Volume 60, Issue 4

October 1999

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Enhancement of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2611(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Irrelevance of photon events distinguishability in a class of Bell experiments

Marek Żukowski, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Emilio Santos

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2614(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum eraser and the decoherence time of a measurement process

Y. Abranyos, M. Jakob, and J. Bergou

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2618(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum cryptography using femtosecond-pulsed parametric down-conversion

A. V. Sergienko, M. Atatüre, Z. Walton, G. Jaeger, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2622(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optimal manipulations with qubits: Universal-NOT gate

V. Bužek, M. Hillery, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2626(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dipole polarizability of the hydrogen molecular ion

J. M. Taylor, A. Dalgarno, and J. F. Babb

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2630(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Statistics of photodissociation spectra: Nonuniversal properties

Oded Agam

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2633(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Isotope shift in the oxygen electron affinity

Michel R. Godefroid and Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2637(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Validity of the independent-particle approximation in x-ray photoemission: The exception, not the rule

D. L. Hansen, O. Hemmers, H. Wang, D. W. Lindle, P. Focke, I. A. Sellin, C. Heske, H. S. Chakraborty, P. C. Deshmukh, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2641(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Clusters (including fullerenes)

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Doubly charged negative silicon-carbon clusters produced in sputtering

Hubert Gnaser

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2645(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effects of core scattering on level statistics in helium atoms in scaled external fields

K. Karremans, A. Kips, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2649(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Mean-field approach to dipole-dipole interaction in an optical lattice

C. Menotti and H. Ritsch

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2653(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Polarization-dependent Rabi frequency beats in the coherent response of ${Tm}^{3 +}$ in YAG

C. Greiner, B. Boggs, T. Loftus, T. Wang, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2657(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum dynamics of evaporatively cooled Bose-Einstein condensates

P. D. Drummond and J. F. Corney

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2661(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Stability of standing matter waves in a trap

A. E. Muryshev, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2665(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Wave-function monopoles in Bose-Einstein condensates

Th. Busch and J. R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2669(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum analysis of the photonic blockade mechanism

Klaus M. Gheri, Wieland Alge, and Philippe Grangier

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2673(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

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Lasing on the self-photopumped nickel-like $4 f^{1} P_{1} \to 4 d^{1} P_{1}$ x-ray transition

Joseph Nilsen, James Dunn, Albert L. Osterheld, and Yuelin Li

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2677(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Elimination of the band gap of a resonant optical material by electromagnetically induced transparency

G. S. Agarwal and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 60, R2681(R) (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Experimental study of a subsystem in an entangled two-photon state

Dmitry V. Strekalov, Yoon-Ho Kim, and Yanhua Shih

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2685 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Operational time of arrival in quantum phase space

Piotr Kochański and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2689 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Feedback control of quantum systems using continuous state estimation

A. C. Doherty and K. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2700 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Enhanced diffusion and the continuous spontaneous localization model

L. F. Santos and C. O. Escobar

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2712 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Heterodyne measurement of vibrational wave packets of diatomic molecules

A. Zucchetti, W. Vogel, D.-G. Welsch, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2716 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum correlations violate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen assumptions

Thomas F. Jordan

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2726 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models

Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Karin Münch-Berndl, and Nino Zanghì

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2729 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum information

Multiparty quantum communication complexity

Harry Buhrman, Wim van Dam, Peter Høyer, and Alain Tapp

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2737 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Grover’s quantum search algorithm for an arbitrary initial amplitude distribution

Eli Biham, Ofer Biham, David Biron, Markus Grassl, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2742 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Grover’s quantum searching algorithm is optimal

Christof Zalka

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2746 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Confirming entanglement in continuous variable quantum teleportation

Sze M. Tan

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2752 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Teleportation of a zero- and one-photon running-wave state by projection synthesis

C. J. Villas-Bôas, N. G. de Almeida, and M. H. Y. Moussa

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2759 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Two-qubit copying machine for economical quantum eavesdropping

Chi-Sheng Niu and Robert B. Griffiths

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2764 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Generalized methods for the development of quantum logic gates for an NMR quantum information processor

Mark D. Price, Shyamal S. Somaroo, Amy E. Dunlop, Timothy F. Havel, and David G. Cory

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2777 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Electric-dipole amplitudes, lifetimes, and polarizabilities of the low-lying levels of atomic ytterbium

S. G. Porsev, Yu. G. Rakhlina, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2781 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Generalized Franck-Condon principle for resonant photoemission

Paweł Sałek, Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Olle Björneholm, and Svante Svensson

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2786 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Higher-order recoil corrections to energy levels of two-body systems

Krzysztof Pachucki and Savely G. Karshenboim

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2792 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Collision spectroscopy of ${Ar}^{8 +} {+ H}_{2}$ at low velocities $(v < 1 a . u .)$

S. Bliman, M. Cornille, B. A. Huber, H. Lebius, A. Langereis, J. Nordgren, and R. Bruch

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2799 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Relativistic multireference many-body perturbation theory for quasidegenerate systems: Energy levels of ions of the oxygen isoelectronic sequence

Marius J. Vilkas, Yasuyuki Ishikawa, and Konrad Koc

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2808 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Relativistic coupled-cluster static dipole polarizabilities of the alkali metals from Li to element 119

Ivan S. Lim, Markus Pernpointner, Michael Seth, Jon K. Laerdahl, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Pavel Neogrady, and Miroslav Urban

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2822 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Measurement of the infrared $^{2} F_{7 / 2} -^{2} D_{5 / 2}$ transition in a single $^{171} {Yb}^{+}$ ion

P. Taylor, M. Roberts, G. M. Macfarlane, G. P. Barwood, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2829 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Bound-state properties of the positronium negative ion ${Ps}^{-}$

Alexei M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2834 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Optimization of Gaussian basis sets for density-functional calculations

Dirk Porezag and Mark R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2840 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Energy levels of triply ionized carbon (C IV): Polarization method

A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2848 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Field dependence of the energy of a molecule in a magnetic field

A. Holas and N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2853 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Measurement of the $^{2} S_{1 / 2} -^{2} D_{5 / 2}$ clock transition in a single $^{171} {Yb}^{+}$ ion

M. Roberts, P. Taylor, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. M. Clarke, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2867 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Associative detachment, dissociative attachment, and vibrational excitation of HCl by low-energy electrons

M. Čížek, J. Horáček, and W. Domcke

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2873 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Electron collisions with diatomic anions

H. B. Pedersen, N. Djurić, M. J. Jensen, D. Kella, C. P. Safvan, H. T. Schmidt, L. Vejby-Christensen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2882 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Spherical many-center scattering systems

Yuri F. Migal

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2900 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

State-selective electron capture in (0.5–50)-keV/u $C^{5 +} - He$ collisions studied by cold-target recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy

E. Y. Kamber, M. A. Abdallah, C. L. Cocke, and M. Stöckli

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2907 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Experimental study of single- and double-electron transfer in slow ${Ne}^{8 +} + H e$ collisions using photon and electron spectroscopy

A. Langereis, J. Nordgren, S. Bliman, M. Cornille, R. Bruch, R. A. Phaneuf, and D. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2917 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Rotational relaxation matrix for fast non-Markovian collisions

Alexandre P. Kouzov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2931 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Double ionization of noble gases by positron impact

J. Moxom, D. M. Schrader, G. Laricchia, Jun Xu, and L. D. Hulett

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2940 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Initial- and final-state alignment and orientation effects in Ca energy pooling

Harold V. Parks and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2944 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Projectile Z dependence of Cu K-shell vacancy production in 10-MeV/amu ion-solid collisions

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2959 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Dissociative recombination and excitation of $H_{2} O^{+}$ and ${HDO}^{+}$

M. J. Jensen, R. C. Bilodeau, O. Heber, H. B. Pedersen, C. P. Safvan, X. Urbain, D. Zajfman, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2970 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Experimental and theoretical determination of the triple differential cross section for $Kr (4 p)$ electron-impact ionization

S. J. Cavanagh, Birgit Lohmann, J. Rasch, Colm T. Whelan, and H. R. J. Walters

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2977 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Dynamical Green’s function and an exact optical potential for electron-molecule scattering including nuclear dynamics

Joachim Brand, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Hans-Dieter Meyer

Phys. Rev. A 60, 2983 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Gross ionization cross sections for rare-gas atoms and simple molecules in 6-MeV/amu fully stripped–ion impact

T. Matsuo, T. Kohno, S. Makino, M. Mizutani, T. Tonuma, A. Kitagawa, T. Murakami, and H. Tawara

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3000 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Multiplet effects on the shape of the $3 p$ photoelectron spectrum of atomic Ni

K. Tiedtke, Ch. Gerth, B. Kanngießer, B. Obst, P. Zimmermann, M. Martins, and A. Tutay

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3008 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Fivefold differential cross section of fast $(e, 2 e)$ ionization of $H_{2},$ $D_{2}$ , and $T_{2}$ by a Franck-Condon approach

P. Weck, B. Joulakian, and P. A. Hervieux

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3013 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Contribution of bound-electron pair production to the dispersion relation for Delbrück scattering

J. P. J. Carney and R. H. Pratt

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3020 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

State-selective electron capture by multicharged ions of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen from ground-state atomic hydrogen

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3025 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Neutralization of hyperthermal multiply charged ions at surfaces: Comparison between the extended dynamical overbarrier model and experiment

J. Ducrée, H. J. Andrä, and U. Thumm

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3029 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Stopping power in the independent-particle model: Harmonic oscillator results

R. Cabrera-Trujillo

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3044 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Monte Carlo computer simulation of copper clusters

Şakir Erkoç and Riad Shaltaf

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3053 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Many low-lying isomers of the cationic and neutral niobium trimer and tetramer

Joseph E. Fowler, América García, and Jesus M. Ugalde

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3058 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Polarization forces in collisions between low-energy electrons and sodium clusters

V. Kasperovich, G. Tikhonov, K. Wong, P. Brockhaus, and V. V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3071 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Measurements of ion energies from the explosion of large hydrogen iodide clusters irradiated by intense femtosecond laser pulses

J. W. G. Tisch, N. Hay, E. Springate, E. T. Gumbrell, M. H. R. Hutchinson, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3076 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Optimal pulse sequences for population transfer in multilevel systems

Ignacio R. Solá, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, and David J. Tannor

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3081 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Field-dependent relaxation effects in a three-level system driven by a strong coherent field

Olga Kocharovskaya, Y. V. Radeonychev, Paul Mandel, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3091 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum theory of high harmonic generation as a three-step process

M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3111 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Numerical solution of time-dependent Schrödinger equation for multiphoton processes: A matrix iterative method

M. Nurhuda and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3125 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Calculations of the helium atom in magnetic fields with B-spline-type functions

Haoxue Qiao and Baiwen Li

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3134 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Spatial deorientation of upper-Stark-state-selected supersonic beams of ${CH}_{3} F,$ ${CH}_{3} Cl,$ ${CH}_{3} Br$ , and ${CH}_{3} I$

Peter W. Harland, Wan-Ping Hu, Claire Vallance, and Philip R. Brooks

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3138 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Large angular-momentum changing in a short half-cycle pulse interaction with a Rydberg atom

I. Bersons and A. Kulsh

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3144 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Two-photon laser-cooling mechanism in multilevel interaction schemes

Soo Chang, Taeg Yong Kwon, Ho Seong Lee, and V. G. Minogin

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3148 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

High-order harmonic generation in magnetic and parallel magnetic and electric fields

Dejan B. Milošević and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3160 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quasicontinuum modeling of photoassociation

Matt Mackie and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3174 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Matter waves

Non-Markovian dynamics in pulsed- and continuous-wave atom lasers

H. P. Breuer, D. Faller, B. Kappler, and F. Petruccione

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3188 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Cold-cesium-atom spin-polarization interferometry

É. Maréchal, R. Long, J.-L. Bossennec, R. Barbé, J.-C. Keller, and O. Gorceix

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3197 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Time evolution of the condensed state of interacting bosons with reduced number fluctuation in a leaky box

Akira Shimizu and Jun-ichi Inoue

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3204 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Dissipative dynamics of a kink state in a Bose-condensed gas

P. O. Fedichev, A. E. Muryshev, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3220 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Quantum interference effects induced by interacting dark resonances

M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3225 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum interference and atom-atom entanglement in a two-mode, two-cavity micromaser

Metod Škarja, Norma Mankoč Borštnik, Markus Löffler, and Herbert Walther

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3229 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

High-order harmonic generation in relativistic ionization of magnetically dressed atoms

R. E. Wagner, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3233 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Enhanced generation of attosecond pulses in dispersion-controlled hollow-core fiber

Ivan P. Christov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3244 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Pattern formation in singly resonant second-harmonic generation with competing parametric oscillation

P. Lodahl and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3251 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Chaotic nature of the stored current in an electron storage ring detected by a two-photon correlator for soft-x-ray synchrotron radiation

R. Z. Tai, Y. Takayama, N. Takaya, T. Miyahara, S. Yamamoto, H. Sugiyama, J. Urakawa, H. Hayano, and M. Ando

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3262 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Broadcasting of entanglement and universal quantum cloners

Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Guruprasad Kar

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3296 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Continued-fraction expansion of the Born-Oppenheimer potential-energy function for diatomic molecules

Marcin Molski

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3300 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Energy differences and magnetic dipole $(M 1)$ decay rates for the $W^{52 +}$ and ${Bi}^{61 +}$ members of the nearly- $Z$ -independent ${(3 d}_{3 / 2})^{3} {3 d}_{5 / 2}$ $J = 3 - J = 2$ transition

Donald R. Beck

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3304 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Virtual annihilation contribution to orthopositronium decay rate

Gregory S. Adkins, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3306 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Pulse-order invariance of the initial-state population in multistate chains driven by delayed laser pulses

N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3308 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Multiphoton ionization of V, Cr, Y, La, and Ir through 0.5-ps ultraviolet laser pulses

B. Witzel, N. A. Papadogiannis, C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal, H. Schröder, and D. Charalambidis

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3311 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Matter waves

Instability of the nonvortex state toward a quantized vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate under external rotation

Tomoya Isoshima and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3313 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Fate of a Bose-Einstein condensate with an attractive interaction

Masahito Ueda and Kerson Huang

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3317 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Velocity selection for ultracold three-level atoms using two micromaser cavities

Zhi-Ming Zhang, Sheng-Wu Xie, Ying-Li Chen, Yu-Xing Xia, and Shi-Kang Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3321 (1999) - Published 1 October, 1999