Volume 69, Issue 5

May 2004

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Fundamental concepts

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Effects of confinement on the permanent electric-dipole moment of Xe atoms in liquid Xe

Boris Ravaine and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050101(R) (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Quantum information

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Geometric manipulation of the quantum states of two-level atoms

Mingzhen Tian, Zeb W. Barber, Joe A. Fischer, and Wm. Randall Babbitt

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050301(R) (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

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Geometric phase gate without dynamical phases

R. G. Unanyan and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050302(R) (2004) - Published 11 May, 2004

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Entanglement-assisted alignment of reference frames using a dense covariant coding

E. Bagan, M. Baig, and R. Muñoz-Tapia

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050303(R) (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

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Tailoring photonic entanglement in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces

Hugues de Riedmatten, Ivan Marcikic, Valerio Scarani, Wolfgang Tittel, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050304(R) (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

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Estimation of the local density of states on a quantum computer

Joseph Emerson, Seth Lloyd, David Poulin, and David Cory

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050305(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Experimental Hamiltonian identification for controlled two-level systems

S. G. Schirmer, A. Kolli, and D. K. L. Oi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050306(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Condition for unambiguous state discrimination using local operations and classical communication

Anthony Chefles

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050307(R) (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Feshbach resonances in inner-shell photodetachment: The case of ${Te}^{-}$

H. Kjeldsen, F. Folkmann, T. S. Jacobsen, and J. B. West

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050501(R) (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Convergent calculations of double ionization of helium: From $(γ, 2 e)$ to $(e, 3 e)$ processes

A. S. Kheifets and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050701(R) (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

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

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Dynamic dependence of interaction potentials for keV atoms at metal surfaces

A. Schüller, G. Adamov, S. Wethekam, K. Maass, A. Mertens, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. A 69, 050901(R) (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Polarization effects in two-photon nonresonant ionization of argon with extreme-ultraviolet and infrared femtosecond pulses

P. O’Keeffe, R. López-Martens, J. Mauritsson, A. Johansson, A. L’Huillier, V. Véniard, R. Taïeb, A. Maquet, and M. Meyer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051401(R) (2004) - Published 4 May, 2004

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Measurement of hydrogenic tunneling rates in a high-intensity laser focus

B. Buerke and D. D. Meyerhofer

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051402(R) (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Matter waves

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One particle in a box: The simplest model for a Fermi gas in the unitary limit

Ludovic Pricoupenko and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051601(R) (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

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Fluctuations and flux: The limits of multistate atom lasers

N. P. Robins, C. M. Savage, J. J. Hope, J. E. Lye, C. S. Fletcher, S. A. Haine, and J. D. Close

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051602(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Observation and characterization of an optical spring

Benjamin S. Sheard, Malcolm B. Gray, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, David E. McClelland, and Stanley E. Whitcomb

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051801(R) (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

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Group velocity of a probe light in an ensemble of $Λ$ atoms under two-photon resonance

Y. Li and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051802(R) (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

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Precision stabilization of femtosecond lasers to high-finesse optical cavities

R. Jason Jones, Isabell Thomann, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051803(R) (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

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Cavity QED with optically transported atoms

J. A. Sauer, K. M. Fortier, M. S. Chang, C. D. Hamley, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051804(R) (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

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Single $sub − 50 − attosecond$ pulse generation from chirp-compensated harmonic radiation using material dispersion

Kyung Taec Kim, Chul Min Kim, Moon-Gu Baik, G. Umesh, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. A 69, 051805(R) (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Simulating quantum Brownian motion with single trapped ions

S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, F. Intravaia, F. Petruccione, and A. Messina

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052101 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Bitwise Bell-inequality violations for an entangled state involving $2 N$ ions

D. T. Pope and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052102 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Tests for nonrandomness in quantum jumps

D. J. Berkeland, D. A. Raymondson, and V. M. Tassin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052103 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Jumplike unravelings for non-Markovian open quantum systems

Jay Gambetta, T. Askerud, and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052104 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Disentanglement and decoherence by open system dynamics

P. J. Dodd and J. J. Halliwell

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052105 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Disentanglement by dissipative open system dynamics

P. J. Dodd

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052106 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Quantum-information entropies of the eigenstates and the coherent state of the Pöschl-Teller potential

Rajneesh Atre, Anil Kumar, Nagaraja Kumar, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052107 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Quantum tunneling time

Z. S. Wang, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Lai, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052108 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Is the dynamics of open quantum systems always linear?

Karen M. Fonseca Romero, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052109 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Electromagnetic field quantization in a linear isotropic dielectric

Reza Matloob

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052110 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Action scales for quantum decoherence and their relation to structures in phase space

Daniel Alonso, S. Brouard, José P. Palao, and R. Sala Mayato

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052111 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Quantum phase space points for Wigner functions in finite-dimensional spaces

Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052112 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Prior information: How to circumvent the standard joint-measurement uncertainty relation

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052113 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Impossibility of distant indirect measurement of the quantum Zeno effect

M. Hotta and M. Morikawa

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052114 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Convolutionless Non-Markovian master equations and quantum trajectories: Brownian motion

Walter T. Strunz and Ting Yu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052115 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Transition to classical chaos in a coupled quantum system through continuous measurement

Shohini Ghose, Paul Alsing, Ivan Deutsch, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Salman Habib

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052116 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Packet narrowing and quantum entanglement in photoionization and photodissociation

M. V. Fedorov, M. A. Efremov, A. E. Kazakov, K. W. Chan, C. K. Law, and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052117 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Self-energy correction to the two-photon decay width in hydrogenlike atoms

Ulrich D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052118 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Quantum information

Quantum partial teleportation as optimal cloning at a distance

Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052301 (2004) - Published 3 May, 2004

State interrogation in nuclear magnetic resonance quantum-information processing

Garett M. Leskowitz and Leonard J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052302 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Parallel quantum computing in a single ensemble quantum computer

Gui Lu Long and L. Xiao

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052303 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Measuring polynomial invariants of multiparty quantum states

M. S. Leifer, N. Linden, and A. Winter

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052304 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Detecting quantum entanglement by means of local operations and classical communication

Yan-Kui Bai, Shu-Shen Li, and Hou-Zhi Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052305 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Separability conditions and limit temperatures for entanglement detection in two-qubit Heisenberg $X Y Z$ models

N. Canosa and R. Rossignoli

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052306 (2004) - Published 11 May, 2004

Efficient multiparty quantum-secret-sharing schemes

Li Xiao, Gui Lu Long, Fu-Guo Deng, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052307 (2004) - Published 11 May, 2004

Universality of entanglement and quantum-computation complexity

Román Orús and José I. Latorre

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052308 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Decoherence of two Josephson charge qubits coupled via $σ_{x} σ_{x}$ -type coupling and exposed to $σ_{x}$ noise

Ahmad Abliz, Shu-Shen Li, Lian-Liang Sun, Song-Lin Feng, and Hou-Zhi Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052309 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Information rate of a waveguide

Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052310 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Entanglement with classical fields

K. F. Lee and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052311 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Local cloning of Bell states and distillable entanglement

Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, and Anirban Roy

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052312 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Continuous-variable quantum nondemolishing interaction at a distance

Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052313 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Quantum entanglement of four distant atoms trapped in different optical cavities

XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052314 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Propagation of quantum information through a spin system

Tobias J. Osborne and Noah Linden

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052315 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Frustration, interaction strength, and ground-state entanglement in complex quantum systems

Christopher M. Dawson and Michael A. Nielsen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052316 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Entanglement echoes in quantum computation

Davide Rossini, Giuliano Benenti, and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052317 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Entanglement preparation and quantum communication with atoms in optical cavities

Peng Xue, Chao Han, Bo Yu, Xiu-Min Lin, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052318 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Secure direct communication with a quantum one-time pad

Fu-Guo Deng and Gui Lu Long

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052319 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Gaussian entanglement of formation

M. M. Wolf, G. Giedke, O. Krüger, R. F. Werner, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052320 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Experimental realization of a programmable quantum-state discriminator and a phase-covariant quantum multimeter

Jan Soubusta, Antonín Černoch, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Miloslav Dušek

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052321 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Effect of ancilla’s structure on quantum error correction using the seven-qubit Calderbank-Shor-Steane code

P. J. Salas and A. L. Sanz

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052322 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Localization of two-dimensional quantum walks

Norio Inui, Yoshinao Konishi, and Norio Konno

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052323 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Practical scheme for error control using feedback

Mohan Sarovar, Charlene Ahn, Kurt Jacobs, and Gerard J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052324 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Stochastic Liouville equation approach for the effect of noise in quantum computations

Y. C. Cheng and R. J. Silbey

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052325 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Superselection rules and quantum protocols

Alexei Kitaev, Dominic Mayers, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052326 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Entanglement detection in optical lattices of bosonic atoms with collective measurements

Géza Tóth

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052327 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Generation of entangled ancilla states for use in linear optics quantum computing

J. D. Franson, M. M. Donegan, and B. C. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052328 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Implementation of generalized quantum measurements: Superadditive quantum coding, accessible information extraction, and classical capacity limit

Masahiro Takeoka, Mikio Fujiwara, Jun Mizuno, and Masahide Sasaki

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052329 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Multipartite entanglement, quantum-error-correcting codes, and entangling power of quantum evolutions

A. J. Scott

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052330 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Entangled subspaces and quantum symmetries

A. J. Bracken

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052331 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Assessment of density-functional approximations: Long-range correlations and self-interaction effects

J. Jung, P. García-González, J. E. Alvarellos, and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052501 (2004) - Published 4 May, 2004

Long-wavelength quantum electrodynamics

Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052502 (2004) - Published 11 May, 2004

Evaluation of the self-energy correction to the $g$ factor of $S$ states in H-like ions

V. A. Yerokhin, P. Indelicato, and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052503 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Thomas-Fermi model: Nonextensive statistical mechanics approach

Evgeny Martinenko and Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052504 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Experimental investigation of the origin of the Ti $K α^{″}$ satellites

N. Shigeoka, H. Oohashi, T. Tochio, Y. Ito, T. Mukoyama, A. M. Vlaicu, and S. Fukushima

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052505 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

$S$ -wave Ps-Li and Ps-Na scattering

Sumana Chakraborty, Prabal K. Sinha, and A. S. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052506 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

General complex rotated finite-element method for predissociation studies of diatomic molecules: An application on the $(1 – 6) {}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+}$ states of $H_{2}$

Stefan Andersson and Nils Elander

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052507 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Time-dependent density-functional calculations with asymptotically correct exchange-correlation potentials

Igor Vasiliev and Richard M. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052508 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Relativistic Dirac-Fock exchange and Breit interaction energy functionals based on the local-density approximation and the self-consistent multiplicative constant method

Valentin V. Karasiev, Eduardo V. Ludeña, and Olga A. Shukruto

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052509 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Adiabatic connection for near degenerate excited states

Fan Zhang and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052510 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Excitation energies, oscillator strengths, and lifetimes of levels along the gold isoelectronic sequence

U. I. Safronova and W. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052511 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Reexamining if long-lived $N^{-}$ anions are produced in fast dissociative electron-capture collisions

I. Ben-Itzhak, O. Heber, I. Gertner, A. Bar-David, and B. Rosner

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052701 (2004) - Published 3 May, 2004

Positron scattering and annihilation from hydrogenlike ions

S. A. Novikov, M. W. J. Bromley, and J. Mitroy

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052702 (2004) - Published 4 May, 2004

Isotope shifts of double-excitation resonances in helium

Y. H. Jiang, R. Püttner, M. Martins, R. Follath, J. M. Rost, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052703 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Electron capture by ${Ne}^{3 +}$ ions from atomic hydrogen

R. Rejoub, M. E. Bannister, C. C. Havener, D. W. Savin, C. J. Verzani, J. G. Wang, and P. C. Stancil

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052704 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Cold collisions involving rotationally hot oxygen molecules

K. Tilford, M. Hoster, P. M. Florian, and R. C. Forrey

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052705 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Elastic cross sections for electron-ketenylidene $(C_{2} O)$ collisions

M. M. Fujimoto, M.-T. Lee, and S. E. Michelin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052706 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Convergence of the method of the hyperspherical $R$ matrix with semiclassical outgoing waves

P. Selles, L. Malegat, A. Huetz, A. K. Kazansky, S. A. Collins, D. P. Seccombe, and T. J. Reddish

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052707 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Wave-packet dynamics for general contact interactions on a circular setup: Revivals, bouncing, and trapping

Alexandre G. M. Schmidt and M. G. E. da Luz

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052708 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Supplementary absolute differential cross sections for the excitation of atomic hydrogen’s $n = 3$ and 4 levels by electron impact

Christopher J. Sweeney, Alan Grafe, and Tong W. Shyn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052709 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Neutron scattering in the magnetic field of a linear current: Exact $S$ matrix and cross section

V. I. Osherov and V. G. Ushakov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052710 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Partial wave analysis of scattering with the nonlocal Aharonov-Bohm effect and the anomalous cross section induced by quantum interference

De-Hone Lin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052711 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Protonium formation in the $\bar{p} − H$ collision at low energies by a diabatic approach

M. Hesse, A. T. Le, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052712 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Electron-impact ionization of Be-like ions

J.-C. Chang, H.-L. Sun, W.-Y. Cheng, and K.-N. Huang

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052713 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Cold-target recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy studies of capture from atomic and molecular hydrogen by $O^{8 +}$ and ${Ar}^{8 +}$

E. Edgu-Fry, A. Wech, J. Stuhlman, T. G. Lee, C. D. Lin, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052714 (2004) - Published 19 May, 2004

Single- and double-electron-capture collision of $C^{q +} (q = 3, 4)$ with $CO$ at keV energies

Hui Gao and Victor H. S. Kwong

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052715 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Cold electron scattering in ${SF}_{6}$ and $C_{6} F_{6}$ : Bound and virtual state channels

D. Field, N. C. Jones, and J.-P. Ziesel

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052716 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Positronium formation in the ground and excited states $(n = 2 levels)$ in a positron-negative hydrogen-ion collision

D. Ghosh and C. Sinha

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052717 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Elastic resonant and nonresonant differential scattering of quasifree electrons from $B^{4 +} (1 s)$ and $B^{3 +} (1 s^{2})$ ions

E. P. Benis, T. J. M. Zouros, T. W. Gorczyca, A. D. González, and P. Richard

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052718 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

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

Effects of the surface Miller index on the resonant neutralization of hydrogen anions near Ag surfaces

Himadri Chakraborty, Thomas Niederhausen, and Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. A 69, 052901 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Time-dependent spectrum of thermionic emission from hot clusters: Model and example of $C_{60}$

F. Lépine and C. Bordas

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053201 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

Modified genetic algorithms to model cluster structures in medium-size silicon clusters

Victor E. Bazterra, Ofelia Oña, María C. Caputo, Marta B. Ferraro, Patricio Fuentealba, and Julio C. Facelli

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053202 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

Ionization of $C_{70}$ and $C_{60}$ molecules by slow highly charged ions: A comparison

J. Jensen, H. Zettergren, H. T. Schmidt, H. Cederquist, S. Tomita, S. B. Nielsen, J. Rangama, P. Hvelplund, B. Manil, and B. A. Huber

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053203 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Blackbody radiation shift of the ${}^{133}{Cs}$ hyperfine transition frequency

Salvatore Micalizio, Aldo Godone, Davide Calonico, Filippo Levi, and Luca Lorini

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053401 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Ionization by short uv laser pulses: Secondary above-threshold-ionization peaks of the electron spectrum investigated through a modified Coulomb-Volkov approach

V. D. Rodríguez, E. Cormier, and R. Gayet

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053402 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Quantum erasure within the optical Stern-Gerlach model

M. Chianello, M. Tumminello, A. Vaglica, and G. Vetri

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053403 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

First-principles calculations for the tunnel ionization rate of atoms and molecules

T. Otobe, K. Yabana, and J.-I. Iwata

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053404 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Electronic structure of atoms in magnetic quadrupole traps

Igor Lesanovsky, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053405 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Interactions of a two-level atom and a field with a time-varying frequency

Yaping Yang, Jingping Xu, Gaoxiang Li, and Hong Chen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053406 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

vuv fluorescence from selective high-order multiphoton excitation of $N_{2}$

Ryan N. Coffee and George N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053407 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Optimal control of quantum dissipative dynamics: Analytic solution for cooling the three-level $Λ$ system

Shlomo E. Sklarz, David J. Tannor, and Navin Khaneja

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053408 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Simple soluble molecular ionization model

Gerald V. Dunne and Christopher S. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053409 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Above-threshold ionization of xenon atoms in a bichromatic phase-controlled laser field of linear and circular polarizations

Jingtao Zhang, Shaohui Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053410 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Absolute Rb one-color two-photon ionization cross-section measurement near a quantum interference

T. Takekoshi, G. M. Brooke, B. M. Patterson, and R. J. Knize

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053411 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Laser sideband cooling with positive detuning

Ch. Schwedes, Th. Becker, J. von Zanthier, H. Walther, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053412 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

$H_{2}^{+}$ ion in a strong magnetic field: Lowest excited states

A. V. Turbiner and J. C. López Vieyra

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053413 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Matter waves

Interactions of vortices with rarefaction solitary waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate and their role in the decay of superfluid turbulence

Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053601 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

Oscillations of Bose-Einstein condensates with vortex lattices: Finite temperatures

Armen Sedrakian and Ira Wasserman

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053602 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Resonant formation of strongly correlated paired states in rotating Bose gases

S. G. Bhongale, J. N. Milstein, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053603 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Creation and mobility of discrete solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

V. Ahufinger, A. Sanpera, P. Pedri, L. Santos, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053604 (2004) - Published 6 May, 2004

Generating macroscopic-quantum-superposition states in momentum and internal-state space from Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interactions

J. Higbie and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053605 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Phonon evaporation in freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensates

C. Tozzo and F. Dalfovo

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053606 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate induced by fluctuations of the laser intensity

J. Garnier, F. Kh. Abdullaev, and B. B. Baizakov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053607 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Quantum entanglement of many atoms in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

XuBo Zou, K. Pahlke, and W. Mathis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053608 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Magnetic solitons of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice

Zheng-Wei Xie, Weiping Zhang, S. T. Chui, and W. M. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053609 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Transverse laser modes in Bose-Einstein condensates

Graeme Whyte, Patrik Öhberg, and Johannes Courtial

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053610 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Beyond-mean-field results for atomic Bose-Einstein condensates at interaction strengths near Feshbach resonances: A many-body dimensional perturbation-theory calculation

B. A. McKinney, M. Dunn, and D. K. Watson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053611 (2004) - Published 13 May, 2004

Quantum Monte Carlo study of confined fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices

Marcos Rigol and Alejandro Muramatsu

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053612 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

K. Braun-Munzinger, J. A. Dunningham, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053613 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Raman photoassociation of Bose-Fermi mixtures and the subsequent prospects for atom-molecule Cooper pairing

Matt Mackie, Olavi Dannenberg, Jyrki Piilo, Kalle-Antti Suominen, and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053614 (2004) - Published 14 May, 2004

Collisional oscillations of trapped boson-fermion mixtures in the approach to the collapse instability

P. Capuzzi, A. Minguzzi, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053615 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Quench dynamics across quantum critical points

K. Sengupta, Stephen Powell, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053616 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Quantum theory of a vortex line in an optical lattice

J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053617 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Interference of small and of large quantum particles behind an asymmetric grating

Mirjana Božić, Dušan Arsenović, and Leposava Vušković

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053618 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Phase diagram of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with anharmonic confinement

A. D. Jackson, G. M. Kavoulakis, and E. Lundh

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053619 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Classical aspects of ultracold atom wave packet motion through microstructured waveguide bends

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

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053620 (2004) - Published 18 May, 2004

Phase dynamics of a multimode Bose-Einstein condensate controlled by decay

H. L. Haroutyunyan and G. Nienhuis

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053621 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Vortex line in a neutral finite-temperature superfluid Fermi gas

N. Nygaard, G. M. Bruun, B. I. Schneider, C. W. Clark, and D. L. Feder

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053622 (2004) - Published 20 May, 2004

Noisy dynamics of a vortex in a partially Bose-Einstein condensed gas

R. A. Duine, B. W. A. Leurs, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053623 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Improved optimization of perturbation theory: Applications to the oscillator energy levels and Bose-Einstein condensate critical temperature

Jean-Loïc Kneur, André Neveu, and Marcus B. Pinto

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053624 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Weakly interacting Bose gas in the vicinity of the normal-fluid–superfluid transition

Nikolay Prokof’ev, Oliver Ruebenacker, and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 053625 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Entanglement in a first-order quantum phase transition

Julien Vidal, Rémy Mosseri, and Jorge Dukelsky

Phys. Rev. A 69, 054101 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Operator-sum representation of time-dependent density operators and its applications

D. M. Tong, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Oh, Jing-Ling Chen, and L. Ma

Phys. Rev. A 69, 054102 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Bethe logarithm for the helium atom

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 69, 054501 (2004) - Published 7 May, 2004

Relaxation effect and radiative corrections in many-electron atoms

Andrei Derevianko, Boris Ravaine, and W. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. A 69, 054502 (2004) - Published 21 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Atomic resonance interaction in dielectric media

Mathias Boström and Barry W. Ninham

Phys. Rev. A 69, 054701 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Two-color magneto-optical trap for metastable helium

A. S. Tychkov, J. C. J. Koelemeij, T. Jeltes, W. Hogervorst, and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. A 69, 055401 (2004) - Published 5 May, 2004

Matter waves

Integral equation for inhomogeneous condensed bosons generalizing the Gross-Pitaevskii differential equation

G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March, and R. Pucci

Phys. Rev. A 69, 055601 (2004) - Published 10 May, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

High-speed generation of macroscopic quantum-interference states for the motion of a trapped ion

Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 69, 055801 (2004) - Published 12 May, 2004

Entanglement between two atoms in an overdamped cavity injected with squeezed vacuum

Gao-xiang Li, K. Allaart, and D. Lenstra

Phys. Rev. A 69, 055802 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Grover search with pairs of trapped ions”

Charles D. Hill and Hsi-Sheng Goan

Phys. Rev. A 69, 056301 (2004) - Published 17 May, 2004

Comment on “Analytic value of the atomic three-electron correlation integral with Slater wave functions”

Frank E. Harris, Alexei M. Frolov, and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 69, 056501 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004