Volume 54, Issue 3

September 1996

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Error prevention scheme with four particles

Lev Vaidman, Lior Goldenberg, and Stephen Wiesner

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1745(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Variational calculation of energy levels in $\bar{p} {He}^{+}$ molecular systems

V. I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1749(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Evolution of a Bose-condensed gas under variations of the confining potential

Yu. Kagan, E. L. Surkov, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1753(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Theory of an atom laser

M. Holland, K. Burnett, C. Gardiner, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1757(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Generation of ultrashort pulses of harmonics

Ph. Antoine, B. Piraux, D. B. Milošević, and M. Gajda

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1761(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Energetic electrons in strong-field ionization

H. R. Reiss

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1765(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Generation and control of high harmonics by laser interaction with transmission electrons in a thin crystal

F. H. M. Faisal and J. Z. Kamiński

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1769(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Laser cooling during velocity-selective adiabatic population transfer

E. Korsunsky

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1773(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Very low threshold whispering-gallery-mode microsphere laser

V. Sandoghdar, F. Treussart, J. Hare, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, J. -M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1777(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Relation between dynamic localization in crystals and trapping in two-level atoms

S. Raghavan, V. M. Kenkre, D. H. Dunlap, A. R. Bishop, and M. I. Salkola

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1781(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Coherent nonlinear optical spectroscopy using photon-number squeezed light

D. C. Kilper, A. C. Schaefer, J. Erland, and D. G. Steel

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1785(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

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Observation of a laserlike transition in a microcavity exciton polariton system

Stanley Pau, Hui Cao, Joseph Jacobson, Gunnar Björk, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. A 54, R1789(R) (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Entangled entanglement

Günther Krenn and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1793 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Temporal Bell-type inequalities for two-level Rydberg atoms coupled to a high-Q resonator

Susana F. Huelga, Trevor W. Marshall, and Emilio Santos

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1798 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Semiclassical approximations to the coherent-state propagator for a particle in a box

Ademir L. Xavier, Jr. and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1808 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

From Heisenberg matrix mechanics to semiclassical quantization: Theory and first applications

William R. Greenberg, Abraham Klein, Ivaylo Zlatev, and Ching-Teh Li

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1820 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Information-theoretic aspects of inseparability of mixed states

Ryszard Horodecki and Michal/ Horodecki

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1838 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Quantum copying: Beyond the no-cloning theorem

V. Bužek and M. Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1844 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Higher-order binding corrections to the Lamb shift of 2P states

U. Jentschura and K. Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1853 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Class of quantum error-correcting codes saturating the quantum Hamming bound

Daniel Gottesman

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1862 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Classical information capacity of a quantum channel

Paul Hausladen, Richard Jozsa, Benjamin Schumacher, Michael Westmoreland, and William K. Wootters

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1869 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Electron correlation in momentum space for the neon-atom isoelectronic sequence from $F^{-}$ through ${Ar}^{8 +}$

Awadh N. Tripathi, Vedene H. Smith, Jr., Robin P. Sagar, and Rodolfo O. Esquivel

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1877 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Crossed-field hydrogen atom and the three-body Sun-Earth-Moon problem

Eugen Flöthmann and Karl H. Welge

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1884 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Extended time-dependent mean-field approximation

D. A. Portes, Jr., Takeshi Kodama, and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1889 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Kinetic-energy density functional: Atoms and shell structure

P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and E. Chacón

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1897 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Contribution of electron correlation to the stability of dipole-bound anionic states

Maciej Gutowski, Piotr Skurski, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Jack Simons, and Kenneth D. Jordan

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1906 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Kohn-Sham effective potentials for spin-polarized atomic systems

Jiqiang Chen, J. B. Krieger, R. O. Esquivel, M. J. Stott, and G. J. Iafrate

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1910 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Periodic-orbit spectra of hydrogen and helium

Yanghui Qiu, Jörg Müller, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1922 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Density-matrix-functional calculations for matter in strong magnetic fields: Ground states of heavy atoms

Kristinn Johnsen and Jakob Yngvason

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1936 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Measurement of five-photon decay in orthopositronium

Toshihiro Matsumoto, Masami Chiba, Ryosuke Hamatsu, Tachishige Hirose, Jinfeng Yang, and Jie Yu

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1947 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Four-photon decay of orthopositronium: A test of charge-conjugation invariance

Jinfeng Yang, Masami Chiba, Ryosuke Hamatsu, Tachishige Hirose, Toshihiro Matsumoto, and Jie Yu

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1952 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Effect of molecular dissociation on the exchange-correlation Kohn-Sham potential

Oleg V. Gritsenko and Evert Jan Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1957 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Theoretical and experimental determination of the polarizabilities of the zinc ${}^{1}$ $S_{0}$ state

Dirk Goebel, Uwe Hohm, and George Maroulis

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1973 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Ground- and excited-state properties of neutral and anionic selenium dimers and trimers

Christoph Heinemann, Wolfram Koch, Gottlieb-Georg Lindner, Dirk Reinen, and Per-Olof Widmark

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1979 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

α(Zα $)^{2}$ $E_{F}$ correction to hyperfine splitting in hydrogenic atoms

Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1994 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Experimental atomic transition probabilities for O II lines

G. Veres and W. L. Wiese

Phys. Rev. A 54, 1999 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Kinetic-energy- and angular-resolved fragmentation of CO in vibrational-resolved C 1s excitation

Norio Saito, Franz Heiser, Oliver Hemmers, Kornel Wieliczek, Jens Viefhaus, and Uwe Becker

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2004 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Modified Faddeev treatment of electron capture

Steven Alston

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2011 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Theory of slow-atom collisions

Bo Gao

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2022 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Radiative and inner-shell dielectronic recombination in a highly charged barium ion

D. J. McLaughlin, Y. Hahn, E. Takács, E. S. Meyer, and J. D. Gillaspy

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2040 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Nuclear spin conversion in molecules: Experiments on ${}^{13}{CH}_{3}$ F support a mixing-of-states model

B. Nagels, M. Schuurman, P. L. Chapovsky, and L. J. F. Hermans

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2050 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Experimental thick-target bremsstrahlung spectra from collisions of 7.0-keV electrons with Ag and Au

S. K. Goel and R. Shanker

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2056 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Electron absorption by complex potentials: One-dimensional case

Patrici Molinàs-Mata and Pau Molinàs-Mata

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2060 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Narrow chaotic compound autoionizing states in atomic spectra

V. V. Flambaum, A. A. Gribakina, and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2066 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Partial photoionization cross sections and photoelectron angular distributions for double excitations up to the N=5 threshold in helium

A. Menzel, S. P. Frigo, S. B. Whitfield, C. D. Caldwell, and M. O. Krause

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2080 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Analysis of state-to-state differential cross sections in two-dimensional Xe- ${CO}_{2}$ scattering with long-range effects

J. R. Pliego, Jr., J. C. Belchior, and J. P. Braga

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2091 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Postcollision interactions in the Auger decay of the Ar L shell

James A. R. Samson, W. C. Stolte, Z. X. He, J. N. Cutler, and D. Hansen

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2099 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Comparisons between perturbative and radiation-damped R-matrix approaches to dielectronic recombination: Application to ${Ar}^{15 +}$

T. W. Gorczyca, F. Robicheaux, M. S. Pindzola, and N. R. Badnell

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2107 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Cross sections for the production of excited ${He}^{+}$ (np) $^{2}$ $P^{o}$ states by 50–150-keV proton impact on helium

W. C. Stolte and R. Bruch

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2116 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Core-to-Rydberg excitations and their Auger decay in the HCl and DCl molecules

E. Kukk, H. Aksela, O.-P. Sairanen, E. Nõmmiste, S. Aksela, S. J. Osborne, A. Ausmees, and S. Svensson

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2121 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Experimental determination of nondipolar angular distribution parameters for photoionization in the Ar K and Kr L shells

M. Jung, B. Krässig, D. S. Gemmell, E. P. Kanter, T. LeBrun, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2127 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Angle-resolved Auger spectrum of the $N_{2}$ molecule

A. Kivimäki, M. Neeb, B. Kempgens, H. M. Köppe, and A. M. Bradshaw

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2137 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Total ionization cross section for electron-hydrogen scattering using a time-dependent close-coupling method

M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2142 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Absolute partial cross sections for electron-impact ionization of $H_{2}$ , $N_{2}$ , and $O_{2}$ from threshold to 1000 eV

H. C. Straub, P. Renault, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2146 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Doubly differential cross sections of low-energy electrons emitted in the ionization of molecular hydrogen by bare carbon ions

Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, D. Ling, Y. D. Wang, C. D. Lin, R. Moshammer, G. W. Kerby, III, M. W. Gealy, and M. E. Rudd

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2154 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Single- and double-electron detachment from $H^{-}$ in collisions with He

L. Víkor, L. Sarkadi, F. Penent, A. Báder, and J. Pálinkás

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2161 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Interaction of spin-polarized atoms with a surface studied by optical-reflection spectroscopy

Stefan Grafström and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2169 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Matter waves

Index of refraction of noble gases for sodium matter waves

Robert C. Forrey, Li You, Vasili Kharchenko, and Alex Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2180 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Interference of Bose condensates

M. Naraschewski, H. Wallis, A. Schenzle, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2185 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Particle-hole excitations in small metal clusters by electron scattering

M. R. Spinella, M. Bernath, O. Dragún, and H. Massmann

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2197 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Interactions of the ${Na}_{2}$ dimer with a $C_{60}$ molecule

A. S. Hira and A. K. Ray

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2205 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Relaxation processes in coherent-population trapping

Ennio Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2216 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

$H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ in intense sub-picosecond laser pulses: Photoelectron spectroscopy at 1053 and 527 nm

H. Rottke, J. Ludwig, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2224 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Multipole moments and trap states in forward scattering of resonance light

Bogdan L/obodziński and Wojciech Gawlik

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2238 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Resonant photoionization of Ni I into autoionizing states

P. Lievens, E. Vandeweert, P. Thoen, and R. E. Silverans

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2253 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Force measurement via dark-state cooling

K. Jacobs, M. J. Collett, H. M. Wiseman, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2260 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Influence of laser fluctuations and spontaneous emission on the ring-shaped atomic distribution in a magneto-optical trap

F. Dias Nunes, J. F. Silva, S. C. Zilio, and V. S. Bagnato

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2271 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Magnetic inhibition of polarization-gradient laser cooling in $σ_{+}$ - $σ_{-}$ optical molasses

M. Walhout, U. Sterr, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2275 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Quantum optics

Squeezed states in multiple atomic fluorescence

M. Artoni and R. Marani

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2280 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Field quantization in dielectric media and the generalized multipolar Hamiltonian

B. J. Dalton, E. S. Guerra, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2292 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Theory of third-harmonic generation using Bessel beams, and self-phase-matching

Surya P. Tewari, H. Huang, and R. W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2314 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Motion-quantized Jaynes-Cummings models with an arbitrary intensity-dependent medium

Jia-ren Liu and Yu-zhu Wang

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2326 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Optical dark resonance in multilevel systems with a treelike configuration

H. Kanokogi and K. Sakurai

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2334 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Spectral line shape of resonant four-wave mixing induced by broad-bandwidth lasers

P. G. R. Smith and P. Ewart

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2347 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Modal analysis of spontaneous emission in a planar microcavity

H. Rigneault and S. Monneret

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2356 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Optical-vortex pair creation and annihilation and helical astigmatism of a nonplanar ring resonator

N. R. Heckenberg, M. Vaupel, J. T. Malos, and C. O. Weiss

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2369 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Resonance fluorescence spectra of three-level atoms in a squeezed vacuum

M. R. Ferguson, Z. Ficek, and B. J. Dalton

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2379 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Homodyne detection for the enhancement of antibunching

Reeta Vyas, Changxin Wang, and Surendra Singh

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2391 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Two-mode quantum-optical state measurement: Sampling the joint density matrix

M. G. Raymer, D. F. McAlister, and U. Leonhardt

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2397 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Observation of inversionless gain and field-assisted lasing in a nearly ideal three-level cascade-type atomic system

P. B. Sellin, G. A. Wilson, K. K. Meduri, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2402 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Enhanced input coupling into a gain-guided amplifier

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

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2408 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Coherent and incoherent multiple-harmonic generation from metal surfaces

A. T. Georges

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2412 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Quantum optics of plasmon polaritons and velocity sum rules

O. Al-Dossary, M. Babiker, and N. Enfati

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2419 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Application of a photon configuration-space model to soliton propagation in a fiber

Peter L. Hagelstein

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2426 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Analytic solutions of the Bloch equation involving asymmetric amplitude and frequency modulations

Daniel Rosenfeld, Shimon L. Panfil, and Yuval Zur

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2439 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Velocity-selective population and quantum collapse-revival phenomena of the atomic motion for a motion-quantized Raman-coupled Jaynes-Cummings model

Jia-ren Liu and Yu-zhu Wang

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2444 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Balance equations and threshold conditions for the inversionless laser in an autoionizing system

Jacob B. Khurgin and Emmanuel Rosencher

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2451 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic two-photon excitation by an injected squeezed vacuum in a cavity

Peng Zhou and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2455 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Spontaneous emission from an atom in a nonideal cavity: Application of a generalized master equation

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

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2464 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Enhanced beam characteristics of a discharge-pumped soft-x-ray amplifier by an axial magnetic field

F. G. Tomasel, V. N. Shlyaptsev, and J. J. Rocca

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2474 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Eigenvalue spectrum of the independent-fermion kinetic-energy kernel

Daniel Joubert

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2479 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Direct measurement of macroscopic electric fields produced by collective effects in electron-impact experiments

R. Velotta, L. Avaldi, R. Camilloni, F. Giammanco, N. Spinelli, and G. Stefani

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2482 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Complete negative-ion conversion of halogen atoms and positive ions in surface scattering from KI(100)

H. Winter, A. Mertens, C. Auth, and A. G. Borisov

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2486 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Multiple ionization of argon atoms by intense laser pulses

Sydney Geltman

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2489 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Avoided level crossings between s states and Stark states in Rydberg Rb atoms

M. Gatzke, J. R. Veale, W. R. Swindell, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2492 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Quantum optics

Suppression of ionization due to a laser pulse

Man Mohan, V. Prasad, and R. Sharma

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2496 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Reconstruction of the quantum state via position distribution and its time derivative

Th. Richter

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2499 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Spatial correlation effects in a laser

Ashish Agarwal and S. Chopra

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2503 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Radiation reaction in the stimulated emission from a gain sheet and its similarity to superradiance

D. G. Deppe

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2506 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Effect of atom pairs on the vacuum trapping state in micromasers: A Monte Carlo wave-function approach

T. B. L. Kist, A. Z. Khoury, and L. Davidovich

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2510 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

ERRATA

Erratum: Nonadiabatic coefficients of long-range effective potentials and the Faraday effect

Carl Krauthauser, E. J. Robinson, Leonard Rosenberg, and Larry Spruch

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2514 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996

Erratum: Transverse-mode selection in single-longitudinal-mode lasers

Oscar G. Calderón, Víctor M. Pérez-García, I. Martin, and J. M. Guerra

Phys. Rev. A 54, 2514 (1996) - Published 1 September, 1996