Volume 66, Issue 4

October 2002

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Experimental probabilistic manipulation of down-converted photon pairs using unbalanced interferometers

Kaoru Sanaka, Karin Kawahara, and Takahiro Kuga

Phys. Rev. A 66, 040301(R) (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

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Trapped-ion quantum logic utilizing position-dependent ac Stark shifts

Peter Staanum and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. A 66, 040302(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Measurement of the zero crossing in a Feshbach resonance of fermionic $^{6} Li$

K. M. O’Hara, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, J. E. Thomas, V. Venturi, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041401(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Use of helium double ionization for autocorrelation of an xuv pulse

Takashi Nakajima and L. A. A. Nikolopoulos

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041402(R) (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Matter waves

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Phase measurement of Bose-Einstein condensates in lattices

J. A. Dunningham

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041601(R) (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

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Effects of the trapping potential on a superfluid atomic Fermi gas

G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041602(R) (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

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Josephson effect in superfluid atomic Fermi gases

Gh.-S. Paraoanu, M. Rodriguez, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041603(R) (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Surface effects in magnetic microtraps

J. Fortágh, H. Ott, S. Kraft, A. Günther, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041604(R) (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Conservation of orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion

D. P. Caetano, M. P. Almeida, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, J. A. O. Huguenin, B. Coutinho dos Santos, and A. Z. Khoury

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041801(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

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Ionization-induced high-order nonlinear susceptibility

Muhammad Nurhuda, Akira Suda, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. A 66, 041802(R) (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Entanglement generation by adiabatic navigation in the space of symmetric multiparticle states

Razmik G. Unanyan, Michael Fleischhauer, Nikolay V. Vitanov, and Klaas Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042101 (2002) - Published 1 October, 2002

Cherenkov radiation of superluminal particles

Daniel Rohrlich and Yakir Aharonov

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042102 (2002) - Published 3 October, 2002

Electromagnetic waves in a rigidly rotating frame

Z. N. Osmanov, G. Z. Machabeli, and A. D. Rogava

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042103 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Consistent approach for quantum measurement

P. Zhang, X. F. Liu, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042104 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Nonperturbative renormalization-group approach for quantum dissipative systems

Ken-Ichi Aoki and Atsushi Horikoshi

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042105 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect for ultracold atoms

Kenji Shinohara, Takatoshi Aoki, and Atsuo Morinaga

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042106 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradoxes for $N$ $N$ -dimensional systems

Dagomir Kaszlikowski and Marek Żukowski

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042107 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

First-arrival-time distributions for a Dirac electron in $1 + 1$ dimensions

D. Alonso, R. Sala Mayato, and C. R. Leavens

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042108 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Enhancement of the electron electric dipole moment in ${Gd}^{3 +}$

S. Y. Buhmann, V. A. Dzuba, and O. P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042109 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Quantum-wave evolution in a step potential barrier

Jorge Villavicencio, Roberto Romo, and Sukey Sosa y Silva

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042110 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Quantum nonlocality, Bell inequalities, and the memory loophole

Jonathan Barrett, Daniel Collins, Lucien Hardy, Adrian Kent, and Sandu Popescu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042111 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Description of entanglement in terms of quantum phase

Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, Julián Delgado, Andrei B. Klimov, and Gunnar Björk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042112 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Dynamics of entanglement between two trapped atoms

Holger Mack and Matthias Freyberger

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042113 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Two qubits of a $W$ state violate Bell’s inequality beyond Cirel’son’s bound

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042114 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Bounds and enhancements for negative scattering time delays

J. G. Muga, I. L. Egusquiza, J. A. Damborenea, and F. Delgado

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042115 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Solutions of the nonrelativistic wave equation with position-dependent effective mass

A. D. Alhaidari

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042116 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Uncertainty functions of the open quantum harmonic oscillator in the Lindblad theory

A. Isar and W. Scheid

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042117 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Dressed-state approach to quantum systems

G. Flores-Hidalgo and A. P. C. Malbouisson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042118 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Time scale of forerunners in quantum tunneling

Gastón García-Calderón, Jorge Villavicencio, F. Delgado, and J. G. Muga

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042119 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Quantum information

Family of sure-success quantum algorithms for solving a generalized Grover search problem

Chia-Ren Hu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042301 (2002) - Published 1 October, 2002

Implementation of quantum maps by programmable quantum processors

Mark Hillery, Mário Ziman, and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042302 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Single photons on pseudodemand from stored parametric down-conversion

T. B. Pittman, B. C. Jacobs, and J. D. Franson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042303 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Relative error of state-dependent cloning

A. E. Rastegin

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042304 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Modification and realization of Brüschweiler’s search

Xiaodong Yang, Daxiu Wei, Jun Luo, and Xijia Miao

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042305 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Generalized entropic criterion for separability

R. Rossignoli and N. Canosa

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042306 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Symmetric qubits from cavity states

Daniel E. Browne and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042307 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Phase measurements with weak reference pulses

S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042308 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Multipartite classical and quantum secrecy monotones

N. J. Cerf, S. Massar, and S. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042309 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Experimental realization of a continuous version of the Grover algorithm

Vladimir L. Ermakov and B. M. Fung

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042310 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Complexity of decoupling and time reversal for n spins with pair interactions: Arrow of time in quantum control

Dominik Janzing, Pawel Wocjan, and Thomas Beth

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042311 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Teleportation in a nuclear spin quantum computer

Gennady P. Berman, Gustavo V. López, and Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042312 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Unambiguous state discrimination of coherent states with linear optics: Application to quantum cryptography

S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042313 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Detailed analysis of the fidelity of quantum teleportation using photons: Considering real experimental parameters

Kenji Tsujino, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042314 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Security aspects of quantum key distribution with sub-Poisson light

Edo Waks, Charles Santori, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042315 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Implementation of phase estimation and quantum counting algorithms on an NMR quantum-information processor

Jae-Seung Lee, Jaehyun Kim, Yongwook Cheong, and Soonchil Lee

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042316 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Quantum computing in optical microtraps based on the motional states of neutral atoms

K. Eckert, J. Mompart, X. X. Yi, J. Schliemann, D. Bruß, G. Birkl, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042317 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Topological features in ion-trap holonomic computation

Jiannis Pachos

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042318 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Quantum entanglement and squeezing of the quadrature difference of bright light fields

Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042319 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation with trapped ions

Xin-Qi Li, Li-Xiang Cen, Guoxiang Huang, Lei Ma, and YiJing Yan

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042320 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Unconditional continuous-variable dense coding

T. C. Ralph and E. H. Huntington

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042321 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Geometric phase shift in quantum computation using superconducting nanocircuits: Nonadiabatic effects

Shi-Liang Zhu and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042322 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Bell’s inequalities and distillability in N-quantum-bit systems

Antonio Acín, Valerio Scarani, and Michael M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042323 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Entanglement properties of some fractional quantum Hall liquids

Bei Zeng, Hui Zhai, and Zhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042324 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Distinguishability measures and ensemble orderings

Anthony Chefles

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042325 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Continuous-variable quantum teleportation of entanglement

Tyler J. Johnson, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042326 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Entanglement properties of the harmonic chain

K. Audenaert, J. Eisert, M. B. Plenio, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042327 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Two-electron quantum dots as scalable qubits

J. H. Jefferson, M. Fearn, D. L. J. Tipton, and T. P. Spiller

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042328 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Calculation of the Lamb shift in neutral alkali metals

J. Sapirstein and K. T. Cheng

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042501 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Orthopositronium scattering off H and He

Simone Chiesa, Massimo Mella, and Gabriele Morosi

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042502 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Ground-state potential of the Ca dimer from Fourier-transform spectroscopy

O. Allard, A. Pashov, H. Knöckel, and E. Tiemann

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042503 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Lithium transition energies and isotope shifts: $QED$ recoil corrections

Zong-Chao Yan and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042504 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Emission spectra of Cs-He excimers in cold helium gas

K. Enomoto, K. Hirano, M. Kumakura, Y. Takahashi, and T. Yabuzaki

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042505 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Relativistic many-body calculations of energies for core-excited states in sodiumlike ions

U. I. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, M. S. Safronova, and J. R. Albritton

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042506 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Asymptotically exact expression for the energies of the $^{3} S^{e}$ Rydberg series in a two-electron system

I. A. Ivanov, M. W. J. Bromley, and J. Mitroy

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042507 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Speed-dependent line-shape model analysis from molecular-dynamics simulations: The collisional confinement narrowing regime

P. Joubert, P. N. M. Hoang, L. Bonamy, and D. Robert

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042508 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Differential charge-transfer cross sections for ${Na}^{+}$ with Rb collisions at low energies

T. G. Lee, H. Nguyen, X. Flechard, B. D. DePaola, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042701 (2002) - Published 1 October, 2002

Measurement of mass attenuation coefficients in air by application of detector linearity tests

A. G. Peele, C. T. Chantler, D. Paterson, P. J. McMahon, T. H. K. Irving, J. J. A. Lin, K. A. Nugent, A. N. Brunton, and I. McNulty

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042702 (2002) - Published 1 October, 2002

Vibrational quenching of $N_{2} (ν = 1, j_{rot} = j)$ by $^{3} He :$ Surface and close-coupling calculations at very low energy

T. Stoecklin, A. Voronin, and J. C. Rayez

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042703 (2002) - Published 3 October, 2002

Resonance contributions to collision strengths for transitions between magnetic sublevels in highly charged ions by impact with an electron beam

Hong Lin Zhang and Douglas H. Sampson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042704 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Differential elastic scattering cross sections of 22.1-keV x rays by elements in the range $22 <~ Z <~ 82$

A. C. Mandal, D. Mitra, M. Sarkar, and D. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042705 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Higher-order poles and mass-shell singularities in electron-hydrogen scattering

J. Sucher

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042706 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Total and differential cross-section calculations for proton-impact ionization of hydrogen at low energies

Shiyang Zou, Lukáš Pichl, Mineo Kimura, and Takako Kato

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042707 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Positron scattering from atoms and molecules using a magnetized beam

J. P. Sullivan, S. J. Gilbert, J. P. Marler, R. G. Greaves, S. J. Buckman, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042708 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Adiabatic energy levels and electric dipole moments of Rydberg states of ${Rb}_{2}$ and ${Cs}_{2}$ dimers

A. A. Khuskivadze, M. I. Chibisov, and I. I. Fabrikant

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042709 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Polarization of Lyman-β radiation from atomic hydrogen excited by electron impact from near-threshold energy to 1000 eV

G. K. James, D. Dziczek, J. A. Slevin, and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042710 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Spin-flip process in radiative recombination of an electron with H- and Li-like uranium

A. E. Klasnikov, A. N. Artemyev, T. Beier, J. Eichler, V. M. Shabaev, and V. A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042711 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Theoretical and experimental studies of the $H^{+} {- N}_{2}$ system: Differential cross sections for direct and charge-transfer scattering at kilo-electron-volt energies

R. Cabrera-Trujillo, Y. Öhrn, E. Deumens, J. R. Sabin, and B. G. Lindsay

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042712 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Double KL ionization in Al, Ca, and Co targets bombarded by low-energy electrons

O. Mauron and J.-Cl. Dousse

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042713 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Triple electron capture in fast 0.5–1.1 MeV/u $C^{6 +}$ on Ar collisions

M. Zamkov, E. P. Benis, P. Richard, T. G. Lee, and T. J. M. Zouros

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042714 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Relaxation effects in inner-shell photoionization of Mg, Ca, and Sr

M. Kutzner, V. Maycock, J. Thorarinson, E. Pannwitz, and J. A. Robertson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042715 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Frame-transformation methods for open-shell systems: Photoabsorption of ${Ni}^{14 +}$

Z. Felfli, T. W. Gorczyca, N. C. Deb, and A. Z. Msezane

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042716 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Inelastic processes from vibrationally excited states in slow $H^{+} + H_{2}$ and ${H + H}_{2}^{+}$ collisions: Excitations and charge transfer

Predrag S. Krstić

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042717 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Quantum reflection by coupled-channel potentials

Carlo G. Meister and Harald Friedrich

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042718 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Ionization of stabilized helium atoms by proton and antiproton impacts

S. Morita, N. Matsuda, N. Toshima, and K. Hino

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042719 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Lepton pair production in heavy-ion collisions in perturbation theory

E. Bartoš, S. R. Gevorkyan, E. A. Kuraev, and N. N. Nikolaev

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042720 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

Influence of a laser field on Coulomb explosions and stopping power for swift molecular ions interacting with solids

Gui-Qiu Wang, Yuan-Hong Song, You-Nian Wang, and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042901 (2002) - Published 1 October, 2002

Dynamics of solid inner-shell electrons in collisions with bare and dressed swift ions

C. C. Montanari, J. E. Miraglia, and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042902 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Light-induced desorption of alkali-metal atoms from paraffin coating

E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, D. English, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and V. V. Yashchuk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042903 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Energy loss of charged particles moving in cylindrical tubules

You-Nian Wang and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042904 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Magnetoimage effects in the van der Waals interaction of an atom and a bounded, dynamic, nonlocal plasmalike medium

N. J. M. Horing and L. Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 66, 042905 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Buffer-gas cooling of atomic and molecular beams

Dima Egorov, Thierry Lahaye, Wieland Schöllkopf, Bretislav Friedrich, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043401 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Simultaneous control of time-dependent population transfer dynamics and wave-packet quantum interferences in ${Li}_{2}$ by shaped ultrafast pulses

Joshua B. Ballard, Hans U. Stauffer, Elizabeth Mirowski, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043402 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Intense laser-field ionization of $H_{2}$ enhanced by two-electron dynamics

Kenji Harumiya, Hirohiko Kono, Yuichi Fujimura, Isao Kawata, and André D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043403 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Laser sub-Doppler cooling of atoms in an arbitrarily directed magnetic field

Soo Chang, Taeg Yong Kwon, Ho Seong Lee, and V. G. Minogin

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043404 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Intramolecular dynamic nuclear polarization via electron-nuclear double resonance

A. S. Brill

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043405 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Dissipative motion of an atom with transverse coherent driving in a cavity with many degenerate modes

Peter Domokos, Thomas Salzburger, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043406 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Quantum localization in the high-frequency limit

Emil Persson, Shuhei Yoshida, Xiao-Min Tong, Carlos O. Reinhold, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043407 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

One-sided atomic deflection in the optical Stern-Gerlach effect and coherent trapping

I. Cusumano, A. Vaglica, and G. Vetri

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043408 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Photoionization of ultracold and Bose-Einstein-condensed Rb atoms

D. Ciampini, M. Anderlini, J. H. Müller, F. Fuso, O. Morsch, J. W. Thomsen, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043409 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Characteristic photoelectron spectra and angular distributions of single and double ionization

J. Chen, J. Liu, and W. M. Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043410 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Linear spin waves in a trapped Bose gas

T. Nikuni, J. E. Williams, and C. W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043411 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Dephasing model for spatially extended atomic states in cyclotronlike resonances

R. E. Wagner, S. Radovich, J. Gillespie, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043412 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

High-order above-threshold ionization: The uniform approximation and the effect of the binding potential

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, H. Schomerus, and W. Becker

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043413 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Three-fluid description of the sympathetic cooling of a boson-fermion mixture

M. Wouters, J. Tempere, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043414 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Multiphoton selective dissociation of a HF molecule in intense laser fields by the Lie-algebra approach

Ying Dai, Zhi-hui Geng, and Shi-liang Ding

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043415 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Accessing photon number via an atomic time interval

J. C. Camparo and J. G. Coffer

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043416 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Multiphoton above-threshold detachment of ${Li}^{-} :$ Exterior-complex-scaling– generalized-pseudospectral method for calculations of complex-quasienergy resonances in Floquet formulation of time-dependent density-functional theory

Dmitry A. Telnov and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043417 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Coherent pulse output from Bose-Einstein condensates in Wannier-Stark systems

M. Glück, F. Keck, and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043418 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Matter waves

Dynamics of a collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensed vortex state

Sadhan K. Adhikari

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043601 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Nonlinear coherent modes of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova, and V. S. Bagnato

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043602 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Condensate bright solitons under transverse confinement

L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043603 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Resonance theory of the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluidity to Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute Fermi gas

J. N. Milstein, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043604 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Effect of anharmonicities in the critical number of trapped condensed atoms with an attractive two-body interaction

Victo S. Filho, Arnaldo Gammal, and Lauro Tomio

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043605 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Dynamics of the spin-2 Bose condensate driven by external magnetic fields

Ping Zhang, C. K. Chan, Xiang-Gui Li, Qi-Kun Xue, and Xian-Geng Zhao

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043606 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Optimal conversion of an atomic to a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate

Thomas Hornung, Sergei Gordienko, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, and Boudewijn J. Verhaar

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043607 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Two-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas in the fluctuation region

Nikolay Prokof’ev and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043608 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Elementary excitations of a trapped Bose gas in the large-gas-parameter regime

Arup Banerjee and Manoranjan P. Singh

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043609 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

Collective oscillations of a one-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein gas

Chiara Menotti and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043610 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Collective ferromagnetism in two-component Fermi-degenerate gas trapped in a finite potential

T. Sogo and H. Yabu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043611 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Quantum-state measurement through ballistic expansion of matter waves

Markku Jääskeläinen and Stig Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043612 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Feshbach-stimulated photoproduction of a stable molecular Bose-Einstein condensate

Matt Mackie

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043613 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Momentum transfer to and elementary excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate by a time-dependent optical potential

Y. B. Band and M. Sokuler

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043614 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Quantum depletion of an excited condensate

Jacek Dziarmaga, Zbyszek P. Karkuszewski, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043615 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Input-output theory for fermions in an atom cavity

C. P. Search, S. Pötting, W. Zhang, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043616 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Planck-scale dissipative effects in atom interferometry

F. Benatti and R. Floreanini

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043617 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Memory effects and conservation laws in the quantum kinetic evolution of a dilute Bose gas

S. G. Bhongale, R. Walser, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043618 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Critical numbers of attractive Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in asymmetric traps

A. Gammal, Lauro Tomio, and T. Frederico

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043619 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Depletion of the dark soliton: The anomalous mode of the Bogoliubov theory

Jacek Dziarmaga and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043620 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Spin squeezing in a driven Bose-Einstein condensate

Stewart D. Jenkins and T. A. Brian Kennedy

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043621 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Exact calculation of the skyrmion lifetime in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate

Yunbo Zhang, Wei-Dong Li, Lu Li, and H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043622 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Creation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes using diffractive optics

Sharon A. Kennedy, Matthew J. Szabo, Hilary Teslow, James Z. Porterfield, and E. R. I. Abraham

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043801 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Studies of group-velocity reduction and pulse regeneration with and without the adiabatic approximation

M. G. Payne, L. Deng, Chris Schmitt, and Shannon Anderson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043802 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Direct measurement of optical quasidistribution functions: Multimode theory and homodyne tests of Bell’s inequalities

Konrad Banaszek, Andrzej Dragan, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz, and Czesław Radzewicz

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043803 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Slow light and superluminality in the coherent population trapping maser

Aldo Godone, Filippo Levi, and Salvatore Micalizio

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043804 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Quantum-state reconstruction of a squeezed laser field by self-homodyne tomography

A. Zavatta, F. Marin, and G. Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043805 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Quantum interference and phase-dependent spectrum of resonance fluorescence of a three-level V-type atom

Shao-yan Gao, Fu-li Li, and Shi-yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043806 (2002) - Published 10 October, 2002

Photorefractive ring resonator with seeding as an externally driven oscillator

Svetlana A. Tatarkova, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Changxi Yang, and Robert W. Eason

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043807 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Quantum theory of resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing: Mean-field and exact numerical solutions

Mattias T. Johnsson and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043808 (2002) - Published 17 October, 2002

Microscopic theory of the collective atomic recoil laser in an optical resonator: The effects of collisions

Mathias Perrin, Zongxiong Ye, and Lorenzo M. Narducci

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043809 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Soliton backaction-evading measurement using spectral filtering

F. König, B. Buchler, T. Rechtenwald, G. Leuchs, and A. Sizmann

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043810 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Preparation of spin-squeezed atomic states by optical-phase-shift measurement

Isabelle Bouchoule and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043811 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Dark states and interferences in cascade transitions of ultracold atoms in a cavity

R. Arun and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043812 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Extended phase-matching conditions for improved entanglement generation

Vittorio Giovannetti, Lorenzo Maccone, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Franco N. C. Wong

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043813 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Highly nondegenerate all-resonant optical parametric oscillator

A. B. Matsko, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov, and L. Maleki

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043814 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation

A. B. Matsko, I. Novikova, G. R. Welch, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, and S. M. Rochester

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043815 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Magneto-optical and EPR transitions in Raman heterodyne spectroscopy

Marc Oliver Schweika-Kresimon, Jörg Gutschank, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. A 66, 043816 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Time of occurrence observable in quantum mechanics

R. Brunetti and K. Fredenhagen

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044101 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Hidden symmetries in deformed microwave resonators

Joseph Samuel and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044102 (2002) - Published 11 October, 2002

Mirror symmetry, chiral symmetry breaking, and antihydrogen states in natural atomic H

G. Van Hooydonk

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044103 (2002) - Published 21 October, 2002

Multiple-scale technique and the frequency operator for anharmonic oscillators

F. M. Fernández

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044104 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Quantum information

Simple operational interpretation of the fidelity of mixed states

Jennifer L. Dodd and Michael A. Nielsen

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044301 (2002) - Published 4 October, 2002

Generation of an entangled four-photon W state

XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044302 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Quantum entanglement of unitary operators on bipartite systems

Xiaoguang Wang and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044303 (2002) - Published 22 October, 2002

Invariants of Grover’s algorithm and the rotation in space

Dafa Li, Xinxin Li, Hongtao Huang, and Xiangrong Li

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044304 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Threshold temperature for pairwise and many-particle thermal entanglement in the isotropic Heisenberg model

Xiaoguang Wang

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044305 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Quantum information in base n defined by state partitions

Karl Svozil

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044306 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Quantum phase-gate implementation for trapped ions in thermal motion

XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044307 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Synthesizing NMR analogs of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states using the generalized Grover’s algorithm

Jingfu Zhang, Zhiheng Lu, Lu Shan, and Zhiwei Deng

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044308 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Violation of Bell’s inequalities for a two-mode squeezed vacuum state in lossy transmission lines

Radim Filip and Ladislav Mišta, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044309 (2002) - Published 30 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Charge-transfer cross sections for radiative charge transfer in $Na + H^{+}$ and $K + H^{+}$ collisions at very low energies

Ayako Watanabe, C. M. Dutta, P. Nordlander, M. Kimura, and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 66, 044701 (2002) - Published 7 October, 2002

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Suppression of inhomogeneous broadening in rf spectroscopy of optically trapped atoms

Ariel Kaplan, Mikkel Fredslund Andersen, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. A 66, 045401 (2002) - Published 15 October, 2002

$λ / 8$ -period optical potentials

B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. A 66, 045402 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

COMMENTS

Comment on “quantum search protocol for an atomic array”

Mark W. Coffey

Phys. Rev. A 66, 046301 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Comment on “Scheme for multistep photoionization of atoms”

A. A. Makarov and V. S. Letokhov

Phys. Rev. A 66, 047401 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Measurements of semilocal and nonmaximally entangled states [Phys. Rev. A 66, 022110 (2002)]

Berry Groisman and Benni Reznik

Phys. Rev. A 66, 049901 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002