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Physical Review A – December 2004
Volume 70, Issue 6

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Fundamental concepts

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Conditions for the confirmation of three-particle nonlocality
Peter Mitchell, Sandu Popescu, and David Roberts
Published 28 December 2004 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Quantum information

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Selective amplification of a quantum state
A. M. Zagoskin, M. Grajcar, and A. N. Omelyanchouk
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Valence-bond states for quantum computation
F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac
Published 14 December 2004 (4 pages)
060302(R) [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Improved algorithm for quantum separability and entanglement detection
L. M. Ioannou, B. C. Travaglione, D. Cheung, and A. K. Ekert
Published 15 December 2004 (4 pages)
060303(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Nonergodicity of entanglement and its complementary behavior to magnetization in an infinite spin chain
Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Maciej Lewenstein
Published 17 December 2004 (4 pages)
060304(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Optical quantum computation with perpetually coupled spins
Simon C. Benjamin, Brendon W. Lovett, and John H. Reina
Published 23 December 2004 (4 pages)
060305(R) [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Generation of tunable entangled states of two electrons and their characterization without entanglement witness
N. Chandra and R. Ghosh
Published 30 December 2004 (4 pages)
060306(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Origin of the double-peak structure in the momentum distribution of ionization of hydrogen atoms driven by strong laser fields
K. I. Dimitriou, D. G. Arbó, S. Yoshida, E. Persson, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 14 December 2004 (4 pages)
061401(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Role of the electronic structure and multielectron responses in ionization mechanisms of diatomic molecules in intense short-pulse lasers: An all-electron ab initio study
Xi Chu and Shih-I Chu
Published 14 December 2004 (4 pages)
061402(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]

Matter waves

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Influence of trapping potentials on the phase diagram of bosonic atoms in optical lattices
S. M. Giampaolo, F. Illuminati, G. Mazzarella, and S. De Siena
Published 15 December 2004 (4 pages)
061601(R) [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Calculation of collective modes for the Bose-Hubbard model with confinement
Emil Lundh
Published 16 December 2004 (4 pages)
061602(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Fractional-filling loophole insulator domains for ultracold bosons in optical superlattices
P. Buonsante, V. Penna, and A. Vezzani
Published 23 December 2004 (4 pages)
061603(R) [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Atom diode: A laser device for a unidirectional transmission of ground-state atoms
A. Ruschhaupt and J. G. Muga
Published 29 December 2004 (4 pages)
061604(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Generation of macroscopic superposition states with small nonlinearity
H. Jeong, M. S. Kim, T. C. Ralph, and B. S. Ham
Published 9 December 2004 (4 pages)
061801(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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χ(5) susceptibility stabilizes the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in air
Antoine Vinçotte and Luc Bergé
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
061802(R) [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Laser-induced birefringence in a wavelength-mismatched cascade system of inhomogeneously broadened Yb atoms
Tai Hyun Yoon, Chang Yong Park, and Sung Jong Park
Published 14 December 2004 (4 pages)
061803(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Resonant four-wave mixing with slow light
Hoonsoo Kang, Gessler Hernandez, and Yifu Zhu
Published 15 December 2004 (4 pages)
061804(R) [View PDF (325 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Discrete phase space based on finite fields
Kathleen S. Gibbons, Matthew J. Hoffman, and William K. Wootters
Published 3 December 2004 (23 pages)
062101 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Perturbative approach for the dynamics of the quantum Zeno subspaces
Yi-Xin Chen and Zhuowen Fang
Published 7 December 2004 (7 pages)
062102 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Nonlocal electrodynamics of linearly accelerated systems
Bahram Mashhoon
Published 8 December 2004 (7 pages)
062103 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Relativistic and QED corrections to the g factor of Li-like ions
D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, A. V. Volotka, V. A. Yerokhin, G. Plunien, and G. Soff
Published 8 December 2004 (9 pages)
062104 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Covariant quantum measurements that maximize the likelihood
Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Paolo Perinotti, and Massimiliano F. Sacchi
Published 9 December 2004 (8 pages)
062105 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Qubit decoherence and non-Markovian dynamics at low temperatures via an effective spin-boson model
K. Shiokawa and B. L. Hu
Published 9 December 2004 (10 pages)
062106 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Operational approach to complementarity and duality relations
Alfredo Luis
Published 13 December 2004 (5 pages)
062107 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Space-time variation of the fine-structure constant and evolution of isotope abundances
M. G. Kozlov, V. A. Korol, J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum
Published 14 December 2004 (6 pages)
062108 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Casimir force between a small dielectric sphere and a dielectric wall
V. Sopova and L. H. Ford
Published 14 December 2004 (8 pages)
062109 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Vacuum torque
Reza Matloob
Published 17 December 2004 (8 pages)
062110 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Relativistic and radiative corrections to the Mollow spectrum
Jörg Evers, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 28 December 2004 (20 pages)
062111 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Upper and lower bounds on the mean square radius and criteria for the occurrence of quantum halo states
Fabian Brau
Published 28 December 2004 (9 pages)
062112 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Energy as an entanglement witness for quantum many-body systems
Mark R. Dowling, Andrew C. Doherty, and Stephen D. Bartlett
Published 30 December 2004 (15 pages)
062113 [View PDF (283 kB)]

Quantum information

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Noise models for superoperators in the chord representation
Mario Leandro Aolita, Ignacio García-Mata, and Marcos Saraceno
Published 1 December 2004 (9 pages)
062301 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Quantum computing using single photons and the Zeno effect
J. D. Franson, B. C. Jacobs, and T. B. Pittman
Published 1 December 2004 (13 pages)
062302 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Distinguishing between optical coherent states with imperfect detection
JM Geremia
Published 3 December 2004 (9 pages)
062303 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Entanglement dynamics in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
Julien Vidal, Guillaume Palacios, and Claude Aslangul
Published 3 December 2004 (10 pages)
062304 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Resilience of multiphoton entanglement under losses
Gabriel A. Durkin, Christoph Simon, Jens Eisert, and Dirk Bouwmeester
Published 3 December 2004 (5 pages)
062305 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Resources required for exact remote state preparation
Dominic W. Berry
Published 6 December 2004 (7 pages)
062306 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement of anisotropic magnetic nanodots
Ralph Skomski, Andrei Y. Istomin, Anthony F. Starace, and D. J. Sellmyer
Published 8 December 2004 (4 pages)
062307 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Quantum cloning in spin networks
Gabriele De Chiara, Rosario Fazio, Chiara Macchiavello, Simone Montangero, and G. Massimo Palma
Published 8 December 2004 (4 pages)
062308 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Robust semidefinite programming approach to the separability problem
Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Reinaldo O. Vianna
Published 9 December 2004 (5 pages)
062309 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Overcoming quantum noise in optical fibers
Lian-Ao Wu and Daniel A. Lidar
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
062310 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Entanglement production in colliding wave packets
C. K. Law
Published 10 December 2004 (4 pages)
062311 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Entanglement generation from thermal spin states via unitary beam splitters
D. Markham, M. Murao, and V. Vedral
Published 13 December 2004 (5 pages)
062312 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Realization of the optimal universal quantum entangler
Fabio Sciarrino, Francesco De Martini, and Vladimir Bužek
Published 14 December 2004 (4 pages)
062313 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Computation by measurements: A unifying picture
Panos Aliferis and Debbie W. Leung
Published 14 December 2004 (11 pages)
062314 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Entanglement dynamics in chaotic systems
Shohini Ghose and Barry C. Sanders
Published 16 December 2004 (5 pages)
062315 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Minimum-error discrimination among mirror-symmetric mixed quantum states
Chih-Lung Chou
Published 17 December 2004 (5 pages)
062316 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Complete hierarchies of efficient approximations to problems in entanglement theory
Jens Eisert, Philipp Hyllus, Otfried Gühne, and Marcos Curty
Published 21 December 2004 (14 pages)
062317 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Quantum phase transitions in antiferromagnetic planar cubic lattices
Cameron Wellard and Román Orús
Published 27 December 2004 (6 pages)
062318 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Quantum computing with magnetically interacting atoms
Andrei Derevianko and Caleb C. Cannon
Published 28 December 2004 (6 pages)
062319 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Exploring the optimal sensitivity of sum-variance nonseparability criteria for spin-1∕2 systems
Irfan Ali Khan and John C. Howell
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
062320 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Coherent control of open quantum dynamical systems
Claudio Altafini
Published 28 December 2004 (8 pages)
062321 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance implementation of a quantum clock synchronization algorithm
Jingfu Zhang, Gui Lu Long, Zhiwei Deng, Wenzhang Liu, and Zhiheng Lu
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
062322 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Preparation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entangled states with multiple superconducting quantum-interference device qubits or atoms in cavity QED
Chui-Ping Yang and Siyuan Han
Published 29 December 2004 (7 pages)
062323 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Cavity QED quantum phase gates for a single longitudinal mode of the intracavity field
R. García-Maraver, R. Corbalán, K. Eckert, S. Rebić, M. Artoni, and J. Mompart
Published 30 December 2004 (6 pages)
062324 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Four-component and scalar relativistic Douglas-Kroll calculations for static dipole polarizabilities of the alkaline-earth-metal elements and their ions from Can to Ran (n=0,+1,+2)
Ivan S. Lim and Peter Schwerdtfeger
Published 13 December 2004 (13 pages)
062501 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Observation of the [1s2s](3,1S)nln′l′ 1P inner-shell doubly excited states of Ne by photoion yield spectroscopy
M. Oura, H. Yamaoka, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and F. Koike
Published 13 December 2004 (6 pages)
062502 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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2S hyperfine structure of atomic deuterium
N. Kolachevsky, P. Fendel, S. G. Karshenboim, and T. W. Hänsch
Published 14 December 2004 (6 pages)
062503 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Two-color phase-sensitive x-ray pump-probe spectroscopy
F. F. Guimarães, V. Kimberg, F. Gel’mukhanov, and H. Ågren
Published 14 December 2004 (9 pages)
062504 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Long-range–short-range separation of the electron-electron interaction in density-functional theory
Julien Toulouse, François Colonna, and Andreas Savin
Published 17 December 2004 (16 pages)
062505 [View PDF (193 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Wave-packet analysis of multichannel resonances in positron scattering by a helium ion
Nobuhiro Yamanaka, Yasushi Kino, and Atsushi Ichimura
Published 1 December 2004 (5 pages)
062701 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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(e,3e) process on a quantum dot
M. K. Srivastava
Published 1 December 2004 (7 pages)
062702 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Theory of electron-impact ionization of atoms
A. S. Kadyrov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, A. T. Stelbovics, and I. Bray
Published 2 December 2004 (21 pages)
062703 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of Fe XXII: Comparative study of relativistic R-matrix and distorted-wave approaches
M. F. Gu
Published 6 December 2004 (9 pages)
062704 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of the 3s3p 1Po state of Mg-like ions: S4+, Ar6+, and Ca8+
Takeshi Kai, Rajesh Srivastava, and Shinobu Nakazaki
Published 6 December 2004 (8 pages)
062705 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Theoretical investigations on the dynamical correlation in double excitations of helium by the R-matrix method
Zhen-sheng Yuan, Xiao-ying Han, Xiao-jing Liu, Lin-fan Zhu, Ke-zun Xu, Lan Voky, and Jia-ming Li
Published 6 December 2004 (12 pages)
062706 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Calculations for electron transitions on a three-dimensional lattice in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Oliver Busic, Norbert Grün, and Werner Scheid
Published 7 December 2004 (12 pages)
062707 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Strong nuclear force in cold antihydrogen-helium collisions
S. Jonsell, P. Froelich, S. Eriksson, and K. Strasburger
Published 10 December 2004 (6 pages)
062708 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Spin polarization of photoelectrons from 3d electrons of Xe, Cs, and Ba
M. Ya. Amusia, N. A. Cherepkov, L. V. Chernysheva, Z. Felfli, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
062709 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Photoassociation spectroscopy of cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms near the intercombination line
R. Ciuryło, E. Tiesinga, S. Kotochigova, and P. S. Julienne
Published 13 December 2004 (14 pages)
062710 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by OCS
M. H. F. Bettega, M. A. P. Lima, and L. G. Ferreira
Published 14 December 2004 (5 pages)
062711 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Hyperfine-changing collisions in an optically trapped gas of ultracold cesium and lithium
Marcel Mudrich, Stephan Kraft, Jörg Lange, Allard Mosk, Matthias Weidemüller, and Eite Tiesinga
Published 17 December 2004 (9 pages)
062712 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Influence of the electron binding energy in the distortion of the initial state in ion-atom collisions
M. F. Ciappina, W. R. Cravero, and C. R. Garibotti
Published 17 December 2004 (6 pages)
062713 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Scattering of low- to intermediate-energy positrons from molecular hydrogen
David D. Reid, William B. Klann, and J. M. Wadehra
Published 20 December 2004 (7 pages)
062714 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Experimental observation of initial-state effects in photo-double-ionization of Ne 2s
P. Bolognesi, R. Flammini, A. Kheifets, I. Bray, and L. Avaldi
Published 20 December 2004 (6 pages)
062715 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Ionization of water by (20–150)-keV protons: Separation of direct-ionization and electron-capture processes
F. Gobet, S. Eden, B. Coupier, J. Tabet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, M. Carré, S. Ouaskit, T. D. Märk, and P. Scheier
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
062716 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Secondary threshold laws for multiple ionization of atoms
G. F. Gribakin, S. Sahoo, and V. N. Ostrovsky
Published 23 December 2004 (6 pages)
062717 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Effects of multiple ionization and intrashell coupling in L-subshell ionization by heavy ions
Gregory Lapicki, G. A. V. Ramana Murty, G. J. Naga Raju, B. Seetharami Reddy, S. Bhuloka Reddy, and V. Vijayan
Published 28 December 2004 (13 pages)
062718 [View PDF (2,169 kB)]
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Eigenchannel method for nonrelativistic scattering from zero-range potentials
Radosław Szmytkowski and Marek Gruchowski
Published 28 December 2004 (10 pages)
062719 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Double-K-shell ionization of Mg and Si induced in collisions with C and Ne ions
M. Kobal, M. Kavčič, M. Budnar, J.-Cl. Dousse, Y.-P. Maillard, O. Mauron, P.-A. Raboud, and K. Tökési
Published 28 December 2004 (11 pages)
062720 [View PDF (894 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical and semiclassical study of the collinear three-body Coulomb problem: Inelastic collisions below the three-body disintegration threshold
Oleg I. Tolstikhin and Chusei Namba
Published 28 December 2004 (21 pages)
062721 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Femtosecond laser control of the angular distribution of electrons due to autoionization
M. L. Bajema, R. R. Jones, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 30 December 2004 (6 pages)
062722 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+
D. Nikolić, E. Lindroth, S. Kieslich, C. Brandau, S. Schippers, W. Shi, A. Müller, G. Gwinner, M. Schnell, and A. Wolf
Published 30 December 2004 (13 pages)
062723 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Symmetry- and multiplet-resolved N 1s photoionization cross sections of the NO2 molecule
N. Saito, D. Toffoli, R. R. Lucchese, M. Nagoshi, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, M. Oura, H. Yamaoka, M. Kitajima, H. Tanaka, U. Hergenhahn, and K. Ueda
Published 30 December 2004 (9 pages)
062724 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Image states in metal clusters
Patrick Rinke, Kris Delaney, P. García-González, and R. W. Godby
Published 15 December 2004 (5 pages)
063201 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Time ordering in kicked qubits
L. Kaplan, Kh. Kh. Shakov, A. Chalastaras, M. Maggio, A. L. Burin, and J. H. McGuire
Published 1 December 2004 (13 pages)
063401 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Dressed-atom description of the bichromatic force
Leonid Yatsenko and Harold Metcalf
Published 2 December 2004 (12 pages)
063402 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Atom trap and waveguide using a two-color evanescent light field around a subwavelength-diameter optical fiber
Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta
Published 7 December 2004 (9 pages)
063403 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Coherent transient in dressed-state and transient spectra of Autler-Townes doublet
Lianshui Zhang, Xiaomin Feng, Guangsheng Fu, Xiaowei Li, Li Han, Neil B. Manson, and Changjiang Wei
Published 8 December 2004 (8 pages)
063404 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Chaos-assisted adiabatic passage
Kyungsun Na and L. E. Reichl
Published 9 December 2004 (12 pages)
063405 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Coherent control of atomic quantum states by single frequency-chirped laser pulses
G. P. Djotyan, J. S. Bakos, Zs. Sörlei, and J. Szigeti
Published 10 December 2004 (7 pages)
063406 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Phase control of a two-photon transition with shaped femtosecond laser-pulse sequences
A. Präkelt, M. Wollenhaupt, C. Sarpe-Tudoran, and T. Baumert
Published 13 December 2004 (10 pages)
063407 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Diffraction by circular optical lattices
H. L. Haroutyunyan and G. Nienhuis
Published 14 December 2004 (8 pages)
063408 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Effect of dephasing on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
P. A. Ivanov, N. V. Vitanov, and K. Bergmann
Published 15 December 2004 (8 pages)
063409 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment of iodobenzene molecules
Emmanuel Péronne, Mikael D. Poulsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Christer Z. Bisgaard, Edward Hamilton, and Tamar Seideman
Published 15 December 2004 (9 pages)
063410 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Carrier-envelope phase effects for a dipolar molecule interacting with two-color pump-probe laser pulses
Taiwang Cheng and Alex Brown
Published 17 December 2004 (10 pages)
063411 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Optimally controlling the internal dynamics of a randomly oriented ensemble of molecules
Gabriel Turinici and Herschel Rabitz
Published 27 December 2004 (7 pages)
063412 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Narrow line cooling and momentum-space crystals
Thomas H. Loftus, Tetsuya Ido, Martin M. Boyd, Andrew D. Ludlow, and Jun Ye
Published 28 December 2004 (14 pages)
063413 [View PDF (1,566 kB)]
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Theoretical studies of high-power laser ionization of molecules in the tunneling region
K. Mishima, K. Nagaya, M. Hayashi, and S. H. Lin
Published 29 December 2004 (17 pages)
063414 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Matter waves

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Potential harmonics expansion method for trapped interacting bosons: Inclusion of two-body correlation
T. K. Das and B. Chakrabarti
Published 1 December 2004 (12 pages)
063601 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Conditions for one-dimensional supersonic flow of quantum gases
S. Giovanazzi, C. Farrell, T. Kiss, and U. Leonhardt
Published 6 December 2004 (6 pages)
063602 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Resonances for coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
H. L. Haroutyunyan and G. Nienhuis
Published 7 December 2004 (9 pages)
063603 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Spectral properties and lifetimes of neutral spin-1/2 fermions in a magnetic guide
Igor Lesanovsky and Peter Schmelcher
Published 7 December 2004 (11 pages)
063604 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates: From Rabi oscillations and quasiperiodic solutions to oscillating domain walls and spiral waves
B. Deconinck, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. E. Nistazakis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 8 December 2004 (6 pages)
063605 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Condensate-profile asymmetry of a boson mixture in a disk-shaped harmonic trap
Hong Ma and Tao Pang
Published 8 December 2004 (4 pages)
063606 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Experimental studies of equilibrium vortex properties in a Bose-condensed gas
I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell
Published 10 December 2004 (11 pages)
063607 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Influence of confining anisotropy on the unstable behavior of a Bose gas with attractive interaction
A. G. de Sousa, A. B. F. da Silva, G. C. Marques, and V. S. Bagnato
Published 10 December 2004 (7 pages)
063608 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Spin waves in ferromagnetically coupled spinor Bose gases
Qiang Gu, Kai Bongs, and Klaus Sengstock
Published 10 December 2004 (5 pages)
063609 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Spin-1 bosons with coupled ground states in optical lattices
K. V. Krutitsky and R. Graham
Published 13 December 2004 (10 pages)
063610 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Three-dimensional solitons in coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
T. G. Vaughan, K. V. Kheruntsyan, and P. D. Drummond
Published 14 December 2004 (14 pages)
063611 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Limits to phase resolution in matter-wave interferometry
M. Jääskeläinen, W. Zhang, and P. Meystre
Published 14 December 2004 (9 pages)
063612 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Kohn’s theorem in a superfluid Fermi gas with a Feshbach resonance
Y. Ohashi
Published 15 December 2004 (13 pages)
063613 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Optimal cooling strategies for magnetically trapped atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures
Michael Brown-Hayes and Roberto Onofrio
Published 15 December 2004 (6 pages)
063614 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Quantum simulation of cosmic inflation in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Uwe R. Fischer and Ralf Schützhold
Published 16 December 2004 (8 pages)
063615 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Quantum dark soliton: Nonperturbative diffusion of phase and position
J. Dziarmaga
Published 20 December 2004 (6 pages)
063616 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Aspects of hyperspherical adiabaticity in an atomic-gas Bose-Einstein condensate
Daisuke Kushibe, Masaki Mutou, Toru Morishita, Shinichi Watanabe, and Michio Matsuzawa
Published 20 December 2004 (11 pages)
063617 [View PDF (661 kB)]
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Imperfect Fermi gas: Kinetic and interaction energies
A. A. Shanenko
Published 21 December 2004 (13 pages)
063618 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Piecewise analytic approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates in isotropic harmonic traps
Stavros Theodorakis
Published 23 December 2004 (10 pages)
063619 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Vortices in spatially inhomogeneous superfluids
Daniel E. Sheehy and Leo Radzihovsky
Published 27 December 2004 (19 pages)
063620 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Critical behavior of weakly interacting bosons: A functional renormalization-group approach
Nils Hasselmann, Sascha Ledowski, and Peter Kopietz
Published 30 December 2004 (22 pages)
063621 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Correlation functions of cold bosons in an optical lattice
Radka Bach and Kazimierz Rzążewski
Published 30 December 2004 (8 pages)
063622 [View PDF (286 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Engineering quantum pure states of a trapped cold ion beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit
L. F. Wei, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori
Published 1 December 2004 (9 pages)
063801 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Strong-field multifrequency electromagnetically induced transparency
Enrique Conejero Jarque and Luis Roso
Published 8 December 2004 (5 pages)
063802 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Frequency-chirped readout of spatial-spectral absorption features
Tiejun Chang, R. Krishna Mohan, Mingzhen Tian, Todd L. Harris, Wm. Randall Babbitt, and Kristian D. Merkel
Published 8 December 2004 (13 pages)
063803 [View PDF (971 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic effects of atomic motion inside a high-Q optical cavity
P. Zhang, Y. Li, C. P. Sun, and L. You
Published 8 December 2004 (13 pages)
063804 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Spontaneous improvement of spatial coherence and frequency locking in high-pump-power multimode lasers
F. Papoff and G. D’Alessandro
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
063805 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Theory of two-photon interference in an electromagnetically induced transparency system
Jianming Wen and Morton H. Rubin
Published 13 December 2004 (6 pages)
063806 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Polarizability tensor and Kramers-Heisenberg induction
C. M. J. Wijers
Published 13 December 2004 (11 pages)
063807 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Pattern formation in large-aspect-ratio single-mode inhomogeneously broadened lasers
Eduardo Cabrera, Oscar G. Calderón, and J. M. Guerra
Published 14 December 2004 (11 pages)
063808 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Photon-echo quantum memory with efficient multipulse readings
S. A. Moiseev and B. S. Ham
Published 15 December 2004 (16 pages)
063809 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Modeling of photon density dynamics in random lasers
M. A. Noginov, J. Novak, and S. Williams
Published 16 December 2004 (5 pages)
063810 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Ghost interference with an optical parametric amplifier
Sulakshana Thanvanthri and Morton H. Rubin
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
063811 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Ultraviolet single-photons on demand and entanglement of photons with a large frequency difference
Ying Wu, M. G. Payne, E. W. Hagley, and L. Deng
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
063812 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Propagation dynamics of a temporally, amplitude- and group-velocity-matched two-mode ultraslow wave in a three-level Λ system
L. Deng, M. G. Payne, and E. W. Hagley
Published 22 December 2004 (8 pages)
063813 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Efficient parametric amplification in double-Λ systems without maximal two-photon coherence
H. Shpaisman, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, and H. Friedmann
Published 22 December 2004 (8 pages)
063814 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission in a subwavelength environment characterized by boundary integral equations
L. Rogobete and C. Henkel
Published 22 December 2004 (10 pages)
063815 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Nonclassical imaging for a quantum search of trapped ions
G. S. Agarwal, G. O. Ariunbold, J. von Zanthier, and H. Walther
Published 27 December 2004 (4 pages)
063816 [View PDF (811 kB)]
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Quantum correlations in bound-soliton pairs and trains in fiber lasers
Ray-Kuang Lee, Yinchieh Lai, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 30 December 2004 (4 pages)
063817 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Angular dependence of an electromagnetically induced transparency resonance in a Doppler-broadened atomic vapor
P. R. S. Carvalho, Luís E. E. de Araujo, and J. W. R. Tabosa
Published 30 December 2004 (5 pages)
063818 [View PDF (74 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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α dependence of transition frequencies for some ions of Ti, Mn, Na, C, and O and the search for variation of the fine-structure constant
J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and M. V. Marchenko
Published 21 December 2004 (4 pages)
064101 [View PDF (44 kB)]

Quantum information

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Motional entanglement for two trapped ions in cascaded optical cavities
Gao-xiang Li, Hua-tang Tan, and Shao-ping Wu
Published 21 December 2004 (4 pages)
064301 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Quantum-mechanical study of ionization in slow collisions of antiprotons with hydrogen atoms
Kazuhiro Sakimoto
Published 23 December 2004 (3 pages)
064501 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Symmetrized complex amplitudes for He double photoionization from the time-dependent close-coupling and exterior complex scaling methods
D. A. Horner, J. Colgan, F. Martín, C. W. McCurdy, M. S. Pindzola, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 9 December 2004 (4 pages)
064701 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Adiabatic Bohr-Sommerfeld calculations for the hydrogenic Stark effect
David Byrd and David Mitchell
Published 15 December 2004 (4 pages)
065401 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Dynamical medium depletion in high-order above-threshold ionization with few-cycle laser pulses
C. Altucci, V. Tosa, R. Velotta, and C. H. Nam
Published 28 December 2004 (3 pages)
065402 [View PDF (321 kB)]

Matter waves

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Theory of a compound large-angle atom beam splitter. II. Initial state deflection
A. Zh. Muradyan, G. A. Muradyan, and P. R. Berman
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
065601 [View PDF (128 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Effect of the Casimir-Polder force on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate [Phys. Rev. A 70, 053619 (2004)]
Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari
Published 13 December 2004 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum error correction against correlated noise [Phys. Rev. A 69, 062313 (2004)]
James P. Clemens, Shabnam Siddiqui, and Julio Gea-Banacloche
Published 20 December 2004 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Electron-impact excitation of the 3s3p 1Po state of Mg-like ions: S4+, Ar6+, and Ca8+ [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062705 (2004)]
Takeshi Kai, Rajesh Srivastava, and Shinobu Nakazaki
Published 23 December 2004 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Engineering quantum pure states of a trapped cold ion beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit [Phys. Rev. A 70, 063801 (2004)]
L. F. Wei, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori
Published 23 December 2004 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
 
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