Volume 72, Issue 2

August 2005

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Investigation of the Casimir force between metal and semiconductor test bodies

F. Chen, U. Mohideen, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020101(R) (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Quantum information

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Geometric quantum gates that are robust against stochastic control errors

Shi-Liang Zhu and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020301(R) (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

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Exact entanglement cost of multiqubit bound entangled states

Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Vwani Roychowdhury

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020302(R) (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

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Quantum-field coherent control: Preparation of broken-symmetry entangled states

Petr Král, Ioannis Thanopulos, and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020303(R) (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

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Quantum-dot cluster-state computing with encoded qubits

Yaakov S. Weinstein, C. Stephen Hellberg, and Jeremy Levy

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020304(R) (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Disentanglement of magnetic field mixing reveals the spontaneous $M 2$ decay rate for a metastable level in ${Xe}^{+}$

P. Schef, P. Lundin, E. Biémont, A. Källberg, L.-O. Norlin, P. Palmeri, P. Royen, A. Simonsson, and S. Mannervik

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020501(R) (2005) - Published 3 August, 2005

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Coordinate scaling in time-dependent current-density-functional theory

Maxime Dion and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020502(R) (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Fully differential cross sections for low-energy electron-impact ionization of nitrogen molecules

Junfang Gao, D. H. Madison, and J. L. Peacher

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020701(R) (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

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Benchmark calculations for electron collisions with ${Fe}^{+}$

Oleg Zatsarinny and Klaus Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 72, 020702(R) (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Ioniclike energy structure of neutral core-excited states in free Kr clusters

S. Peredkov, A. Kivimäki, S. L. Sorensen, J. Schulz, N. Mårtensson, G. Öhrwall, M. Lundwall, T. Rander, A. Lindblad, H. Bergersen, S. Svensson, O. Björneholm, and M. Tchaplyguine

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021201(R) (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Recoil-induced resonances in the high-gain regime

Mukund Vengalattore and Mara Prentiss

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021401(R) (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Matter waves

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Stable three-dimensional solitons in attractive Bose-Einstein condensates loaded in an optical lattice

D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, B. A. Malomed, L.-C. Crasovan, Y. V. Kartashov, and L. Torner

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021601(R) (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

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Noncyclic geometric phase due to spatial evolution in a neutron interferometer

Stefan Filipp, Yuji Hasegawa, Rudolf Loidl, and Helmut Rauch

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021602(R) (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

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Solitary waves in elongated clouds of strongly interacting bosons

M. Ögren, G. M. Kavoulakis, and A. D. Jackson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021603(R) (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

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Interference of Bose-Einstein condensates split with an atom chip

Y. Shin, C. Sanner, G.-B. Jo, T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, W. Ketterle, D. E. Pritchard, M. Vengalattore, and M. Prentiss

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021604(R) (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

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Controlling quasiparticle excitations in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

S. J. Woo, S. Choi, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021605(R) (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

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Ground state and Tkachenko modes of a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in the lowest-Landau-level state

E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021606(R) (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Transverse localization and slow propagation of light

Jing Cheng, Shensheng Han, and YiJing Yan

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021801(R) (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

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Characterization of the nonclassical nature of conditionally prepared single photons

Alfred B. U’Ren, Christine Silberhorn, Jonathan L. Ball, Konrad Banaszek, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. A 72, 021802(R) (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Iterative solutions to the Dirac equation

Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022101 (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Casimir torque between two birefringent plates

Cheng-Gang Shao, Ai-Hong Tong, and Jun Luo

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022102 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Minimax determination of the energy spectrum of the Dirac equation in a Schwarzschild background

Alejandro Cáceres and Chris Doran

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022103 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Microscopic theory of spontaneous decay in a dielectric

Hao Fu and P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022104 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Representations of spacetime alternatives and their classical limits

August W. Bosse and James B. Hartle

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022105 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Process reconstruction: From unphysical to physical maps via maximum likelihood

Mário Ziman, Martin Plesch, Vladimír Bužek, and Peter Štelmachovič

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022106 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Quantum theory of friction

Stephen M. Barnett and James D. Cresser

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022107 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Complete two-loop correction to the bound-electron $g$ factor

Krzysztof Pachucki, Andrzej Czarnecki, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022108 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Quantum mechanics of Hyperion

N. Wiebe and L. E. Ballentine

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022109 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

All (qubit) decoherences: Complete characterization and physical implementation

Mário Ziman and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022110 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Thermal corrections in the Casimir interaction between a metal and dielectric

B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, and V. M. Mostepanenko

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022111 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Completely quantized collapse and consequences

Philip Pearle

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022112 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Many-fermion generalization of the Caldeira-Leggett model

Florian Marquardt and D. S. Golubev

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022113 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Quantum information

Quantum cellular automaton for universal quantum computation

Robert Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022301 (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Elementary formula for entanglement entropies of fermionic systems

Péter Lévay, Szilvia Nagy, and János Pipek

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022302 (2005) - Published 3 August, 2005

Multiparty quantum secret sharing of classical messages based on entanglement swapping

Zhan-jun Zhang and Zhong-xiao Man

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022303 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Quantum gloves: Quantum states that encode as much as possible chirality and nothing else

D. Collins, L. Diósi, N. Gisin, S. Massar, and S. Popescu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022304 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Continuous-variable entanglement in a correlated spontaneous emission laser

Hua-Tang Tan, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022305 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Linear optical implementation of ancilla-free $1 \to 3$ optimal phase covariant quantum cloning machines for the equatorial qubits

XuBo Zou and W. Mathis

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022306 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Entanglement of zero-angular-momentum mixtures and black-hole entropy

Etera R. Livine and Daniel R. Terno

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022307 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Decoherence of multidimensional entangled coherent states

S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022308 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Entanglement measure for rank-2 mixed states

Tobias J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022309 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Quantifying entanglement with witness operators

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022310 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Multipartite reduction criteria for separability

William Hall

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022311 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Stability of pairwise entanglement in a decoherent environment

Jian-Ming Cai, Zheng-Wei Zhou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022312 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Experimental investigation of quantum key distribution with position and momentum of photon pairs

M. P. Almeida, S. P. Walborn, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022313 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Thermal entanglement properties of small spin clusters

Indrani Bose and Amit Tribedi

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022314 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Nonbilocal measurement via an entangled state

Eran Shmaya

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022315 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Mutual information-based approach to adaptive homodyne detection of quantum optical states

Igor Bargatin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022316 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Local fault-tolerant quantum computation

Krysta M. Svore, Barbara M. Terhal, and David P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022317 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Entanglement used to identify critical systems

S. O. Skrøvseth and K. Olaussen

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022318 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Energetic suppression of decoherence in exchange-only quantum computation

Yaakov S. Weinstein and C. Stephen Hellberg

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022319 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Engineering superpositions of coherent states in coherent optical pulses through cavity-assisted interaction

B. Wang and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022320 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Direct versus measurement-assisted bipartite entanglement in multiqubit systems and their dynamical generation in spin systems

Mátyás Koniorczyk, Peter Rapčan, and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022321 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Classical statistics inherent in a quantum density matrix

A. K. Rajagopal and R. W. Rendell

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022322 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Infinite number of conditions for local mixed-state manipulations

Gilad Gour

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022323 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Square-root measurement for pure states

Siendong Huang

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022324 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Engineering entanglement: The fast-approach phase gate

Dan Vager, Bilha Segev, and Y. B. Band

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022325 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Many-particle entanglement in the gaped antiferromagnetic Lipkin model

R. G. Unanyan, C. Ionescu, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022326 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Decoherence in collective quantum memories for photons

Claudia Mewes and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022327 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Adiabatic approximation for weakly open systems

Patrik Thunström, Johan Åberg, and Erik Sjöqvist

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022328 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Quantum parallelism of the controlled-NOT operation: An experimental criterion for the evaluation of device performance

Holger F. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022329 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Entanglement distribution by an arbitrarily inept delivery service

S. J. Jones, H. M. Wiseman, and D. T. Pope

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022330 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Matrix-element distributions as a signature of entanglement generation

Yaakov S. Weinstein and C. Stephen Hellberg

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022331 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Entanglement, Bell violation, and phase decoherence of two atoms inside an optical cavity

Shang-Bin Li and Jing-Bo Xu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022332 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Separability criterion of tripartite qubit systems

Chang-shui Yu and He-shan Song

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022333 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Effective squeezing enhancement via measurement-induced non-Gaussian operation and its application to the dense coding scheme

Akira Kitagawa, Masahiro Takeoka, Kentaro Wakui, and Masahide Sasaki

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022334 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Quantum stream cipher by the Yuen 2000 protocol: Design and experiment by an intensity-modulation scheme

Osamu Hirota, Masaki Sohma, Masaru Fuse, and Kentaro Kato

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022335 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Modified Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol with two-way classical communications

Kai Wen and Gui Lu Long

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022336 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Robust multipartite multilevel quantum protocols

Hideomi Nihira and C. R. Stroud, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022337 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Symmetric multiparty-controlled teleportation of an arbitrary two-particle entanglement

Fu-Guo Deng, Chun-Yan Li, Yan-Song Li, Hong-Yu Zhou, and Yan Wang

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022338 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Quantum computing on lattices using global two-qubit gates

G. Ivanyos, S. Massar, and A. B. Nagy

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022339 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Entanglement detection in the stabilizer formalism

Géza Tóth and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022340 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Large family of quantum weak coin-flipping protocols

Carlos Mochon

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022341 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Optimal unambiguous state discrimination of two density matrices: Lower bound and class of exact solutions

Philippe Raynal and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022342 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Realization of positive-operator-valued measures using measurement-assisted programmable quantum processors

Mário Ziman and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022343 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Entanglement and quantum-state engineering in the optically driven two-electron double-dot structure

Alexander V. Tsukanov

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022344 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Quantum communication through a spin ring with twisted boundary conditions

S. Bose, B.-Q. Jin, and V. E. Korepin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022345 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

$s$ -wave quantum entanglement in a harmonic trap

Jia Wang, C. K. Law, and M.-C. Chu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022346 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Analysis of a quantum logic device based on dipole-dipole interactions of optically trapped Rydberg atoms

M. Saffman and T. G. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022347 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Nonlocality without inequality for spin- $s$ systems

Samir Kunkri and Sujit K. Choudhary

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022348 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Analytical solutions for two electrons in an oscillator potential and a magnetic field

Wuming Zhu and S. B. Trickey

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022501 (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

Doppler-free spectroscopy of metastable calcium in a discharge heat pipe

Dirk Hansen and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022502 (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

Calculation of isotope shifts for cesium and francium

V. A. Dzuba, W. R. Johnson, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022503 (2005) - Published 5 August, 2005

Relativistic shifts of bound negative-muon precession frequencies

J. H. Brewer, A. M. Froese, B. A. Fryer, and K. Ghandi

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022504 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Configuration-interaction calculation of hyperfine and $P, T$ -odd constants on ${}^{207}{Pb} O$ excited states for electron electric-dipole-moment experiments

A. N. Petrov, A. V. Titov, T. A. Isaev, N. S. Mosyagin, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022505 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Radiative $n p \to 1 s + γ$ transitions induced by strong low-energy interactions in kaonic atoms

A. N. Ivanov, M. Cargnelli, M. Faber, H. Fuhrmann, V. A. Ivanova, J. Marton, N. I. Troitskaya, and J. Zmeskal

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022506 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Interference effects in Auger resonant Raman spectra of CO via selective vibrational excitations across the O $1 s \to 2 π$ resonance

T. Tanaka, H. Shindo, C. Makochekanwa, M. Kitajima, H. Tanaka, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, K. Okada, R. Feifel, S. Sorensen, E. Kukk, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022507 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Extended Thomas-Fermi kinetic energy density functional with spatially varying effective mass in $d = 1, 2, 3$ dimensions

K. Berkane and K. Bencheikh

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022508 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Orthopositronium-orthopositronium scattering at medium energies

Sumana Chakraborty, Kiran Kumari, and A. S. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022509 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Atomic masses of ${}^{32, 33}S$ , ${}^{84, 86}{Kr}$ , and ${}^{129, 132}{Xe}$ with uncertainties $⩽ 0.1 ppb$

Wei Shi, Matthew Redshaw, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022510 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Final-state probabilities for $β^{-}$ -decaying light atoms

Alexei M. Frolov and James D. Talman

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022511 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Photoionization of homonuclear diatomic molecules aligned by an intense femtosecond laser pulse

Masaaki Tsubouchi and Toshinori Suzuki

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022512 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Decay channels and decay rates for the hydrogen-antihydrogen quasimolecule

L. Labzowsky, V. Sharipov, A. Prozorov, G. Plunien, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022513 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Scattering-length determination from trapped pairs of atoms

Sanjiv Shresta, Eite Tiesinga, and Carl J. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022701 (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

Importance of the electron capture to the continuum mechanism in heavy-particle collisions of ${He}^{2 +}$ with $C^{5 +} (1 s)$

Y. Ning, B. He, C. L. Liu, J. Yan, and J. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022702 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Double photoionization of He and $H_{2}$ at unequal energy sharing

A. S. Kheifets and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022703 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Lattice approach for $α + {H_{2}}^{+}$ collisions

S. C. Cheng and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022704 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Topology of the adiabatic potential energy surfaces for the resonance states of the water anion

D. J. Haxton, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022705 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Enhanced positron annihilation in small gaseous hydrocarbons: Threshold effects from symmetric $C - H$ bond deformations

Tamio Nishimura and Franco A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022706 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Photoionization with excitation and double photoionization of the ${Li}^{+}$ ground $1 {}^{1}S$ state and metastable $2 {}^{1, 3}S$ states

U. Kleiman, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022707 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Classical-trajectory Monte Carlo calculations of the electronic stopping cross section for keV protons and antiprotons impinging on hydrogen atoms

Ernesto R. Custidiano and Mario M. Jakas

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022708 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Double autoionization of hollow-atom states

M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, and J. Colgan

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022709 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

One-electron capture mechanisms in collisions of He-like O and C ions with molecules of astrophysical interest

B. Seredyuk, R. W. McCullough, and H. B. Gilbody

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022710 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Lifetime for Li-like Ti $1 s 2 s 2 p {}^{4}P_{5 ∕ 2}^{o}$ level using a mode of beam–two-foil experiments

T. Nandi, Nissar Ahmad, and A. A. Wani

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022711 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Theoretical study of dissociative recombination of $C_{2 v}$ triatomic ions: Application to $H_{2} D^{+}$ and $D_{2} H^{+}$

Viatcheslav Kokoouline and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022712 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Measurement of spin-exchange rate constants between ${}^{129}{Xe}$ and alkali metals

Wenjin Shao, Guodong Wang, and Emlyn W. Hughes

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022713 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Production of three-body Efimov molecules in an optical lattice

Martin Stoll and Thorsten Köhler

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022714 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Rate coefficient for the chemi-ionization in slow ${Li}^{} (n) + Li$ and ${Na}^{} (n) + Na$ collisions

Lj. M. Ignjatović and A. A. Mihajlov

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022715 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Autoionization of He atoms by partially stripped ion impact

S. Otranto and R. E. Olson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022716 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Energy of the quasifree electron in argon and krypton

C. M. Evans and G. L. Findley

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022717 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Gigantic enhancement of atomic nondipole effects: The $3 s \to 3 d$ resonance in Ca

V. K. Dolmatov, D. Bailey, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022718 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Dissociative recombination of ${He}_{2}^{+}$

J. Royal and A. E. Orel

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022719 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Alignment effects in charge transfer and excitation for $H^{+}$ and ${He}^{2 +}$ collisions with $H_{2}^{+}$

D. J. Phalen, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022720 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Zel’dovich effect and evolution of atomic Rydberg spectra along the periodic table

Eugene B. Kolomeisky and Michael Timmins

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022721 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Electron impact ionization of Rydberg atoms

D. Vrinceanu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022722 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Electron-impact excitation cross sections from the xenon $J = 2$ metastable level

R. O. Jung, John B. Boffard, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022723 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Coulomb corrections in the lepton-pair production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

M. C. Güçlü, G. Kovankaya, and M. Yilmaz

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022724 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Ionization of hydrogen atoms by electron impact at 1, 0.5, and $0.3 eV$ above threshold

J. N. Das, S. Paul, and K. Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022725 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Proton–carbon monoxide collisions from 10 keV to 14 MeV

E. Wells, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, K. D. Carnes, Nora G. Johnson, Heather D. Baxter, David Moore, Kristana M. Bloom, B. M. Barnes, H. Tawara, and I. Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022726 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Double and triple photoionization of Li and Be

J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022727 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Channel-coupling, target-structure, and second-order effects in electron-impact ionization of $Ar (3 p)$ and $Ar (3 s)$

Klaus Bartschat and Oleg Vorov

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022728 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

$L$ -subshell ionization of Ce, Nd, and Lu by $4 - 10 − MeV$ C ions

G. Lapicki, A. C. Mandal, S. Santra, D. Mitra, M. Sarkar, D. Bhattacharya, P. Sen, L. Sarkadi, and D. Trautmann

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022729 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Inner-shell excitation of acetylene by electron impact

S. E. Michelin, O. Pessoa, H. L. Oliveira, E. Veiteinheimer, A. M. S. Santos, M. M. Fujimoto, I. Iga, and M.-T. Lee

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022730 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Direct diagrammatic construction scheme for the inelastic propagator between simply excited states

B. Feuerbacher and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022731 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

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

Energy loss of charged particles at large distances from metal surfaces

K. Tőkési, X.-M. Tong, C. Lemell, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 72, 022901 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Fragmentation and Coulomb explosion of deuterium clusters by the interaction with intense laser pulses

M. Isla and J. A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023201 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Dynamic polarization effects in ion channeling through single-wall carbon nanotubes

Da-Peng Zhou, You-Nian Wang, Li Wei, and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023202 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Shell structure of magnesium and other divalent metal clusters

Th. Diederich, T. Döppner, Th. Fennel, J. Tiggesbäumker, and K.-H. Meiwes-Broer

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023203 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Density-functional study of structural and electronic properties of ${Al}_{n} N (n = 2 - 12)$ clusters

Baolin Wang, Jijun Zhao, Daning Shi, Xiaoshuang Chen, and Guanghou Wang

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023204 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Relaxation of atomic polarization in paraffin-coated cesium vapor cells

M. T. Graf, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, K. Kerner, C. Wong, D. Budker, E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, and V. V. Yashchuk

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023401 (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Optimally controlled field-free orientation of the kicked molecule

Claude M. Dion, Arne Keller, and Osman Atabek

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023402 (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

Exotic $H_{3}^{2 +}$ ion in a strong magnetic field: Linear configuration

A. V. Turbiner, J. C. López Vieyra, and N. L. Guevara

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023403 (2005) - Published 2 August, 2005

Steady-state light-induced forces for atom lithography

A. V. Bezverbny, O. N. Prudnikov, A. V. Taichenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, and V. I. Yudin

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023404 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Coherent population transfer of ground-state atoms into Rydberg states

T. Cubel, B. K. Teo, V. S. Malinovsky, J. R. Guest, A. Reinhard, B. Knuffman, P. R. Berman, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023405 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Analysis of dephasing mechanisms in a standing-wave dipole trap

S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, I. Dotsenko, Y. Miroshnychenko, A. Rauschenbeutel, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023406 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Bragg spectroscopy of ultracold atoms loaded in an optical lattice

Ana Maria Rey, P. Blair Blakie, Guido Pupillo, Carl J. Williams, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023407 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Laser-induced electron recollision in $H_{2}$ and electron correlation

Andre D. Bandrauk and HuiZhong Lu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023408 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Photoionization of helium atoms irradiated with intense vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser light. Part I. Experimental study of multiphoton and single-photon processes

T. Laarmann, A. R. B. de Castro, P. Gürtler, W. Laasch, J. Schulz, H. Wabnitz, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023409 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Photoionization of helium atoms irradiated with intense vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser light. Part II. Theoretical modeling of multi-photon and single-photon processes

A. R. B. de Castro, T. Laarmann, J. Schulz, H. Wabnitz, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023410 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Geometrical effects in the loading of an optical atom trap

P. Ahmadi, B. P. Timmons, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023411 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Photoemission and high-order harmonic generation from solid surfaces in intense laser fields

F. H. M. Faisal, J. Z. Kamiński, and E. Saczuk

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023412 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Frequency-chirp rates of harmonics driven by a few-cycle pulse

M. Murakami, J. Mauritsson, and M. B. Gaarde

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023413 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Enhancement of the recoil effect in x-ray photoelectron spectra of molecules driven by a strong ir field

V. C. Felicíssimo, F. F. Guimarães, and F. Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023414 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Strong-field approximation for intense-laser–atom processes: The choice of gauge

D. Bauer, D. B. Milošević, and W. Becker

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023415 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Observable-preserving control of quantum dynamics over a family of related systems

Adam Rothman, Tak-San Ho, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023416 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Atom nanolithography with multilayer light masks: Particle optics analysis

R. Arun, I. Sh. Averbukh, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023417 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Intense laser ionization of transiently aligned CO

D. Pinkham and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023418 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Control of $(1 + 1 + 1^{'})$ -photon dissociation dynamics in the NaH molecule using three delayed ultrashort pulses

Anindita Bhattacharjee and Krishna Rai Dastidar

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023419 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Dynamics of laser-induced molecular alignment in the impulsive and adiabatic regimes: A direct comparison

R. Torres, R. de Nalda, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023420 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Simultaneous cooling of axial vibrational modes in a linear ion trap

Christof Wunderlich, Giovanna Morigi, and Dirk Reiß

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023421 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Nonadiabatic dynamics of ethylene in femtosecond laser pulses

Thomas Kunert, Frank Grossmann, and Rüdiger Schmidt

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023422 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Matter waves

Atom-molecule two-component boson systems

T. Sogo, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023601 (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Phase shifts in precision atom interferometry due to the localization of atoms and optical fields

A. Wicht, E. Sarajlic, J. M. Hensley, and S. Chu

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023602 (2005) - Published 1 August, 2005

Transverse excitations of ultracold matter waves upon propagation past abrupt waveguide changes

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

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023603 (2005) - Published 3 August, 2005

Quantum kinetic theory of a Bose-Einstein gas confined in a lattice

Ana Maria Rey, B. L. Hu, Esteban Calzetta, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023604 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Reconstruction of the phase of matter-wave fields using a momentum-resolved cross-correlation technique

D. Meiser and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023605 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Dynamics of quasisolitons in degenerate fermionic gases

Emilia Witkowska and Mirosław Brewczyk

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023606 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Two-wire guides and traps with vertical bias fields on atom chips

K. Brugger, P. Krüger, X. Luo, S. Wildermuth, H. Gimpel, M. W. Klein, S. Groth, R. Folman, I. Bar-Joseph, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023607 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Peak in the static structure factor of a Bose-Einstein condensate

J. Steinhauer, R. Ozeri, N. Katz, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023608 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Lagrangian approach to the dynamics of dark matter-wave solitons

G. Theocharis, P. Schmelcher, M. K. Oberthaler, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023609 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Spontaneous magnetization and structure formation in a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate

Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023610 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Landau-Zener tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice

V. V. Konotop, P. G. Kevrekidis, and M. Salerno

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023611 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Efficient loading of a magnetic waveguide on an atom chip

Peter D. D. Schwindt, Eric A. Cornell, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Ying-Ju Wang, and Dana Z. Anderson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023612 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Stability diagram and growth rate of parametric resonances in Bose-Einstein condensates in one-dimensional optical lattices

C. Tozzo, M. Krämer, and F. Dalfovo

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023613 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Collective motions of a quantum gas confined in a harmonic trap

Dae-Yup Song

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023614 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Bose-Einstein condensation of trapped atoms with dipole interactions

Kwangsik Nho and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023615 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Casimir forces between defects in one-dimensional quantum liquids

A. Recati, J. N. Fuchs, C. S. Peça, and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023616 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Static properties and spin dynamics of the ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose gas in a magnetic field

Krisztián Kis-Szabó, Péter Szépfalusy, and Gergely Szirmai

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023617 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Vortices in condensate mixtures

Christophe Josserand and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023618 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Dynamics of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in a harmonic plus quartic trap

Jong-kwan Kim and Alexander L. Fetter

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023619 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Dissociation of ultracold molecules via Feshbach resonances: The effect of magnetic-field fluctuations

S. Brouard and J. Plata

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023620 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Condensate fraction of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

Luca Salasnich, Nicola Manini, and Alberto Parola

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023621 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Parametric amplification of frequency-shifted optical feedback

A. Witomski, E. Lacot, O. Hugon, and T. Erneux

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023801 (2005) - Published 3 August, 2005

Control of spontaneous emission from a coherently driven four-level atom

Jin-Hui Wu, Ai-Jun Li, Yue Ding, Yan-Chun Zhao, and Jin-Yue Gao

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023802 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Double switching from normal to anomalous dispersion via trichromatic phase manipulation of electromagnetically induced transparency

Xiang-ming Hu, Guang-ling Cheng, Jin-hua Zou, Xing Li, and Dan Du

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023803 (2005) - Published 4 August, 2005

Image transmission through a stable paraxial cavity

Sylvain Gigan, Laurent Lopez, Nicolas Treps, Agnès Maître, and Claude Fabre

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023804 (2005) - Published 5 August, 2005

Nonlinear response of a harmonic diatomic molecule: Algebraic nonperturbative calculation

José Récamier, W. Luis Mochán, and Jesús A. Maytorena

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023805 (2005) - Published 5 August, 2005

Splitting of an electromagnetically induced transparency window of rubidium atoms in a static magnetic field

Xiao-Gang Wei, Jin-Hui Wu, Gui-Xia Sun, Zhuang Shao, Zhi-Hui Kang, Yun Jiang, and Jin-Yue Gao

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023806 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Theory of femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman backscattering enhanced by quantum coherence for standoff detection of bacterial spores

C. H. Raymond Ooi, Guy Beadie, George W. Kattawar, John F. Reintjes, Yuri Rostovtsev, M. Suhail Zubairy, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023807 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Polarization of signal wave radiation generated by parametric four-wave mixing in rubidium vapor: Ultrafast $(\sim 150 − fs)$ and nanosecond time scale excitation

C.-J. Zhu, A. A. Senin, Z.-H. Lu, J. Gao, Y. Xiao, and J. G. Eden

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023811 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Simultaneous measurement of patterns in the signal and idler near and far fields from a confocal optical parametrical oscillator with applications in quantum optics

Mikael Lassen, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, and Preben Buchhave

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023817 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Spectral properties of three-photon entangled states generated via three-photon parametric down-conversion in a $χ^{(3)}$ medium

M. V. Chekhova, O. A. Ivanova, V. Berardi, and A. Garuccio

Phys. Rev. A 72, 023818 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Lifetime of the potassium $5 P_{1 ∕ 2}$ state

A. Mills, J. A. Behr, L. A. Courneyea, and M. R. Pearson

Phys. Rev. A 72, 024501 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Direct optimization method to study constrained systems within density-functional theory

Qin Wu and Troy Van Voorhis

Phys. Rev. A 72, 024502 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Relative charge transfer cross section from $Rb (4 d)$

M. H. Shah, H. A. Camp, M. L. Trachy, X. Fléchard, M. A. Gearba, H. Nguyen, R. Brédy, S. R. Lundeen, and B. D. DePaola

Phys. Rev. A 72, 024701 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

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

Spin-dependent electron emission from metals in the neutralization of ${He}^{+}$ ions

M. Alducin, J. I. Juaristi, R. Díez Muiño, M. Rösler, and P. M. Echenique

Phys. Rev. A 72, 024901 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Heavy-ion stopping in solids: Energy transfer to the target or the dragging force due to the induced potential wake

Florian Grüner and Friedhelm Bell

Phys. Rev. A 72, 024902 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Matter waves

Nonstandard pairing in asymmetric trapped Fermi gases

Paolo Castorina, Marcella Grasso, Micaela Oertel, Michael Urban, and Dario Zappalà

Phys. Rev. A 72, 025601 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Quasi-one-dimensional bosons in three-dimensional traps: From strong-coupling to weak-coupling regime

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

Phys. Rev. A 72, 025602 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Power dependence of the coherent-population-trapping resonances registered in fluorescence and transmission: Resonance-width narrowing effects

S. Gateva, E. Alipieva, and E. Taskova

Phys. Rev. A 72, 025805 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum convolutional error-correcting codes”

Antonio Carlos Aido de Almeida and Reginaldo Palazzo, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 72, 026301 (2005) - Published 5 August, 2005

Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum convolutional error-correcting codes’ ”

H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. A 72, 026302 (2005) - Published 5 August, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Density-functional theory in one dimension for contact-interacting fermions [Phys. Rev. A 70, 032508 (2004)]

R. J. Magyar and K. Burke

Phys. Rev. A 72, 029901 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Erratum: Observation of the angle-resolved resonant Auger emission from the $[1 s 2 p] ({}^{3, 1}P) 3 p^{2} {}^{1}P$ doubly excited $2 p − 2 h$ states of Ne [Phys. Rev. A 70, 022710 (2004)]

M. Oura, Y. Tamenori, T. Hayaishi, Y. Kanai, H. Yoshii, K. Tsukamoto, and F. Koike

Phys. Rev. A 72, 029902 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Publisher's Note: Optimal partial estimation of multiple phases [Phys. Rev. A 72, 012311 (2005)]

Ladislav Mišta, Jr., Jaromír Fiurášek, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 72, 029903 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Erratum: Density functionals for the strong-interaction limit [Phys. Rev. A 62, 012502 (2000)]

Michael Seidl, John P. Perdew, and Stefan Kurth

Phys. Rev. A 72, 029904 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Erratum: Quantum computing in the presence of spontaneous emission by a combined dynamical decoupling and quantum-error-correction strategy [Phys. Rev. A 68, 022322 (2003)]

K. Khodjasteh and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. A 72, 029905 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005