Volume 73, Issue 4

J. McKenna, M. Suresh, B. Srigengan, I. D. Williams, W. A. Bryan, E. M. L. English, S. L. Stebbings, W. R. Newell, I. C. E. Turcu, J. M. Smith, E. J. Divall, C. J. Hooker, A. J. Langley, and J. L. Collier

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043401 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Electron acceleration from rest in vacuum by an axicon Gaussian laser beam

Yousef I. Salamin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043402 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Classical trajectories of molecules exposed to few-optical-cycle light pulses

S. Stagira, G. Sansone, C. Vozzi, and M. Nisoli

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043403 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Behavior of $H_{2}^{+}$ and $H_{2}$ in strong laser fields simulated by fermion molecular dynamics

K. J. LaGattuta

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043404 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Radiative cascade of highly excited hydrogen atoms in strong magnetic fields

Türker Topçu and Francis Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043405 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Analysis of a single-atom dipole trap

Markus Weber, Jürgen Volz, Karen Saucke, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043406 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Mapping of the optical frequency comb to the atom-velocity comb

T. Ban, D. Aumiler, H. Skenderović, and G. Pichler

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043407 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Electromagnetic transitions between states satisfying free-boundary conditions

L. A. A. Nikolopoulos

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043408 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the $D_{1}$ line

Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043409 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Optimized production of large Bose-Einstein condensates

D. Comparat, A. Fioretti, G. Stern, E. Dimova, B. Laburthe Tolra, and P. Pillet

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043410 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

High-order harmonic generation in alkanes

C. Altucci, R. Velotta, E. Heesel, E. Springate, J. P. Marangos, C. Vozzi, E. Benedetti, F. Calegari, G. Sansone, S. Stagira, M. Nisoli, and V. Tosa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043411 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Two-electron ionization and stabilization beyond the dipole approximation

Andreas Staudt and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043412 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Photodetachment of $H^{-}$ in a static electric field near an elastic wall

Guangcan Yang, Yizhuang Zheng, and Xianxing Chi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043413 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Laser-assisted charge transfer in ${He}^{2 +} + H$ collisions

Fatima Anis, V. Roudnev, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043414 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Preparation of nondegenerate coherent superpositions in a three-state ladder system assisted by Stark shifts

N. Sangouard, L. P. Yatsenko, B. W. Shore, and T. Halfmann

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043415 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Dynamic Stark effect and forbidden-transition spectral line shapes

J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, J. S. Guzman, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043416 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Light-induced potentials ignite dissociation of $N_{2}^{2 +}$

Ryan N. Coffee, Li Fang, and George N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. A 73, 043417 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Single-particle kinetic energy in density-functional theory: Harmonic confinement in two and three dimensions

N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 73, 044501 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Addendum to “Time-dependent variational principle with constraints for parametrized wave functions”

Katsuhisa Ohta

Phys. Rev. A 73, 044502 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Friedel theorem for two-dimensional relativistic spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ systems

De-Hone Lin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 044701 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Gaussian cloning of coherent states with known phases

Moorad Alexanian

Phys. Rev. A 73, 045801 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Strong-field ionization of laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomic molecules: A generalized strong-field approximation–combination of atomic orbitals model”

Thomas Kim Kjeldsen and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 047401 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Strong-field ionization of laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomic molecules: A generalized strong-field approximation–linear combination of atomic orbitals model’ ”

Vladimir I. Usachenko

Phys. Rev. A 73, 047402 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Comment on “Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media”

L. P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. A 73, 047801 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media’ ”

Christian Raabe and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 047802 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Improving the security of multiparty quantum secret sharing against Trojan horse attack [Phys. Rev. A 72, 044302 (2005)]

Fu-Guo Deng, Xi-Han Li, Hong-Yu Zhou, and Zhan-jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049901 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Erratum: Hyperfine structure of metastable states in ${}^{3}{He}^{+} \bar{p}$ atom [Phys. Rev. A 73, 022509 (2006)]

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049902 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Erratum: Structure and stability of Mott-insulator shells of bosons trapped in an optical lattice [Phys. Rev. A 71, 063601 (2005)]

B. DeMarco, C. Lannert, S. Vishveshwara, and T.-C. Wei

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049903 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Erratum: Connection between entanglement and the speed of quantum evolution [Phys. Rev. A 72, 032337 (2005)]

J. Batle, M. Casas, A. Plastino, and A. R. Plastino

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049904 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Erratum: Exploring the optimal sensitivity of sum-variance nonseparability critera for spin- $1 ∕ 2$ systems [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062320 (2004)]

Irfan Ali Khan and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049905 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Editorial Note: Wave representation of geometrical laser beam trajectories in a hemiconfocal cavity [Phys. Rev. A 69, 053807 (2004)]

Y. F. Chen, C. H. Jiang, Y. P. Lan, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 049906 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006