Volume 57, Issue 6

June 1998

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiparticle entanglement purification protocols

M. Murao, M. B. Plenio, S. Popescu, V. Vedral, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4075(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effective optical anisotropy in evanescent wave propagation in atomic vapor

Krzysztof Kiersnowski, Leszek Józefowski, and Tomasz Dohnalik

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4079(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Absolute rates for radiative and nonradiative collisional deexcitation of metastable ${He}^{+} (2 s)$ ions

H. T. Schmidt, S. H. Schwartz, H. Cederquist, L. Liljeby, J. C. Levin, and I. A. Sellin

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4082(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the structures in the excitation cross sections in ion-atom collisions

J. P. Hansen, L. Kocbach, S. A. Synnes, J. B. Wang, and A. Dubois

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4086(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Postcollision-interaction effects in HCl following photofragmentation near the chlorine $K$ edge

D. L. Hansen, G. B. Armen, M. E. Arrasate, J. Cotter, G. R. Fisher, K. T. Leung, J. C. Levin, R. Martin, P. Neill, R. C. C. Perera, I. A. Sellin, M. Simon, Y. Uehara, B. Vanderford, S. B. Whitfield, and D. W. Lindle

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4090(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Simulation of exploding clusters ionized by high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses

T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4094(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory of two-color pump-probe determination of ionization dynamics

Richard Taïeb, Valérie Véniard, and Alfred Maquet

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4098(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoassociation as a probe of Feshbach resonances in cold-atom scattering

F. A. van Abeelen, D. J. Heinzen, and B. J. Verhaar

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4102(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Cold and dense cesium clouds in far-detuned dipole traps

D. Boiron, A. Michaud, J. M. Fournier, L. Simard, M. Sprenger, G. Grynberg, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4106(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoionization cross sections for excited laser-cooled cesium atoms

O. Maragò, D. Ciampini, F. Fuso, E. Arimondo, C. Gabbanini, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4110(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bose-Einstein condensation of large numbers of atoms in a magnetic time-averaged orbiting potential trap

D. J. Han, R. H. Wynar, Ph. Courteille, and D. J. Heinzen

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4114(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Potassium scattering lengths and prospects for Bose-Einstein condensation and sympathetic cooling

R. Côté, A. Dalgarno, H. Wang, and W. C. Stwalley

Phys. Rev. A 57, R4118(R) (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Nonlocal-looking equations can make nonlinear quantum dynamics local

Marek Czachor

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4122 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Measurement of time of arrival in quantum mechanics

Y. Aharonov, J. Oppenheim, S. Popescu, B. Reznik, and W. G. Unruh

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4130 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Minimal irreversible quantum mechanics: The mixed states and the diagonal singularity

Roberto Laura and Mario Castagnino

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4140 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Information transmission through a noisy quantum channel

Howard Barnum, M. A. Nielsen, and Benjamin Schumacher

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4153 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Complementarity and Young’s interference fringes from two atoms

W. M. Itano, J. C. Bergquist, J. J. Bollinger, D. J. Wineland, U. Eichmann, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4176 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Algebraic approach to shape invariance

A. B. Balantekin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4188 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Kinetic-energy density functionals based on the homogeneous response function applied to one-dimensional fermion systems

P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and E. Chacón

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4192 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Global and local properties of the $S$ states of the $dt μ$ molecular ion: A finite-element study

J. Ackermann

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4201 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Lifetime measurements of cesium $5 d^{2} D_{5 / 2, 3 / 2}$ and $11 s^{2} S_{1 / 2}$ states using pulsed-laser excitation

D. DiBerardino, C. E. Tanner, and A. Sieradzan

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4204 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Electron-pair center-of-mass-motion densities of atoms in position and momentum spaces

Toshikatsu Koga, Hisashi Matsuyama, E. Romera, and Jesus S. Dehesa

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4212 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Contracted Schrödinger equation: Determining quantum energies and two-particle density matrices without wave functions

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4219 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Recoil correction to the ground-state energy of hydrogenlike atoms

V. M. Shabaev, A. N. Artemyev, T. Beier, G. Plunien, V. A. Yerokhin, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4235 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Theoretical lifetimes and Landé $g$ values of Cs II ${5 p}^{5} 6 p$ levels

Donald R. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4240 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Spectrally accurate numerical solution of the single-particle Schrödinger equation

P. F. Batcho

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4246 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Differential virial theorem for the fractional electron number: Derivative discontinuity of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential

Manoj K. Harbola

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4253 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Photoassociative spectroscopy of highly excited vibrational levels of alkali-metal dimers: Green-function approach for eigenvalue solvers

Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4257 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Hyperspherical analysis of doubly and triply excited states of Li

Toru Morishita and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4268 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Simulation of resonantly and off-resonantly excited x-ray emission spectra: An application for the $X α$ scattered-wave method

P. Väterlein, R. Fink, E. Umbach, and W. Wurth

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4275 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Mixing of $LS$ configurations in terminating dipole series of $H^{-}$

T. Purr and H. Friedrich

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4279 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Relativistic many-body calculations for the oscillator strengths of the resonance lines of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon

Euripides N. Avgoustoglou and Donald R. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4286 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Spin-rotation interactions in the nuclear spin conversion of ${CH}_{3} F$

E. Ilisca and K. Bahloul

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4296 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Another way to calculate the Lamb shift in two-electron systems

A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4301 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Exchange energy in density-functional theory: A nonlocal approximation based on a self-consistent determination of the α parameter of the Slater $X α$ theory

Pietro Cortona

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4306 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

First-order static excitation potential: Scheme for excitation energies and transition moments

Joachim Brand and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4311 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Nuclear spin conversion in ${CH}_{3} F$ at elevated temperatures

B. Nagels, P. Bakker, L. J. F. Hermans, and P. L. Chapovsky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4322 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Large-angle elastic scattering of 59.54-keV photons by elements with $12 <~ Z <~ 92$

J. S. Shahi, Sanjiv Puri, D. Mehta, M. L. Garg, Nirmal Singh, and P. N. Trehan

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4327 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Antiproton-hydrogen annihilation at subkelvin temperatures

A. Yu. Voronin and J. Carbonell

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4335 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Observation of Cd ${4 d}^{9} {5 s}^{2} 5 p$ $J = 3$ autoionizing levels in $(e, 2 e)$ energy spectra

N. L. S. Martin, R. P. Bauman, and M. Wilson

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4346 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Unified construction of variational $R$ -matrix methods for the Dirac equation

Radosław Szmytkowski

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4351 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Dielectronic recombination of $U^{28 +}$ atomic ions

D. M. Mitnik, M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, N. R. Badnell, O. Uwira, A. Müller, A. Frank, J. Linkemann, W. Spies, N. Angert, P. H. Mokler, R. Becker, M. Kleinod, S. Ricz, and L. Empacher

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4365 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Cold-target recoil-ion-momentum spectroscopy study of single electron capture from He by slow ${Ar}^{8 +}$ ions

M. A. Abdallah, W. Wolff, H. E. Wolf, E. Sidky, E. Y. Kamber, M. Stöckli, C. D. Lin, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4373 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Scaling laws for single and double electron capture in $A^{q +} + He$ collisions $(q >~ Z_{A} - 2)$ at low impact velocities

F. Frémont, C. Bedouet, X. Husson, and J.-Y. Chesnel

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4379 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Shake-off mechanism of two-electron transitions in slow ion-atom collisions

Inga Yu. Tolstikhina, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, and Hiroyuki Tawara

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4387 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Optical and generalized oscillator strengths for the $B^{1} Σ^{+}$ , $C^{1} Σ^{+}$ , and $E^{1} Π$ vibronic bands in the CO molecule

Alexandre B. Rocha, Itamar Borges, , Jr.,, and Carlos E. Bielschowsky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4394 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Exact analytic solution of the Schrödinger equation with centrifugal tensor forces

J. Besprosvany and M. Moshinsky

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4401 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Determination of profile parameters of a Fano resonance without an ultrahigh-energy resolution

T. K. Fang and T. N. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4407 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Periodic variation in the I- and Ag-projectile $L β_{1} - to - L α$ x-ray intensity ratio with the target atomic number

Amal K. Saha, B. B. Dhal, U. Tiwari, M. B. Kurup, H. C. Padhi, K. G. Prasad, and P. N. Tandon

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4413 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Structure and dynamics of the $4 \vec{p} n s, m d$ autoionizing resonances between the $^{3} P$ and $^{1} S$ thresholds in atomic bromine

S. Benzaid, M. O. Krause, A. Menzel, and C. D. Caldwell

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4420 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Inner-shell photoionization of sodium: Experiment and theory

D. Cubaynes, L. Voky, F. J. Wuilleumier, B. Rouvellou, A. Hibbert, P. Faucher, J.-M. Bizau, L. Journel, H. E. Saraph, and F. Bely-Dubau

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4432 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Electron capture from $H_{2}$ to highly charged Th and Xe ions trapped at center-of-mass energies near 6 eV

G. Weinberg, B. R. Beck, J. Steiger, D. A. Church, J. McDonald, and D. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4452 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Absolute cross sections and final-state distributions for dissociative recombination and excitation of ${CO}^{+} (v = 0)$ using an ion storage ring

S. Rosén, R. Peverall, M. Larsson, A. Le Padellec, J. Semaniak, Å. Larson, C. Strömholm, W. J. van der Zande, H. Danared, and G. H. Dunn

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4462 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Quasiclassical study of differential inelastic scattering of oriented $Ca {(4 s 5 p,}^{1} P_{1})$ atoms on He

A. Devdariani, E. Tchesnokov, E. I. Dashevskaya, and E. E. Nikitin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4472 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Charge transfer in collisions of $C^{2 +}$ ions with H atoms at low-keV energies: A possible bound state of ${CH}^{2 +}$

J.-P. Gu, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, M. Kimura, C. M. Dutta, and P. Nordlander

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4483 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Double-ionization Compton profile of two-electron systems

M. A. Kornberg, V. D. Rodríguez, and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4490 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Plasmon excitation by charged particles moving near a solid surface

C. Denton, J. L. Gervasoni, R. O. Barrachina, and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4498 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Calculating the logarithmic mean excitation energy from the Shannon information entropy of the electronic charge density

Minhhuy Hồ, Donald F. Weaver, Vedene H. Smith, Jr., Robin P. Sagar, and Rodolfo O. Esquivel

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4512 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Production and asymmetric fragmentation of multicharged fullerene ions in ${Xe}^{8 +} {+ C}_{60}$ collisions

S. Martin, L. Chen, A. Denis, and J. Désesquelles

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4518 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Structure and stability of Al-doped small Na clusters: ${Na}_{n} Al$ $(n = 1, 10)$

Ajeeta Dhavale, Vaishali Shah, and D. G. Kanhere

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4522 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Classical simulation for one-dimensional $H_{2}$ interacting with intense ultrashort laser pulses

Weixing Qu, Suxing Hu, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4528 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Rydberg atoms in far-infrared radiation fields. I. Dipole matrix elements of H, Li, and Rb

J. H. Hoogenraad and L. D. Noordam

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4533 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Rydberg atoms in far-infrared radiation fields. II. Wave packet dynamics

J. H. Hoogenraad, R. B. Vrijen, and L. D. Noordam

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4546 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Macroscopic studies of short-pulse high-order harmonic generation using the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

M. B. Gaarde, Ph. Antoine, A. L’Huillier, K. J. Schafer, and K. C. Kulander

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4553 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Photoionization by pulses with a modulated frequency

P. Bała, J. Matulewski, A. Raczyński, and J. Zaremba

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4561 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Production of multicharged atomic ions from laser-induced multiple ionization of small molecules

Ph. Hering and C. Cornaggia

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4572 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Geometric potentials for subrecoil dynamics

P. M. Visser and G. Nienhuis

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4581 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Design of tailored microwave pulses to create rotational coherent states for an asymmetric-top molecule

Juan Ortigoso

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4592 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Observation of the pure long-range $1_{u}$ state of an alkali-metal dimer by photoassociative spectroscopy

Xiaotian Wang, He Wang, Phillip L. Gould, William C. Stwalley, Eite Tiesinga, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4600 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Scaled-energy Floquet spectroscopy in a strong electric field: A semiquantal calculation of the recurrence spectrum

Vladimir Kondratovich and John B. Delos

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4604 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Observation of oscillations between degenerate bound-state configurations in rapidly autoionizing two-electron atoms

M. B. Campbell, T. J. Bensky, and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4616 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Field theory for coherent optical pulse propagation

Q-Han Park and H. J. Shin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4621 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Matched pulse propagation in a three-level system

Q-Han Park and H. J. Shin

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4643 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Semiclassical formula for oscillator strengths of atomic spectra in external fields

Vladimir Kondratovich and John B. Delos

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4654 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Efficient photon echoes in optically thick media

M. Azadeh, C. Sjaarda Cornish, W. R. Babbitt, and L. Tsang

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4662 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Interference phenomena in the photon production between two oscillating walls

Jeong-Young Ji, Hyun-Hee Jung, and Kwang-Sup Soh

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4952 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Stability of four-body systems in three and two dimensions: A theoretical and quantum Monte Carlo study of biexciton molecules

Dario Bressanini, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4956 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Transition probabilities for the $3 s^{3} S^{0} - 4 p^{3} P$ and $3 s^{5} S^{0} - 4 p^{5} P$ multiplets in O I

J. M. Bridges and W. L. Wiese

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4960 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Extension of quasiclassical effective Hamiltonian structure of atoms through $Z = 94$

James S. Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4964 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculations of the ${2 s}^{21} S_{0} - 2 s 2 p^{3} P_{1}$ intercombination transition in C III

P. Jönsson and C. Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4967 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Ab initio calculation of the vibrationally resolved $O 1 s$ photoelectron spectrum of ${CO}_{2}$

J. A. Hahne, T. X. Carroll, and T. D. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4971 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

$g$ factor of a tightly bound electron

T. Asaga, T. Fujita, and M. Hiramoto

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4974 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Nonvariational calculation of the hyperfine splitting and other properties of the ground state of the muonic $^{3}$ He atom

R. Krivec and V. B. Mandelzweig

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4976 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

General formulation of the semirelativistic approach to atomic sum rules

S. M. Cohen and P. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 57, 4994 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Maximum-likelihood estimation of photon-number distribution from homodyne statistics

Konrad Banaszek

Phys. Rev. A 57, 5013 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Suppression of the Rabi oscillations in a cavity partially filled with a dielectric having a time-dependent refractive index

Maciej Janowicz

Phys. Rev. A 57, 5016 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

Trapped photon state along an atomic chain in photonic band-gap crystals

Hu Huang, Xing-Hua Lu, and Shi-Qun Li

Phys. Rev. A 57, 5019 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Theory with correlations for ionization in ion-atom collisions [Phys Rev. A 57, 2223 (1998)]

P. A. Macri, J. E. Miraglia, M. S. Gravielle, F. D. Colavecchia, C. R. Garibotti, and G. Gasaneo

Phys. Rev. A 57, 5023 (1998) - Published 1 June, 1998