Volume 58, Issue 6

R. Pohl, F. J. Hartmann, B. Ketzer, C. Maierl, T. von Egidy, J. Eades, E. Widmann, T. Yamazaki, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, R. S. Hayano, M. Hori, T. Ishikawa, H. A. Torii, I. Sugai, and D. Horváth

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4406 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Observation of the far wing of Lyman α due to neutral atom and ion collisions in a laser-produced plasma

J. F. Kielkopf and N. F. Allard

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4416 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Coulomb deexcitation and isotope exchange of excited mesic hydrogen

A. V. Kravtsov and A. I. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4426 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Theory of muon spin relaxation of Mu + CO

Ralph Eric Turner and R. F. Snider

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4431 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Theoretical values of the dipole polarizabilities of $H_{2}^{+} (0, 0)$ and $D_{2}^{+} (0, 0)$

R. E. Moss

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4447 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Measurement of the $N^{+} {2 s 2 p}^{3}^{5} S_{2}^{o}$ level lifetime using a heavy-ion storage ring

E. Träbert, A. Wolf, E. H. Pinnington, J. Linkemann, E. J. Knystautas, A. Curtis, N. Bhattacharya, and H. G. Berry

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4449 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Negative-energy contributions to transition amplitudes in heliumlike ions

A. Derevianko, Igor M. Savukov, W. R. Johnson, and D. R. Plante

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4453 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Extended Coulomb approximation for multichannel-quantum-defect-theory computations of dipole moments: Method of calculation and application to $H_{2}$

A. Matzkin, Ch. Jungen, and S. C. Ross

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4462 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Optical properties of helium including relativistic corrections

A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4470 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Probing the spatial dispersion in a dense atomic vapor near a dielectric interface

H. van Kampen, V. A. Sautenkov, E. R. Eliel, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4473 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Bound-state properties of negatively charged hydrogenlike ions

Alexei M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4479 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Angular distributions and rotational excitations for electron scattering from ozone molecules

F. A. Gianturco, P. Paioletti, and N. Sanna

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4484 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Saturation effect in the excitation of heliumlike Si projectiles in the intermediate velocity range

U. Tiwari, A. K. Saha, L. C. Tribedi, M. B. Kurup, P. N. Tandon, and L. Gulyas

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4494 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Photoionization with excitation and double photoionization of the helium isoelectronic sequence

Anatoli S. Kheifets and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4501 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Absolute cross sections for excitation of the $2 s^{2} \vec{S} 2 p^{2} P$ transition in $B^{2 +}$ and for electron-impact single ionization of $B^{2 +}$

O. Woitke, N. Djurić, G. H. Dunn, M. E. Bannister, A. C. H. Smith, B. Wallbank, N. R. Badnell, and M. S. Pindzola

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4512 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Channel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged krypton

T. Fuchs, C. Biedermann, R. Radtke, E. Behar, and R. Doron

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4518 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

$H^{0} (n = 3, 4)$ Stark states produced in the interaction of 800-MeV $H^{-}$ ions with thin foils

P. B. Keating, M. S. Gulley, H. C. Bryant, E. P. MacKerrow, W. A. Miller, D. C. Rislove, Stanley Cohen, J. B. Donahue, D. H. Fitzgerald, David J. Funk, S. C. Frankle, R. L. Hutson, R. J. Macek, M. A. Plum, N. G. Stanciu, O. B. van Dyck, and C. A. Wilkinson

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4526 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Dielectronic recombination for boronlike ions

M. H. Chen, K. J. Reed, D. S. Guo, and D. W. Savin

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4539 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Intermediate-coupling calculations of the effects of interacting resonances on dielectronic recombination in a static electric field

D. C. Griffin, D. Mitnik, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4548 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Production of relativistic positronium in collisions of photons and electrons with nuclei and atoms

S. R. Gevorkyan, E. A. Kuraev, A. Schiller, V. G. Serbo, and A. V. Tarasov

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4556 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Electron capture from a directed Stark-Rydberg state: Fore-and-aft ratios

D. M. Homan, O. P. Makarov, O. P. Sorokina, K. B. MacAdam, M. F. V. Lundsgaard, C. D. Lin, and N. Toshima

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4565 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Electron-impact excitation and collisional transfer into the nF levels of helium

J. Ethan Chilton and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4572 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Identification of the Beutler-Fano formula in eigenphase shifts and eigentime delays near a resonance

Chun-Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4581 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Electron-ion recombination of Fe IV

Sultana N. Nahar, Manuel A. Bautista, and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4593 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Measurement of the cross sections for electron-impact excitation into the ${5 p}^{5} 6 p$ levels of xenon

John T. Fons and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4603 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Geometrical basis for molecular stopping anisotropy

Sten P. Apell, S. B. Trickey, and John R. Sabin

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4616 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Binary mechanism in grazing ion-surface collisions

M. S. Gravielle

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4622 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of neutral and charged ${Nb}_{n} (n = 8, 9, 10)$ clusters

Henrik Grönbeck, Arne Rosén, and Wanda Andreoni

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4630 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Highly charged carbon ions formed by femtosecond laser excitation of $C_{60} :$ A step towards an x-ray laser

R. C. Constantinescu, S. Hunsche, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, H. G. Muller, C. LeBlanc, and F. Salin

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4637 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Uniform, rapidly convergent algorithm for quantum optimal control of objectives with a positive semidefinite Hessian matrix

Wusheng Zhu and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4741 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Coherent Raman scattering with incoherent light for a multiply resonant mixture: A factorized time correlator diagram analysis

Jason C. Kirkwood, A. C. Albrecht, Darin J. Ulness, and Michael J. Stimson

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4910 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Two thermodynamically stable states in ${SiO}^{-}$ and ${PN}^{-}$

Gennady L. Gutsev, Puru Jena, and Rodney J. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4972 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Identical motion in classical and quantum mechanics

A. J. Makowski and S. Konkel

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4975 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Interaction-induced dipole and absorption spectra of collisional Ar-Xe pairs

Ivan M. Grigoriev, Michael V. Tonkov, and Lothar Frommhold

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4978 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Variation of photofragment angular distributions near the isolated Lorentzian resonances: Influence of the continuum-continuum interaction

Sungyul Lee

Phys. Rev. A 58, 4981 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Multistep-capture-and-loss model for stabilization processes of hollow Ar atoms formed in a solid

Keiko Suto and Takashi Kagawa

Phys. Rev. A 58, 5004 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

Chemical effects on the Bethe-Bloch stopping formula within the statistical model

Dieter Semrad

Phys. Rev. A 58, 5008 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Relativistic effects on angular distribution and polarization of dielectronic satellite lines of hydrogenlike ions [Phys. Rev. A 52, 2057 (1995)]

M. H. Chen and J. H. Scofield

Phys. Rev. A 58, 5011 (1998) - Published 1 December, 1998