Volume 63, Issue 6

June 2001

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bell-state preparation using pulsed nondegenerate two-photon entanglement

Yoon-Ho Kim, Sergei P. Kulik, and Yanhua Shih

Phys. Rev. A 63, 060301(R) (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

RAPID COMMUNICATION

$K$ -shell dielectronic resonances in photoabsorption: Differential oscillator strengths for Li-like C IV, O VI, and Fe XXIV

Sultana N. Nahar, Anil K. Pradhan, and Hong Lin Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 63, 060701(R) (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Method for collective excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Zbyszek P. Karkuszewski, Krzysztof Sacha, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. A 63, 061601(R) (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Absorption by cold Fermi atoms in a harmonic trap

Gediminas Juzeliūnas and Marius Mašalas

Phys. Rev. A 63, 061602(R) (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Calculations of parity-nonconserving $s - d$ amplitudes in Cs, Fr, ${Ba}^{+},$ and ${Ra}^{+}$

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and J. S. M. Ginges

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062101 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Homodyne Bell’s inequalities for entangled mesoscopic superpositions

Andrzej Dragan and Konrad Banaszek

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062102 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Real measurements and the quantum Zeno effect

Julius Ruseckas and B. Kaulakys

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062103 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Effective theory of systems coupled strongly to rapidly varying external sources

R. Huerta and J. Wudka

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062104 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Charged particles in external fields as physical examples of quasi-exactly-solvable models: A unified treatment

Chun-Ming Chiang and Choon-Lin Ho

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062105 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Correlations in open quantum systems and associated uncertainty relations

Sergey A. Ponomarenko and Emil Wolf

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062106 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Improved lower bounds for the ground-state energy of many-body systems

D. Van Neck, Y. Dewulf, and M. Waroquier

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062107 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Investigation of the temperature dependence of the Casimir force between real metals

G. L. Klimchitskaya and V. M. Mostepanenko

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062108 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Nonlocal effects of partial measurements and quantum erasure

Avshalom C. Elitzur and Shahar Dolev

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062109 (2001) - Published 15 May, 2001

Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in the Friedrichs model

I. Antoniou, E. Karpov, G. Pronko, and E. Yarevsky

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062110 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Upper and lower bounds on maximal violation of local realism in a Hardy-type test using continuous variables

Mark Hillery, Bernard Yurke, and David Stoler

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062111 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Bell inequalities for entangled kaons and their unitary time evolution

Reinhold A. Bertlmann and Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062112 (2001) - Published 17 May, 2001

Quantum information

Interferometric Bell-state preparation using femtosecond-pulse-pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Yoon-Ho Kim, Maria V. Chekhova, Sergei P. Kulik, Morton H. Rubin, and Yanhua Shih

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062301 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Classical wave-optics analogy of quantum-information processing

Robert J. C. Spreeuw

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062302 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Simple algorithm for local conversion of pure states

Jens G. Jensen and Rüdiger Schack

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062303 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Entangling ions in arrays of microscopic traps

T. Calarco, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062304 (2001) - Published 14 May, 2001

Information-tradeoff relations for finite-strength quantum measurements

Christopher A. Fuchs and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062305 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Information, disturbance, and Hamiltonian quantum feedback control

Andrew C. Doherty, Kurt Jacobs, and Gerard Jungman

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062306 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Creating Bell states and decoherence effects in a quantum-dot system

X. X. Yi, G. R. Jin, and D. L. Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062307 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Atomic-state teleportation by using a quantum switch

Zhong-yang Wang, Xun-li Feng, Shang-qing Gong, and Zhi-zhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062308 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Optimal creation of entanglement using a two-qubit gate

B. Kraus and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062309 (2001) - Published 17 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

r- and p-space electron densities and related kinetic and exchange energies in terms of s states alone for the leading term in the $1 / Z$ expansion for nonrelativistic closed-shell atomic ions

I. A. Howard, N. H. March, and V. E. Van Doren

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062501 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Nuclear polarization in hydrogenlike heavy ions

Nobuhiro Yamanaka, Akihiro Haga, Yataro Horikawa, and Atsushi Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062502 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

dc Stark effect for doubly excited Feshbach resonance states of the positronium negative ion below the $N = 2$ threshold of a positronium atom

Y. K. Ho and I. A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062503 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Vacuum-polarization corrections to the hyperfine splitting in heavy ions and to the nuclear magnetic moments

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

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062504 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Theory of nuclear-spin conversion in ethylene

P. L. Chapovsky and E. Ilisca

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062505 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Gaussian resummation approximation of the reference spin-reduced second-order density matrix in the Colle-Salvetti model for electron correlation

Stavros Caratzoulas

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062506 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Electron-capture processes of low-energy ${Si}^{3 +},$ ${Si}^{4 +},$ and ${Si}^{5 +}$ ions in collisions with helium atoms

H. Tawara, K. Okuno, C. W. Fehrenbach, C. Verzani, M. P. Stockli, B. D. Depaola, P. Richard, and P. C. Stancil

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062701 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Vibrational structure and partial rates of resonant Auger decay of the $N 1 \vec{s} 2 π$ core excitations in nitric oxide

E. Kukk, G. Snell, J. D. Bozek, W.-T. Cheng, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062702 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Effective configurations in electron-molecule scattering. II

David L. Azevedo and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062703 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Variational $R$ -matrix methods for many-electron systems: Unified relativistic theory

Radosław Szmytkowski

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062704 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Exploring the separability of the three-body Coulomb problem in hyperspherical elliptic coordinates

Oleg I. Tolstikhin and Michio Matsuzawa

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062705 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Electromagnetic interaction of ultrarelativistic heavy ions

C. A. Bertulani

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062706 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Experimental investigation of the processes determining x-ray emission intensities from charge-exchange collisions

J. B. Greenwood, I. D. Williams, S. J. Smith, and A. Chutjian

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062707 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Relativistic J-matrix theory of scattering

A. D. Alhaidari, H. A. Yamani, and M. S. Abdelmonem

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062708 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Total integral and ejected-energy differential cross sections for the electron-impact ionization of lithium

J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, D. M. Mitnik, and D. C. Griffin

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062709 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Inelastic low-energy electron collisions with the HBr and DBr molecules: Experiment and theory

M. Čížek, J. Horáček, A.-Ch. Sergenton, D. B. Popović, M. Allan, W. Domcke, T. Leininger, and F. X. Gadea

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062710 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Wave-packet evolution approach to ionization of the hydrogen molecular ion by fast electrons

Vladislav V. Serov, Vladimir L. Derbov, Boghos B. Joulakian, and Sergue I. Vinitsky

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062711 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Pair production and electron capture in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

R. J. S. Lee, J. V. Mullan, J. F. McCann, and D. S. F. Crothers

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062712 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Properties and removal of singular couplings at conical intersections

L. F. Errea, A. Macías, L. Méndez, I. Rabadán, A. Riera, A. Rojas, and P. Sanz

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062713 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Direct calculation of the scattering amplitude without partial-wave analysis

J. Shertzer and A. Temkin

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062714 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

High-resolution electron spectroscopy of a strongly correlated system: Atomic barium

G. Snell, M. Martins, E. Kukk, W. T. Cheng, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062715 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Photoionization of lithium ${1 s}^{2} 2 s$ and ${1 s}^{2} 2 p$ near the triply excited resonances

Kwong T. Chung and T. K. Fang

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062716 (2001) - Published 14 May, 2001

Absolute multiple-ionization cross sections of noble gases by ${He}^{+}$

A. C. F. Santos, W. S. Melo, M. M. Sant’Anna, G. M. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062717 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Nonperturbative calculation of projectile-electron loss, target ionization, and capture in ${He}^{+} + Ne$ collisions

Tom Kirchner and Marko Horbatsch

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062718 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Angle-resolved two-dimensional mapping of electron emission from the inner-shell $2 p$ excitations in ${Cl}_{2}$

O. Nayandin, E. Kukk, A. A. Wills, B. Langer, J. D. Bozek, S. Canton-Rogan, M. Wiedenhoeft, D. Cubaynes, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062719 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Target dependence of slow electrons emitted in swift ion-atom collisions

P. D. Fainstein, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062720 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Three-potential formalism for the three-body scattering problem with attractive Coulomb interactions

Z. Papp, C-.Y. Hu, Z. T. Hlousek, B. Kónya, and S. L. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062721 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Picturing the ionization process in ion-atom collisions with time-dependent quantum and classical methods

Clara Illescas, B. Pons, and A. Riera

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062722 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Two-center effect on low-energy electron emission in collisions of 1-MeV/u bare ions with atomic hydrogen, molecular hydrogen, and helium. I. Atomic hydrogen

Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, L. Gulyás, M. E. Rudd, and R. Moshammer

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062723 (2001) - Published 17 May, 2001

Two-center effect on low-energy electron emission in collisions of 1-MeV/u bare ions with atomic hydrogen, molecular hydrogen, and helium: II. $H_{2}$ and He

Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, L. Gulyás, and M. E. Rudd

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062724 (2001) - Published 17 May, 2001

Stabilization of electrons on ${Ar}^{q +}$ ions after slow collisions with $C_{60}$

A. Langereis, J. Jensen, A. Fardi, K. Haghighat, H. T. Schmidt, S. H. Schwartz, H. Zettergren, and H. Cederquist

Phys. Rev. A 63, 062725 (2001) - Published 17 May, 2001

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Influence of the exchange-correlation potential in density-functional calculations on polarizabilities and absorption spectra of alkali-metal clusters

S. J. A. van Gisbergen, J. M. Pacheco, and E. J. Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063201 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Topological study of charge densities of impurity doped small Li clusters

Tunna Baruah, D. G. Kanhere, and Rajendra R. Zope

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063202 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Model of neutron-production rates from femtosecond-laser–cluster interactions

P. B. Parks, T. E. Cowan, R. B. Stephens, and E. M. Campbell

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063203 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Efficient optical guiding of trapped cold atoms by a hollow laser beam

Xinye Xu, Kihwan Kim, Wonho Jhe, and Namic Kwon

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063401 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Coherent control of enrichment and conversion of molecular spin isomers

P. L. Chapovsky

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063402 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Wigner time-frequency distribution of high-order harmonics

Jung-Hoon Kim, Dong Gun Lee, Hyun Joon Shin, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063403 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Decoherence of molecular vibrational wave packets: Observable manifestations and control criteria

C. Brif, H. Rabitz, S. Wallentowitz, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063404 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Time-resolved x-ray spectroscopies: Nonlinear response functions and Liouville-space pathways

Satoshi Tanaka, Vladimir Chernyak, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063405 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Four-wave mixing with Rydberg levels in rubidium vapor: Observation of interference fringes

W. C. Magno, R. B. Prandini, P. Nussenzveig, and S. S. Vianna

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063406 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

Quantum-interferometric optical lithography: Towards arbitrary two-dimensional patterns

Pieter Kok, Agedi N. Boto, Daniel S. Abrams, Colin P. Williams, Samuel L. Braunstein, and Jonathan P. Dowling

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063407 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Continuous optical loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate

L. Santos, F. Floegel, T. Pfau, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063408 (2001) - Published 15 May, 2001

Advanced x-ray diagnostics based on an observation of high-energy Rydberg transitions from autoionizing levels in dense laser-produced plasmas

F. B. Rosmej, D. H. H. Hoffmann, M. Geißel, M. Roth, P. Pirzadeh, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Yu. Skobelev, and A. I. Magunov

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063409 (2001) - Published 15 May, 2001

Matter waves

Quantum corrections to the ground-state energy of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate: A diffusion Monte Carlo calculation

D. Blume and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063601 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Optical dipole traps and atomic waveguides based on Bessel light beams

Jochen Arlt, Kishan Dholakia, Josh Soneson, and Ewan M. Wright

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063602 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Creation of topological states in spinor condensates

H. Pu, S. Raghavan, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063603 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Momentum flux density, kinetic energy density, and their fluctuations for one-dimensional confined gases of noninteracting fermions

Anna Minguzzi, Patrizia Vignolo, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063604 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Cooperative Raman-type transitions in a system of two four-level atoms: Entanglement in the spin subsystem of two spatially separated atomic ensembles

D. V. Kupriyanov, I. M. Sokolov, and A. V. Slavgorodskii

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063811 (2001) - Published 14 May, 2001

Green-function theory of spontaneous emission and cooperative effects in a superlattice of thin metal layers

C. R. Bennett, J. B. Kirk, and M. Babiker

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063812 (2001) - Published 15 May, 2001

Origin of the “blueshift” in selective reflection spectroscopy and its partial compensation by the local-field correction

T. A. Vartanyan and A. Weis

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063813 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Dynamically induced atomic resonance fluorescence and cavity transmission spectra in a driven Jaynes-Cummings system

Hyunchul Nha, Young-Tak Chough, Wonho Jhe, and Kyungwon An

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063814 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Cavity QED analog of the harmonic-oscillator probability distribution function and quantum collapses

Z. Ficek and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 63, 063815 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Maximum-entropy principle with moment recursion relations as constraints

K. Bandyopadhyay, K. Bhattacharyya, and A. K. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. A 63, 064101 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Diode-laser hyperfine-structure spectroscopy of $^{138, 139} La$

Wei-Guo Jin, Toshiaki Endo, Haruko Uematsu, Tatsuya Minowa, and Hidetsugu Katsuragawa

Phys. Rev. A 63, 064501 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Enhanced absorption Hanle effect in the configuration of crossed laser beam and magnetic field

F. Renzoni, S. Cartaleva, G. Alzetta, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 63, 065401 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Hydrogen atom in a magnetic field: The quadrupole moment

Alexander Y. Potekhin and Alexander V. Turbiner

Phys. Rev. A 63, 065402 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Matter waves

Spatiotemporal interferometry for trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

S. Choi, K. Burnett, O. M. Friesch, B. Kneer, and W. P. Schleich

Phys. Rev. A 63, 065601 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Generation of two-mode nonclassical motional states and a Fredkin gate operation in a two-dimensional ion trap

Xu-Bo Zou, Jaewan Kim, and Hai-Woong Lee

Phys. Rev. A 63, 065801 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Localizing an atom via quantum interference

E. Paspalakis and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 63, 065802 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Semiclassical traversal time analysis of superluminal tunneling [Phys. Rev. A 63, 012109 (2000)]

D. Sokolovski and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 63, 069901 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Erratum: Bethe stopping-power theory for heavy-target atoms [Phys. Rev. A 60, 2562 (1999)]

P. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 63, 069902 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001