Volume 55, Issue 1

January 1997

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of double-resonant laser-induced transitions in the v=n-l-1=2 metastable cascade of antiprotonic ${}^{4}{He}$ atoms

R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, H. Tamura, H. A. Torii, M. Hori, F. E. Maas, N. Morita, M. Kumakura, I. Sugai, F. J. Hartmann, H. Daniel, T. von Egidy, B. Ketzer, R. Pohl, D. Horváth, J. Eades, E. Widmann, and T. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. A 55, R1(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Analytical parametrization for the shape of atomic ionization cross sections

Jan M. Rost and Thomas Pattard

Phys. Rev. A 55, R5(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Vacuum ultraviolet photoionization study of atomic Ir in the region of the 5p and 4f excitation

M. Martins, P. Sladeczek, K. Tiedtke, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. A 55, R8(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Production of ${YbH}^{+}$ by chemical reaction of ${Yb}^{+}$ in excited states with $H_{2}$ gas

Kazuhiko Sugiyama and Jun Yoda

Phys. Rev. A 55, R10(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of low-lying resonance states of ${He}^{-}$ at the $2^{1}$ S and $2^{3}$ S He thresholds

A. Báder, L. Sarkadi, L. Víkor, M. Kuzel, P. A. Závodszky, T. Jalowy, K. O. Groeneveld, P. A. Macri, and R. O. Barrachina

Phys. Rev. A 55, R14(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evolution of a Bose gas in anisotropic time-dependent traps

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, R18(R) (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Accessible information in combined and sequential quantum measurementson a binary-state signal

Masashi Ban, Kouichi Yamazaki, and Osamu Hirota

Phys. Rev. A 55, 22 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Quantum-classical correspondence via Liouville dynamics. I. Integrable systems and the chaotic spectral decomposition

Joshua Wilkie and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 27 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Quantum-classical correspondence via Liouville dynamics. II. Correspondence for chaotic Hamiltonian systems

Joshua Wilkie and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 43 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Photon generation by time-dependent dielectric: A soluble model

Markus Cirone, Kazimierz Rz̧az-dotewski, and Jan Mostowski

Phys. Rev. A 55, 62 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

Quantum error correction in the presence of spontaneous emission

M. B. Plenio, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 55, 67 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiment with relativistic massive particles

Marek Czachor

Phys. Rev. A 55, 72 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Fundamental concepts

Quantum description of nonlinearly interacting oscillators via classical trajectories

G. Drobný, A. Bandilla, and I. Jex

Phys. Rev. A 55, 78 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Aharonov-Bohm interference in the presence of metallic mesoscopic cylinders

Silviu Olariu

Phys. Rev. A 55, 94 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Quantum information and correlation bounds

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 55, 100 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Creation of a persistent quantum bit using error correction

Isaac L. Chuang and Y. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 55, 114 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Measurement of the n=9 F-to-G intervals in atomic lithium

C. H. Storry, N. E. Rothery, and E. A. Hessels

Phys. Rev. A 55, 128 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Role of screening and angular distributions in resonant x-ray emission of CO

Per Skytt, Peter Glans, Kerstin Gunnelin, Jinghua Guo, Joseph Nordgren, Yi Luo, and Hans Ågren

Phys. Rev. A 55, 134 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Lifetime-vibrational interference effects in the resonantly excited x-ray-emission spectra of CO

Per Skytt, Peter Glans, Kerstin Gunnelin, Jinghua Guo, and Joseph Nordgren

Phys. Rev. A 55, 146 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Equal-factors method for solutions of the extended Schrödinger equation for (Zns $)^{2}$ sstates of heliumlike ions

Guo F. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 55, 155 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Energy levels of the ground state and the 2s2pn(J=1) excited states of berylliumlike ions: A large-scale, relativistic configuration-interaction calculation

M. H. Chen and K. T. Cheng

Phys. Rev. A 55, 166 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Elimination of hyperspherical ghost states caused by a closed-shell core: Test with the restricted Temkin-Poet model

Shinichi Watanabe and T. Ebara

Phys. Rev. A 55, 175 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Collisional coupling between hyperfine and Stark components of molecular spectra

S. Belli, G. Buffa, and O. Tarrini

Phys. Rev. A 55, 183 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Local-density-functional calculations of the energy of atoms

Svetlana Kotochigova, Zachary H. Levine, Eric L. Shirley, M. D. Stiles, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 55, 191 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Stability of four-unit-charge systems: A quantum Monte Carlo study

Dario Bressanini, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi

Phys. Rev. A 55, 200 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Multiple-quantum spin coherence in the ground state of alkali atomic vapors

J. D. Xu, G. Wäckerle, and M. Mehring

Phys. Rev. A 55, 206 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Diffusion of muonic deuterium and hydrogen atoms

D. J. Abbott, G. F. Chen, P. Guss, A. D. Hancock, J. B. Kraiman, R. T. Siegel, W. F. Vulcan, D. W. Viel, R. E. Welsh, C. Petitjean, A. Zehnder, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, P. Kammel, A. Scrinzi, J. Marton, J. Zmeskal, J. J. Reidy, H. L. Woolverton, F. J. Hartmann, A. Adamczak, V. E. Markushin, and V. S. Melezhik

Phys. Rev. A 55, 214 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Two-photon, two-color polarization spectroscopy of the ${3 t s}^{2}$ $S_{1 / 2}$ → ${5 t s}^{2}$ $S_{1 / 2}$ stransitionin atomic Na: Measurement of relative transition matrix elements

Rodney P. Meyer, A. I. Beger, and M. D. Havey

Phys. Rev. A 55, 230 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Phase transitions for N-electron atoms at the large-dimension limit

Pablo Serra and Sabre Kais

Phys. Rev. A 55, 238 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Effects of relaxation and Auger decay on photoionization calculations of argon

M. Kutzner, Q. Shamblin, S. E. Vance, and D. Winn

Phys. Rev. A 55, 248 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Positron-hydrogen collisions at low energies

Y. R. Kuang and T. T. Gien

Phys. Rev. A 55, 256 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Algebraic model for quantum scattering: Reformulation, analysis, and numerical strategies

V. S. Vasilevsky and F. Arickx

Phys. Rev. A 55, 265 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Description of ionization in the molecular approach to atomic collisions

C. Harel, H. Jouin, B. Pons, L. F. Errea, L. Méndez, and A. Riera

Phys. Rev. A 55, 287 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Measurement of probabilities for vacancy transfer from the K to L shell of the elements 73⩽Z⩽92

M. Ertŭgrul, O. Dŏgan, Ö. ̧Sim̧sek, Ü. Turgut, and H. Erdŏgan

Phys. Rev. A 55, 303 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Excitation-autoionization cross sections and rate coefficients of Zn-like ions

D. Mitnik, P. Mandelbaum, J. L. Schwob, A. Bar-Shalom, and J. Oreg

Phys. Rev. A 55, 307 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Electron-impact excitation of the doubly excited states of helium below the N=3 ${He}^{+}$ threshold

S. J. Brotton, S. Cvejanovic, F. J. Currell, N. J. Bowring, and F. H. Read

Phys. Rev. A 55, 318 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Electron-impact-excitation cross sections of hydrogenlike ions

Vladimir I. Fisher, Yuri V. Ralchenko, Vladimir A. Bernshtam, Alexander Goldgirsh, Yitzhak Maron, Leonid A. Vainshtein, Igor Bray, and Helen Golten

Phys. Rev. A 55, 329 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Model for hydrogen-atom production from the dissociation of fast $H_{n}^{f +}$ cluster ions by thin foils

M. Farizon, N. V. de Castro Faria, B. Farizon Mazuy, and M. J. Gaillard

Phys. Rev. A 55, 335 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Algebraic variational approach to atomic and molecular photoionization cross sections: Removing the energy dependence from the basis

T. N. Rescigno, A. E. Orel, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 55, 342 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Stationary-state scattering theory for dissociative photodetachment on nonadiabatically coupled potential surfaces as a probe of transition states

Kazuo Takatsuka

Phys. Rev. A 55, 347 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Measurements of total and positronium formation cross sections for positrons and electrons scattered by hydrogen atoms and molecules

S. Zhou, H. Li, W. E. Kauppila, C. K. Kwan, and T. S. Stein

Phys. Rev. A 55, 361 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Excess electron mobility in low density ${CH}_{3}$ CN gas:mShort-lived dipole-bound electron ground states as precursors of localized electron states

P. Mikulski, Th. Klahn, and P. Krebs

Phys. Rev. A 55, 369 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Four-body model for transfer ionization in fast ion-atom collisions

Dzevad Belkic-acute, Ivan Mancev, and Volker Mergel

Phys. Rev. A 55, 378 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Multiple electromagnetic electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Adrian Alscher, Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, and Gerhard Baur

Phys. Rev. A 55, 396 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Pair creation with bound electron for photon impact on bare heavy nuclei

Carsten K. Agger and Allan H. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. A 55, 402 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Photodetachment of the ${1 s 2 s 2 p t}^{4}$ P state of ${He}^{-}$ sfrom threshold to 100 eV

Dae-Soung Kim, Hsaio-Ling Zhou, and Steven T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 55, 414 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Dependence of the binary-encounter-peak energy on the projectile core

J. M. Sanders, J. L. Shinpaugh, S. Datz, F. Segner, and M. Breinig

Phys. Rev. A 55, 426 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Resonant structures of overlapping doubly excited autoionization series in photoionization of Mg-like ${Al}^{+}$ sand ${Si}^{2 +}$ sions

T. K. Fang, Baek Il Nam, Young Soon Kim, and T. N. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 55, 433 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Charge transfer between ground-state $N^{2 +}$ and $H_{2}$ , $N_{2}$ , and CO at electron-volt energies

Z. Fang and Victor H. S. Kwong

Phys. Rev. A 55, 440 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Three-body models of electron-hydrogen ionization

S. Jones, D. H. Madison, and D. A. Konovalov

Phys. Rev. A 55, 444 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Theoretical description of fast kinetic electron emission in ion-surface collisions

Carlos O. Reinhold and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 450 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic resonances of hydrogen near aluminum surfaces:mAdiabatic evolution of the ground state

Stefan A. Deutscher, Xiazhou Yang, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 466 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Hollow ion formation and decay in slow ${Bi}^{46 +}$ - $C_{60}$ scollisions

Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. A 55, 479 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Matter waves

Centrifugal effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap

A. B. Kuklov, N. Chencinski, A. M. Levine, W. M. Schreiber, and Joseph L. Birman

Phys. Rev. A 55, 488 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Variational approach to the dilute Bose gas

M. Bijlsma and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 55, 498 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Quantum field theory of cooperative atom response: Low light intensity

Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. A 55, 513 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Coherence of the two-level atom bichromatic beam splitter

S. Choi, H. M. Wiseman, S. M. Tan, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 55, 527 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Chaotic behavior of triatomic clusters

Ersin Yurtsever and Nuran Elmacı

Phys. Rev. A 55, 538 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

All-optical gray lattice for atoms

H. Stecher, H. Ritsch, P. Zoller, F. Sander, T. Esslinger, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 55, 545 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Quantum-mechanical interference between optical transitions and the effect of laser phase noise

J. C. Camparo and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 55, 552 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Theoretical analysis of the spatial structures of atoms in magneto-optical traps

I. Guedes, H. F. Silva Filho, and F. D. Nunes

Phys. Rev. A 55, 561 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Resonance overlap criterion for H atom ionization by circularly polarized microwave fields

Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. A 55, 568 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Multiphoton ionization as time-dependent tunneling

Klaus Ergenzinger

Phys. Rev. A 55, 577 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

State-selective vibrational excitation of diatomic molecules coupled to a quasiresonant environment: Markov approximation and non-Markov approach

M. V. Korolkov and G. K. Paramonov

Phys. Rev. A 55, 589 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Diagnostic technique for Zeeman-compensated atomic beam slowing: Technique and results

P. A. Molenaar, P. van der Straten, H. G. M. Heideman, and H. Metcalf

Phys. Rev. A 55, 605 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Phase of harmonics from strongly driven two-level atoms

F. I. Gauthey, C. H. Keitel, P. L. Knight, and A. Maquet

Phys. Rev. A 55, 615 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Adiabatic stabilization: Observation of the surviving population

N. J. van Druten, R. C. Constantinescu, J. M. Schins, H. Nieuwenhuize, and H. G. Muller

Phys. Rev. A 55, 622 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Generation of motional SU(1,1) intelligent states of a trapped ion

C. C. Gerry, S.-C. Gou, and J. Steinbach

Phys. Rev. A 55, 630 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Observation of a shape resonance in the collision of two cold ${}^{87}{Rb}$ atoms

H. M. J. M. Boesten, C. C. Tsai, J. R. Gardner, D. J. Heinzen, and B. J. Verhaar

Phys. Rev. A 55, 636 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Theory of gas-phase time-resolved ultrafast electron diffraction

W. -K. Liu and S. H. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 55, 641 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Analytic properties and effective two-level problems in stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 55, 648 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Absorption spectrum and gain without inversion of a driven two-level atom with arbitrary probe intensity in a squeezed vacuum

Peng Zhou and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 55, 772 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Diffraction losses reduction in multiapertured non-Hermitian laser resonators

Marc Brunel, Guy Ropars, Albert Le Floch, and Fabien Bretenaker

Phys. Rev. A 55, 781 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Field cancellation by a two-level atom in a multimode cavity driven by a time-dependent field

D. A. Cardimona, Karl Koch, and P. M. Alsing

Phys. Rev. A 55, 787 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Calculation of wave functions and of energy levels:Application to multiple quantum wells and continuous potential

Ph. Grossel and J.-M. Vigoureux

Phys. Rev. A 55, 796 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Revival structure of Stark wave packets

Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Bogdan Tudose

Phys. Rev. A 55, 819 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

ERRATA

Erratum: Electron transfer, target excitation, and ionization in $H^{+}$ +Na(3s) and $H^{+}$ +Na(3p) collisions in the coupled-Sturmian-pseudostate approach [Phys. Rev. A 51, 2963 (1995)]

Phys. Rev. A 55, 835 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Erratum: Approximate analytical solution of the quantum-mechanical three-body Coulomb continuum problem [Phys. Rev. A 53, 2314 (1996)]

Phys. Rev. A 55, 835 (1997) - Published 1 January, 1997

Volume 55, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Matter waves

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

Fundamental concepts

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Matter waves

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Quantum optics

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Quantum optics

ERRATA