Volume 73, Issue 2

February 2006

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Decoherence-free emergence of macroscopic local realism for entangled photons in a cavity

S. Portolan, O. Di Stefano, S. Savasta, F. Rossi, and R. Girlanda

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020101(R) (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Quantum information

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Experimental fault-tolerant quantum cryptography in a decoherence-free subspace

Qiang Zhang, Juan Yin, Teng-Yun Chen, Shan Lu, Jun Zhang, Xiao-Qiang Li, Tao Yang, Xiang-Bin Wang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020301(R) (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

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Quantum memory for nonstationary light fields based on controlled reversible inhomogeneous broadening

B. Kraus, W. Tittel, N. Gisin, M. Nilsson, S. Kröll, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020302(R) (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Triple-differential cross-section measurements of electron-impact ionization of argon $3 s$ in the backward scattering direction

M. A. Stevenson and B. Lohmann

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020701(R) (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

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Collisional deexcitation in a quasi-two-dimensional degenerate bosonic gas

I. B. Spielman, P. R. Johnson, J. H. Huckans, C. D. Fertig, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020702(R) (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

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Laser-driven target of high-density nuclear-polarized hydrogen gas

B. Clasie, C. Crawford, J. Seely, W. Xu, D. Dutta, and H. Gao

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020703(R) (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

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Emission of fast atoms from a cold Rydberg gas

B. Knuffman and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020704(R) (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

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Observation of resonant-excitation double autoionization in electron- $I^{50 +}$ collisions

Nobuyuki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Tobiyama, Hiroaki Nohara, Daiji Kato, Hirofumi Watanabe, Fred J. Currell, and Shunsuke Ohtani

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020705(R) (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

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Femtosecond nuclear motion of $HCl$ probed by resonant x-ray Raman scattering in the Cl $1 s$ region

M. Simon, L. Journel, R. Guillemin, W. C. Stolte, I. Minkov, F. Gel’mukhanov, P. Sałek, H. Ågren, S. Carniato, R. Taïeb, A. C. Hudson, and D. W. Lindle

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020706(R) (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

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Experimental and theoretical studies of the photoionization cross section of ${Fe}^{4 +}$

J. M. Bizau, C. Blancard, D. Cubaynes, F. Folkmann, D. Kilbane, G. Faussurier, H. Luna, J. L. Lemaire, J. Blieck, and F. J. Wuilleumier

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020707(R) (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

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Angular correlation in the two-electron continuum

A. S. Kheifets and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020708(R) (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

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

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Measurements of polyatomic molecule formation on an icy grain analog using fast atoms

S. Madzunkov, B. J. Shortt, J. A. MacAskill, M. R. Darrach, and A. Chutjian

Phys. Rev. A 73, 020901(R) (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Two-photon excitation of low-lying electronic quadrupole states in atomic clusters

V. O. Nesterenko, P.-G. Reinhard, T. Halfmann, and L. I. Pavlov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021201(R) (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

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Verification of long-lived molecular hydrogen anions ( $H_{n}^{-}$ , $D_{n}^{-}$ , $n = 2, 3$ ) by secondary-ion mass spectrometry

Hubert Gnaser and Robin Golser

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021202(R) (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Generation of microscale current loops, atom rings, and cubic clusters using twisted optical molasses

A. R. Carter, M. Babiker, M. Al-Amri, and D. L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021401(R) (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

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Controlling vibrational wave packets with intense, few-cycle laser pulses

Hiromichi Niikura, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021402(R) (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

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Observation of blue satellite bands and photoassociation at ultracold temperatures

Marin Pichler, Jianbing Qi, William C. Stwalley, Robert Beuc, and Goran Pichler

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021403(R) (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Matter waves

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Anderson lattice description of photoassociation in an optical lattice

Takahiko Miyakawa and Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021601(R) (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

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Exactly solvable case of a one-dimensional Bose–Fermi mixture

Adilet Imambekov and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021602(R) (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

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Sound propagation in elongated superfluid fermionic clouds

P. Capuzzi, P. Vignolo, F. Federici, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021603(R) (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Compact solid-state laser source for $1 S − 2 S$ spectroscopy in atomic hydrogen

N. Kolachevsky, J. Alnis, S. D. Bergeson, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021801(R) (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

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Scanning interferometric microscopy for the detection of ultrasmall phase shifts in condensed matter

J. Hwang, M. M. Fejer, and W. E. Moerner

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021802(R) (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

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Theory of dark-state polariton collapses and revivals

S. D. Jenkins, D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, A. Kuzmich, and T. A. B. Kennedy

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021803(R) (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

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Interference effects in IR photon echo spectroscopy of liquid water

Sergey Yeremenko, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, and Douwe A. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021804(R) (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

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Coherent interaction of femtosecond extreme-uv light with He atoms

Daniel Strasser, Thomas Pfeifer, Brian J. Hom, Astrid M. Müller, Jürgen Plenge, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 73, 021805(R) (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Assumptions that imply quantum dynamics is linear

Thomas F. Jordan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022101 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Non-Markovian reduced propagator, multiple-time correlation functions, and master equations with general initial conditions in the weak-coupling limit

Inés de Vega and Daniel Alonso

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022102 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Phase avalanches in near-adiabatic evolutions

T. Vértesi and R. Englman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022103 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Experimenter’s freedom in Bell’s theorem and quantum cryptography

Johannes Kofler, Tomasz Paterek, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022104 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Method for obtaining exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a double-square-well potential

P. Ziń, E. Infeld, M. Matuszewski, G. Rowlands, and Marek Trippenbach

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022105 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Geometric phases for laser-induced aligned pendular states of linear molecules

Dmitriy V. Aleynikov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022106 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Sensitivity of condensed-matter $P$ - and $T$ -violation experiments

D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. O. Sushkov, and O. P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022107 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Two-center interferometry and decoherence effects

James M. Feagin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022108 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Tensor products of convex sets and the volume of separable states on $N$ qudits

Guillaume Aubrun and Stanisław J. Szarek

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022109 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Tsirelson bounds for generalized Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalities

Stephanie Wehner

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022110 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Decoherence modes of entangled qubits within neutron interferometry

Reinhold A. Bertlmann, Katharina Durstberger, and Yuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022111 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Breit interaction and parity nonconservation in many-electron atoms

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022112 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Bound states in the continuum in quantum-dot pairs

Gonzalo Ordonez, Kyungsun Na, and Sungyun Kim

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022113 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Interpretational difficulties in quantum field theory

P. Krekora, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022114 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Quantum information

Qubit degradation due to cross-phase-modulation photon-number measurement

Jeffrey H. Shapiro and Roy S. Bondurant

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022301 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Two-player quantum pseudotelepathy based on recent all-versus-nothing violations of local realism

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022302 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Two-setting Bell inequalities for graph states

Géza Tóth, Otfried Gühne, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022303 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Decoherence-free manipulation of photonic memories for quantum computation

N. Sangouard

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022304 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Solid-state NMR three-qubit homonuclear system for quantum-information processing: Control and characterization

Jonathan Baugh, Osama Moussa, Colm A. Ryan, Raymond Laflamme, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Timothy F. Havel, and David G. Cory

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022305 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Optimal generation of single-qubit operation from an always-on interaction by algebraic decoupling

Jun Zhang and K. Birgitta Whaley

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022306 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Simultaneous amplitude and phase damping of $x − p$ symmetric Gaussian states and their separability

Xiao-yu Chen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022307 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Grover’s quantum search algorithm and Diophantine approximation

Shahar Dolev, Itamar Pitowsky, and Boaz Tamir

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022308 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Natural three-qubit interactions in one-way quantum computing

M. S. Tame, M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022309 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Graph-state preparation and quantum computation with global addressing of optical lattices

Alastair Kay, Jiannis K. Pachos, and Charles S. Adams

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022310 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Entanglement under restricted operations: Analogy to mixed-state entanglement

Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew C. Doherty, Robert W. Spekkens, and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022311 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Enhanced dynamical entanglement transfer with multiple qubits

A. Serafini, M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and S. Bose

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022312 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Complete disentanglement by partial pure dephasing

Katarzyna Roszak and Paweł Machnikowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022313 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Quantitative measure of interference

Daniel Braun and Bertrand Georgeot

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022314 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Generation of Werner states via collective decay of coherently driven atoms

Girish S. Agarwal and Kishore T. Kapale

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022315 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Coherent-state quantum key distribution without random basis switching

Christian Weedbrook, Andrew M. Lance, Warwick P. Bowen, Thomas Symul, Timothy C. Ralph, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022316 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Wave-packet transmission of Bloch electrons manipulated by magnetic field

S. Yang, Z. Song, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022317 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Quantum transducers: Integrating transmission lines and nanomechanical resonators via charge qubits

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022318 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Quasimultipartite entanglement measure based on quadratic functions

Jing Zhang, Chun-Wen Li, Jian-Wu Wu, Re-Bing Wu, and Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022319 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems

N. Gisin, S. Fasel, B. Kraus, H. Zbinden, and G. Ribordy

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022320 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Protocol and quantum circuits for realizing deterministic entanglement concentration

Yong-Jian Gu, Wen-Dong Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022321 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Sharing polarization within quantum subspaces

M. S. Anwar, J. A. Jones, and S. B. Duckett

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022322 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Incoherent control and entanglement for two-dimensional coupled systems

Raffaele Romano and Domenico D’Alessandro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022323 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Quantum uncertainty of mixed states based on skew information

Shunlong Luo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022324 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Global entanglement for multipartite quantum states

Chang-shui Yu and He-shan Song

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022325 (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Geometric quantum computation using fictitious spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ subspaces of strongly dipolar coupled nuclear spins

T. Gopinath and Anil Kumar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022326 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Robust gates for holonomic quantum computation

Giuseppe Florio, Paolo Facchi, Rosario Fazio, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Saverio Pascazio

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022327 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Simulating lattice gauge theories on a quantum computer

Tim Byrnes and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022328 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Exponential complexity of an adiabatic algorithm for an NP-complete problem

Marko Žnidarič and Martin Horvat

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022329 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Experimental construction of optical multiqubit cluster states from Bell states

An-Ning Zhang, Chao-Yang Lu, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Yu-Ao Chen, Zhi Zhao, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022330 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Single-passage readout of atomic quantum memory

J. Fiurášek, J. Sherson, T. Opatrný, and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022331 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

High-fidelity one-qubit operations under random telegraph noise

Mikko Möttönen, Rogerio de Sousa, Jun Zhang, and K. Birgitta Whaley

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022332 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

All possible bipartite positive-operator-value measurements of two-photon polarization states

S. E. Ahnert and M. C. Payne

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022333 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Fast simulation of stabilizer circuits using a graph-state representation

Simon Anders and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022334 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Regulating entanglement production in multitrap Bose-Einstein condensates

V. I. Yukalov and E. P. Yukalova

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022335 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Fidelity of holonomic quantum computations in the case of random errors in the values of control parameters

P. V. Buividovich and V. I. Kuvshinov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022336 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Two-reservoir model of quantum error correction

James P. Clemens and Julio Gea-Banacloche

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022337 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Secure direct communication based on secret transmitting order of particles

Ai-Dong Zhu, Yan Xia, Qiu-Bo Fan, and Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022338 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Entanglement evolution of one-dimensional spin systems in external magnetic fields

Zhen Huang and Sabre Kais

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022339 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Remote preparation of a qudit using maximally entangled states of qubits

Chang-shui Yu, He-shan Song, and Ya-hong Wang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022340 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Relative states, quantum axes, and quantum references

E. Bagan, S. Iblisdir, and R. Muñoz-Tapia

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022341 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Noncommutative optimal control and quantum networks

Masahiro Yanagisawa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022342 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Geometric continuous dynamical decoupling with bounded controls

Pochung Chen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022343 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Simulation of many-qubit quantum computation with matrix product states

M. C. Bañuls, R. Orús, J. I. Latorre, A. Pérez, and P. Ruiz-Femenía

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022344 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Approximate programmable quantum processors

Mark Hillery, Mário Ziman, and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022345 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Nonlocality without inequality for almost all two-qubit entangled states based on Cabello’s nonlocality argument

Samir Kunkri, Sujit K. Choudhary, Ali Ahanj, and Pramod Joag

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022346 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Global entanglement in $X X Z$ chains

N. Canosa and R. Rossignoli

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022347 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Relativistic four-component static-exchange approximation for core-excitation processes in molecules

Ulf Ekström, Patrick Norman, and Vincenzo Carravetta

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022501 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Adiabatic ab initio time-dependent density-functional theory employing optimized-effective-potential many-body perturbation theory potentials

Denis Bokhan and Rodney J. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022502 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Ground-state wave function and energy of the lithium atom

Mariusz Puchalski and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022503 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Binding energy and structure of $e^{+} Li$ and $e^{-} Li$ using a parametric model potential

J. Shertzer and S. J. Ward

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022504 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Frequency-dependent polarizabilities of alkali-metal atoms from ultraviolet through infrared spectral regions

M. S. Safronova, Bindiya Arora, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022505 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Determinations of $E F$ ${}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+} \leftarrow X {}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+}$ transition frequencies in $H_{2}$ , $D_{2}$ , and $HD$

A. Yiannopoulou, N. Melikechi, S. Gangopadhyay, J. C. Meiners, C. H. Cheng, and E. E. Eyler

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022506 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Evolution of Au $L β_{2}$ visible satellites around thresholds

H. Oohashi, Y. Ito, T. Tochio, A. M. Vlaicu, and T. Mukoyama

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022507 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Time-resolved soft-x-ray spectroscopy of a magnetic octupole transition in nickel-like xenon, cesium, and barium ions

E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, K. Boyce, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, F. S. Porter, and A. Szymkowiak

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022508 (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Hyperfine structure of metastable states in ${}^{3}{He}^{+} \bar{p}$ atom

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022509 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Quadrupole moments and hyperfine constants of metastable states of ${Ca}^{+}$ , ${Sr}^{+}$ , ${Ba}^{+}$ , ${Yb}^{+}$ , ${Hg}^{+}$ , and Au

Wayne M. Itano

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022510 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Stark-induced magnetic anapole moment in the ground state of the relativistic hydrogenlike atom: Application of the Sturmian expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function

Krzysztof Mielewczyk and Radosław Szmytkowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022511 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Dissociative electron attachment and vibrational excitation of $H_{2}$ by low-energy electrons: Calculations based on an improved nonlocal resonance model. II. Vibrational excitation

J. Horáček, M. Čížek, K. Houfek, P. Kolorenč, and W. Domcke

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022701 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Retardation, multipole, and relativistic kinematics effects for x- and $γ$ -ray Compton scattering from $K$ -shell electrons

A. Costescu and S. Spanulescu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022702 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Quantum scattering of $O H (X {}^{2}Π)$ with $He ({}^{1}S)$ : Propensity features in rotational relaxation at ultralow energies

L. González-Sánchez, E. Bodo, and F. A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022703 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Turn-up effects at low momentum for the highest occupied molecular orbital of oxygen at various impact energies by electron momentum spectroscopy

C. G. Ning, X. G. Ren, J. K. Deng, G. L. Su, S. F. Zhang, and G. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022704 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Positron binding to alkali-metal hydrides: The role of molecular vibrations

Franco A. Gianturco, Jan Franz, Robert J. Buenker, Heinz-Peter Liebermann, Lukáš Pichl, Jan-Michael Rost, Masanori Tachikawa, and Mineo Kimura

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022705 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Charge-transfer processes in collisions of ${He}^{2 +}$ ions with $H_{2}, N_{2}, O_{2}$ , CO, and $C O_{2}$ molecules below $4 keV ∕ u$

Toshio Kusakabe, Yoshiharu Miyamoto, Mineo Kimura, and Hiroyuki Tawara

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022706 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Suppression of inelastic collisions of polar ${}^{1}Σ$ state molecules in an electrostatic field

Alexander V. Avdeenkov, Masatoshi Kajita, and John L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022707 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Double $K$ -shell photoionization of silver

E. P. Kanter, I. Ahmad, R. W. Dunford, D. S. Gemmell, B. Krässig, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022708 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Population of individual Ne $1 s^{- 1} n p$ Rydberg states measured across the $1 s$ ionization threshold and the evolution of shake-up into shake-down

U. Hergenhahn, A. De Fanis, G. Prümper, A. K. Kazansky, N. M. Kabachnik, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022709 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Long-range interactions between a $He (2 {}^{3}S)$ atom and a $He (2 {}^{3}P)$ atom for like isotopes

J.-Y. Zhang, Z.-C. Yan, D. Vrinceanu, J. F. Babb, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022710 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Electron-impact dissociative ionization of ethylene

S. Popović, S. Williams, and L. Vušković

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022711 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Dissociative recombination of small carbon cluster cations

O. Heber, K. Seiersen, H. Bluhme, A. Svendsen, L. H. Andersen, and L. Maunoury

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022712 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Nonadiabatic transmission: Exact quantum-mechanical solution for a special case of the two-state exponential model

V. I. Osherov and V. G. Ushakov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022713 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Low-energy photodetachment of $O^{-}$

Oleg Zatsarinny and Klaus Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022714 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Optical analog of Rabi oscillation suppression due to atomic motion

J. G. Muga and B. Navarro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022715 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Nondipole effects in the angular distribution of photoelectrons from the C $K$ shell of the CO molecule

K. Hosaka, J. Adachi, A. V. Golovin, M. Takahashi, T. Teramoto, N. Watanabe, T. Jahnke, Th. Weber, M. Schöffler, L. Schmidt, T. Osipov, O. Jagutzki, A. L. Landers, M. H. Prior, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, A. Yagishita, S. K. Semenov, and N. A. Cherepkov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022716 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Quantum dynamics of localized excitations in a symmetric trimer molecule

R. A. Pinto and S. Flach

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022717 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Absolute photoionization cross sections along the Xe isonuclear sequence: ${Xe}^{3 +}$ to ${Xe}^{6 +}$

J. M. Bizau, C. Blancard, D. Cubaynes, F. Folkmann, J. P. Champeaux, J. L. Lemaire, and F. J. Wuilleumier

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022718 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Excitation of atoms and molecules by highly relativistic ions

M. Bär, B. Jakob, P. -G. Reinhard, and C. Toepffer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022719 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Laser excitation combined with $2 p$ photoionization and Auger decay of potassium

K. Jänkälä, R. Sankari, J. Schulz, M. Huttula, A. Caló, S. Heinäsmäki, S. Fritzsche, T. Rander, S. Svensson, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022720 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Nuclear relaxation of ${}^{3}{He}$ in the presence of $NO$

G. Archibald, E. Brief, C. Lei, T. Pausak, and M. E. Hayden

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022721 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Electronic structure and angular momentum coupling as reflected in electron excitation out of rare-gas metastable levels: Excitation cross sections of krypton

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022722 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

X-ray emission cross sections following charge exchange by multiply charged ions of astrophysical interest

S. Otranto, R. E. Olson, and P. Beiersdorfer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022723 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Dynamics of the helium atom close to the full fragmentation threshold: Double ionization

C. Bouri, P. Selles, L. Malegat, and M. G. Kwato Njock

Phys. Rev. A 73, 022724 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Absolute cross sections for the dissociation of hydrogen cluster ions in high-energy collisions with helium atoms

S. Eden, J. Tabet, K. Samraoui, S. Louc, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, S. Ouaskit, and T. D. Märk

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023201 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Potential energy landscapes of elemental and heterogeneous chalcogen clusters

John C. Mauro, Roger J. Loucks, Jitendra Balakrishnan, and Arun K. Varshneya

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023202 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Transverse stability in a Stark decelerator

Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Hendrick L. Bethlem, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023401 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Angular distribution in two-photon double ionization of helium by intense attosecond soft-x-ray pulses

Imre F. Barna, Jianyi Wang, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023402 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Effect of electron correlation on high-order-harmonic generation of helium atoms in intense laser fields: Time-dependent generalized pseudospectral approach in hyperspherical coordinates

Xiaoxu Guan, Xiao-Min Tong, and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023403 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Coherent control through near-resonant Raman transitions

Xingcan Dai, Eliza-Beth W. Lerch, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023404 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Strong-field ionization of molecules in circularly polarized few-cycle pulses

S. X. Hu and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023405 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Trap loss in a dual-species $Rb − {Ar}^{*}$ magneto-optical trap

H. C. Busch, M. K. Shaffer, E. M. Ahmed, and C. I. Sukenik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023406 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Wave-packet squeezing by iterative pump-dump control in diatomic molecules

Bo Y. Chang, Sungyul Lee, Ignacio R. Sola, and Jesús Santamaría

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023407 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Cooling of Sr to high phase-space density by laser and sympathetic cooling in isotopic mixtures

G. Ferrari, R. E. Drullinger, N. Poli, F. Sorrentino, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023408 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Phase-sensitive wave-packet dynamics caused by a breakdown of the rotating-wave approximation

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023409 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Strong-field approximation for harmonic generation in diatomic molecules

C. C. Chirilă and M. Lein

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023410 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Quantum mechanics of the dynamic Kingdon trap

R. Blümel and I. Garrick-Bethell

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023411 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Double resonance spectroscopy of the $B^{″} \bar{B}$ ${}^{1}Σ_{u}^{+}$ state of $H_{2}$

R. C. Ekey, Jr., A. Marks, and E. F. McCormack

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023412 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Precision lifetime measurements of a single trapped ion with ultrafast laser pulses

D. L. Moehring, B. B. Blinov, D. W. Gidley, R. N. Kohn, Jr., M. J. Madsen, T. D. Sanderson, R. S. Vallery, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023413 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Coherent control with shaped femtosecond laser pulses applied to ultracold molecules

Wenzel Salzmann, Ulrich Poschinger, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Andrea Merli, Stefan M. Weber, Franziska Sauer, Mateusz Plewicki, Fabian Weise, Aldo Mirabal Esparza, Ludger Wöste, and Albrecht Lindinger

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023414 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Product-state control in barium

Rekishu Yamazaki and D. S. Elliott

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023415 (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Complete population transfer by a zero-area pulse

G. S. Vasilev and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023416 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Ionization rates for He, Ne, and Ar subjected to laser light with wavelengths between 248.6 and $390 nm$

Hugo W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023417 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Observation of enhanced excitation of ${I_{2}}^{2 +}$ by strong laser fields

G. N. Gibson, R. N. Coffee, and L. Fang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023418 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Algebraic solution for a two-level atom in radiation fields and the Freeman resonances

Dong -Sheng Guo, Yong -Shi Wu, and Linn Van Woerkom

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023419 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Coherent pulsed excitation of degenerate multistate systems: Exact analytic solutions

E. S. Kyoseva and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023420 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Low-frequency–high-intensity limit of the Keldysh-Faisal-Reiss theory

Jarosław Bauer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023421 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Application of electromagnetically induced transparency for cold-atom velocimetry

F. B. M. dos Santos and J. W. R. Tabosa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023422 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Kinetic-energy–angle differential distribution of photofragments in multiphoton above-threshold dissociation of $D_{2}^{+}$ by linearly polarized $400 − nm$ intense laser fields: Effects of highly excited electronic states

Basir Ahamed Khan, Samir Saha, and S. S. Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023423 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Multiple reflections and diffuse scattering in Bragg scattering at optical lattices

S. Slama, C. von Cube, M. Kohler, C. Zimmermann, and Ph. W. Courteille

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023424 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Matter waves

Number-of-particle fluctuations and stability of Bose-Einstein-condensed systems

C.-H. Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023601 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Magnetization, squeezing, and entanglement in dipolar spin-1 condensates

S. Yi and H. Pu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023602 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Criterion for Bose-Einstein condensation in a harmonic trap in the case with attractive interactions

Mariusz Gajda

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023603 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Finite-temperature treatment of ultracold atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice

B. G. Wild, P. B. Blakie, and D. A. W. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023604 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Interplay of density and phase fluctuations in ultracold one-dimensional Bose gases

N. P. Proukakis

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023605 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Creation, detection, and decoherence of macroscopic quantum superposition states in double-well Bose-Einstein condensates

Y. P. Huang and M. G. Moore

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023606 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Two-component gap solitons in two- and one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates

A. Gubeskys, B. A. Malomed, and I. M. Merhasin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023607 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

The role of interactions, tunneling, and harmonic confinement on the adiabatic loading of bosons in an optical lattice

Ana Maria Rey, Guido Pupillo, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023608 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Classical and quantum dynamics of a model for atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

G. Santos, A. Tonel, A. Foerster, and J. Links

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023609 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Bose-Einstein-condensate superfluid–Mott-insulator transition in an optical lattice

Esteban Calzetta, B. L. Hu, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023610 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Tkachenko modes and structural phase transitions of the vortex lattice of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

M. Keçeli and M. Ö. Oktel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023611 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Polarizability and dynamic structure factor of the one-dimensional Bose gas near the Tonks-Girardeau limit at finite temperatures

Alexander Yu. Cherny and Joachim Brand

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023612 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Quantum carpets and correlated dynamics of several fermions

Mathias Nest

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023613 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Anyonic excitations in fast rotating Bose gases

A. Lakhoua, M. Lassaut, T. Masson, and J. C. Wallet

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023614 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates: From the Thomas-Fermi regime to the lowest-Landau-level regime

M. Cozzini, S. Stringari, and C. Tozzo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023615 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Condensation temperature of interacting Bose gases with and without disorder

O. Zobay

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023616 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Temperature of a trapped unitary Fermi gas at finite entropy

Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu, and Peter D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023617 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Self-consistent theory for molecular instabilities in a normal degenerate Fermi gas in the BEC-BCS crossover

R. Combescot, X. Leyronas, and M. Yu. Kagan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023618 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Complex-scaling approach to the decay of Bose-Einstein condensates

Peter Schlagheck and Tobias Paul

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023619 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Squeezed-state source using radiation-pressure-induced rigidity

Thomas Corbitt, Yanbei Chen, Farid Khalili, David Ottaway, Sergey Vyatchanin, Stan Whitcomb, and Nergis Mavalvala

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023801 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Approximate Fokker-Planck equation for a single-mode laser driven by quadratic pump noise and quantum noise with cross-correlation between real and imaginary parts of noise

Li Cao and Da-jin Wu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023802 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Projection measurement of the maximally entangled $N$ -photon state for a demonstration of the $N$ -photon de Broglie wavelength

F. W. Sun, Z. Y. Ou, and G. C. Guo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 023808 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Determination of the border between “shallow” and “deep” tunneling regions for the Herman-Kluk method by the asymptotic approach

Atushi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024101 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Geometric origin of dynamically induced freezing of quantum evolution

A. Matos-Abiague and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024102 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Calculation of metastable states associated with $d t μ_{J ν}$ ion using the variational method

M. R. Eskandari and R. Gheisari

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024501 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Bethe logarithm for the hydrogen molecular ion ${H_{2}}^{+}$

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024502 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Optical model for the positronium formation in positron-Mg collision

C. Cheng and Y. Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024701 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

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

Stopping power for swift dressed ions

C. C. Montanari and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 73, 024901 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Matter waves

Collective modes of a Fermi superfluid containing vortices along the BEC-BCS crossover

Tarun Kanti Ghosh and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. A 73, 025601 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Light-induced effective magnetic fields for ultracold atoms in planar geometries

G. Juzeliūnas, J. Ruseckas, P. Öhberg, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 025602 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Zero-range potentials for Dirac particles: Scattering and related continuum problems”

F. A. B. Coutinho and Y. Nogami

Phys. Rev. A 73, 026701 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Zero-range potentials for Dirac particles: Scattering and related continuum problems’ ”

Radosław Szmytkowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 026702 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Elastic resonant and nonresonant differential scattering of quasifree electrons from $B^{4 +} (1 s)$ and $B^{3 +} (1 s^{2})$ ions [Phys. Rev. A 69, 052718 (2004)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 029901 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006