PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW A Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1050-2947… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 63, NUMBER 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 2001 Guidelines for PRA Section Selection ............................................................. iii Physical Review A Editorial Policies and Practices ................................................... vi Physical Review A Information for Contributors ..................................................... x Guidelines for Estimating Length ................................................................. xiii RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Quantum information Single-photon state in a driven Jaynes-Cummings system (4 pages) .................................. 010301͑R͒ Hyunchul Nha, Young-Tak Chough, and Kyungwon An Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Collision-induced resonances in two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectra (4 pages) .................. 010701͑R͒ Alexandre P. Kouzov and Peter P. Radi Inner-shell photoabsorption of Fe14ϩ: Unimportance of correlation and relativistic effects (4 pages) ........ 010702͑R͒ T. W. Gorczyca, Z. Felfli, N. C. Deb, and A. Z. Msezane Strong relativistic effects on dielectronic recombination of metastable Liϩ ions (4 pages) ................. 010703͑R͒ Li-Bo Zhao and Toshizo Shirai Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces Shake-up of a light atom in a collision with a hard wall (4 pages) ................................... 010901͑R͒ A. V. Lugovskoy and I. Bray Atomic and molecular processes in external fields Improved loading of an optical dipole trap by suppression of radiative escape (4 pages) .................. 011401͑R͒ Stephan Du¨rr, Kurt W. Miller, and Carl E. Wieman Phase-coherent multilevel two-photon transitions in cold Rb atoms: Ultrahigh-resolution spectroscopy via frequency-stabilized femtosecond laser (4 pages) .................................................. 011402͑R͒ Tai Hyun Yoon, Adela Marian, John L. Hall, and Jun Ye Quantum-mechanical model for ultrahigh-order harmonic generation in the moderately relativistic regime (4 pages) .................................................................................. 011403͑R͒ Dejan B. Milosˇevic´, Suxing Hu, and Wilhelm Becker Interpretation of momentum distribution of recoil ions from laser-induced nonsequential double ionization by semiclassical rescattering model (4 pages) ....................................................... 011404͑R͒ J. Chen, J. Liu, L. B. Fu, and W. M. Zheng Copyright 2001 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 63, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2001 Generation of an angular and radial Rydberg wave packet in a single laser pulse (4 pages) ............... 011405͑R͒ H. M. Nilsen and J. P. Hansen Matter waves Shape deformations and angular-momentum transfer in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (4 pages) ....... 011601͑R͒ F. Dalfovo and S. Stringari Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics Modified spontaneous emission spectra of laser dye in inverse opal photonic crystals (4 pages) ............ 011801͑R͒ Henry P. Schriemer, Henry M. van Driel, A. Femius Koenderink, and Willem L. Vos ARTICLES Fundamental concepts Semiclassical description of Stern-Gerlach experiments (7 pages) .................................... 012101 S. Cruz-Barrios and J. Go´mez-Camacho Contracting the Wigner kernel of a spin to the Wigner kernel of a particle (5 pages) .................... 012102 Jean-Pierre Amiet and Stefan Weigert Smooth amplitude-phase formulation of the Schro¨dinger equation based on the Ermakov invariant (8 pages) .................................................................................. 012103 A. Matzkin Dynamics of barrier penetration in a thermal medium: Exact result for the inverted harmonic oscillator (15 pages) ................................................................................. 012104 Sh. Matsumoto and M. Yoshimura Discrete Moyal-type representations for a spin (11 pages) .......................................... 012105 Stephan Heiss and Stefan Weigert Non-Markovian Gaussian dissipative stochastic wave vector (11 pages) ............................... 012106 Adria´n A. Budini Magnetoelectric birefringences of the quantum vacuum (4 pages) .................................... 012107 G. L. J. A. Rikken and C. Rizzo Charged particles in a rotating magnetic field (6 pages) ............................................ 012108 Qiong-gui Lin Semiclassical traversal time analysis of superluminal tunneling (6 pages) .............................. 012109 D. Sokolovski and Y. Liu Action-dependent wave functions: Definition (8 pages) ............................................. 012110 F. Robicheaux Quantum measurement via Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic dynamics (5 pages) ........................... 012111 C. P. Sun, X. F. Liu, D. L. Zhou, and S. X. Yu Quantum information Stabilizing quantum information (4 pages) ....................................................... 012301 Paolo Zanardi Single qubit from two coupled quantum dots: An approach to semiconductor quantum computations (5 pages) .................................................................................. 012302 Xin-Qi Li and Yasuhiko Arakawa Quantum teleportation in a solid-state system (5 pages) ............................................ 012303 John H. Reina and Neil F. Johnson (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 63, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2001 Preparation and light-mediated distribution of motional state entanglement (17 pages) ................... 012304 A. S. Parkins and E. Larsabal Quantum teleportation and Bell’s inequality using single-particle entanglement (5 pages) ................. 012305 Hai-Woong Lee and Jaewan Kim Universal quantum computation with two-level trapped ions (4 pages) ................................ 012306 Andrew M. Childs and Isaac L. Chuang Exact and asymptotic measures of multipartite pure-state entanglement (12 pages) ...................... 012307 Charles H. Bennett, Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich, John A. Smolin, and Ashish V. Thapliyal Multipartite pure-state entanglement and the generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states (7 pages) ...... 012308 Shengjun Wu and Yongde Zhang Long-distance entanglement-based quantum key distribution (12 pages) ............................... 012309 Gre´goire Ribordy, Ju¨rgen Brendel, Jean-Daniel Gautier, Nicolas Gisin, and Hugo Zbinden Analysis of generalized Grover quantum search algorithms using recursion equations (8 pages) ............ 012310 Eli Biham, Ofer Biham, David Biron, Markus Grassl, Daniel A. Lidar, and Daniel Shapira Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics Nature of the repulsive Coulomb barrier in multiply charged negative ions (13 pages) ................... 012501 A. Dreuw and L. S. Cederbaum Effect of target inelastic channels in positronium-hydrogen scattering (10 pages) ........................ 012502 Arindam Basu, Prabal K. Sinha, and A. S. Ghosh Energy differences between 4fnϩ15d06s2 and 4fn5d16s2 electron configurations for the lanthanide atoms (9 pages) .................................................................................. 012503 Masahiro Sekiya, Kyouichi Narita, and Hiroshi Tatewaki Relativistic and QED corrections to the polarizability of helium (3 pages) ............................. 012504 Krzysztof Pachucki and Jonathan Sapirstein Lamb shift in Heϩ: Resolution of a discrepancy between theory and experiment (11 pages) ............. 012505 A. van Wijngaarden, F. Holuj, and G. W. F. Drake Vibronic structure in the carbon 1s photoelectron spectra of HCCH and DCCD (14 pages) ............... 012506 K. J. Børve, L. J. Sæthre, T. D. Thomas, T. X. Carroll, N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, and E. Kukk Broadening and shifting of the methanol 119-␮m gain line of linear and circular polarization by collision with chiral molecules (5 pages) .................................................................... 012507 J. S. Bakos, G. Djotyan, Zsuzsa So¨rlei, J. Szigeti, D. K. Mansfield, and J. Sa´rko¨zi Regular perturbation theory of relativistic corrections: II. Algebraic approximation (13 pages) ........... 012508 A. Rutkowski, R. Kozłowski, and D. Rutkowska Anomalous magnetic moment of a bound electron (4 pages) ........................................ 012509 Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky Relativistic and many-body effects on total binding energies of cesium ions (10 pages) .................. 012510 G. C. Rodrigues, M. A. Ourdane, J. Bieron´, P. Indelicato, and E. Lindroth Resonant x-ray emission from gas-phase TiCl4 (4 pages) ........................................... 012511 C. F. Hague, M. Tronc, Y. Yanagida, A. Kotani, J. H. Guo, and C. Sa˚the Influence of the channel interaction on the photoabsorption and photoionization spectra of carbon dioxide (12 pages) ................................................................................. 012512 Ivo Cacelli, Roberto Moccia, and Raffaele Montuoro Asymmetry sum rule for molecular predissociation (12 pages) ....................................... 012513 F. T. Hawes, L. W. Torop, B. R. Lewis, and S. T. Gibson Exact relations of the quasienergy functional and the exchange-correlation potential from the Floquet formulation of time-dependent density functional theory (14 pages) .................................. 012514 Dmitry A. Telnov