Volume 55, Issue 2

February 1997

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Correcting quantum errors in higher spin systems

H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. A 55, R839(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ionization of ${Au}^{78 +}$ and electron capture by ${Au}^{79 +}$ at 10.8 GeV/nucleon

N. Claytor, A. Belkacem, T. Dinneen, B. Feinberg, and Harvey Gould

Phys. Rev. A 55, R842(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Scattering of alkali atoms and ions from alkali-halide surfaces: No evidence found for electronic surface states within the band gap of the insulator

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, R846(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optical measurements of the condensate phase

A. Imamog-barlu and T. A. B. Kennedy

Phys. Rev. A 55, R849(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Breathing modes and hidden symmetry of trapped atoms in two dimensions

L. P. Pitaevskii and A. Rosch

Phys. Rev. A 55, R853(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of atomic tunneling from an accelerating optical potential

C. F. Bharucha, K. W. Madison, P. R. Morrow, S. R. Wilkinson, Bala Sundaram, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. A 55, R857(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anomalous ellipticity dependence of high-order harmonic generation

M. Kakehata, H. Takada, H. Yumoto, and K. Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. A 55, R861(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Very-high-n Stark wave packets generated by an electric-field step

M. T. Frey, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 55, R865(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Geometric phases for generalized squeezed coherent states

S. Seshadri, S. Lakshmibala, and V. Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 55, 869 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Evolution under polynomial Hamiltonians in quantum and optical phase spaces

A. L. Rivera, N. M. Atakishiyev, S. M. Chumakov, and K. B. Wolf

Phys. Rev. A 55, 876 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Polarization and magnetization fields in the Aharonov-Bohm effect

W. P. Healy and Ranjith Ananda Samandra

Phys. Rev. A 55, 890 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Theory of quantum error-correcting codes

Emanuel Knill and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. A 55, 900 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Macroscopic test of quantum mechanics versus stochastic electrodynamics

S. Chaturvedi and Peter D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. A 55, 912 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Resummation of anisotropic quartic oscillator: Crossover from anisotropic to isotropic large-order behavior

H. Kleinert, S. Thoms, and W. Janke

Phys. Rev. A 55, 915 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Microscopic theory of quantization of radiation in molecular dielectrics. II. Analysis of microscopic field operators

Gediminas Juzeliu-barnas

Phys. Rev. A 55, 929 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Nonunitary connection between explicitly time-dependent and nonlinear approachesfor the description of dissipative quantum systems

Dieter Schuch

Phys. Rev. A 55, 935 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for particles obeying an exclusion-inclusion principle

G. Kaniadakis

Phys. Rev. A 55, 941 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Perfect quantum-error-correction coding in 24 laser pulses

Samuel L. Braunstein and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. A 55, 945 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Proposal for an experiment to measure the Hausdorff dimensionof quantum-mechanical trajectories

H. Kröger

Phys. Rev. A 55, 951 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Separated-oscillatory-field measurement of the n=10 ${}^{+}F_{3}$ $-^{+}$ $G_{4}$ interval in helium: A 200-part-per-billion measurement

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, 967 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Binding energy of the metastable ${He}^{-}$ ion

P. Kristensen, U. V. Pedersen, V. V. Petrunin, T. Andersen, and K. T. Chung

Phys. Rev. A 55, 978 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Search for very weakly interacting, short-lived, C-odd bosons and the orthopositronium decay rate problem

M. Skalsey and R. S. Conti

Phys. Rev. A 55, 984 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Hyperspherical approach to the calculation of few-body atomic resonances

S. Berkovic, R. Krivec, V. Mandelzweig, and L. Stotland

Phys. Rev. A 55, 988 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Shape of the two-photon-continuum emission from the ${1 s 2 s}^{1}$ $S_{0}$ state in He-like krypton

R. Ali, I. Ahmad, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, M. Jung, E. P. Kanter, P. H. Mokler, H. G. Berry, A. E. Livingston, S. Cheng, and L. J. Curtis

Phys. Rev. A 55, 994 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Precision measurement of the ratio of scalar to tensor transition polarizabilities for the cesium 6S-7S transition

D. Cho, C. S. Wood, S. C. Bennett, J. L. Roberts, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1007 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Time delay in electromagnetic scattering

H. M. Nussenzveig

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1012 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Electron scattering by Ca atoms and photodetachment of ${Ca}^{-}$ ions: An R-matrix study

Jianmin Yuan and L. Fritsche

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1020 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Nonuniqueness in the close-coupling method for e-He scattering

Andris T. Stelbovics and Lindsay Berge

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1028 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dielectronic recombination for average ions

L. B. Zhao and S. C. Li

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1039 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dynamical coupling effects in the vibrational excitation of $H_{2}$ sand $N_{2}$ scolliding with positrons

F. A. Gianturco and T. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1044 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Rotational autoionization and energy levels of triplet nf, v=0 Rydberg states of $H_{2}$ s

M. D. Lindsay and F. M. Pipkin

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1056 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Ab initio study of charge transfer in low-energy collisions of ${Si}^{4 +}$ with helium

P. C. Stancil, B. Zygelman, N. J. Clarke, and D. L. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1064 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Optical excitation function of H(1s-2p) produced by electron impact from threshold to 1.8 keV

G. K. James, J. A. Slevin, D. E. Shemansky, J. W. McConkey, I. Bray, D. Dziczek, I. Kanik, and J. M. Ajello

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1069 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Projectile velocity dependence of emission line polarization degrees following slow ${Ar}^{8 +}$ -Li(2s) state-selective electron-capture collisions

C. Laulhé, E. Jacquet, G. Cremer, J. Pascale, Ph. Boduch, G. Rieger, M. Chantepie, and D. Lecler

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1088 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Penning detachment of $H^{-}$ by impact of excited He and Li atoms

F. Martín and R. S. Berry

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1099 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Relativistic multiconfiguration approach to the spin polarization of slow electrons elastically scattered from krypton

J. E. Sienkiewicz and W. E. Baylis

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1108 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Single-photon multiple ionization of neon in the K-edge region

D. V. Morgan, M. Sagurton, and R. J. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1113 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Simultaneous measurement of the average ion-induced electron emission yield and the mean charge for isotachic ions in carbon foils

A. M. Arrale, Z. Y. Zhao, J. F. Kirchhoff, D. L. Weathers, F. D. McDaniel, and S. Matteson

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1119 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Ion-by-ion measurements of backward secondary electron emission of carbon foilsunder the impact of MeV $H^{+}$ , $H^{0}$ , $H^{-}$ , and $H_{2}^{+}$ projectiles

A. Billebaud, M. Fallavier, R. Kirsch, J.-C. Poizat, J. Remillieux, and Z. Vidovic-acute

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1124 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Matter waves

Superslow neutrons and the dispersion law for neutron waves in matter

V. G. Nosov and A. I. Frank

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1129 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Bose-stimulated scattering off a cold atom trap

H. David Politzer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1140 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Hartree-Fock theory for Bose-Einstein condensates and the inclusion of correlation effects

B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1147 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Diffuse atomic reflection at a rough mirror

Carsten Henkel, Klaus Mølmer, Robin Kaiser, Nathalie Vansteenkiste, Christoph I. Westbrook, and Alain Aspect

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1160 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Momentum distribution for bosons with positive scattering length in a trap

T. T. Chou, Chen Ning Yang, and L. H. Yu

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1179 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Ultrafast electron dynamics and inner-shell ionization in laser driven clusters

C. Rose-Petruck, K. J. Schafer, K. R. Wilson, and C. P. J. Barty

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1182 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Theory of optical suppression of ultracold-collision rates by polarized light

Reginaldo Napolitano, John Weiner, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1191 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Schrödinger-cat states in Paul traps

O. Castaños, R. Jáuregui, R. López-Peña, J. Recamier, and V. I. Man'ko

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1208 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dark-state cooling in the presence of gravity: Gravitational limit of laser cooling

R. Dum and M. Ol'shanii

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1217 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Wave-packet recollision and pulse-shape effects in high-harmonic generation

J. B. Watson, A. Sanpera, K. Burnett, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1224 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Resonance fluorescence and Autler-Townes spectra of a two-level atom driven by two fieldsof equal frequencies

H. S. Freedhoff and Z. Ficek

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1234 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quantum structure and dynamics for atom galleries

D. W. Vernooy and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1239 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Laser-enhanced tunneling through resonant intermediate levels

Stéphane Guérin and Hans-Rudolf Jauslin

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1262 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Spatial separation of ion clouds between sympathetically laser-cooled ${Cd}^{+}$ -ion isotopes in a Penning trap

Hidetsuka Imajo, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Utako Tanaka, Masayoshi Watanabe, and Shinji Urabe

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1276 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Kinetics for evaporative cooling of a trapped gas

Kirstine Berg-Sørensen

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1281 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Interference of resonance fluorescence from two four-level atoms

T. Wong, S. M. Tan, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1288 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Absolute nonresonant multiphoton ionization cross section of NO at 532 nm

Chun He and Christopher H. Becker

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1300 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Double multiphoton ionization of a model atom

M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, and P. Gavras

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1307 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Polarization of high-order harmonics

Philippe Antoine, Bertrand Carré, Anne L'Huillier, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1314 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Regular and chaotic multiphoton dissociation

Vassilis Constantoudis and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1325 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Laser collimation of a chromium beam

R. E. Scholten, R. Gupta, J. J. McClelland, R. J. Celotta, M. S. Levenson, and M. G. Vangel

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1331 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quantum optics

Nonlinear theory of noninversion lasers of an open three-level system

Shi-Yao Zhu, De-Zhong Wang, and Jin-Yue Gao

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1339 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quantum theory of optical pulse propagation through an absorbing and dispersive slab

M. Artoni and R. Loudon

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1347 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Photon correlation spectroscopy of the Jaynes-Cummings system

B. C. Sanders, H. J. Carmichael, and B. F. Wielinga

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1358 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Semiclassical study of the laser transition

G. M. Stéphan

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1371 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Reflection of the Jaynes-Cummings dynamics in the spectrum of a regularly pumped micromaser

Ulrike Herzog and János A. Bergou

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1385 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Modal analysis of polarization self-modulated lasers

M. Brunel, M. Vallet, G. Ropars, A. Le Floch, F. Bretenaker, G. Jouliéand, and J.-C. Keromnes

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1391 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Manipulating the motion of a single atom in a standing wave via feedback

J. A. Dunningham, H. M. Wiseman, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1398 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Vacuum-field-induced filamentation in laser-beam propagation

E. M. Nagasako, Robert W. Boyd, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1412 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Homodyne detection for measuring internal quantum correlations of optical pulses

T. Opatrný, D.-G. Welsch, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1416 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Optical stimulated nutation echo

A. Szabo and R. N. Shakhmuratov

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1423 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Conditional variance reduction by measurements on correlated field modes

J. K. Breslin and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1430 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Lasing at 60.8 nm in Ne-like sulfur ions in ablated material excited by a capillary discharge

F. G. Tomasel, J. J. Rocca, V. N. Shlyaptsev, and C. D. Macchietto

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1437 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Modeling of an injected gas laser

P. Even, K. Ait Ameur, and G. M. Stéphan

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1441 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dipole relaxation in dispersive photonic band-gap structures

A. Kamli, M. Babiker, A. Al-Hajry, and N. Enfati

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1454 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Density-matrix reconstruction by unbalanced homodyning

T. Opatrný and D.-G. Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1462 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Wigner distribution for density of states in quantum optics

G. S. Agarwal and Gautam Vemuri

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1466 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Coupled-mode description for the polarization state of a vertical-cavity semiconductor laser

A. K. Jansen van Doorn, M. P. van Exter, A. M. van der Lee, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1473 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atom-atom interaction in strongly modified reservoirs

Søren Bay, P. Lambropoulos, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1485 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Radiative and guided wave emission of ${Er}^{3 +}$ satoms located in planar multidielectric structures

H. Rigneault, S. Robert, C. Begon, B. Jacquier, and P. Moretti

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1497 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Many-electron hyperpolarizability density analysis: Application to the dissociation processof one-dimensional $H_{2}$ s

Masayoshi Nakano, Hidemi Nagao, and Kizashi Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1503 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Pancharatnam phase for ordinary and generalized squeezed states

I. Mendas

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1514 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Density-functional approach to one-positron and neutral-atom bound states

Tunna Baruah, Rajeev K. Pathak, and Anjali Kshirsagar

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1518 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Effective fractal dimension of energy levels

W. F. Wang and P. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1522 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

First ionization potentials of osmium and iridium determined by mass-analyzed double-resonance field-ionization spectroscopy

Pina Colarusso, Marie-Ange Lebeault-Dorget, and Benoit Simard

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1526 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Retarded long-range potentials for the alkali-metal atoms and a perfectly conducting wall

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1530 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Total cross sections of positron scattering from various molecules using the rule of additivity

Ritu Raizada and K. L. Baluja

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1533 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quasifree-electron process in the single ionization of He by fast protons

W. Wu, S. Datz, N. L. Jones, H. F. Krause, B. Rosner, K. D. Sorge, and C. R. Vane

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1537 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Boundary conditions of the exact impulse wave function

M. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1540 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Technique for measuring the linewidth of autoionizing Rydberg states

Grzegorz Waligorski, Lei Zhou, and W. E. Cooke

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1544 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

COMMENTS

sComment on 'Puri's criterion and higher-order squeezing'

Xia Yunjie, Yan Kezhu, and Kong Xianghe

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1548 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Comment on ``Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant''

David Farrelly

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1550 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Reply to ``Comment on `Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant't''

James E. Howard

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1552 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

ERRATA

Erratum: Geometric and nongeometric effects in an unbounded mechanical system [Phys. Rev. A 53, 3805 (1996)]

Zhen Qi

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1555 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Erratum: Three disks in a row: A two-dimensional scattering analog of the double-well problem [Phys. Rev. A 54, 2745 (1996)]

Andreas Wirzba and Per E. Rosenqvist

Phys. Rev. A 55, 1555 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997