Volume 50, Issue 4

October 1994

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Preparation of macroscopic superpositions in many-atom systems

J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2799(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Reliability of Bell-inequality measurements using polarization correlations in parametric-down-conversion photon sources

Liberato De Caro and Augusto Garuccio

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2803(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Direct dissociative recombination of ground-state ${HeH}^{+}$

G. Sundström, S. Datz, J. R. Mowat, S. Mannervik, L. Broström, M. Carlson, H. Danared, and M. Larsson

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2806(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Excitation-ionization and double ionization of helium by Compton scattering

Lars Andersson and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2810(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Density of states for complex molecules

Dimitri Kusnezov

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2814(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Calculation of triple-differential cross sections in electron scattering on atomic hydrogen

Igor Bray, Dmitry A. Konovalov, Ian E. McCarthy, and Andris T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2818(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Settling a long-standing question on strong-field double ionization

D. Charalambidis@f, P. Lambropoulos, H. Schröder@f, O. Faucher@f, H. Xu@f, M. Wagner, and C. Fotakis@f

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2822(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Loss from magneto-optical traps in strong laser fields

Y. B. Band, I. Tuvi, K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2826(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effects of resonant dipole interaction between atoms on laser cooling: The case of two identical atoms

J. Guo

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2830(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quantum optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Generation of short-pulse tunable xuv radiation by high-order frequency mixing

H. Eichmann, S. Meyer, K. Riepl, C. Momma, and B. Wellegehausen

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2834(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nonlocal potential for class-B lasers with external optical feedback

G. H. M. van Tartwijk and D. Lenstra

Phys. Rev. A 50, R2837(R) (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Secular perturbation theory of long-range interactions

M. J. Cavagnero

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2841 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Early-time properties of quantum evolution

K. Urbanowski

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2847 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Inadequacy of Ehrenfest’s theorem to characterize the classical regime

L. E. Ballentine, Yumin Yang, and J. P. Zibin

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2854 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Neutron acceleration in uniform electromagnetic fields

J. Anandan and C. R. Hagen

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2860 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Even and odd two-photon coherent states of the radiation field

Z. Z. Xin, D. B. Wang, M. Hirayama, and K. Matumoto

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2865 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox for continuous variables using radiation fields in the pair-coherent state

K. Tara and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2870 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spectral inheritance of potentials with flat bottoms

Richard L. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2876 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Phase statistics and phase-space measurements

Paul Busch, Marian Grabowski, and Pekka J. Lahti

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2881 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Limiting analytic form for an Aharonov-Bohm diffraction pattern

V. C. Aguilera-Navarro and R. M. Quick

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2885 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Multichannel quantum mechanics as a Hamiltonian phase flow

John L. Bohn and U. Fano

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2893 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Nonrelativistic theory of the radiation reaction interaction

S. Danko Bosanac

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2899 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Large correlation effects of small perturbations by preselection and postselection of states

N. Zagury and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2908 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

so(2,1) Lie algebra and the Green’s functions for the conditionally exactly solvable potentials

A. de Souza Dutra and Henrique Boschi-Filho

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2915 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Symplectic transformations in the n-mode coherent-state representation using integration within an ordered product of operators

Fan Hong-yi and Xu Zhi-hua

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2921 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Ground-state energies of hydrogenic atoms in a uniform magnetic field of arbitrary strength

O. Mustafa and S. C. Chhajlany

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2926 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Predissociation quantum yields of singlet nitrogen

C. W. Walter, P. C. Cosby, and H. Helm

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2930 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spline-Galerkin methods applied to Rydberg series between the 4s ${}^{2}$ S and 3d ${}^{2}$ D limits of calcium

Tomas Brage and Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2937 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Static hyperpolarizability of atomic lithium

N. El-Bakali Kassimi and Ajit J. Thakkar

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2948 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Corrections to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation by means of perturbation theory

Francisco M. Fernández

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2953 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Improved experimental limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron

Eugene D. Commins, Stephen B. Ross, David DeMille, and B. C. Regan

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2960 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Measurement of the C ${}^{3}Π_{u}$ radiative lifetime of $N_{2}$ by laser-induced fluorescence

M. D. Simon, R. F. Wuerker, and A. Y. Wong

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2978 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Electron-impact collision strengths for neutral fluorine

Kiran S. Baliyan and A. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2981 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Numerical Liouville approach: A calculation method for nonlinear optical susceptibilities of N-state systems

Masayoshi Nakano and Kizashi Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. A 50, 2989 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Influence of relaxation phenomena in the unified description of resonant and nonresonant radiative transitions

V. L. Jacobs, J. Cooper, and S. L. Haan

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3005 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Calculation of the Bethe logarithm for the Rydberg states of helium

S. P. Goldman

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3039 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen Rydberg states: Rigorous error estimates for energy eigenvalues, energy eigenfunctions, and oscillator strengths

P. Falsaperla and G. Fonte

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3051 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Forbidden ${2 s}_{1 / 2}$ - ${1 s}_{1 / 2}$ radiative atomic transition

G. Galley and J.-Cl. Dousse

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3058 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Position and momentum information entropies of the D-dimensional harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom

R. J. Yáñez, W. Van Assche, and J. S. Dehesa

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3065 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Large-scale multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and configuration-interaction calculations of isotope shifts and hyperfine structures in boron

Per Jönsson and Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3080 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Magnetic-field density-functional theory

Christopher J. Grayce and Robert A. Harris

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3089 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Long-range potentials, including retardation, for the interaction of two alkali-metal atoms

M. Marinescu, J. F. Babb, and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3096 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Electron-impact excitation along an isoelectronic sequence: B-like ions

Hong Lin Zhang and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3105 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Auger electron emission following double electron capture in 150-keV ${Ne}^{10 +}$ +He collisions

F Fremont, H. Merabet, J. Y. Chesnel, X. Husson, A. Lepoutre, D. Lecler, G. Rieger, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3117 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Inelastic electron–dipole-molecule scattering at sub-milli-electron-volt energies: Possible role of dipole-supported states

M. T. Frey, S. B. Hill, X. Ling, K. A. Smith, F. B. Dunning, and I. I. Fabrikant

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3124 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Threshold effects in positron scattering on noble gases

J. Moxom, G. Laricchia, M. Charlton, A. Kovar, and W. E. Meyerhof

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3129 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Dielectronic recombination versus charge exchange: Electron capture by metastable ions

S. Bliman, M. Cornille, and K. Katsonis

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3134 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Isolation of the regions of potential significance in fine-structure transitions using adiabatic and functional sensitivity analyses: A comparative investigation with application to Na $(^{2}$ $P_{1 / 2}$ )+He→Na $(^{2}$ $P_{3 / 2}$ )+He and Na $(^{2}$ $P_{1 / 2}$ )+Ar→Na $(^{2}$ $P_{3 / 2}$ )+Ar

D. A. Padmavathi, Manoj K. Mishra, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3142 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quenching collisions of low-energy metastable multiply charged argon ions

D. A. Church, Lisheng Yang, and Shigu Tu

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3151 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Photoionization of the 2p subshell of sodium atoms in ground and excited states

H. P. Saha

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3157 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Dissociative ionization of $H_{2}$ , $N_{2}$ , and $O_{2}$ by electron impact

B. Van Zyl and T. M. Stephen

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3164 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Photoexcitation and -ionization in helium: Zero-kinetic-energy spectroscopy

Zhuang Fan, H. R. Sadeghpour, and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3174 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Computation of the scattering length and effective range in molecular physics

M. Marinescu

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3177 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Dissociative cross sections of $H_{2}$ by electron impact

J. W. Liu and S. Hagstrom

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3181 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Relationship between the Born and impulse approximations for the antiscreening process

E. C. Montenegro and T. J. M. Zouros

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3186 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Stopping power for hydrogen molecular ions in solids: Influence of the inner-shell electrons of target atoms

You-Nian Wang and Teng-Cai Ma

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3192 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Analysis of charge-dependent stopping of swift ions

Peter Sigmund

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3197 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Semiclassical formalism in ion-surface capture at high energies

M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3202 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Multiphoton detachment of $H^{-}$ . II. Intensity-dependent photodetachment rates and threshold behavior—complex-scaling generalized pseudospectral method

Jingyan Wang, Shih-I Chu, and Cecil Laughlin

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3208 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Steric effects in multiphoton excitation

Constantin Mainos

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3216 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Converged three-dimensional calculations of above-threshold ionization: Angular-momentum constraints and the kinetic-energy distribution

Ricardo A. Blank and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3234 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Ionization of He by ultrastrong single-cycle pulses

P. B. Lerner, K. LaGattuta, and James S. Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3245 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Threshold and Coulomb effects in multiphoton ionization

Marvin H. Mittleman

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3249 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Correlated Keldysh-Faisal-Reiss theory of above-threshold double ionization of He in intense laser fields

Andreas Becker and Farhad H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3256 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic motion in a magneto-optical field

U. Janicke and M. Wilkens

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3265 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Application of the ${scrL}^{2}$ box-stabilization method to time-periodic systems

A. A. Makarov, H. S. Taylor, and Marcel Pont

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3276 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Multilevel light-induced continuum structure: Strong-probe and stabilization effects

R. Parzyński, A. Wójcik, and J. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3285 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quantum optics

Gaussian noise and quantum-optical communication

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3295 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Non-Markovian analysis of coherence in a driven two-level atom

J. R. Brinati, S. S. Mizrahi, and G. A. Prataviera

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3304 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Accumulated photon echoes generated by synchrotron radiation

H. Itoh, S. Nakanishi, M. Kawase, H. Fukuda, H. Nakatsuka, and M. Kamada

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3312 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Electron-beam-induced super-radiant emission from a grating

A. Halperin, A. Gover, and A. Yariv

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3316 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Complexity of dynamical bifurcations in detuned degenerate four-wave mixing

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

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3322 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Thermal coherent states in the Bargmann representation

A. Vourdas and R. F. Bishop

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3331 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Single-atom interference method for generating Fock states

P. Domokos, J. Janszky, and P. Adam

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3340 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Enhancement of degenerate four-wave mixing by atom-wall collisions in atomic vapors

B. Ai, D. S. Glassner, and R. J. Knize

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3345 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spatiotemporal coherence properties of entangled light beams generated by parametric down-conversion

Adel Joobeur, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3349 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Pump-induced transparency and enhanced third-harmonic generation near an autoionizing state

S. J. van Enk, Jian Zhang, and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3362 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spatial distortions of laser pulses in coherent on-resonance propagation: Large-scale self-focusing

J. de Lamare, M. Comte, and Ph. Kupecek

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3366 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Forced indistinguishability in ‘‘induced coherence without stimulated emission’’

G. A. Barbosa

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3379 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Dense configuration of solitons in resonant four-wave mixing

Alexander A. Zabolotskii

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3384 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Inversionless gain in driven three-level ssV-type atoms: A comparison of broadband and monochromatic excitation

Geoffrey A. Wilson, Krishna K. Meduri, Peter B. Sellin, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3394 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Dynamical ordering: Applications to Fokker-Planck equations

Arkadiusz Orl/owski and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3401 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quantum dynamics of a laser-cooled ideal gas

J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3409 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Coherent states in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space

A. Miranowicz, K. Pia̧tek, and R. Tanaś

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3423 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Normal-form theory for a laser model with periodic signal and noise injection

M. S. Torre, H. F. Ranea-Sandoval, and R. C. Buceta

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3427 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Generation and propagation of high-order harmonics in a rapidly ionizing medium

S. C. Rae, K. Burnett, and J. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3438 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Approximate model for optical pulse compression by cross-phase modulation in Bragg gratings

M. J. Steel, David G. A. Jackson, and C. Martijn de Sterke

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3447 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Nonperturbative studies of a quantum higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger model using the Bethe ansatz

Alexander G. Shnirman, Boris A. Malomed, and Eshel Ben-Jacob

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3453 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Chaotic and periodic passive Q switching in coupled ${CO}_{2}$ lasers with a saturable absorber

Yudong Liu, P. C. de Oliveira, M. B. Danailov, and J. R. Rios Leite

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3464 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Hexagons and squares in a passive nonlinear optical system

J. B. Geddes, R. A. Indik, J. V. Moloney, and W. J. Firth

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3471 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spin-correlated interferometry for polarized and unpolarized photons on a beam splitter

Mladen Pavičić

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3486 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Fundamental limit on energy transfer in k-photon down-conversion

G. Drobný and V. Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3492 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Complete atomic population inversion using correlated sidebands

Ping Koy Lam and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3500 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Phase-state representation in quantum optics

C. Brif and Y. Ben-Aryeh

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3505 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Universal function and its application to the 2p-3s transition in sodium

Zhifan Chen and A. Z. Msezane

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3517 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Fundamental concepts

Convergence of the hyperspherical-harmonic expansion for two-electron atoms

Tapan Kumar Das, Rakhi Chattopadhyay, and Prasanta Kumar Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3521 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Spurious solutions arising in matrix approximations to the Dirac-Coulomb problem

James D. Talman

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3525 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Equations satisfied by the kinetic-energy functional and its derivatives

Daniel P. Joubert

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3527 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Collective response and molecular effects in cluster photoionization: A one-center time-dependent calculation for ${BaO}_{2}$

Zeljko Crljen, Jarek Luberek, Göran Wendin, and Zachary H. Levine

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3529 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Stopping power of carbon for 9.6-MeV/amu $H_{2}^{+}$ ions

Y. Susuki, M. Fritz, K. Kimura, M. Mannami, N. Sakamoto, H. Ogawa, I. Katayama, T. Noro, and H. Ikegami

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3533 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Deviation from the Fano profile in resonance-enhanced multiphoton autoionization

Lipika Adhya and Krishna Rai Dastidar

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3537 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Quantum optics

Electro-optic measurement of the electric-field distributions in coplanar-electrode poled polymers

J. W. Wu, T. Wada, and H. Sasabe

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3541 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Jaynes-Cummings model with a para-Bose oscillator

J. Črnugelj, M. Martinis, and V. Mikuta-Martinis

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3545 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Squeezing and antisqueezing for a harmonic oscillator having a sudden change of mass’’

P. Adam and J. Janszky

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3548 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

ERRATA

Erratum: Correlation-potential method for negative ions and electron scattering [Phys. Rev. A 49, 2483 (1994)]

V. A. Dzuba and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3551 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994

Erratum: Z scaling of the 3P-3S Li isoelectronic series transition: Quadrupole Stark broadening and resonances [Phys. Rev. A 49, 3086 (1994)]

S. Alexiou and Yu. Ralchenko

Phys. Rev. A 50, 3552 (1994) - Published 1 October, 1994