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Physical Review A – March 2005
Volume 71, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

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Simple experimental scheme of preparing a four-photon entangled state for the teleportation-based realization of a linear optical controlled-NOT gate
Yuuki Tokunaga, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 25 March 2005 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Reexamination of entanglement and the quantum phase transition
Min-Fong Yang
Published 28 March 2005 (4 pages)
030302(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Optical tuning of the scattering length of cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms
R. Ciuryło, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne
Published 25 March 2005 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (77 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Surface-plasma resonance in small rare-gas clusters by mixing ir and vuv laser pulses
Christian Siedschlag and Jan M. Rost
Published 4 March 2005 (4 pages)
031401(R) [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Evaporative cooling of magnetically trapped atomic molybdenum
Cindy I. Hancox, Matthew T. Hummon, Scott V. Nguyen, and John M. Doyle
Published 11 March 2005 (3 pages)
031402(R) [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Effects of orbital symmetries in dissociative ionization of molecules by few-cycle laser pulses
A. S. Alnaser, C. M. Maharjan, X. M. Tong, B. Ulrich, P. Ranitovic, B. Shan, Z. Chang, C. D. Lin, C. L. Cocke, and I. V. Litvinyuk
Published 11 March 2005 (4 pages)
031403(R) [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Adiabatic quantum state manipulation of single trapped atoms
M. Khudaverdyan, W. Alt, I. Dotsenko, L. Förster, S. Kuhr, D. Meschede, Y. Miroshnychenko, D. Schrader, and A. Rauschenbeutel
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
031404(R) [View PDF (277 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Quasirelativistic quasilocal finite wave-function collapse model
Philip Pearle
Published 4 March 2005 (8 pages)
032101 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Steering distillation processes through quantum Zeno dynamics
B. Militello, H. Nakazato, and A. Messina
Published 8 March 2005 (7 pages)
032102 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Generation of entanglement in regular systems
Marko Žnidarič and Tomaž Prosen
Published 11 March 2005 (4 pages)
032103 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Detailed discussion of a linear electric field frequency shift induced in confined gases by a magnetic field gradient: Implications for neutron electric-dipole-moment experiments
S. K. Lamoreaux and R. Golub
Published 14 March 2005 (10 pages)
032104 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Pseudorelativistic operator for a two-electron ion
D. H. Jakubaßa-Amundsen
Published 14 March 2005 (8 pages)
032105 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Kinematic approach to off-diagonal geometric phases of nondegenerate and degenerate mixed states
D. M. Tong, Erik Sjöqvist, Stefan Filipp, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh
Published 15 March 2005 (6 pages)
032106 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Multicomponent Bell inequality and its violation for continuous-variable systems
Jing-Ling Chen, Chunfeng Wu, L. C. Kwek, D. Kaszlikowski, M. Żukowski, and C. H. Oh
Published 22 March 2005 (5 pages)
032107 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Dynamics of an atomic electron and its electromagnetic field in a cavity
D. Masiello, E. Deumens, and Y. Öhrn
Published 31 March 2005 (12 pages)
032108 [View PDF (370 kB)]

Quantum information

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Quantum key distribution using a series of quantum correlated photon pairs
Kyo Inoue
Published 3 March 2005 (6 pages)
032301 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Nonlinear mechanism of charge-qubit decoherence in a lossy cavity: Quasi-normal-mode approach
Y. B. Gao, Y. D. Wang, and C. P. Sun
Published 7 March 2005 (7 pages)
032302 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Quantum teleportation of an arbitrary two-qubit state and its relation to multipartite entanglement
Gustavo Rigolin
Published 7 March 2005 (5 pages)
032303 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Witnessing entanglement with second-order interference
Magdalena Stobińska and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
Published 8 March 2005 (9 pages)
032304 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Coherent-state linear optical quantum computing gates using simplified diagonal superposition resource states
A. P. Lund and T. C. Ralph
Published 8 March 2005 (9 pages)
032305 [View PDF (926 kB)]
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Probabilistic programmable quantum processors with multiple copies of program states
Adam Brazier, Vladimír Bužek, and Peter L. Knight
Published 9 March 2005 (7 pages)
032306 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Experimental demonstration of a quantum circuit using linear optics gates
T. B. Pittman, B. C. Jacobs, and J. D. Franson
Published 10 March 2005 (4 pages)
032307 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Generating a four-photon polarization-entangled cluster state
XuBo Zou and W. Mathis
Published 10 March 2005 (4 pages)
032308 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Quantum-state transfer via the ferromagnetic chain in a spatially modulated field
Tao Shi, Ying Li, Zhi Song, and Chang-Pu Sun
Published 11 March 2005 (5 pages)
032309 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Perfect state transfer, effective gates, and entanglement generation in engineered bosonic and fermionic networks
Man-Hong Yung and Sougato Bose
Published 14 March 2005 (6 pages)
032310 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Superconducting qubits coupled to nanoelectromechanical resonators: An architecture for solid-state quantum-information processing
M. R. Geller and A. N. Cleland
Published 14 March 2005 (17 pages)
032311 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Perfect transfer of arbitrary states in quantum spin networks
Matthias Christandl, Nilanjana Datta, Tony C. Dorlas, Artur Ekert, Alastair Kay, and Andrew J. Landahl
Published 14 March 2005 (11 pages)
032312 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Average fidelity between random quantum states
Karol Życzkowski and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
Published 15 March 2005 (11 pages)
032313 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Information-capacity description of spin-chain correlations
Vittorio Giovannetti and Rosario Fazio
Published 15 March 2005 (12 pages)
032314 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Security improvement by using a modified coherent state for quantum cryptography
Y. J. Lu, Luobei Zhu, and Z. Y. Ou
Published 16 March 2005 (5 pages)
032315 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Teleportation with insurance of an entangled atomic state via cavity decay
Grzegorz Chimczak, Ryszard Tanaś, and Adam Miranowicz
Published 17 March 2005 (11 pages)
032316 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Macroscopic entanglement of many-magnon states
Tomoyuki Morimae, Ayumu Sugita, and Akira Shimizu
Published 17 March 2005 (12 pages)
032317 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Unified derivations of measurement-based schemes for quantum computation
Andrew M. Childs, Debbie W. Leung, and Michael A. Nielsen
Published 17 March 2005 (14 pages)
032318 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Quantum state exchange between indirectly coupled modes
A. S. M. de Castro, J. F. Peruzzo, and V. V. Dodonov
Published 17 March 2005 (10 pages)
032319 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Frequency and temporal effects in linear optical quantum computing
Peter P. Rohde and Timothy C. Ralph
Published 18 March 2005 (10 pages)
032320 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Effects of the interplay between interaction and disorder in bipartite entanglement
L. F. Santos and G. Rigolin
Published 18 March 2005 (8 pages)
032321 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Implementing nonlocal gates with nonmaximally entangled states
Berry Groisman and Benni Reznik
Published 18 March 2005 (5 pages)
032322 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Optimal conclusive discrimination of two states can be achieved locally
Zhengfeng Ji, Hongen Cao, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 18 March 2005 (5 pages)
032323 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Perfect pattern formation of neutral atoms in an addressable optical lattice
J. Vala, A. V. Thapliyal, S. Myrgren, U. Vazirani, D. S. Weiss, and K. B. Whaley
Published 18 March 2005 (13 pages)
032324 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Quantum computing and hidden variables
Scott Aaronson
Published 18 March 2005 (16 pages)
032325 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Generation of long-living entanglement between two separate three-level atoms
Özgür Çakir, Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Published 18 March 2005 (9 pages)
032326 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Practical implementations of twirl operations
M. S. Anwar, L. Xiao, A. J. Short, J. A. Jones, D. Blazina, S. B. Duckett, and H. A. Carteret
Published 18 March 2005 (7 pages)
032327 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic relaxation control of qubits strongly coupled to continuum edge
S. Pellegrin and G. Kurizki
Published 18 March 2005 (7 pages)
032328 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Synthesizing arbitrary two-photon polarization mixed states
Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, David Branning, Paul M. Goldbart, D. F. V. James, Evan Jeffrey, Paul G. Kwiat, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, and Nicholas A. Peters
Published 21 March 2005 (12 pages)
032329 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Noise resistance of adiabatic quantum computation using random matrix theory
Jérémie Roland and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 21 March 2005 (9 pages)
032330 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Nonmaximally entangled bases and their application in entanglement purification via swapping
Mátyás Koniorczyk and Vladimír Bužek
Published 21 March 2005 (10 pages)
032331 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Characterization of distillability of entanglement in terms of positive maps
Lieven Clarisse
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
032332 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Detecting multipartite entanglement
Andrew C. Doherty, Pablo A. Parrilo, and Federico M. Spedalieri
Published 22 March 2005 (9 pages)
032333 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Qubit channels that achieve capacity with two states
Dominic W. Berry
Published 22 March 2005 (9 pages)
032334 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Beam splitter entangler for light fields
Xun-Li Feng, Ru-Xin Li, and Zhi-Zhan Xu
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
032335 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Distinguishing two single-mode Gaussian states by homodyne detection: An information-theoretic approach
Hyunchul Nha and H. J. Carmichael
Published 23 March 2005 (7 pages)
032336 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Solution to the king’s problem with observables that are not mutually complementary
Minoru Horibe, Akihisa Hayashi, and Takaaki Hashimoto
Published 23 March 2005 (5 pages)
032337 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Multiple-copy two-state discrimination with individual measurements
A. Acín, E. Bagan, M. Baig, Ll. Masanes, and R. Muñoz-Tapia
Published 23 March 2005 (5 pages)
032338 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Quantifying the resource of sharing a reference frame
S. J. van Enk
Published 24 March 2005 (8 pages)
032339 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Exchange gate in solid-state spin-quantum computation: The applicability of the Heisenberg model
V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma
Published 24 March 2005 (12 pages)
032340 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Bounds on the entanglement attainable from unitary transformed thermal states in liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance
Terri M. Yu, Kenneth R. Brown, and Isaac L. Chuang
Published 24 March 2005 (14 pages)
032341 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Improving teleportation of continuous variables by local operations
Ladislav Mišta, Jr. and Radim Filip
Published 25 March 2005 (9 pages)
032342 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nonseparability and squeezing of continuous polarization variables
Natalia Korolkova and Rodney Loudon
Published 28 March 2005 (5 pages)
032343 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Liquid-state NMR simulations of quantum many-body problems
C. Negrevergne, R. Somma, G. Ortiz, E. Knill, and R. Laflamme
Published 28 March 2005 (11 pages)
032344 [View PDF (1,064 kB)]
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Quantum and classical parallelism in parity algorithms for ensemble quantum computers
Ralf Stadelhofer, Dieter Suter, and Wolfgang Banzhaf
Published 28 March 2005 (6 pages)
032345 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Collective decoherence of the superpositional entangled states in the quantum Shor algorithm
G. P. Berman, D. I. Kamenev, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 28 March 2005 (5 pages)
032346 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Quantum random walks do not need a coin toss
Apoorva Patel, K. S. Raghunathan, and Pranaw Rungta
Published 29 March 2005 (6 pages)
032347 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Multimode entanglement of light and atomic ensembles via off-resonant coherent forward scattering
D. V. Kupriyanov, O. S. Mishina, I. M. Sokolov, B. Julsgaard, and E. S. Polzik
Published 29 March 2005 (20 pages)
032348 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Unitarily localizable entanglement of Gaussian states
Alessio Serafini, Gerardo Adesso, and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 30 March 2005 (11 pages)
032349 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Entanglement properties of multipartite entangled states under the influence of decoherence
M. Hein, W. Dür, and H.-J. Briegel
Published 30 March 2005 (26 pages)
032350 [View PDF (651 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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X-ray energies of circular transitions and electron screening in kaonic atoms
J. P. Santos, F. Parente, S. Boucard, P. Indelicato, and J. P. Desclaux
Published 3 March 2005 (8 pages)
032501 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Degree of accuracy in determining the nuclear electric quadrupole moment of radium
Jacek Bieroń and Pekka Pyykkö
Published 9 March 2005 (6 pages)
032502 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Low-energy excitations of a linearly Jahn-Teller coupled orbital quintet
Nicola Manini
Published 10 March 2005 (12 pages)
032503 [View PDF (1,243 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical study of the 3d 2D–level lifetimes of 40Ca+
A. Kreuter, C. Becher, G. P. T. Lancaster, A. B. Mundt, C. Russo, H. Häffner, C. Roos, W. Hänsel, F. Schmidt-Kaler, R. Blatt, and M. S. Safronova
Published 11 March 2005 (12 pages)
032504 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Tests of time independence of the electron and nuclear masses with ultracold molecules
S. Schiller and V. Korobov
Published 17 March 2005 (7 pages)
032505 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Positron annihilation in the positron-helium ion e+[He(2 3S)]
Alexei M. Frolov
Published 21 March 2005 (6 pages)
032506 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Exact-exchange time-dependent density-functional theory for static and dynamic polarizabilities
So Hirata, Stanislav Ivanov, Rodney J. Bartlett, and Ireneusz Grabowski
Published 21 March 2005 (7 pages)
032507 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen
E. Borie
Published 21 March 2005 (8 pages)
032508 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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“Dressing” lines and vertices in calculations of matrix elements with the coupled-cluster method and determination of Cs atomic properties
Andrei Derevianko and Sergey G. Porsev
Published 22 March 2005 (11 pages)
032509 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Spectral properties and lifetimes of neutral fermions and bosons in a magnetic quadrupole trap
Igor Lesanovsky and Peter Schmelcher
Published 23 March 2005 (10 pages)
032510 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Semiclassical nonadiabatic dynamics with quantum trajectories
Vitaly A. Rassolov and Sophya Garashchuk
Published 25 March 2005 (10 pages)
032511 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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VN−M approximation for atomic calculations
V. A. Dzuba
Published 29 March 2005 (6 pages)
032512 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Simple model for the spherically and system-averaged pair density: Results for two-electron atoms
Paola Gori-Giorgi and Andreas Savin
Published 30 March 2005 (9 pages)
032513 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Extended Hylleraas three-electron integral
Krzysztof Pachucki and Mariusz Puchalski
Published 30 March 2005 (10 pages)
032514 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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N-representability and stationarity in time-dependent density-functional theory
Morrel H. Cohen and Adam Wasserman
Published 31 March 2005 (9 pages)
032515 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Theoretical study of the photoionization of the excited 1s22s2p 1,3Po states of the Be-like B+ ion
Dae-Soung Kim and Steven T. Manson
Published 3 March 2005 (12 pages)
032701 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Measurement of the x-ray mass attenuation coefficient and determination of the imaginary component of the atomic form factor of molybdenum over the 13.5–41.5-keV energy range
Martin D. de Jonge, Chanh Q. Tran, Christopher T. Chantler, Zwi Barnea, Bipin B. Dhal, David J. Cookson, Wah-Keat Lee, and Ali Mashayekhi
Published 4 March 2005 (16 pages)
032702 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Siegert pseudostates: Completeness and time evolution
Robin Santra, Jeffrey M. Shainline, and Chris H. Greene
Published 7 March 2005 (12 pages)
032703 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Superexcited states of oxygen studied by fast-electron impact
Lan-Lan Fan, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Lin-Fan Zhu, Xiao-Jing Liu, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Jian-Min Sun, and Ke-Zun Xu
Published 8 March 2005 (6 pages)
032704 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Cross sections for charge-changing processes involving kilo-electron-volt H and H+ with CO and CO2
B. G. Lindsay, W. S. Yu, and R. F. Stebbings
Published 8 March 2005 (9 pages)
032705 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Total and single differential cross sections for simple resonant collisions using a fully orthonormal continuum-distorted-wave basis
J. Bradley, S. F. C. O’Rourke, and D. S. F. Crothers
Published 8 March 2005 (6 pages)
032706 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Angular momentum partitioning and the subshell multipole moments in impulsively excited argon ions
H. M. Al-Khateeb, B. G. Birdsey, and T. J. Gay
Published 10 March 2005 (15 pages)
032707 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Triple differential cross sections of coplanar symmetric (e,2e) processes on calcium at low energies
Raj Kumar Chauhan, M. K. Srivastava, and Rajesh Srivastava
Published 11 March 2005 (5 pages)
032708 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Higher-order Cn dispersion coefficients for hydrogen
J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley
Published 11 March 2005 (5 pages)
032709 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Elastic and electron-capture processes in H++C2H4 collisions below the 10-keV regime
Reiko Suzuki, Sachchida N. Rai, Heinz-Peter Liebermann, Robert J. Buenker, Lukáš Pichl, and Mineo Kimura
Published 14 March 2005 (10 pages)
032710 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Three-body fragmentation dynamics of amidogen and methylene radicals via dissociative recombination
R. D. Thomas, F. Hellberg, A. Neau, S. Rosén, M. Larsson, C. R. Vane, M. E. Bannister, S. Datz, A. Petrignani, and W. J. van der Zande
Published 14 March 2005 (16 pages)
032711 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Anisotropic van der Waals coefficients for He(1 1S)–He(2 3P)
J.-Y. Zhang, Z.-C. Yan, D. Vrinceanu, and H. R. Sadeghpour
Published 17 March 2005 (5 pages)
032712 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Positronium formation in positron-Li and positron-Na collisions at low energies
Anh-Thu Le, M. W. J. Bromley, and C. D. Lin
Published 18 March 2005 (5 pages)
032713 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Selectivity in valence excitation processes of noble atoms studied by fast electron impact
Hua-Dong Cheng, Lin-Fan Zhu, Xiao-Jing Liu, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Wen-Bin Li, and Ke-Zun Xu
Published 21 March 2005 (5 pages)
032714 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Computation of electron-impact K-shell ionization cross sections of atoms
M. A. Uddin, A. K. F. Haque, M. Masum Billah, A. K. Basak, K. R. Karim, and B. C. Saha
Published 22 March 2005 (6 pages)
032715 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Optimal reflection-free complex absorbing potentials for quantum propagation of wave packets
Oded Shemer, Daria Brisker, and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 23 March 2005 (8 pages)
032716 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Electron and positron scattering from perfluorocyclobutane (c-C4F8) molecules
C. Makochekanwa, O. Sueoka, M. Kimura, M. Kitajima, and H. Tanaka
Published 24 March 2005 (6 pages)
032717 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Direct ionization of heavy noble gases by positron impact
K. Bartschat
Published 24 March 2005 (5 pages)
032718 [View PDF (462 kB)]
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Tunneling of a diatomic molecule incident upon a potential barrier
Glen L. Goodvin and Mark R.A. Shegelski
Published 25 March 2005 (10 pages)
032719 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Electron scattering cross sections for SF6 and SF5CF3 at intermediate and high energies (100–10000 eV)
P. Limão-Vieira, F. Blanco, J. C. Oller, A. Muñoz, J. M. Pérez, M. Vinodkumar, G. García, and N. J. Mason
Published 28 March 2005 (6 pages)
032720 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Off-shell Jost solution for scattering by a Coulomb field
U. Laha and B. Kundu
Published 30 March 2005 (3 pages)
032721 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Ultracold quantum dynamics: Spin-polarized K+K2 collisions with three identical bosons or fermions
Goulven Quéméner, Pascal Honvault, Jean-Michel Launay, Pavel Soldán, Daniel E. Potter, and Jeremy M. Hutson
Published 30 March 2005 (10 pages)
032722 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Experimental study of μ-atomic and μ-molecular processes in pure helium and deuterium-helium mixtures
V. M. Bystritsky, V. F. Boreiko, W. Czapliński, M. Filipowicz, V. V. Gerasimov, O. Huot, P. E. Knowles, F. Mulhauser, V. N. Pavlov, N. P. Popov, L. A. Schaller, H. Schneuwly, V. G. Sandukovsky, V. A. Stolupin, V. P. Volnykh, and J. Woźniak
Published 31 March 2005 (12 pages)
032723 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Delbrück contribution in the elastic scattering of 1.115-MeV photons
Bhakta Kunwar, Arunava Bhadra, Swapan K. Sen Gupta, J. P. J. Carney, and R. H. Pratt
Published 31 March 2005 (5 pages)
032724 [View PDF (60 kB)]

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

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Interference effects in electron capture from insulator surfaces
M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia
Published 22 March 2005 (8 pages)
032901 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Atomic structures and covalent-to-metallic transition of lead clusters Pbn (n=2–22)
Baolin Wang, Jijun Zhao, Xiaoshuang Chen, Daning Shi, and Guanghou Wang
Published 4 March 2005 (7 pages)
033201 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Statistical fragmentation of small neutral carbon clusters
S. Díaz-Tendero, P.-A. Hervieux, M. Alcamí, and F. Martín
Published 7 March 2005 (15 pages)
033202 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Energies and density distributions of (4He)N clusters doped with Br2(X): A Hartree-like approach
M. P. de Lara-Castells, D. López-Durán, G. Delgado-Barrio, P. Villarreal, C. Di Paola, F. A. Gianturco, and J. Jellinek
Published 8 March 2005 (10 pages)
033203 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Resonant Auger spectroscopy of argon clusters at the 2p threshold
A. Kivimäki, S. L. Sorensen, M. Tchaplyguine, M. Gisselbrecht, R. R. T. Marinho, R. Feifel, G. Öhrwall, S. Svensson, and O. Björneholm
Published 22 March 2005 (7 pages)
033204 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Shape, polarizability, and metallicity in silicon clusters
K. A. Jackson, M. Yang, I. Chaudhuri, and Th. Frauenheim
Published 30 March 2005 (6 pages)
033205 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Analysis of recombination in high-order harmonic generation in molecules
B. Zimmermann, M. Lein, and J. M. Rost
Published 2 March 2005 (6 pages)
033401 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Feshbach resonance cooling of trapped atom pairs
Josh W. Dunn, D. Blume, Bogdan Borca, B. E. Granger, and Chris H. Greene
Published 4 March 2005 (4 pages)
033402 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Inducing an optical Feshbach resonance via stimulated Raman coupling
Gregor Thalhammer, Matthias Theis, Klaus Winkler, Rudolf Grimm, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag
Published 8 March 2005 (8 pages)
033403 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Ultracold dimer association induced by a far-off-resonance optical lattice
E. L. Bolda, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne
Published 9 March 2005 (7 pages)
033404 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Proposed interpretation of microwave ionization of Rydberg alkali-metal atoms
Luca Perotti
Published 9 March 2005 (5 pages)
033405 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Double photoexcitation of He atoms by attosecond xuv pulses in the presence of intense few-cycle infrared lasers
X. M. Tong and C. D. Lin
Published 10 March 2005 (6 pages)
033406 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Nonsequential double ionization of molecules
Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki, Krzysztof Sacha, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jakub Zakrzewski
Published 15 March 2005 (7 pages)
033407 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization beyond the dipole approximation
Michael Klaiber, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 17 March 2005 (7 pages)
033408 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Mg in electromagnetic fields: Theoretical partial multiphoton cross sections
L. A. A. Nikolopoulos
Published 21 March 2005 (8 pages)
033409 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Induced dipole effect in strong-field photodetachment of atomic negative ions
V. E. Chernov, I. Yu. Kiyan, H. Helm, and B. A. Zon
Published 21 March 2005 (8 pages)
033410 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical properties of Bessel beams
R. Jáuregui and S. Hacyan
Published 22 March 2005 (10 pages)
033411 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Theory of light-induced drift. VI. Roles of accommodation of normal and tangential momenta in surface light-induced drift with positive spontaneous relaxation parameter
Frank O. Goodman
Published 23 March 2005 (6 pages)
033412 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Measurements of trap parameters of a magneto-optical trap by parametric resonance
Kihwan Kim, Heung-Ryoul Noh, and Wonho Jhe
Published 23 March 2005 (5 pages)
033413 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Simulations of the rf heating rates in a linear quadrupole ion trap
Vladimir L. Ryjkov, XianZhen Zhao, and Hans A. Schuessler
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
033414 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Resonant enhancement of dielectronic recombination by a high-frequency microwave field
E. S. Shuman and T. F. Gallagher
Published 24 March 2005 (5 pages)
033415 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Electric-field-induced adiabaticity in the rovibrational motion of heteronuclear diatomic molecules
R. González-Férez and P. Schmelcher
Published 24 March 2005 (12 pages)
033416 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical cumulant dynamics near stable periodic orbits in phase space: Application to the classical-like dynamics of quantum accelerator modes
R. Bach, K. Burnett, M. B. d’Arcy, and S. A. Gardiner
Published 29 March 2005 (20 pages)
033417 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Two-photon excitation of the metastable 2s state of hydrogen assisted by laser-induced chirped Stark shifts and continuum structure
L. P. Yatsenko, V. I. Romanenko, B. W. Shore, T. Halfmann, and K. Bergmann
Published 31 March 2005 (10 pages)
033418 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Matter waves

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Particle density distributions in Fermi gas superfluids: Differences between one- and two-channel models in the Bose-Einstein-condensation limit
Jelena Stajic, Qijin Chen, and K. Levin
Published 2 March 2005 (8 pages)
033601 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Tomographic reconstruction of quantum correlations in excited Bose-Einstein condensates
Anders S. Mouritzen and Klaus Mølmer
Published 2 March 2005 (12 pages)
033602 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking induced by random fluctuations for Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well trap
J. Garnier and F. Kh. Abdullaev
Published 3 March 2005 (9 pages)
033603 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Collapsing Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation
S. Wüster, J. J. Hope, and C. M. Savage
Published 3 March 2005 (8 pages)
033604 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Interaction of impurity atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates
Alexander Klein and Michael Fleischhauer
Published 3 March 2005 (8 pages)
033605 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Matter diffraction at oblique incidence: Higher resolution and the 4He3 Efimov state
Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Martin Stoll
Published 3 March 2005 (17 pages)
033606 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Viscous relaxation and collective oscillations in a trapped Fermi gas near the unitarity limit
P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, and H. Smith
Published 4 March 2005 (10 pages)
033607 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Phase diagram of ultracold atoms in optical lattices: Comparative study of slave fermion and slave boson approaches to Bose-Hubbard model
Yue Yu and S. T. Chui
Published 4 March 2005 (6 pages)
033608 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Effect of a potential step or impurity on the Bose-Einstein condensate mean field
B. T. Seaman, L. D. Carr, and M. J. Holland
Published 4 March 2005 (10 pages)
033609 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Low-temperature crossover in the momentum distribution of cold atomic gases in one dimension
Vadim V. Cheianov, H. Smith, and M. B. Zvonarev
Published 7 March 2005 (7 pages)
033610 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Two-fluid model for a rotating trapped Fermi gas in the BCS phase
Michael Urban
Published 8 March 2005 (7 pages)
033611 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Collective atomic recoil in a moving Bose-Einstein condensate: From superradiance to Bragg scattering
L. Fallani, C. Fort, N. Piovella, M. Cola, F. S. Cataliotti, M. Inguscio, and R. Bonifacio
Published 8 March 2005 (8 pages)
033612 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Exact 1∕N and optimized perturbative evaluation of μc for homogeneous interacting Bose gases
Jean-Loïc Kneur and Marcus B. Pinto
Published 9 March 2005 (10 pages)
033613 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Self-consistent finite-temperature model of atom-laser coherence properties
J. R. Fergusson, A. J. Geddes, and D. A. W. Hutchinson
Published 9 March 2005 (4 pages)
033614 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ground-state properties of a dilute homogeneous Bose gas of hard disks in two dimensions
F. Mazzanti, A. Polls, and A. Fabrocini
Published 10 March 2005 (8 pages)
033615 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Adiabatic cooling of fermions in an optical lattice
P. B. Blakie and A. Bezett
Published 11 March 2005 (6 pages)
033616 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Optically plugged quadrupole trap for Bose-Einstein condensates
D. S. Naik and C. Raman
Published 14 March 2005 (5 pages)
033617 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Exact solution of the Thomas-Fermi equation for a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate with dipole-dipole interactions
Claudia Eberlein, Stefano Giovanazzi, and Duncan H. J. O’Dell
Published 15 March 2005 (12 pages)
033618 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Maximal entanglement of two spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Michael W. Jack and Makoto Yamashita
Published 16 March 2005 (5 pages)
033619 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Bragg spectroscopy of an accelerating condensate with solitary-wave behavior
K. J. Challis and R. J. Ballagh
Published 18 March 2005 (8 pages)
033620 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Molecule formation as a diagnostic tool for second-order correlations of ultracold gases
D. Meiser, P. Meystre, and C. P. Search
Published 21 March 2005 (12 pages)
033621 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Nonlinear band structure in Bose-Einstein condensates: Nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a Kronig-Penney potential
B. T. Seaman, L. D. Carr, and M. J. Holland
Published 21 March 2005 (9 pages)
033622 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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First- and second-order superfluid–Mott-insulator phase transitions of spin-1 bosons with coupled ground states in optical lattices
K. V. Krutitsky, M. Timmer, and R. Graham
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
033623 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Boson-fermion coherence in a spherically symmetric harmonic trap
Takahiko Miyakawa and Pierre Meystre
Published 22 March 2005 (15 pages)
033624 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Bulk and collective properties of a dilute Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover
N. Manini and L. Salasnich
Published 23 March 2005 (6 pages)
033625 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Stationary vortex clusters in nonrotating Bose-Einstein condensates
M. Möttönen, S. M. M. Virtanen, T. Isoshima, and M. M. Salomaa
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
033626 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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An atom interferometer enabled by spontaneous decay
R. A. Cornelussen, R. J. C. Spreeuw, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell
Published 25 March 2005 (7 pages)
033627 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Double-slit interferometry with a Bose-Einstein condensate
L. A. Collins, L. Pezzé, A. Smerzi, G. P. Berman, and A. R. Bishop
Published 25 March 2005 (6 pages)
033628 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Mott-insulator–to–superfluid transition in the Bose-Hubbard model: A strong-coupling approach
K. Sengupta and N. Dupuis
Published 25 March 2005 (8 pages)
033629 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Boson-fermion resonance model in one dimension
A. Recati, J. N. Fuchs, and W. Zwerger
Published 28 March 2005 (8 pages)
033630 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Path-integral mean-field description of the vortex state in the BEC-to-BCS crossover
J. Tempere, M. Wouters, and J. T. Devreese
Published 30 March 2005 (4 pages)
033631 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Stability analysis of the self-phase-locked divide-by-2 optical parametric oscillator
Petra Groß and Klaus-Jochen Boller
Published 4 March 2005 (15 pages)
033801 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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Coherent manipulation of collective three-level systems
Mihai Macovei, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 4 March 2005 (16 pages)
033802 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Diffraction effects on light–atomic-ensemble quantum interface
J. H. Müller, P. Petrov, D. Oblak, C. L. Garrido Alzar, S. R. de Echaniz, and E. S. Polzik
Published 7 March 2005 (12 pages)
033803 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Optical hyperparametric oscillations in a whispering-gallery-mode resonator: Threshold and phase diffusion
Andrey B. Matsko, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Dmitry Strekalov, Vladimir S. Ilchenko, and Lute Maleki
Published 8 March 2005 (10 pages)
033804 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Efficient and spectrally bright source of polarization-entangled photons
Friedrich König, Elliott J. Mason, Franco N. C. Wong, and Marius A. Albota
Published 9 March 2005 (7 pages)
033805 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Absorption spectrum of an atom strongly coupled to a high-temperature reservoir
A. G. Kofman
Published 9 March 2005 (12 pages)
033806 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Liouville-space pathways for spectral diffusion in photon statistics from single molecules
František Šanda and Shaul Mukamel
Published 11 March 2005 (14 pages)
033807 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Radiation properties of a Kerr nonlinear blackbody
Ze Cheng
Published 11 March 2005 (9 pages)
033808 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Squeezing and entanglement delay using slow light
Amy Peng, Mattias Johnsson, W. P. Bowen, P. K. Lam, H.-A. Bachor, and J. J. Hope
Published 14 March 2005 (5 pages)
033809 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Photon emission from a single-molecule source driven by an rf field
Igor Rozhkov and E. Barkai
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
033810 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Detection of atomic entanglement and electromagnetically induced transparency in velocity-selective coherent population trapping
M. Kiffner and K.-P. Marzlin
Published 21 March 2005 (8 pages)
033811 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Design of an integrated optical source of twin photons
Ivan Avrutsky and Alexander V. Sergienko
Published 22 March 2005 (9 pages)
033812 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Entanglement of large atomic samples: A Gaussian-state analysis
Jacob Sherson and Klaus Mølmer
Published 23 March 2005 (9 pages)
033813 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Continuous-variable quantum-state sharing via quantum disentanglement
Andrew M. Lance, Thomas Symul, Warwick P. Bowen, Barry C. Sanders, Tomáš Tyc, T. C. Ralph, and Ping Koy Lam
Published 24 March 2005 (11 pages)
033814 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Direct measurement and reconstruction of nonclassical features of twin beams generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Ondřej Haderka, Jan Peřina, Jr., Martin Hamar, and Jan Peřina
Published 24 March 2005 (5 pages)
033815 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Angular momentum and the geometrical gauge of localized photon states
Margaret Hawton and William E. Baylis
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
033816 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Pulse retrieval and soliton formation in a nonstandard scheme for dynamic electromagnetically induced transparency
Amy Peng, Mattias Johnsson, and Joseph J. Hope
Published 25 March 2005 (7 pages)
033817 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Quantum polarization properties of two-mode energy eigenstates
Anita Sehat, Jonas Söderholm, Gunnar Björk, Pedro Espinoza, Andrei B. Klimov, and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto
Published 30 March 2005 (6 pages)
033818 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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High-efficiency quantum-nondemolition single-photon-number-resolving detector
W. J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, R. G. Beausoleil, and T. P. Spiller
Published 31 March 2005 (4 pages)
033819 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Three-photon frequency down-conversion as an event-ready source of entangled states
Alejandro A. Hnilo
Published 31 March 2005 (9 pages)
033820 [View PDF (230 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Affine maps of density matrices
Thomas F. Jordan
Published 2 March 2005 (2 pages)
034101 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Time evolution of entanglement of two local spins interacting with itinerant electrons
Yi Gao and Shi-Jie Xiong
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
034102 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Geometric conditions for violation of Bell’s inequality
Istok P. Mendaš
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
034103 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Relation between conventional and dynamical formalisms in the quantum Zeno effect
Kazuki Koshino
Published 25 March 2005 (3 pages)
034104 [View PDF (33 kB)]

Quantum information

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Fine-grained entanglement loss along renormalization-group flows
J. I. Latorre, C. A. Lütken, E. Rico, and G. Vidal
Published 2 March 2005 (4 pages)
034301 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Entanglement and bifurcation in the integrable dimer
Xi-Wen Hou, Jing-Hua Chen, and Bambi Hu
Published 10 March 2005 (4 pages)
034302 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Steady-state entanglement of two atoms created by classical driving field
Özgür Çakir, Alexander A. Klyachko, and Alexander S. Shumovsky
Published 10 March 2005 (4 pages)
034303 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Scheme for implementing quantum dense coding in cavity QED
Liu Ye and Guang-Can Guo
Published 10 March 2005 (3 pages)
034304 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Generation of continuous-variable tripartite entanglement using cascaded nonlinearities
Juan Guo, Hongxin Zou, Zehui Zhai, Junxiang Zhang, and Jiangrui Gao
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
034305 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement as an interpretation of bosonic character in composite two-particle systems
C. K. Law
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
034306 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Generation of a supersinglet of three three-level atoms in cavity QED
Guang-Sheng Jin, Shu-Shen Li, Song-Lin Feng, and Hou-Zhi Zheng
Published 21 March 2005 (3 pages)
034307 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Cluster states from Heisenberg interactions
Massoud Borhani and Daniel Loss
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
034308 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Equation of state for entanglement in a Fermi gas
Christian Lunkes, Časlav Brukner, and Vlatko Vedral
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
034309 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Bounds on classical information capacities for a class of quantum memory channels
Garry Bowen, Igor Devetak, and Stefano Mancini
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
034310 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Thermal entanglement between alternate qubits of a four-qubit Heisenberg XX chain in a magnetic field
Min Cao and Shiqun Zhu
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
034311 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Entanglement swapping without joint measurement
Ming Yang, Wei Song, and Zhuo-Liang Cao
Published 28 March 2005 (3 pages)
034312 [View PDF (33 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Vibrationally selected O+–O+ fragmentation of O2 below the adiabatic double-ionization potential studied via electron-electron coincidence spectroscopy
R. Feifel and J. H. D. Eland
Published 23 March 2005 (3 pages)
034501 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Doubly differential cross sections for single and multiple ionization of Ne by electron impact
A. C. F. Santos, A. Hasan, and R. D. DuBois
Published 3 March 2005 (4 pages)
034701 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Electron capture by Ne4+ ions from atomic hydrogen
C. C. Havener, R. Rejoub, C. R. Vane, H. F. Krause, D. W. Savin, M. Schnell, J. G. Wang, and P. C. Stancil
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
034702 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Charge and energy-dependence of the Gaussian description of the triply differential cross sections for equal-energy sharing photo-double-ionization of two-electrons ions
S. Otranto and C. R. Garibotti
Published 28 March 2005 (4 pages)
034703 [View PDF (47 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Minimal mass size of a stable 3He cluster
R. Guardiola and J. Navarro
Published 18 March 2005 (2 pages)
035201 [View PDF (16 kB)]

Matter waves

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Modulational instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in a quasi-one-dimensional geometry
T. Soloman Raju, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, and K. Porsezian
Published 28 March 2005 (4 pages)
035601 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum correlations in soliton collisions
Ray-Kuang Lee, Yinchieh Lai, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
035801 [View PDF (452 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Decoherence and the quantum-classical limit in the presence of chaos [Phys. Rev. A 71, 010101(R) (2005)]
F. Toscano, R. L. de Matos Filho, and L. Davidovich
Published 17 March 2005 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Inducing an optical Feshbach resonance via stimulated Raman coupling [Phys. Rev. A 71, 033403 (2005)]
Gregor Thalhammer, Matthias Theis, Klaus Winkler, Rudolf Grimm, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag
Published 18 March 2005 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
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Erratum: Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical system [Phys. Rev. A 68, 013821 (2003)]
S. Rankin, E. Yao, and F. Papoff
Published 24 March 2005 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Erratum: Nonadiabatic transitions in a two-level quantum system: Pulse-shape dependence of the transition probability for a two-level atom driven by a pulsed radiation field [Physical Review A 57, 79 (1998)]
P. R. Berman, L. Yan, K. Chiam, and R. Sung
Published 25 March 2005 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Analytic pulse design for selective population transfer in many-level quantum systems: Maximizing the amplitude of population oscillations [Phys. Rev. A 70, 043413 (2004)]
Duje Bonacci, S. D. Bosanac, and N. Došlić
Published 25 March 2005 (1 page)
039905(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Sub-Riemannian geometry and time optimal control of three spin systems: Quantum gates and coherence transfer [Phys. Rev. A 65, 032301 (2002)]
N. Khaneja, S. J. Glaser, and R. Brockett
Published 28 March 2005 (1 page)
039906(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Configuration-interaction-induced dynamic spin polarization of the Ar*(2p1∕2,3∕2−14s1∕2)J=1 resonant Auger decay[Phys. Rev. A 71, 020701 (2005)]
B. Lohmann, B. Langer, G. Snell, U. Kleiman, S. Canton, M. Martins, U. Becker, and N. Berrah
Published 30 March 2005 (1 page)
039907(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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