Volume 56, Issue 2

August 1997

Browse Issues:

Prev Next

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Buffer-gas-induced linewidth reduction of coherent dark resonances to below $50$ Hz

S. Brandt, A. Nagel, R. Wynands, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1063(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Prediction of Feshbach resonances in collisions of ultracold rubidium atoms

J. M. Vogels, C. C. Tsai, R. S. Freeland, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, B. J. Verhaar, and D. J. Heinzen

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1067(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoelectron spectroscopy measurements and theoretical calculations of the lowest doubly hollow lithium state

S. Diehl, D. Cubaynes, K. T. Chung, F. J. Wuilleumier, E. T. Kennedy, J.-M. Bizau, L. Journel, C. Blancard, L. VoKy, P. Faucher, A. Hibbert, N. Berrah, T. J. Morgan, J. Bozek, and A. S. Schlachter

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1071(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Collisional excitation and destruction of metastable states in a stored ion beam

S. Mannervik, J. Lidberg, L. O. Norlin, and P. Royen

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1075(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Xenon spectator and diagram $L_{3} {- M}_{4, 5} M_{4, 5}$ Auger intensities near the $L_{3}$ threshold

G. B. Armen, S. H. Southworth, J. C. Levin, U. Arp, T. LeBrun, and M. A. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1079(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heisenberg-limited spectroscopy with degenerate Bose-Einstein gases

P. Bouyer and M. A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1083(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Output coupling for an atom laser by state change

G. M. Moy and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1087(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ground-state Ramsey fringes

B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1091(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Laser-noise-induced heating in far-off resonance optical traps

T. A. Savard, K. M. O’Hara, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1095(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Quantum optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spectrum of the ion-trap laser

Georg M. Meyer, Markus Löffler, and Herbert Walther

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1099(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory of $Z$ -scan measurements using Gaussian-Bessel beams

Steve Hughes and Josef M. Burzler

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1103(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optical mesons

P. D. Drummond and H. He

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1107(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bound dipole solitary solutions in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media

A. V. Mamaev, A. A. Zozulya, V. K. Mezentsev, D. Z. Anderson, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. A 56, R1110(R) (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Bosonic quantum codes for amplitude damping

Isaac L. Chuang, Debbie W. Leung, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1114 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Wigner’s problem for a precessing magnetic dipole

R. López-Peña, V. I. Man’ko, and G. Marmo

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1126 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Quantum anti-Zeno effect

B. Kaulakys and V. Gontis

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1131 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Quantum Zeno effect and adiabatic change

M. Kitano

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1138 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Effects of inelastic scattering on tunneling time based on the generalized diffusion process approach

Kentaro Imafuku, Ichiro Ohba, and Yoshiya Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1142 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Insecurity of quantum secure computations

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1154 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography. I. Information bound and optimal strategy

Christopher A. Fuchs, Nicolas Gisin, Robert B. Griffiths, Chi-Sheng Niu, and Asher Peres

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1163 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography. II. A quantum circuit

Robert B. Griffiths and Chi-Sheng Niu

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1173 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Effects of noise on quantum error correction algorithms

Adriano Barenco, Todd A. Brun, Rüdiger Schack, and Timothy P. Spiller

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1177 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Quartic, sextic, and octic anharmonic oscillators: Precise energies of ground state and excited states by an iterative method based on the generalized Bloch equation

Holger Meiβner and E. Otto Steinborn

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1189 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Substituting quantum entanglement for communication

Richard Cleve and Harry Buhrman

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1201 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Determination of entangled quantum states of a trapped atom

S. Wallentowitz, R. L. de Matos Filho, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1205 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Quantum copying: Fundamental inequalities

M. Hillery and V. Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1212 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Locality and causality in hidden-variables models of quantum theory

Stefan Teufel, Karin Berndl, Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, and Nino Zanghì

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1217 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Si $2 p$ photoabsorption in ${SiH}_{4}$ and ${SiD}_{4} :$ Molecular distortion in core-excited silane

R. Püttner, M. Domke, D. Lentz, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1228 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Two methods for solving the Dirac equation without variational collapse

P. Falsaperla, G. Fonte, and J. Z. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1240 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Characteristics of large electric-dipole moment states in crossed electric and magnetic fields studied by quantum calculations

Sihong Gu, Wenyu Liu, Shunsheng Gong, and Baiwen Li

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1249 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Long-range interactions in planetary three-body Coulomb systems

K.-D. Heber, M. Seng, M. Halka, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1255 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Mean lifetime measurements and calculations of long-lived HeNe $^{2 +}$ isotopes

I. Ben-Itzhak, J. P. Bouhnik, Z. Chen, B. D. Esry, I. Gertner, C. Heinemann, W. Koch, C. D. Lin, and B. Rosner

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1268 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Adiabatic approximation in atomic three-body systems

Rakhi Chattopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Das

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1281 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Two-photon decay of $2^{1} S_{0}$ and $2^{3} S_{1}$ states of heliumlike ions

A. Derevianko and W. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1288 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Relativistic many-body perturbation calculations for open-shell systems

Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Konrad Koc

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1295 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Absolute cross sections with polarization effects in ${Ne}^{*} {(2 p}^{5} 3 p) + He$ collisions: A detailed comparison between theory and experiment

Cristian Bahrim, Hélène Kucal, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1305 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Symmetric-eikonal theory of excitation with Hartree-Fock-Slater description of the target

László Gulyás and Pablo D. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1321 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Photoion spectroscopy of atomic tantalum and rhenium in the region of the $5 p$ and $4 f$ excitation

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

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1329 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Coupled-state calculations of positron-hydrogen scattering

T. T. Gien

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1332 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Measurement of electron-impact ionization cross sections for hydrogenlike high- $Z$ ions

R. E. Marrs, S. R. Elliott, and J. H. Scofield

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1338 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Cross section for photodetachment of the excited $C^{-} (^{2} D)$ ion using fast ion-laser-beam electron spectroscopy

D. H. Lee, W. D. Brandon, D. J. Pegg, and D. Hanstorp

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1346 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Complete momentum balance for single ionization of helium by fast ion impact: Experiment

R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, H. Kollmus, W. Schmitt, M. Unverzagt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, C. J. Wood, and R. E. Olson

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1351 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Charge exchange, excitation, and ionization in $H (1 s) + {He}^{2 +}$ collisions simulated using the multichannel perturbed-stationary-state propagator

Gabriel Hose

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1364 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Strong interference effects in the triple differential cross section of neutral-atom targets

J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, R. J. Allan, S. P. Lucey, and and H. R. J. Walters

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1379 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Measurement of absolute differential cross sections for the vibrational excitation of molecular nitrogen by electron impact in the $^{2} Π_{g}$ shape resonance region

Christopher J. Sweeney and Tong W. Shyn

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1384 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Electron momentum spectroscopy of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2} :$ Ionization to ground and excited final states

N. Lermer, B. R. Todd, N. M. Cann, Y. Zheng, C. E. Brion, Z. Yang, and E. R. Davidson

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1393 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Electron ejection from clean metallic surfaces upon charged particle impact

J. Berakdar and M. P. Das

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1403 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Matter waves

Particle-number-conserving Bogoliubov method which demonstrates the validity of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a highly condensed Bose gas

C. W. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1414 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Quantum optics

Feedback-induced destabilization of a laser diode using wavelets

Alejandra Figliola and Cristina Masoller

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1492 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Influence of carrier dynamics on the polarization stability and noise-induced polarization hopping in surface-emitting semiconductor lasers

M. Travagnin, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1497 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Computation of correlation effects on the parity-nonconserving electric-dipole transition in atomic ytterbium

B. P. Das

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1635 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Geometric phase, quantum measurements, and the de Broglie–Bohm model

Erik Sjöqvist and Henrik Carlsen

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1638 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic and molecular bound ground states of the Yukawa potential

J. M. Ugalde, C. Sarasola, and X. Lopez

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1642 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Coordinate scaling and adiabatic-connection formulation in density-functional theory

Yan Alexander Wang

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1646 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Doubly excited resonance structures in He photoionization from $1 s 2 s^{1, 3} S$ metastable states

T. K. Fang and T. N. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1650 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

Electron-impact ionization of tungsten ions in the configuration-average distorted-wave approximation

M. S. Pindzola and D. C. Griffin

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1654 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997

ERRATA

Erratum: Binding energy of the metastable ${He}^{-}$ ion [Phys. Rev. A 55, 978 (1997)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 56, 1674 (1997) - Published 1 August, 1997