Volume 57, Issue 5

May 1998

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Necessary and sufficient detector-efficiency conditions for the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox

Jan-Åke Larsson

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3145(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Convergent close-coupling calculation of electron-barium scattering

Dmitry V. Fursa and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3150(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Double $K$ -shell excitation of Li by 10.6-MeV/nucleon $N^{7 +}$ projectiles

J. A. Tanis, J.-Y. Chesnel, F. Frémont, M. Grether, B. Skogvall, B. Sulik, M. Tschersich, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3154(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Computation of the position and the width of the $B^{-} {1 s}^{2} {2 s}^{2} {2 p}^{2}^{1} D$ shape resonance

Christos Sinanis, Yannis Komninos, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3158(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Low-energy electron-impact ionization of helium

Igor Bray, Dmitry V. Fursa, J. Röder, and H. Ehrhardt

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3161(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Time-dependent mean-field description for multiple electron transfer in slow ion-cluster collisions

K. Yabana, T. Tazawa, Y. Abe, and P. Bożek

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3165(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Coherent Doppler narrowing in a thin vapor cell: Observation of the Dicke regime in the optical domain

Stephan Briaudeau, Solomon Saltiel, Gerard Nienhuis, Daniel Bloch, and Martial Ducloy

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3169(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Magnetic trapping of atomic chromium

Jonathan D. Weinstein, Robert deCarvalho, Jinha Kim, David Patterson, Bretislav Friedrich, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3173(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phase control of Autler-Townes doublet in ionization continuum by two-color laser fields

U. Lambrecht, M. Nurhuda, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3176(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Structure and stability of bosonic clouds: Alkali-metal atoms with negative scattering length

A. Parola, L. Salasnich, and L. Reatto

Phys. Rev. A 57, R3180(R) (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Quantum-state sensitivity to initial conditions

Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3184 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Modified spectral method in phase space: Calculation of the Wigner function. I. Fundamentals

M. Hug, C. Menke, and W. P. Schleich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3188 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Modified spectral method in phase space: Calculation of the Wigner function. II. Generalizations

M. Hug, C. Menke, and W. P. Schleich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3206 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Common eigenkets of three-particle compatible observables

Hong-yi Fan and Ying Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3225 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Experimental demonstration of quantum correlations over more than 10 km

W. Tittel, J. Brendel, B. Gisin, T. Herzog, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3229 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Invariant representations of finite rotation matrices and some applications

N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3233 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Exact boundary conditions at finite distance for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

M. Mangin-Brinet, J. Carbonell, and C. Gignoux

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3245 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Semiclassical coherent-state path integrals for scattering

Frank Grossmann

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3256 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Partial revivals of wave packets: An action-angle phase-space description

Quan-Lin Jie, Shun-Jin Wang, and Lian-Fu Wei

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3262 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Eight-component two-fermion equations

Ruth Häckl, Viktor Hund, and Hartmut Pilkuhn

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3268 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Dissipation and decoherence in a quantum register

Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3276 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Null test of quantum mechanics using two-photon down-conversion

Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3285 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Time-dependent invariants and Green functions in the probability representation of quantum mechanics

V. I. Man’ko, L. Rosa, and P. Vitale

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3291 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Bell’s inequality and detector inefficiency

Jan-Åke Larsson

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3304 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Lagrange-distributed approximating-functional approach to wave-packet propagation: Application to the time-independent wave-packet reactant-product decoupling method

G. W. Wei, S. C. Althorpe, D. S. Zhang, D. J. Kouri, and D. K. Hoffman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3309 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Solvable three-boson model with attractive $δ$ -function interactions

J. G. Muga and R. F. Snider

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3317 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Quantum information

Entropic bounds on coding for noisy quantum channels

Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3330 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Effective pure states for bulk quantum computation

E. Knill, I. Chuang, and R. Laflamme

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3348 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Limits for compression of quantum information carried by ensembles of mixed states

Michał Horodecki

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3364 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Fine and quadrupole structure of the weakly bound systems $(d t μ)_{11} dee$ and $(d d μ)_{11} dee$

D. Bakalov, K. Bakalova, V. Korobov, H. J. Monkhorst, and I. Shimamura

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3370 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Doubly excited ${5 s 5 p (}^{3} P_{1}) n p$ autoionizing Rydberg states of indium

H. Maeda, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3376 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

$1 / N$ expansion in the vibron model: Diatomic molecules

S. Kuyucak and M. K. Roberts

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3381 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Hydrogen molecule in a strong parallel magnetic field

Yu. P. Kravchenko and M. A. Liberman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3403 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Measurement of hyperfine coupling constants of the $5 d^{2} D_{j}$ levels in Cs using polarization quantum-beat spectroscopy

Wo Yei, A. Sieradzan, E. Cerasuolo, and M. D. Havey

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3419 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Alternative approach to the optimized effective potential method

L. Fritsche and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3425 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Exact exchange-correlation kernel for dynamic response properties and excitation energies in density-functional theory

Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3433 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Dynamical model of nuclear motion in the Auger emission spectrum of the core-excited ${BF}_{3}$ molecule

Satoshi Tanaka, Yosuke Kayanuma, and Kiyoshi Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3437 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Lifetime measurements in odd-parity Rydberg series of neutral lead by time-resolved laser spectroscopy

Z. S. Li, S. Svanberg, E. Biémont, P. Palmeri, and Jiang Zhankui

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3443 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Effect of Pauli repulsion on the molecular exchange-correlation Kohn-Sham potential: A comparative calculation of ${Ne}_{2}$ and $N_{2}$

O. V. Gritsenko, P. R. T. Schipper, and E. J. Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3450 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Total electron density from the $s$ -electron density

Á. Nagy and E. Bene

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3458 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Negative ions of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus

W. P. Wijesundera and F. A. Parpia

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3462 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Photon-atom scattering of 13.95-, 17.75-, 26.36-, and 59.54-keV photons by Cu, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Ta, and W

Ibrahim S. Elyaseery, A. Shukri, C. S. Chong, A. A. Tajuddin, and D. A. Bradley

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3469 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Levinson theorem for Dirac particles in two dimensions

Qiong-gui Lin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3478 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Relativistic calculation for photoionization of the ground state of neonlike Fe XVII

M. Mohan, M. Le Dourneuf, A. Hibbert, and P. G. Burke

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3489 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Total dielectronic recombination rate coefficient for Ar-like tungsten

A. Peleg, E. Behar, P. Mandelbaum, and J. L. Schwob

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3493 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Low-energy elastic scattering of electrons by ethylene

L. M. Brescansin, L. E. Machado, and M.-T. Lee

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3504 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Calculation of scattering amplitudes as continuous functions of energy: $R$ -matrix theory without a box

C. W. McCurdy, T. N. Rescigno, W. A. Isaacs, and D. E. Manolopoulos

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3511 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Photoionization of lithium from the ${1 s}^{2} 2 p$ state

Kwong T. Chung

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3518 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

${4 d}^{- 1}$ multiplet structure of rare-earth atoms studied by photoelectron-ion coincidence spectroscopy

Ch. Gerth, A. G. Kochur, M. Groen, T. Luhmann, M. Richter, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3523 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Scattering from a truncated von Neumann–Wigner potential

T. A. Weber and D. L. Pursey

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3534 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Enhancement of dielectronic processes in ${Ne}^{10 +} + He$ collisions at low keV energies

J.-Y. Chesnel, B. Sulik, H. Merabet, C. Bedouet, F. Frémont, X. Husson, M. Grether, A. Spieler, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3546 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Time-dependent approach to scattering by Chebyshev-polynomial expansion and the fast-Fourier-transform algorithm

J. B. Wang and T. T. Scholz

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3554 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Beam current-density dependence of the polarization of emission lines from foil-excited atoms: Beam dose dependent or field dependent

Yasuyuki Kimura and Keishi Ishii

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3560 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Equal-energy-sharing $(e, 2 e)$ ionizing collisions in argon

D. K. Waterhouse, I. E. McCarthy, and J. F. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3565 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Charge-transfer cross sections in collisions of ${Be}^{q +} (q = 1 - 4)$ and $B^{q +} (q = 1 - 5)$ with ground-state atomic hydrogen

M. Das, M. Purkait, and C. R. Mandal

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3573 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Semiclassical threshold law when the Wannier exponent diverges

P. Chocian, W. Ihra, and P. F. O’Mahony

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3583 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Electron collisions with nitrous oxide

Carl Winstead and Vincent McKoy

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3589 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Temperature-dependent depolarization cross sections of the $5 d 6 p$ $^{3} P_{1}$ and $^{3} D_{1}$ states of laser-ablated Ba in He gas in the range 10–300 K

Takashi Nakajima, Nobuaki Yonekura, Yukari Matsuo, Qin Hui, and Michio Takami

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3598 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Long-range diatomic $s + p$ potentials of heavy rare gases

M. R. Doery, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, J. G. C. Tempelaars, H. C. W. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3603 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Coulomb three-body effects in electron-impact ionization of argon

B. Rouvellou, S. Rioual, J. Röder, A. Pochat, J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, H. R. J. Walters, and R. J. Allan

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3621 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Dissociative recombination of NO $^{+}$

L. Vejby-Christensen, D. Kella, H. B. Pedersen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3627 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

$L$ - and $M$ -electron populations of fast xenon ions traveling in gases

V. Horvat, R. L. Watson, and J. M. Blackadar

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3635 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Double photoionization and ionization excitation of the metastable helium $S$ states

Hugo W. van der Hart, Kurt W. Meyer, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3641 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Bound-free heavy-lepton pair production for photon and ion impact on atomic nuclei

Ali Belkacem and Allan H. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3646 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Interpretation of a relativistic $(e, 2 e)$ experiment in coplanar asymmetric geometry

S. Keller and R. M. Dreizler

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3652 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Strong projectile-dependent forward-backward asymmetry of electron ejection by swift heavy ions in solids

H. Rothard, M. Jung, M. Caron, J.-P. Grandin, B. Gervais, A. Billebaud, A. Clouvas, and R. Wünsch

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3660 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Hollow nitrogen atoms probing the jellium edge in front of a Au(111) surface

J. Thomaschewski, J. Bleck-Neuhaus, M. Grether, A. Spieler, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3665 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Molecular-dynamics simulations of collisions of Ne with $La @ C_{82}$

J. A. Spirko and A. P. Hickman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3674 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Structural characterization of niobium-cluster anions from density-functional calculations

René Fournier, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3683 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Channel switching in above-threshold ionization of xenon

V. Schyja, T. Lang, and H. Helm

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3692 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Phase and rise-time dependence using rf pulses in multiphoton processes

W. M. Griffith, Michael W. Noel, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3698 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Double electron capture between an α particle and a helium atom in the presence of an intense laser field

Shu-Min Li, Yan-Gang Miao, Zi-Fang Zhou, Ji Chen, and Yao-Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3705 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Temporal dynamics of a two-electron wave packet

B. J. Lyons, D. W. Schumacher, D. I. Duncan, R. R. Jones, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3712 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Analytical formulas for the third-order diamagnetic energy of a hydrogen atom

V. D. Ovsiannikov

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3719 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Quantum and semiclassical calculations of cold-atom collisions in light fields

K.-A. Suominen, Y. B. Band, I. Tuvi, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3724 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Hyperspherical close-coupling calculations for helium in a strong magnetic field

M. Braun, W. Schweizer, and H. Elster

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3739 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Decoherence in ion traps due to laser intensity and phase fluctuations

S. Schneider and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3748 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Ortho-para separation of molecules using optical orientation of atoms in hyperfine Zeeman states

Chun He

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3753 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Bragg scattering of an atomic beam by a standing laser wave with time-periodic amplitude modulation

A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3763 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Electron-correlation effects in intense-field ionization of hydrogen molecules

S. X. Hu, W. X. Qu, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3770 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Dark magnetic resonance in an electron-nuclear spin system

R. Rakhmatullin, E. Hoffmann, G. Jeschke, and A. Schweiger

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3775 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Dynamical suppression of the Autler-Townes doublet in the presence of a cavity

Peng Zhou and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3781 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Echo in optical lattices: Stimulated revival of breathing oscillations

A. Bulatov, A. Kuklov, B. E. Vugmeister, and H. Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3788 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Ground state of the lithium atom in strong magnetic fields

M. V. Ivanov and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3793 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Matter waves

Laser-induced rotation of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

Karl-Peter Marzlin and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3801 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Pumping two dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates with Raman light scattering

C. M. Savage, Janne Ruostekoski, and Dan F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3805 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for trapped interacting bosons in lower dimensions

Tor Haugset and Hårek Haugerud

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3809 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Nonlinear mixing of quasiparticles in an inhomogeneous Bose condensate

S. A. Morgan, S. Choi, K. Burnett, and M. Edwards

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3818 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Interference fringes of the atom interferometer comprised of four copropagating traveling laser beams

Shinya Yanagimachi, Yasuo Omi, and Atsuo Morinaga

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3830 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Bose-Einstein solitons in highly asymmetric traps

Víctor M. Pérez-García, Humberto Michinel, and Henar Herrero

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3837 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Polarization partition noise and intensity fluctuation linewidth in a nearly symmetric vector laser

S. Ciuchi, M. San Miguel, and N. B. Abraham

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3843 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Gain without inversion in the frequency up-conversion regime

S. F. Yelin, M. D. Lukin, M. O. Scully, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3858 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Analytical solution for the Mollow and Autler-Townes probe absorption spectra of a three-level atom in a squeezed vacuum

M. Bosticky, Z. Ficek, and B. J. Dalton

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3869 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Fractional revivals in systems with two time scales

G. S. Agarwal and J. Banerji

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3880 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Signal-to-noise ratio of preamplified homodyne detection in quantum tomography

Marcelo A. Marchiolli, Salomon S. Mizrahi, and Victor V. Dodonov

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3885 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Squeezed light in a frontal-phase-modulated signal-recycled interferometer

Vijay Chickarmane, S. V. Dhurandhar, T. C. Ralph, M. Gray, H-A. Bachor, and D. E. McClelland

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3898 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Spontaneous emission from a dielectric slab

H. P. Urbach and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3913 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Three-dimensional quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and absorbing inhomogeneous dielectrics

Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3931 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Quantum-statistical properties of two coupled modes of electromagnetic field

S. Yu. Kalmykov and M. E. Veisman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3943 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Spectrally asymmetric mode correlation and intensity noise in pump-noise-suppressed laser diodes

C. Becher, E. Gehrig, and K.-J. Boller

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3952 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Nature of intensity and phase modulations in stimulated Brillouin scattering

Shahraam Afshaarvahid, Vladimyros Devrelis, and Jesper Munch

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3961 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Multiphoton absorption cross section and virtual-state spectroscopy for the entangled $n$ -photon state

Jan Peřina, , Jr.,, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3972 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Efficient interaction-free measurements in a high-finesse interferometer

T. Tsegaye, E. Goobar, A. Karlsson, G. Björk, M. Y. Loh, and K. H. Lim

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3987 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Spatial effects in two- and four-beam interference of partially entangled biphotons

Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Adel Joobeur, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 3991 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Influence of decorrelation on Heisenberg-limited interferometry with quantum correlated photons

Taesoo Kim, Olivier Pfister, Murray J. Holland, Jaewoo Noh, and John L. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4004 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Effects of spontaneously generated coherence on the pump-probe response of a $Λ$ system

Sunish Menon and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4014 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Spectrotemporal dynamics of a two-coupled-mode laser

E. Lacot, F. Stoeckel, D. Romanini, and A. Kachanov

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4019 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Selection rules for transverse-mode excitation in nonlinear ring and Fabry-Perot resonators

A. Gahl, T. Ackemann, W. Grosse-Nobis, G. L. Lippi, L. M. Hoffer, M. Möller, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4026 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Time dependence of the decoherence rate

Z. Haba

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4034 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Counterterms for the second-order electron self-energy in bound-state QED

Leonti Labzowsky, Alexander Mitrushenkov, Valery Shelyuto, and Gerhard Soff

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4038 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Analytical asymptotic structure of the correlation-kinetic component of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential in atoms

Zhixin Qian and Viraht Sahni

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4041 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Role of rotational-energy defect in collisional transfer between the $5^{2} P_{1 / 2, 3 / 2}$ levels in rubidium

Matthew D. Rotondaro and Glen P. Perram

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4045 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Diabatic models for weakly bound states and cold collisions of ground-state alkali-metal atoms

J. M. Vogels, B. J. Verhaar, and R. H. Blok

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4049 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Nonlinear energy-loss straggling of protons and antiprotons in an electron gas

Neng-ping Wang and J. M. Pitarke

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4053 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Matter waves

Phenomenological damping in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

S. Choi, S. A. Morgan, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4057 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Quantum effects in four-wave mixing in a cavity

R. R. Puri and Aditi Ray

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4061 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Determination of the dipole polarizabilities of $H_{2}^{+} (0, 0)$ and $D_{2}^{+} (0, 0)$ by microwave spectroscopy of high- $L$ Rydberg states of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. A 56, R4361 (1997)]

P. L. Jacobson, D. S. Fisher, C. W. Fehrenbach, W. G. Sturrus, and S. R. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4065 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998

Erratum: Superfluid state of atomic $^{6} Li$ in a magnetic trap [Phys. Rev. A 56, 4864 (1997)]

M. Houbiers, R. Ferwerda, H. T. C. Stoof, W. I. McAlexander, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4065 (1998) - Published 1 May, 1998