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  • Quantum information
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Quantum information

Computation on an error-avoiding quantum code and symmetrization Paolo Zanardi pp. R729-R732 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Perturbative approach to orbital magnetism in density-functional theory K. Capelle pp. R733-R736 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

vuv photoionization of uv-laser-tailored Ni-like Cu 3d9 atoms A. Verweyen, von dem Borne, P. Glatzel, Wernet, B. Sonntag, K. Godehusen, Ch. Gerth, and P. Zimmermann pp. R737-R740 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Soft-collision and cusp electrons in longitudinal momentum distributions for single ionization of He and Ne by proton impact Pablo D. Fainstein pp. R741-R744 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Magneto-optical trapping of Yb atoms using an intercombination transition T. Kuwamoto, K. Honda, Y. Takahashi, and T. Yabuzaki pp. R745-R748 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interference stabilization of Rydberg atoms: Quasiclassical analytical theory and exact three-dimensional numerical simulations O. V. Tikhonova, E. A. Volkova, A. M. Popov, and M. V. Fedorov pp. R749-R752 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

2.3-kHz two-photon Ramsey fringes at 30 THz L. F. Constantin, R. J. Butcher, P. E. Durand, A. Amy-Klein, and Ch. Chardonnet pp. R753-R756 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Experimental study of photon-echo size in optically thick media T. Wang, C. Greiner, J. R. Bochinski, and T. W. Mossberg pp. R757-R760 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large numbers of cold metastable helium atoms in a magneto-optical trap Paul J. Tol, Norbert Herschbach, Eric A. Hessels, Wim Hogervorst, and Wim Vassen pp. R761-R764 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Atom loss from Bose-Einstein condensates due to Feshbach resonance V. A. Yurovsky, A. Ben-Reuven, P. S. Julienne, and C. J. Williams pp. R765-R768 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Testing quantum correlations in a confined atomic cloud by the scattering of fast atoms A. B. Kuklov and B. V. Svistunov pp. R769-R772 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Ultrabright source of polarization-entangled photons Paul G. Kwiat, Edo Waks, Andrew G. White, Ian Appelbaum, and Philippe H. Eberhard pp. R773-R776 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Highly efficient high-order harmonic generation by metallic carbon nanotubes G. Ya. Slepyan, S. A. Maksimenko, V. P. Kalosha, J. Herrmann, E. E. Campbell, and I. V. Hertel pp. R777-R780 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Raman-induced photon correlations in optical fiber solitons M. J. Werner pp. R781-R784 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Relativistic dynamics of charges in electromagnetic fields: An eigenspinor approach W. E. Baylis and Y. Yao pp. 785-795 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric quantum mechanics with nonlocal potentials Je-Young Choi and Seok-In Hong pp. 796-799 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-order self-energy correction in hydrogenlike systems V. A. Yerokhin and V. M. Shabaev pp. 800-811 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sturmian basis functions for the harmonic oscillator Frank Antonsen pp. 812-826 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement of projection and a new class of quantum erasers Robert Garisto and Lucien Hardy pp. 827-831 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling and reflection of long waves Michael J. Moritz pp. 832-841 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impediments to mixing classical and quantum dynamics J. Caro and L. L. Salcedo pp. 842-852 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-mechanical deflection function Joachim Herb, Petra Meerwald, Michael J. Moritz, and Harald Friedrich pp. 853-860 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-asymmetric quantum physics A. Bohm pp. 861-876 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum correlations are not contained in the initial state Adán Cabello pp. 877-880 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum information

•	Simulating quantum operations with mixed environments Barbara M. Terhal, Isaac L. Chuang, David P. DiVincenzo, Markus Grassl, and John A. Smolin pp. 881-885 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic radiation in a cavity with a time-dependent mirror Markus A. Cirone and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski pp. 886-892 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum extension of conditional probability N. J. Cerf and C. Adami pp. 893-897 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reduction criterion for separability N. J. Cerf, C. Adami, and R. M. Gingrich pp. 898-909 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle entanglement and its applications to cryptography Julia Kempe pp. 910-916 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum logic operations based on photon-exchange interactions J. D. Franson and T. B. Pittman pp. 917-936 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum teleportation with squeezed vacuum states G. J. Milburn and Samuel L. Braunstein pp. 937-942 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum entanglement in dilute optical lattices A. Hemmerich pp. 943-946 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Atomic transition probabilities of F I spectral lines from 3s-3p and 3p-3d transition arrays J. Musielok, E. Pawelec, U. Griesmann, and W. L. Wiese pp. 947-955 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct measurement of the fine-structure interval of 27Al in its ground 2P state John M. Brown and Kenneth M. Evenson pp. 956-961 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equal-factor approach to perturbation theory Guo F. Chen pp. 962-972 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magneto-optical rotation in atomic transitions between levels with J=0 and J=1 F. Schuller and D. N. Stacey pp. 973-981 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improvement in the reliability of lifetime measurements for highly charged ions in the 0.01–100-ns range Y. Zou, R. Hutton, S. Huldt, I. Martinson, K. Ando, T. Kambara, H. Oyama, and Y. Awaya pp. 982-985 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher-order Stark effect on an excited helium atom A. Derevianko, W. R. Johnson, V. D. Ovsiannikov, V. G. Pal’chikov, D. R. Plante, and G. von Oppen pp. 986-995 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic many-body calculations of electric-dipole transitions between n=2 states in B-like ions U. I. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, and A. E. Livingston pp. 996-1004 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Redistribution of resonance radiation in hot and dense plasmas C. Mossé, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, R. Lee, and L. Klein pp. 1005-1014 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-angular-momentum (L>~3) doubly excited resonance states of the positronium negative ion I. Ivanov and Y. K. Ho pp. 1015-1020 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of the variation of electric-dipole moments on the shape of pressure-broadened atomic spectral lines N. F. Allard, A. Royer, J. F. Kielkopf, and N. Feautrier pp. 1021-1033 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron affinities of the first- and second-row atoms: Benchmark ab initio and density-functional calculations Glênisson de Oliveira, Jan M. Martin, Frank de Proft, and Paul Geerlings pp. 1034-1045 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Near-threshold measurement of integrated Stokes parameters for Kr excited by polarized electrons B. G. Birdsey, H. M. Al-Khateeb, M. E. Johnston, T. C. Bowen, T. J. Gay, V. Zeman, and K. Bartschat pp. 1046-1052 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical and quantal atomic form factors for arbitrary transitions D. Vrinceanu and M. R. Flannery pp. 1053-1069 [View PDF (914 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant decay spectra for energetically unselective excitation exemplified by the broadband resonant Auger spectrum of HF E. Pahl, L. S. Cederbaum, and F. Tarantelli pp. 1070-1078 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impact of narrow-band excitation on resonant decay spectra E. Pahl, J. Brand, L. S. Cederbaum, and F. Tarantelli pp. 1079-1090 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum transport theory for atomic states through solids D. G. Arbó, C. O. Reinhold, P. Kürpick, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer pp. 1091-1102 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisional perturbation of states in atomic ytterbium by helium and neon D. F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S. J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, and M. Zolotorev pp. 1103-1112 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection-free propagation of wave packets S. Yoshida, S. Watanabe, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer pp. 1113-1123 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron loss and single and double capture of C3+ and O5+ ions in collisions with noble gases W. S. Melo, M. M. Sant’Anna, A. C. Santos, G. M. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro pp. 1124-1134 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of electron time-of-flight measurements in momentum imaging of saddle-point electron emission Victor D. Irby pp. 1135-1139 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy and angular distributions of detached electrons in a solvable model of ion-atom collisions J. H. Macek, S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, and E. A. Solov’ev pp. 1140-1152 [View PDF (845 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute cross section for Si2+(3s2 1S→3s3p 1P) electron-impact excitation D. B. Reisenfeld, L. D. Gardner, P. H. Janzen, D. W. Savin, and J. L. Kohl pp. 1153-1164 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical collision dynamics with multiple potential surfaces: The H(12S)+N2+ example F. A. Gianturco and G. Materzanini pp. 1165-1178 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the 1 2Σu+ cation state by low-energy dissociative ionization of Na2 B. Delahunty, K. Black, and L. Hüwel pp. 1179-1186 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization study of the extreme-ultraviolet emission from helium following electron impact H. Merabet, M. Bailey, R. Bruch, D. V. Fursa, I. Bray, J. W. McConkey, and P. Hammond pp. 1187-1198 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections and polarization fractions for elastic e--O2 collisions L. E. Machado, E. M. Ribeiro, M.-T. Lee, M. M. Fujimoto, and L. M. Brescansin pp. 1199-1205 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-impact detachment of weakly bound negative ions: Threshold and scaling laws F. Robicheaux pp. 1206-1215 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auger decay of the photoexcited 2p-1nl Rydberg series in argon T. W. Gorczyca and F. Robicheaux pp. 1216-1225 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon and high-energy–electron-impact vibronic excitation of molecular hydrogen Itamar Borges and Carlos E. Bielschowsky pp. 1226-1234 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Tin clusters adopt prolate geometries Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and Martin F. Jarrold pp. 1235-1239 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evaporation and cluster abundance spectra Klavs Hansen and Ulrich Näher pp. 1240-1250 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental dissociation energies of metal cluster dications and their interpretation in a liquid-drop model with empirical corrections S. Krückeberg, G. Dietrich, K. Lützenkirchen, L. Schweikhard, and J. Ziegler pp. 1251-1257 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

•	Experimental and theoretical investigation of the HH̅ 1Σg+ state in H2, D2, and HD, and the B″B̅ 1Σu+ state in HD E. Reinhold, W. Hogervorst, W. Ubachs, and L. Wolniewicz pp. 1258-1270 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of the time-dependent local density approximation to optical activity K. Yabana and G. F. Bertsch pp. 1271-1279 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbation theory for multiphoton ionization without knowledge of the final-state wave function Robin Shakeshaft pp. 1280-1286 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent quantum control of multiphoton transitions by shaped ultrashort optical pulses Doron Meshulach and Yaron Silberberg pp. 1287-1292 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Arbitrary orientation of atoms and molecules via coherent population trapping by elliptically polarized light Valery Milner, Boris M. Chernobrod, and Yehiam Prior pp. 1293-1304 [View PDF (642 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoassociative ionization using two independent colors in a sodium-vapor-cell magneto-optical traps L. G. Marcassa, G. D. Telles, and S. R. Muniz pp. 1305-1310 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic stabilization in a two-color field R. M. Potvliege pp. 1311-1313 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation of weakly bound Rydberg electrons by half-cycle pulses O. Zobay and G. Alber pp. 1314-1323 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance-enhanced two-photon dissociation of H2 through nonadiabatically coupled intermediate and final states Avijit Datta, Samir Saha, and S. S. Bhattacharyya pp. 1324-1335 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Landé gJ values in atomic argon: A measurement of the ratio gJ(2p9)/gJ(1s5) by saturation spectroscopy J. R. Brandenberger pp. 1336-1340 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical simulation of high-order above-threshold-ionization enhancement in argon H. G. Muller pp. 1341-1350 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational interference in vibrational ladder climbing in NO by chirped infrared laser pulses D. J. Maas, M. J. Vrakking, and L. D. Noordam pp. 1351-1362 [View PDF (678 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical dynamics of multiphoton excitation and dissociation of diatomic molecules by infrared laser pulses W.-K. Liu, J.-M. Yuan, and S. H. Lin pp. 1363-1370 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-color photoionization of helium above the N=2 ionization threshold Thomas Grosges, Bernard Piraux, and Henri Bachau pp. 1371-1376 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-frequency analysis of two-color high-harmonic generation C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, M. Dörr, W. Becker, and W. Sandner pp. 1377-1384 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inhomogeneously broadened spin masers M. V. Romalis and W. Happer pp. 1385-1402 [View PDF (773 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rydberg wave packets on elliptical orbits E. A. Shapiro and Paolo Bellomo pp. 1403-1406 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum wave-packet dynamics of the photodissociation of LiF N. Balakrishnan, B. D. Esry, H. R. Sadeghpour, S. T. Cornett, and M. J. Cavagnero pp. 1407-1413 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave-packet evolution along periodic structures of classical dynamics W. Schweizer, W. Jans, and T. Uzer pp. 1414-1419 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strongly perturbed Stark states and electron correlation in Ba F. Robicheaux, C. Wesdorp, and L. D. Noordam pp. 1420-1428 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	Theory of strong outcoupling from Bose-Einstein condensates Robert Graham and Dan F. Walls pp. 1429-1441 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Application of renormalization-group techniques to a homogeneous Bose gas at finite temperature Jens O. Andersen and Michael Strickland pp. 1442-1450 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Validity of the shape-independent approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates B. D. Esry and Chris H. Greene pp. 1451-1462 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-mixing dynamics of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate H. Pu, C. K. Law, S. Raghavan, J. H. Eberly, and N. P. Bigelow pp. 1463-1470 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing of atomic beams by using a self-referencing principle Stefan H. Kienle, Dietmar G. Fischer, and Matthias Freyberger pp. 1471-1481 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Talbot oscillations and periodic focusing in a one-dimensional condensate A. G. Rojo, J. L. Cohen, and P. R. Berman pp. 1482-1490 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum optics of a Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a quantized light field M. G. Moore, O. Zobay, and P. Meystre pp. 1491-1506 [View PDF (646 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface of a Bose-Einstein condensed atomic cloud U. Al Khawaja, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith pp. 1507-1512 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic soliton reservoir: How to increase the critical atom number in negative-scattering-length Bose-Einstein gases Humberto Michinel, Víctor M. Pérez-García, and Raúl de la Fuente pp. 1513-1518 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

•	Calculation of thermodynamic properties of finite Bose-Einstein systems Peter Borrmann, Jens Harting, Oliver Mülken, and Eberhard R. Hilf pp. 1519-1522 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-field effects in a dense ensemble of resonant atoms: Model of a generalized two-level system A. A. Afanas’ev, A. G. Cherstvy, R. A. Vlasov, and V. M. Volkov pp. 1523-1529 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum interference by a nonlocal double slit E. J. Fonseca, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken pp. 1530-1533 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback G. Huyet, J. K. White, A. J. Kent, S. P. Hegarty, J. V. Moloney, and J. G. McInerney pp. 1534-1537 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-photon evanescent-wave spectroscopy of alkali-metal atoms V. G. Bordo and H.-G. Rubahn pp. 1538-1548 [View PDF (150 kB) or