Volume 68, Issue 4

M. D. Barrett, B. DeMarco, T. Schaetz, V. Meyer, D. Leibfried, J. Britton, J. Chiaverini, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042302 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Practicality of time-optimal two-qubit Hamiltonian simulation

Henry L. Haselgrove, Michael A. Nielsen, and Tobias J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042303 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Possibility of producing the event-ready two-photon polarization entangled state with normal photon detectors

Wang Xiang-Bin

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042304 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Minimum-error discrimination between symmetric mixed quantum states

C.-L. Chou and L. Y. Hsu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042305 (2003) - Published 7 October, 2003

Contextual realization of the universal quantum cloning machine and of the universal-NOT gate by quantum-injected optical parametric amplification

D. Pelliccia, V. Schettini, F. Sciarrino, C. Sias, and F. De Martini

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042306 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Geometric measure of entanglement and applications to bipartite and multipartite quantum states

Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042307 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Elliptic Rydberg states as direction indicators

Netanel H. Lindner, Asher Peres, and Daniel R. Terno

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042308 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Energy requirements for quantum data compression and 1-1 coding

Luke Rallan and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042309 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Conal representation of quantum states and non-trace-preserving quantum operations

Pablo Arrighi and Christophe Patricot

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042310 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Entanglement dynamics in one-dimensional quantum cellular automata

Gavin K. Brennen and Jamie E. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042311 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Separable balls around the maximally mixed multipartite quantum states

Leonid Gurvits and Howard Barnum

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042312 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Hyperentanglement-assisted Bell-state analysis

S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042313 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Conditional linear-optical measurement schemes generate effective photon nonlinearities

G. G. Lapaire, Pieter Kok, Jonathan P. Dowling, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042314 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Controlled order rearrangement encryption for quantum key distribution

Fu-Guo Deng and G. L. Long

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042315 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Criterion for testing multiparticle negative-partial-transpose entanglement

B. Zeng, D. L. Zhou, P. Zhang, Z. Xu, and L. You

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042316 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Two-step quantum direct communication protocol using the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair block

Fu-Guo Deng, Gui Lu Long, and Xiao-Shu Liu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042317 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Clifford group, stabilizer states, and linear and quadratic operations over GF(2)

Jeroen Dehaene and Bart De Moor

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042318 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Quantum computation with optical coherent states

T. C. Ralph, A. Gilchrist, G. J. Milburn, W. J. Munro, and S. Glancy

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042319 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Scheme for generating Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states of n photons

Yoav Sagi

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042320 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Quantum computing with atomic Josephson junction arrays

Lin Tian and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042321 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Overhead and noise threshold of fault-tolerant quantum error correction

Andrew M. Steane

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042322 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Covariant cloning machines for four-level systems

Thomas Durt and Bob Nagler

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042323 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Teleportation-based number-state manipulation with number-sum measurement

Akira Kitagawa and Katsuji Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042324 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Conditional generation of arbitrary multimode entangled states of light with linear optics

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

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042325 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Quantum coherence in the presence of unobservable quantities

Kae Nemoto and Samuel L. Braunstein

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042326 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Geometrical conditions for completely positive trace-preserving maps and their application to a quantum repeater and a state-dependent quantum cloning machine

A. Carlini and M. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042327 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Experimental requirements for Grover’s algorithm in optical quantum computation

Jennifer L. Dodd, Timothy C. Ralph, and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042328 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Photon-number superselection and the entangled coherent-state representation

Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Peter L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042329 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Entanglement, quantum phase transition, and scaling in the $XXZ$ chain

Shi-Jian Gu, Hai-Qing Lin, and You-Quan Li

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042330 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Quantum cryptography using pulsed homodyne detection

T. Hirano, H. Yamanaka, M. Ashikaga, T. Konishi, and R. Namiki

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042331 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Extreme ultraviolet spectra of highly charged Xe ions

E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, J. K. Lepson, and H. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042501 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Classical approach to effective rotational energy and bifurcation in rotational dynamics of $H_{2} X$ molecules

A. P. Pyshchev

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042502 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Spin virial theorem in the time-dependent density-functional theory

Á. Nagy

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042503 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Quantal density-functional theory of excited states: The state arbitrariness of the model noninteracting system

Marlina Slamet, Ranbir Singh, Lou Massa, and Viraht Sahni

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042504 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

$K$ -edge x-ray absorption spectra of Cs and Xe

J. Padežnik Gomilšek, A. Kodre, I. Arčon, and M. Hribar

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042505 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Predissociation in the $B^{1} Π_{u}$ state of $^{6} {Li}^{7} Li :$ Accidental perturbations beyond the ungerade-gerade symmetry breaking

P. Cacciani, V. Kokoouline, N. Bouloufa, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and R. Vetter

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042506 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Bethe logarithm for the lithium atom from exponentially correlated Gaussian functions

Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042507 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Structure of excitation and fluorescence spectra recorded at the $^{1} 0_{u}^{+} (5^{1} P_{1}) - X^{1} 0_{g}^{+}$ transition of ${Cd}_{2}$

M. Łukomski, J. Koperski, E. Czuchaj, and M. Czajkowski

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042508 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Electron loss from 0.74- and 1.4-MeV/u low-charge-state argon and xenon ions colliding with neon, nitrogen, and argon

R. D. DuBois, A. C. F. Santos, R. E. Olson, Th. Stöhlker, F. Bosch, A. Bräuning-Demian, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, C. Kozhuharov, R. Mann, A. Oršić Muthig, U. Spillmann, S. Tachenov, W. Barth, L. Dahl, B. Franzke, J. Glatz, L. Gröning, S. Richter, D. Wilms, A. Krämer, K. Ullmann, and O. Jagutzki

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042701 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Absolute high-resolution rate coefficients for dissociative recombination of electrons with ${HD}^{+} :$ Comparison of results from three heavy-ion storage rings

A. Al-Khalili et al.

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042702 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Excited-state evolution probed by convoy-electron emission in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Y. Takabayashi, T. Ito, T. Azuma, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, H. Tawara, E. Takada, T. Murakami, M. Seliger, K. Tökési, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042703 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Range of validity for perturbative treatments of relativistic sum rules

Scott M. Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042704 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Spin exchange in polarized deuterium

B. von Przewoski, H. O. Meyer, J. Balewski, W. W. Daehnick, J. Doskow, W. Haeberli, R. Ibald, B. Lorentz, P. V. Pancella, R. E. Pollock, F. Rathmann, T. Rinckel, Swapan K. Saha, B. Schwartz, P. Thörngren-Engblom, A. Wellinghausen, T. J. Whitaker, and T. Wise

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042705 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Split diabatic representation

B. D. Esry and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042706 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Postcollisional decay in Ne multiple ionization by $H_{2}^{+}$ ions in breakup collisions

M. M. Sant’Anna, H. Luna, A. C. F. Santos, C. McGrath, M. B. Shah, E. G. Cavalcanti, G. M. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042707 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Calculation of the interspecies s-wave scattering length in an ultracold Na-Rb vapor

S. B. Weiss, M. Bhattacharya, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042708 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Electron capture from aligned p-state Rydberg atoms

C. S. Hwang and K. B. MacAdam

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042709 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

$(e, 2 e)$ ionization-excitation of $H_{2}$

M. Takahashi, Y. Khajuria, and Y. Udagawa

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042710 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Angular distribution of hypersatellite and satellite radiation emitted after resonant transfer and excitation into $U^{91 +}$ ions

S. Zakowicz, Z. Harman, N. Grün, and W. Scheid

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042711 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Electron-electron interaction studied in strong central fields by resonant transfer and excitation with H-like U ions

X. Ma, P. H. Mokler, F. Bosch, A. Gumberidze, C. Kozhuharov, D. Liesen, D. Sierpowski, Z. Stachura, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Warczak

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042712 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Relaxation and polarization effects in photodetachment of the negative iodide ion

M. Kutzner, J. T. Brown, and J. Thorarinson

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042713 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Electron-impact dissociation of ${CH}^{+}$ ions: Measurement of $C^{+}$ fragment ions

M. E. Bannister, H. F. Krause, C. R. Vane, N. Djurić, D. B. Popović, M. Stepanović, G. H. Dunn, Y.-S. Chung, A. C. H. Smith, and B. Wallbank

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042714 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Correlation effects in the resonant and nonresonant manganese $3 \vec{s} 2 p$ photon emission in ${MnF}_{2}$

J. Jiménez-Mier, D. L. Ederer, and T. Schuler

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042715 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Inseparable positron annihilation and positronium formation in positron-atom collisions: Description in terms of an absorption potential

Akinori Igarashi, Mineo Kimura, Isao Shimamura, and Nobuyuki Toshima

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042716 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Nonadiabatic couplings in low-energy collisions of hydrogen ground-state atoms

L. Wolniewicz

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042717 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

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

Emission of polarized photons from unpolarized electrons moving in crystals

V. M. Strakhovenko

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042901 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Explanation of the observed trend in the mean excitation energy of a target as determined using several projectiles

R. Cabrera-Trujillo, J. R. Sabin, and J. Oddershede

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042902 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Experimental energy straggling of protons in ${SiO}_{2}$

J. H. R. dos Santos, P. L. Grande, M. Behar, J. F. Dias, N. R. Arista, J. C. Eckardt, and G. H. Lantschner

Phys. Rev. A 68, 042903 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Basis-set limit binding energies of ${Be}_{n}$ and ${Mg}_{n}$ $(n = 2, 3, 4)$ clusters

Jae Shin Lee

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043201 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Trends in near-threshold photoionization of off-the-center endohedral atoms

A. S. Baltenkov, V. K. Dolmatov, S. T. Manson, A. Z. Msezane, and V. A. Pikhut

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043202 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Structural features and energetics of ${Zn}_{n - m} {Cd}_{m}$ $(n = 7, 8)$ microclusters and ${Zn}_{50},$ ${Cd}_{50},$ and ${Zn}_{25} {Cd}_{25}$ nanoparticles: Molecular-dynamics simulations

Lynda Amirouche and Şakir Erkoç

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043203 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Population transfer by an amplitude-modulated pulse

N. V. Vitanov, L. P. Yatsenko, and K. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043401 (2003) - Published 2 October, 2003

Photoelectron spectra in intense laser fields: The effect of resonance with autoionizing Rydberg states

Miyabi Hiyama and Kiyohiko Someda

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043402 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Intramolecular energy-transfer processes induced by an external electric field

Vladimir I. Makarov, Sergei A. Kochubei, and Igor V. Khmelinskii

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043403 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Practical scaling law for photoelectron angular distributions

Dong-Sheng Guo, Jingtao Zhang, Zhizhan Xu, Xiaofeng Li, Panming Fu, and R. R. Freeman

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043404 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Retroreflection-induced bichromatic adiabatic passage

L. P. Yatsenko, B. W. Shore, N. V. Vitanov, and K. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043405 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Ionization and high-order harmonic generation in aligned benzene by a short intense circularly polarized laser pulse

Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser, Petra R. Ždánská, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043406 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Controlling $H^{-}$ detachment with few-cycle pulses

S. X. Hu and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043407 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Controlling harmonic generation in molecules with intense laser and static magnetic fields: Orientation effects

André D. Bandrauk and HuiZhong Lu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043408 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Inducing a sign inversion in one state of a two-state superposition using ultrafast pulse shaping

Joshua B. Ballard, Alan N. Arrowsmith, Lutz Hüwel, Xingcan Dai, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043409 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Phase-space manipulation of stored ions using the $δ$ -kick method

S. Goldberg, D. Strasser, O. Heber, M. L. Rappaport, A. Diner, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043410 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Three-photon resonant atomic excitation in spatially incoherent laser beams

Victor Peet and Sergei Shchemeljov

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043411 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Correlation dynamics between electrons and ions in the fragmentation of $D_{2}$ molecules by short laser pulses

X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043412 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Elucidating the mechanisms of double ionization using intense half-cycle, single-cycle, and double half-cycle pulses

G. Lagmago Kamta and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043413 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Kinetics of multiple ionization of rare-gas atoms in a circularly polarized laser field

Alexey S. Kornev, Elena B. Tulenko, and Boris A. Zon

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043414 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Matter waves

Violation of self-similarity in the expansion of a one-dimensional Bose gas

P. Pedri, L. Santos, P. Öhberg, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043601 (2003) - Published 1 October, 2003

Skyrmion excitation in a two-dimensional spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Hui Zhai, Wei Qiang Chen, Zhan Xu, and Lee Chang

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043602 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Dimensional and temperature crossover in trapped Bose gases

U. Al Khawaja, N. P. Proukakis, J. O. Andersen, M. W. J. Romans, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043603 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Dirac monopoles and dipoles in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

C. M. Savage and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043604 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Quantum phase transition of condensed bosons in optical lattices

Jun-Jun Liang, J.-Q. Liang, and W.-M. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043605 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Generation of atom-photon entangled states in atomic Bose-Einstein condensate via electromagnetically induced transparency

Le-Man Kuang and Lan Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043606 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Bose-Einstein-condensate heating by atomic losses

Jacek Dziarmaga and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043607 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Dynamics of a classical gas including dissipative and mean-field effects

P. Pedri, D. Guéry-Odelin, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043608 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Propagation of ultracold atoms through bends in waveguides

M. W. J. Bromley and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043609 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Hydrodynamic modes of a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas

J. N. Fuchs, X. Leyronas, and R. Combescot

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043610 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Bragg spectroscopy with an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate

R. Geursen, N. R. Thomas, and A. C. Wilson

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043611 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Insulator-superfluid transition of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice in magnetic field

A. A. Svidzinsky and S. T. Chui

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043612 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Evolution of a dark soliton in a parabolic potential: Application to Bose-Einstein condensates

V. A. Brazhnyi and V. V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043613 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Creation and evolution of trains of dark solitons in a trapped one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate

V. A. Brazhnyi and A. M. Kamchatnov

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043614 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Asymptotically improved convergence of optimized perturbation theory in the Bose-Einstein condensation problem

Jean-Loïc Kneur, Marcus B. Pinto, and Rudnei O. Ramos

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043615 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Gauge-P representation and N-boson problem with binary interactions

Alberto Montina

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043616 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Solitons, solitonic vortices, and vortex rings in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate

S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043617 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic microtraps

C. Schroll, W. Belzig, and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043618 (2003) - Published 15 October, 2003

Stability of the quantized circulation of an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating torus

Rina Kanamoto, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043619 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Gray solitons and phonons in repulsive Bose-Einstein condensates confined in one-dimensional nonharmonic traps

A. Radouani

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043620 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Three-level atom interferometer with bichromatic laser fields

Kazuhito Honda, Shinya Yanagimachi, and Atsuo Morinaga

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043621 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Entanglement and spin squeezing of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms

M. Zhang, Kristian Helmerson, and L. You

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043622 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices

D. B. M. Dickerscheid, D. van Oosten, P. J. H. Denteneer, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043623 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Fermion pairing in Bose-Fermi mixtures

F. Matera

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043624 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Bose-Einstein condensate collapse and dynamical squeezing of vacuum fluctuations

E. A. Calzetta and B. L. Hu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043625 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Mean-field analysis of the stability of a K-Rb Fermi-Bose mixture

M. Modugno, F. Ferlaino, F. Riboli, G. Roati, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043626 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Temporal beam splitter and temporal interference

J. T. Mendonça, A. M. Martins, and A. Guerreiro

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043801 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Adiabatic-following criterion, estimation of the nonadiabatic excitation fraction, and quantum jumps

R. N. Shakhmuratov and J. Odeurs

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043802 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Observation of quantum-classical correspondence from high-order transverse patterns

Y. F. Chen, Y. P. Lan, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043803 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Time-gated high-order harmonic generation

O. Tcherbakoff, E. Mével, D. Descamps, J. Plumridge, and E. Constant

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043804 (2003) - Published 6 October, 2003

Spontaneous emission from a two-level atom in two-band anisotropic photonic crystals

Yaping Yang, M. Fleischhauer, and Shi-Yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043805 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Generation of spatial antibunching with free-propagating twin beams

D. P. Caetano and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043806 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Scattering theory of plasmon-assisted entanglement transfer and distillation

J. L. van Velsen, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043807 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Generalized radiation-field quantization method and the Petermann excess-noise factor

Yuh-Jen Cheng and A. E. Siegman

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043808 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Spin squeezing via atom-cavity field coupling

Claudiu Genes, P. R. Berman, and A. G. Rojo

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043809 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Role of atomic coherence effects in four-wave mixing using autoionizing resonances

M. P. Anscombe, R. de Nalda, I. Kuçukkara, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043810 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Eliminating ground-state dipole moments in quantum optics via canonical transformation

Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Luciana C. Dávila Romero, and David L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043811 (2003) - Published 9 October, 2003

Resonant nonstationary amplification of polychromatic laser pulses and conical emission in an optically dense ensemble of neon metastable atoms

S. N. Bagayev, V. S. Egorov, I. B. Mekhov, P. V. Moroshkin, I. A. Chekhonin, E. M. Davliatchine, and E. Kindel

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043812 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Entanglement and four-wave mixing effects in the dissipation-free nonlinear interaction of two photons at a single atom

Holger F. Hofmann, Kunihiro Kojima, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043813 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Photon-number resolution using time-multiplexed single-photon detectors

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

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043814 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Optical pumping method for squeezing and entanglement in the ground-state spin subsystems of macroscopic atomic ensembles

D. V. Kupriyanov, I. M. Sokolov, and A. V. Slavgorodskii

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043815 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Galilean covariance of a reduced density matrix

Paweł Caban, Kordian A. Smoliński, and Zbigniew Walczak

Phys. Rev. A 68, 044101 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Photoabsorption cross section and ion-yield spectra of helium double-excitation resonances

K. C. Prince, R. Richter, M. de Simone, M. Alagia, and M. Coreno

Phys. Rev. A 68, 044701 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Adiabatic stabilization against photoionization in a constant magnetic field

Jacek Matulewski, Andrzej Raczyński, and Jarosław Zaremba

Phys. Rev. A 68, 045401 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Matter waves

Nonadiabatic effects in the dynamics of collapsing Bose-Einstein condensates

S. Métens, G. Dewel, and P. Borckmans

Phys. Rev. A 68, 045601 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules [Phys. Rev. A 67, 063805 (2003)]

A. Adelswärd, S. Wallentowitz, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 68, 049901 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Three-dimensional Casimir force between absorbing multilayer dielectrics [Phys. Rev. A 68, 033810 (2003)]

Christian Raabe, Ludwig Knöll, and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 68, 049902 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Erratum: Sub-Riemannian geometry and time optimal control of three spin systems: Quantum gates and coherence transfer [Phys. Rev. A 65, 032301 (2002)]

Navin Khaneja, Steffen J. Glaser, and Roger Brockett

Phys. Rev. A 68, 049903 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003