The European Physical Journal D

Editorial p. 183

Precise measurement of hyperfine structure in the 5P_3/2 state of ⁸⁵Rb p. 185

Sodium in a strong magnetic field p. 189

Barkas effect, shell correction, screening and correlation in collisional energy-loss straggling of an ion beam p. 201

Interplay of charge exchange and projectile excitation in the stopping of swift heavy ions p. 211

Laser-induced fluorescence study of the influence of N₂ and CH₄ on the ¹¹⁴Cd intercombination line p. 217

Measurementof the 4s^{2 1}S₀ → 4s3d ¹D₂ transition probability in calcium p. 223

Lifetime measurements of some levels belonging to the 3p⁵nd (n = 4, 5, 6, 7) configuration of ArI p. 229

Radiative lifetimes in Ce I and Ce II p. 233

Resonant coupling in the van der Waals interaction between an excited alkali atom and a dielectric surface: an experimental study via stepwise selective reflection spectroscopy p. 237

Two-photon laser-induced fluorescence of H₂O and D₂O molecules at ambient pressure p. 257

Thermodynamics of ionization and dissociation in hydrogen plasmas including fluctuations and magnetic fields p. 265

High-Q whispering gallery modes in a spherical shell dielectric resonator: Characterization at microwave frequencies p. 273

Spontaneous emission of an excited two-level atom without both rotating-wave and Markovian approximation p. 279

Photorefractive ac-enhanced nonlinear response of sillenites: Low- and high-contrast effects p. 285

Feedback controlled periodic states for different kinds of photorefractive nonlinear response p. 291

Computational leakage: Grover's algorithm with imperfections p. 299

Exact solutions and geometric phase factor of time-dependent three-generator quantum systems p. 305

Phase and amplitude control of the inversionless gain in a microwave-driven Λ-type atomic system p. 315