Volume 59, Issue 6

June 1999

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Role of exchange and kinematic in the generation of low-energy polarized electron pairs

M. Streun, G. Baum, W. Blask, and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4109(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Collisions of cold magnesium atoms in a weak laser field

Mette Machholm, Paul S. Julienne, and Kalle-Antti Suominen

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4113(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Complete view of Stark wave-packet evolution

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

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4117(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Floquet analysis of the dynamical stabilization of the kicked hydrogen atom

S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, P. Kristöfel, J. Burgdörfer, S. Watanabe, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4121(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Collisional relaxation in a fermionic gas

Gabriele Ferrari

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4125(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Population inversion between atomic inner-shell vacancy states created by electron-impact ionization and Coster-Kronig decay

D. Kim, C. Tóth, and C. P. J. Barty

Phys. Rev. A 59, R4129(R) (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Direct determination of the quantum-mechanical density matrix: Parquet theory

Koji Yasuda

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4133 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons

W. Tittel, J. Brendel, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4150 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Reconstruction of a wave function from the Q function using a phase-retrieval method in quantum-state measurements of light

Nobuharu Nakajima

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4164 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Quantum electrodynamics of strong-field Compton scattering and its ponderomotive and drift energies

F. F. Körmendi and Gy. Farkas

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4172 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Using parity kicks for decoherence control

D. Vitali and P. Tombesi

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4178 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Lorentz-covariant quantum mechanics and preferred frame

P. Caban and J. Rembieliński

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4187 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Optimal states for Bell-inequality violations using quadrature-phase homodyne measurements

W. J. Munro

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4197 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-correlated atomic ensembles

E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4202 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Quantum information

Reduction criterion of separability and limits for a class of distillation protocols

Michał Horodecki and Paweł Horodecki

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4206 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Disentanglement-free state of two pairs of two-level atoms

Chui-Ping Yang and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4217 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Simple example of definitions of truth, validity, consistency, and completeness in quantum mechanics

Paul Benioff

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4223 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Incoherent and coherent eavesdropping in the six-state protocol of quantum cryptography

H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4238 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Distributed quantum computation over noisy channels

J. I. Cirac, A. K. Ekert, S. F. Huelga, and C. Macchiavello

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4249 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Atomic configuration-interaction electron-electron counterbalance densities

José M. Mercero, Joseph E. Fowler, Cecilia Sarasola, and Jesus M. Ugalde

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4255 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Lamb shift of an atom in a dielectric medium

Peter W. Milonni, Martin Schaden, and Larry Spruch

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4259 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Magnetic-field-stimulated transitions of excited states in fast muonic helium ions

Vladimir S. Melezhik and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4264 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Bound-state calculations of Coulomb three-body systems

Alexei M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4270 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Competition between decay and dissociation of core-excited carbonyl sulfide studied by x-ray scattering

M. Magnuson, J. Guo, C. Såthe, J.-E. Rubensson, J. Nordgren, P. Glans, L. Yang, P. Sałek, and H. Ågren

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4281 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Systematic study of the Ib diatomic molecules ${Cu}_{2},$ ${Ag}_{2}$ , and ${Au}_{2}$ using advanced relativistic density functionals

S. Varga, E. Engel, W.-D. Sepp, and B. Fricke

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4288 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Large-scale multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock calculations of the hyperfine-structure constants and determination of the nuclear quadrupole moment of $^{49} Ti$

Jacek Bieroń, Charlotte Froese Fischer, and Ian P. Grant

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4295 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Negative pion capture in HD gas and in $H_{2} + D_{2}$ gas mixtures: Resolution of the isotope puzzle

James S. Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4300 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Electronic states of the triply charged molecular ion $N_{2}^{3 +}$ and laser-induced Coulomb explosion

André D. Bandrauk, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, and Keiji Morokuma

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4309 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Positronium S-state spectrum: Analytic results at $O (m α^{6})$

Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4316 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Exact solution of the one- and three-dimensional quantum kinetic equations with velocity-dependent collision rates: Comparative analysis

T. Privalov and A. Shalagin

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4331 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Solution of the Holstein equation of radiation trapping by the geometric quantization technique. II. Two- and three-dimensional geometries

N. N. Bezuglov, A. F. Molisch, A. N. Klucharev, F. Fuso, and M. Allegrini

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4340 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Resonant processes in a frozen gas

J. S. Frasier, V. Celli, and T. Blum

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4358 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Fine-structure resolved measurements of photoelectron angular distributions of ${Ge}^{-}$ at visible photon wavelengths

W. W. Williams, D. L. Carpenter, A. M. Covington, and J. S. Thompson

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4368 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Experimental study of dissociative attachment in $H_{2} :$ Effects of vibrational excitation

O. J. Orient and A. Chutjian

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4374 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Charge and velocity dependence of the ratio of double to single ionization of $H^{-}$ by ${Ar}^{q +}$ and ${Xe}^{q +}$

F. Melchert, E. Salzborn, D. B. Uskov, L. P. Presnyakov, Catalina Gonzalez, and J. H. McGuire

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4379 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Quantum diffraction and threshold law for the Temkin-Poet model of electron-hydrogen ionization

Naoyuki Miyashita, Daiji Kato, and Shinichi Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4385 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Electron-impact double ionization of a model helium atom

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

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4390 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Dielectronic excitation of Ne K-shell electrons in 2–170-keV $N^{7 +} + N e$ collisions

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

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4399 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Electron scattering from optically pumped lithium atoms

V. Karaganov, Igor Bray, and P. J. O. Teubner

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4407 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Application of the hidden-crossing method to positronium formation

S. J. Ward, J. H. Macek, and S. Yu. Ovchinnikov

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4418 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Ionization and fragmentation of $C_{60}$ in charge-transfer collisions of 2-MeV lithium ions

A. Itoh, H. Tsuchida, T. Majima, and N. Imanishi

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4428 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Detailed analysis of the ${3 d}^{- 1} \to 4 p π^{- 2}$ normal Auger spectra in HBr and DBr

R. Püttner, Y. F. Hu, G. M. Bancroft, H. Aksela, E. Nõmmiste, J. Karvonen, A. Kivimäki, and S. Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4438 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Formation of negative ions from fluorine projectiles scattered off a MgO(100) surface: Theory

Stefan A. Deutscher, Andrei G. Borisov, and Victor Sidis

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4446 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Reduced charge state of MeV carbon cluster constituents exiting thin carbon foils

A. Brunelle, S. Della-Negra, J. Depauw, D. Jacquet, Y. Le Beyec, and M. Pautrat

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4456 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Highly ionized but weakly excited metal clusters in collisions with multicharged ions

L. Plagne and C. Guet

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4461 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Carbon-cluster formation from polymers caused by MeV-ion impacts and keV-cluster-ion impacts

C. W. Diehnelt, M. J. Van Stipdonk, and E. A. Schweikert

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4470 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Nonadiabatic interaction effects on population transfer in $H_{2}$ by stimulated Raman transition with partially overlapping laser pulses

Swaralipi Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, S. S. Bhattacharyya, and Samir Saha

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4475 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Nonlinear interactions of multilevel atoms with a near-resonant standing wave

T. J. O’Kane, R. E. Scholten, P. M. Farrell, and M. R. Walkiewicz

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4485 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Coherent population transfer in three-level $Λ$ systems by chirped laser pulses: Minimization of the intermediate-level population

Ignacio R. Solá, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Bo Y. Chang, Jesus Santamaria, and Klaas Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4494 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Laser-induced resonant structures in a close-coupling calculation of two-frequency multiphoton dissociation of ${HD}^{+}$

Avijit Datta and S. S. Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4502 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Dissociation of molecular chlorine in a Coulomb explosion: Potential curves, bound states, and deviation from Coulombic behavior for ${Cl}_{2}^{n +} (n = 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10)$

J. S. Wright, G. A. DiLabio, D. R. Matusek, P. B. Corkum, M. Yu. Ivanov, Ch. Ellert, R. J. Buenker, A. B. Alekseyev, and G. Hirsch

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4512 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Energy-exchange characteristics in ordinary and nonlinear Compton scattering

J. X. Wang and Y. K. Ho

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4522 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Laser cooling of ions stored in a Penning trap: A phase-space picture

G. Zs. K. Horvath and R. C. Thompson

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4530 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Zeeman frequency shifts in an optical dipole trap used to search for an electric-dipole moment

M. V. Romalis and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4547 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Core-scattered combination orbits in the $M = 0$ Stark spectrum of helium

M. L. Keeler and T. J. Morgan

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4559 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy of trapped atoms

Claudio L. Cesar and Daniel Kleppner

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4564 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Reaction-field-induced interatomic forces between atoms in the presence of a strong magnetic field

Burke Ritchie

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4571 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Scaling of hydrogenic atoms and ions interacting with laser fields: Positronium in a laser field

L. B. Madsen and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4574 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Nonlinear level-crossing models

N. V. Vitanov and K.-A. Suominen

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4580 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Raman motional displacements of a trapped ion in the strong excitation regime

Heping Zeng, Fucheng Lin, Yuzhu Wang, and Yusaburo Segawa

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4589 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Matter waves

Spatial coherence and density correlations of trapped Bose gases

M. Naraschewski and R. J. Glauber

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4595 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Ground-state energy of the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

W.-J. Huang and S.-C. Gou

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4608 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Noncommuting spinor rotation due to balanced geometrical and dynamical phases

Y. Hasegawa and G. Badurek

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4614 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Creating macroscopic quantum superpositions with Bose-Einstein condensates

D. Gordon and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4623 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Weak-force detection using a double Bose-Einstein condensate

J. F. Corney, G. J. Milburn, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4630 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Longitudinal focusing of an atomic cloud using pulsed magnetic forces

E. Maréchal, S. Guibal, J.-L. Bossennec, R. Barbé, J.-C. Keller, and O. Gorceix

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4636 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Longitudinal atom optics using localized oscillating fields: A fully quantum-mechanical treatment

D. E. Pritchard, R. A. Rubenstein, A. Dhirani, D. A. Kokorowski, E. T. Smith, T. D. Hammond, and B. Rohwedder

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4641 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Zero sound modes of dilute Fermi gases with arbitrary spin

S.-K. Yip and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4653 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Bose-Einstein condensation of a trapped gas in n dimensions

Zijun Yan

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4657 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Measurement of the spatiotemporal dynamics of simple transverse patterns in a pulsed transversely excited atmospheric ${CO}_{2}$ laser

F. Encinas-Sanz, Oscar G. Calderón, R. Gutiérrez-Castrejón, and J. M. Guerra

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4764 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Detector efficiency in the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox: Independent errors

Jan-Åke Larsson

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4801 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

COMMENTS

Comment on “Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules”

S. M. Cohen and P. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4847 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Reply to “Comment on ‘Relativistic correction of the generalized oscillator strength sum rules’ ”

R. H. Romero and G. A. Aucar

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4849 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

ERRATA

Erratum: Bethe theory of stopping incorporating electronic excitations of partially stripped projectiles [Phys. Rev. A 55, 2864 (1997)]

R. Cabrera-Trujillo, S. A. Cruz, Jens Oddershede, and John R. Sabin

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4850 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999

Erratum: Spectral line shape of nonresonant four-wave mixing in Markovian stochastic fields [Phys. Rev. A 56, 2267 (1997)]

R. Bratfalean and P. Ewart

Phys. Rev. A 59, 4850 (1999) - Published 1 June, 1999