhang, E. G. M. van Kempen, T. Bourdel, L. Khaykovich, J. Cubizolles, F. Chevy, M. Teichmann, L. Tarruell, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, and C. Salomon
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
030702(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Controlled many-body interactions in a frozen Rydberg gas
I. Mourachko, Wenhui Li, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 13 September 2004 (4 pages)
031401(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]

Matter waves

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Dissociation of ultracold molecules with Feshbach resonances
Stephan Dürr, Thomas Volz, and Gerhard Rempe
Published 8 September 2004 (4 pages)
031601(R) [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation at constant temperature
M. Erhard, H. Schmaljohann, J. Kronjäger, K. Bongs, and K. Sengstock
Published 8 September 2004 (4 pages)
031602(R) [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Universal properties of hard-core bosons confined on one-dimensional lattices
Marcos Rigol and Alejandro Muramatsu
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
031603(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Self-compression of a femtosecond pulse due to Raman coherence of molecular rotations
Shin-ichi Zaitsu, Yuichiro Kida, and Totaro Imasaka
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
031801(R) [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs and violation of Bell’s inequality using spontaneous four-wave mixing in a fiber loop
Hiroki Takesue and Kyo Inoue
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
031802(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Uniform approximation of wave functions with improved semiclassical transformation amplitudes and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization
Edward D. Davis
Published 8 September 2004 (5 pages)
032101 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Geometric-phase-induced false electric dipole moment signals for particles in traps
J. M. Pendlebury, W. Heil, Yu. Sobolev, P. G. Harris, J. D. Richardson, R. J. Baskin, D. D. Doyle, P. Geltenbort, K. Green, M. G. D. van der Grinten, P. S. Iaydjiev, S. N. Ivanov, D. J. R. May, and K. F. Smith
Published 9 September 2004 (20 pages)
032102 [View PDF (988 kB)]
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Quantum mechanics in dissipative systems with a strong magnetic field
M. Nuñez, P. O. Hess, and D. Schuch
Published 10 September 2004 (5 pages)
032103 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty
Merced Montesinos and G. F. Torres del Castillo
Published 14 September 2004 (8 pages)
032104 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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g factor of hydrogenlike ions with nonzero nuclear spin
D. L. Moskovkin, N. S. Oreshkina, V. M. Shabaev, T. Beier, G. Plunien, W. Quint, and G. Soff
Published 15 September 2004 (11 pages)
032105 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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WKB approximation for multichannel barrier penetrability
K. Hagino and A. B. Balantekin
Published 21 September 2004 (6 pages)
032106 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Role of top and under-the-barrier complex transmission poles for the delay time in single barrier tunneling
Jorge Villavicencio and Gastón García-Calderón
Published 22 September 2004 (6 pages)
032107 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Initial state maximizing the nonexponentially decaying survival probability for unstable multilevel systems
Manabu Miyamoto
Published 24 September 2004 (5 pages)
032108 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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General proof of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger theorem
Zeqian Chen
Published 24 September 2004 (5 pages)
032109 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Tunneling through nonstationary barriers and Euclidean resonance
B. Ivlev
Published 27 September 2004 (12 pages)
032110 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Quantum-to-classical limit in a Hamiltonian system
L. E. Ballentine
Published 28 September 2004 (7 pages)
032111 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Enhancement of nonlocality in phase space
Stefano Olivares and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 29 September 2004 (6 pages)
032112 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Lindblad- and non-Lindblad-type dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle
S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, F. Intravaia, F. Petruccione, and A. Messina
Published 29 September 2004 (13 pages)
032113 [View PDF (416 kB)]

Quantum information

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Trapped electrons in vacuum for a scalable quantum processor
G. Ciaramicoli, I. Marzoli, and P. Tombesi
Published 1 September 2004 (16 pages)
032301 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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One- and two-dimensional optical lattices on a chip for quantum computing
Katharina Christandl, Gregory P. Lafyatis, Seung-Cheol Lee, and Jin-Fa Lee
Published 1 September 2004 (4 pages)
032302 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Semiclassical Shor algorithm
Paolo Giorda, Alfredo Iorio, Samik Sen, and Siddhartha Sen
Published 2 September 2004 (12 pages)
032303 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Cavity QED-based quantum walk
Tiegang Di, Mark Hillery, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 7 September 2004 (5 pages)
032304 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Entanglement swapping secures multiparty quantum communication
Juhui Lee, Soojoon Lee, Jaewan Kim, and Sung Dahm Oh
Published 8 September 2004 (7 pages)
032305 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Quantum cryptography: Security criteria reexamined
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Ajay Gopinathan, Yeong Cherng Liang, L. C. Kwek, and Berthold-Georg Englert
Published 8 September 2004 (5 pages)
032306 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Decoherence-full subsystems and the cryptographic power of a private shared reference frame
Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens
Published 10 September 2004 (12 pages)
032307 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Optimal probabilistic cloning and purification of quantum states
Jaromír Fiurášek
Published 10 September 2004 (9 pages)
032308 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Quantum computational complexity in the presence of closed timelike curves
Dave Bacon
Published 13 September 2004 (7 pages)
032309 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Entanglement is not very useful for estimating multiple phases
Manuel A. Ballester
Published 13 September 2004 (6 pages)
032310 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Dynamically localized systems: Exponential sensitivity of entanglement and efficient quantum simulations
Simone Montangero
Published 16 September 2004 (5 pages)
032311 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Serial composition of quantum coin flipping and bounds on cheat detection for bit commitment
Carlos Mochon
Published 17 September 2004 (6 pages)
032312 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Quantum-information approach to the Ising model: Entanglement in chains of qubits
Peter Štelmachovič and Vladimír Bužek
Published 17 September 2004 (16 pages)
032313 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Quantum computing in arrays coupled by “always-on” interactions
S. C. Benjamin and S. Bose
Published 17 September 2004 (7 pages)
032314 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Minimum output entropy of bosonic channels: A conjecture
Vittorio Giovannetti, Saikat Guha, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Published 21 September 2004 (14 pages)
032315 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Generation and detection of bound entanglement
P. Hyllus, C. Moura Alves, D. Bruß, and C. Macchiavello
Published 21 September 2004 (9 pages)
032316 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Polarization phase gate with a tripod atomic system
S. Rebić, D. Vitali, C. Ottaviani, P. Tombesi, M. Artoni, F. Cataliotti, and R. Corbalán
Published 21 September 2004 (8 pages)
032317 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Selective pulse implementation of two-qubit gates for spin-3/2-based fullerene quantum-information processing
M. Feng and J. Twamley
Published 22 September 2004 (7 pages)
032318 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Gate simulation and lower bounds on the simulation time
Robert Zeier, Markus Grassl, and Thomas Beth
Published 22 September 2004 (16 pages)
032319 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Storing quantum information in a solid using dark-state polaritons
Mattias Johnsson and Klaus Mølmer
Published 22 September 2004 (8 pages)
032320 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Optimal measurements for relative quantum information
Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens
Published 23 September 2004 (5 pages)
032321 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Long-range entanglement generation via frequent measurements
L.-A. Wu, D. A. Lidar, and S. Schneider
Published 24 September 2004 (7 pages)
032322 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Local invariants of stabilizer codes
Maarten Van den Nest, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor
Published 24 September 2004 (9 pages)
032323 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Implementation of NMR quantum computation with parahydrogen-derived high-purity quantum states
M. S. Anwar, J. A. Jones, D. Blazina, S. B. Duckett, and H. A. Carteret
Published 24 September 2004 (7 pages)
032324 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Transition from pure-state to mixed-state entanglement by random scattering
J. L. van Velsen and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 24 September 2004 (6 pages)
032325 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Ordering two-qubit states with concurrence and negativity
Adam Miranowicz and Andrzej Grudka
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
032326 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Near-complete teleportation of a superposed coherent state
Yong Wook Cheong, Hyunjae Kim, and Hai-Woong Lee
Published 28 September 2004 (5 pages)
032327 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Charge qubits and limitations of electrostatic quantum gates
A. Weichselbaum and S. E. Ulloa
Published 29 September 2004 (8 pages)
032328 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Scalability of Shor’s algorithm with a limited set of rotation gates
Austin G. Fowler and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Published 29 September 2004 (7 pages)
032329 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Non-Abelian geometric quantum memory with an atomic ensemble
Y. Li, P. Zhang, P. Zanardi, and C. P. Sun
Published 29 September 2004 (5 pages)
032330 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Representing multiqubit unitary evolutions via Stokes tensors
Claudio Altafini
Published 30 September 2004 (9 pages)
032331 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Conditional unitary transformation on biphotons
G. Brida, M. V. Chekhova, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, L. A. Krivitsky, and S. P. Kulik
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
032332 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Entanglement and quantum phases in the anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain in the presence of domain walls
F. C. Alcaraz, A. Saguia, and M. S. Sarandy
Published 30 September 2004 (7 pages)
032333 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Antiproton slowing down, capture, and decay in low-pressure helium gas
A. Bianconi et al.
Published 7 September 2004 (9 pages)
032501 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Recursion relations for the generic Hylleraas three-electron integral
Krzysztof Pachucki, Mariusz Puchalski, and Ettore Remiddi
Published 7 September 2004 (6 pages)
032502 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Variational estimates using a discrete variable representation
M. Lombardi, P. Barletta, and A. Kievsky
Published 10 September 2004 (11 pages)
032503 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Two-photon decay of K-shell vacancies in silver atoms
P. H. Mokler, H. W. Schäffer, and R. W. Dunford
Published 14 September 2004 (5 pages)
032504 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Calculation of resonance states associated with a μp(2s)+p metastable ion using the variational method
M. R. Eskandari and R. Gheisari
Published 20 September 2004 (5 pages)
032505 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Wavelengths of the 4s1∕2-4p3∕2 resonance lines in Cu- and Zn-like heavy ions
E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, and H. Chen
Published 21 September 2004 (5 pages)
032506 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Interchannel interference in resonant Auger scattering from fixed-in-space molecules as a technique for structure determination
F. Gel’mukhanov and I. Minkov
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
032507 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Density-functional theory in one dimension for contact-interacting fermions
R. J. Magyar and K. Burke
Published 21 September 2004 (8 pages)
032508 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Differentiability in density-functional theory: Further study of the locality theorem
Ingvar Lindgren and Sten Salomonson
Published 22 September 2004 (8 pages)
032509 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Multidimensional transition-state theory calculations for nuclear dynamics of core-excited molecules
Stéphane Carniato, Vita Ilakovac, Jean-Jacques Gallet, Edwin Kukk, and Yi Luo
Published 27 September 2004 (5 pages)
032510 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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The stability and structure of the (mZ+,e−,e−,e+) system
J. Mitroy and S. A. Novikov
Published 28 September 2004 (9 pages)
032511 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Precision Feshbach spectroscopy of ultracold Cs2
Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletić, Andrew J. Kerman, Steven Chu, Eite Tiesinga, Paul J. Leo, and Carl J. Williams
Published 3 September 2004 (13 pages)
032701 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Complex collective states in a one-dimensional two-atom system
Gonzalo Ordonez and Sungyun Kim
Published 3 September 2004 (13 pages)
032702 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Elastic and inelastic processes in H++CH2 collisions between 0.5 and 1.5 keV
Hiroya Suno, Sachchida N. Rai, Heinz-Peter Liebermann, Robert J. Buenker, Mineo Kimura, and R. K. Janev
Published 9 September 2004 (7 pages)
032703 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Differential charge-transfer cross sections for systems with energetically degenerate or near-degenerate channels
H. Nguyen, R. Brédy, H. A. Camp, T. Awata, and B. D. DePaola
Published 10 September 2004 (8 pages)
032704 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Electron-impact single and double ionization of helium
M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, J. P. Colgan, M. C. Witthoeft, and J. A. Ludlow
Published 15 September 2004 (10 pages)
032705 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Calculations of electron-impact single-ionization cross sections of helium isoelectronic systems
M. A. Uddin, M. A. K. Fazlul Haque, A. K. Basak, and B. C. Saha
Published 16 September 2004 (10 pages)
032706 [View PDF (1,067 kB)]
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Electron collisions with nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) molecules
Czesław Szmytkowski, Alicja Domaracka, Paweł Możejko, Elżbieta Ptasińska-Denga, Łukasz Kłosowski, Michał Piotrowicz, and Grzegorz Kasperski
Published 22 September 2004 (7 pages)
032707 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Profile of resonant photoelectron spectra versus the spectral function width and photon frequency detuning
R. Feifel, V. Kimberg, A. Baev, F. Gel’mukhanov, H. Ågren, C. Miron, G. Öhrwall, M. N. Piancastelli, S. L. Sorensen, L. Karlsson, and S. Svensson
Published 22 September 2004 (7 pages)
032708 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Rotational relaxation in ultracold CO+He collisions
P. M. Florian, M. Hoster, and R. C. Forrey
Published 22 September 2004 (7 pages)
032709 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Semiclassical complex angular momentum theory and Padé reconstruction for resonances, rainbows, and reaction thresholds
D. Sokolovski and A. Z. Msezane
Published 23 September 2004 (12 pages)
032710 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Quantum reflection times and space shifts for Casimir–van der Waals potential tails
Alexander Jurisch and Harald Friedrich
Published 23 September 2004 (8 pages)
032711 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Electron loss from 1.4-MeV∕u U4,6,10+ ions colliding with Ne, N2, and Ar targets
R. D. DuBois, A. C. F. Santos, Th. Stöhlker, F. Bosch, A. Bräuning-Demian, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, C. Kozhuharov, R. Mann, A. Oršić Muthig, U. Spillmann, S. Tachenov, W. Bart, L. Dahl, B. Franzke, J. Glatz, L. Gröning, S. Richter, D. Wilms, K. Ullmann, and O. Jagutzki
Published 24 September 2004 (5 pages)
032712 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Ultracold atomic collisions in tight harmonic traps: Quantum-defect model and application to metastable helium atoms
Gillian Peach, Ian B. Whittingham, and Timothy J. Beams
Published 24 September 2004 (10 pages)
032713 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Generalized oscillator strengths for inner-shell electron transitions
Zhifan Chen and Alfred Z. Msezane
Published 27 September 2004 (5 pages)
032714 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Classical and semiclassical calculations of electron transfer cross sections in keV-energy ion-molecule collisions
J. Caillat, A. Dubois, I. Sundvor, and J.-P. Hansen
Published 27 September 2004 (10 pages)
032715 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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High partial wave resonances in positron hydrogen scattering
Y. K. Ho and Z.-C. Yan
Published 28 September 2004 (10 pages)
032716 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Elastic and absorption cross sections for electron–hydroxyl radical collisions
A. M. C. Sobrinho, N. B. H. Lozano, and M.-T. Lee
Published 28 September 2004 (6 pages)
032717 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Finite-Hilbert-basis-set calculations for the angular distribution of ionized electrons produced in p+H impact at 20 keV
John F. Reading, Jun Fu, and Mathew J. Fitzpatrick
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
032718 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Diffraction in resonant electron scattering from helical macromolecules: A- and B-type DNA
Laurent Caron and Léon Sanche
Published 29 September 2004 (10 pages)
032719 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Many-body theory of positron-atom interactions
G. F. Gribakin and J. Ludlow
Published 29 September 2004 (19 pages)
032720 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Multicenter character in single-electron emission from H2 molecules by ion impact
M. E. Galassi, R. D. Rivarola, and P. D. Fainstein
Published 29 September 2004 (9 pages)
032721 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Dipole polarizabilities of excited alkali-metal atoms and long-range interactions of ground- and excited-state alkali-metal atoms with helium atoms
Cheng Zhu, Alex Dalgarno, Sergey G. Porsev, and Andrei Derevianko
Published 30 September 2004 (5 pages)
032722 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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High-resolution measurements of the pressure broadening and shift of the rubidium 5 2S1∕2–6 2P3∕2 line by argon and helium
D. Aumiler, T. Ban, and G. Pichler
Published 30 September 2004 (5 pages)
032723 [View PDF (70 kB)]

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

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Simulation of the energy spectra of original versus recombined H2+ molecular ions transmitted through thin foils
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco and Rafael Garcia-Molina
Published 9 September 2004 (8 pages)
032901 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Electron emission induced by fast heavy ions in a thin silicon crystal
F. Barrué, M. Chevallier, D. Dauvergne, R. Kirsch, J.-C. Poizat, C. Ray, L. Adoui, A. Cassimi, H. Rothard, M. Toulemonde, C. Cohen, A. L’Hoir, D. Vernhet, C. Demonchy, L. Giot, W. Mittig, S. Pita, P. Roussel-Chomaz, and A. Billebaud
Published 9 September 2004 (6 pages)
032902 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Electronic energy loss of channeled ions: The giant Barkas effect
L. L. Araujo, P. L. Grande, M. Behar, J. F. Dias, A. F. Lifschitz, N. R. Arista, and G. Schiwietz
Published 22 September 2004 (8 pages)
032903 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Molecular boxes as storage containers for H2
Bryant P. Suitte, Stephen D. Belair, and Joseph S. Francisco
Published 24 September 2004 (6 pages)
033201 [View PDF (292 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Temperature and heating rate of ion crystals in Penning traps
Marie J. Jensen, Taro Hasegawa, and John J. Bollinger
Published 3 September 2004 (13 pages)
033401 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Response of highly polarized Rydberg states to trains of half-cycle pulses
C. O. Reinhold, W. Zhao, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, E. Persson, D. G. Arbó, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 8 September 2004 (7 pages)
033402 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Single and double ionization of magnesium via four-photon excitation of the 3p2 1S0 autoionizing state: Experimental and theoretical analysis
I. Liontos, A. Bolovinos, S. Cohen, and A. Lyras
Published 10 September 2004 (14 pages)
033403 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Control and imaging of interfering wave packets in dissociating I2 molecules
Christian Petersen, Emmanuel Péronne, Jan Thøgersen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, and Mette Machholm
Published 16 September 2004 (9 pages)
033404 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation produced by atoms near a J=1→J=0 transition
Vitalij Roščinski, Janusz Czub, and Wiesław Miklaszewski
Published 17 September 2004 (10 pages)
033405 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Enhancement of field generation via maximal atomic coherence prepared by fast adiabatic passage in Rb vapor
V. A. Sautenkov, C. Y. Ye, Y. V. Rostovtsev, G. R. Welch, and M. O. Scully
Published 21 September 2004 (5 pages)
033406 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Second-order Monte Carlo wave-function approach to the relaxation effects on ringing revivals in a molecular system interacting with a strongly squeezed coherent field
Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Tomoshige Nitta, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
Published 22 September 2004 (10 pages)
033407 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Distilling angular momentum nonclassical states in trapped ions
B. Militello and A. Messina
Published 23 September 2004 (6 pages)
033408 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Influence of an added parallel electric field on diamagnetic hydrogen oscillator strength spectra
Xiaoxu Guan and Yuexia Zhang
Published 24 September 2004 (10 pages)
033409 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Path-integral approach of ionization by ultrashort laser pulses
E. G. Thrapsaniotis
Published 27 September 2004 (8 pages)
033410 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Lithium in strong magnetic fields
Omar-Alexander Al-Hujaj and Peter Schmelcher
Published 27 September 2004 (12 pages)
033411 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Measurement of the blackbody radiation shift of the 133Cs hyperfine transition in an atomic fountain
Filippo Levi, Davide Calonico, Luca Lorini, Salvatore Micalizio, and Aldo Godone
Published 27 September 2004 (5 pages)
033412 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Bloch-Siegert shifts and widths for multiphoton resonances: In-plane field configuration
V. N. Ostrovsky and E. Horsdal-Pedersen
Published 27 September 2004 (6 pages)
033413 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Photoassociation of cold atoms with chirped laser pulses: Time-dependent calculations and analysis of the adiabatic transfer within a two-state model
E. Luc-Koenig, R. Kosloff, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and M. Vatasescu
Published 27 September 2004 (19 pages)
033414 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Rotational effects of twisted light on atoms beyond the paraxial approximation
R. Jáuregui
Published 28 September 2004 (9 pages)
033415 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Kinetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of ultracold neutral plasmas including ionic correlations
T. Pohl, T. Pattard, and J. M. Rost
Published 28 September 2004 (12 pages)
033416 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Atomic photoionization processes under magnification
F. Lépine, Ch. Bordas, C. Nicole, and M. J. J. Vrakking
Published 28 September 2004 (13 pages)
033417 [View PDF (1,706 kB)]
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Dynamical interference structures in fully coupled bound-bound state quantum wave-packet dynamics
Niklas Gador, Bo Zhang, Hans O. Karlsson, and Tony Hansson
Published 28 September 2004 (11 pages)
033418 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Optical Ramsey spectroscopy of a single trapped 88Sr+ ion
V. Letchumanan, P. Gill, E. Riis, and A. G. Sinclair
Published 30 September 2004 (9 pages)
033419 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Nonintrusive monitoring and quantitative analysis of strong laser-field-induced impulsive alignment
V. Renard, M. Renard, A. Rouzée, S. Guérin, H. R. Jauslin, B. Lavorel, and O. Faucher
Published 30 September 2004 (9 pages)
033420 [View PDF (604 kB)]

Matter waves

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Sub-shot-noise-limited measurements with Bose-Einstein condensates
J. A. Dunningham and K. Burnett
Published 2 September 2004 (7 pages)
033601 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Vortex lattice stability and phase coherence in three-dimensional rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Andrew Gifford and Gordon Baym
Published 2 September 2004 (6 pages)
033602 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Spin-dependent Hubbard model and a quantum phase transition in cold atoms
W. Vincent Liu, Frank Wilczek, and Peter Zoller
Published 13 September 2004 (9 pages)
033603 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Vortex lattices in the lowest Landau level for confined Bose-Einstein condensates
N. R. Cooper, S. Komineas, and N. Read
Published 17 September 2004 (5 pages)
033604 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Three-dimensional parallel vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates
Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Ionut Danaila, Dumitru Mihalache, and Lluis Torner
Published 17 September 2004 (5 pages)
033605 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Four-wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensate systems with multiple spin states
J. P. Burke, Jr., P. S. Julienne, C. J. Williams, Y. B. Band, and M. Trippenbach
Published 21 September 2004 (8 pages)
033606 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Pulsed atomic soliton laser
L. D. Carr and J. Brand
Published 21 September 2004 (10 pages)
033607 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Phase diagram for ultracold bosons in optical lattices and superlattices
P. Buonsante and A. Vezzani
Published 22 September 2004 (8 pages)
033608 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Coherent molecular bound states of bosons and fermions near a Feshbach resonance
P. D. Drummond and K. V. Kheruntsyan
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
033609 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Dipole and monopole modes in the Bose-Hubbard model in a trap
Emil Lundh
Published 23 September 2004 (9 pages)
033610 [View PDF (1,708 kB)]
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Fock-state dynamics in Raman photoassociation of Bose-Einstein condensates
M. K. Olsen, A. S. Bradley, and S. B. Cavalcanti
Published 23 September 2004 (5 pages)
033611 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Time-dependent density-functional theory for trapped strongly interacting fermionic atoms
Yeong E. Kim and Alexander L. Zubarev
Published 27 September 2004 (5 pages)
033612 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Nonlinear quantization of a degenerate charged Bose gas in an external Coulomb trap
Gilbert Reinisch
Published 28 September 2004 (11 pages)
033613 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Classical-field approximation for cold weakly interacting bosons without free parameters
Łukasz Zawitkowski, Mirosław Brewczyk, Mariusz Gajda, and Kazimierz Rzążewski
Published 28 September 2004 (8 pages)
033614 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Decoherence and dephasing in strongly driven colliding Bose-Einstein condensates
N. Katz, R. Ozeri, E. Rowen, E. Gershnabel, and N. Davidson
Published 30 September 2004 (5 pages)
033615 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Ultrafast resonant polarization interferometry: Towards the first direct detection of vacuum polarization
Andre N. Luiten and Jesse C. Petersen
Published 2 September 2004 (9 pages)
033801 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Competition of multiple filaments during the propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses
S. A. Hosseini, Q. Luo, B. Ferland, W. Liu, S. L. Chin, O. G. Kosareva, N. A. Panov, N. Aközbek, and V. P. Kandidov
Published 7 September 2004 (12 pages)
033802 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Erbium-implanted high-Q silica toroidal microcavity laser on a silicon chip
Bumki Min, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Lan Yang, Kerry J. Vahala, Jeroen Kalkman, and Albert Polman
Published 16 September 2004 (12 pages)
033803 [View PDF (1,524 kB)]
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Deterministic generation of tailored-optical-coherent-state superpositions
Helmut Ritsch, G. J. Milburn, and T. C. Ralph
Published 17 September 2004 (4 pages)
033804 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Retrodiction for optical attenuators, amplifiers, and detectors
Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Rodney Loudon, and John Jeffers
Published 17 September 2004 (16 pages)
033805 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Buffer-gas-induced absorption resonances in Rb vapor
Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Irina Novikova, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, and George R. Welch
Published 20 September 2004 (12 pages)
033806 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Controlling dynamic instability of three-level atoms inside an optical ring cavity
Wenge Yang, Amitabh Joshi, and Min Xiao
Published 22 September 2004 (10 pages)
033807 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Critical properties of two-level atom systems interacting with a radiation field
Giuseppe Liberti and Rosa Letizia Zaffino
Published 22 September 2004 (5 pages)
033808 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Large linewidth-enhancement factor in a microchip laser
Christophe Szwaj, Eric Lacot, and Olivier Hugon
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
033809 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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One- and two-color laser spectroscopy of indium vapor in an all-sapphire cell
U. Rasbach, J. Wang, R. dela Torre, V. Leung, B. Klöter, D. Meschede, T. Varzhapetyan, and D. Sarkisyan
Published 24 September 2004 (7 pages)
033810 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Model for resonant photon creation in a cavity with time-dependent conductivity
Martín Crocce, Diego A. R. Dalvit, Fernando C. Lombardo, and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
Published 28 September 2004 (6 pages)
033811 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Efficient scheme for mesoscopic superpositions of motional coherent and squeezed coherent states of N trapped ions
Wen-Xing Yang, Xiao-Long Gong, Jia-Hua Li, and Li-Xia Jin
Published 28 September 2004 (6 pages)
033812 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Anomalous electromagnetically induced transparency in photonic-band-gap materials
Mahi R. Singh
Published 28 September 2004 (7 pages)
033813 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Classical limit of the interaction of a quantum system with the electromagnetic field
Lars Braun, Walter T. Strunz, and John S. Briggs
Published 30 September 2004 (8 pages)
033814 [View PDF (84 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Dark evolution in time-varying Zeno subspace
C. K. Law
Published 10 September 2004 (4 pages)
034101 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Special relativity and reduced spin density matrices
Cezary Gonera, Piotr Kosiński, and Paweĺ Maślanka
Published 22 September 2004 (3 pages)
034102 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Decrease of the tunneling time and violation of the Hartman effect for large barriers
V. S. Olkhovsky, V. Petrillo, and A. K. Zaichenko
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
034103 [View PDF (44 kB)]

Quantum information

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Scheme for implementing the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm in cavity QED
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 16 September 2004 (3 pages)
034301 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Efficient algorithm to recognize the local Clifford equivalence of graph states
Maarten Van den Nest, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor
Published 17 September 2004 (3 pages)
034302 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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P-representable subset of all bipartite Gaussian separable states
Marcos C. de Oliveira
Published 17 September 2004 (4 pages)
034303 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Time-evolution of entanglement and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states in two-mode Bose-Einstein condensates
Wen Yin, J.-Q. Liang, Q.-W. Yan, and G.-F. Zhang
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
034304 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Quantum teleportation with atoms trapped in cavities
Jaeyoon Cho and Hai-Woong Lee
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
034305 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Byzantine agreement with two quantum-key-distribution setups
S. Iblisdir and N. Gisin
Published 29 September 2004 (2 pages)
034306 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Entanglement for excitons in two quantum dots placed in two separate single-mode cavities
Gao-xiang Li, Hua-tang Tan, Shao-ping Wu, and Ya-ping Yang
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
034307 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Ionization of helium by impact of negative B, O, and F ions
F. Zappa, A. L. F. de Barros, L. F. S. Coelho, Ginette Jalbert, S. D. Magalhães, and N. V. de Castro Faria
Published 3 September 2004 (4 pages)
034701 [View PDF (35 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Phase control of the inverse above-threshold-ionization process with few-cycle pulses
S. X. Hu and L. A. Collins
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
035401 [View PDF (494 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Continuous-variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox with traveling-wave second-harmonic generation
M. K. Olsen
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
035801 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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One-step implementation of maximally entangled states of many three-level atoms in microwave cavity QED
XuBo Zou and W. Mathis
Published 23 September 2004 (5 pages)
035802 [View PDF (59 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Relativistic many-body calculations of energies of n=3 states in aluminumlike ions”
G. P. Gupta, K. M. Aggarwal, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 20 September 2004 (3 pages)
036501 [View PDF (23 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate[Phys. Rev. A 70, 013608 (2004)]
G. E. Astrakharchik and L. P. Pitaevskii
Published 2 September 2004 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Erratum: Control of an atom laser using feedback [Phys. Rev. A 69, 013605 (2004)]
S. A. Haine, A. J. Ferris, J. D. Close, and J. J. Hope
Published 9 September 2004 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Erratum: Scheme for the implementation of a universal quantum cloning machine via cavity-assisted atomic collisions in cavity QED [Phys. Rev. A 67, 024304 (2003)]
XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis
Published 16 September 2004 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Analysis of elliptically polarized states in vertical-cavity-surface-emitting lasers [Phys. Rev. A 69, 033810 (2004)]
F. Prati, P. Caccia, M. Bache, and F. Castelli
Published 16 September 2004 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
 
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