Volume 57, Issue 1

January 1998

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Qubit-qubit interaction in quantum computers

Julio Gea-Banacloche

Phys. Rev. A 57, R1(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Orientation-dependent dissociative charge transfer

W. Wu, M. H. Prior, and H. Bräuning

Phys. Rev. A 57, R5(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Oscillatory alignment phenomena in Rydberg-atom–rare-gas collisions

William A. Isaacs and Michael A. Morrison

Phys. Rev. A 57, R9(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anomalous final-state distributions of electrons captured from directed Rydberg states

D. M. Homan, K. B. MacAdam, and M. J. Cavagnero

Phys. Rev. A 57, R13(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Control of photodetachment through a two-color low-frequency field

S. Bivona, R. Burlon, and C. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 57, R16(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

${CO}_{2}$ -laser optical lattice with cold rubidium atoms

S. Friebel, C. D’Andrea, J. Walz, M. Weitz, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 57, R20(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phase change of a probe due to oscillation of cold atoms in an optical standing wave

M. Kozuma, K. Nakagawa, W. Jhe, and M. Ohtsu

Phys. Rev. A 57, R24(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Josephson effect between trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

Ivar Zapata, Fernando Sols, and Anthony J. Leggett

Phys. Rev. A 57, R28(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Collective excitations of Bose-Einstein-condensed gases at finite temperatures

R. J. Dodd, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 57, R32(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Coherent spectroscopic effects in the propagation of ultrashort pulses through a two-level system

Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert W. Schirmer, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. A 57, R36(R) (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Effects of zero-point energy in elementary-system interactions

I. R. Senitzky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 40 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Hyperspherical wave functions with orthogonal and permutational symmetry

Nir Barnea and Akiva Novoselsky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 48 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

QED theory of the nuclear recoil effect in atoms

V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. A 57, 59 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Solvable three-state model of a driven double-well potential and coherent destruction of tunneling

Laro Schatzer and Stefan Weigert

Phys. Rev. A 57, 68 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Nonadiabatic transitions in a two-level quantum system: Pulse-shape dependence of the transition probability for a two-level atom driven by a pulsed radiation field

P. R. Berman, Lixin Yan, Keng-Hwee Chiam, and Ruwang Sung

Phys. Rev. A 57, 79 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Reflectionless potentials for the one-dimensional Dirac equation: Pseudoscalar potentials

Y. Nogami and F. M. Toyama

Phys. Rev. A 57, 93 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Kinematics and hydrodynamics of spinning particles

Erasmo Recami and Giovanni Salesi

Phys. Rev. A 57, 98 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Generalized coherent states for the Pöschl-Teller potential and a classical limit

M. G. A. Crawford and E. R. Vrscay

Phys. Rev. A 57, 106 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt correlation and Clauser-Horne correlation do not lead to the largest violations of Bell’s inequality

M. Ardehali

Phys. Rev. A 57, 114 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Quantum information

MILESTONE

Quantum computation with quantum dots

Daniel Loss and David P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. A 57, 120 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Theory of fault-tolerant quantum computation

Daniel Gottesman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 127 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Approximate relativistic optimized potential method

T. Kreibich, E. K. U. Gross, and E. Engel

Phys. Rev. A 57, 138 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Transition energy and lifetime for the ground-state hyperfine splitting of high- $Z$ lithiumlike ions

V. M. Shabaev, M. B. Shabaeva, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, A. N. Artemyev, T. Kühl, M. Tomaselli, and O. M. Zherebtsov

Phys. Rev. A 57, 149 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

High-resolution carbon $1 s$ photoelectron spectrum of ethene: Ab initio calculation of vibrational structure with dynamic localization of the core hole

J. Bozek, T. X. Carroll, J. Hahne, L. J. Sæthre, J. True, and T. D. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 57, 157 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Theoretical treatment of quasibound resonances in two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectroscopy

F. Di Teodoro and E. F. McCormack

Phys. Rev. A 57, 162 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Auger width of metastable states in antiprotonic helium

J. Révai and A. T. Kruppa

Phys. Rev. A 57, 174 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Measurements of the $1 s 2 s^{1} S_{0}$ – $1 s 2 p^{3} P_{1, 0}$ transitions in heliumlike nitrogen

J. K. Thompson, D. J. H. Howie, and E. G. Myers

Phys. Rev. A 57, 180 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Exchange-correlation density functional beyond the gradient approximation

Michael Filatov and Walter Thiel

Phys. Rev. A 57, 189 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Velocity-dependent screening in metals

A. F. Lifschitz and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 57, 200 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Differential cross sections for rovibrational ${(v}^{'} = \vec{0} 1, 2, 3, 4)$ excitation of the electronic ground state of $O_{2}$ by electron impact

M. J. Brunger, A. G. Middleton, and P. J. O. Teubner

Phys. Rev. A 57, 208 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Projectile angular distribution in He single ionization by proton impact as a function of the ejected-electron energy

V. D. Rodríguez and R. O. Barrachina

Phys. Rev. A 57, 215 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

State-selective electron-capture measurements for $N^{4 +}$ -H and $N^{4 +}$ - $H_{2}$ collisions

F. W. Bliek, G. R. Woestenenk, R. Hoekstra, and R. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. A 57, 221 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Zeros in (inverse) bremsstrahlung matrix elements

C. David Shaffer, R. H. Pratt, and Sung Dahm Oh

Phys. Rev. A 57, 227 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Probabilities for $M$ -shell ionization in intermediate-velocity collisions of medium-mass atoms with $^{4} {He}^{2 +}$ ions

Ch. Herren, B. Boschung, J.-Cl. Dousse, B. Galley, J. Hoszowska, J. Kern, Ch. Rhême, M. Polasik, T. Ludziejewski, P. Rymuza, and Z. Sujkowski

Phys. Rev. A 57, 235 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Electron-impact ionization cross section of rubidium

Yong-Ki Kim, Jacek Migdałek, Wojciech Siegel, and Jacek Bieroń

Phys. Rev. A 57, 246 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Reverse energy pooling in a K-Na mixture

G. De Filippo, S. Guldberg-Kjær, S. Milošević, J. O. P. Pedersen, and M. Allegrini

Phys. Rev. A 57, 255 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Measurement of electron-impact excitation into the ${3 p}^{5} 4 p$ levels of argon using Fourier-transform spectroscopy

J. Ethan Chilton, John B. Boffard, R. Scott Schappe, and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 267 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Absolute cross sections for near-threshold electron-impact excitation of the $2 s^{2} \vec{S} 2 p^{2} P$ transition in $C^{3 +}$

M. E. Bannister, Y.-S. Chung, N. Djurić, B. Wallbank, O. Woitke, S. Zhou, G. H. Dunn, and A. C. H. Smith

Phys. Rev. A 57, 278 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Final ion-charge resolving electron spectroscopy for the investigation of atomic photoionization processes: Xe in the region of the $4 \vec{d} ε f$ resonance

T. Luhmann, Ch. Gerth, M. Groen, M. Martins, B. Obst, M. Richter, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. A 57, 282 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Measurement of the ratio of differential cross sections for double and single ionization of He by (4–10)-MeV protons

W. R. DeHaven, C. Dilley, A. Landers, E. Y. Kamber, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. A 57, 292 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Comparative study of $Si - 2 p$ core-excitation spectra in the tetrahedral molecules $Si X_{4}$ (with $X$ =H, D, F, Cl, Br, ${CH}_{3}$ )

Ralph Püttner, Michael Domke, and Günter Kaindl

Phys. Rev. A 57, 297 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Truncated dipole series in the electron-hydrogen and positron-hydrogen systems

T. Purr, H. Friedrich, and A. T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. A 57, 308 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

State-selective differential cross sections for double-electron capture in 0.25–0.75-MeV ${He}^{2 +}$ -He collisions

R. Dörner, V. Mergel, L. Spielberger, O. Jagutzki, J. Ullrich, and H. Schmidt-Böcking

Phys. Rev. A 57, 312 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of correlated photoionization processes in helium

M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 57, 318 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Electron-impact double ionization of magnesium

M. J. Ford, B. El-Marji, J. P. Doering, J. H. Moore, M. A. Coplan, and J. W. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 57, 325 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Absolute differential and integral cross sections for charge transfer of keV $O^{+}$ with $N_{2}$

B. G. Lindsay, R. L. Merrill, H. C. Straub, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings

Phys. Rev. A 57, 331 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Extended classical over-barrier model for collisions of highly charged ions with conducting and insulating surfaces

Jens J. Ducrée, Fulvio Casali, and Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. A 57, 338 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Formation of negative ions in grazing scattering from insulator surfaces

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

Phys. Rev. A 57, 351 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Self-energy and stopping power of large energetic clusters in solids: Implications to Coulomb explosion

Z. L. Mišković, W.-K. Liu, and You-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. A 57, 362 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Explosion of atomic clusters heated by high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses

T. Ditmire, E. Springate, J. W. G. Tisch, Y. L. Shao, M. B. Mason, N. Hay, J. P. Marangos, and M. H. R. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. A 57, 369 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Strong long-range forces between $C_{60}$ and Na atoms and microclusters

Vitaly V. Kresin, V. Kasperovich, G. Tikhonov, and K. Wong

Phys. Rev. A 57, 383 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Motional wave-packet splitting and ion-trap interferometry

Heping Zeng

Phys. Rev. A 57, 388 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Generalized multiphoton-ionization cross sections of the rare gases for 500-fs, 248.6-nm pulses

C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal, D. Xenakis, D. Charalambidis, P. Maragakis, H. Schröder, and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 57, 392 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atom cooling in one dimension with high-intensity laser light

M. R. Williams, M. J. Bellanca, L. Liu, C. Xie, W. F. Buell, T. H. Bergeman, and H. J. Metcalf

Phys. Rev. A 57, 401 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Double poles of the $S$ matrix in laser-assisted electron-atom scattering

N. J. Kylstra and C. J. Joachain

Phys. Rev. A 57, 412 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Fabry-Pérot-like transmission spectrum of an atom through a two-Gaussian laser arrangement

Luis Santos and Luis Roso

Phys. Rev. A 57, 432 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Measurement of the Stark shift of the Cs hyperfine splitting in an atomic fountain

E. Simon, P. Laurent, and A. Clairon

Phys. Rev. A 57, 436 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Decay of oriented Rydberg wave packets excited with far-infrared radiation

G. M. Lankhuijzen, M. Drabbels, F. Robicheaux, and L. D. Noordam

Phys. Rev. A 57, 440 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Measurement of electronic radial probability distributions using time-resolved isolated core excitation

R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. A 57, 446 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Time-dependent density-functional theory for strong-field multiphoton processes: Application to the study of the role of dynamical electron correlation in multiple high-order harmonic generation

Xiao-Min Tong and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 57, 452 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Suppression of incoherent ionization in population transfer via continuum

R. G. Unanyan, N. V. Vitanov, and S. Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 57, 462 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Three-dimensional relativistic calculation of strong-field photoionization by the phase-space-averaging method

H. Schmitz, K. Boucke, and H.-J. Kull

Phys. Rev. A 57, 467 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Subharmonic resonances in the strong-field dissociation of homonuclear molecular ions

Peter Dietrich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 476 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Matter waves

Collective excitations of trapped binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensed gases

Robert Graham and Dan Walls

Phys. Rev. A 57, 484 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Strong-field driving of a dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate

Mirosław Brewczyk, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 57, 488 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states

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

Phys. Rev. A 57, 493 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Collapses and revivals of collective excitations in trapped Bose condensates

R. Graham, D. F. Walls, M. J. Collett, M. Fliesser, and E. M. Wright

Phys. Rev. A 57, 503 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Macroscopic superpositions of Bose-Einstein condensates

Janne Ruostekoski, M. J. Collett, Robert Graham, and Dan F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 57, 511 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Sound propagation in a cylindrical Bose-condensed gas

E. Zaremba

Phys. Rev. A 57, 518 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Solitary attractors and low-order filamentation in anisotropic self-focusing media

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

Phys. Rev. A 57, 522 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Controlling instability and squeezing from a cascaded frequency doubler

K. V. Kheruntsyan, G. Yu. Kryuchkyan, N. T. Mouradyan, and K. G. Petrosyan

Phys. Rev. A 57, 535 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Mimicking a squeezed-bath interaction: Quantum-reservoir engineering with atoms

N. Lütkenhaus, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 57, 548 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Dependence of transient dynamics in a class-C laser upon variation of inversion with time

J. T. Malos, D. Y. Tang, and N. R. Heckenberg

Phys. Rev. A 57, 559 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

What we can learn about single photons in a two-photon interference experiment

D. V. Strekalov, T. B. Pittman, and Y. H. Shih

Phys. Rev. A 57, 567 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Threshold characteristics and intensity fluctuations of lasers with excess quantum noise

M. A. van Eijkelenborg, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 571 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Role of symmetries in the transition to turbulence in optics

Jorge Farjas, Daniel Hennequin, Didier Dangoisse, and Pierre Glorieux

Phys. Rev. A 57, 580 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Anomalous resonance fluorescence and dressed-state inversion by squeezed light in a Fabry-Pérot microcavity

W. S. Smyth, S. Swain, Z. Ficek, and M. Scott

Phys. Rev. A 57, 585 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Moving spatial solitons in active nonlinear-optical resonators

K. Staliunas, V. B. Taranenko, G. Slekys, R. Viselga, and C. O. Weiss

Phys. Rev. A 57, 599 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Pure states in a one-atom micromaser

N. Nayak

Phys. Rev. A 57, 605 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Few-cycle pulses in two-level media

Lee W. Casperson

Phys. Rev. A 57, 609 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Quantum theory of optical-pulse propagation through an amplifying slab

Maurizio Artoni and Rodney Loudon

Phys. Rev. A 57, 622 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Theoretical analysis of a bimode laser

V. Zehnlé

Phys. Rev. A 57, 629 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Radiative transitions of atomic systems in bubbles and sonoluminescence

R. Jáuregui, R. Esquivel-Sirvent, and C. Villarreal

Phys. Rev. A 57, 644 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Superposition-preserving photon-number amplifier

Gunnar Björk, Jonas Söderholm, and Anders Karlsson

Phys. Rev. A 57, 650 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Generalized probability for Hardy’s nonlocality contradiction

José L. Cereceda

Phys. Rev. A 57, 659 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

High-order multiphoton ionization at metal surfaces by laser fields of moderate power

S. Varró and F. Ehlotzky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 663 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Microcavity-induced modification of the dipole-dipole interaction

Girish S. Agarwal and S. Dutta Gupta

Phys. Rev. A 57, 667 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

State reconstruction for a collection of two-level systems

G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 57, 671 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Defining the (atom) laser [Phys. Rev. A 56, 2068 (1997)]

H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 674 (1998) - Published 1 January, 1998