Volume 73, Issue 5

M. Haas, U. D. Jentschura, C. H. Keitel, N. Kolachevsky, M. Herrmann, P. Fendel, M. Fischer, Th. Udem, R. Holzwarth, T. W. Hänsch, M. O. Scully, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052501 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Excitation energy of ${}^{9}{Be}$

Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052502 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Rydberg states of the hydrogen-antihydrogen quasimolecule

V. Sharipov, L. Labzowsky, and G. Plunien

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052503 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Observing angular precession of a Rydberg wave packet due to spin-orbit coupling by orthogonally polarized weak half-cycle pulses

H. Wen, S. N. Pisharody, J. M. Murray, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052504 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Direct observation of the ${}^{2}D_{3 ∕ 2} − {}^{2}D_{5 ∕ 2}$ ground-state splitting in ${Xe}^{9 +}$

E. Takács, B. Blagojevic, K. Makónyi, E.-O. Le Bigot, C. I. Szabó, Y.-K. Kim, and J. D. Gillaspy

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052505 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Zeeman effect of the hyperfine-structure levels in hydrogenlike ions

D. L. Moskovkin and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052506 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Lifetime measurement of the Ar XIV $1 s^{2} 2 s^{2} 2 p {}^{2}P_{3 ∕ 2}^{o}$ metastable level at the Heidelberg electron-beam ion trap

A. Lapierre, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J. Braun, G. Brenner, H. Bruhns, D. Fischer, A. J. González Martínez, V. Mironov, C. Osborne, G. Sikler, R. Soria Orts, H. Tawara, J. Ullrich, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and A. Volotka

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052507 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

(e,2e) measurements on xenon: Reexamination of the fine-structure effect

R. Panajotovic, J. Lower, E. Weigold, A. Prideaux, and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052701 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Cross sections for $OH$ transitions due to electron impact on water molecules

R. Scott Schappe and Erich Urban

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052702 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Electron-impact ionization of $L$ -shell atomic species

A. K. F. Haque, M. A. Uddin, A. K. Basak, K. R. Karim, B. C. Saha, and F. B. Malik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052703 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Mass effects and internal space geometry in triatomic reaction dynamics

Tomohiro Yanao, Wang S. Koon, and Jerrold E. Marsden

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052704 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Relativistic ${Ps}^{-}$ and Ps

U. I. Uggerhøj

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052705 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Electron-impact ionization of $H_{2}$ using a time-dependent close-coupling method

M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, S. D. Loch, and J. P. Colgan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052706 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

$R$ -matrix calculation of electron collisions with electronically excited $O_{2}$ molecules

Motomichi Tashiro, Keiji Morokuma, and Jonathan Tennyson

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052707 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Dirac $R$ -matrix calculation of electron-impact excitation of $Ni XIX$

G. X. Chen, K. Kirby, and N. S. Brickhouse

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052708 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Properties of quasi-one-dimensional molecules with Feshbach-resonance interaction

V. A. Yurovsky

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052709 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Benchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in ${Hg}^{75 +}$ to ${Hg}^{78 +}$ ions. I. Experiment

A. J. González Martínez, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J. Braun, G. Brenner, H. Bruhns, A. Lapierre, V. Mironov, R. Soria Orts, H. Tawara, M. Trinczek, J. Ullrich, A. N. Artemyev, Z. Harman, U. D. Jentschura, C. H. Keitel, J. H. Scofield, and I. I. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052710 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Benchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in ${Hg}^{75 +}$ to ${Hg}^{78 +}$ ions. II. Theory

Z. Harman, I. I. Tupitsyn, A. N. Artemyev, U. D. Jentschura, C. H. Keitel, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, A. J. González Martínez, H. Tawara, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052711 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Convergence of configuration-interaction single-center calculations of positron-atom interactions

J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052712 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Experimental separation of the Thomas charge-transfer process in high-velocity $p − He$ collisions

D. Fischer, K. Støchkel, H. Cederquist, H. Zettergren, P. Reinhed, R. Schuch, A. Källberg, A. Simonsson, and H. T. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052713 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Galilean invariance and gauge dependence of radiative capture

A. B. Voitkiv

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052714 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Vibrational quenching at ultralow energies: Calculations of the ${Li}_{2} ({}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+}; ν ⪢ 0) + He$ superelastic scattering cross sections

Enrico Bodo, Franco A. Gianturco, and Ersin Yurtsever

Phys. Rev. A 73, 052715 (2006) - Published 31 May, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Effect of spin-orbit coupling on small platinum nanoclusters

M. N. Huda, Manish K. Niranjan, B. R. Sahu, and Leonard Kleinman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053201 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Controlled shock shells and intracluster fusion reactions in the explosion of large clusters

F. Peano, R. A. Fonseca, J. L. Martins, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053202 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Modified genetic algorithms to model cluster structures in medium-sized silicon clusters: ${Si}_{18} − {Si}_{60}$

Ofelia Oña, Victor E. Bazterra, María C. Caputo, Julio C. Facelli, Patricio Fuentealba, and Marta B. Ferraro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053203 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Exploring the level sets of quantum control landscapes

Adam Rothman, Tak-San Ho, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053401 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a two-state system

N. V. Vitanov and B. W. Shore

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053402 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Quantum control via the dynamic Stark effect: Application to switched rotational wave packets and molecular axis alignment

Benjamin J. Sussman, Jonathan G. Underwood, R. Lausten, Misha Yu. Ivanov, and Albert Stolow

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053403 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light in the geophysical field range

V. Acosta, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. C. Hovde, W. Gawlik, S. Pustelny, J. Zachorowski, and V. V. Yashchuk

Phys. Rev. A 73, 053404 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006