Volume 60, Issue 5

November 1999

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dual symmetric Lagrangians and conservation laws

P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3331(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Individual addressing and state readout of trapped ions utilizing rf micromotion

D. Leibfried

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3335(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Universality of optimal measurements

Rolf Tarrach and Guifré Vidal

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3339(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Exact exchange in linear-response theory

R. K. Nesbet

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3343(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Coulomb-stable triply charged diatomic: ${HeY}^{3 +}$

Ralf Wesendrup, Markus Pernpointner, and Peter Schwerdtfeger

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3347(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dielectronic recombination of ground-state and metastable Li $^{+}$ ions

A. A. Saghiri, J. Linkemann, M. Schmitt, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, T. Bartsch, A. Hoffknecht, A. Müller, W. G. Graham, A. D. Price, N. R. Badnell, T. W. Gorczyca, and J. A. Tanis

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3350(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Production of a nuclearly polarized $^{3} {He}^{+}$ beam by multiple electron capture and stripping collisions

M. Tanaka, T. Yamagata, K. Yonehara, T. Takeuchi, Y. Arimoto, M. Fujiwara, Y. Plis, L. W. Anderson, and R. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3354(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Double photoionization of Li and ${Be}^{+}$ at high-energy limits

Zong-Chao Yan

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3358(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dissociative recombination of the ${CO}^{2 +}$ dication

C. P. Safvan, M. J. Jensen, H. B. Pedersen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3361(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Trap loss in a two-species Na-Cs magneto-optical trap: Intramultiplet mixing in heteronuclear ultracold collisions

James P. Shaffer, Witek Chalupczak, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3365(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamic and geometric alignment of ${CS}_{2}$ in intense laser fields of picosecond and femtosecond duration

S. Banerjee, G. Ravindra Kumar, and D. Mathur

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3369(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Sub-Doppler laser cooling of fermionic $^{40} K$ atoms

G. Modugno, C. Benkő, P. Hannaford, G. Roati, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3373(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamics of forced autoionization

C. Wesdorp, L. D. Noordam, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3377(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optical generation of vortices in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

Ł. Dobrek, M. Gajda, M. Lewenstein, K. Sengstock, G. Birkl, and W. Ertmer

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3381(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Beam splitter for Bose-Einstein condensates based on Bragg scattering from a cavity mode

Frank Burgbacher and Jürgen Audretsch

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3385(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Instabilities in a laser-diode-pumped microchip solid-state laser with feedback

K. Otsuka, J.-Y. Ko, J.-L. Chern, K. Ohki, and H. Utsu

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3389(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum-jump effects in the motion of a Raman-driven trapped ion

C. Di Fidio, S. Wallentowitz, Z. Kis, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 60, R3393(R) (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Bargmann invariants and geometric phases: A generalized connection

Eqab M. Rabei, Arvind, N. Mukunda, and R. Simon

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3397 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Casimir effect for two lossy dispersive dielectric slabs

R. Matloob, A. Keshavarz, and D. Sedighi

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3410 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Casimir effect between two conducting plates

Reza Matloob

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3421 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Variational perturbation theory for density matrices

Michael Bachmann, Hagen Kleinert, and Axel Pelster

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3429 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Position-momentum local-realism violation of the Hardy type

Bernard Yurke, Mark Hillery, and David Stoler

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3444 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Reflection and transmission in a neutron-spin test of the quantum Zeno effect

Ken Machida, Hiromichi Nakazato, Saverio Pascazio, Helmut Rauch, and Sixia Yu

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3448 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum entanglement inferred by the principle of maximum nonadditive entropy

Sumiyoshi Abe and A. K. Rajagopal

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3461 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Fractional Fourier operators and generalized Wigner functions

S. Chountasis, A. Vourdas, and C. Bendjaballah

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3467 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

How to protect the interpretation of the wave function against protective measurements

Jos Uffink

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3474 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Coordinate realizations of deformed Lie algebras with three generators

R. Dutt, A. Gangopadhyaya, C. Rasinariu, and U. Sukhatme

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3482 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Complete roughness and conductivity corrections for Casimir force measurement

G. L. Klimchitskaya, Anushree Roy, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3487 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum information

Volume of the set of separable states. II

Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3496 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum computation with quantum dots and terahertz cavity quantum electrodynamics

Mark S. Sherwin, Atac Imamoglu, and Thomas Montroy

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3508 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Experimental verification of the existence of the gas-phase dianions ${BeF}_{4}^{2 -}$ and ${MgF}_{4}^{2 -}$

Roy Middleton and Jeff Klein

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3515 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Two-electron self-energy corrections to the ${2 p}_{1 / 2} - 2 s$ transition energy in Li-like ions

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3522 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Simple method for constructing accurate atomic Kohn-Sham potentials

A. I. Al-Sharif, A. Qteish, and R. Resta

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3541 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Effects of electron correlation, relativity, and nuclear structure on hyperfine constants of ${Be}^{+}$ and $F^{6 +}$

Jacek Bieroń, Per Jönsson, and Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3547 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Ground state of the carbon atom in strong magnetic fields

M. V. Ivanov and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3558 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Lifetimes of the ${2 s}^{2} 2 p^{2} P^{o} - {2 s 2 p}^{2}^{4} P$ intercombination transitions of $C^{+}$

S. J. Smith, A. Chutjian, and J. B. Greenwood

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3569 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Nuclear quadrupole moments from molecular microwave data: The quadrupole moment of $^{85} Rb$ and $^{87} Rb$ nuclei and survey of molecular data for alkali-metal nuclei

Vladimir Kellö and Andrzej J. Sadlej

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3575 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Phase-amplitude method for calculating resonance energies and widths for one-dimensional potentials

Emil Y. Sidky and Itzik Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3586 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Proton structure effects in muonic hydrogen

Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3593 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Density-functional-theory calculations of the total energies, ionization potentials, and optical response properties with the van Leeuwen–Baerends potential

Arup Banerjee and Manoj K. Harbola

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3599 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Adiabatic formulation of heteronuclear hydrogen molecular ion

B. D. Esry and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3604 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Pursuit of N-representability for the contracted Schrödinger equation through density-matrix reconstruction

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3618 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Long-lived states of $N_{2}^{-} :$ Formation, lifetimes, and identity

T. Andersen, K. A. Bertelsen, M. K. Raarup, N. Rud, J. Olsen, and L. Veseth

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3627 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Density-functional study of small molecules within the Krieger-Li-Iafrate approximation

Yong-Hoon Kim, Martin Städele, and Richard M. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3633 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Calculation of the positron bound state with the copper atom

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, G. F. Gribakin, and C. Harabati

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3641 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Fast-beam laser lifetime measurements of the cesium $6 p^{2} P_{1 / 2, 3 / 2}$ states

Robert J. Rafac, Carol E. Tanner, A. Eugene Livingston, and H. Gordon Berry

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3648 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Infrared-laser control of vibrational state redistribution during molecular dissociation: The time-dependent flux method in model simulations for ${HONO}_{2}$ in the excited electronic state

M. Oppel and G. K. Paramonov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3663 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Double photoionization of helium: The hyperspherical $R$ -matrix method with semiclassical outgoing waves

L. Malegat, P. Selles, and A. Kazansky

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3667 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Unitarity constraints in modified effective-range theory

Leonard Rosenberg

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3677 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Low-energy electron scattering by ${CF}_{4},$ ${CCl}_{4},$ ${SiCl}_{4},$ ${SiBr}_{4}$ , and ${SiI}_{4}$

Márcio T. do N. Varella, Alexandra P. P. Natalense, Márcio H. F. Bettega, and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3684 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Experimental investigation of state-selective single and double electron capture in slow $C^{5 +} - H e$ collisions

Hualin Zhang, X. Fléchard, A. Cassimi, L. Adoui, F. Frémont, D. Lecler, G. Cremer, L. Guillaume, D. Lelievre, A. Lepoutre, and D. Hennecart

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3694 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Absolute cross sections for the photoionization of atomic oxygen: $2 s$ -electron ionization and satellite production in the threshold energy range

O. Wilhelmi, G. Mentzel, B. Zimmermann, K.-H. Schartner, H. Liebel, H. Schmoranzer, and B. M. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3702 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Measurement of electron-impact excitation into the ${3 p}^{5} 3 d$ and ${3 p}^{5} 5 s$ levels of argon using Fourier-transform spectroscopy

J. Ethan Chilton and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3712 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Screening effect in electromagnetic production of electron-positron pairs in relativistic nucleus-atom collisions

Jianshi Wu, J. H. Derrickson, T. A. Parnell, and M. R. Strayer

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3722 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Monoelectronic and dielectronic processes producing K-shell vacancies in slow ${Ne}^{q +} + {CH}_{4}$ collisions $(q = 3 - 9)$

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3727 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Effect of the projectile charge on the ionization and excitation of hydrogen molecules by fast ion impact

E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, K. D. Carnes, and Vidhya Krishnamurthi

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3734 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Use of two-body close-coupling formalisms to calculate three-body breakup cross sections

T. N. Rescigno, C. W. McCurdy, W. A. Isaacs, and M. Baertschy

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3740 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Dielectronic recombination rate coefficients for excited states of He from ${He}^{+}$

Jian-Guo Wang, Takako Kato, and Izumi Murakami

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3750 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Lifetime of Efimov states of negative two-atom ions

F. M. Pen’kov

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3756 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Excitation and charge transfer in proton-lithium collisions at 5–15 keV

M. S. Pindzola

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3764 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Dissociative recombination of vibrationally excited ${HD}^{+}$ : State-selective experimental investigation

Z. Amitay, A. Baer, M. Dahan, J. Levin, Z. Vager, D. Zajfman, L. Knoll, M. Lange, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, A. Wolf, I. F. Schneider, and A. Suzor-Weiner

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3769 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Production of metastable negative ions in a cesium sputter source: Verification of the existence of $N_{2}^{-}$ and ${CO}^{-}$

Roy Middleton and Jeff Klein

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3786 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

$L$ -shell filling of $N^{6 +}$ and $O^{7 +}$ ions from a clean and LiF-covered Au(111) surface

H. Khemliche, T. Schlathölter, R. Hoekstra, and R. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3800 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Optical response of small silver clusters

K. Yabana and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3809 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Nonlinear decoherence in quantum state preparation of a trapped ion

Le-Man Kuang, Hao-Sheng Zeng, and Zhao-Yang Tong

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3815 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Adiabatic population transfer via multiple intermediate states

N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3820 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Transition state in atomic physics

Charles Jaffé, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3833 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Dynamical cooling of trapped gases. II: Many-atom problem

Luis Santos and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3851 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Optical pumping of Cs atoms in solid $^{4} He$

S. Lang, S. Kanorsky, T. Eichler, R. Müller-Siebert, T. W. Hänsch, and A. Weis

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3867 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Laser-free slow atom source

B. Ghaffari, J. M. Gerton, W. I. McAlexander, K. E. Strecker, D. M. Homan, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3878 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Slowing and cooling molecules and neutral atoms by time-varying electric-field gradients

Jason A. Maddi, Timothy P. Dinneen, and Harvey Gould

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3882 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Hyperfine-changing collision measurements in trap loss for mixed species in a magneto-optical trap

M. S. Santos, P. Nussenzveig, A. Antunes, P. S. P. Cardona, and V. S. Bagnato

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3892 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Semiclassical model of the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the presence of a strong laser field

J. L. Sanz and H.-J. Kull

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3896 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Sympathetic cooling and detection of molecular ions in a Penning trap

M. A. van Eijkelenborg, M. E. M. Storkey, D. M. Segal, and R. C. Thompson

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3903 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Excitation of the NO molecule by chirped infrared laser pulses

J. T. Lin, M. Hayashi, S. H. Lin, and T. F. Jiang

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3911 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Two-electron effects in the multiphoton ionization of magnesium with 400-nm 150-fs pulses

D. Xenakis, N. E. Karapanagioti, D. Charalambidis, H. Bachau, and E. Cormier

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3916 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Strong-field photoionization of vibrational ground-state $H_{2}^{+}$ and $D_{2}^{+}$ molecules

C. Trump, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3924 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Rotational channel interactions of vibrationally excited $np$ Rydberg states of the triatomic hydrogen molecule

R. Reichle, I. Mistrík, U. Müller, and H. Helm

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3929 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Intensity dependence of plateau structures in laser-assisted x-ray–atom scattering processes

Dejan B. Milošević and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3943 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Laser-induced stabilization of autoionizing states

Heider N. Ereifej and J. G. Story

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3947 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Simple model for harmonic generation from atomic clusters

Valérie Véniard, Richard Taïeb, and Alfred Maquet

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3952 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Kinetic theory of the magneto-optical trap for multilevel atoms

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 3960 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Experimental and theoretical study of monomode vectorial lasers passively Q switched by a ${Cr}^{4 +} :$ yttrium aluminum garnet absorber

Marc Brunel, Olivier Emile, Marc Vallet, Fabien Bretenaker, Albert Le Floch, Laurent Fulbert, Jean Marty, Bernard Ferrand, and Engin Molva

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4052 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Bogoliubov dispersion relation and the possibility of superfluidity for weakly interacting photons in a two-dimensional photon fluid

Raymond Y. Chiao and Jack Boyce

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4114 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Analysis of Gaussian-beam degenerate optical parametric amplifiers for the generation of quadrature-squeezed states

Kahraman G. Köprülü and Orhan Aytür

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4122 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

Optically driven quantum-dot quantum computer

G. D. Sanders, K. W. Kim, and W. C. Holton

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4146 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Beam-laser lifetime measurements for some selected levels in singly ionized thulium

Georg Rieger, Michelle M. McCurdy, and Eric H. Pinnington

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4150 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Improved lower bounds for uncertaintylike relationships in many-body systems

Yan Alexander Wang and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4153 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Polarization of K-shell x-ray transitions of ${Ti}^{19 +}$ and ${Ti}^{20 +}$ excited by an electron beam

P. Beiersdorfer, G. Brown, S. Utter, P. Neill, K. J. Reed, A. J. Smith, and R. S. Thoe

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4156 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Threshold laws and reaction zone dynamics of three-body Coulomb breakup

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

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4160 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Frequency shift in saturation spectroscopy induced by mechanical effects of light

F. Minardi, M. Artoni, P. Cancio, M. Inguscio, G. Giusfredi, and I. Carusotto

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4164 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Limits of the measurability of the local quantum electromagnetic-field amplitude”

V. Hnizdo

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4191 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

Reply to “Comment on ‘Limits of the measurability of the local quantum electromagnetic field amplitude’ ”

G. Compagno and F. Persico

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4196 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999

ERRATA

Erratum: Perturbation theory for multiphoton ionization without knowledge of the final-state wave function [Phys. Rev. A 60, 1280 (1999)]

Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 60, 4198 (1999) - Published 1 November, 1999