Volume 48, Issue 6

December 1993

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effect of rotations on stabilization in high-intensity photodissociation of $H_{2}^{+}$

E. E. Aubanel, A. Conjusteau, and A. D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4011(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Vibrational dependence of negative-ion formation by dissociative attachment of low-energy electrons

M. Külz, A. Kortyna, M. Keil, B. Schellhaaβ, and K. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4015(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Competition between atomic and molecular Auger decays: Study of the resonant Auger decay of HBr after the Br 3d→ $σ^{*}$ transition

Z. F. Liu, G. M. Bancroft, K. H. Tan, and M. Schachter

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4019(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Reflection beam splitter for multilevel atoms

R. Deutschmann, W. Ertmer, and H. Wallis

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4023(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Possibility of breakdown of atomic stabilization in an intense high-frequency field

Alejandro Bugacov, Marcel Pont, and Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4027(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Nonlinear effects of radiation trapping in ground-state oriented sodium vapor

G. Ankerhold, M. Schiffer, D. Mutschall, T. Scholz, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4031(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Continuous polarization-gradient precooling-assisted velocity-selective coherent population trapping

M. S. Shahriar, P. R. Hemmer, M. G. Prentiss, P. Marte, J. Mervis, D. P. Katz, N. P. Bigelow, and T. Cai

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4035(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Quantum Optics

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Necessity of sine-cosine joint measurement

G. M. D’Ariano and M. G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4039(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Interplay of linear and nonlinear effects in the formation of optical vortices in a nonlinear resonator

G. L. Lippi, T. Ackemann, L. M. Hoffer, A. Gahl, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4043(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Radial squeezed states and Rydberg wave packets

Robert Bluhm and V. Alan Kostelecký

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4047(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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High-order harmonic emission from mixed fields

Michael D. Perry and John K. Crane

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4051(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Lasing without inversion: Gain enhancement through spectrally colored population pumping

Girish S. Agarwal, Gautam Vemuri, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4055(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

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Multiphoton dissociation for coherent and incoherent fields

S. Miret-Artés and D. A. Micha

Phys. Rev. A 48, R4059(R) (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

ARTICLES

Fundamental Concepts

Quantum-statistical properties of a particle in a double-harmonic-oscillator potential: Generation of Schrödinger-cat states

G. V. Varada and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4062 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Canonical quantization of four- and five-dimensional U(1) gauge theories

N. Shnerb and L. P. Horwitz

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4068 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Path-integral Monte Carlo method in quantum statistics for a system of N identical fermions

A. P. Lyubartsev and P. N. Vorontsov-Velyaminov

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4075 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Measurements, errors, and negative kinetic energy

Yakir Aharonov, Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich, and Lev Vaidman

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4084 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Energy and β-function solutions to relativistic Hamiltonians with Coulombic and linear potentials

E. Papp

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4091 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Functional representations in non-Fourier basis with applications

R. K. Pathak, A. K. Chandra, and K. Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4097 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Quantized geometry associated with uncertainty and correlation

Sumiyoshi Abe

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4102 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atomic and Molecular Structure

Anapole moments of atoms

Robert R. Lewis

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4107 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Large-scale multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock calculations of hyperfine-interaction constants for low-lying states in beryllium, boron, and carbon

Per Jönsson and Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4113 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Weak and nucleoweak decays of muonic molecules

L. Chatterjee, A. Chakraborty, and S. Mondal

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4124 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Muonic-molecule formation in a high-density D-T system: Application to a solid phase

Kenji Fukushima

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4130 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Radiative lifetimes of triply excited states of the Li isoelectronic sequence

Nicos A. Piangos and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4142 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Upper and lower bounds on the radial electron density in atoms

J. Antolín, A. Zarzo, and J. C. Angulo

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4149 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Application of unitary-group methods to composite systems

R. D. Kent and M. Schlesinger

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4156 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Preconvolving theoretical photoabsorption cross sections using multichannel quantum-defect theory

F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4162 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Riccati-Padé quantization and oscillators V(r)= ${gr}^{α}$

Francisco M. Fernández, R. Guardiola, and M. Znojil

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4170 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Hydrogen atom in a high magnetic field

Der-San Chuu and Yu-Kuo Lee

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4175 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Classical mechanics of two-electron atoms

Klaus Richter, Gregor Tanner, and Dieter Wintgen

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4182 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Weighted-density exchange and local-density Coulomb correlation energy functionals for finite systems: Application to atoms

O. V. Gritsenko, N. A. Cordero, A. Rubio, L. C. Balbás, and J. A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4197 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Elementary approximate derivations of some retarded Casimir interactions involving one or two dielectric walls

Larry Spruch and Yoel Tikochinsky

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4213 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Retarded Casimir interaction in the asymptotic domain of an electron and a dielectric wall

Yoel Tikochinsky and Larry Spruch

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4223 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Retarded electric and magnetic Casimir interaction of a polarizable system and a dielectric permeable wall

Yoel Tikochinsky and Larry Spruch

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4236 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

Fast inelastic ion-ion, ion-electron, and ion-positron collisions

M. C. Chidichimo, D. W. Schranz, and B. Zygelman

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4245 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Intermediate-velocity atomic collisions. VI. Screening, antiscreening, and related processes in ${He}^{+}$ +( $H_{2}$ , He)

E. C. Montenegro, W. S. Melo, W. E. Meyerhof, and A. G. de Pinho

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4259 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Results from the nonrelativistic dipole-approximation theory of two-photon electron bremsstrahlung in the Coulomb field

M. Dondera and Viorica Florescu

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4267 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Path-integral approach to resonant electron-molecule scattering. II. Second-order cumulant approximation and multimode applications

M. Winterstetter and W. Domcke

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4272 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Electron-impact ionization of ${In}^{+}$ and ${Xe}^{+}$

E. W. Bell, N. Djurić, and G. H. Dunn

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4286 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Electron-impact excitation of the n=3 and n=2 states of a hydrogen atom at intermediate (14–100-eV) energies

J. Callaway and K. Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4292 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Theoretical investigations of charge exchange with ion excitation in atomic collisions at thermal energies

Andrey K. Belyaev

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4299 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Laser-induced-resonance calculations for the photodissociation of $H_{2}^{+}$ in an adiabatic electronic-field representation using the radiation-field gauge

S. Manoli and T. T. Nguyen-Dang

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4307 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Test of local model potentials for positron scattering from rare gases

F. A. Gianturco, Ashok Jain, and J. A. Rodriguez-Ruiz

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4321 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Quantal and classical differential-scattering calculations for the electron-impact excitation of argon ions

M. S. Pindzola, D. R. Schultz, and D. C. Griffin

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4333 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Ne ionization induced by the impact of 106-keV/u $H^{+}$ and ${}^{3}{He}^{2 +}$ : Two-center effects on the soft-electron emission

S. Suárez, C. Garibotti, G. Bernardi, P. Focke, and W. Meckbach

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4339 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Temperature dependence of He(2 ${}^{3}$ $P_{J}$ ) reactions: Collision-induced mixing and conversion to ${He}_{2}$ ( ${}^{3}Π_{g}$ ) molecules

X. Zhao, P. A. Soletsky, W. H. Bryan, F. B. Dunning, and G. K. Walters

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4350 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Extreme-ultraviolet absorption spectrum of ${Ga}^{+}$

P. Dunne, G. O’Sullivan, and V. K. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4358 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Energy approach to consistent QED theory for calculation of electron-collision strengths: Ne-like ions

L. N. Ivanov, E. P. Ivanova, and L. V. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4365 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Single-, double-, and triple-photoionization cross sections of carbon monoxide (CO) and ionic fragmentation of ${CO}^{+}$ , ${CO}^{2 +}$ , and ${CO}^{3 +}$

Toshio Masuoka and Eiken Nakamura

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4379 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Satellite structure of the neon valence shell by electron-momentum spectroscopy

O. Samardzic, S. W. Braidwood, E. Weigold, and M. J. Brunger

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4390 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Population of high-L sulfur Rydberg levels by ion–Rydberg-atom charge exchange

F. J. Deck, E. A. Hessels, and S. R. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4400 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Solid-state effects on Rayleigh-scattering experiments: Limits for the free-atom approximation

O. D. Gonçalves, C. Cusatis, and I. Mazzaro

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4405 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Gaseous ${}^{3}-^{3}$ He magnetic dipolar spin relaxation

N. R. Newbury, A. S. Barton, G. D. Cates, W. Happer, and H. Middleton

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4411 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Charge-state dependence of binary-encounter-electron cross sections and peak energies

H. I. Hidmi, P. Richard, J. M. Sanders, H. Schöne, J. P. Giese, D. H. Lee, T. J. M. Zouros, and S. L. Varghese

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4421 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Photoionization of the scandium atom. I. General features

F. Robicheaux and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4429 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Photoionization of the scandium atom. II. Classifications

F. Robicheaux and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4441 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Photoionization of the scandium atom. III. Experimental and theoretical spectra from an excited state

D. J. Armstrong and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4450 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atomic interactions with solids and surfaces

DD nuclear-fusion reactions with small $D_{2}$ O and $H_{2}$ O clusters impacting heavy ice

Y. K. Bae, R. J. Beuhler, Y. Y. Chu, G. Friedlander, and L. Friedman

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4461 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Energy loss of hydrogen projectiles in gases

A. Schiefermüller, R. Golser, R. Stohl, and D. Semrad

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4467 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Above-surface neutralization of slow $N^{6 +}$ ions during interactions with a Cu(001) target

F. W. Meyer, C. C. Havener, and P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4476 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Work-function dependence of above-surface neutralization of multicharged ions

F. W. Meyer, L. Folkerts, I. G. Hughes, S. H. Overbury, D. M. Zehner, P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4479 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

Relationship between effective-Hamiltonian and effective-Liouvillian dynamics

W. A. Wassam, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4485 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Stark mapping of $H_{2}$ Rydberg states in the strong-field regime with dynamical resolution

W. L. Glab and K. Qin

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4492 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Experimental and theoretical study of the hyperfine structure in the 4 $f^{7}$ 5d6s6p configuration of Gd i

H.-D. Kronfeldt, G. Klemz, S. Kröger, and J.-F. Wyart

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4500 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

Distortion of atomic states by time-dependent electric fields

Predrag Krstić and Yukap Hahn

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4515 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Three-dimensional hydrogen atom in crossed magnetic and electric fields

Vladimir S. Melezhik

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4528 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Semiclassical Floquet theory of the S matrix for electromagnetic interactions

K. Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4539 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Ponderomotive potential and dynamical Stark shift in multiphoton ionization

P. Mulser, S. Uryupin, R. Sauerbrey, and B. Wellegehausen

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4547 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Quantum Optics

Observation of dynamic suppression of spontaneous emission in a strongly driven cavity

W. Lange and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4551 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Intense-field renormalization of cavity-induced spontaneous emission

G. S. Agarwal, W. Lange, and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4555 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Parametric oscillator pumped by a quantum current

E. G. Lima and F. A. M. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4569 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

High-order harmonic generation in laser-produced ions

Shoichi Kubodera, Yutaka Nagata, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Katsumi Midorikawa, Minoru Obara, Hideo Tashiro, and Koichi Toyoda

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4576 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Stabilization of transverse solitary waves by a nonlocal response of the nonlinear medium

Dieter Suter and Tilo Blasberg

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4583 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Effects of the laser parameters on the determination of the Sn isotope ratio

Shuichi Hasegawa and Atsuyuki Suzuki

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4588 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Analytical approach to the photon statistics in the thermal Jaynes-Cummings model with an initially unexcited atom

S. M. Chumakov, M. Kozierowski, and J. J. Sanchez-Mondragon

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4594 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Realistic optical homodyne measurements and quasiprobability distributions

U. Leonhardt and H. Paul

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4598 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Transverse patterns in nascent optical bistability

M. Tlidi, M. Georgiou, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4605 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Nonlocal interferometry with high-intensity fields

J. D. Franson

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4610 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Many-port homodyne detection of an optical phase

M. G. Raymer, J. Cooper, and M. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4617 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Detection of quantum noise

I. R. Senitzky

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4629 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Gain in a three-level Λ system driven by a single pump

A. D. Wilson-Gordon

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4639 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Generation of pure states in a two-photon micromaser: Effects of finite detuning and cavity losses

M. Orszag, L. Roa, and R. Ramírez

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4648 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Multiphoton detachment of $H^{-}$

Cecil Laughlin and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4654 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

One-dimensional model of a negative ion and its interaction with laser fields

R. Grobe and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4664 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Prepulse technique for producing low-Z Ne-like x-ray lasers

Joseph Nilsen, Brian J. MacGowan, Luiz B. Da Silva, and Juan C. Moreno

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4682 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Effect of atomic coherence on the second- and higher-order squeezing in a two-photon three-level cascade atomic system

Nadeem A. Ansari

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4686 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Marginal distributions of quasiprobabilities in quantum optics

Arkadiusz Orl/owski and Alfred Wünsche

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4697 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Phase-difference operator

A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4702 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

High-order harmonic generation in rare gases with an intense short-pulse laser

C.-G. Wahlström, J. Larsson, A. Persson, T. Starczewski, S. Svanberg, P. Salières, Ph. Balcou, and Anne L’Huillier

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4709 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Femtosecond pulses in the focal region of lenses

M. Kempe and W. Rudolph

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4721 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Degree of visibility in experiments of induced coherence without induced emission: A heuristic approach

G. A. Barbosa

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4730 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Quantum-statistical properties of a Raman-type model

Alexander S. Shumovsky and B. Tanatar

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4735 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Microwave multiphoton Rabi oscillations

M. Gatzke, M. C. Baruch, R. B. Watkins, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4742 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Light-beam propagation at planar thin-film nonlinear waveguides

Yuri S. Kivshar and Manuel L. Quiroga-Teixeiro

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4750 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

Remark on the propagator of the radial oscillator

Costas John Efthimiou

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4758 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Casimir-Polder potential as an interaction between induced dipoles

E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4761 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

Model calculations of multielectron ionization of $O_{2}$ molecules by fast-heavy-ion impact

K. Wohrer and R. L. Watson

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4784 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Convergent close-coupling calculations of low-energy positron–atomic-hydrogen scattering

Igor Bray and Andris T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4787 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Elastic scattering of hydrogen atoms at low temperatures’’

E. Tiesinga

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4801 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

ERRATA

Erratum: Scattering of positrons by hydrogen in a modified Glauber method

T. T. Gien

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4803 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Erratum: Variational calculation for the ground state of lithium and QED corrections for Li-like ions [Phys. Rev. A 44, R6973 (1991)]

D. K. McKenzie and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4803 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993

Erratum: Energy corrections of order $m c^{2} α^{6}$ In $α$ in helium

G. W. F. Drake, I. B. Khriplovich, A. I. Milstein, and A. S. Yelkhovsky

Phys. Rev. A 48, 4804 (1993) - Published 1 December, 1993