Volume 69, Issue 2

S. Toleikis, B. Manil, E. Berdermann, H. F. Beyer, F. Bosch, M. Czanta, R. W. Dunford, A. Gumberidze, P. Indelicato, C. Kozhuharov, D. Liesen, X. Ma, R. Marrus, P. H. Mokler, D. Schneider, A. Simionovici, Z. Stachura, T. Stöhlker, A. Warczak, and Y. Zou

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022507 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Finite-field evaluation of the Lennard-Jones atom-wall interaction constant $C_{3}$ for alkali-metal atoms

W. R. Johnson, V. A. Dzuba, U. I. Safronova, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022508 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Relativistic many-body calculations of electric-dipole matrix elements, lifetimes, and polarizabilities in rubidium

M. S. Safronova, Carl J. Williams, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022509 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Quantum Monte Carlo estimators for the positron-electron annihilation rate in bound and low-energy scattering states

Simone Chiesa, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022701 (2004) - Published 2 February, 2004

Z-scaled K-shell dielectronic recombination rate coefficients

Arati Dasgupta and K. G. Whitney

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022702 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Complete direct method for electron-hydrogen scattering: Application to the collinear and Temkin-Poet models

Philip L. Bartlett and Andris T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022703 (2004) - Published 4 February, 2004

Effects of quantum interference between radiative and dielectronic recombination on photorecombination cross-section profiles for the He-like ions ${Ar}^{16 +}$ and ${Fe}^{24 +}$

Ehud Behar, Verne L. Jacobs, Joseph Oreg, Avi Bar-Shalom, and Stanley L. Haan

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022704 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Calculated total cross sections of electron-impact ionization and excitations in tetrahedral ${(X Y}_{4})$ and ${SF}_{6}$ molecules

K. N. Joshipura, Minaxi Vinodkumar, C. G. Limbachiya, and B. K. Antony

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022705 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Electron-impact-induced allowed transitions between triplet states of $H_{2}$

A. Laricchiuta, R. Celiberto, and R. K. Janev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022706 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Generalization of the duration-time concept for interpreting high-resolution resonant photoemission spectra

R. Feifel, A. Baev, F. Gel’mukhanov, H. Ågren, M. N. Piancastelli, M. Andersson, G. Öhrwall, C. Miron, M. Meyer, S. L. Sorensen, A. Naves de Brito, O. Björneholm, L. Karlsson, and S. Svensson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022707 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

High-energy expansion of Coulomb corrections to the $e^{+} e^{-}$ photoproduction cross section

R. N. Lee, A. I. Milstein, and V. M. Strakhovenko

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022708 (2004) - Published 20 February, 2004

Low-energy electron scattering from atomic hydrogen. I. Ionization

J. G. Childers, K. E. James, Jr., Igor Bray, M. Baertschy, and M. A. Khakoo

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022709 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Low-energy electron scattering from atomic hydrogen. II. Elastic and inelastic scattering

K. E. James, Jr., J. G. Childers, and M. A. Khakoo

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022710 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Double photodetachment from the ${Cl}^{-}$ ion

A. Aguilar, J. S. Thompson, D. Calabrese, A. M. Covington, C. Cisneros, V. T. Davis, M. S. Gulley, M. Halka, D. Hanstorp, J. Sandström, B. M. McLaughlin, and D. J. Pegg

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022711 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Large electron correlation effects in the nondipole asymmetry parameters near photoionization thresholds

Hari P. Saha

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022712 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Resonant ion-pair formation in electron collisions with rovibrationally cold $H_{3}^{+}$

S. Kalhori, R. Thomas, A. Al-Khalili, A. Ehlerding, F. Hellberg, A. Neau, M. Larsson, Å. Larson, A. J. Huneycutt, B. J. McCall, N. Djurić, G. H. Dunn, J. Semaniak, O. Novotny, A. Paál, F. Österdahl, and A. E. Orel

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022713 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Pressure broadening and shift of $He (2^{3} P_{0, 1, 2}) - He (2^{3} S)$ lines

D. Vrinceanu, S. Kotochigova, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022714 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Near-threshold photoassociation of $^{87} {Rb}_{2}$

M. Kemmann, I. Mistrik, S. Nussmann, H. Helm, C. J. Williams, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022715 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Classical sudden model for vibrational and rotational excitations in ion-molecule collisions

Atsushi Ichimura and Masato Nakamura

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022716 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

X-ray bandwidth: Determination by on-edge absorption and effect on various absorption experiments

Martin D. de Jonge, Zwi Barnea, Chanh Q. Tran, and Christopher T. Chantler

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022717 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

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

Interactions of fast ions with carbon nanotubes: Self-energy and stopping power

You-Nian Wang and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022901 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Friction forces arising from fluctuating thermal fields

Jorge R. Zurita-Sánchez, Jean-Jacques Greffet, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. A 69, 022902 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Molecular structures and vibrations of neutral and anionic ${CuO}_{x}$ $(x = 1 - 3, 6)$ clusters

Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, and Mark R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023201 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

Shell structure in mixed $^{3} He -^{4} He$ droplets

J. Navarro, A. Poves, M. Barranco, and M. Pi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023202 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Generation of high-energy protons from the Coulomb explosion of hydrogen clusters by intense femtosecond laser pulses

S. Sakabe, S. Shimizu, M. Hashida, F. Sato, T. Tsuyukushi, K. Nishihara, S. Okihara, T. Kagawa, Y. Izawa, K. Imasaki, and T. Iida

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023203 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Simulating quantum interference in a three-level system with perpendicular transition dipole moments

Z. Ficek and S. Swain

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023401 (2004) - Published 2 February, 2004

Rovibrational spectra of diatomic molecules in strong electric fields: The adiabatic regime

R. González-Férez and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023402 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field. II. Relativistic corrections for low-lying excited states

A. Poszwa and A. Rutkowski

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023403 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Propagation effect in atom excitation by ultrashort and intense laser pulses

A. V. Lugovskoy and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023404 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

Complete population transfer in a degenerate three-state atom

Kh. Yu. Rakhimov, Kh. Kh. Shakov, and J. H. McGuire

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023405 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Coherent control in the generation of harmonics and hyper-Raman lines from a strongly driven two-level atom

Chengpu Liu, Shangqing Gong, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023406 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Complex rotation method for the Dirac Hamiltonian

I. A. Ivanov and Y. K. Ho

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023407 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Coherent population transfer and superposition of atomic states via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage using an excited-doublet four-level atom

Shiqi Jin, Shangqing Gong, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023408 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Classical and quantum scaling for localization of half-cycle pulse-driven Rydberg wave packets

D. G. Arbó, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023409 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Ionization of $N_{2},$ $O_{2},$ and linear carbon clusters in a strong laser pulse

A. Jaroń-Becker, A. Becker, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023410 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Matter waves

Rapid real-time detection of cold atoms with minimal destruction

J. E. Lye, J. J. Hope, and J. D. Close

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023601 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Three-body losses in trapped Bose-Einstein-condensed gases

Yeong E. Kim and Alexander L. Zubarev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023602 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Cooperative ring exchange and quantum melting of vortex lattices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

Tarun Kanti Ghosh and G. Baskaran

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023603 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Frequency and damping of hydrodynamic modes in a trapped Bose-condensed gas

Tetsuro Nikuni and Allan Griffin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023604 (2004) - Published 4 February, 2004

Atom trapping and two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in field-induced adiabatic potentials

O. Zobay and B. M. Garraway

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023605 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Pairing in two-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures

J. Mur-Petit, A. Polls, M. Baldo, and H.-J. Schulze

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023606 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

Singularity formation in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and collapse in Bose-Einstein condensates

A. V. Rybin, I. P. Vadeiko, G. G. Varzugin, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023607 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Longitudinal sound mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023608 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Response of Bose-Einstein condensates to external perturbations at finite temperature

S. A. Morgan

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023609 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Thermal compression of two-dimensional atomic hydrogen gas

S. Vasilyev, J. Järvinen, A. I. Safonov, and S. Jaakkola

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023610 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Dynamics and Berry phase of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates

Z.-D. Chen, J.-Q. Liang, S.-Q. Shen, and W.-F. Xie

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023611 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Rotating spin-1 bosons in the lowest Landau level

J. W. Reijnders, F. J. M. van Lankvelt, K. Schoutens, and N. Read

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023612 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Effectively attractive Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating toroidal trap

G. M. Kavoulakis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023613 (2004) - Published 19 February, 2004

Pair-correlation function of a metastable helium Bose-Einstein condensate

Paweł Ziń, Marek Trippenbach, and Mariusz Gajda

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023614 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Theory of output coupling for trapped fermionic atoms

P. A. S. Pires Filho, C. L. Cesar, and L. Davidovich

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023615 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Finite-temperature theory of the trapped two-dimensional Bose gas

Christopher Gies, Brandon P. van Zyl, S. A. Morgan, and D. A. W. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023616 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Scissors modes of two-component degenerate gases: Bose-Bose and Bose-Fermi mixtures

M. Rodríguez, P. Pedri, P. Törmä, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023617 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Vortex lattice of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating anisotropic trap

M. Ö. Oktel

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023618 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Finite-temperature correlations in the one-dimensional trapped and untrapped Bose gases

N. M. Bogoliubov, C. Malyshev, R. K. Bullough, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023619 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Resonant generation of topological modes in trapped Bose-Einstein gases

V. I. Yukalov, K.-P. Marzlin, and E. P. Yukalova

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023620 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Control of the inversionless gain and refractive index in a V-type atom via squeezed vacuum and quantum interference

M. A. Antón, Oscar G. Calderón, and F. Carreño

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023801 (2004) - Published 3 February, 2004

Simultaneous near-field and far-field spatial quantum correlations in the high-gain regime of parametric down-conversion

E. Brambilla, A. Gatti, M. Bache, and L. A. Lugiato

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023802 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

Classical and quantum polarization correlations

Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023803 (2004) - Published 11 February, 2004

Saturable nonlinear refraction in hot atomic vapor

C. F. McCormick, D. R. Solli, R. Y. Chiao, and J. M. Hickmann

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023804 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Dynamics of a single trapped ion inside a nonideal QED cavity at zero temperature

R. Rangel, E. Massoni, and N. Zagury

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023805 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Transient coherence oscillation induced by a detuned Raman field in a rubidium $Λ$ system

Sung Jong Park, Hyuck Cho, Taeg Yong Kwon, and Ho Seong Lee

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023806 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Giant refractive-index enhancement in dispersive polaritonic band-gap and photonic band-gap materials

Mahi R. Singh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023807 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Coupled surface polaritons and the Casimir force

C. Henkel, K. Joulain, J.-Ph. Mulet, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023808 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities

A. Baas, J. Ph. Karr, H. Eleuch, and E. Giacobino

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023809 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Controlling dipole-dipole frequency shifts in a lattice-based optical atomic clock

D. E. Chang, Jun Ye, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023810 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Entanglement and conservation of orbital angular momentum in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

S. P. Walborn, A. N. de Oliveira, R. S. Thebaldi, and C. H. Monken

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023811 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Solvable model of a strongly driven micromaser

P. Lougovski, F. Casagrande, A. Lulli, B.-G. Englert, E. Solano, and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023812 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Intensity interferometry for the study of x-ray coherence

M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023813 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Influence of radiative damping on the optical-frequency susceptibility

P. W. Milonni and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 69, 023814 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

Perturbative formulation and nonadiabatic corrections in adiabatic quantum-computing schemes

Yu Shi and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 024301 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Mixture of multiple copies of maximally entangled states is quasipure

Dong Yang and Yi-Xin Chen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 024302 (2004) - Published 9 February, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Nonlinear-resonance line shapes: Dependence on the transverse intensity distribution of a light beam

A. V. Taĭchenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, V. I. Yudin, M. Stähler, R. Wynands, J. Kitching, and L. Hollberg

Phys. Rev. A 69, 024501 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Method of determining the value of the Coster-Kronig parameter ${(f}_{23})$

Sumita Santra, Debasis Mitra, Manoranjan Sarkar, Dipan Bhattacharya, Prasanta Sen, and Atis Chandra Mandal

Phys. Rev. A 69, 024701 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Zeeman transition strengths in photodetachment from $O^{-}$ and $S^{-}$

A. K. Langworthy, D. M. Pendergrast, and J. N. Yukich

Phys. Rev. A 69, 025401 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Matter waves

Detecting supercounterfluidity by Ramsey spectroscopy

Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof’ev, and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 025601 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Mirror quiescence and high-sensitivity position measurements with feedback [Phys. Rev. A 65, 063803 (2002)]

David Vitali, Stefano Mancini, Luciano Ribichini, and Paolo Tombesi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 029901 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004