Volume 61, Issue 4

April 2000

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Mixedness and teleportation

S. Bose and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040101(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Quantum information

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Schmidt number for density matrices

Barbara M. Terhal and Paweł Horodecki

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040301(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nonadiabatic dipole polarizability of $H_{2}^{+} (0, 1)$

R. E. Moss

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040501(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

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Multipole effects in the excitation of high-l doubly excited states in Sr

W. Huang, C. Rosen, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040502(R) (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Quantum coherent dynamics of molecules: A simple scenario for ultrafast photoisomerization

Daniel P. Aalberts, M. S. L. du Croo de Jongh, Brian F. Gerke, and Wim van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040701(R) (2000) - Published 28 February, 2000

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Molecular spin relaxation in cold atom-molecule scattering

John L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. A 61, 040702(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Short-pulse chirped adiabatic population transfer in diatomic molecules

S. Kallush and Y. B. Band

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041401(R) (2000) - Published 28 February, 2000

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Ionization of multielectron atoms by strong static electric fields

Armin Scrinzi

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041402(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

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Possibility of direct determination of the quantum phase of continua utilizing the phase of lasers

Takashi Nakajima

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041403(R) (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

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Laser modulation technique for single isotope spectroscopic studies

J. R. Bochinski, T. Loftus, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041404(R) (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Matter waves

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Imaging of an atomic beam with electrostatic lenses

Heung-Ryoul Noh, Kazuko Shimizu, and Fujio Shimizu

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041601(R) (2000) - Published 28 February, 2000

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Mach-Zehnder Bragg interferometer for a Bose-Einstein condensate

Yoshio Torii, Yoichi Suzuki, Mikio Kozuma, Toshiaki Sugiura, Takahiro Kuga, Lu Deng, and E. W. Hagley

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041602(R) (2000) - Published 28 February, 2000

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Topological phase preparation in a pair of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041603(R) (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

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Trapped atomic condensates with anisotropic interactions

S. Yi and L. You

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041604(R) (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Coherent control of refractive indices

E. McCullough, M. Shapiro, and P. Brumer

Phys. Rev. A 61, 041801(R) (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Nonlocal correlations are generic in infinite-dimensional bipartite systems

Rob Clifton, Hans Halvorson, and Adrian Kent

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042101 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Test of quantum nonlocality for cavity fields

M. S. Kim and Jinhyoung Lee

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042102 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Quantum solutions for the harmonic-parabola potential system

Kyu Hwang Yeon, Shou Zhang, Yong Dae Kim, Chung In Um, and Thomas F. George

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042103 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Dynamical symmetry, integrability of quantum systems, and general character of quantum regular motion

Xu Gong-ou, Yang Ya-tian, and Xing Yong-zhong

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042104 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

$1 / N$ expansions for central potentials revisited in the light of hypervirial and Hellmann-Feynman theorems and the principle of minimal sensitivity

M. G. Kwato Njock, M. Nsangou, Z. Bona, S. G. Nana Engo, and B. Oumarou

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042105 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Tests for randomness of spontaneous quantum decay

M. P. Silverman, Wayne Strange, Chris Silverman, and T. C. Lipscombe

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042106 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Continuous measurements, quantum trajectories, and decoherent histories

Todd A. Brun

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042107 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Quantum information

Impossibility of unconditionally secure commitment of a certified classical bit

Adrian Kent

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042301 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Dense coding for continuous variables

Samuel L. Braunstein and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042302 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Measuring the entanglement of bipartite pure states

J. M. G. Sancho and S. F. Huelga

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042303 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Postselected versus nonpostselected quantum teleportation using parametric down-conversion

Pieter Kok and Samuel L. Braunstein

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042304 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Dominant gate imperfection in Grover’s quantum search algorithm

Gui Lu Long, Yan Song Li, Wei Lin Zhang, and Chang Cun Tu

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042305 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Implementing quantum-logic operations, pseudopure states, and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm using noncommuting selective pulses in NMR

Kavita Dorai, Arvind, and Anil Kumar

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042306 (2000) - Published 15 March, 2000

Nonresonant effects in the implementation of the quantum Shor algorithm

G. P. Berman, G. D. Doolen, G. V. López, and V. I. Tsifrinovich

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042307 (2000) - Published 15 March, 2000

Operation of universal gates in a solid-state quantum computer based on clean Josephson junctions between d-wave superconductors

Alexandre Blais and Alexandre M. Zagoskin

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042308 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Quantum computation with mesoscopic superposition states

M. C. de Oliveira and W. J. Munro

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042309 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Efficient implementation of coupled logic gates for quantum computation

Debbie W. Leung, Isaac L. Chuang, Fumiko Yamaguchi, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042310 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Theory of quantum secret sharing

Daniel Gottesman

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042311 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

State estimation for large ensembles

Richard D. Gill and Serge Massar

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042312 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Method for effective pure states with any number of spins

Ushio Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Ozawa, and Toshio Fukumi

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042313 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Classification of multiqubit mixed states: Separability and distillability properties

W. Dür and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042314 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Laser-photodetachment-electron spectroscopy of ${Tl}^{-}$

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

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042501 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Boundary conditions on internal three-body wave functions

Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042502 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Carbon $1 s$ core-hole lifetime in ${CO}_{2}$

T. X. Carroll, J. Hahne, T. D. Thomas, L. J. Sæthre, N. Berrah, J. Bozek, and E. Kukk

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042503 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Configuration localized wave functions: General formalism and applications to vibrational spectroscopy of diatomic molecules

F. Pérez-Bernal, J. M. Arias, M. Carvajal, and J. Gómez-Camacho

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042504 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Experimental and theoretical study of generalized oscillator strengths for C $1 s$ and O $1 s$ excitations in ${CO}_{2}$

I. G. Eustatiu, T. Tyliszczak, A. P. Hitchcock, C. C. Turci, A. B. Rocha, and C. E. Bielschowsky

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042505 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Exact Dirac-equation calculation of ionization induced by ultrarelativistic heavy ions

A. J. Baltz

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042701 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Effective configurations in electron-molecule scattering

David L. Azevedo, Antônio J. R. da Silva, and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042702 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by boron trihalides

Márcio H. F. Bettega

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042703 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Dependence of photon-atom scattering on energy resolution and target angular momentum

J. P. J. Carney, R. H. Pratt, N. L. Manakov, and A. V. Meremianin

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042704 (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Calculation of properties of two-center systems

M. J. Jamieson, A. Dalgarno, and L. Wolniewicz

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042705 (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Violation of electronic optical selection rules in x-ray emission by nuclear dynamics: Time-dependent formulation

S. A. Malinovskaya and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042706 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Spectroscopy of autoionizing doubly excited states in ultracold ${Na}_{2}$ molecules produced by photoassociation

A. Amelink, K. M. Jones, P. D. Lett, P. van der Straten, and H. G. M. Heideman

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042707 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Evolution of beam-foil-excited Rydberg states on femtosecond time scales

E. P. Kanter, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, M. Jung, T. LeBrun, K. E. Rehm, and L. Young

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042708 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Angular distribution measurements of the xenon $N_{4, 5} O_{2, 3} O_{2, 3}$ Auger electrons: Determination of alignment and intrinsic parameters

G. Snell, E. Kukk, B. Langer, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042709 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Absolute-scale determination of bremsstrahlung following photoabsorption of incident x and $γ$ rays

S. Pašić and K. Ilakovac

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042710 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Differential cross sections for incoherent scattering of γ rays by elements

Önder Şimşek

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042711 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Nonrelativistic ab initio calculation of the interaction potentials between metastable Ne atoms

S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and I. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042712 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

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

Secondary-electron yields and their dependence on the angle of incidence on stainless-steel surfaces for three energetic ion beams

P. Thieberger, A. L. Hanson, D. B. Steski, V. Zajic, S. Y. Zhang, and H. Ludewig

Phys. Rev. A 61, 042901 (2000) - Published 15 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Dynamics and interference of autoionizing wave packets

F. Texier and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043401 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Drift of the scattered wave packet in strong-field atomic stabilization

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

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043402 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Nonrelativistic numerical study of atomic ionization by strong laser fields without the dipole approximation in a flat-atom model

J. R. Vázquez de Aldana and Luis Roso

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043403 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Above-threshold ionization by strong anharmonic light pulses

L. Dimou and H.-J. Kull

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043404 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Cold atoms in a high-Q ring cavity

Markus Gangl and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043405 (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Resonant above-threshold ionization at quantized laser intensities

J. Gao, Dong-Sheng Guo, and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043406 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Coupled singlet-triplet analysis of two-color cold-atom photoassociation spectra

J. M. Vogels, R. S. Freeland, C. C. Tsai, B. J. Verhaar, and D. J. Heinzen

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043407 (2000) - Published 8 March, 2000

Coherent properties of a tripod system coupled via a continuum

R. G. Unanyan, N. V. Vitanov, B. W. Shore, and K. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043408 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Magnetically induced ionization and rescatterings in intense laser fields

David J. Urbach and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043409 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Intensity-intensity correlations and quantum interference in a driven three-level atom

S. Swain, P. Zhou, and Z. Ficek

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043410 (2000) - Published 15 March, 2000

Excited states of the hydrogen molecule in magnetic fields: The singlet $Σ$ states of the parallel configuration

P. Schmelcher, T. Detmer, and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043411 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Optimal control of molecular motion expressed through quantum fluid dynamics

Bijoy K. Dey, Herschel Rabitz, and Attila Askar

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043412 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Efficiency and robustness of adiabatic passage by light-induced potentials

Ignacio R. Solá, Jesús Santamaría, and Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043413 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Matter waves

Instability of a Bose-Einstein condensate with an attractive interaction

Antonios Eleftheriou and Kerson Huang

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043601 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Bosons in a trap: A rigorous derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, and Jakob Yngvason

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043602 (2000) - Published 6 March, 2000

Thomas-Fermi approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates in traps

P. Schuck and X. Viñas

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043603 (2000) - Published 8 March, 2000

Theory of four-wave mixing with matter waves without the undepleted pump approximation

Ying Wu, Xiaoxue Yang, C. P. Sun, X. J. Zhou, and Y. Q. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043604 (2000) - Published 8 March, 2000

Condensation and interaction range in harmonic boson traps: A variational approach

J. Tempere, F. Brosens, L. F. Lemmens, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043605 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Shifts and widths of collective excitations in trapped Bose gases determined by the dielectric formalism

Jürgen Reidl, András Csordás, Robert Graham, and Péter Szépfalusy

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043606 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Interaction effect on the density of a Bose gas in two connected boxes

Takahiko Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043607 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Quasicondensation in a two-dimensional interacting Bose gas

Yu. Kagan, V. A. Kashurnikov, A. V. Krasavin, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B.V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043608 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Mesoscopic phenomena in Bose-Einstein systems: Persistent currents, population oscillations, and quantal phases

Yuli Lyanda-Geller and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043609 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Ultrahigh electron acceleration and Compton emission spectra in a superintense laser pulse and a uniform axial magnetic field

Yousef I. Salamin and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043801 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Measurement of the degree of spatial coherence of high-order harmonics using a Fresnel-mirror interferometer

L. Le Déroff, P. Salières, B. Carré, D. Joyeux, and D. Phalippou

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043802 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Interferometric six-wave mixing spectroscopy with broadband light: Isomorphism and factorized time correlator diagrams

Jason C. Kirkwood and A. C. Albrecht

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043803 (2000) - Published 7 March, 2000

Squeezing in the Kerr nonlinear coupler via phase-space representation

Abdel-Baset M. A. Ibrahim, B. A. Umarov, and M. R. B. Wahiddin

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043804 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Quantum fluctuations in unstable dissipative systems

S. T. Gevorkyan, G. Yu. Kryuchkyan, and N. T. Muradyan

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043805 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

High-intensity localized structures in the degenerate optical parametric oscillator: Comparison between the propagation and the mean-field models

M. Tlidi, M. Le Berre, E. Ressayre, A. Tallet, and L. Di Menza

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043806 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Quantum intensity noise of laser diodes and nonorthogonal spatial eigenmodes

Jean-Philippe Poizat, Tiejun Chang, and Philippe Grangier

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043807 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Nonadiabatic semiconductor laser rate equations for the large-signal, rapid-modulation regime

G. A. Baraff and R. Kent Smith

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043808 (2000) - Published 15 March, 2000

Spontaneous-emission enhancement and population oscillation in photonic crystals via quantum interference

Yaping Yang and Shi-yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043809 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Full characterization of a high-gain saturated x-ray laser at 13.9 nm

S. Sebban, H. Daido, N. Sakaya, Y. Kato, K. Murai, H. Tang, Y. Gu, G. Huang, S. Wang, A. Klisnick, Ph. Zeitoun, F. Koike, and H. Takenaka

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043810 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Heisenberg-limit interferometry with four-wave mixers operating in a nonlinear regime

Christopher C. Gerry

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043811 (2000) - Published 17 March, 2000

Interpretation of high-order harmonic generation in terms of transitions between quantum Volkov states

J. Gao, F. Shen, and J. G. Eden

Phys. Rev. A 61, 043812 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Enhanced explosion of atomic clusters irradiated by a sequence of two high-intensity laser pulses

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

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044101 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Quantum information

Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the teleporter

T. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044301 (2000) - Published 16 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Measurement of the $2 S$ atomic hydrogen hyperfine interval

N. E. Rothery and E. A. Hessels

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044501 (2000) - Published 1 March, 2000

Transition probability ratios for selected multiplets of C I, N I, and O I, and comparisons with recent calculations

J. Musielok, J. M. Bridges, J. R. Fuhr, and W. L. Wiese

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044502 (2000) - Published 10 March, 2000

Energy levels of the low-lying states of mid- $Z$ heliumlike ions

K. T. Cheng and M. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044503 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Lifetimes of ${3 s 3 p}^{2} J = \frac{1}{2}, \frac{5}{2}$ levels in ${Au}^{66 +}$ and ${Br}^{22 +}$

Donald R. Beck and Peggy L. Norquist

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044504 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Multichannel tunneling in the ${Cs}_{2} 0_{g}^{-}$ photoassociation spectrum

Mihaela Vatasescu, Olivier Dulieu, Claude Amiot, Daniel Comparat, Cyril Drag, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, and Pierre Pillet

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044701 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Interference effects in the Ne double photoionization studied by photoelectron–Auger-electron coincidence experiments

S. Rioual, B. Rouvellou, L. Avaldi, G. Battera, R. Camilloni, G. Stefani, and G. Turri

Phys. Rev. A 61, 044702 (2000) - Published 13 March, 2000

Matter waves

Supercurrent stability in a quasi-one-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas

Yu. Kagan, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 61, 045601 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Evaluation of heating effects on atoms trapped in an optical trap

C. W. Gardiner, J. Ye, H. C. Nagerl, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. A 61, 045801 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

Transparency of a short laser pulse via decay interference in a closed $V$ -type system

E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 61, 045802 (2000) - Published 3 March, 2000

COMMENTS

Comment on “Calculation of the Casimir force between imperfectly conducting plates”

M. Boström and Bo E. Sernelius

Phys. Rev. A 61, 046101 (2000) - Published 9 March, 2000

Comment on “Theory of detection in the micromaser”

Ulrike Herzog

Phys. Rev. A 61, 047801 (2000) - Published 2 March, 2000