Volume 49, Issue 3

March 1994

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

MILESTONE

Theory of high-harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields

M. Lewenstein, Ph. Balcou, M. Yu. Ivanov, Anne L’Huillier, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2117 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phase-sensitive dynamics of bichromatically driven two-level atoms

Qilin Wu, Daniel J. Gauthier, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1519(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Precision measurement of the isotope shift of the 2 ${}^{3}$ $S_{1}$ –3 ${}^{3}$ $P_{0}$ transition in helium

F. Marin, F. Minardi, F. S. Pavone, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1523(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

$Z_{eff}$ according to the Schwinger multichannel method in positron scattering

Euclimar P. da Silva, José S. E. Germano, and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1527(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the low-energy component and isotope effect on dissociative recombinations of ${HeH}^{+}$ and ${HeD}^{+}$

T. Tanabe, I. Katayama, N. Inoue, K. Chida, Y. Arakaki, T. Watanabe, M. Yoshizawa, M. Saito, Y. Haruyama, K. Hosono, T. Honma, K. Noda, S. Ohtani, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1531(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Final-state alignment from the quantum-state-selected photodissociation of $K_{2}$ by all-optical triple resonance spectroscopy

Bing Ji, Alexandra Yiannopoulou, Paul D. Kleiber, A. Marjatta Lyyra, and William C. Stwalley

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1535(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Solid-state-induced energy shift of projectile Auger electrons

J. Bleck-Neuhaus, A. Saal, R. Page, P. Biermann, R. Köhrbrück, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1539(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Clusters (including fullerenes)

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Possibility of stable spheroid molecules of ZnO

E. C. Behrman, R. K. Foehrweiser, J. R. Myers, B. R. French, and M. E. Zandler

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1543(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Interaction of half-cycle radiation pulse with Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen

K. J. LaGattuta and P. B. Lerner

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1547(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Transient four-wave-mixing line shapes: Effects of excitation-induced dephasing

H. Wang, K. B. Ferrio, D. G. Steel, P. R. Berman, Y. Z. Hu, R. Binder, and S. W. Koch

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1551(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Wigner functions and quadrature distributions for quantum-oscillator states with random phase

U. Leonhardt and I. Jex

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1555(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Role of radiation trapping in degenerate four-wave-mixing experiments

M. Schiffer, G. Ankerhold, E. Cruse, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. A 49, R1558(R) (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Feynman’s approach to negative probability in quantum mechanics

Marlan O. Scully, Herbert Walther, and Wolfgang Schleich

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1562 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum-noise matrix for multimode systems: U(n) invariance, squeezing, and normal forms

R. Simon, N. Mukunda, and Biswadeb Dutta

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1567 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Electromagnetic electron-positron pair production in heavy-ion collisions with impact parameter zero

Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, and Gerhard Baur

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1584 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Relation between the moment of inertia and moments of density

M. Rosina and P. Van Leuven

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1597 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Composition law of amplitudes and quantum theory

J. M. Vigoureux

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1602 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Why quantum mechanics cannot be formulated as a Markov process

Daniel T. Gillespie

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1607 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Inequivalence between the Schrödinger equation and the Madelung hydrodynamic equations

Timothy C. Wallstrom

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1613 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Effect of interchannel coupling on the partial and total autoionization widths: Application to the 1s3s3p ${}^{4}$ $P^{o}$ and 1s3 $p^{2}$ ${}^{4}$ P states for Z=2–5, 10

Spyros I. Themelis and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1618 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Stationary multideterminantal coupled-cluster response

Nayana Vaval, Ramkinkar Roy, and Sourav Pal

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1623 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Dynamics of confined ions driven by light beams: A singular perturbation approach

L. G. Reyna and J. R. Soběhart

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1629 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Evaluation of some integrals for the atomic three-electron problem using convergence accelerators

I. Porras and Frederick W. King

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1637 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Ionization energy of rubidium Rydberg atoms in strong crossed electric and magnetic fields

G. Raithel and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1646 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Measurement of the cross sections for collisional broadening of the intercombination transitions in calcium and strontium

John K. Crane, Michael J. Shaw, and R. W. Presta

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1666 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Absolute term energy of core-excited doublet states of lithium

Ming-Keh Chen and Kwong T. Chung

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1675 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Bound P states (L=1) and D states (L=2) of three-body muonic molecular ions

Alexei M. Frolov, Vedene H. Smith, Jr., and David M. Bishop

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1686 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Approximate sum rule for diatomic vibronic states

A. V. Stolyarov and V. I. Pupyshev

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1693 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Calculation of $C_{6}$ dispersion constants with coupled-cluster theory

John F. Stanton

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1698 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Time dependence of physical observables in wave-packet states

P. A. Braun and V. I. Savichev

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1704 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Hydrogen molecule under confinement: Exact results

Tao Pang

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1709 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Correlated two-electron wave functions of any symmetry

C. Bottcher, D. R. Schultz, and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1714 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Open-shell relativistic coupled-cluster method with Dirac-Fock-Breit wave functions: Energies of the gold atom and its cation

Ephraim Eliav, Uzi Kaldor, and Yasuyuki Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1724 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Sixfold differential cross sections for atomic helium, magnesium, and calcium in (γ,2e) experiments

Sandra C. Ceraulo, Robert M. Stehman, and R. Stephen Berry

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1730 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Laser-assisted scattering from a one-dimensional δ-function potential: An exact solution

K. J. LaGattuta

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1745 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Calculation of the cross sections for positron- and proton-impact ionization of helium

Zhifan Chen and A. Z. Msezane

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1752 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Rovibrational excitation in collisions of He on $D_{2}$ at energies less than 2 keV

Paul Muchnick and Arnold Russek

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1757 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Coupled-state differential cross sections for electron transfer and elastic scattering in collisions between protons and ${He}^{+}$ ions

Thomas G. Winter

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1767 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Mean lifetime of the bound 2pσ state of ${HeH}^{2 +}$

I. Ben-Itzhak, Z. Chen, B. D. Esry, I. Gertner, O. Heber, C. D. Lin, and B. Rosner

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1774 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Effects of Coster-Kronig transitions on electron-impact excitation rates for fluorinelike ions in their ground states

M. H. Chen, K. J. Reed, and A. U. Hazi

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1782 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

15-state R-matrix investigation of resonances in the inelastic scattering of electrons from atomic hydrogen at energies up to 13.06 eV

W. C. Fon, K. Ratnavelu, and K. M. Aggarwal

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1786 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Coster-Kronig decay of 3p core-excited states of atomic zinc

M. Y. Adam, S. Stranges, M. de Simone, S. Svensson, and F. Combet Farnoux

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1797 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Electron capture in collisions of excited ${Na}^{}$ (3p) atoms with ${He}^{+}$ ions at 0.1–7 keV/u: Effects of alignment of the initial ${Na}^{}$ (3p) orbital

C. M. Dutta, N. F. Lane, and M. Kimura

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1806 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Unified treatment of electron-ion recombination in the close-coupling approximation

Sultana N. Nahar and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1816 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Nonadiabatic effects on resonance-enhanced two-photon dissociation of $H_{2}$

Sima Banerjee, S. S. Bhattacharyya, and Samir Saha

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1836 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Radiative electron capture by high-energy oxygen ions in hydrogen and helium

C. R. Vane, S. Datz, P. F. Dittner, J. Giese, N. L. Jones, H. F. Krause, T. M. Rosseel, and R. S. Peterson

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1847 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Differential cross sections and angular-correlation parameters for the excitation of hydrogen atoms to n=3 and n=2 states by electron impact between 16 and 100 eV

Y. D. Wang, J. Callaway, and K. Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1854 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Simplest doubly charged negative ion: Nonexistence of $H^{2 -}$ resonances

F. Robicheaux, Robert P. Wood, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1866 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Radiative electron capture in relativistic atomic collisions

Akira Ichihara, Toshizo Shirai, and Jörg Eichler

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1875 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Dynamical image potential and induced forces for charged particles moving parallel to a solid surface

Néstor R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1885 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Interplay of charge exchange and energy loss of 0.67–1.5-MeV He ions specularly reflected from a crystal surface

Yoshikazu Fujii, Shinsuke Fujiwara, Kazumasa Narumi, Kenji Kimura, and Michi-hiko Mannami

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1897 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Size distribution of atomic clusters formed by energetic-heavy-ion sputtering

R. T. Yadav, V. S. Ramamurthy, D. P. Mahapatra, and G. V. Raviprasad

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1908 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Pathologies in three-body molecular clusters when using δ-shell potentials

Young-Ju Jee, Sigurd Y. Larsen, Robert L. Intemann, and M. Fabre de la Ripelle

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1912 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Cold cluster ferromagnetism

G. F. Bertsch and K. Yabana

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1930 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Incoherent time evolution on a grid of Landau-Zener anticrossings

David A. Harmin and Phillip N. Price

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1933 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Phase dependence in two-color excitation of a model atom by intense fields

M. Protopapas, P. L. Knight, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1945 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Generalized π pulses

Martin Holthaus and Bettina Just

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1950 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum-nondemolition measurement of photon number using radiation pressure

K. Jacobs, P. Tombesi, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1961 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Behavior of the harmonic-generation spectrum for a short-range potential

A. Sanpera

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1967 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum optics

Quantum sensitivity limits of an optical magnetometer based on atomic phase coherence

Michael Fleischhauer and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1973 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Two-photon absorption from a field with random telegraph frequency

G. N. Sinclair and M. W. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1987 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Large-scale fluctuations in the driven Jaynes-Cummings model

S. M. Dutra, P. L. Knight, and H. Moya-Cessa

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1993 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Generalized Stokes-Mueller formalism for two-photon absorption, frequency doubling, and hyper-Raman scattering

Yaoming Shi, W. M. McClain, and R. A. Harris

Phys. Rev. A 49, 1999 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum Zeno effect in a double-well potential: A model of a physical measurement

Thomas P. Altenmüller and Axel Schenzle

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2016 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Formation and evolution of roll patterns in optical parametric oscillators

Gian-Luca Oppo, Massimo Brambilla, and Luigi A. Lugiato

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2028 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Statistical properties of squeezed Kerr states

Christopher C. Gerry and Rainer Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2033 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Transfer of correlations from squeezed states of radiation to atoms in a generalized Jaynes-Cummings model

Donita Cohen, Y. Ben-Aryeh, and A. Mann

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2040 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Spatial pattern formation and instabilities in resonators with nonlinear dispersive media

L. A. Lugiato, Wang Kaige, and N. B. Abraham

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2049 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Alternative integrable equations of nonlinear optics

S. P. Burtsev and I. R. Gabitov

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2065 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Dispersionless, highly superluminal propagation in a medium with a gain doublet

Aephraim M. Steinberg and Raymond Y. Chiao

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2071 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Low-frequency pulsations in a He-Xe laser with several transverse modes: Experimental and numerical studies

H. Lin and N. B. Abraham

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2076 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Measurements of light-intensity noise during nondegenerate two-wave mixing in a Kerr medium

R. Pizzoferrato, E. Pichini, M. Marinelli, U. Zammit, F. Scudieri, and R. McGraw

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2087 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Chaotic dynamics of semiconductor lasers with phase-conjugate feedback

George R. Gray, David Huang, and Govind P. Agrawal

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2096 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Propagation of quantum fluctuations in single-pass second-harmonic generation for arbitrary interaction length

Z. Y. Ou

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2106 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

MILESTONE

Theory of high-harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields

M. Lewenstein, Ph. Balcou, M. Yu. Ivanov, Anne L’Huillier, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2117 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum theory of continuous feedback

H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2133 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum limits in interferometric gravitational-wave antennas in the presence of even and odd coherent states

Nadeem A. Ansari, L. Di Fiore, M. A. Man’ko, V. I. Man’ko, S. Solimeno, and F. Zaccaria

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2151 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum-noise reduction in traveling-wave second-harmonic generation

Ruo-Ding Li and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2157 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Observation of Fresnel diffraction in a two-beam laser interferometer

A. Bergamin, G. Cavagnero, and G. Mana

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2167 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Polarization dependence of tunneling ionization of helium and neon by 120-fs pulses at 614 nm

D. N. Fittinghoff, P. R. Bolton, B. Chang, and K. C. Kulander

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2174 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Fundamental concepts

Minimum-uncertainty states for noncanonical operators

R. R. Puri

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2178 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Effects of core-valence and core-core correlation on the line strength of the resonance lines in Li i and Na i

Tomas Brage, Charlotte Froese Fischer, and Per Jönsson

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2181 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Additional features in the 3d-4p x-ray-emission spectrum of Xe

R. E. LaVilla, M. Ohno, P. Glans, and J. Nordgren

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2185 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Detection of sputtered metastable atoms by autoionization

A. Wucher, W. Berthold, H. Oechsner, and K. Franzreb

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2188 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

$L_{1}$ - and $L_{2}$ -subshell fluorescence yields of lanthanides

J. Q. Xu and X. J. Xu

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2191 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Electronic structure of small silicon clusters

David J. Wales

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2195 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

Quantum optics

Noise-induced switching and stochastic resonance in optically nonlinear CdS crystals

J. Grohs, S. Apanasevich, P. Jung, H. Issler, D. Burak, and C. Klingshirn

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2199 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Lasing without inversion in a V system due to trapping of modified atomic states’’

Yifu Zhu and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2203 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994

ERRATA

Erratum: Dispersion interactions between excited atoms

Gyeong-il Kweon and N. M. Lawandy

Phys. Rev. A 49, 2205 (1994) - Published 1 March, 1994