Volume 62, Issue 1

B. Gartner, P. Ackerbauer, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, P. Kammel, R. King, B. Lauss, J. Marton, W. Prymas, J. Zmeskal, C. Petitjean, M. Augsburger, D. Chatellard, J.-P. Egger, T. von Egidy, F. J. Hartmann, A. Kosak, M. Mühlbauer, F. Mulhauser, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, Y.-A. Thalmann, S. Tresch, and A. Werthmüller

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012501 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Density functionals for the strong-interaction limit

Michael Seidl, John P. Perdew, and Stefan Kurth

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012502 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Anomalous depolarization of the $5 p^{2} P_{3 / 2} \to 8 p^{2} P_{j^{'}}$ transitions in atomic $^{87} Rb$

S. B. Bayram, M. D. Havey, D. V. Kupriyanov, and I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012503 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Radiative lifetime of the metastable $^{1} S_{0}$ state of ${Xe}^{2 +}$

K. G. Bhushan, H. B. Pedersen, N. Altstein, O. Heber, M. L. Rappaport, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012504 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Spectroscopic characterization of the ZnNe van der Waals molecule in the ${X 0}^{+} (4^{1} S_{0})$ and $D 1 (4^{1} P_{1})$ energy states

J. Koperski and M. Czajkowski

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012505 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

van der Waals interaction of the hydrogen molecule: An exact implicit energy density functional

T. C. Choy

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012506 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Origin of the field-counteracting term of the Kohn-Sham exchange-correlation potential of molecular chains in an electric field

O. V. Gritsenko, S. J. A. van Gisbergen, P. R. T. Schipper, and E. J. Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012507 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Loop-after-loop contribution to the second-order Lamb shift in hydrogenlike low- $Z$ atoms

V. A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012508 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Microwave spectroscopy of heliumlike Rydberg states of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2} :$ Determinations of the dipole polarizabilities of $H_{2}^{+}$ and $D_{2}^{+}$ ground states

P. L. Jacobson, R. A. Komara, W. G. Sturrus, and S. R. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012509 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Hyperfine splitting and isotope-shift measurements within the 378-nm ${6 P}_{1 / 2} - {7 S}_{1 / 2}$ transition in $^{203} Tl$ and $^{205} Tl$

D. S. Richardson, R. N. Lyman, and P. K. Majumder

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012510 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Extending closed-orbit theory using quantum-defect ideas: Basic concepts and derivations

Brian E. Granger and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012511 (2000) - Published 16 June, 2000

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Strong oscillations in the photoionization of $5 s$ electrons in ${Xe @ C}_{60}$ endohedral atoms

M. Ya. Amusia, A. S. Baltenkov, and U. Becker

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012701 (2000) - Published 5 June, 2000

Exclusive and inclusive cross sections for Compton scattering from $H^{-}$ and He

J. H. McGuire, S. Itza-Ortiz, A. L. Godunov, D. L. Ederer, J. Wang, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012702 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Double capture with simultaneous ionization in ${He}^{2 +}$ on Ar collisions

D. Fregenal, J. Fiol, G. Bernardi, S. Suárez, P. Focke, A. D. González, A. Muthig, T. Jalowy, K. O. Groeneveld, and H. Luna

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012703 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Ratios of $n = \vec{3} 1$ intercombination to resonance line intensities for heliumlike ions with intermediate Z values

A. J. Smith, P. Beiersdorfer, K. J. Reed, A. L. Osterheld, V. Decaux, K. Widmann, and M. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012704 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Constructing adequate predictions for photon-atom scattering: A composite approach

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

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012705 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Dichroism in the electron-impact ionization of excited and oriented sodium atoms

J. Lower, A. Elliott, E. Weigold, S. Mazevet, and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012706 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Analysis of ${2 l 2 l}^{'} n^{″} l^{″}$ resonances in the photoionization of ${1 s}^{2} 2 p$ excited lithium

H. L. Zhou, S. T. Manson, P. Faucher, and L. Vo Ky

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012707 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Analysis of threshold effects in ultracold atomic collisions

Frederick H. Mies and Maurice Raoult

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012708 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Ultracold atom-ion collisions

R. Côté and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012709 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Capture and detachment in $^{3} {He}^{2 +} + H^{-}$ collisions

A. M. Ermolaev and C. J. Joachain

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012710 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Observation of a quasimolecular ionization window in low-to-intermediate impact velocity collisions of ${He}^{+}$ ions with $H_{2}$ and He

M. A. Abdallah, W. Wolff, H. E. Wolf, L. F. S. Coelho, C. L. Cocke, and M. Stöckli

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012711 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Reciprocity, unitarity, and time-reversal symmetry of the S matrix of fields containing evanescent components

R. Carminati, J. J. Sáenz, J.-J. Greffet, and M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012712 (2000) - Published 16 June, 2000

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

Energy-loss and exit-angle distributions of fragmented $H_{2}^{+}$ ions after traversing carbon foils

Rafael Garcia-Molina, Cristian D. Denton, Isabel Abril, and Néstor R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012901 (2000) - Published 5 June, 2000

Energy loss of fragment protons dissociated from 0.2- and 0.5-MeV/amu $H_{2}^{+}$ ions incident in carbon foils

Yasufumi Susuki, Martin Fritz, Kenji Kimura, Michi-hiko Mannami, Rafael Garcia-Molina, and Isabel Abril

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012902 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Resonant coherent excitation of hydrogen atoms during grazing scattering from a LiF(001) surface

C. Auth and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. A 62, 012903 (2000) - Published 16 June, 2000

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Dynamics of the Coulomb explosion of large clusters in a strong laser field

Isidore Last and Joshua Jortner

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013201 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Absolute separation energies for Na clusters

J. Borggreen, K. Hansen, F. Chandezon, T. Døssing, M. Elhajal, and O. Echt

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013202 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Unified description of magic numbers of metal clusters in terms of the three-dimensional q-deformed harmonic oscillator

Dennis Bonatsos, N. Karoussos, D. Lenis, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev, and P. A. Terziev

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013203 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Momentum transfer for an optical transition in a prepared two-level atom

A. Zh. Muradyan and H. L. Haroutyunyan

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013401 (2000) - Published 5 June, 2000

Circular dichroism from unpolarized atoms in multiphoton multicolor ionization

Richard Taïeb, Valérie Véniard, Alfred Maquet, N. L. Manakov, and S. I. Marmo

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013402 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Disappearance of the dressed bound states in photodetachment from a short-range potential by an intense high-frequency laser field

R. M. Potvliege

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013403 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Measuring the capture velocity of atoms in a magneto-optical trap as a function of laser intensity

V. S. Bagnato, L. G. Marcassa, S. G. Miranda, S. R. Muniz, and A. L. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013404 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Velocity-selective coherent population trapping of two-level atoms

J. Hack, L. Liu, M. Olshanii, and H. Metcalf

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013405 (2000) - Published 12 June, 2000

Loading an optical dipole trap

S. J. M. Kuppens, K. L. Corwin, K. W. Miller, T. E. Chupp, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013406 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Recollision model for double ionization of atoms in strong laser fields

Hugo W. van der Hart and Keith Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013407 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Single-color photoassociative ionization of ultracold sodium: The region from 0 to -5 GHz

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

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013408 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Compensating for spatial laser profile effects on the control of quantum systems

Karsten Sundermann, Herschel Rabitz, and Regina de Vivie-Riedle

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013409 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Long-range atom-surface bound states

E. G. Lima, M. Chevrollier, O. Di Lorenzo, P. C. Segundo, and M. Oriá

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013410 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Quantum accelerator modes: A tool for atom optics

R. M. Godun, M. B. d’Arcy, M. K. Oberthaler, G. S. Summy, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013411 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Cold-atom accumulation using an optical trap door

H. J. Davies, K. Szymaniec, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013412 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Decoherence and coherent population transfer between two coupled systems

Uzma Akram, Z. Ficek, and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013413 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

ac Stark shifts in Rydberg NO levels induced by intense laser pulses

R. B. López-Martens, T. W. Schmidt, and G. Roberts

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013414 (2000) - Published 16 June, 2000

Matter waves

Collapse versus growth for a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions

H. W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013601 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Creation of skyrmions in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Karl-Peter Marzlin, Weiping Zhang, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013602 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Output rate of atom lasers in a Raman-type output-coupling scheme

Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013603 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Atom-optics hologram in the time domain

A. V. Soroko

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013604 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Coherently scattering atoms from an excited Bose-Einstein condensate

M. J. Bijlsma and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013605 (2000) - Published 12 June, 2000

Monte Carlo simulations of Bose-Einstein condensation of trapped atoms

Elena Cerboneschi, Carlo Menchini, and Ennio Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013606 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Decoherence in Bose-Einstein condensates: Towards bigger and better Schrödinger cats

Diego A. R. Dalvit, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013607 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Moment of inertia of a trapped superfluid gas of atomic fermions

M. Farine, P. Schuck, and X. Viñas

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013608 (2000) - Published 16 June, 2000

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Temperature variation of ultraslow light in a cold gas

G. Morigi and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013801 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

General optical state truncation and its teleportation

M. Koniorczyk, Z. Kurucz, A. Gábris, and J. Janszky

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013802 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Inequalities for electron-field correlation functions

Tomáš Tyc

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013803 (2000) - Published 8 June, 2000

Quantum Zeno effect in a probed down-conversion process

J. Řeháček, J. Peřina, P. Facchi, S. Pascazio, and L. Mišta, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013804 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Spontaneous emission from a two-level atom in a three-dimensional photonic crystal

Yaping Yang and Shi-Yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013805 (2000) - Published 12 June, 2000

Nonclassical correlations of photon number and field components in the vacuum state

Holger F. Hofmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013806 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Phase distribution and amplitude of a micromaser field in a semiclassical approximation

Jozef Skvarcek and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013807 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Quantum limit of optical magnetometry in the presence of ac Stark shifts

M. Fleischhauer, A. B. Matsko, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013808 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Three-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference at a multiport mixer

Richard A. Campos

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013809 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Anomalies, symmetries, and asymmetries in the relaxation oscillation spectra of multimode standing-wave solid-state lasers

N. B. Abraham, L. Sekaric, L. L. Carson, V. Seccareccia, P. A. Khandokhin, Ya. I. Khanin, I. V. Koryukin, and V. G. Zhislina

Phys. Rev. A 62, 013810 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Reconstruction of the spin state

Z. Hradil, J. Summhammer, G. Badurek, and H. Rauch

Phys. Rev. A 62, 014101 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Higher-order conductivity corrections to the Casimir force

V. B. Bezerra, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko

Phys. Rev. A 62, 014102 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Unitary relation between a harmonic oscillator of time-dependent frequency and a simple harmonic oscillator with and without an inverse-square potential

Dae-Yup Song

Phys. Rev. A 62, 014103 (2000) - Published 14 June, 2000

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Dimensional crossover of the kinetic-energy electronic density functional

P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and E. Chacón

Phys. Rev. A 62, 014501 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Multiple differential cross sections for single ionization of $H_{2},$ $D_{2},$ and $T_{2}$ molecules by fast electron impact: Influence of vibrational states

P. Weck, B. Joulakian, J. Hanssen, O. A. Fojón, and R. D. Rivarola

Phys. Rev. A 62, 014701 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Integral boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: Superposition of the laser field and a long-range atomic potential

A. M. Ermolaev and A. V. Selin

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015401 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Influence of spatial symmetry on the dynamics of strong-field ionization

Chunlei Guo, Richard T. Jones, and George N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015402 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Influence of electric fields on background photo- and collisional ionization processes in Rydberg-atom collision studies

S. B. Hill, R. Parthasarathy, L. Suess, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015403 (2000) - Published 13 June, 2000

Matter waves

Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity without momentum back action in atom-interferometry experiments

C. S. Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015601 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Exact steady-state Wigner function for a nondegenerate parametric oscillator

K. V. Kheruntsyan and K. G. Petrosyan

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015801 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

Equivalent classes of closed three-level systems

M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. A 62, 015802 (2000) - Published 15 June, 2000

Comment on “Influence of nonlinearity in one-photon processes on the relationship between field and dipole squeezing in the two-level thermal Jaynes-Cummings model”

Rui Hua Xie

Phys. Rev. A 62, 017801 (2000) - Published 7 June, 2000

ERRATA

Erratum: Dissociative recombination of the ${CO}^{2 +}$ dication [Phys. Rev. A 60, R3361 (1999)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 62, 019901 (2000) - Published 9 June, 2000