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Physical Review A – September 2005
Volume 72, Issue 3

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Measurement of the Casimir-Polder force through center-of-mass oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate
D. M. Harber, J. M. Obrecht, J. M. McGuirk, and E. A. Cornell
Published 13 September 2005 (6 pages)
033610 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

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Spin chains as perfect quantum state mirrors
Peter Karbach and Joachim Stolze
Published 29 September 2005 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (126 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Open shells in reduced-density-matrix-functional theory
N. N. Lathiotakis, N. Helbig, and E. K. U. Gross
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
030501(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Direct evidence of a strong isomer effect in electron-impact double ionization of C3H4
S. W. J. Scully, V. Senthil, J. A. Wyer, M. B. Shah, E. C. Montenegro, M. Kimura, and H. Tawara
Published 16 September 2005 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Simultaneous real-time tracking of wave packets evolving on two different potential curves in H2+ and D2+
A. S. Alnaser, B. Ulrich, X. M. Tong, I. V. Litvinyuk, C. M. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, T. Osipov, R. Ali, S. Ghimire, Z. Chang, C. D. Lin, and C. L. Cocke
Published 29 September 2005 (4 pages)
030702(R) [View PDF (347 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Simultaneous cooling and trapping of atoms by a single cavity-field mode
A. Vukics and P. Domokos
Published 6 September 2005 (4 pages)
031401(R) [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Dimensional crossover in Bragg scattering from an optical lattice
S. Slama, C. von Cube, A. Ludewig, M. Kohler, C. Zimmermann, and Ph. W. Courteille
Published 14 September 2005 (4 pages)
031402(R) [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Diffraction-contrast imaging of cold atoms
L. D. Turner, K. F. E. M. Domen, and R. E. Scholten
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
031403(R) [View PDF (284 kB)]

Matter waves

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Dynamic response of trapped ultracold bosons on optical lattices
G. G. Batrouni, F. F. Assaad, R. T. Scalettar, and P. J. H. Denteneer
Published 14 September 2005 (4 pages)
031601(R) [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Fractional-filling Mott domains in two-dimensional optical superlattices
P. Buonsante, V. Penna, and A. Vezzani
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
031602(R) [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation on a permanent-magnet atom chip
C. D. J. Sinclair, E. A. Curtis, I. Llorente Garcia, J. A. Retter, B. V. Hall, S. Eriksson, B. E. Sauer, and E. A. Hinds
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
031603(R) [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Quantum phase transitions in the Fermi–Bose Hubbard model
L. D. Carr and M. J. Holland
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
031604(R) [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Super-Gaussian mirror for high-field-seeking molecules
Guangjiong Dong, Sverker Edvadsson, Weiping Lu, and P. F. Barker
Published 29 September 2005 (4 pages)
031605(R) [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Limits to the flux of a continuous atom laser
N. P. Robins, A. K. Morrison, J. J. Hope, and J. D. Close
Published 29 September 2005 (4 pages)
031606(R) [View PDF (152 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Tunable whispering-gallery-mode resonators for cavity quantum electrodynamics
Y. Louyer, D. Meschede, and A. Rauschenbeutel
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
031801(R) [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Optically controlled delays for broadband pulses
Qingqing Sun, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Jonathan P. Dowling, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
031802(R) [View PDF (253 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Complex modes in unstable quadratic bosonic forms
R. Rossignoli and A. M. Kowalski
Published 2 September 2005 (5 pages)
032101 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Brownian entanglement
A. E. Allahverdyan, A. Khrennikov, and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 6 September 2005 (14 pages)
032102 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Adiabatic theorem for non-Hermitian time-dependent open systems
Avner Fleischer and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 8 September 2005 (11 pages)
032103 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Entanglement of a bipartite multiparticle mesoscopic superposition
A. N. Salgueiro
Published 9 September 2005 (6 pages)
032104 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Semiclassical propagation of coherent states using complex and real trajectories
Marcel Novaes and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar
Published 12 September 2005 (10 pages)
032105 [View PDF (707 kB)]
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Unstable particles as open quantum systems
Paweł Caban, Jakub Rembieliński, Kordian A. Smoliński, and Zbigniew Walczak
Published 14 September 2005 (9 pages)
032106 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Effective field theory program for conformal quantum anomalies
Horacio E. Camblong, Luis N. Epele, Huner Fanchiotti, Carlos A. García Canal, and Carlos R. Ordóñez
Published 19 September 2005 (6 pages)
032107 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Eigenstates of Möbius nanostructures including curvature effects
J. Gravesen and M. Willatzen
Published 21 September 2005 (5 pages)
032108 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Parity nonconservation in electron recombination of multiply charged ions
G. F. Gribakin, F. J. Currell, M. G. Kozlov, and A. I. Mikhailov
Published 22 September 2005 (9 pages)
032109 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission of a photon: Wave-packet structures and atom-photon entanglement
M. V. Fedorov, M. A. Efremov, A. E. Kazakov, K. W. Chan, C. K. Law, and J. H. Eberly
Published 22 September 2005 (13 pages)
032110 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Quantum chaos and the double-slit experiment
Giulio Casati and Tomaž Prosen
Published 29 September 2005 (4 pages)
032111 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Ground-state van der Waals forces in planar multilayer magnetodielectrics
Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, and Thomas Kampf
Published 30 September 2005 (16 pages)
032112 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic quantization of mechanical systems
Rafael J. Wysocki
Published 30 September 2005 (24 pages)
032113 [View PDF (254 kB)]

Quantum information

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Security of two quantum cryptography protocols using the same four qubit states
Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, Barbara Kraus, and Valerio Scarani
Published 1 September 2005 (18 pages)
032301 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Quantum-tomographic cryptography with a semiconductor single-photon source
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, L. C. Kwek, Lim Jenn Yang, Loói Shiang Yong, and Frederick H. Willeboordse
Published 1 September 2005 (7 pages)
032302 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Exact solution of the Z2 Chern-Simons model on a triangular lattice
B. Douçot and L. B. Ioffe
Published 2 September 2005 (7 pages)
032303 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Volume of separable states is super-doubly-exponentially small in the number of qubits
Stanislaw J. Szarek
Published 2 September 2005 (10 pages)
032304 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Optimal classical-communication-assisted local model of n-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations
Tracey E. Tessier, Carlton M. Caves, Ivan H. Deutsch, Bryan Eastin, and Dave Bacon
Published 6 September 2005 (5 pages)
032305 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Quantum-gate characterization in an extended Hilbert space
Peter P. Rohde, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, and Timothy C. Ralph
Published 6 September 2005 (5 pages)
032306 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Thresholds for linear optics quantum computing with photon loss at the detectors
Marcus Silva, Martin Rötteler, and Christof Zalka
Published 6 September 2005 (8 pages)
032307 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Generalization of quantum-state comparison
M. Kleinmann, H. Kampermann, and D. Bruß
Published 6 September 2005 (7 pages)
032308 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Entanglement observables and witnesses for interacting quantum spin systems
L.-A. Wu, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. S. Sarandy, and D. A. Lidar
Published 7 September 2005 (5 pages)
032309 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Minimax quantum-state discrimination
Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Massimiliano Federico Sacchi, and Jonas Kahn
Published 8 September 2005 (5 pages)
032310 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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n-qubit-controlled phase gate with superconducting quantum-interference devices coupled to a resonator
Chui-Ping Yang and Siyuan Han
Published 9 September 2005 (8 pages)
032311 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Multimode entanglement and telecloning in a noisy environment
Alessandro Ferraro and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 12 September 2005 (12 pages)
032312 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Entanglement distillation protocols and number theory
H. Bombin and M. A. Martin-Delgado
Published 13 September 2005 (17 pages)
032313 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Representation of complex rational numbers in quantum mechanics
Paul Benioff
Published 13 September 2005 (11 pages)
032314 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Compiling gate networks on an Ising quantum computer
M. D. Bowdrey, J. A. Jones, E. Knill, and R. Laflamme
Published 13 September 2005 (5 pages)
032315 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Quantum entanglement dynamics and decoherence wave in spin chains at finite temperatures
S. D. Hamieh and M. I. Katsnelson
Published 13 September 2005 (7 pages)
032316 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Quantum, classical, and total amount of correlations in a quantum state
Berry Groisman, Sandu Popescu, and Andreas Winter
Published 13 September 2005 (11 pages)
032317 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Quantum secret sharing schemes and reversibility of quantum operations
Tomohiro Ogawa, Akira Sasaki, Mitsugu Iwamoto, and Hirosuke Yamamoto
Published 14 September 2005 (7 pages)
032318 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Grover-algorithm-like operator using only single-qubit gates
G. Kato
Published 15 September 2005 (8 pages)
032319 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Security bound of two-basis quantum-key-distribution protocols using qudits
Georgios M. Nikolopoulos and Gernot Alber
Published 16 September 2005 (10 pages)
032320 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Higher-security thresholds for quantum key distribution by improved analysis of dark counts
J.-C. Boileau, J. Batuwantudawe, and R. Laflamme
Published 16 September 2005 (6 pages)
032321 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Better bound on the exponent of the radius of the multipartite separable ball
Leonid Gurvits and Howard Barnum
Published 16 September 2005 (12 pages)
032322 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Statistical properties of a quantum cellular automaton
Norio Inui, Shuichi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, and Norio Konno
Published 16 September 2005 (8 pages)
032323 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Local cloning of two product states
Zhengfeng Ji, Yuan Feng, and Mingsheng Ying
Published 19 September 2005 (5 pages)
032324 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Reexamination of optimal quantum state estimation of pure states
A. Hayashi, T. Hashimoto, and M. Horibe
Published 21 September 2005 (5 pages)
032325 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Error tolerance in an NMR implementation of Grover’s fixed-point quantum search algorithm
Li Xiao and Jonathan A. Jones
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
032326 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Entangling power of permutation-invariant quantum states
Vladislav Popkov, Mario Salerno, and Gunter Schütz
Published 22 September 2005 (6 pages)
032327 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Quasideterministic generation of maximally entangled states of two mesoscopic atomic ensembles by adiabatic quantum feedback
Antonio Di Lisi, Silvio De Siena, Fabrizio Illuminati, and David Vitali
Published 23 September 2005 (7 pages)
032328 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Scalable networks for discrete quantum random walks
S. Fujiwara, H. Osaki, I. M. Buluta, and S. Hasegawa
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
032329 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Coulomb entangler and entanglement-testing network for waveguide qubits
Linda E. Reichl and Michael G. Snyder
Published 26 September 2005 (6 pages)
032330 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Broadcasting of entanglement at a distance using linear optics and telecloning of entanglement
Iulia Ghiu and Anders Karlsson
Published 26 September 2005 (10 pages)
032331 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Fault-tolerant dissipative preparation of atomic quantum registers with fermions
A. Griessner, A. J. Daley, D. Jaksch, and P. Zoller
Published 28 September 2005 (11 pages)
032332 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Robust quantum gates on neutral atoms with cavity-assisted photon scattering
L.-M. Duan, B. Wang, and H. J. Kimble
Published 28 September 2005 (4 pages)
032333 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Gaussian measures of entanglement versus negativities: Ordering of two-mode Gaussian states
Gerardo Adesso and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 28 September 2005 (13 pages)
032334 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Probabilistic cloning with supplementary information
Koji Azuma, Junichi Shimamura, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 28 September 2005 (6 pages)
032335 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Inefficiency and classical communication bounds for conversion between partially entangled pure bipartite states
Ben Fortescue and Hoi-Kwong Lo
Published 28 September 2005 (7 pages)
032336 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Connection between entanglement and the speed of quantum evolution
J. Batle, M. Casas, A. Plastino, and A. R. Plastino
Published 29 September 2005 (5 pages)
032337 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Quantum detection with uncertain states
Noam Elron and Yonina C. Eldar
Published 29 September 2005 (11 pages)
032338 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Entanglement of bosonic modes in symmetric graphs
M. Asoudeh and V. Karimipour
Published 30 September 2005 (9 pages)
032339 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Robustness of a quantum key distribution with two and three mutually unbiased bases
F. Caruso, H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci, and C. Macchiavello
Published 30 September 2005 (8 pages)
032340 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Analytic evaluation of the amplitudes for orthopositronium decay to three photons to one-loop order
Gregory S. Adkins
Published 12 September 2005 (11 pages)
032501 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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State-selective detection of near-dissociation ultracold KRb X 1Σ+ and a 3Σ+ molecules
D. Wang, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley
Published 13 September 2005 (6 pages)
032502 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Expectation values of the e+He(3Se) system
J. Mitroy
Published 21 September 2005 (6 pages)
032503 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Exact and approximate exchange potentials investigated in terms of their matrix elements with the Kohn-Sham orbitals
A. Holas and M. Cinal
Published 22 September 2005 (22 pages)
032504 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Determination of wave-function functionals: The constrained-search variational method
Xiao-Yin Pan, Viraht Sahni, and Lou Massa
Published 22 September 2005 (10 pages)
032505 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Absolute frequency measurements in Yb with 0.08 ppb uncertainty: Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure in the 399-nm 1S0→1P1 line
Dipankar Das, Sachin Barthwal, Ayan Banerjee, and Vasant Natarajan
Published 23 September 2005 (7 pages)
032506 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Application of relativistic coupled-cluster theory to heavy atomic systems with strongly interacting configurations: Hyperfine interactions in 207Pb+
Bijaya K. Sahoo, Rajat K. Chaudhuri, B. P. Das, Holger Merlitz, and Debashis Mukherjee
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
032507 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Exact solutions for perturbed confined hydrogen atoms: Polarizabilities and nuclear shielding factors
B. L. Burrows and M. Cohen
Published 27 September 2005 (6 pages)
032508 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission of a cesium atom near a nanofiber: Efficient coupling of light to guided modes
Fam Le Kien, S. Dutta Gupta, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta
Published 28 September 2005 (7 pages)
032509 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Variational two-electron reduced density matrix theory for many-electron atoms and molecules: Implementation of the spin- and symmetry-adapted T2 condition through first-order semidefinite programming
David A. Mazziotti
Published 30 September 2005 (11 pages)
032510 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Signature of chaos in high-lying doubly excited states of the helium atom
Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, X.-M. Tong, and C. D. Lin
Published 30 September 2005 (14 pages)
032511 [View PDF (1,132 kB)]
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Relativistic multireference many-body perturbation calculations on multi-valence-electron systems: Benchmarks on Zn-like ions
Marius J. Vilkas and Yasuyuki Ishikawa
Published 30 September 2005 (10 pages)
032512 [View PDF (396 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Wave-packet study of the products formed in dissociative recombination of HeH+
Å. Larson and A. E. Orel
Published 1 September 2005 (13 pages)
032701 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Exchange distortion and postcollision interaction for intermediate-energy electron-impact ionization of argon
A. Prideaux, D. H. Madison, and K. Bartschat
Published 2 September 2005 (6 pages)
032702 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Polarizabilities of Sc and Ti atoms and dispersion coefficients for their interaction with helium atoms
Xi Chu, Alexander Dalgarno, and Gerrit C. Groenenboom
Published 7 September 2005 (5 pages)
032703 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Control of mixed-state quantum systems by a train of short pulses
D. Sugny, A. Keller, O. Atabek, D. Daems, C. M. Dion, S. Guérin, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 9 September 2005 (10 pages)
032704 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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(e,2e) and (e,3−1e) studies on double processes of He at large momentum transfer
N. Watanabe, Y. Khajuria, M. Takahashi, Y. Udagawa, P. S. Vinitsky, Yu. V. Popov, O. Chuluunbaatar, and K. A. Kouzakov
Published 9 September 2005 (11 pages)
032705 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Dissociation dynamics of excited neutral fragments of gaseous SiCl4 following Si 2p and Cl 2p core-level excitations
J. M. Chen, K. T. Lu, J. M. Lee, S. C. Ho, and H. W. Chang
Published 9 September 2005 (4 pages)
032706 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ionization cross sections of small cationic carbon clusters in high-energy collisions with helium atoms and stability of multiply charged species
F. Mezdari, K. Wohrer-Béroff, M. Chabot, G. Martinet, S. Della Negrâ, P. Désesquelles, H. Hamrita, and A. LePadellec
Published 9 September 2005 (7 pages)
032707 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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H2 and N2 ionization and dissociative ionization by C− and O− ions at intermediate velocities: Direct and electron loss channels
A. L. F. de Barros, S. Martínez, F. Zappa, S. Suárez, G. Bernardi, Ginette Jalbert, L. F. S. Coelho, and N. V. de Castro Faria
Published 9 September 2005 (5 pages)
032708 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Solution for boson-diboson elastic scattering at zero energy in the shape-independent model
J. H. Macek, Serge Ovchinnikov, and Gustavo Gasaneo
Published 9 September 2005 (9 pages)
032709 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Manifestations of the Efimov effect for three identical bosons
J. P. D’Incao and B. D. Esry
Published 12 September 2005 (9 pages)
032710 [View PDF (946 kB)]
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Young-type interference pattern in molecular inner-shell excitations by electron impact
Mario Barbatti, Alexandre B. Rocha, and Carlos E. Bielschowsky
Published 12 September 2005 (6 pages)
032711 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Scattering theory for arbitrary potentials
A. S. Kadyrov, I. Bray, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and A. T. Stelbovics
Published 13 September 2005 (7 pages)
032712 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of Pbq+ ions for q=1–10
S. D. Loch, J. A. Ludlow, M. S. Pindzola, F. Scheuermann, K. Kramer, B. Fabian, K. Huber, and E. Salzborn
Published 14 September 2005 (11 pages)
032713 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Distorted-wave theory for positron-hydrogen collisions
Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal
Published 14 September 2005 (20 pages)
032714 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of hydrogen and lithiumlike systems
M. A. Uddin, A. K. F. Haque, A. K. Basak, K. R. Karim, and B. C. Saha
Published 14 September 2005 (8 pages)
032715 [View PDF (919 kB)]
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Effect of the Rydberg states on the time evolution of nonstationary states below or just above the ionization threshold
Yannis Komninos and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
Published 15 September 2005 (7 pages)
032716 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Long-range scattering resonances in strong-field-seeking states of polar molecules
Christopher Ticknor and John L. Bohn
Published 15 September 2005 (8 pages)
032717 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Final state selection in the 4p photoemission of Rb by combining laser spectroscopy with soft-x-ray photoionization
J. Schulz, M. Tchaplyguine, T. Rander, H. Bergersen, A. Lindblad, G. Öhrwall, S. Svensson, S. Heinäsmäki, R. Sankari, S. Osmekhin, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela
Published 16 September 2005 (4 pages)
032718 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Charge transfer between S2+ and He: A comparative study of quantal and semiclassical approaches
L. B. Zhao, P. C. Stancil, J.-P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, T. W. Imai, and M. Kimura
Published 19 September 2005 (9 pages)
032719 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Matrix elements of many-body operators and density correlations
Christian Brouder
Published 21 September 2005 (11 pages)
032720 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Interference effects for low-energy electron-impact ionization of nitrogen molecules
Junfang Gao, D. H. Madison, and J. L. Peacher
Published 21 September 2005 (5 pages)
032721 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium distribution functions for general rigid bodies in axially symmetric environments
M. Thachuk
Published 21 September 2005 (10 pages)
032722 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Photodetachment of the outer shell of C− in the excited 2D state
H.-L. Zhou, S. T. Manson, A. Hibbert, L. Vo Ky, and N. Feautrier
Published 21 September 2005 (12 pages)
032723 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Metastable trapping of low-energy positrons by cubane: A computational experiment
F. A. Gianturco, P. Nichols, T. L. Gibson, and R. R. Lucchese
Published 21 September 2005 (11 pages)
032724 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Charge-exchange-produced K-shell x-ray emission from Ar16+ in a tokamak plasma with neutral-beam injection
P. Beiersdorfer, M. Bitter, M. Marion, and R. E. Olson
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
032725 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Diffraction in resonant electron scattering from helical macromolecules: Effects of the DNA backbone
Laurent Caron and Léon Sanche
Published 26 September 2005 (6 pages)
032726 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Near-threshold behavior of angular anisotropy parameters in negative-ion photodetachment
M. Ya. Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, L. V. Chernysheva, Z. Felfli, and A. Z. Msezane
Published 26 September 2005 (7 pages)
032727 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Three bosons in one dimension with short-range interactions: Zero-range potentials
Nirav P. Mehta and James R. Shepard
Published 28 September 2005 (12 pages)
032728 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of Mo+
J. A. Ludlow, S. D. Loch, and M. S. Pindzola
Published 29 September 2005 (7 pages)
032729 [View PDF (103 kB)]

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

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Ionization distances of Rydberg atoms approaching solid surfaces in the presence of weak electric fields
N. N. Nedeljković and Lj. D. Nedeljković
Published 30 September 2005 (13 pages)
032901 [View PDF (337 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Hyperangular momenta and energy partitions in multidimensional many-particle classical mechanics: The invariance approach to cluster dynamics
Mikhail B. Sevryuk, Andrea Lombardi, and Vincenzo Aquilanti
Published 9 September 2005 (28 pages)
033201 [View PDF (330 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Fourth-rank hypermagnetizability of medium-size planar conjugated molecules and fullerene
G. I. Pagola, S. Pelloni, M. C. Caputo, M. B. Ferraro, and P. Lazzeretti
Published 1 September 2005 (8 pages)
033401 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Free-electron quantum signatures in intense laser fields
Mohammad Mahmoudi, Yousef I. Salamin, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 2 September 2005 (7 pages)
033402 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Creation of arbitrary coherent superposition states by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
Z. Kis, N. V. Vitanov, A. Karpati, C. Barthel, and K. Bergmann
Published 9 September 2005 (10 pages)
033403 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Autoresonant excitation and control of molecular degrees of freedom in three dimensions
Gilad Marcus, Lazar Friedland, and Arie Zigler
Published 12 September 2005 (9 pages)
033404 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Classical calculation of radiative lifetimes of atomic hydrogen in a homogeneous magnetic field
M. W. Horbatsch, E. A. Hessels, and M. Horbatsch
Published 14 September 2005 (5 pages)
033405 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Multidimensional laser cooling of broad- and narrow-line 0↔1 dipole transitions
Daniel J. Phalen, Colin C. Young, Su Yi, and Han Pu
Published 14 September 2005 (8 pages)
033406 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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High-order harmonic generation in the presence of a static electric field
S. Odžak and D. B. Milošević
Published 14 September 2005 (9 pages)
033407 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Model for collisions in ultracold-atom mixtures
M. Anderlini, D. Ciampini, D. Cossart, E. Courtade, M. Cristiani, C. Sias, O. Morsch, and E. Arimondo
Published 14 September 2005 (9 pages)
033408 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Optical lattice clock with atoms confined in a shallow trap
Pierre Lemonde and Peter Wolf
Published 16 September 2005 (8 pages)
033409 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Selection rules for laser-assisted electron-atom collisions with the laser field normal to the scattering plane
K. M. Dunseath, M. Terao-Dunseath, and G. Bourhis
Published 19 September 2005 (9 pages)
033410 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Evaporative cooling of a guided rubidium atomic beam
T. Lahaye, Z. Wang, G. Reinaudi, S. P. Rath, J. Dalibard, and D. Guéry-Odelin
Published 19 September 2005 (9 pages)
033411 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Alignment dependence of high-order harmonic generation from N2 and O2 molecules in intense laser fields
XiaoXin Zhou, X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin
Published 19 September 2005 (7 pages)
033412 [View PDF (678 kB)]
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Intense laser dissociation of D2+: From experiment to theory
V. Serov, A. Keller, O. Atabek, H. Figger, and D. Pavicic
Published 20 September 2005 (9 pages)
033413 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Field-ionization processes in high Rydberg states of Rb under a rotating electric field
S. Yamada, H. Funahashi, M. Shibata, K. Kominato, Y. Kishimoto, M. Tada, T. Haseyama, I. Ogawa, S. Matsuki, and K. Yamamoto
Published 20 September 2005 (8 pages)
033414 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Sub-Doppler cooling in reduced-period optical lattice geometries
P. R. Berman, G. Raithel, R. Zhang, and V. S. Malinovsky
Published 21 September 2005 (11 pages)
033415 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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N-electron giant dipole states in crossed electric and magnetic fields
Sascha Zöllner, Hans-Dieter Meyer, and Peter Schmelcher
Published 23 September 2005 (18 pages)
033416 [View PDF (839 kB)]
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Amplitude- versus frequency-modulated pumping light for coherent population trapping resonances at high buffer-gas pressure
A. B. Post, Y.-Y. Jau, N. N. Kuzma, and W. Happer
Published 27 September 2005 (17 pages)
033417 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Incorporation of a wave-packet propagation method into the S-matrix framework: Investigation of the effects of excited state dynamics on intense-field ionization
Manabu Kanno, Tsuyoshi Kato, Hirohiko Kono, Yuichi Fujimura, and Farhad H. M. Faisal
Published 28 September 2005 (14 pages)
033418 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Asymptotic symmetries in an optical lattice
Giuseppe Gaeta
Published 30 September 2005 (3 pages)
033419 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Matter waves

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Outcoupling from a Bose-Einstein condensate with squeezed light to produce entangled-atom laser beams
S. A. Haine and J. J. Hope
Published 1 September 2005 (10 pages)
033601 [View PDF (713 kB)]
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Period doubling, two-color lattices, and the growth of swallowtails in Bose-Einstein condensates
B. T. Seaman, L. D. Carr, and M. J. Holland
Published 6 September 2005 (10 pages)
033602 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Fingerprints of classical chaos in manipulation of cold atoms in the dynamical tunneling experiments
Shmuel Osovski and Nimrod Moiseyev
Published 7 September 2005 (13 pages)
033603 [View PDF (1,470 kB)]
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Quantum and thermal fluctuations of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
V. I. Kruglov, M. K. Olsen, and M. J. Collett
Published 7 September 2005 (13 pages)
033604 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Resonance solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Tunneling lifetime and fragmentation of trapped condensates
Nimrod Moiseyev and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Published 9 September 2005 (8 pages)
033605 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Laser cooling down to molecular condensate
J. Dziarmaga and Maciej Lewenstein
Published 9 September 2005 (7 pages)
033606 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Quantum-noise properties of matter-wave gap solitons
Ray-Kuang Lee, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Yinchieh Lai
Published 9 September 2005 (6 pages)
033607 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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Modified semiclassical approximation for trapped Bose gases
V. I. Yukalov
Published 12 September 2005 (6 pages)
033608 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Holstein model and Peierls instability in one-dimensional boson-fermion lattice gases
E. Pazy and A. Vardi
Published 13 September 2005 (5 pages)
033609 [View PDF (413 kB)]
Measurement of the Casimir-Polder force through center-of-mass oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate
D. M. Harber, J. M. Obrecht, J. M. McGuirk, and E. A. Cornell
Published 13 September 2005 (6 pages)
033610 [View PDF (281 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Exact soliton solutions and nonlinear modulation instability in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Lu Li, Zaidong Li, Boris A. Malomed, Dumitru Mihalache, and W. M. Liu
Published 14 September 2005 (11 pages)
033611 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Quantum squeezing and entanglement in a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate with time-dependent Josephson-like coupling
S. Choi and N. P. Bigelow
Published 16 September 2005 (10 pages)
033612 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Exact ground state of finite Bose-Einstein condensates on a ring
Kaspar Sakmann, Alexej I. Streltsov, Ofir E. Alon, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Published 20 September 2005 (14 pages)
033613 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Matter-wave solitons of collisionally inhomogeneous condensates
G. Theocharis, P. Schmelcher, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 22 September 2005 (9 pages)
033614 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Management of matter waves in optical lattices by means of the Feshbach resonance
V. A. Brazhnyi and V. V. Konotop
Published 22 September 2005 (16 pages)
033615 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Ultracold atoms confined in an optical lattice plus parabolic potential: A closed-form approach
Ana Maria Rey, Guido Pupillo, Charles W. Clark, and Carl J. Williams
Published 22 September 2005 (17 pages)
033616 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Gap-Townes solitons and localized excitations in low-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev and Mario Salerno
Published 23 September 2005 (12 pages)
033617 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Dark soliton past a finite-size obstacle
Nicolas Bilas and Nicolas Pavloff
Published 23 September 2005 (14 pages)
033618 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Dynamic structure factor of the one-dimensional Bose gas near the Tonks-Girardeau limit
Joachim Brand and Alexander Yu. Cherny
Published 28 September 2005 (4 pages)
033619 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Symbiotic solitons in heteronuclear multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates
Víctor M. Pérez-García and Juan Belmonte Beitia
Published 30 September 2005 (5 pages)
033620 [View PDF (321 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Two-photon-state generation via four-wave mixing in optical fibers
Jun Chen, Xiaoying Li, and Prem Kumar
Published 2 September 2005 (9 pages)
033801 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Generation and detection of magnified images via illumination by entangled photon pairs
Ivan F. Santos, Leonardo Neves, G. Lima, C. H. Monken, and S. Pádua
Published 8 September 2005 (5 pages)
033802 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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How focused pumping affects type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion
P. S. K. Lee, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
Published 8 September 2005 (5 pages)
033803 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Wideband pulse propagation: Single-field and multifield approaches to Raman interactions
P. Kinsler and G. H. C. New
Published 8 September 2005 (5 pages)
033804 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Theory of a single-atom laser including light forces
Thomas Salzburger, Peter Domokos, and Helmut Ritsch
Published 8 September 2005 (10 pages)
033805 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Entangled photon pair generation by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in finite-length one-dimensional photonic crystals
M. Centini, J. Peřina, Jr., L. Sciscione, C. Sibilia, M. Scalora, M. J. Bloemer, and M. Bertolotti
Published 9 September 2005 (11 pages)
033806 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Breakdown of the Born approximation in laser phase-noise to amplitude-noise conversion
J. J. Townsend, J. G. Coffer, and J. C. Camparo
Published 9 September 2005 (3 pages)
033807 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Model for passive mode locking in semiconductor lasers
Andrei G. Vladimirov and Dmitry Turaev
Published 12 September 2005 (13 pages)
033808 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Squeezing in a Λ-type three-level atom via spontaneously generated coherence
Isabel Gonzalo, M. A. Antón, F. Carreño, and Oscar G. Calderón
Published 13 September 2005 (13 pages)
033809 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Maps of the dynamics of an optically injected solid-state laser
Simo Valling, Thomas Fordell, and Åsa Marie Lindberg
Published 13 September 2005 (8 pages)
033810 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Effects of injected atomic coherence in broad-area lasers
Oscar G. Calderón, Eduardo Cabrera, F. Carreño, M. A. Antón, Sonia Melle, and J. M. Guerra
Published 14 September 2005 (7 pages)
033811 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Beat-note interferometer for direct phase measurement of photonic information
Yong-Fan Chen, Yu-Chen Liu, Zen-Hsiang Tsai, Shih-Hao Wang, and Ite A. Yu
Published 14 September 2005 (4 pages)
033812 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Distance-based degrees of polarization for a quantum field
A. B. Klimov, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, E. C. Yustas, J. Söderholm, and G. Björk
Published 16 September 2005 (7 pages)
033813 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Phase-space reconstruction of an atomic chaotic system
Hugo L. D. de Souza Cavalcante, Carlos Renato de Carvalho, and Jean Claude Garreau
Published 16 September 2005 (6 pages)
033814 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Quantum random walk of the field in an externally driven cavity
G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak
Published 16 September 2005 (6 pages)
033815 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Optically induced forces and torques: Interactions between nanoparticles in a laser beam
David S. Bradshaw and David L. Andrews
Published 16 September 2005 (14 pages)
033816 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Generation of a strong attosecond pulse train with an orthogonally polarized two-color laser field
Chul Min Kim, I Jong Kim, and Chang Hee Nam
Published 19 September 2005 (7 pages)
033817 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Measuring the quality factor of a microwave cavity using superconducting qubit devices
Yu-xi Liu, L. F. Wei, and Franco Nori
Published 20 September 2005 (8 pages)
033818 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Slow-light dynamics of large-bandwidth pulses in warm rubidium vapor
Mark Bashkansky, Guy Beadie, Zachary Dutton, Fredrik K. Fatemi, John Reintjes, and Michael Steiner
Published 20 September 2005 (5 pages)
033819 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Quantum analysis of the nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator with injected signal
B. Coutinho dos Santos, K. Dechoum, A. Z. Khoury, L. F. da Silva, and M. K. Olsen
Published 22 September 2005 (11 pages)
033820 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Thermal emission and absorption of radiation in finite inverted-opal photonic crystals
Marian Florescu, Hwang Lee, Andrew J. Stimpson, and Jonathan Dowling
Published 22 September 2005 (9 pages)
033821 [View PDF (971 kB)]
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Conditional generation of arbitrary single-mode quantum states of light by repeated photon subtractions
Jaromír Fiurášek, Raúl García-Patrón, and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 23 September 2005 (11 pages)
033822 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Light intensity-voltage correlations and leakage-current excess noise in a single-mode semiconductor laser
I. Maurin, I. Protsenko, J.-P. Hermier, A. Bramati, P. Grangier, and E. Giacobino
Published 27 September 2005 (11 pages)
033823 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Off-resonant preparation of a vibrational coherence for enhanced stimulated Raman scattering
S. Gundry, M. P. Anscombe, A. M. Abdulla, S. D. Hogan, E. Sali, J. W. G. Tisch, and J. P. Marangos
Published 27 September 2005 (13 pages)
033824 [View PDF (1,085 kB)]
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Intensity spiral patterns in a semiconductor microresonator
Ye. Larionova, O. Egorov, E. Cabrera-Granado, and A. Esteban-Martin
Published 30 September 2005 (6 pages)
033825 [View PDF (425 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Generating optimal states for a homodyne Bell test
Sonja Daffer and Peter L. Knight
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
034101 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Surface screening in the Casimir force
Ana M. Contreras-Reyes and W. Luis Mochán
Published 13 September 2005 (4 pages)
034102 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Decoherence induced by a composite environment
Fernando C. Lombardo and Paula I. Villar
Published 30 September 2005 (4 pages)
034103 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Vacuum force on an atom in a magnetodielectric cavity
M. S. Tomaš
Published 30 September 2005 (4 pages)
034104 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Two-level quantum dynamics, integrability, and unitary NOT gates
Renato M. Angelo and Walter F. Wreszinski
Published 30 September 2005 (4 pages)
034105 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Quantum information

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Multipartite entanglement preparation and quantum communication with atomic ensembles
Chao Han, Peng Xue, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
034301 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Thermal entanglement in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ spin chain under an inhomogeneous magnetic field
Guo-Feng Zhang and Shu-Shen Li
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
034302 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Unmodulated spin chains as universal quantum wires
Antoni Wójcik, Tomasz Łuczak, Paweł Kurzyński, Andrzej Grudka, Tomasz Gdala, and Małgorzata Bednarska
Published 8 September 2005 (3 pages)
034303 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Generation of entangled states in cavity QED
Liu Ye, Long-Bao Yu, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
034304 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Using weak nonlinearity under decoherence for macroscopic entanglement generation and quantum computation
Hyunseok Jeong
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
034305 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Simple scheme for the two-qubit Grover search in cavity QED
Z. J. Deng, M. Feng, and K. L. Gao
Published 26 September 2005 (4 pages)
034306 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Quantum nondemolition measurement saturates fidelity trade-off
Ladislav Mišta, Jr. and Radim Filip
Published 30 September 2005 (4 pages)
034307 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Suggested search for 207Pb nuclear Schiff moment in PbTiO3 ferroelectric
T. N. Mukhamedjanov and O. P. Sushkov
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
034501 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Scaling law for total electron-impact ionization cross sections of Li-like ions
L. U. Ancarani and P.-A. Hervieux
Published 15 September 2005 (4 pages)
034701 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Triple photodetachment from the Cl− ion
J. Sandström, I. Alvarez, D. Calabrese, C. Cisneros, A. M. Covington, V. T. Davis, M. S. Gulley, M. Halka, D. Hanstorp, F. S. Schlachter, J. S. Thompson, and D. J. Pegg
Published 16 September 2005 (3 pages)
034702 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Circular dichroism in classical Coulomb scattering involving bremsstrahlung
A. A. Krylovetsky, N. L. Manakov, S. I. Marmo, and Anthony F. Starace
Published 16 September 2005 (4 pages)
035401 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Spontaneously generated coherence and dark states
P. R. Berman
Published 16 September 2005 (4 pages)
035801 [View PDF (62 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum teleportation of an arbitrary two-qubit state and its relation to multipartite entanglement”
Fu-Guo Deng
Published 14 September 2005 (2 pages)
036301 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum secret sharing based on reusable Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states as secure carriers”
Fei Gao, Fen-Zhuo Guo, Qiao-Yan Wen, and Fu-Chen Zhu
Published 20 September 2005 (2 pages)
036302 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Comment on “Large enhancement of four-wave mixing by suppression of photon absorption from electromagnetically induced transparency”
Roberto Buffa, Stefano Cavalieri, and Marco V. Tognetti
Published 15 September 2005 (3 pages)
037801 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Large enhancement of four-wave mixing by suppression of photon absorption from electromagnetically induced transparency’ ”
Ying Wu, Joseph Saldana, and Yifu Zhu
Published 15 September 2005 (2 pages)
037802 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Anisotropic pseudopotential for polarized dilute quantum gases [Phys. Rev. A 67, 033607 (2003)]
Andrei Derevianko
Published 8 September 2005 (2 pages)
039901(E) [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum logic gate operation and entanglement with superconducting quantum interference devices in a cavity via a Raman transition [Phys. Rev. A 71, 052310 (2005)]
Ke-Hui Song, Zheng-Wei Zhou, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 8 September 2005 (2 pages)
039902(E) [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Realization of positive-operator-valued measures using measurement-assisted programmable quantum processors [Phys. Rev. 72, 022343 (2005)]
Mário Ziman and Vladimír Bužek
Published 9 September 2005 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Mean field dynamics of superfluid-insulator phase transition in a gas of ultra cold atoms [Phys. Rev. A 71, 043601 (2005)]
Jakub Zakrzewski
Published 12 September 2005 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Erratum: Arbitrarily accurate composite pulse sequences [Phys. Rev. A 70, 052318 (2004)]
Kenneth R. Brown, Aram W. Harrow, and Isaac L. Chuang
Published 20 September 2005 (1 page)
039905(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Quantum-gate characterization in an extended Hilbert space [Phys. Rev. 72, 032306 (2005)]
Peter P. Rohde, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, and Timothy C. Ralph
Published 21 September 2005 (1 page)
039906(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
 
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