Volume 69, Issue 3

March 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

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Dispersive manipulation of paired superconducting qubits

Xingxiang Zhou, Michael Wulf, Zhengwei Zhou, Guangcan Guo, and Marc J. Feldman

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030301(R) (2004) - Published 5 March, 2004

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Dynamical decoupling using slow pulses: Efficient suppression of $1 / f$ noise

K. Shiokawa and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030302(R) (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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In search of the electron dipole moment: Ab initio calculations on ${}^{207}{PbO}$ excited states

T. A. Isaev, A. N. Petrov, N. S. Mosyagin, A. V. Titov, E. Eliav, and U. Kaldor

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030501(R) (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Complete fourth-order relativistic many-body calculations for atoms

Caleb C. Cannon and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030502(R) (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Collisional properties of trapped cold chromium atoms

Zoran Pavlović, Björn O. Roos, Robin Côté, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030701(R) (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optimized magneto-optical trap for experiments with ultracold atoms near surfaces

S. Wildermuth, P. Krüger, C. Becker, M. Brajdic, S. Haupt, A. Kasper, R. Folman, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 030901(R) (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Variable surface composition and radial interface formation in self-assembled free, mixed Ar∕Xe clusters

M. Tchaplyguine, M. Lundwall, M. Gisselbrecht, G. Öhrwall, R. Feifel, S. Sorensen, S. Svensson, N. Mårtensson, and O. Björneholm

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031201(R) (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

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Correlation between multiple ionization and fragmentation of $C_{60}$ in $2 − MeV$ ${Si}^{2 +}$ collisions: Evidence for fragmentation induced by internal excitation

T. Majima, Y. Nakai, H. Tsuchida, and A. Itoh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031202(R) (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Multiphoton intrashell resonances in Rydberg atoms: Bloch-Siegert shifts and widths

D. Fregenal, E. Horsdal-Pedersen, L. B. Madsen, M. Førre, J. P. Hansen, and V. N. Ostrovsky

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031401(R) (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Matter waves

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Spatial correlations of trapped one-dimensional bosons in an optical lattice

C. Kollath, U. Schollwöck, J. von Delft, and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031601(R) (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

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Degenerate atom-molecule mixture in a cold Fermi gas

S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031602(R) (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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$(2 + 1)$ -dimensional stable spatial Raman solitons

M. Y. Shverdin, D. D. Yavuz, and D. R. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031801(R) (2004) - Published 3 March, 2004

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Squeezing in semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime

J. Ph. Karr, A. Baas, R. Houdré, and E. Giacobino

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031802(R) (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

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Highest-quality modes in disordered photonic crystals

Alexey Yamilov and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031803(R) (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

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Role of orbital symmetry in high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules

R. de Nalda, E. Heesel, M. Lein, N. Hay, R. Velotta, E. Springate, M. Castillejo, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031804(R) (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

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Optimization of high-order harmonic brightness in the space and time domains

Hyung Taek Kim, I. Jong Kim, Dong Gun Lee, Kyung-Han Hong, Yong Soo Lee, Valer Tosa, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031805(R) (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

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Improving single-photon sources via linear optics and photodetection

Dominic W. Berry, Stefan Scheel, Barry C. Sanders, and Peter L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031806(R) (2004) - Published 29 March, 2004

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Testing the bounds on quantum probabilities

Stefan Filipp and Karl Svozil

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032101 (2004) - Published 1 March, 2004

Semiclassical catastrophes and cumulative angular squeezing of a kicked quantum rotor

M. Leibscher, I. Sh. Averbukh, P. Rozmej, and R. Arvieu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032102 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Transient effects on electron spin observation

J. Larson, B. M. Garraway, and S. Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032103 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

General expression for the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects

J. Ruseckas and B. Kaulakys

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032104 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Nonexponential decay propagator and its differential equation for real and complex energy distributions of unstable states

Theodosios G. Douvropoulos and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032105 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Informational distance on quantum-state space

Shunlong Luo and Qiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032106 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Continuous measurement of canonical observables and limit stochastic Schrödinger equations

John Gough and Andrei Sobolev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032107 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Risk-sensitive optimal control of quantum systems

M. R. James

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032108 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Robust quantum parameter estimation: Coherent magnetometry with feedback

John K. Stockton, J. M. Geremia, Andrew C. Doherty, and Hideo Mabuchi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032109 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Gravitational self-localization in quantum measurement

Tamás Geszti

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032110 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Analysis of a toy model of electron splitting

B. Altschul and C. Rebbi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032111 (2004) - Published 25 March, 2004

Berry phase in entangled systems: A proposed experiment with single neutrons

Reinhold A. Bertlmann, Katharina Durstberger, Yuji Hasegawa, and Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032112 (2004) - Published 25 March, 2004

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation in a gravitational field

Hiroaki Terashima and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032113 (2004) - Published 31 March, 2004

Quantum information

Quantum computing of Poincaré recurrences and periodic orbits

B. Georgeot

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032301 (2004) - Published 5 March, 2004

Probabilistic quantum multimeters

Jaromír Fiurášek and Miloslav Dušek

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032302 (2004) - Published 8 March, 2004

Entanglement, correlations, and the energy gap in many-body quantum systems

Henry L. Haselgrove, Michael A. Nielsen, and Tobias J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032303 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum-information compression

Graeme Mitchison and Richard Jozsa

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032304 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Quantum-dot single-photon sources: Prospects for applications in linear optics quantum-information processing

A. Kiraz, M. Atatüre, and A. Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032305 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Anyon computers with smaller groups

Carlos Mochon

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032306 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Experimental demonstration of quantum-state tomography and qubit-qubit interactions for rare-earth-metal-ion-based solid-state qubits

J. J. Longdell and M. J. Sellars

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032307 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Driver-phase-correlated fluctuations in the rotation of a strongly driven quantum bit

M. S. Shahriar, Prabhakar Pradhan, and Jacob Morzinski

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032308 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Conditional implementation of an asymmetrical universal quantum cloning machine

Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032309 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Quantum dense key distribution

I. P. Degiovanni, I. Ruo Berchera, S. Castelletto, M. L. Rastello, F. A. Bovino, A. M. Colla, and G. Castagnoli

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032310 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Error rate of a charge qubit coupled to an acoustic phonon reservoir

L. Fedichkin and A. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032311 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Quantum algorithms for phase-space tomography

Juan Pablo Paz, Augusto José Roncaglia, and Marcos Saraceno

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032312 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Security of quantum key distributions with entangled qudits

Thomas Durt, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Jing-Ling Chen, and L. C. Kwek

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032313 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Unification of dynamical decoupling and the quantum Zeno effect

P. Facchi, D. A. Lidar, and S. Pascazio

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032314 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

Optimal quantum circuits for general two-qubit gates

Farrokh Vatan and Colin Williams

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032315 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

Unconditional security of the Bennett 1992 quantum key-distribution protocol over a lossy and noisy channel

Kiyoshi Tamaki and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032316 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

Relation between entanglement measures and Bell inequalities for three qubits

C. Emary and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032317 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Optical generation and quantitative characterizations of electron-hole entanglement

Yu Shi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032318 (2004) - Published 31 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

$L_{1} − L_{3}$ Coster-Kronig yield for elements with $70 ⩽ Z ⩽ 81$

Manju Sharma, Prem Singh, Sanjiv Puri, D. Mehta, and Nirmal Singh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032501 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Theory and computation of the attosecond dynamics of pairs of electrons excited by high-frequency short light pulses

Th. Mercouris, Y. Komninos, and C. A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032502 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Lifetime measurement of the metastable $3 d {}^{2}D_{5 ∕ 2}$ state in the ${}^{40}{Ca}^{+}$ ion using the shelving technique on a few-ion string

Peter Staanum, Inger S. Jensen, Randi G. Martinussen, Dirk Voigt, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032503 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Global bending quantum number and the absence of monodromy in the $HCN \leftrightarrow CNH$ molecule

K. Efstathiou, M. Joyeux, and D. A. Sadovskií

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032504 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Non-Hermitian Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory

Christian Buth, Robin Santra, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032505 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Dynamics in electron-impact ionization of $H_{2} O$

D. S. Milne-Brownlie, S. J. Cavanagh, Birgit Lohmann, C. Champion, P. A. Hervieux, and J. Hanssen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032701 (2004) - Published 5 March, 2004

Analysis of photoassociation spectra for giant helium dimers

J. Léonard, A. P. Mosk, M. Walhout, P. van der Straten, M. Leduc, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032702 (2004) - Published 5 March, 2004

Nonrelativistic double photoeffect on K-shell electrons

A. I. Mikhailov, I. A. Mikhailov, A. N. Moskalev, A. V. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032703 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Nuclear spin conversion in the gaseous phase in the presence of a static electric field: Intramolecular magnetic interactions and the role of collisions

P. Cacciani, J. Cosléou, F. Herlemont, M. Khelkhal, and J. Lecointre

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032704 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Measurement of a mixed-spin-channel Feshbach resonance in ${}^{87}{Rb}$

M. Erhard, H. Schmaljohann, J. Kronjäger, K. Bongs, and K. Sengstock

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032705 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Doubly differential multiple ionization of krypton by positron and electron impact

A. C. F. Santos, A. Hasan, and R. D. DuBois

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032706 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Theoretical treatment of double photoionization of helium using a $B$ -spline implementation of exterior complex scaling

C. W. McCurdy, D. A. Horner, T. N. Rescigno, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032707 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Measurements of absolute $K$ -shell ionization cross sections and $L$ -shell x-ray production cross sections of Ge by electron impact

C. Merlet, X. Llovet, and F. Salvat

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032708 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Stripping and excitation in collisions between $p$ and ${He}^{+} (n ⩽ 3)$ calculated by a quantum time-dependent approach with semiclassical trajectories

Vladimir S. Melezhik, James S. Cohen, and Chi-Yu Hu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032709 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Effect of exit surface on neutral fraction in mega-electron-volt hydrogen beams transmitted through aluminum epitaxial foils under a planar channeling condition

Yasufumi Susuki, Ken-ich Nishioka, Mitsuru Maehara, Junko Hyōi, Takeshi Ikeda, and Katsuhiko Katsura

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032710 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

Photofragmentation of the $H_{3}$ molecule, including Jahn-Teller coupling effects

Viatcheslav Kokoouline and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032711 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Second-order Born model for two-electron atomic ionization by fast charged-particle impact

A. S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032712 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Perturbative analysis of the triply differential cross section and circular dichroism in photo-double-ionization of He

Andrei Y. Istomin, N. L. Manakov, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032713 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Electron-hydrogen $P$ -wave elastic scattering

A. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032714 (2004) - Published 29 March, 2004

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

Quantum magnetic field effects in atom-surface van der Waals interaction

Norman J. Morgenstern Horing

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032901 (2004) - Published 31 March, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Symmetry breaking and structural distortions in charged $X H_{4}$ $(X = C,$ Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb) molecules

D. Balamurugan, Manoj K. Harbola, and R. Prasad

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033201 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Anisotropic “charge-flipping” acceleration of highly charged ions from clusters in strong optical fields

M. Krishnamurthy, D. Mathur, and V. Kumarappan

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033202 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Laser-assisted molecular engineering of bond lengths and vibrational motion

Ignacio R. Sola

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033401 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Reaching optimally oriented molecular states by laser kicks

D. Sugny, A. Keller, O. Atabek, D. Daems, C. M. Dion, S. Guérin, and H. R. Jauslin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033402 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Optical bistability and collective behavior of atoms trapped in a high-Q ring cavity

Th. Elsässer, B. Nagorny, and A. Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033403 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Two-color interference stabilization of atoms

M. V. Fedorov and N. P. Poluektov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033404 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

High-order harmonic generation from intense laser-driven inner electrons of Rydberg atoms

S. X. Hu and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033405 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Direct observation of the sub-Doppler trap in a parametrically driven magneto-optical trap

Kihwan Kim, Heung-Ryoul Noh, Hyun-Ji Ha, and Wonho Jhe

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033406 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Nonresonant multiphoton ionization in atomic hydrogen

R. Radhakrishnan and Ramesh Babu Thayyullathil

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033407 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

One- and two-photon double ionization of beryllium with ultrashort ultraviolet laser fields

S. Laulan and H. Bachau

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033408 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Adiabatic excitation of rotational ladder by chirped laser pulses

N. V. Vitanov and B. Girard

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033409 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Steady state of atoms in a resonant field with elliptical polarization

A. V. Taichenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, V. I. Yudin, and G. Nienhuis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033410 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Pulse-driven quantum dynamics beyond the impulsive regime

D. Daems, S. Guérin, H. R. Jauslin, A. Keller, and O. Atabek

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033411 (2004) - Published 24 March, 2004

Matter waves

Mixed-isotope Bose-Einstein condensates in rubidium

Valery S. Shchesnovich, Anatoly M. Kamchatnov, and Roberto A. Kraenkel

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033601 (2004) - Published 3 March, 2004

“Cosmological” quasiparticle production in harmonically trapped superfluid gases

Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033602 (2004) - Published 8 March, 2004

Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions by zero-temperature bosons due to particle losses

L. D. Carr, T. Bourdel, and Y. Castin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033603 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

Loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice: The excitation of collective modes

J. Plata

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033604 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Transport and disruption of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

R. G. Scott, A. M. Martin, S. Bujkiewicz, T. M. Fromhold, N. Malossi, O. Morsch, M. Cristiani, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033605 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Spin textures in slowly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033606 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Wave mechanics of a two-wire atomic beam splitter

Daniele C. E. Bortolotti and John L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033607 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Giant vortices in combined harmonic and quartic traps

Amandine Aftalion and Ionut Danaila

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033608 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Solitons in tunnel-coupled repulsive and attractive condensates

Valery S. Shchesnovich, Solange B. Cavalcanti, and Roberto A. Kraenkel

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033609 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Nonequilibrium dynamics of optical-lattice-loaded Bose-Einstein-condensate atoms: Beyond the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation

Ana Maria Rey, B. L. Hu, Esteban Calzetta, Albert Roura, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033610 (2004) - Published 22 March, 2004

Phase-dependent spontaneous spin polarization and bifurcation delay in coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

Chaohong Lee, Wenhua Hai, Lei Shi, and Kelin Gao

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033611 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Thermal equilibrium and efficient evaporation of an ultracold atom-molecule mixture

Cheng Chin and Rudolf Grimm

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033612 (2004) - Published 29 March, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Spectral dependence of coherent backscattering of light in a narrow-resonance atomic system

D. V. Kupriyanov, I. M. Sokolov, N. V. Larionov, P. Kulatunga, C. I. Sukenik, S. Balik, and M. D. Havey

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033801 (2004) - Published 1 March, 2004

Fluctuations of radiation from a chaotic laser below threshold

E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033802 (2004) - Published 1 March, 2004

Ising and Bloch walls of phase domains in two-dimensional parametric wave mixing

Ye. Larionova, U. Peschel, A. Esteban-Martin, J. Garcia Monreal, and C. O. Weiss

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033803 (2004) - Published 3 March, 2004

Coherent interaction of laser pulses in a resonant optically dense extended medium under the regime of strong field-matter coupling

V. S. Egorov, V. N. Lebedev, I. B. Mekhov, P. V. Moroshkin, I. A. Chekhonin, and S. N. Bagayev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 033804 (2004) - Published 3 March, 2004

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Classical limit of von Neumann measurement

M. S. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 69, 034101 (2004) - Published 1 March, 2004

Effect of the relativistic spin rotation on two-particle spin composition

R. Lednicky, V. L. Lyuboshitz, and V. V. Lyuboshitz

Phys. Rev. A 69, 034102 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Generalized exponential functions in variational calculations of molecular systems

A. G. Donchev, S. A. Kalachev, N. N. Kolesnikov, and V. I. Tarasov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 034501 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Intermolecular interaction potentials of the methane dimer from the local density approximation

Xiang-Rong Chen, Yu-Lin Bai, Jun Zhu, and Xiang-Dong Yang

Phys. Rev. A 69, 034701 (2004) - Published 23 March, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Probing potential energy curves of $C_{2}^{-}$ by translational energy spectrometry

A. K. Gupta, G. Aravind, and M. Krishnamurthy

Phys. Rev. A 69, 035201 (2004) - Published 1 March, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

ERRATA

Erratum: Transverse-mode beam splitter of a light beam and its application to quantum cryptography [Phys. Rev. A 68, 012323 (2003)]

Hiroyuki Sasada and Megumi Okamoto

Phys. Rev. A 69, 039901 (2004) - Published 25 March, 2004