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Physical Review A – February 2005
Volume 71, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Completely positive post-Markovian master equation via a measurement approach
A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (93 kB)]

Quantum information

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Proposed experiment for the quantum “Guess My Number” protocol
Adán Cabello and Antonio J. López-Tarrida
Published 4 February 2005 (4 pages)
020301(R) [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Compensation of decoherence from telegraph noise by means of an open-loop quantum-control technique
Henryk Gutmann, Frank K. Wilhelm, William M. Kaminsky, and Seth Lloyd
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
020302(R) [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Selective coherence transfers in homonuclear dipolar coupled spin systems
Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Suddhasattwa Sinha, Jonathan Baugh, Timothy F. Havel, and David G. Cory
Published 25 February 2005 (4 pages)
020303(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Classical calculation of the lifetimes and branching ratios for radiative decays of hydrogenic atoms
M. W. Horbatsch, E. A. Hessels, and M. Horbatsch
Published 10 February 2005 (4 pages)
020501(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Configuration-interaction-induced dynamic spin polarization of the Ar*(2p1∕2,3∕2−14s1∕2)J=1 resonant Auger decay
B. Lohmann, B. Langer, G. Snell, U. Kleiman, S. Canton, M. Martins, U. Becker, and N. Berrah
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (237 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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High-density mesoscopic atom clouds in a holographic atom trap
J. Sebby-Strabley, R. T. R. Newell, J. O. Day, E. Brekke, and T. G. Walker
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
021401(R) [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Low-order above-threshold ionization in intense few-cycle laser pulses
C. C. Chirilă and R. M. Potvliege
Published 11 February 2005 (4 pages)
021402(R) [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Coulomb explosion of N2 using intense 10- and 40-fs laser pulses
E. Baldit, S. Saugout, and C. Cornaggia
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
021403(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Channel competition between metastable and dissociated states of doubly ionized NO in strong laser fields
Chunlei Guo and Kevin Wright
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
021404(R) [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Observation of selective charge separation following strong-field single ionization
Chunlei Guo
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
021405(R) [View PDF (266 kB)]

Matter waves

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Inelastic light scattering from a Mott insulator
D. van Oosten, D. B. M. Dickerscheid, B. Farid, P. van der Straten, and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 1 February 2005 (4 pages)
021601(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Linear optical extraction of photon-number Fock states from coherent states
Kaoru Sanaka
Published 4 February 2005 (4 pages)
021801(R) [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Phase measurement at the Heisenberg limit with three photons
Haibo Wang and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
021802(R) [View PDF (101 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Nonlocal correlations as an information-theoretic resource
Jonathan Barrett, Noah Linden, Serge Massar, Stefano Pironio, Sandu Popescu, and David Roberts
Published 2 February 2005 (11 pages)
022101 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Macroscopic observables
David Poulin
Published 7 February 2005 (16 pages)
022102 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Bell’s inequality violation with non-negative Wigner functions
M. Revzen, P. A. Mello, A. Mann, and L. M. Johansen
Published 10 February 2005 (11 pages)
022103 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Construction of coherent states for physical algebraic systems
Y. Hassouni, E. M. F. Curado, and M. A. Rego-Monteiro
Published 11 February 2005 (7 pages)
022104 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Loophole-free test of quantum nonlocality using high-efficiency homodyne detectors
Raúl García-Patrón, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 11 February 2005 (14 pages)
022105 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Alternative perspective on quantum tunneling and instantons
F. Paradis, H. Kröger, G. Melkonyan, and K. J. M. Moriarty
Published 16 February 2005 (9 pages)
022106 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Effect of intersubsystem couplings on the evolution of composite systems
X. X. Yi, H. T. Cui, Y. H. Lin, and H. S. Song
Published 17 February 2005 (5 pages)
022107 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Renormalization of the singular attractive 1∕r4 potential
M. Alberg, M. Bawin, and F. Brau
Published 17 February 2005 (6 pages)
022108 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Non-Markovian qubit dynamics in a thermal field bath: Relaxation, decoherence, and entanglement
S. Shresta, C. Anastopoulos, A. Dragulescu, and B. L. Hu
Published 22 February 2005 (10 pages)
022109 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Continuous multipartite entangled state in Wigner representation and violation of the Żukowski-Brukner inequality
Chunfeng Wu, Jing-Ling Chen, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Oh, and Kang Xue
Published 25 February 2005 (5 pages)
022110 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum-state transmission via a spin ladder as a robust data bus
Ying Li, Tao Shi, Bing Chen, Zhi Song, and Chang-Pu Sun
Published 3 February 2005 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Control of decoherence: Analysis and comparison of three different strategies
P. Facchi, S. Tasaki, S. Pascazio, H. Nakazato, A. Tokuse, and D. A. Lidar
Published 8 February 2005 (22 pages)
022302 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Numerical analysis of boosting scheme for scalable NMR quantum computation
Akira SaiToh and Masahiro Kitagawa
Published 8 February 2005 (13 pages)
022303 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Numerical analysis of capacities for two-qubit unitary operations
Dominic W. Berry and Barry C. Sanders
Published 10 February 2005 (11 pages)
022304 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Efficiency of deterministic entanglement transformation
Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng, Zhengfeng Ji, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 10 February 2005 (6 pages)
022305 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Detecting two-party quantum correlations in quantum-key-distribution protocols
Marcos Curty, Otfried Gühne, Maciej Lewenstein, and Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published 11 February 2005 (12 pages)
022306 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Complementarity and quantum walks
Viv Kendon and Barry C. Sanders
Published 14 February 2005 (7 pages)
022307 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Thermal entanglement of spins in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
M. Asoudeh and V. Karimipour
Published 14 February 2005 (6 pages)
022308 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Encoding a logical qubit into physical qubits
B. Zeng, D. L. Zhou, Z. Xu, C. P. Sun, and L. You
Published 14 February 2005 (5 pages)
022309 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Invariants of the local Clifford group
Maarten Van den Nest, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor
Published 16 February 2005 (9 pages)
022310 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Vibrational coherent quantum computation
M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and P. L. Knight
Published 17 February 2005 (12 pages)
022311 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Basis states for relativistic dynamically entangled particles
N. L. Harshman
Published 18 February 2005 (8 pages)
022312 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Effects of mode coupling on the generation of quadrature Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in a type-II optical parametric oscillator below threshold
J. Laurat, T. Coudreau, G. Keller, N. Treps, and C. Fabre
Published 18 February 2005 (10 pages)
022313 [View PDF (989 kB)]
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Entanglement swapping of two-mode Gaussian states in a thermal environment
Hong-rong Li, Fu-li Li, Yang Yang, and Qian Zhang
Published 18 February 2005 (7 pages)
022314 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Bipartite entanglement and entropic boundary law in lattice spin systems
Alioscia Hamma, Radu Ionicioiu, and Paolo Zanardi
Published 22 February 2005 (10 pages)
022315 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Universal quantum computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas
Sergey Bravyi and Alexei Kitaev
Published 22 February 2005 (14 pages)
022316 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Effects of dynamical phases in Shor’s factoring algorithm with operational delays
L. F. Wei, Xiao Li, Xuedong Hu, and Franco Nori
Published 22 February 2005 (8 pages)
022317 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Implementation of projective measurements with linear optics and continuous photon counting
Masahiro Takeoka, Masahide Sasaki, Peter van Loock, and Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published 23 February 2005 (10 pages)
022318 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Optimal partial deterministic quantum teleportation of qubits
Ladislav Mišta, Jr. and Radim Filip
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
022319 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Indistinguishability of entangled photons generated with achromatic phase matching
Juan P. Torres, Morgan W. Mitchell, and Martin Hendrych
Published 28 February 2005 (5 pages)
022320 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Quantum secret sharing using product states
Li-Yi Hsu and Che-Ming Li
Published 28 February 2005 (9 pages)
022321 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Suboptimal quantum-error-correcting procedure based on semidefinite programming
Naoki Yamamoto, Shinji Hara, and Koji Tsumura
Published 28 February 2005 (6 pages)
022322 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Constraints on dephasing widths and shifts in three-level quantum systems
P. R. Berman and Ross C. O’Connell
Published 2 February 2005 (5 pages)
022501 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Minimal parametrization of an n-electron state
Werner Kutzelnigg and Debashis Mukherjee
Published 7 February 2005 (18 pages)
022502 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Calculation of radiative corrections to E1 matrix elements in the neutral alkali metals
J. Sapirstein and K. T. Cheng
Published 11 February 2005 (6 pages)
022503 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Magnetically bound states of electronic and positronic hydrogen ions: The case of zero orbital angular momentum
Daniel H. E. Dubin
Published 14 February 2005 (9 pages)
022504 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Method of the reduced-added Green function in the calculation of atomic polarizabilities
V. E. Chernov, D. L. Dorofeev, I. Yu. Kretinin, and B. A. Zon
Published 15 February 2005 (11 pages)
022505 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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2S Hyperfine splitting of muonic hydrogen
A. P. Martynenko
Published 16 February 2005 (11 pages)
022506 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Muon transfer from muonic hydrogen to atomic oxygen and nitrogen
Anh-Thu Le and C. D. Lin
Published 17 February 2005 (7 pages)
022507 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Quasiparticle energies for large molecules: A tight-binding-based Green’s-function approach
T. A. Niehaus, M. Rohlfing, F. Della Sala, A. Di Carlo, and Th. Frauenheim
Published 22 February 2005 (10 pages)
022508 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Angular correlations in the two-photon decay of hydrogenlike ions: Relativistic Green’s-function approach
Andrey Surzhykov, Peter Koval, and Stephan Fritzsche
Published 24 February 2005 (7 pages)
022509 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Determination of dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of Ba+ by measurement of the fine structure of high-L n=9 and 10 Rydberg states of barium
E. L. Snow, M. A. Gearba, R. A. Komara, S. R. Lundeen, and W. G. Sturrus
Published 25 February 2005 (14 pages)
022510 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Hybrid density-functional theory calculations of near-edge x-ray absorption fine-structure spectra: Applications on benzonitrile in gas phase
Stéphane Carniato, Vita Ilakovac, Jean-Jacques Gallet, Edwin Kukk, and Yi Luo
Published 25 February 2005 (11 pages)
022511 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Dipole transition-matrix elements of the one-electron heterodiatomic quasimolecules
A. Devdariani, T. M. Kereselidze, I. L. Noselidze, E. Dalimier, P. Sauvan, P. Angelo, and R. Schott
Published 28 February 2005 (12 pages)
022512 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Spin-dependent localized Hartree-Fock density-functional calculation of singly, doubly, and triply excited and Rydberg states of He- and Li-like ions
Zhongyuan Zhou and Shih-I Chu
Published 28 February 2005 (13 pages)
022513 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Ionization and positronium formation in noble gases
J. P. Marler, J. P. Sullivan, and C. M. Surko
Published 2 February 2005 (10 pages)
022701 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Electron correlation during photoionization and relaxation of potassium and argon after K-shell photoexcitation
Marcus P. Hertlein, Hidehito Adaniya, Kyra Cole, Benedict Feinberg, Jason Maddi, Michael H. Prior, Ralf Schriel, and Ali Belkacem
Published 4 February 2005 (7 pages)
022702 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Transmission, reflection, and resonance formation in one-dimensional systems
O. Kidun, N. Fominykh, and J. Berakdar
Published 4 February 2005 (7 pages)
022703 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Single-center model for double photoionization of the H2 molecule
A. S. Kheifets
Published 7 February 2005 (8 pages)
022704 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Charge exchange and dissociative processes in collisions of slow He2+ ions with H2O molecules
B. Seredyuk, R. W. McCullough, H. Tawara, H B Gilbody, D. Bodewits, R. Hoekstra, A. G. G. M. Tielens, P. Sobocinski, D. Pesic, R. Hellhammer, B. Sulik, N. Stolterfoht, O. Abu-Haija, and E. Y. Kamber
Published 10 February 2005 (7 pages)
022705 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Ultracold collisions of fermionic OD radicals
A. V. Avdeenkov and John L. Bohn
Published 11 February 2005 (6 pages)
022706 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Description of the lowest-energy surface of the CH+O system: Interpolation of ab initio configuration-interaction total energies by a tight-binding Hamiltonian
N. C. Bacalis, A. Metropoulos, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos
Published 11 February 2005 (10 pages)
022707 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical and semiclassical study of the collinear three-body Coulomb problem: Resonances
George V. Sitnikov and Oleg I. Tolstikhin
Published 14 February 2005 (12 pages)
022708 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Influence of magnetic fields on cold collisions of polar molecules
Christopher Ticknor and John L. Bohn
Published 16 February 2005 (10 pages)
022709 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Complex energy shift and background phase shift for simulated electron-molecular shape resonances
G. A. Gallup
Published 17 February 2005 (14 pages)
022710 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Rubidium dimer destruction by a diode laser
T. Ban, D. Aumiler, and G. Pichler
Published 18 February 2005 (6 pages)
022711 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Elastic scattering, vibrational excitation, and attachment in low-energy electron-SF6 scattering: Experiment and effective range theory
Ilya I. Fabrikant, Hartmut Hotop, and Michael Allan
Published 18 February 2005 (10 pages)
022712 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Collision mechanisms in one-electron capture by He2+ ions in collisions with hydrocarbons
B. Seredyuk, R. W. McCullough, and H. B. Gilbody
Published 18 February 2005 (5 pages)
022713 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Levinson theorem for Dirac particles in n dimensions
Yu Jiang
Published 18 February 2005 (5 pages)
022714 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Effects of electron correlation on the decay process following 3p photoionization in atomic manganese
A. Penttilä, S. Heinäsmäki, M. Harkoma, S. Fritzsche, R. Sankari, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela
Published 22 February 2005 (5 pages)
022715 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Benchmark calculations for electron collisions with zinc atoms
Oleg Zatsarinny and Klaus Bartschat
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
022716 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Autler-Townes effect in a sodium molecular-ladder scheme
Ruth Garcia-Fernandez, Aigars Ekers, Janis Klavins, Leonid P. Yatsenko, Nikolai N. Bezuglov, Bruce W. Shore, and Klaas Bergmann
Published 1 February 2005 (10 pages)
023401 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Control of polarized iodine atom branching ratio in NaI photodissociation
Babak H. Hosseini, H. R. Sadeghpour, and N. Balakrishnan
Published 2 February 2005 (7 pages)
023402 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Floquet representation of absolute phase and pulse-shape effects on laser-driven molecular photodissociation
T. T. Nguyen-Dang, C. Lefebvre, H. Abou-Rachid, and O. Atabek
Published 9 February 2005 (12 pages)
023403 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Observation of large atomic-recoil-induced asymmetries in cold atom spectroscopy
C. W. Oates, G. Wilpers, and L. Hollberg
Published 10 February 2005 (6 pages)
023404 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Effects of spin-exchange collisions in a high-density alkali-metal vapor in low magnetic fields
I. M. Savukov and M. V. Romalis
Published 10 February 2005 (8 pages)
023405 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Stability of a Penning trap with a quadrupole rotating electric field
T. Hasegawa, M. J. Jensen, and J. J. Bollinger
Published 11 February 2005 (6 pages)
023406 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Multiphoton ionization of He by using intense high-order harmonics in the soft-x-ray region
Hirokazu Hasegawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, Yasuo Nabekawa, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, and Katsumi Midorikawa
Published 14 February 2005 (5 pages)
023407 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Coherence measurements on Rydberg wave packets kicked by a half-cycle pulse
J. M. Murray, S. N. Pisharody, H. Wen, and P. H. Bucksbaum
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
023408 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Single-atom detection of calcium isotopes by atom-trap trace analysis
S. Hoekstra, A. K. Mollema, R. Morgenstern, H. W. Wilschut, and R. Hoekstra
Published 16 February 2005 (8 pages)
023409 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Long-wavelength approximation in on- and off-resonance transitions
Yannis Komninos, Theodoros Mercouris, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
023410 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Strong-field ionization of diatomic molecules and companion atoms: Strong-field approximation and tunneling theory including nuclear motion
Thomas Kim Kjeldsen and Lars Bojer Madsen
Published 24 February 2005 (10 pages)
023411 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Matter waves

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Influence of molecular temperature on the coherence of fullerenes in a near-field interferometer
Klaus Hornberger, Lucia Hackermüller, and Markus Arndt
Published 3 February 2005 (10 pages)
023601 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation and symmetry breaking
András Sütő
Published 7 February 2005 (8 pages)
023602 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Ramsey interferometry with atoms and molecules: Two-body versus many-body phenomena
Krzysztof Góral, Thorsten Köhler, and Keith Burnett
Published 9 February 2005 (21 pages)
023603 [View PDF (1,215 kB)]
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Collapse and revival of excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates
M. Möttönen, S. M. M. Virtanen, and M. M. Salomaa
Published 10 February 2005 (8 pages)
023604 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of a two-dimensional Bose gas
S. Pilati, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, and S. Giorgini
Published 11 February 2005 (5 pages)
023605 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Static properties of positive ions in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
P. Massignan, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith
Published 14 February 2005 (8 pages)
023606 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Energy barrier for collapse in a pair of tunnel-coupled condensates with scattering lengths of opposite signs
Valery S. Shchesnovich and Solange B. Cavalcanti
Published 15 February 2005 (6 pages)
023607 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Phase-contrast tomography with low-intensity beams
J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, M. Zawisky, U. Bonse, and F. Dubus
Published 16 February 2005 (6 pages)
023608 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Pair wave functions in atomic Fermi condensates
A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn
Published 24 February 2005 (5 pages)
023609 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Bose-Hubbard model with attractive interactions
Michael W. Jack and Makoto Yamashita
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
023610 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Vortex patterns in a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Amandine Aftalion, Xavier Blanc, and Jean Dalibard
Published 25 February 2005 (11 pages)
023611 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Dispersion control for matter waves and gap solitons in optical superlattices
Pearl J. Y. Louis, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 25 February 2005 (8 pages)
023612 [View PDF (906 kB)]
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Center-of-mass rotation and vortices in an attractive Bose gas
A. Collin, E. Lundh, and K.-A. Suominen
Published 25 February 2005 (8 pages)
023613 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Statics, dynamics, and manipulations of bright matter-wave solitons in optical lattices
P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, R. Carretero-González, B. A. Malomed, G. Herring, and A. R. Bishop
Published 28 February 2005 (8 pages)
023614 [View PDF (742 kB)]
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Quantum phase-space picture of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double well
Khan W. Mahmud, Heidi Perry, and William P. Reinhardt
Published 28 February 2005 (17 pages)
023615 [View PDF (1,790 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Maximum time delay achievable on propagation through a slow-light medium
Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier, Alexander L. Gaeta, and Alan E. Willner
Published 1 February 2005 (4 pages)
023801 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Coherent laser control in attosecond sum-frequency polarization beats using twin noisy driving fields
Yanpeng Zhang, Chenli Gan, Jianping Song, Xiaojun Yu, Ruiqiong Ma, Hao Ge, Chuangshe Li, and Keqing Lu
Published 2 February 2005 (23 pages)
023802 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Deterministic quantum logic with photons via optically induced photonic band gaps
Inbal Friedler, Gershon Kurizki, and David Petrosyan
Published 2 February 2005 (8 pages)
023803 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Propagation of nuclear polaritons through a two-target system: Effect of inversion of targets
G. V. Smirnov, U. van Bürck, W. Potzel, P. Schindelmann, S. L. Popov, E. Gerdau, Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, H. D. Rüter, and O. Leupold
Published 4 February 2005 (15 pages)
023804 [View PDF (708 kB)]
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Atom-photon, atom-atom, and photon-photon entanglement preparation by fractional adiabatic passage
M. Amniat-Talab, S. Guérin, N. Sangouard, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 10 February 2005 (7 pages)
023805 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Adiabatic pulse propagation in coherent atomic media with the tripod level configuration
I. E. Mazets
Published 10 February 2005 (7 pages)
023806 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Photon statistics of light fields based on single-photon-counting modules
G. Li, T. C. Zhang, Y. Li, and J. M. Wang
Published 11 February 2005 (6 pages)
023807 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Scalar and vector modulation instabilities induced by vacuum fluctuations in fibers: Numerical study
E. Brainis, D. Amans, and S. Massar
Published 14 February 2005 (13 pages)
023808 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Macroscopic quantum fluctuations of pulsed nanosecond optical parametric generation in periodically-poled LiNbO3
Yiyi Guan, Joseph W. Haus, and Peter Powers
Published 15 February 2005 (9 pages)
023809 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Quantum polarization for three-dimensional fields via Stokes operators
Alfredo Luis
Published 17 February 2005 (7 pages)
023810 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Combining Jaynes-Cummings and anti-Jaynes-Cummings dynamics in a trapped-ion system driven by a laser
B. M. Rodríguez-Lara, H. Moya-Cessa, and A. B. Klimov
Published 24 February 2005 (6 pages)
023811 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Two-level system immersed in a photonic band-gap material: A non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger-equation approach
Inés de Vega, Daniel Alonso, and Pierre Gaspard
Published 24 February 2005 (15 pages)
023812 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Chirp of the single attosecond pulse generated by a polarization gating
Zenghu Chang
Published 28 February 2005 (6 pages)
023813 [View PDF (86 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Testing quantum superpositions of the gravitational field with Bose-Einstein condensates
Netanel H. Lindner and Asher Peres
Published 7 February 2005 (2 pages)
024101 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Relativistic spectral comparison theorem in two dimensions
Gang Chen
Published 17 February 2005 (3 pages)
024102 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Effect of antibound states in single barrier tunneling
Gastón García-Calderón and Jorge Villavicencio
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
024103 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Quantum information

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Maximally entangled mixed states and conditional entropies
J. Batle, M. Casas, A. Plastino, and A. R. Plastino
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
024301 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Unexpected properties of a density functional
J. Karwowski and M. Stanke
Published 10 February 2005 (4 pages)
024501 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Mass-symmetry breaking in three-body ions
Vladimir Korobov and J.-M. Richard
Published 22 February 2005 (4 pages)
024502 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Generalized time-dependent density-functional-theory response functions for spontaneous density fluctuations and nonlinear response: Resolving the causality paradox in real time
Shaul Mukamel
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
024503 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Observation of small long-lived diatomic dications BeH2+ and BeD2+
Klaus Franzreb, Richard C. Sobers, Jr., Jan Lörinčik, and Peter Williams
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
024701 [View PDF (56 kB)]

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

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Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
G. A. Bocan and J. E. Miraglia
Published 23 February 2005 (3 pages)
024901 [View PDF (44 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Theoretical infrared, Raman, and optical spectra of the B36N36 cage
Rajendra R. Zope, Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson, and Brett I. Dunlap
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
025201 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Matter waves

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Nonlinear dynamics of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice
Zheng-Wei Xie, Ze-Xian Cao, E. I. Kats, and W. M. Liu
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
025601 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Magnetic trapping of an atomic 55Mn-52Cr mixture
S. V. Nguyen, J. S. Helton, K. Maussang, W. Ketterle, and John M. Doyle
Published 18 February 2005 (3 pages)
025602 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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An effective quasi-one-dimensional description of a spin-1 atomic condensate
Wenxian Zhang and L. You
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
025603 [View PDF (201 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum tunneling time”
G. E. Hahne
Published 2 February 2005 (2 pages)
026101 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Comment on “Separability of quantum states and the violation of Bell-type inequalities”
Christoph Simon
Published 22 February 2005 (1 page)
026102 [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Comment on “Appearance and disappearance of the second Born effects in the (e,3e) reaction on He”
A. Lahmam-Bennani, F. Catoire, A. Duguet, and C. Dal Cappello
Published 22 February 2005 (3 pages)
026701 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Appearance and disappearance of the second Born effects in the (e,3e) reaction on He’ ”
A. Dorn, A. Kheifets, C. D. Schröter, C. Höhr, G. Sakhelashvili, R. Moshammer, J. Lower, and J. Ullrich
Published 22 February 2005 (3 pages)
026702 [View PDF (174 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Breakdown of hydrodynamics in the radial-breathing mode of a strongly interacting Fermi gas [Phys. Rev. A 70, 051401 (2004)]
J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas
Published 14 February 2005 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Erratum: Dielectronic recombination for oxygenlike ions relevant to astrophysical applications [Phys. Rev. A 66, 052715 (2002)]
M. H. Chen
Published 15 February 2005 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Nonlinear-resonance line shapes: Dependence on the transverse intensity distribution of a light beam [Phy. Rev. A 69, 024501 (2004)]
A. V. Taĭchenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, V. I. Yudin, M. Stähler, R. Wynands, J. Kitching, and L. Hollberg
Published 16 February 2005 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Erratum: Exact surface impedance formulation of the Casimir force: Application to spatially dispersive metals [Phys. Rev. A 68, 052103 (2003)]
Raul Esquivel, Carlos Villarreal, and W. Luis Mochán
Published 17 February 2005 (1 page)
029904(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
 
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