Volume 53, Issue 3

March 1996

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dirac's contour representation in thermofield dynamics

A. Vourdas and R. F. Bishop

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1205(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Interferometric Bell-state analysis

Markus Michler, Klaus Mattle, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1209(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Cross section for Compton scattering by polarized bound electrons

F. Bell, J. Felsteiner, and L. P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1213(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoassociative spectroscopy of ultracold ${}^{39}K$ atoms in a high-density vapor-cell magneto-optical trap

H. Wang, P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1216(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Role of off-resonant excitation in cold collisions in a strong laser field

K. -A. Suominen, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1220(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Laser cooling of Rydberg atoms in bichromatic standing waves

J. Guo and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 53, R1224(R) (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Interaction-free preparation

G. Krenn, J. Summhammer, and K. Svozil

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1228 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Proposed test of Bell’s inequality without a detection loophole by using entangled Rydberg atoms

M. Freyberger, P. K. Aravind, M. A. Horne, and A. Shimony

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1232 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Loss-error compensation in quantum-state measurements and the solution of the time-reversed damping equation

Ulrike Herzog

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1245 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Non-Hermitian quantum canonical variables and the generalized ladder operators

W. S. l’Yi

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1251 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Nonlinear wave-packet dynamics for a generic one-dimensional time-independent system and its application to the hydrogen atom in a weak magnetic field

Karine Dupret and Dominique Delande

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1257 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Applications of the Jaynes-Cummings model for the detection of nonorthogonal quantum states

M. Sasaki, T. S. Usuda, O. Hirota, and A. S. Holevo

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1273 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Study of quantum anharmonic oscillators by state-dependent diagonalization

K. C. Ho, Y. T. Liu, C. F. Lo, K. L. Liu, W. M. Kwok, and M. L. Shiu

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1280 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Semiclassical integrable matrix elements

James J. Morehead

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1285 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Mesoscopic quantum coherences in cavity QED: Preparation and decoherence monitoring schemes

L. Davidovich, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1295 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and two-level atoms

Marek Czachor

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1310 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Determination of frequency-dependent polarizabilities using current density-functional theory

Susan M. Colwell, Nicholas C. Handy, and Aaron M. Lee

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1316 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Photoassociation and bound-bound excitation into the 2 $^{2}$ Π state of LiZn, LiCd, and NaZn molecules

Davorka Azinović, Xinghua Li, Slobodan Milošević, and Goran Pichler

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1323 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Perturbed energies and eigenfunctions of the curved- and flat-space isotropic oscillator via the Riccati equation

N. Bessis and G. Bessis

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1330 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Polarization anisotropy in resonant x-ray emission from molecules

Yi Luo, Hans Ågren, and Faris Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1340 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Precision measurements on lithium atoms in an electric field compared with R-matrix and other Stark theories

G. D. Stevens, C.-H. Iu, T. Bergeman, H. J. Metcalf, I. Seipp, K. T. Taylor, and D. Delande

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1349 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Generalized gradient approximation for the relativistic exchange-only energy functional

E. Engel, S. Keller, and R. M. Dreizler

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1367 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Relativistic configuration-interaction calculation of the polarizabilities of heliumlike ions

W. R. Johnson and K. T. Cheng

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1375 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Theory of Auger spectra for molecular-field-split core levels

Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Svante Svensson, Helena Aksela, and Seppo Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1379 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Time-dependent approach to slow ion-atom collisions for systems with one active electron

Keith Runge and David A. Micha

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1388 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Elastic e-NO collisions

Fernando J. da Paixão, Marco A. P. Lima, and Vincent McKoy

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1400 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Energy distributions of emitted ion fragments following C(1s) excitations in CO

P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, U. Köble, E. Rachlew-Källne, and K. Yoshiki Franzén

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1407 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

High-resolution measurement of the dielectronic recombination of fluorinelike selenium ions

A. Lampert, A. Wolf, D. Habs, J. Kenntner, G. Kilgus, D. Schwalm, M. S. Pindzola, and N. R. Badnell

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1413 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

High-resolution study of ${}^{1}$ $P^{o}$ double-excitation states in helium

M. Domke, K. Schulz, G. Remmers, G. Kaindl, and D. Wintgen

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1424 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Retardation long-range potentials between two helium atoms

Ming-Keh Chen and Kwong T. Chung

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1439 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Inelastic decay processes in a gas of spin-polarized triplet helium

P. O. Fedichev, M. W. Reynolds, U. M. Rahmanov, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1447 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Autoionization and interchannel mixing in atomic fluorine: The 2 $p^{4}$ $(^{1}$ S)ns,md Rydberg series

C. D. Caldwell, S. Benzaid, A. Menzel, and M. O. Krause

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1454 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Orientation dependence of the differential cross section in elastic electron scattering from ${CH}_{3}$ I molecules

M. Volkmer, Ch. Meier, J. Lieschke, A. Mihill, M. Fink, and N. Böwering

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1457 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Interpretation of data in multidimensional spaces and its application to Coulomb-explosion imaging

Jacob Levin, Dror Kella, and Zeev Vager

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1469 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Electron-impact excitation of low-lying preionization-edge electronic and Rydberg transitions of fluoroform and chloroform: Bethe surfaces and absolute generalized oscillator strengths

J. F. Ying and K. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1476 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Cross sections of symmetric charge transfer between Gd* and ${Gd}^{+}$ in the energy range 30–1000 eV

M. Hashida, S. Sakabe, and Y. Izawa

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1487 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Retardation effects in nonrelativistic two-photon electron bremsstrahlung in the Coulomb field

M. Dondera, Viorica Florescu, and R. H. Pratt

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1492 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Convergence of a lattice calculation for bound-free muon-pair production in peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions

J. C. Wells, V. E. Oberacker, M. R. Strayer, and A. S. Umar

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1498 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Cross sections of electron excitation out of metastable helium levels with a fast metastable target produced via charge exchange

Mark E. Lagus, John B. Boffard, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1505 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Electric-hexadecapole ( $2^{4}$ -pole) Coulomb integrals

Marita C. Chidichimo and Marek Stastna

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1519 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Time-dependent close-coupling method for electron-impact ionization of hydrogen

M. S. Pindzola and D. R. Schultz

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1525 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

K-shell ionization of B, O, and F by 0.4–2.0-MeV ${He}^{+}$ ions

A. Ghebremedhin, W. M. Ariyasinghe, and D. Powers

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1537 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Photoionization cross sections and oscillator strengths for Fe III

Sultana N. Nahar

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1545 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Ab initio calculation for low-energy elastic scattering of electrons from chlorine atoms

H. P. Saha

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1553 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Near-threshold study of the polarization of He resonance radiation using an energy-selected electron beam

C. Norén, J. W. McConkey, P. Hammond, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1559 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Dispersion interactions between atoms involving electric quadrupole polarizabilities

E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1567 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Measurement of inelastic electron impact on ozone: Absolute differential cross sections for excitation of the Hartley band

Christopher J. Sweeney and Tong W. Shyn

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1576 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Absolute differential cross sections for the scattering of kilo-electron-volt O atoms

G. J. Smith, R. S. Gao, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1581 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Measurement of atomic-hydrogen spin-exchange parameters at 0.5 K using a cryogenic hydrogen maser

M. E. Hayden, M. D. Hürlimann, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1589 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Numerical treatment of the time-dependent Dirac equation in momentum space for atomic processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

K. Momberger, A. Belkacem, and A. H. So/rensen

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1605 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Optical electron polarimetry with heavy noble gases

T. J. Gay, J. E. Furst, K. W. Trantham, and W. M. K. P. Wijayaratna

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1623 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Energy- and angle-differential yields of electron emission from thin carbon foils after fast proton impact

C. G. Drexler and R. D. DuBois

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1630 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Energy loss of slow protons channeled in Au

P. Vargas, J. E. Valdés, and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1638 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Direct determination of impact-parameter-dependent stopping powers for million-electron-volt He ions penetrating Er-doped GaAs

Yasukazu Yamamoto, Jan Kaczanowski, Yoshiaki Kido, Jyoji Nakata, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Kenichiro Takahei

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1644 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Matter waves

Waveguide for cold atoms: Spin-1 magnetic particles and a filamentary current

Kirstine Berg-So/rensen, Michael M. Burns, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1653 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Observation of strongly subhomogeneous linewidths using high-contrast transmission spectroscopy: Experiment and theory

Luo Caiyan, S. Kröll, L. Sturesson, and S. Svanberg

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1668 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Ultracold collisions and optical shielding in metastable xenon

K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, P. S. Julienne, M. Walhout, U. Sterr, C. Orzel, M. Hoogerland, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1678 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Dynamics of coherent population trapping states in dense systems

Iyyanki V. Jyotsna and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1690 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Mechanical potentials due to Raman transitions

J. J. Hope and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1697 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

High-density trapping of cesium atoms in a dark magneto-optical trap

C. G. Townsend, N. H. Edwards, K. P. Zetie, C. J. Cooper, J. Rink, and C. J. Foot

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1702 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Trojan wave packets: Mathieu theory and generation from circular states

Maciej Kalinski and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1715 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Theory of high-order harmonic generation by an elliptically polarized laser field

Philippe Antoine, Anne L’Huillier, Maciej Lewenstein, Pascal Salières, and Bertrand Carré

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1725 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

High-harmonic generation in a driven triangular well: The implications of chaos

S. Cocke and L. E. Reichl

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1746 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Selective photoionization of the ytterbium atom by coherent two-photon excitation

Hyunmin Park, Jongmin Lee, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Joon-Sung Chang

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1751 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Coulomb effects in multiphoton above-threshold ionization

J. Z. Kamiński, A. Jaroń, and F. Ehlotzky

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1756 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

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

K. J. LaGattuta

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1762 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Quantum optics

Sub-Doppler light amplification in a coherently pumped atomic system

Yifu Zhu and Jun Lin

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1767 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Self-focused light propagation in a fully saturable medium: Experiment

M. L. Dowell, R. C. Hart, A. Gallagher, and J. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1775 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Generating mutual coherence from incoherence with the help of a phase-conjugate mirror

C. H. Monken, A. Garuccio, D. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, F. Narducci, and L. Mandel

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1782 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

SU(1,1) coherent states defined via a minimum-uncertainty product and an equality of quadrature variances

R. R. Puri and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1786 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Generalization of damping theory for cavities with mirrors of finite transmittivity

R. W. F. van der Plank and L. G. Suttorp

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1791 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Asymmetrically pumped nondegenerate second-harmonic generation inside a cavity

M. W. Jack, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1801 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Controlling optical bistability using electromagnetic-field-induced transparency and quantum interferences

W. Harshawardhan and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1812 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Green-function approach to the radiation-field quantization for homogeneous and inhomogeneous Kramers-Kronig dielectrics

T. Gruner and D.-G. Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1818 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Experimental observation of parametric effects near period doubling in a loss-modulated ${CO}_{2}$ laser

V. N. Chizhevsky and Ramón Corbalán

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1830 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Two-time intensity correlation in a driven three-level system

H. Huang, S.-Y. Zhu, M. S. Zubairy, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1834 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Gain and coherence effects induced by strong cw-laser coupling in potassium–rare-gas mixtures

J. A. Kleinfeld and A. D. Streater

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1839 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Competition between spontaneous scattering and stimulated scattering in an injection-seeded Raman amplifier

J. G. Wessel, K. S. Repasky, and J. L. Carlsten

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1854 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Internal dynamics of multilevel atoms near a vacuum-dielectric interface

J.-Y. Courtois, J.-M. Courty, and J. C. Mertz

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1862 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Optimal control of pulse amplification without inversion

Ningjun Wang and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1879 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

SU(2) coherent states in parametric down-conversion

A. Luis and J. Peřina

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1886 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Application of associative ionization to the observation of quantum beats in low-lying atomic resonances

J. F. Christian, L. C. Snoek, S. G. Clement, and W. J. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1894 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Quantum teleportation without irreversible detection

Samuel L. Braunstein

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1900 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Efficient, direct self-consistent-field method in density-functional theory

Kinya Kobayashi, Kazutami Tago, and Noriyuki Kurita

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1903 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Stochastic variational method with a correlated Gaussian basis

K. Varga and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1907 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Designations of ${ds}^{2}$ p energy levels in neutral zirconium, hafnium, and rutherfordium (Z=104)

W. C. Martin and Jack Sugar

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1911 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Elastic scattering of electrons from singly ionized argon

D. C. Griffin and M. S. Pindzola

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1915 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Spectroscopy of atoms confined to the single node of a standing wave in a parallel-plate cavity

V. Sandoghdar, C. I. Sukenik, S. Haroche, and E. A. Hinds

Phys. Rev. A 53, 1919 (1996) - Published 1 March, 1996