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Physical Review A – May 2005
Volume 71, Issue 5

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Fundamental concepts

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Test of constancy of speed of light with rotating cryogenic optical resonators
P. Antonini, M. Okhapkin, E. Göklü, and S. Schiller
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (306 kB)]

Quantum information

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Optimum unambiguous discrimination of two mixed quantum states
Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou
Published 9 May 2005 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Long-distance entanglement swapping with photons from separated sources
H. de Riedmatten, I. Marcikic, J. A. W. van Houwelingen, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
050302(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Two atoms in an anisotropic harmonic trap
Z. Idziaszek and T. Calarco
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Nonperturbative quantum control via the nonresonant dynamic Stark effect
Benjamin J. Sussman, Misha Yu. Ivanov, and Albert Stolow
Published 19 May 2005 (4 pages)
051401(R) [View PDF (264 kB)]

Matter waves

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Polarizing beam splitter for dipolar molecules
O. Dutta, M. Jääskeläinen, and P. Meystre
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
051601(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Scattering of a Klein-Gordon particle by a Woods-Saxon potential
Clara Rojas and Víctor M. Villalba
Published 9 May 2005 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Time-dependent entropy of simple quantum model systems
Jörn Dunkel and Sergey A. Trigger
Published 10 May 2005 (12 pages)
052102 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Comparing quantum and classical correlations in a quantum eraser
A. Gogo, W. D. Snyder, and M. Beck
Published 18 May 2005 (6 pages)
052103 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Wigner function and Schrödinger equation in phase-space representation
Dariusz Chruściński and Krzysztof Młodawski
Published 24 May 2005 (6 pages)
052104 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Probabilities from entanglement, Born’s rule pk=∣ψk∣2 from envariance
Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Published 25 May 2005 (29 pages)
052105 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Quantum mechanical description of Stern-Gerlach experiments
G. Potel, F. Barranco, S. Cruz-Barrios, and J. Gómez-Camacho
Published 27 May 2005 (10 pages)
052106 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Subjective and objective probabilities in quantum mechanics
Mark Srednicki
Published 31 May 2005 (6 pages)
052107 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements
R. W. Spekkens
Published 31 May 2005 (17 pages)
052108 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Quantum information

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Universal leakage elimination
Mark S. Byrd, Daniel A. Lidar, Lian-Ao Wu, and Paolo Zanardi
Published 3 May 2005 (14 pages)
052301 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Wigner-Yanase skew information as tests for quantum entanglement
Zeqian Chen
Published 3 May 2005 (5 pages)
052302 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Multiparticle entanglement manipulation under positive partial transpose preserving operations
Satoshi Ishizaka and Martin B. Plenio
Published 4 May 2005 (13 pages)
052303 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Secure coherent-state quantum key distribution protocols with efficient reconciliation
G. Van Assche, S. Iblisdir, and N. J. Cerf
Published 4 May 2005 (11 pages)
052304 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Efficient generation of distant atom entanglement via cavity decay
Grzegorz Chimczak
Published 4 May 2005 (5 pages)
052305 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Compatibility relations between the reduced and global density matrices
Y.-J. Han, Y.-S. Zhang, and G.-C. Guo
Published 5 May 2005 (7 pages)
052306 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Optimal quantum repeaters for qubits and qudits
Marco G. Genoni and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 6 May 2005 (5 pages)
052307 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Entanglement flow in multipartite systems
T. S. Cubitt, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac
Published 6 May 2005 (12 pages)
052308 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Random matrix approach to quantum adiabatic evolution algorithms
A. Boulatov and V. N. Smelyanskiy
Published 6 May 2005 (13 pages)
052309 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Quantum logic gate operation and entanglement with superconducting quantum interference devices in a cavity via a Raman transition
Ke-Hui Song, Zheng-Wei Zhou, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
052310 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Coherence protection by the quantum Zeno effect and nonholonomic control in a Rydberg rubidium isotope
E. Brion, V. M. Akulin, D. Comparat, I. Dumer, G. Harel, N. Kébaili, G. Kurizki, I. Mazets, and P. Pillet
Published 6 May 2005 (15 pages)
052311 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics using many-qudit Hamiltonians and local unitary control
Michael J. Bremner, Dave Bacon, and Michael A. Nielsen
Published 9 May 2005 (9 pages)
052312 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Implementation of parallel search algorithms using spatial encoding by nuclear magnetic resonance
Rangeet Bhattacharyya, Ranabir Das, K. V. Ramanathan, and Anil Kumar
Published 11 May 2005 (6 pages)
052313 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Limit quantum efficiency for violation of Clauser-Horne inequality for qutrits
M. Genovese
Published 12 May 2005 (6 pages)
052314 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Conclusive and arbitrarily perfect quantum-state transfer using parallel spin-chain channels
Daniel Burgarth and Sougato Bose
Published 13 May 2005 (6 pages)
052315 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Vacuum-induced Stark shifts for quantum logic using a collective system in a high-quality dispersive cavity
A. Gábris and G. S. Agarwal
Published 13 May 2005 (5 pages)
052316 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Generation of quantum logic operations from physical Hamiltonians
Jun Zhang and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 13 May 2005 (13 pages)
052317 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Criteria for exact qudit universality
Gavin K. Brennen, Dianne P. O’Leary, and Stephen S. Bullock
Published 16 May 2005 (7 pages)
052318 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Qubit-qutrit separability-probability ratios
Paul B. Slater
Published 16 May 2005 (15 pages)
052319 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Fast quantum modular exponentiation
Rodney Van Meter and Kohei M. Itoh
Published 17 May 2005 (12 pages)
052320 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Entanglement sharing and decoherence in the spin-bath
Christopher M. Dawson, Andrew P. Hines, Ross H. McKenzie, and G. J. Milburn
Published 17 May 2005 (6 pages)
052321 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Ground-state entanglement in the XXZ model
Shi-Jian Gu, Guang-Shan Tian, and Hai-Qing Lin
Published 17 May 2005 (5 pages)
052322 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Bayesian predictive density operators for exchangeable quantum-statistical models
Fuyuhiko Tanaka and Fumiyasu Komaki
Published 20 May 2005 (4 pages)
052323 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Random matrix model of adiabatic quantum computing
David R. Mitchell, Christoph Adami, Waynn Lue, and Colin P. Williams
Published 20 May 2005 (8 pages)
052324 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Separability conditions from the Landau-Pollak uncertainty relation
Julio I. de Vicente and Jorge Sánchez-Ruiz
Published 24 May 2005 (8 pages)
052325 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Separability for lattice systems at high temperature
Heide Narnhofer
Published 25 May 2005 (7 pages)
052326 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Entanglement and majorization in (1+1)-dimensional quantum systems
Román Orús
Published 25 May 2005 (7 pages)
052327 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Quantum key distribution with asymmetric channel noise
Xiang-Bin Wang
Published 26 May 2005 (6 pages)
052328 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Bell’s inequality, random sequence, and quantum key distribution
Won-Young Hwang
Published 26 May 2005 (3 pages)
052329 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Quantum circuits with uniformly controlled one-qubit gates
Ville Bergholm, Juha J. Vartiainen, Mikko Möttönen, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 27 May 2005 (7 pages)
052330 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Mean king’s problem with mutually unbiased bases and orthogonal Latin squares
A. Hayashi, M. Horibe, and T. Hashimoto
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
052331 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Demonstration of quantum error correction using linear optics
T. B. Pittman, B. C. Jacobs, and J. D. Franson
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
052332 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Virtual light-by-light scattering and the g factor of a bound electron
R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, I. S. Terekhov, and S. G. Karshenboim
Published 4 May 2005 (7 pages)
052501 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Pair-Correlation Effect and Virial Theorem in the Self-Consistent Density-Functional Theory
J. Y. Hsu, C. H. Lin, and C. Y. Cheng
Published 9 May 2005 (5 pages)
052502 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Ground state and resonance state of Ps− in plasmas with various Debye lengths
Sabyasachi Kar and Y. K. Ho
Published 11 May 2005 (7 pages)
052503 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Role of nuclear spin in photoionization: Hyperfine-resolved photoionization of Xe and multichannel quantum defect theory analysis
H. J. Wörner, M. Grütter, E. Vliegen, and F. Merkt
Published 12 May 2005 (14 pages)
052504 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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S-wave resonances of the negative positronium ion and stability of a system of two electrons and an arbitrary positive charge
Tieniu Li and Robin Shakeshaft
Published 12 May 2005 (7 pages)
052505 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Excitation energies, hyperfine constants, E1, E2, and M1 transition rates, and lifetimes of 6s2nl states in Tl I and Pb II
U. I. Safronova, M. S. Safronova, and W. R. Johnson
Published 27 May 2005 (9 pages)
052506 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Path-integral approach to ’t Hooft’s derivation of quantum physics from classical physics
Massimo Blasone, Petr Jizba, and Hagen Kleinert
Published 27 May 2005 (19 pages)
052507 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Energy-level displacement of excited np states of kaonic hydrogen
A. N. Ivanov, M. Cargnelli, M. Faber, H. Fuhrmann, V. A. Ivanova, J. Marton, N. I. Troitskaya, and J. Zmeskal
Published 27 May 2005 (11 pages)
052508 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Search for cosmological variation of the fine-structure constant using relativistic energy shifts in Ge II, Sn II, and Pb II
V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
052509 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Effect of vibrations on C 1s photoemission in formaldehyde in the shape resonance region
A. De Fanis, D. A. Mistrov, M. Kitajima, M. Hoshino, H. Shindo, T. Tanaka, H. Tanaka, Y. Tamenori, A. A. Pavlychev, and K. Ueda
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
052510 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Symmetry properties of the S matrix in a fully relativistic distorted-wave treatment of electron-impact ionization
N. C. Pyper, Marco Kampp, and Colm T. Whelan
Published 4 May 2005 (17 pages)
052701 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Nondipole effects in the triply differential cross section for double photoionization of He
Andrei Y. Istomin, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace
Published 4 May 2005 (20 pages)
052702 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Measurement and modeling of hyperfine- and rotation-induced state mixing in large weakly bound sodium dimers
Eite Tiesinga, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett, Udo Volz, Carl J. Williams, and Paul S. Julienne
Published 5 May 2005 (15 pages)
052703 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Intramolecular Auger-electron scattering in the ultrafast dissociation of CF4 at the 1s→a1* excitation
G. Prümper, K. Ueda, Y. Tamenori, M. Kitajima, N. Kuze, H. Tanaka, C. Makochekanwa, M. Hoshino, and M. Oura
Published 5 May 2005 (5 pages)
052704 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Three-body problem for ultracold atoms in quasi-one-dimensional traps
C. Mora, R. Egger, and A. O. Gogolin
Published 9 May 2005 (19 pages)
052705 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Adiabatic theorem for the time-dependent wave operator
David Viennot, Georges Jolicard, John P. Killingbeck, and Marie-Yvonne Perrin
Published 17 May 2005 (12 pages)
052706 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Scattering resonances and background associated with an asymmetric potential barrier via Siegert pseudostates
Valentin N. Ostrovsky and Nils Elander
Published 17 May 2005 (8 pages)
052707 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Zero-range potentials for Dirac particles: Scattering and related continuum problems
Radosław Szmytkowski
Published 18 May 2005 (19 pages)
052708 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Krypton fine structure in perpendicular-plane electron-impact ionization
J. F. Williams, R. W. van Boeyen, and S. Samarin
Published 18 May 2005 (8 pages)
052709 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Theoretical study of pressure broadening of lithium resonance lines by helium atoms
Cheng Zhu, James F. Babb, and Alex Dalgarno
Published 20 May 2005 (6 pages)
052710 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Electron collisions with boron trichloride (BCl3) molecules
Alicja Domaracka, Elżbieta Ptasińska-Denga, and Czesław Szmytkowski
Published 25 May 2005 (6 pages)
052711 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Transfer ionization process p+He→H0+He2++e− with the ejected electron detected in the plane perpendicular to the incident beam direction
A. L. Godunov, Colm T. Whelan, H. R. J. Walters, V. S. Schipakov, M. Schöffler, V. Mergel, R. Dörner, O. Jagutzki, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, J. Titze, and H. Schmidt-Böcking
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
052712 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Multichannel scattering and Feshbach resonances: Effective theory, phenomenology, and many-body effects
G. M. Bruun, A. D. Jackson, and E. E. Kolomeitsev
Published 26 May 2005 (10 pages)
052713 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Nonlocal model of dissociative electron attachment and vibrational excitation of NO
C. S. Trevisan, K. Houfek, Z. Zhang, A. E. Orel, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 27 May 2005 (12 pages)
052714 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Inelastic electron scattering from excited barium atoms
Rajesh Srivastava and A. D. Stauffer
Published 31 May 2005 (10 pages)
052715 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of helium for equal-energy-sharing kinematics
A. T. Stelbovics, I. Bray, D. V. Fursa, and K. Bartschat
Published 31 May 2005 (13 pages)
052716 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Protonium formation in antiproton–hydrogen-atom collisions
S. Yu. Ovchinnikov and J. H. Macek
Published 31 May 2005 (6 pages)
052717 [View PDF (77 kB)]

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

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Quantum reflection of He* on silicon
Hilmar Oberst, Yoshihisa Tashiro, Kazuko Shimizu, and Fujio Shimizu
Published 11 May 2005 (8 pages)
052901 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dynamical interaction effects on an electric dipole moving parallel to a flat solid surface
Isidro Villó-Pérez, Isabel Abril, Rafael Garcia-Molina, and Néstor R. Arista
Published 31 May 2005 (10 pages)
052902 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Many-body shake-up in Auger neutralization of slow Ar+ ions at Al surfaces
A. Sindona, R. A. Baragiola, G. Falcone, A. Oliva, and P. Riccardi
Published 31 May 2005 (8 pages)
052903 [View PDF (509 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Numerical exploration of coherent excitation in three-level systems
H. A. Camp, M. H. Shah, M. L. Trachy, O. L. Weaver, and B. D. DePaola
Published 4 May 2005 (5 pages)
053401 [View PDF (642 kB)]
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Above-threshold ionization near the 3p4d 1Fo autoionizing state in magnesium
A. Reber, T. Baynard, F. Martín, H. Bachau, and R. S. Berry
Published 9 May 2005 (7 pages)
053402 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Optical Landau damping
M. N. Shneider and P. F. Barker
Published 10 May 2005 (9 pages)
053403 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Experimental verification of a one-parameter scaling law for the quantum and “classical” resonances of the atom-optics kicked rotor
Sandro Wimberger, Mark Sadgrove, Scott Parkins, and Rainer Leonhardt
Published 12 May 2005 (7 pages)
053404 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Effect of light pressure on transitions from excited states of the Ne atom
A. A. Chernenko, I. A. Kartashov, and A. V. Shishaev
Published 16 May 2005 (6 pages)
053405 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Measurement of the trap properties of a magneto-optical trap by a transient oscillation method
Kihwan Kim, Ki-Hwan Lee, Myungseon Heo, Heung-Ryoul Noh, and Wonho Jhe
Published 18 May 2005 (5 pages)
053406 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Three-dimensional time-profile analysis of high-order harmonic generation in molecules: Nuclear interferences in H2+
G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk
Published 20 May 2005 (19 pages)
053407 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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Synchronization of internal and external degrees of freedom of atoms in a standing laser wave
V. Yu. Argonov and S. V. Prants
Published 25 May 2005 (11 pages)
053408 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Higher-order resonances in a Stark decelerator
Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Hendrick L. Bethlem, and Gerard Meijer
Published 26 May 2005 (14 pages)
053409 [View PDF (1,222 kB)]
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Adiabatic passage in an open multilevel system
Witold Chałupczak and Krzysztof Szymaniec
Published 27 May 2005 (7 pages)
053410 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Keldysh-type photoionization rate of large polyatomic molecules in the tunneling region
K. Mishima, M. Hayashi, and S. H. Lin
Published 31 May 2005 (21 pages)
053411 [View PDF (1,366 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian spin dephasing
W. R. Bauer, C. H. Ziener, and P. M. Jakob
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
053412 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Matter waves

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Extracting atoms on demand with lasers
Bernd Mohring, Marc Bienert, Florian Haug, Giovanna Morigi, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Mark G. Raizen
Published 2 May 2005 (10 pages)
053601 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Sound propagation and oscillations of a superfluid Fermi gas in the presence of a one-dimensional optical lattice
L. P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, and G. Orso
Published 3 May 2005 (5 pages)
053602 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Evolution of a collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensate in different trap symmetries
Sadhan K. Adhikari
Published 12 May 2005 (8 pages)
053603 [View PDF (1,010 kB)]
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Microcanonical fluctuations of the condensate in weakly interacting Bose gases
Zbigniew Idziaszek
Published 13 May 2005 (13 pages)
053604 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Ground-state energy of the low-density Fermi gas
Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, and Jan Philip Solovej
Published 13 May 2005 (13 pages)
053605 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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One-dimensional density waves of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice
C. Kollath, U. Schollwöck, J. von Delft, and W. Zwerger
Published 13 May 2005 (9 pages)
053606 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Superfluidity of spin-1 bosons in optical lattices
Rong Cheng and J.-Q. Liang
Published 16 May 2005 (5 pages)
053607 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Phase diagram of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice
G.-P. Zheng, J.-Q. Liang, and W. M. Liu
Published 17 May 2005 (5 pages)
053608 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Matter-wave amplification and phase conjugation via stimulated dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate
Karén V. Kheruntsyan
Published 18 May 2005 (4 pages)
053609 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates in the large-gas-parameter region
J. K. Nilsen, J. Mur-Petit, M. Guilleumas, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and A. Polls
Published 19 May 2005 (7 pages)
053610 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Magnetic soliton and soliton collisions of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice
Z. D. Li, P. B. He, L. Li, J. Q. Liang, and W. M. Liu
Published 19 May 2005 (7 pages)
053611 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Using atomic diffraction of Na from material gratings to measure atom-surface interactions
John D. Perreault, Alexander D. Cronin, and T. A. Savas
Published 20 May 2005 (6 pages)
053612 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Quantitative probe of pairing correlations in a cold fermionic-atom gas
R. A. Duine and A. H. MacDonald
Published 20 May 2005 (5 pages)
053613 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Effective magnetic fields in degenerate atomic gases induced by light beams with orbital angular momenta
G. Juzeliūnas, P. Öhberg, J. Ruseckas, and A. Klein
Published 23 May 2005 (9 pages)
053614 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Finite-temperature correlations and density profiles of an inhomogeneous interacting one-dimensional Bose gas
K. V. Kheruntsyan, D. M. Gangardt, P. D. Drummond, and G. V. Shlyapnikov
Published 26 May 2005 (17 pages)
053615 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Tunneling of condensate magnetization in a double-well potential
Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, M. Zhang, and L. You
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
053616 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Quantum polarization distributions via marginals of quadrature distributions
Alfredo Luis
Published 2 May 2005 (9 pages)
053801 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Generation of entangled lights with temporally reversed photon wave packets
S. A. Moiseev and B. S. Ham
Published 3 May 2005 (7 pages)
053802 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Entanglement and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox with coupled intracavity optical down-converters
M. K. Olsen and P. D. Drummond
Published 10 May 2005 (9 pages)
053803 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Entanglement and entropy in a spin-boson quantum phase transition
N. Lambert, C. Emary, and T. Brandes
Published 11 May 2005 (8 pages)
053804 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Quantum theory of Manakov solitons
Darren Rand, Ken Steiglitz, and Paul R. Prucnal
Published 11 May 2005 (10 pages)
053805 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Electromagnetically induced transparency in V-, Λ-, and cascade-type schemes beyond steady-state analysis
Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang
Published 12 May 2005 (7 pages)
053806 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Discharge-pumped cw gas lasers utilizing “dressed-atom” gain media
P. P. Sorokin, J. H. Glownia, and R. T. Hodgson
Published 12 May 2005 (12 pages)
053807 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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High-harmonic generation in a dense medium
V. V. Strelkov, V. T. Platonenko, and A. Becker
Published 16 May 2005 (8 pages)
053808 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Multistability and hysteresis phenomena in passively mode-locked fiber lasers
Andrey Komarov, Hervé Leblond, and François Sanchez
Published 20 May 2005 (9 pages)
053809 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Optimal control of time-dependent targets
I. Serban, J. Werschnik, and E. K. U. Gross
Published 24 May 2005 (9 pages)
053810 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Slow light with persistent hole burning
R. N. Shakhmuratov, A. Rebane, P. Mégret, and J. Odeurs
Published 24 May 2005 (8 pages)
053811 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Conservation and entanglement of Hermite-Gaussian modes in parametric down-conversion
S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken
Published 25 May 2005 (8 pages)
053812 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Quantitative analysis of directional spontaneous emission spectra from light sources in photonic crystals
Ivan S. Nikolaev, Peter Lodahl, and Willem L. Vos
Published 25 May 2005 (10 pages)
053813 [View PDF (829 kB)]
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Cavity-state preparation using adiabatic transfer
Jonas Larson and Erika Andersson
Published 25 May 2005 (10 pages)
053814 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Asymmetries in strong-field photoionization by few-cycle laser pulses: Kinetic-energy spectra and semiclassical explanation of the asymmetries of fast and slow electrons
Szczepan Chelkowski and André D. Bandrauk
Published 26 May 2005 (9 pages)
053815 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Single photon SWAP gate using electromagnetically induced transparency
D. D. Yavuz
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
053816 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Spatial solitons in two-photon photorefractive media
Chunfeng Hou, Yanbo Pei, Zhongxiang Zhou, and Xiudong Sun
Published 27 May 2005 (6 pages)
053817 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Superradiance and subradiance in the overdamped many-atom micromaser
Vasily V. Temnov
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
053818 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Quantum theory of incoherent THz emission of an interacting electron-ion plasma
M. Richter, M. Schaarschmidt, A. Knorr, W. Hoyer, J. V. Moloney, E. M. Wright, M. Kira, and S. W. Koch
Published 31 May 2005 (9 pages)
053819 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Two-color ultraslow optical solitons via four-wave mixing in cold-atom media
Ying Wu
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
053820 [View PDF (143 kB)]

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Fundamental concepts

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Dependence of Berry’s phase for atom on a sign of the g factor in the rotating magnetic field
Atsuo Morinaga, Takatoshi Aoki, and Makoto Yasuhara
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
054101 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Resonant excitation amidst dephasing: An exact analytic solution
E. S. Kyoseva and N. V. Vitanov
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
054102 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Quantum information

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Many-region vacuum entanglement: Distilling a W state
Jonathan Silman and Benni Reznik
Published 4 May 2005 (3 pages)
054301 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Probabilistic implementation of a nonlocal operation using a nonmaximally entangled state
Lin Chen and Yi-Xin Chen
Published 17 May 2005 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Iterative procedure for computing accessible information in quantum communication
Jaroslav Řeháček, Berthold-Georg Englert, and Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
054303 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Upper bounds of a class of imperfect quantum sealing protocols
Guang-Ping He
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
054304 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Colliding atomic pair distribution in an ultralong-range Rydberg potential
L. G. Marcassa, A. L. de Oliveira, M. Weidemüller, and V. S. Bagnato
Published 11 May 2005 (4 pages)
054701 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Molecular fusion of (C60)N clusters in the gas phase after femtosecond laser irradiation
M. Hedén, K. Hansen, and E. E. B. Campbell
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
055201 [View PDF (254 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Interactions of twisted light with chiral molecules: An experimental investigation
F. Araoka, T. Verbiest, K. Clays, and A. Persoons
Published 11 May 2005 (3 pages)
055401 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Wave packet dynamics in a helical optical waveguide
Stefano Longhi
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
055402 [View PDF (338 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Squeezing as an irreducible resource
Samuel L. Braunstein
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
055801 [View PDF (47 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Classical simulation of quantum entanglement using optical transverse modes in multimode waveguides [Phys. Rev. A 70, 042313 (2004)]
Jian Fu, Zhijian Si, Shaofang Tang, and Jian Deng
Published 20 May 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
 
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