Volume 73, Issue 3

Pontus Andersson, Karin Fritioff, Joakim Sandström, Gerard Collins, Dag Hanstorp, Anna Ellmann, Peter Schef, Peter Lundin, Sven Mannervik, Peder Royen, K. Charlotte Froese Fischer, Fabian Österdahl, Danijela Rostohar, David J. Pegg, N. D. Gibson, Håkan Danared, and Anders Källberg

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032705 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Thermalization in mixtures of ultracold gases

M. Anderlini and D. Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032706 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Measurement of $K$ -shell photoelectric absorption parameters of Hf, Ta, Au, and Pb by an alternative method using a weak $β$ -particle source

S. V. Nayak and N. M. Badiger

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032707 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Electron correlation of one-dimensional $H_{2}$ in intense laser fields: Time-dependent extended Hartree-Fock and time-dependent density-functional-theory approaches

Nam A. Nguyen and André D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032708 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Absolute cross section for $C^{2 +} (2 s 2 p {}^{3}P^{o} \to 2 p^{2} {}^{3}P)$ electron-impact excitation

A. Daw, L. D. Gardner, P. H. Janzen, and J. L. Kohl

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032709 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Updated single-electron-capture cross-section scaling rule for $A^{q +} + H_{2}$ collisions

Kevin R. Cornelius

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032710 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

$s$ -wave elastic scattering of antihydrogen off atomic alkali-metal targets

Prabal K. Sinha and A. S. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032711 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Line-resolved $M$ -shell x-ray production cross sections of Pb and Bi induced by highly charged C and F ions

Y. P. Singh, D. Misra, U. Kadhane, and Lokesh C. Tribedi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032712 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Homonuclear ionizing collisions of laser-cooled metastable helium atoms

R. J. W. Stas, J. M. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032713 (2006) - Published 14 March, 2006

Charge-transfer cross sections in collisions of ground-state Ca and $H^{+}$

C. M. Dutta, C. Oubre, P. Nordlander, M. Kimura, and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032714 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Characteristic x rays from multiple-electron capture by slow highly charged ${Ta}^{q +}$ ions from He and Xe atoms

S. Madzunkov, D. Fry, E. Lindroth, and R. Schuch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032715 (2006) - Published 16 March, 2006

Radiative electron capture into high- $Z$ few-electron ions: Alignment of the excited ionic states

Andrey Surzhykov, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Thomas Stöhlker, and Stephan Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032716 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Absolute photoionization cross sections for ${Xe}^{4 +}$ , ${Xe}^{5 +}$ , and ${Xe}^{6 +}$ near $13.5 nm$ : Experiment and theory

A. Aguilar, J. D. Gillaspy, G. F. Gribakin, R. A. Phaneuf, M. F. Gharaibeh, M. G. Kozlov, J. D. Bozek, and A. L. D. Kilcoyne

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032717 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Resonant Auger spectroscopy of metastable molecular oxygen

Hossein Farrokhpour, Michele Alagia, Marcello Coreno, Monica de Simone, Kevin C. Prince, Robert Richter, Stefano Stranges, and Mahmoud Tabrizchi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032718 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Internal conversion and the photoelectric effect

Allan H. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032719 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Dissociative recombination of ${Ne}_{2}^{+}$ molecular ions

V. Ngassam and A. E. Orel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032720 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Numerically solvable model for resonant collisions of electrons with diatomic molecules

Karel Houfek, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032721 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Excitations of light atoms during nuclear reactions with fast neutrons

James D. Talman and Alexei M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032722 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Asymptotic properties of the three-Coulomb-center problem $e Z_{1} Z Z$

V. Yu. Lazur, M. V. Khoma, and R. K. Janev

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032723 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Exact diagrammatic approach for dimer-dimer scattering and bound states of three and four resonantly interacting particles

I. V. Brodsky, M. Yu. Kagan, A. V. Klaptsov, R. Combescot, and X. Leyronas

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032724 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Many-body interactions in a sample of ultracold Rydberg atoms with varying dimensions and densities

Thomas J. Carroll, Shubha Sunder, and Michael W. Noel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032725 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

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

Photoelectron emission from metal surfaces by ultrashort laser pulses

M. N. Faraggi, M. S. Gravielle, and V. M. Silkin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032901 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Spatial decoherence near metallic surfaces

R. Fermani, S. Scheel, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032902 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Charge-transfer rates for xenon Rydberg atoms at a metal surface

S. Wethekam, H. R. Dunham, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032903 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Cluster explosion investigated by linearly chirped spectral scattering of an expanding plasma sphere

Jiansheng Liu, Cheng Wang, Bingchen Liu, Bin Shuai, Wentao Wang, Yi Cai, Hongyu Li, Guoquan Ni, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033201 (2006) - Published 1 March, 2006

Coulomb explosions and stopping of molecular ions channeled through carbon nanotubes

Da-Peng Zhou, Yuan-Hong Song, You-Nian Wang, and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033202 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Coulomb explosion induced by intense ultrashort laser pulses in two-dimensional clusters

Vincent Mijoule, Laurent J. Lewis, and Michel Meunier

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033203 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Three-body recombination for electrons in a strong magnetic field: Magnetic moment

F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033401 (2006) - Published 1 March, 2006

Inelastic scattering of light by a cold trapped atom: Effects of the quantum center-of-mass motion

Marc Bienert, Wolfgang Merkel, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033402 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Coherent creation and annihilation of rotational wave packets in incoherent ensembles

Kevin F. Lee, E. A. Shapiro, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033403 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Coherent manipulation of atoms by copropagating laser beams

Yuri B. Ovchinnikov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033404 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Alignment enhancement by the combination of a short and a long laser pulse

Mikael D. Poulsen, Tine Ejdrup, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Edward Hamilton, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033405 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

$S$ -matrix theory of inelastic vibronic ionization of molecules in intense laser fields

A. Requate, A. Becker, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033406 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Geometrical dependence in photoionization of ${H_{2}}^{+}$ in high-intensity, high-frequency, ultrashort laser pulses

S. Selstø, J. F. McCann, M. Førre, J. P. Hansen, and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033407 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Making ultracold molecules in a two-color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses

Christiane P. Koch, Eliane Luc-Koenig, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033408 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Coherent amplification in laser cooling and trapping

Tim Freegarde, Geoff Daniell, and Danny Segal

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033409 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Time-dependent theoretical description of molecular autoionization produced by femtosecond xuv laser pulses

José Luis Sanz-Vicario, Henri Bachau, and Fernando Martín

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033410 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Influence of a dc offset field on kicked quasi-one-dimensional Rydberg atoms: Stabilization and frustrated field ionization

S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033411 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Fluorescence profiles and cooling dynamics of laser-cooled ${Mg}^{+}$ ions in a linear rf ion trap

XianZhen Zhao, Vladimir L. Ryjkov, and Hans A. Schuessler

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033412 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Interferences of real trajectories and the emergence of quantum features in electron-atom scattering in a strong laser field

A. Čerkić and D. B. Milošević

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033413 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Spin-exchange frequency shift in alkali-metal-vapor cell frequency standards

Salvatore Micalizio, Aldo Godone, Filippo Levi, and Jacques Vanier

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033414 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Intense slow beams of bosonic potassium isotopes

J. Catani, P. Maioli, L. De Sarlo, F. Minardi, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033415 (2006) - Published 14 March, 2006

Mode-selective excitation using ultrafast chirped laser pulses

S. A. Malinovskaya

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033416 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Coupled dynamics of atoms and radiation-pressure-driven interferometers

D. Meiser and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033417 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Field-free one-dimensional alignment of ethylene molecule

A. Rouzée, S. Guérin, V. Boudon, B. Lavorel, and O. Faucher

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033418 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Impact of the laser magnetic field on recombination and bremsstrahlung radiation from atomic ionization rescattering in ultraintense fields

I. Ghebregziabiher, S. Palaniyappan, J. MacDonald, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033419 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Realization of the kicked atom at high scaled frequencies

C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, J. Burgdörfer, W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033420 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Predictions of laser-cooling temperatures for multilevel atoms in three-dimensional polarization-gradient fields

Josh W. Dunn and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033421 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Matter waves

Splitting and merging an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature

A. Mebrahtu, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033601 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Elastic scattering losses from colliding Bose-Einstein condensates

Paweł Ziń, Jan Chwedeńczuk, and Marek Trippenbach

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033602 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Instability-induced localization of matter waves in moving optical lattices

Beata J. Dąbrowska, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033603 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Superradiance from hydrodynamic vortices: A numerical study

F. Federici, C. Cherubini, S. Succi, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033604 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Lattice of double wells for manipulating pairs of cold atoms

J. Sebby-Strabley, M. Anderlini, P. S. Jessen, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033605 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Finite-temperature properties of quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates

Kwangsik Nho and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033606 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Properties of trapped Bose gas with vortices in large-gas-parameter regime

Arup Banerjee and Manoranjan P. Singh

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033607 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Analytical study of resonant transport of Bose-Einstein condensates

K. Rapedius, D. Witthaut, and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033608 (2006) - Published 13 March, 2006

Density-functional theory of strongly correlated Fermi gases in elongated harmonic traps

Gao Xianlong, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033609 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Measurement of atomic diffraction phases induced by material gratings

John D. Perreault and Alexander D. Cronin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033610 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Critical fluctuations in a soliton formation of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates

Rina Kanamoto, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033611 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

One-dimensional gas of bosons with Feshbach-resonant interactions

V. Gurarie

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033612 (2006) - Published 16 March, 2006

Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates confined in an anharmonic potential

S. Bargi, G. M. Kavoulakis, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033613 (2006) - Published 16 March, 2006

Dynamical selection in developing fermionic pairing

R. A. Barankov and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033614 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Universality in phase transitions for ultracold fermionic atoms

S. Diehl and C. Wetterich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033615 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Tunneling of ultracold Bose gases in multiple wells

Rosario Paredes

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033616 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Itinerant-localized dual character of a strongly correlated superfluid Bose gas in an optical lattice

Y. Ohashi, M. Kitaura, and H. Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033617 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Recurrence tracking microscope

Farhan Saif

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033618 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Adiabatic radio-frequency potentials for the coherent manipulation of matter waves

I. Lesanovsky, T. Schumm, S. Hofferberth, L. M. Andersson, P. Krüger, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033619 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Sound velocity and dimensional crossover in a superfluid Fermi gas in an optical lattice

T. Koponen, J.-P. Martikainen, J. Kinnunen, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033620 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Laser probing of the single-particle energy gap of a Bose gas in an optical lattice in the Mott-insulator phase

S. Konabe, T. Nikuni, and M. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033621 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Continuous propagation and energy filtering of a cold atomic beam in a long high-gradient magnetic atom guide

Spencer E. Olson, Rahul R. Mhaskar, and Georg Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033622 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Characterization of the collisionally pumped optical-field-ionized soft-x-ray laser at $41.8 nm$ driven in capillary tubes

B. Cros, T. Mocek, I. Bettaibi, G. Vieux, M. Farinet, J. Dubau, S. Sebban, and G. Maynard

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033801 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Non-Markovian decay of a three-level $Λ$ -type atom in a photonic-band-gap reservoir

Xiangqian Jiang, Yongyuan Jiang, Yunliang Wang, and Xiudong Sun

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033802 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Dark-line atomic resonances in a submicron-thin Rb vapor layer

A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, and A. Papoyan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033803 (2006) - Published 2 March, 2006

Transverse oscillation in laser cavities

Gin-yih Tsaur and Jyhpyng Wang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033804 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Validity of adiabaticity in cavity QED

J. Larson and S. Stenholm

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033805 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Storage and retrieval of light pulses in atomic media with “slow” and “fast” light

A. Lezama, A. M. Akulshin, A. I. Sidorov, and P. Hannaford

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033806 (2006) - Published 3 March, 2006

Theoretical and experimental study of stochastic effects on polarization rotation in a vectorial bistable laser

Kamal P. Singh, Guy Ropars, Marc Brunel, and Albert Le Floch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033807 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Homodyne measurement of the average photon number

J. G. Webb, T. C. Ralph, and E. H. Huntington

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033808 (2006) - Published 13 March, 2006

Optimizing the performance of nickel-like collisionally pumped x-ray lasers

G. J. Pert

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033809 (2006) - Published 14 March, 2006

Quadrature entanglement and photon-number correlations accompanied by phase-locking

H. H. Adamyan, N. H. Adamyan, S. B. Manvelyan, and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033810 (2006) - Published 14 March, 2006

Coherent phenomena due to double-dark states in a system with decay interference

Antonios Fountoulakis, Andreas F. Terzis, and Emmanuel Paspalakis

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033811 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Quantum manipulation of two-color stationary light: Quantum wavelength conversion

S. A. Moiseev and B. S. Ham

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033812 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Photon frequency-mode matching using acousto-optic frequency beam splitters

Nick S. Jones and T. M. Stace

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033813 (2006) - Published 17 March, 2006

Highly nonclassical photon statistics in parametric down-conversion

Edo Waks, Barry C. Sanders, Eleni Diamanti, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033814 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Asymmetric properties between the forward and backward stimulated emission generated by ultrafast three- and four-photon excitation

Guang S. He, Changgui Lu, Qingdong Zheng, Alexander Baev, Marek Samoc, and Paras N. Prasad

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033815 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Simulations of the output of the Ne-like Ti x-ray laser at $32.6 nm$ driven by the grazing-incidence pumping scheme

J. Zhao, Q. L. Dong, F. Yan, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033816 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Frequency conversion of an entangled state

Aihong Tan, Xiaojun Jia, and Changde Xie

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033817 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Generation of cluster states

Ping Dong, Zheng-Yuan Xue, Ming Yang, and Zhuo-Liang Cao

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033818 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Beating quantum limits in an optomechanical sensor by cavity detuning

O. Arcizet, T. Briant, A. Heidmann, and M. Pinard

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033819 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

All-optical digital logic: Full addition or subtraction on a three-state system

F. Remacle and R. D. Levine

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033820 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Optimal phase measurements with pure Gaussian states

Alex Monras

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033821 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Coherent generation of EPR-entangled light pulses mediated by a single trapped atom

Giovanna Morigi, Jürgen Eschner, Stefano Mancini, and David Vitali

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033822 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Properties of entangled photon pairs generated in one-dimensional nonlinear photonic-band-gap structures

Jan Peřina, Jr., Marco Centini, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, and Michael Scalora

Phys. Rev. A 73, 033823 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Enhanced effect of temporal variation of the fine-structure constant in diatomic molecules

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034101 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Possibility of 0- $g$ -factor paramagnetic molecules for measurement of the electron’s electric dipole moment

Neil E. Shafer-Ray

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034102 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Quantum information

Feed-forward and its role in conditional linear optical quantum dynamics

S. Scheel, W. J. Munro, J. Eisert, K. Nemoto, and P. Kok

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034301 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Loss of purity by wave-packet scattering at low energies

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034302 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Entangled-state cryptographic protocol that remains secure even if nonlocal hidden variables exist and can be measured with arbitrary precision

Diederik Aerts, Marek Czachor, and Marcin Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034303 (2006) - Published 14 March, 2006

Unitary evolution from the static structure of quantum theory and the no-signaling condition

M. Ferrero, D. Salgado, and J. L. Sánchez-Gómez

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034304 (2006) - Published 15 March, 2006

Superposition and entanglement of mesoscopic squeezed vacuum states in cavity QED

Chang-yong Chen, Mang Feng, and Ke-Lin Gao

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034305 (2006) - Published 16 March, 2006

Characterization of multiqubit pure-state entanglement

Zeqian Chen and Quanhua Xu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034306 (2006) - Published 16 March, 2006

Boundary effect of deterministic dense coding

Zhengfeng Ji, Yuan Feng, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034307 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Ramsauer-Townsend effect in muonic atom scattering

F. Mulhauser, A. Adamczak, G. A. Beer, V. M. Bystritsky, M. Filipowicz, M. C. Fujiwara, T. M. Huber, O. Huot, R. Jacot-Guillarmod, P. Kammel, S. K. Kim, P. E. Knowles, A. R. Kunselman, G. M. Marshall, A. Olin, C. Petitjean, T. A. Porcelli, L. A. Schaller, V. A. Stolupin, J. Woźniak, and J. Zmeskal (TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. A 73, 034501 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006