Volume 55, Issue 6

June 1997

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Complete photofragmentation of the lithium atom

A. W. Malcherek, J. M. Rost, and J. S. Briggs

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3979(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Doubly differential electron emission for transfer ionization in 100-keV $H^{+}$ on Ar

G. Bernardi, P. Focke, and W. Meckbach

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3983(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Temperature and localization of atoms in three-dimensional optical lattices

M. Gatzke, G. Birkl, P. S. Jessen, A. Kastberg, S. L. Rolston, and W. D. Phillips

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3987(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Atom trapping in deeply bound states of a far-off-resonance optical lattice

D. L. Haycock, S. E. Hamann, G. Klose, and P. S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3991(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Stark wave packets viewed with half-cycle pulses

C. Raman, T. C. Weinacht, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3995(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Direct measurement of fine-structure collisional losses from a Cs magneto-optical trap

A. Fioretti, J. H. Müller, P. Verkerk, M. Allegrini, E. Arimondo, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 55, R3999(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Above-threshold ionization in the tunneling regime

A. Lohr, M. Kleber, R. Kopold, and W. Becker

Phys. Rev. A 55, R4003(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum evolution of classical nonlinear eigenmode in parametric interaction and realization in traps with ions

G. S. Agarwal and J. Banerji

Phys. Rev. A 55, R4007(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Controlling optical turbulence

D. Hochheiser, J. V. Moloney, and J. Lega

Phys. Rev. A 55, R4011(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spontaneous emission in absorbing dielectrics: tA microscopic approach

Gediminas Juzeliu-barnas

Phys. Rev. A 55, R4015(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Broadband spectral generation with refractive index control

S. E. Harris and A. V. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. A 55, R4019(R) (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Relations of canonical and unitary transformations for a general time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian system

Kyu-Hwang Yeon, Duk-Hyeon Kim, Chung-In Um, Thomas F. George, and Lakshmi N. Pandey

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4023 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Information entropy and the space of decoherence functions in generalized quantum theory

C. J. Isham and N. Linden

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4030 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Deconstructing decoherence

J. R. Anglin, J. P. Paz, and W. H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4041 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum stabilizer codes and classical linear codes

Richard Cleve

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4054 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Causality in the excitation exchange between identical atoms

P. R. Berman and B. Dubetsky

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4060 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Decoherence and initial correlations in quantum Brownian motion

Luciana Dávila Romero and Juan Pablo Paz

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4070 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Inverting a time-dependent harmonic oscillator potential by a unitary transformation and a class of exactly solvable oscillators

Ali Mostafazadeh

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4084 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum code words contradict local realism

David P. DiVincenzo and Asher Peres

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4089 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Spin densities in pseudoclassical kinetic theory

F. M. C. Witte

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4093 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Bound states and propagating modes in quantum wires with sharp bends and/or constrictions

M. Razavy

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4102 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

No-hidden-variables proof for two spin- particles preselected and postselected in unentangled states

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4109 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Application of U(2)⊃O(2) and U(2)⊃U(1) dynamical symmetries to diatomic molecular vibrations

Ian L. Cooper and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4112 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Probing the quantum state of a trapped atom

Matthias Freyberger

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4120 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Testing the symmetrization postulate for photons using Rydberg atoms and cavity QED

Christopher C. Gerry and Robert C. Hilborn

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4126 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Photophysical and electron attachment properties of ArF-excimer-laser irradiated $H_{2}$

Panos G. Datskos, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, and John F. Kielkopf

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4131 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

All-order relativistic many-body calculations for the electron affinities of ${Ca}^{-}$ , ${Sr}^{-}$ , ${Ba}^{-}$ , and ${Yb}^{-}$ negative ions

Euripides N. Avgoustoglou and Donald R. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4143 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

${4 f}^{2}$ /4f6p configuration interaction in ${LiYF}_{4}$ : $\Pr^{3 +}$ s

M. D. Faucher and O. K. Moune

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4150 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Self-consistent-field perturbation theory for the Schrödinger equation

David Z. Goodson

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4155 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Non-Lorentzian line shapes for interfering rotational resonances in the predissociation of $O_{2}$

B. R. Lewis, P. M. Dooley, J. P. England, S. T. Gibson, K. G. H. Baldwin, and L. W. Torop

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4164 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Nodal structures of intrashell states of three-valence-electron atoms

C. G. Bao, Xiazhou Yang, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4168 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Spin-orbit coupling in variational quantum Monte Carlo calculations

Heinz-Jürgen Flad, Michael Dolg, and Alok Shukla

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4183 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Measurement of a magnetic-dipole transition probability in ${Xe}^{32 +}$ using an electron-beam ion trap

F. G. Serpa, C. A. Morgan, E. S. Meyer, J. D. Gillaspy, E. Träbert, D. A. Church, and E. Takács

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4196 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Helium excitation by protons and highly-charged-ion impact

V. D. Rodríguez, C. A. Ramírez, R. D. Rivarola, and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4201 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Multichannel Penning detachment of $H^{-}$ from excited Li and Ca atoms

F. Martín and R. S. Berry

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4209 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Equivalent-photon method study of differential cross sections for double ionization of helium by relativistic heavy-ion impact

S. Keller, H. J. Lüdde, and R. M. Dreizler

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4215 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Ultrashort-lived non-Rydberg doubly excited resonances in diatomic molecules

P. Erman, A. Karawajczyk, E. Rachlew-Källne, M. Stankiewicz, K. Yoshiki Franzén, P. Sannes, and L. Veseth

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4221 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Isotropic collision-induced light scattering by gaseous ${CF}_{4}$

A. Elliasmine, J.-L. Godet, Y. Le Duff, and T. Bancewicz

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4230 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Generalization of the Hartree-Fock approach to collision processes

Yukap Hahn

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4238 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Measurements of positron-methane differential scattering cross sections

D. A. Przybyla, W. E. Kauppila, C. K. Kwan, Steven J. Smith, and T. S. Stein

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4244 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Detector-to-detector Compton backscattering in germanium at 59.5 keV

S. Pasic-acute and K. Ilakovac

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4248 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Making complex scaling work for long-range potentials

T. N. Rescigno, M. Baertschy, D. Byrum, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4253 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Three-particle breakup near threshold when the Wannier exponent diverges

W. Ihra, F. Mota-Furtado, and P. F. O'Mahony

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4263 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Angular distributions of Auger transitions of $N_{2}$ to dissociative final states

A. K. Edwards, Q. Zheng, R. M. Wood, and M. A. Mangan

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4269 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

X-ray fluorescence and Auger-electron coincidence spectroscopyof vacancy cascades in atomic argon

U. Arp, T. LeBrun, S. H. Southworth, M. A. MacDonald, and M. Jung

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4273 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Structure of (Nlm)-(N+1,l+1,m) nonadiabatic couplings in ( $Z_{1}$ ,e, $Z_{2}$ ) system and the $Z_{2}$ / $Z_{1}$ range of Landau-Zener coupling

R. K. Janev

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4285 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Extension of classical trajectory Monte Carlo calculations to ion–Rydberg-atom collisionsin a magnetic field

S. Bradenbrink, E. Y. Sidky, Z. Roller-Lutz, H. Reihl, and H. O. Lutz

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4290 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Stopping in ion-surface collisions at high energies

J. E. Miraglia and M. S. Gravielle

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4300 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Energy loss of highly charged argon ions at grazing incidence on a graphite surface

S. Winecki, M. P. Stöckli, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4310 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Matter waves

MILESTONE

Quantum dynamics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential

G. J. Milburn, J. Corney, E. M. Wright, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4318 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Semiclassical analysis of collective excitations in Bose-Einstein condensate

Subhasis Sinha

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4325 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Relative phase of two Bose-Einstein condensates

Yvan Castin and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4330 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Solitary-wave solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations

S. A. Morgan, R. J. Ballagh, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4338 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Trapped Fermi gases

D. A. Butts and D. S. Rokhsar

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4346 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Many-particle effects in laser cooling of one-dimensional optical molasses

K. Ellinger and J. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4351 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Sympathetic cooling of ${}^{6}{Li}$ atoms

F. A. van Abeelen, B. J. Verhaar, and A. J. Moerdijk

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4377 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Pump-probe spectroscopy approach to Bragg scattering

P. R. Berman and B. Bian

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4382 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Resonance fluorescence of an extended atomic wave packet

Luis Pumares, Luis Santos, Luis Roso, and Kazimierz Rząz-dotewski

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4386 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Strong laser-field effects in hydrogen:mHigh-order above-threshold ionization and photoelectron angular distributions

S. Dionissopoulou, Th. Mercouris, A. Lyras, and C. A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4397 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Optical suppression of hyperfine-changing collisions in a sample of ultracold sodium atoms

S. R. Muniz, L. G. Marcassa, R. Napolitano, G. D. Telles, J. Weiner, S. C. Zilio, and V. S. Bagnato

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4407 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum-nondemolition measurement of the vibrational energy of a trapped ion

F. E. Harrison, A. S. Parkins, M. J. Collett, and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4412 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Population dynamics and phase effects in periodic level crossings

B. M. Garraway and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4418 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Adiabatic scattering of atoms by a standing laser wave

A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4433 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum-mechanical counterpart of nonlinear optics

S. Wallentowitz and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4438 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum optics

Low pump limit of the bifurcation to periodic intensities in a semiconductor laser subject to external optical feedback

G. Lythe, T. Erneux, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4443 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Application of Klyshko's criterion for nonclassical states to the micromaser pumped by ultracold atoms

Ching Tsung Lee

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4449 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quenching of spontaneous emission via quantum interference

Hwang Lee, Pavel Polynkin, Marlan O. Scully, and Shi-Yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4454 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Resonant interaction between identical atoms including recoil

P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4466 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Linear theory for optimal control of molecular wave packets

Jianshu Cao and Kent R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4477 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum interference effects in spontaneous atomic emission: Dependence of the resonance fluorescence spectrum on the phase of the driving field

M. A. G. Martinez, P. R. Herczfeld, C. Samuels, L. M. Narducci, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4483 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum trajectory analysis of a thresholdlike transition in the microlaser

Changhuei Yang and Kyungwon An

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4492 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Forward-scattered light: Spectral broadening and temporal coherence

N. L. Swanson and D. H. Van Winkle

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4501 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Classical and quantum signatures of competing $χ^{(2)}$ nonlinearities

A. G. White, P. K. Lam, M. S. Taubman, M. A. M. Marte, S. Schiller, D. E. McClelland, and H.-A. Bachor

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4511 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Finite-size effects on squeezing in the self-pulsing regime of second harmonic generation

Oliver Veits and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4516 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Scattering of second-harmonic light from small spherical particles ordered in a crystalline lattice

Jordi Martorell, R. Vilaseca, and R. Corbalán

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4520 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Fractional wave-function revivals in the infinite square well

David L. Aronstein and C. R. Stroud

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4526 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Subhexagons and ultrahexagons as a result of a secondary instability

Yu. A. Logvin, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4538 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Unified and standardized procedure to solve various nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings models

Xiaoxue Yang, Ying Wu, and Yuanjie Li

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4545 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Strongly anticorrelated twin beams from symmetric low-Q cavity semiconductor lasers under constant-current operation

Makoto Yamashita, Susumu Machida, and Takaaki Mukai

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4552 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Unstable-resonator diffraction losses and the excess-noise factor

M. A. van Eijkelenborg, Å. M. Lindberg, M. S. Thijssen, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4556 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Transverse excess noise factor in geometrically stable laser resonators

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4563 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Light amplification mechanisms in a coherently coupled atomic system

Yifu Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4568 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Zeeman splitting in the Maxwell-Bloch theory of collisionally pumped lasers

D. Benredjem, A. Sureau, and C. Möller

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4576 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Generation of highly entangled field states in multiple micromaser cavities

János A. Bergou and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4585 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Natural variables for density functionals

Yan Alexander Wang

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4589 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Conditional generation of error syndromes in fault-tolerant error correction

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4593 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Investigation of the $b^{1}$ $Σ_{g}^{+}$ (v=0)← $X^{3}$ $Σ_{g}^{-}$ (v=0) magnetic-dipole transitions in ${}^{18}O_{2}$

G. Gagliardi, L. Gianfrani, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4597 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Numerical test of the sixth-order gradient expansion for the kinetic energy:Application to the monovacancy in jellium

Zidan Yan, John P. Perdew, Timo Korhonen, and Paul Ziesche

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4601 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Analyzing the photodetachment cross section of $H^{-}$ in electric and magnetic fields with arbitrary orientation

Z. Y. Liu and D. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4605 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Classical examination of the Stark effect in hydrogen

Andrew Hooker, Chris H. Greene, and William Clark

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4609 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Interference patterns in positron- $H_{2}^{+}$ collisions with the formation of positronium atoms

O. A. Fojón, R. D. Rivarola, J. Hanssen, and M. A. Ourdane

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4613 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Differential cross sections in the ejected energy for an L=0 model of the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen

M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4617 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Cooling mechanisms in the sodium type-II magneto-optical trap

A. M. L. Oien, I. T. McKinnie, P. J. Manson, W. J. Sandle, and D. M. Warrington

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4621 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Sidelobes in multiphoton ionization of inert gases

J. Z. Kamin-acuteski and F. Ehlotzky

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4625 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Quantum optics

Tomographic reconstruction of completely unpolarized light

Th. Richter

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4629 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Transition from a microcavity exciton polariton to a photon laser

H. Cao, S. Pau, J. M. Jacobson, G. Björk, Y. Yamamoto, and A. Imamŏglu

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4632 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

Decay of an atom coupled strongly to a reservoir

B. M. Garraway

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4636 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

COMMENTS

Comment on ``Cyclic quantum-evolution dependence on the Hamiltonian and geometric phase''

Ali Mostafazadeh

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4640 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997

ERRATA

Erratum: Role of optical anisotropies in the polarization properties of surface-emitting semiconductor lasers [Phys. Rev. A 54, 1647 (1996)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 55, 4641 (1997) - Published 1 June, 1997