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Physical Review A – November 2004
Volume 70, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Weakly entangled states are dense and robust
Román Orús and Rolf Tarrach
Published 17 November 2004 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (45 kB)]

Quantum information

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Entanglement convertibility for infinite-dimensional pure bipartite states
Masaki Owari, Keiji Matsumoto, and Mio Murao
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement for acoustic spintronics
Godfrey Gumbs and Yonatan Abranyos
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
050302(R) [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Formation of fermionic molecules via interisotope Feshbach resonances
E. G. M. v. Kempen, B. Marcelis, and S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans
Published 19 November 2004 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Direct observation of pure one-electron capture from the target inner shell in low-energy p+Na collisions
Steven Knoop, Reinhard Morgenstern, and Ronnie Hoekstra
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
050702(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Nonperturbative theory of double photoionization of the hydrogen molecule
W. Vanroose, F. Martín, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
050703(R) [View PDF (82 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Two-color pump-probe study and internal-energy dependence of Rydberg-state excitation in C60
M. Boyle, M. Hedén, C. P. Schulz, E. E. B. Campbell, and I. V. Hertel
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
051201(R) [View PDF (318 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Breakdown of hydrodynamics in the radial breathing mode of a strongly interacting Fermi gas
J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
051401(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Matter waves

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Atom interference in a gray optical lattice
N. V. Morrow and G. Raithel
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
051601(R) [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Vortex lattice inhomogeneity in spatially inhomogeneous superfluids
Daniel E. Sheehy and Leo Radzihovsky
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
051602(R) [View PDF (158 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Fine structure of coupled optical modes in photonic molecules
Y. P. Rakovich, J. F. Donegan, M. Gerlach, A. L. Bradley, T. M. Connolly, J. J. Boland, N. Gaponik, and A. Rogach
Published 8 November 2004 (4 pages)
051801(R) [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Experimental study of the momentum correlation of a pseudothermal field in the photon-counting regime
Giuliano Scarcelli, Alejandra Valencia, and Yanhua Shih
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
051802(R) [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal few-photon optical nonlinearities through linear optics and measurement
K. J. Resch
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
051803(R) [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Kilohertz optical resonances in dielectric crystal cavities
Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Andrey B. Matsko, and Lute Maleki
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
051804(R) [View PDF (119 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Four-boson system with short-range interactions
L. Platter, H.-W. Hammer, and Ulf-G. Meißner
Published 5 November 2004 (13 pages)
052101 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Estimation of a classical parameter with Gaussian probes: Magnetometry with collective atomic spins
Klaus Mølmer and Lars Bojer Madsen
Published 8 November 2004 (5 pages)
052102 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Renormalized semiclassical quantization for rescalable Hamiltonians
Satoshi Takahashi and Kazuo Takatsuka
Published 9 November 2004 (10 pages)
052103 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Possibility of observing energy decoherence due to quantum gravity
Christoph Simon and Dieter Jaksch
Published 10 November 2004 (7 pages)
052104 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Anharmonic effects on a phonon-number measurement of a quantum-mesoscopic-mechanical oscillator
D. H. Santamore, Hsi-Sheng Goan, G. J. Milburn, and M. L. Roukes
Published 12 November 2004 (10 pages)
052105 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Berry’s phase with quantized field driving: Effects of intersubsystem coupling
L. C. Wang, H. T. Cui, and X. X. Yi
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
052106 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Pure-state informationally complete and “really” complete measurements
J. Finkelstein
Published 12 November 2004 (3 pages)
052107 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Two-Loop Bethe logarithms for higher excited S levels
Ulrich D. Jentschura
Published 15 November 2004 (13 pages)
052108 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Quantal interferometry with dissipative internal motion
Erik Sjöqvist
Published 16 November 2004 (6 pages)
052109 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Dynamics of initially entangled open quantum systems
Thomas F. Jordan, Anil Shaji, and E. C. G. Sudarshan
Published 19 November 2004 (14 pages)
052110 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Renormalization-group limit cycle for the 1∕r2 potential
Eric Braaten and Demian Phillips
Published 23 November 2004 (5 pages)
052111 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Relation between quantum tunneling times for relativistic particles
Herbert G. Winful, Moussa Ngom, and Natalia M. Litchinitser
Published 23 November 2004 (6 pages)
052112 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Complete sets of commuting observables of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states
M. Q. Ruan and J. Y. Zeng
Published 24 November 2004 (5 pages)
052113 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Model for entangled states with spin-spin interaction
Yakir Aharonov, Jeeva Anandan, G. Jordan Maclay, and Jun Suzuki
Published 24 November 2004 (12 pages)
052114 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Nonclassicality in weak measurements
Lars M. Johansen and Alfredo Luis
Published 29 November 2004 (12 pages)
052115 [View PDF (672 kB)]
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Čerenkov radiation in a causal permeable medium
R. Matloob and A. Ghaffari
Published 29 November 2004 (8 pages)
052116 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Casimir-Polder forces: A nonperturbative approach
Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, and Ho Trung Dung
Published 29 November 2004 (23 pages)
052117 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Quantum-invariant processes in phase space
Alfredo Luis
Published 30 November 2004 (7 pages)
052118 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Quantum information

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Creating excitonic entanglement in quantum dots through the optical Stark effect
Ahsan Nazir, Brendon W. Lovett, and G. Andrew D. Briggs
Published 1 November 2004 (5 pages)
052301 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Entanglement of the Heisenberg chain with the next-nearest-neighbor interaction
Shi-Jian Gu, Haibin Li, You-Quan Li, and Hai-Qing Lin
Published 1 November 2004 (5 pages)
052302 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Stability of global entanglement in thermal states of spin chains
Gavin K. Brennen and Stephen S. Bullock
Published 4 November 2004 (12 pages)
052303 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Silicon quantum computation based on magnetic dipolar coupling
Rogerio de Sousa, J. D. Delgado, and S. Das Sarma
Published 5 November 2004 (6 pages)
052304 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Realization of universal optimal quantum machines by projective operators and stochastic maps
F. Sciarrino, C. Sias, M. Ricci, and F. De Martini
Published 8 November 2004 (11 pages)
052305 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Quantum state targeting
Terry Rudolph and Robert W. Spekkens
Published 8 November 2004 (15 pages)
052306 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Thermal entanglement of spins in the Heisenberg model at low temperatures
M. Asoudeh and V. Karimipour
Published 9 November 2004 (5 pages)
052307 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Generation of the four-photon W state and other multiphoton entangled states using parametric down-conversion
Hideharu Mikami, Yongmin Li, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 9 November 2004 (7 pages)
052308 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Mixed-state sensitivity of several quantum-information benchmarks
Nicholas A. Peters, Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Paul G. Kwiat
Published 11 November 2004 (6 pages)
052309 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Security of quantum bit-string generation
Jonathan Barrett and Serge Massar
Published 11 November 2004 (11 pages)
052310 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Analysis for practical realization of number-state manipulation by number-sum Bell measurement with linear optics
Akira Kitagawa and Katsuji Yamamoto
Published 11 November 2004 (13 pages)
052311 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Measurement of entangled states via atomic beam deflection in Bragg’s regime
Ashfaq H. Khosa, Manzoor Ikram, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 11 November 2004 (7 pages)
052312 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Characterization of two-qubit perfect entanglers
A. T. Rezakhani
Published 11 November 2004 (9 pages)
052313 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Spherical-code key-distribution protocols for qubits
Joseph M. Renes
Published 16 November 2004 (4 pages)
052314 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Superconducting phase qubit coupled to a nanomechanical resonator: Beyond the rotating-wave approximation
Andrew T. Sornborger, Andrew N. Cleland, and Michael R. Geller
Published 17 November 2004 (6 pages)
052315 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Distillation of entanglement between distant systems by repeated measurements on an entanglement mediator
G. Compagno, A. Messina, Hiromichi Nakazato, A. Napoli, Makoto Unoki, and Kazuya Yuasa
Published 18 November 2004 (10 pages)
052316 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs with arbitrary joint spectrum
Zachary D. Walton, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 18 November 2004 (5 pages)
052317 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Arbitrarily accurate composite pulse sequences
Kenneth R. Brown, Aram W. Harrow, and Isaac L. Chuang
Published 19 November 2004 (4 pages)
052318 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Demonstrating quantum algorithm acceleration with NMR quantum computer
Mikio Nakahara, Yasushi Kondo, Kazuya Hata, and Shogo Tanimura
Published 19 November 2004 (5 pages)
052319 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Unconventional geometric quantum phase gates with a cavity QED system
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 19 November 2004 (4 pages)
052320 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Minimal qubit tomography
Jaroslav Řeháček, Berthold-Georg Englert, and Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Published 22 November 2004 (13 pages)
052321 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Efficient quantum computation within a disordered Heisenberg spin chain
Chiu Fan Lee and Neil F. Johnson
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
052322 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Refocusing schemes for holonomic quantum computation in the presence of dissipation
Li-Xiang Cen and Paolo Zanardi
Published 23 November 2004 (5 pages)
052323 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Spin squeezing and precision probing with light and samples of atoms in the Gaussian description
Lars Bojer Madsen and Klaus Mølmer
Published 24 November 2004 (12 pages)
052324 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Positive-operator-valued measure optimization of classical correlations
S. Hamieh, R. Kobes, and H. Zaraket
Published 29 November 2004 (6 pages)
052325 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Dual entanglement measures based on no local cloning and no local deleting
Michał Horodecki, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen
Published 29 November 2004 (12 pages)
052326 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Geometric quantum gate for trapped ions based on optical dipole forces induced by Gaussian laser beams
Peter Staanum, Michael Drewsen, and Klaus Mølmer
Published 29 November 2004 (9 pages)
052327 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Improved simulation of stabilizer circuits
Scott Aaronson and Daniel Gottesman
Published 30 November 2004 (14 pages)
052328 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Spatial structures and localization of vacuum entanglement in the linear harmonic chain
Alonso Botero and Benni Reznik
Published 30 November 2004 (21 pages)
052329 [View PDF (896 kB)]
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Ballistic electron waveguide adder
Michael G. Snyder and Linda E. Reichl
Published 30 November 2004 (9 pages)
052330 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Critical error rate of quantum-key-distribution protocols versus the size and dimensionality of the quantum alphabet
Denis V. Sych, Boris A. Grishanin, and Victor N. Zadkov
Published 30 November 2004 (8 pages)
052331 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Double-charge-transfer spectroscopy of O22+: Band analyses of low-lying repulsive states
Osamu Furuhashi, Tohru Kinugawa, Takato Hirayama, Tetsuo Koizumi, Chikashi Yamada, and Shunsuke Ohtani
Published 4 November 2004 (7 pages)
052501 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Structure of various KL1 x-ray satellite lines of heavy atoms
Marek Polasik and Maja Lewandowska-Robak
Published 4 November 2004 (15 pages)
052502 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Properties of the triplet metastable states of the alkaline-earth-metal atoms
J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley
Published 11 November 2004 (8 pages)
052503 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Interplay of different partial waves on vibrationally resolved photoionization of the O K shell of the CO molecule
S. K. Semenov, N. A. Cherepkov, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, M. Kitajima, H. Tanaka, and K. Ueda
Published 12 November 2004 (5 pages)
052504 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Absolute-frequency measurements of the D2 line and fine-structure interval in 39K
Ayan Banerjee and Vasant Natarajan
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
052505 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Intermolecular forces and nonbonded interactions: Superoperator nonlinear time-dependent density-functional-theory response approach
Upendra Harbola and Shaul Mukamel
Published 24 November 2004 (15 pages)
052506 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Connectivity analysis of controlled quantum systems
Rong Wu, Herschel Rabitz, Gabriel Turinici, and Ignacio Sola
Published 24 November 2004 (7 pages)
052507 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Regularization of the Coulomb scattering problem
V. G. Baryshevskii, I. D. Feranchuk, and P. B. Kats
Published 5 November 2004 (15 pages)
052701 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Energy and angular distributions of electrons ejected from atomic hydrogen by low-energy proton impact
J. H. Macek and S. Yu. Ovchinnikov
Published 11 November 2004 (8 pages)
052702 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Measurement of the collisional self-broadening of the cesium 6S1∕2→5D3∕2 (689-nm) electric quadrupole transition
A. Andalkar, M. Iinuma, J. W. Smit, and E. N. Fortson
Published 11 November 2004 (7 pages)
052703 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Elastic electron scattering from Ba and Sr
Mehrdad Adibzadeh and Constantine E. Theodosiou
Published 15 November 2004 (11 pages)
052704 [View PDF (2,235 kB)]
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Absorption in atomic wires
Jose M. Cerveró and Alberto Rodríguez
Published 15 November 2004 (13 pages)
052705 [View PDF (1,343 kB)]
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Approximating the target wave function in positronium-helium scattering
Joseph Di Rienzi and Richard J. Drachman
Published 15 November 2004 (5 pages)
052706 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Effect of polarization on photodetachment thresholds
J. Sandström, G. Haeffler, I. Kiyan, U. Berzinsh, D. Hanstorp, D. J. Pegg, J. C. Hunnell, and S. J. Ward
Published 16 November 2004 (11 pages)
052707 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Landau-Zener transitions in a multilevel system: An exact result
A. V. Shytov
Published 17 November 2004 (3 pages)
052708 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Total electron scattering cross sections of Kr and Xe in the energy range 250–4500 eV
W. M. Ariyasinghe and C. Goains
Published 19 November 2004 (6 pages)
052709 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Isotope effect in charge-transfer collisions of slow H+ and D+ ions with H2, HD, and D2 molecules
Toshio Kusakabe, Lukáš Pichl, Robert J. Buenker, Mineo Kimura, and Hiroyuki Tawara
Published 19 November 2004 (7 pages)
052710 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Scattering length of the helium-atom–helium-dimer collision
Elena A. Kolganova, Alexander K. Motovilov, and Werner Sandhas
Published 19 November 2004 (4 pages)
052711 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Dissociative electron attachment and vibrational excitation of H2 by low-energy electrons: Calculations based on an improved nonlocal resonance model
J. Horáček, M. Čížek, K. Houfek, P. Kolorenč, and W. Domcke
Published 23 November 2004 (12 pages)
052712 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Accuracy of the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method for electron capture in Li3+ and Ne10++H(1s) collisions
L. F. Errea, Clara Illescas, L. Méndez, B. Pons, A. Riera, and J. Suárez
Published 24 November 2004 (12 pages)
052713 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of Biq+ for q=1–10
S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola, N. R. Badnell, F. Scheuermann, K. Kramer, K. Huber, and E. Salzborn
Published 24 November 2004 (9 pages)
052714 [View PDF (769 kB)]
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Dissociative attachment of electrons to vibronically excited SO2
S. V. K. Kumar, V. S. Ashoka, and E. Krishnakumar
Published 29 November 2004 (7 pages)
052715 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Dissociative recombination of rotationally cold H3+
B. J. McCall, A. J. Huneycutt, R. J. Saykally, N. Djuric, G. H. Dunn, J. Semaniak, O. Novotny, A. Al-Khalili, A. Ehlerding, F. Hellberg, S. Kalhori, A. Neau, R. D. Thomas, A. Paal, F. Österdahl, and M. Larsson
Published 30 November 2004 (12 pages)
052716 [View PDF (183 kB)]

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

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Energy and angular distributions of backscattered electrons from the collision of 8-keV electrons with a thick tungsten target
R. K. Yadav and R. Shanker
Published 3 November 2004 (6 pages)
052901 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Influence of the atomic structure on the quantum state of sputtered Ir atoms
J. Bastiaansen, V. Philipsen, P. Lievens, R. E. Silverans, and E. Vandeweert
Published 19 November 2004 (6 pages)
052902 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Resonant neutralization of H− near Cu surfaces: Effects of the surface symmetry and ion trajectory
Himadri Chakraborty, Thomas Niederhausen, and Uwe Thumm
Published 23 November 2004 (13 pages)
052903 [View PDF (1,069 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Role of laser-pulse duration in the neutron yield of deuterium cluster targets
K. W. Madison, P. K. Patel, M. Allen, D. Price, R. Fitzpatrick, and T. Ditmire
Published 18 November 2004 (7 pages)
053201 [View PDF (221 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Multiphoton ionization of xenon in the vuv regime
Robin Santra and Chris H. Greene
Published 3 November 2004 (8 pages)
053401 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Plateau structures in potential scattering in a strong laser field
A. Čerkić and D. B. Milošević
Published 5 November 2004 (8 pages)
053402 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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High-energy above-threshold detachment from negative ions
A. Gazibegović-Busuladžić, D. B. Milošević, and W. Becker
Published 10 November 2004 (14 pages)
053403 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Adiabatic creation of coherent superposition states in atomic beams
R. G. Unanyan, M. E. Pietrzyk, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann
Published 11 November 2004 (13 pages)
053404 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage among degenerate-level manifolds
Z. Kis, A. Karpati, B. W. Shore, and N. V. Vitanov
Published 11 November 2004 (20 pages)
053405 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Changing pulse-shape basis for molecular learning control
David Cardoza, Florian Langhojer, Carlos Trallero-Herrero, Oliver L. A. Monti, and Thomas Weinacht
Published 15 November 2004 (4 pages)
053406 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Coherent excitation of a two-state system by a Gaussian field
G. S. Vasilev and N. V. Vitanov
Published 16 November 2004 (11 pages)
053407 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Quantum behavior of a charged particle in an axial magnetic field
Ashok Das, J. Frenkel, S. H. Pereira, and J. C. Taylor
Published 17 November 2004 (6 pages)
053408 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Evaporative cooling at low trap depth
Robert deCarvalho and John Doyle
Published 18 November 2004 (10 pages)
053409 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Electron and nuclear dynamics of a molecular ion in an intense laser field
P. P. Corso, R. Daniele, E. Fiordilino, J. P. Marangos, F. Morales, and R. Velotta
Published 19 November 2004 (8 pages)
053410 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Multiphoton classification of prethreshold structures in measured microwave ionization curves of hydrogen Rydberg atoms
T. Clausen and R. Blümel
Published 23 November 2004 (9 pages)
053411 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Rotational cooling of heteronuclear molecular ions with 1Σ, 2Σ, 3Σ, and 2Π electronic ground states
I. S. Vogelius, L. B. Madsen, and M. Drewsen
Published 24 November 2004 (14 pages)
053412 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Wavelength dependence of multiphoton ionization of xenon
Patrick Kaminski, Rolf Wiehle, Vincent Renard, Anne Kazmierczak, Bruno Lavorel, Olivier Faucher, and Bernd Witzel
Published 29 November 2004 (9 pages)
053413 [View PDF (712 kB)]
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Role of quadratic and cubic spectral phases in ladder climbing with ultrashort pulses
Béatrice Chatel, Jérôme Degert, and Bertrand Girard
Published 30 November 2004 (10 pages)
053414 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Matter waves

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Local-density approximation for confined bosons in an optical lattice
Sara Bergkvist, Patrik Henelius, and Anders Rosengren
Published 4 November 2004 (7 pages)
053601 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Universality of a two-component Fermi gas with a resonant interaction
G. M. Bruun
Published 4 November 2004 (5 pages)
053602 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic effects in the dynamics of atoms confined in a cylindric time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap
Roberto Franzosi, Bruno Zambon, and Ennio Arimondo
Published 4 November 2004 (12 pages)
053603 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Collective oscillations of one-dimensional Bose-Einstein gas in a time-varying trap potential and atomic scattering length
F. Kh. Abdullaev and J. Garnier
Published 8 November 2004 (12 pages)
053604 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Solitary-wave description of condensate micromotion in a time-averaged orbiting potential trap
K. J. Challis, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner
Published 10 November 2004 (11 pages)
053605 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Atom-chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell
Shengwang Du, Matthew B. Squires, Yutaka Imai, Leslie Czaia, R. A. Saravanan, Victor Bright, Jakob Reichel, T. W. Hänsch, and Dana Z. Anderson
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
053606 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Ground-state fragmentation of repulsive Bose-Einstein condensates in double-trap potentials
Alexej I. Streltsov, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 10 November 2004 (9 pages)
053607 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Theory of decoherence in a matter wave Talbot-Lau interferometer
Klaus Hornberger, John E. Sipe, and Markus Arndt
Published 11 November 2004 (18 pages)
053608 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Perturbative corrections to the Gutzwiller mean-field solution of the Mott-Hubbard model
C. Schroll, Florian Marquardt, and C. Bruder
Published 11 November 2004 (10 pages)
053609 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein droplet in free space
Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda
Published 15 November 2004 (5 pages)
053610 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Rabi dynamics of coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
Artur Ishkhanyan, G. P. Chernikov, and Hiroki Nakamura
Published 15 November 2004 (9 pages)
053611 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Adiabatic path to fractional quantum Hall states of a few bosonic atoms
M. Popp, B. Paredes, and J. I. Cirac
Published 17 November 2004 (6 pages)
053612 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Multidimensional solitons in a low-dimensional periodic potential
Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov, Boris A. Malomed, and Mario Salerno
Published 18 November 2004 (9 pages)
053613 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of a homogeneous weakly interacting Bose gas: Path integral Monte Carlo study
Kwangsik Nho and D. P. Landau
Published 18 November 2004 (5 pages)
053614 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of confined bosonic atoms in optical lattices
Stefan Wessel, Fabien Alet, Matthias Troyer, and G. George Batrouni
Published 19 November 2004 (14 pages)
053615 [View PDF (1,572 kB)]
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Proposed magnetoelectrostatic ring trap for neutral atoms
Asa Hopkins, Benjamin Lev, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
053616 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein-condensate bright soliton in an expulsive potential
Luca Salasnich
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
053617 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Number distributions for fermions and fermionized bosons in periodic potentials
Michael Budde and Klaus Mølmer
Published 23 November 2004 (7 pages)
053618 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Effect of the Casimir-Polder force on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari
Published 24 November 2004 (10 pages)
053619 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Effective three-body interactions in triangular optical lattices
Jiannis K. Pachos and Enrique Rico
Published 24 November 2004 (10 pages)
053620 [View PDF (861 kB)]
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Propagation and breathing of matter–wave-packet trains
Wenhua Hai, Chaohong Lee, and Guishu Chong
Published 24 November 2004 (6 pages)
053621 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Phase coherence in a driven double-well system
T. Miyakawa, C. P. Search, and P. Meystre
Published 29 November 2004 (7 pages)
053622 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Orthogonality of biphoton polarization states
M. V. Chekhova, L. A. Krivitsky, S. P. Kulik, and G. A. Maslennikov
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
053801 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Laser linewidth effects in quantum state discrimination by electromagnetically induced transparency
M. J. McDonnell, D. N. Stacey, and A. M. Steane
Published 4 November 2004 (13 pages)
053802 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Driver-pulse configuration of the nickel-like Ta x-ray laser at 4.48 nm
J. Y. Zhong, C. Wang, J. Zhang, X. Lu, G. Zhao, J. L. Zeng, M. F. Gu, and S. J. Wang
Published 4 November 2004 (6 pages)
053803 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Unified theory of Raman and parametric amplification in nonlinear microspheres
M. V. Jouravlev and G. Kurizki
Published 4 November 2004 (9 pages)
053804 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Atom-field interactions with a frequency-dependent reservoir
P. R. Berman and P. W. Milonni
Published 4 November 2004 (6 pages)
053805 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced left-handedness in a dense gas of three-level atoms
M. Ö. Oktel and Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu
Published 5 November 2004 (7 pages)
053806 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Critical fluctuations and entanglement in the nondegenerate parametric oscillator
K. Dechoum, P. D. Drummond, S. Chaturvedi, and M. D. Reid
Published 5 November 2004 (24 pages)
053807 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Single-atom detection using whispering-gallery modes of microdisk resonators
Michael Rosenblit, Peter Horak, Steve Helsby, and Ron Folman
Published 9 November 2004 (10 pages)
053808 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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High-intensity attosecond high-order harmonic generation driven by a synthesized laser field
Zhinan Zeng, Ruxin Li, Xinhua Xie, and Zhizhan Xu
Published 9 November 2004 (5 pages)
053809 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Third-harmonic generation in isotropic media by focused pulses
Richard S. Tasgal and Y. B. Band
Published 10 November 2004 (8 pages)
053810 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Influence of coherent Raman scattering on coherent population trapping in atomic sodium vapor
Vincent Wong, Ryan S. Bennink, Alberto M. Marino, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr., and F. A. Narducci
Published 11 November 2004 (8 pages)
053811 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Pulsed squeezed vacuum measurements without homodyning
Jérôme Wenger, Jaromír Fiurášek, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Nicolas J. Cerf, and Philippe Grangier
Published 11 November 2004 (8 pages)
053812 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Mesoscopic superposition of states with sub-Planck structures in phase space
G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak
Published 11 November 2004 (5 pages)
053813 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Efficient fiber coupling of down-conversion photon pairs
Andrzej Dragan
Published 12 November 2004 (7 pages)
053814 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Optical modulation transfer by molecular modulation
Jian Wu and Heping Zeng
Published 15 November 2004 (8 pages)
053815 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Quantum interference of a mode-locked two-photon state
Hai-bo Wang and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 16 November 2004 (5 pages)
053816 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Polarization squeezing in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Yu. M. Golubev, T. Yu. Golubeva, M. I. Kolobov, and E. Giacobino
Published 17 November 2004 (13 pages)
053817 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Highly efficient four-wave mixing in double-Λ system in ultraslow propagation regime
Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang
Published 18 November 2004 (5 pages)
053818 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Dynamics of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback: Comparison of multimode models in the low-frequency fluctuation regime
I. V. Koryukin and Paul Mandel
Published 19 November 2004 (6 pages)
053819 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Two-photon resonant four-wave mixing in a dressed atomic system
Jiang Sun, Zhanchun Zuo, Xin Mi, Zuhe Yu, Qian Jiang, Yanbang Wang, Ling-An Wu, and Panming Fu
Published 23 November 2004 (10 pages)
053820 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Tomographic reconstruction of the single-photon Fock state by high-frequency homodyne detection
Alessandro Zavatta, Silvia Viciani, and Marco Bellini
Published 23 November 2004 (6 pages)
053821 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Multiple beam splitter for single photons
Tun Wang, Marijan Koštrun, and S. F. Yelin
Published 24 November 2004 (5 pages)
053822 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Multiple-scattering approach to interatomic interactions and superradiance in inhomogeneous dielectrics
Martijn Wubs, L. G. Suttorp, and A. Lagendijk
Published 29 November 2004 (17 pages)
053823 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Phase-sensitive laser detection by frequency-shifted optical feedback
E. Lacot and O. Hugon
Published 29 November 2004 (8 pages)
053824 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Searching for decoherence-free subspaces in cavity quantum electrodynamics
A. R. Bosco de Magalhães and M. C. Nemes
Published 29 November 2004 (8 pages)
053825 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Canonical and kinetic forms of the electromagnetic momentum in an ad hoc quantization scheme for a dispersive dielectric
J. C. Garrison and R. Y. Chiao
Published 30 November 2004 (8 pages)
053826 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Field correlations in electromagnetically induced transparency
P. Barberis-Blostein and N. Zagury
Published 30 November 2004 (12 pages)
053827 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Atomic squeezing under collective emission
V. I. Yukalov and E. P. Yukalova
Published 30 November 2004 (11 pages)
053828 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Spin absorption, windmill, and magneto-optic effects in optical angular momentum transfer
Davide Normanno, Marco Capitanio, and Francesco Saverio Pavone
Published 30 November 2004 (8 pages)
053829 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Modulation transfer in an electromagnetically induced transparency system
Andy W. Brown and Min Xiao
Published 30 November 2004 (7 pages)
053830 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Storing and processing optical information with ultraslow light in Bose-Einstein condensates
Zachary Dutton and Lene Vestergaard Hau
Published 30 November 2004 (19 pages)
053831 [View PDF (756 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Transitions into the negative-energy Dirac continuum
P. Krekora, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
054101 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Evolution of any finite open quantum system always admits a Kraus-type representation, although it is not always completely positive
D. Salgado, J. L. Sánchez-Gómez, and M. Ferrero
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
054102 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Quantum information

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Photon exchange interactions and quantum information processing
J. D. Franson
Published 16 November 2004 (2 pages)
054301 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Bell’s inequalities for particles of arbitrary spin in fixed analyzers
Ronen Mukamel and John C. Howell
Published 18 November 2004 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Scheme for teleportation of an unknown atomic state without the Bell-state measurement
Liu Ye and Guang-Can Guo
Published 24 November 2004 (3 pages)
054303 [View PDF (33 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Static and dynamic polarizabilities of Na− within a variationally stable coupled-channel hyperspherical method
Mauro Masili and J. J. De Groote
Published 17 November 2004 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Dielectronic recombination of Pb79+ via high angular momenta
N. R. Badnell, D. M. Mitnik, M. S. Pindzola, S. D. Loch, and Sh. A. Abdel-Naby
Published 30 November 2004 (2 pages)
054701 [View PDF (24 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Multiconfigurational pseudo-Hartree approach for the (t,t′) propagator of a molecule in short laser fields
Juan Ortigoso
Published 15 November 2004 (4 pages)
055401 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Closed-orbit theory for photodetachment of H− in a static electric field
M. L. Du
Published 30 November 2004 (3 pages)
055402 [View PDF (26 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Photon statistics without counting photons
Andrea R. Rossi, Stefano Olivares, and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
055801 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Solitons formed by dark-state polaritons in an electromagnetic induced transparency
Xiong-Jun Liu, Hui Jing, and Mo-Lin Ge
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
055802 [View PDF (371 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: “Entropy inequalities and Bell inequalities for two-qubit systems” [Phys. Rev. A 69, 022305 (2004)]
Emilio Santos
Published 3 November 2004 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: High-energy expansion of Coulomb corrections to the e+e− photoproduction cross section [Phys. Rev. A 69, 022708 (2004)]
R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, and V. M. Strakhovenko
Published 3 November 2004 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Quantum Zeno effect by indirect measurement: The effect of the detector [Phys. Rev. A 70, 044101 (2004)]
M. G. Makris and P. Lambropoulos
Published 5 November 2004 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum-dot single-photon sources: Prospects for applications in linear optics quantum-information processing [Phys. Rev. A 69, 032305 (2004)]
A. Kiraz, M. Atatüre, and A. Imamoḡlu
Published 29 November 2004 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
 
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