Volume 70, Issue 6

December 2004

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Conditions for the confirmation of three-particle nonlocality

Peter Mitchell, Sandu Popescu, and David Roberts

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060101(R) (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Selective amplification of a quantum state

A. M. Zagoskin, M. Grajcar, and A. N. Omelyanchouk

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060301(R) (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

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Valence-bond states for quantum computation

F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060302(R) (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

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Improved algorithm for quantum separability and entanglement detection

L. M. Ioannou, B. C. Travaglione, D. Cheung, and A. K. Ekert

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060303(R) (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nonergodicity of entanglement and its complementary behavior to magnetization in an infinite spin chain

Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060304(R) (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

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Optical quantum computation with perpetually coupled spins

Simon C. Benjamin, Brendon W. Lovett, and John H. Reina

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060305(R) (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004

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Generation of tunable entangled states of two electrons and their characterization without entanglement witness

N. Chandra and R. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 70, 060306(R) (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the double-peak structure in the momentum distribution of ionization of hydrogen atoms driven by strong laser fields

K. I. Dimitriou, D. G. Arbó, S. Yoshida, E. Persson, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061401(R) (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Role of the electronic structure and multielectron responses in ionization mechanisms of diatomic molecules in intense short-pulse lasers: An all-electron ab initio study

Xi Chu and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061402(R) (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Matter waves

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Influence of trapping potentials on the phase diagram of bosonic atoms in optical lattices

S. M. Giampaolo, F. Illuminati, G. Mazzarella, and S. De Siena

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061601(R) (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

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Calculation of collective modes for the Bose-Hubbard model with confinement

Emil Lundh

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061602(R) (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

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Fractional-filling loophole insulator domains for ultracold bosons in optical superlattices

P. Buonsante, V. Penna, and A. Vezzani

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061603(R) (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004

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Atom diode: A laser device for a unidirectional transmission of ground-state atoms

A. Ruschhaupt and J. G. Muga

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061604(R) (2004) - Published 29 December, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Generation of macroscopic superposition states with small nonlinearity

H. Jeong, M. S. Kim, T. C. Ralph, and B. S. Ham

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061801(R) (2004) - Published 9 December, 2004

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$χ^{(5)}$ susceptibility stabilizes the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in air

Antoine Vinçotte and Luc Bergé

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061802(R) (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

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Laser-induced birefringence in a wavelength-mismatched cascade system of inhomogeneously broadened Yb atoms

Tai Hyun Yoon, Chang Yong Park, and Sung Jong Park

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061803(R) (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

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Resonant four-wave mixing with slow light

Hoonsoo Kang, Gessler Hernandez, and Yifu Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 061804(R) (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Discrete phase space based on finite fields

Kathleen S. Gibbons, Matthew J. Hoffman, and William K. Wootters

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062101 (2004) - Published 3 December, 2004

Perturbative approach for the dynamics of the quantum Zeno subspaces

Yi-Xin Chen and Zhuowen Fang

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062102 (2004) - Published 7 December, 2004

Nonlocal electrodynamics of linearly accelerated systems

Bahram Mashhoon

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062103 (2004) - Published 8 December, 2004

Relativistic and QED corrections to the $g$ factor of Li-like ions

D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, A. V. Volotka, V. A. Yerokhin, G. Plunien, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062104 (2004) - Published 8 December, 2004

Covariant quantum measurements that maximize the likelihood

Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Paolo Perinotti, and Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062105 (2004) - Published 9 December, 2004

Qubit decoherence and non-Markovian dynamics at low temperatures via an effective spin-boson model

K. Shiokawa and B. L. Hu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062106 (2004) - Published 9 December, 2004

Operational approach to complementarity and duality relations

Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062107 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Space-time variation of the fine-structure constant and evolution of isotope abundances

M. G. Kozlov, V. A. Korol, J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062108 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Casimir force between a small dielectric sphere and a dielectric wall

V. Sopova and L. H. Ford

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062109 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Vacuum torque

Reza Matloob

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062110 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Relativistic and radiative corrections to the Mollow spectrum

Jörg Evers, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062111 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Upper and lower bounds on the mean square radius and criteria for the occurrence of quantum halo states

Fabian Brau

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062112 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Energy as an entanglement witness for quantum many-body systems

Mark R. Dowling, Andrew C. Doherty, and Stephen D. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062113 (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Quantum information

Noise models for superoperators in the chord representation

Mario Leandro Aolita, Ignacio García-Mata, and Marcos Saraceno

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062301 (2004) - Published 1 December, 2004

Quantum computing using single photons and the Zeno effect

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

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062302 (2004) - Published 1 December, 2004

Distinguishing between optical coherent states with imperfect detection

JM Geremia

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062303 (2004) - Published 3 December, 2004

Entanglement dynamics in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

Julien Vidal, Guillaume Palacios, and Claude Aslangul

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062304 (2004) - Published 3 December, 2004

Resilience of multiphoton entanglement under losses

Gabriel A. Durkin, Christoph Simon, Jens Eisert, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062305 (2004) - Published 3 December, 2004

Resources required for exact remote state preparation

Dominic W. Berry

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062306 (2004) - Published 6 December, 2004

Quantum entanglement of anisotropic magnetic nanodots

Ralph Skomski, Andrei Y. Istomin, Anthony F. Starace, and D. J. Sellmyer

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062307 (2004) - Published 8 December, 2004

Quantum cloning in spin networks

Gabriele De Chiara, Rosario Fazio, Chiara Macchiavello, Simone Montangero, and G. Massimo Palma

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062308 (2004) - Published 8 December, 2004

Robust semidefinite programming approach to the separability problem

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Reinaldo O. Vianna

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062309 (2004) - Published 9 December, 2004

Overcoming quantum noise in optical fibers

Lian-Ao Wu and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062310 (2004) - Published 10 December, 2004

Entanglement production in colliding wave packets

C. K. Law

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062311 (2004) - Published 10 December, 2004

Entanglement generation from thermal spin states via unitary beam splitters

D. Markham, M. Murao, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062312 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Realization of the optimal universal quantum entangler

Fabio Sciarrino, Francesco De Martini, and Vladimir Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062313 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Computation by measurements: A unifying picture

Panos Aliferis and Debbie W. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062314 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Entanglement dynamics in chaotic systems

Shohini Ghose and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062315 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Minimum-error discrimination among mirror-symmetric mixed quantum states

Chih-Lung Chou

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062316 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Complete hierarchies of efficient approximations to problems in entanglement theory

Jens Eisert, Philipp Hyllus, Otfried Gühne, and Marcos Curty

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062317 (2004) - Published 21 December, 2004

Quantum phase transitions in antiferromagnetic planar cubic lattices

Cameron Wellard and Román Orús

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062318 (2004) - Published 27 December, 2004

Quantum computing with magnetically interacting atoms

Andrei Derevianko and Caleb C. Cannon

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062319 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Exploring the optimal sensitivity of sum-variance nonseparability criteria for spin- $1 ∕ 2$ systems

Irfan Ali Khan and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062320 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Coherent control of open quantum dynamical systems

Claudio Altafini

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062321 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Nuclear magnetic resonance implementation of a quantum clock synchronization algorithm

Jingfu Zhang, Gui Lu Long, Zhiwei Deng, Wenzhang Liu, and Zhiheng Lu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062322 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Preparation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entangled states with multiple superconducting quantum-interference device qubits or atoms in cavity QED

Chui-Ping Yang and Siyuan Han

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062323 (2004) - Published 29 December, 2004

Cavity QED quantum phase gates for a single longitudinal mode of the intracavity field

R. García-Maraver, R. Corbalán, K. Eckert, S. Rebić, M. Artoni, and J. Mompart

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062324 (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Four-component and scalar relativistic Douglas-Kroll calculations for static dipole polarizabilities of the alkaline-earth-metal elements and their ions from ${Ca}^{n}$ to ${Ra}^{n}$ ( $n = 0$ ,+1,+2)

Ivan S. Lim and Peter Schwerdtfeger

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062501 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Observation of the $[1 s 2 s] ({}^{3, 1}S) n l n^{'} l^{'}$ ${}^{1}P$ inner-shell doubly excited states of Ne by photoion yield spectroscopy

M. Oura, H. Yamaoka, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and F. Koike

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062502 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

$2 S$ hyperfine structure of atomic deuterium

N. Kolachevsky, P. Fendel, S. G. Karshenboim, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062503 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Two-color phase-sensitive x-ray pump-probe spectroscopy

F. F. Guimarães, V. Kimberg, F. Gel’mukhanov, and H. Ågren

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062504 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Long-range–short-range separation of the electron-electron interaction in density-functional theory

Julien Toulouse, François Colonna, and Andreas Savin

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062505 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Wave-packet analysis of multichannel resonances in positron scattering by a helium ion

Nobuhiro Yamanaka, Yasushi Kino, and Atsushi Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062701 (2004) - Published 1 December, 2004

$(e, 3 e)$ process on a quantum dot

M. K. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062702 (2004) - Published 1 December, 2004

Theory of electron-impact ionization of atoms

A. S. Kadyrov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, A. T. Stelbovics, and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062703 (2004) - Published 2 December, 2004

Electron-impact excitation of Fe XXII: Comparative study of relativistic $R$ -matrix and distorted-wave approaches

M. F. Gu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062704 (2004) - Published 6 December, 2004

Electron-impact excitation of the $3 s 3 p {}^{1}P^{o}$ state of Mg-like ions: $S^{4 +}, {Ar}^{6 +}$ , and ${Ca}^{8 +}$

Takeshi Kai, Rajesh Srivastava, and Shinobu Nakazaki

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062705 (2004) - Published 6 December, 2004

Theoretical investigations on the dynamical correlation in double excitations of helium by the $R$ -matrix method

Zhen-sheng Yuan, Xiao-ying Han, Xiao-jing Liu, Lin-fan Zhu, Ke-zun Xu, Lan Voky, and Jia-ming Li

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062706 (2004) - Published 6 December, 2004

Calculations for electron transitions on a three-dimensional lattice in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Oliver Busic, Norbert Grün, and Werner Scheid

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062707 (2004) - Published 7 December, 2004

Strong nuclear force in cold antihydrogen-helium collisions

S. Jonsell, P. Froelich, S. Eriksson, and K. Strasburger

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062708 (2004) - Published 10 December, 2004

Spin polarization of photoelectrons from $3 d$ electrons of Xe, Cs, and Ba

M. Ya. Amusia, N. A. Cherepkov, L. V. Chernysheva, Z. Felfli, and A. Z. Msezane

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062709 (2004) - Published 10 December, 2004

Photoassociation spectroscopy of cold alkaline-earth-metal atoms near the intercombination line

R. Ciuryło, E. Tiesinga, S. Kotochigova, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062710 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by OCS

M. H. F. Bettega, M. A. P. Lima, and L. G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062711 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Hyperfine-changing collisions in an optically trapped gas of ultracold cesium and lithium

Marcel Mudrich, Stephan Kraft, Jörg Lange, Allard Mosk, Matthias Weidemüller, and Eite Tiesinga

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062712 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Influence of the electron binding energy in the distortion of the initial state in ion-atom collisions

M. F. Ciappina, W. R. Cravero, and C. R. Garibotti

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062713 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Scattering of low- to intermediate-energy positrons from molecular hydrogen

David D. Reid, William B. Klann, and J. M. Wadehra

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062714 (2004) - Published 20 December, 2004

Experimental observation of initial-state effects in photo-double-ionization of Ne $2 s$

P. Bolognesi, R. Flammini, A. Kheifets, I. Bray, and L. Avaldi

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062715 (2004) - Published 20 December, 2004

Ionization of water by (20–150)-keV protons: Separation of direct-ionization and electron-capture processes

F. Gobet, S. Eden, B. Coupier, J. Tabet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, M. Carré, S. Ouaskit, T. D. Märk, and P. Scheier

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062716 (2004) - Published 20 December, 2004

Secondary threshold laws for multiple ionization of atoms

G. F. Gribakin, S. Sahoo, and V. N. Ostrovsky

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062717 (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004

Effects of multiple ionization and intrashell coupling in $L$ -subshell ionization by heavy ions

Gregory Lapicki, G. A. V. Ramana Murty, G. J. Naga Raju, B. Seetharami Reddy, S. Bhuloka Reddy, and V. Vijayan

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062718 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Eigenchannel method for nonrelativistic scattering from zero-range potentials

Radosław Szmytkowski and Marek Gruchowski

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062719 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Double- $K$ -shell ionization of Mg and Si induced in collisions with C and Ne ions

M. Kobal, M. Kavčič, M. Budnar, J.-Cl. Dousse, Y.-P. Maillard, O. Mauron, P.-A. Raboud, and K. Tökési

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062720 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Quantum-mechanical and semiclassical study of the collinear three-body Coulomb problem: Inelastic collisions below the three-body disintegration threshold

Oleg I. Tolstikhin and Chusei Namba

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062721 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Femtosecond laser control of the angular distribution of electrons due to autoionization

M. L. Bajema, R. R. Jones, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062722 (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Dielectronic recombination resonances in ${Na}^{8 +}$

D. Nikolić, E. Lindroth, S. Kieslich, C. Brandau, S. Schippers, W. Shi, A. Müller, G. Gwinner, M. Schnell, and A. Wolf

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062723 (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Symmetry- and multiplet-resolved N $1 s$ photoionization cross sections of the $N O_{2}$ molecule

N. Saito, D. Toffoli, R. R. Lucchese, M. Nagoshi, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, M. Oura, H. Yamaoka, M. Kitajima, H. Tanaka, U. Hergenhahn, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 70, 062724 (2004) - Published 30 December, 2004

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Image states in metal clusters

Patrick Rinke, Kris Delaney, P. García-González, and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. A 70, 063201 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates: From Rabi oscillations and quasiperiodic solutions to oscillating domain walls and spiral waves

B. Deconinck, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. E. Nistazakis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. A 70, 063605 (2004) - Published 8 December, 2004

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Propagation dynamics of a temporally, amplitude- and group-velocity-matched two-mode ultraslow wave in a three-level $Λ$ system

L. Deng, M. G. Payne, and E. W. Hagley

Phys. Rev. A 70, 063813 (2004) - Published 22 December, 2004

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

$α$ dependence of transition frequencies for some ions of Ti, Mn, Na, C, and O and the search for variation of the fine-structure constant

J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and M. V. Marchenko

Phys. Rev. A 70, 064101 (2004) - Published 21 December, 2004

Quantum information

Motional entanglement for two trapped ions in cascaded optical cavities

Gao-xiang Li, Hua-tang Tan, and Shao-ping Wu

Phys. Rev. A 70, 064301 (2004) - Published 21 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Quantum-mechanical study of ionization in slow collisions of antiprotons with hydrogen atoms

Kazuhiro Sakimoto

Phys. Rev. A 70, 064501 (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Symmetrized complex amplitudes for He double photoionization from the time-dependent close-coupling and exterior complex scaling methods

D. A. Horner, J. Colgan, F. Martín, C. W. McCurdy, M. S. Pindzola, and T. N. Rescigno

Phys. Rev. A 70, 064701 (2004) - Published 9 December, 2004

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Adiabatic Bohr-Sommerfeld calculations for the hydrogenic Stark effect

David Byrd and David Mitchell

Phys. Rev. A 70, 065401 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Dynamical medium depletion in high-order above-threshold ionization with few-cycle laser pulses

C. Altucci, V. Tosa, R. Velotta, and C. H. Nam

Phys. Rev. A 70, 065402 (2004) - Published 28 December, 2004

Matter waves

Theory of a compound large-angle atom beam splitter. II. Initial state deflection

A. Zh. Muradyan, G. A. Muradyan, and P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. A 70, 065601 (2004) - Published 20 December, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Effect of the Casimir-Polder force on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate [Phys. Rev. A 70, 053619 (2004)]

Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 70, 069901 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Erratum: Quantum error correction against correlated noise [Phys. Rev. A 69, 062313 (2004)]

James P. Clemens, Shabnam Siddiqui, and Julio Gea-Banacloche

Phys. Rev. A 70, 069902 (2004) - Published 20 December, 2004

Publisher's Note: Electron-impact excitation of the $3 s 3 p {}^{1}P^{o}$ state of Mg-like ions: $S^{4 +}$ , ${Ar}^{6 +}$ , and ${Ca}^{8 +}$ [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062705 (2004)]

Takeshi Kai, Rajesh Srivastava, and Shinobu Nakazaki

Phys. Rev. A 70, 069903 (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004

Publisher's Note: Engineering quantum pure states of a trapped cold ion beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit [Phys. Rev. A 70, 063801 (2004)]

L. F. Wei, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. A 70, 069904 (2004) - Published 23 December, 2004