1. Unexpected reduction of the spin-exchange cross-section for fast ³He⁺ ions incident on Rb atoms

   • Y. Arimoto
   • N. Shimakura
   • M. Tanaka

   Rapid Note Pages: 305 - 308

2. Casimir force between metallic mirrors

   • A. Lambrecht
   • S. Reynaud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 318

3. Binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates: Phase dynamics and spatial dynamics

   • A. Sinatra
   • Y. Castin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 332

4. Radiation pressure induced instabilities in laser interferometric detectors of gravitational waves

   • A. Pai
   • S. V. Dhurandhar
   • J. -Y. Vinet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 346

5. Exact analytic relation between quantum defects and scattering phases with applications to Green’s functions in quantum defect theory

   • V. E. Chernov
   • N. L. Manakov
   • A. F. Starace

   OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 359

6. Density profiles and collective excitations of a trapped two-component Fermi vapour

   • M. Amoruso
   • I. Meccoli
   • M. P. Tosi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 369

7. Ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate which scatters coherently laser radiation

   • I. E. Mazetsa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 375

8. Classical theory of the molecule alignment in a laser field

   • B. A. Zon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 384

9. Nuclear quadrupole hyperfine quantum beats in HCl and pyrimidine measured by the pump-probe method using REMPI/LIF detection

   • H. Lammer
   • R. T. Carter
   • J. R. Huber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 393

10. Temperature behaviour of optical properties of Si⁺-implanted SiO₂

    • J. Valenta
    • J. Dian
    • B. Hönerlage

    OriginalPaper Pages: 395 - 398

11. Operator for describing polarization states of a photon in terms of Riemann-Silberstein quantized electromagnetic vector

    • H. Y. Fan
    • Q. Y. Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 402

12. Bistable behaviour in squeezed vacua: I. Stationary analysis

    • S. S. Hassan
    • H. A. Batarfi
    • R. K. Bullough

    OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 416

13. Bistable behaviour in squeezed vacua: II. Stability analysis and chaos

    • H. A. Batarfi
    • S. S. Hassan
    • R. K. Bullough

    OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 429

14. Global rate equation description of a laser

    • P. Mandel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 442

15. Efficient population transfer by delayed pulses despite coupling ambiguity

    • R. Unanyan
    • S. Guérin
    • K. Bergmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 449

16. Dynamical study and control of drift waves in a magnetized laboratory plasma

    • E. Gravier
    • X. Caron
    • J. L. Briançon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 451 - 457