PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW A Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover 500 Sunnyside Boulevard „ISSN: 1050-2947… Woodbury, NY 11797-2999 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 58, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 1998 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions A complete photoionization experiment with polarized atoms using magnetic dichroism and phase tilt measurements .................................................................................. R3371 K. Godehusen, P. Zimmermann, A. Verweyen, A. von dem Borne, Ph. Wernet, and B. Sonntag Photodissociation in quantum chaotic systems: Random-matrix theory of cross-section fluctuations ............ R3375 Yan V. Fyodorov and Y. Alhassid Observation of an impact-parameter window in low-velocity ionizing collisions of Ne1 on Ne proceeding through quasimolecular states ............................................................................ R3379 M. A. Abdallah, W. Wolff, H. E. Wolf, C. L. Cocke, and M. Sto¨ckli Atomic and molecular processes in external fields Mesoscopic motion of atomic ions in magnetic fields .................................................. R3383 David M. Leitner and P. Schmelcher Matter waves Magnetic grating echoes from laser-cooled atoms ..................................................... R3387 A. Kumarakrishnan, S. B. Cahn, U. Shim, and T. Sleator Dielectric formalism and damping of collective modes in trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gases .............. R3391 Gyula Bene and Pe´ter Sze´pfalusy Trapped one-dimensional Bose gas as a Luttinger liquid ............................................... R3395 H. Monien, M. Linn, and N. Elstner Impact of spontaneous spatial symmetry breaking on the critical atom number for two-component Bose-Einstein condensates ................................................................................... R3399 B. D. Esry Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics Induced optical spatial solitons .................................................................... R3403 D. Bortman-Arbiv, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, and H. Friedmann ARTICLES Fundamental concepts Propagator picture of the spatial confinement of quantized light emitted from an atom ....................... 3407 Ole Keller Copyright 1998 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 58, NUMBER 5 NOVEMBER 1998 Quantum mechanics can be formulated as a non-Markovian stochastic process ............................. 3426 German A. Skorobogatov and Sergey I. Svertilov Asymmetrical quantum sextic anharmonic oscillator: Eigenstates and thermal properties .................... 3433 J. Y. Lee, K. L. Liu, and C. F. Lo Duality in perturbation theory and the quantum adiabatic approximation .................................. 3439 Marco Frasca Double-well potential: The WKB approximation with phase loss and anharmonicity effect ................... 3443 Chang Soo Park, Myung Geun Jeong, Sahng-Kyoon Yoo, and D. K. Park Nonadiabatic geometric phase for the cyclic evolution of a time-dependent Hamiltonian system ............... 3448 Jie Liu, Bambi Hu, and Baowen Li Search for parity nonconserving optical rotation in atomic samarium ..................................... 3457 D. M. Lucas, R. B. Warrington, D. N. Stacey, and C. D. Thompson Toward an optical evidence of quantum interference between macroscopically distinct states .................. 3472 A. Montina and F. T. Arecchi Complementarity and quantum erasure in welcher Weg experiments ...................................... 3477 Gunnar Bjo¨rk and Anders Karlsson Quantum information Quantum cloning in d dimensions ................................................................. 3484 Paolo Zanardi Optimal quantum codes for preventing collective amplitude damping ..................................... 3491 Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo Quantum capacity is properly defined without encodings ............................................... 3496 Howard Barnum, John A. Smolin, and Barbara M. Terhal Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics 1 Elastic cross sections and annihilation parameter for e -H2 scattering using the Schwinger multichannel method ....................................................................................... 3502 Jorge L. S. Lino, Jose´ S. E. Germano, Euclimar P. da Silva, and Marco A. P. Lima Amount of information present in the one-particle density matrix and the charge density ..................... 3507 Juan Carlos Ramı´rez, Julio Manuel Herna´ndez Pe´rez, Robin P. Sagar, Rodolfo O. Esquivel, Minhhuy Hoˆ, and Vedene H. Smith, Jr. 2 2 Measurements of 2s S1/2–2p P3/2,1/2 transition energies in lithiumlike heavy ions: Experiments and results for Ni251 and Zn271 ................................................................................ 3516 U. Staude, Ph. Bosselmann, R. Bu¨ttner, D. Horn, K.-H. Schartner, F. Folkmann, A. E. Livingston, T. Ludziejewski, and P. H. Mokler Effective homogeneity of the exchange-correlation energy functional ..................................... 3524 David J. Tozer Measurement of the formation rate and the radiative decay of the muonic molecules (pm3He!* and (pm4He!* . 3528 S. Tresch, F. Mulhauser, C. Piller, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, Y.-A. Thalmann, A. Werthmu¨ller, P. Ackerbauer, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, B. Gartner, R. King, B. Lauss, J. Marton, W. Prymas, J. Zmeskal, C. Petitjean, M. Augsburger, D. Chatellard, J.-P. Egger, E. Jeannet, T. von Egidy, F. J. Hartmann, M. Mu¨hlbauer, and W. Schott Fluorescence and Coster-Kronig yields of the L1 shell in gadolinium ..................................... 3537 T. Papp, J. L. Campbell, and S. Raman Investigation of the 74W L emission spectra and satellites .............................................. 3544 Aurel-Mihai Vlaicu, Tatsunori Tochio, Takashi Ishizuka, Daisuke Ohsawa, Yoshiaki Ito, Takeshi Mukoyama, Atsusi Nisawa, Takasi Shoji, and Sinzo Yoshikado Order ma6 contributions to ground-state hyperfine splitting in positronium ................................ 3552 G. S. Adkins and J. Sapirstein (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 58, NUMBER 5 NOVEMBER 1998 Recurrence spectroscopy of atoms in electric fields: Scattering in the presence of bifurcations ................. 3561 John A. Shaw and F. Robicheaux Hydrogen and helium atoms and molecules in an intense magnetic field .................................. 3567 Jeremy S. Heyl and Lars Hernquist Pseudopotentials from orbital-dependent exchange-correlation functionals . ............................... 3578 A. Ho¨ck and E. Engel Fine-structure-resolved laser-photodetachment electron spectroscopy of In2 ............................... 3582 W. W. Williams, D. L. Carpenter, A. M. Covington, J. S. Thompson, T. J. Kvale, and D. G. Seely Configuration-interaction Hartree-Fock calculations for two-electron atoms using a pseudopotential ............ 3585 L. Fe´ret and J. Pascale Hylleraas-type calculations of the relativistic corrections for the ground state of the lithium atom .............. 3597 Frederick W. King, Daniel G. Ballegeer, David J. Larson, Paul J. Pelzl, Scott A. Nelson, Ty J. Prosa, and Bradley M. Hinaus Laser spectroscopy of metastable states in the y52 cascade of antiprotonic 3He ........................... 3604 F. J. Hartmann, B. Ketzer, C. Maierl, R. Pohl, T. von Egidy, R. S. Hayano, M. Hori, T. Ishikawa, H. Tamura, H. A. Torii, M. Kumakura, N. Morita, I. Sugai, D. Horva´th, J. Eades, E. Widmann, and T. Yamazaki Need for remeasurements of nuclear magnetic dipole moments .......................................... 3611 Martin G. H. Gustavsson and Ann-Marie Mårtensson-Pendrill Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Ionization dynamics in fast ion-atom collisions. I. Energy and angular distributions of low-energy electrons emitted in ionization of He by bare carbon ions ...................................................... 3619 Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, Y. D. Wang, C. D. Lin, L. Gulyas, and M. E. Rudd Ionization dynamics in fast ion-atom collisions. II. Final-state momentum distributions of the ionization products in collisions of He with bare carbon ions ........................................................... 3626 Lokesh C. Tribedi, P. Richard, Y. D. Wang, C. D. Lin, R. E. Olson, and L. Gulyas Fast-electron production in atomic collisions induced by 77A-MeV 40Ar ions studied with a multidetector ...... 3634 G. Lanzano`, E. De Filippo, S. Aiello, M. Geraci, A. Pagano, Sl. Cavallaro, F. Lo Piano, E. C. Pollacco, C. Volant, S. Vuillier, C. Beck, D. Mahboub, R. Nouicer, G. Politi, H. Rothard, and D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen Estimates of the relative magnitudes of the isotropic and anisotropic magnetic-dipole hyperfine interactions in alkali-metal–noble-gas systems .................................................................... 3642 D. K. Walter, W. Happer, and T. G. Walker Influence of multielectron excitations on the O 1s photoionization in CO2 ................................ 3654 K. Maier, A. Kivima¨ki, B. Kempgens, U. Hergenhahn, M. Neeb, A. Ru¨del, M. N. Piancastelli, and A. M. Bradshaw Spin-orbit effects in the photoionization excitation of neon ............................................. 3661 T. W. Gorczyca, Z. Felfli, H.-L. Zhou, and S. T. Manson Limit on suppression of ionization in metastable neon traps due to long-range anisotropy . ................... 3673 M. R. Doery, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, S. S. Op de Beek, H.