Volume 73, Issue 6

June 2006

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Quantum information

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Optimal visible compression rate for mixed states is determined by entanglement of purification

Masahito Hayashi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060301(R) (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

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Quantum error correction via robust probe modes

Fumiko Yamaguchi, Kae Nemoto, and William J. Munro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060302(R) (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

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Half the entanglement in critical systems is distillable from a single specimen

R. Orús, J. I. Latorre, J. Eisert, and M. Cramer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060303(R) (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Lifetimes of the negative molecular hydrogen ions: $H_{2}^{-}$ , $D_{2}^{-}$ , and $H D^{-}$

O. Heber, R. Golser, H. Gnaser, D. Berkovits, Y. Toker, M. Eritt, M. L. Rappaport, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060501(R) (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Coupled-channel pseudopotential description of the Feshbach resonance in two dimensions

K. Kanjilal and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060701(R) (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

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

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Nonadditivity of convoy- and secondary-electron yields in the forward-electron emission from thin carbon foils under irradiation of fast carbon-cluster ions

S. Tomita, S. Yoda, R. Uchiyama, S. Ishii, K. Sasa, T. Kaneko, and H. Kudo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 060901(R) (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Orientation of molecules via laser-induced antialignment

E. Gershnabel, I. Sh. Averbukh, and Robert J. Gordon

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061401(R) (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

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Water vapor at a translational temperature of $1 K$

T. Rieger, T. Junglen, S. A. Rangwala, G. Rempe, P. W. H. Pinkse, and J. Bulthuis

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061402(R) (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Matter waves

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Fermions in optical lattices near a Feshbach resonance: From band insulator to Mott insulator

A. F. Ho

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061601(R) (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

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Vortex structures in dipolar condensates

S. Yi and H. Pu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061602(R) (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

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Instabilities leading to vortex lattice formation in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

N. G. Parker, R. M. W. van Bijnen, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061603(R) (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

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Complexity in parametric Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians and structural analysis of eigenstates

Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, and T. Geisel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061604(R) (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

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Atom-molecule conversion at a Feshbach resonance in the nondegenerate limit

Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061605(R) (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Frequency comb laser spectroscopy in the vacuum-ultraviolet region

Roel Th. Zinkstok, Stefan Witte, Wim Ubachs, Wim Hogervorst, and Kjeld S.E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061801(R) (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

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Non-Poissonian intermittent fluorescence from complex structured environments

Adrián A. Budini

Phys. Rev. A 73, 061802(R) (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases in adiabatic open quantum systems

M. S. Sarandy and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062101 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Teaching the environment to control quantum systems

Alexander Pechen and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062102 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Optimal estimation of squeezing

G. Chiribella, G. M. D’Ariano, and M. F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062103 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Geometric phase for open quantum systems and stochastic unravelings

Angelo Bassi and Emiliano Ippoliti

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062104 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Grothendieck’s constant and local models for noisy entangled quantum states

Antonio Acín, Nicolas Gisin, and Benjamin Toner

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062105 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Polarization-operator approach to electron-positron pair production in combined laser and Coulomb fields

A. I. Milstein, C. Müller, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, U. D. Jentschura, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062106 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Decoherence induced by a phase-damping reservoir

Renato M. Angelo, E. S. Cardoso, and K. Furuya

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062107 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Candidate molecular ions for an electron electric dipole moment experiment

Edmund R. Meyer, John L. Bohn, and Michael P. Deskevich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062108 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Thermal entanglement of spins in mean-field clusters

M. Asoudeh and V. Karimipour

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062109 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Experimental noise-resistant Bell-inequality violations for polarization-entangled photons

Fabio A. Bovino, Giuseppe Castagnoli, Adán Cabello, and Antía Lamas-Linares

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062110 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Connection between quantum-mechanical and classical time evolution via a dynamical invariant

Dieter Schuch and Marcos Moshinsky

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062111 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Momentum transfer for momentum transfer-free which-path experiments

Aurélien Drezet, Andreas Hohenau, and Joachim R. Krenn

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062112 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Semiclassical quantization of non-Hamiltonian dynamical systems without memory

E. D. Vol

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062113 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Electron dynamics in parallel electric and magnetic fields

Christian Bracher, Tobias Kramer, and John B. Delos

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062114 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Full-time nonexponential decay in double-barrier quantum structures

Gastón García-Calderón and Jorge Villavicencio

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062115 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Orbital-dependent nonlocal correlation energy functional constructed from a Jastrow function: Application to atoms and ions

Naoto Umezawa and Toyohiro Chikyow

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062116 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Field fluctuations near a conducting plate and Casimir-Polder forces in the presence of boundary conditions

S. Spagnolo, R. Passante, and L. Rizzuto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062117 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Phase dynamics of entangled qubits

Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062118 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Quantum information

General criterion for oblivious remote state preparation

Z. Kurucz, P. Adam, and J. Janszky

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062301 (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

Selective recoupling and stochastic dynamical decoupling

O. Kern and G. Alber

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062302 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Topological quantum error correction with optimal encoding rate

H. Bombin and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062303 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Quantum walk with a time-dependent coin

M. C. Bañuls, C. Navarrete, A. Pérez, Eugenio Roldán, and J. C. Soriano

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062304 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Single-photon Kerr nonlinearities do not help quantum computation

Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062305 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Entanglement between qubits induced by a common environment with a gap

Sangchul Oh and Jaewan Kim

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062306 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

General error estimate for adiabatic quantum computing

Gernot Schaller, Sarah Mostame, and Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062307 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Strong monotonicity in mixed-state entanglement manipulation

Satoshi Ishizaka

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062308 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Physical purification of quantum states

M. Kleinmann, H. Kampermann, T. Meyer, and D. Bruß

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062309 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Quantum Darwinism: Entanglement, branches, and the emergent classicality of redundantly stored quantum information

Robin Blume-Kohout and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062310 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Completely positive covariant two-qubit quantum processes and optimal quantum NOT operations for entangled qubit pairs

J. Novotný, G. Alber, and I. Jex

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062311 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Error models for mode mismatch in linear optics quantum computing

Peter P. Rohde and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062312 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Linear-optics quantum Toffoli and Fredkin gates

Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062313 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Multipartite invariant states. I. Unitary symmetry

Dariusz Chruściński and Andrzej Kossakowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062314 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Multipartite invariant states. II. Orthogonal symmetry

Dariusz Chruściński and Andrzej Kossakowski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062315 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Generalized quantum-state sharing

Goren Gordon and Gustavo Rigolin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062316 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Efficient decoupling schemes with bounded controls based on Eulerian orthogonal arrays

Pawel Wocjan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062317 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Concurrence in collective models

Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062318 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Cloning and joint measurements of incompatible components of spin

Thomas Brougham, Erika Andersson, and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062319 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Implementing nonprojective measurements via linear optics: An approach based on optimal quantum-state discrimination

Peter van Loock, Kae Nemoto, William J. Munro, Philippe Raynal, and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062320 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Universal destabilization and slowing of spin-transfer functions by a bath of spins

Daniel Burgarth and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062321 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Optimal estimation of a physical observable’s expectation value for pure states

A. Hayashi, M. Horibe, and T. Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062322 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Optimal control, geometry, and quantum computing

Michael A. Nielsen, Mark R. Dowling, Mile Gu, and Andrew C. Doherty

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062323 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Probabilistic quantum gates between remote atoms through interference of optical frequency qubits

L.-M. Duan, M. J. Madsen, D. L. Moehring, P. Maunz, R. N. Kohn, Jr., and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062324 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Speedup of quantum-state transfer by three-qubit interactions: Implementation by nuclear magnetic resonance

Jingfu Zhang, Xinhua Peng, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062325 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Limits on entanglement from rotationally invariant scattering of spin systems

N. L. Harshman

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062326 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Decoherence assisting a measurement-driven quantum evolution process

Luis Roa and G. A. Olivares-Rentería

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062327 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Quantum communication cost of preparing multipartite entanglement

Caroline Kruszynska, Simon Anders, Wolfgang Dür, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062328 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Efficient quantum memory and entanglement between light and an atomic ensemble using magnetic fields

Christine A. Muschik, Klemens Hammerer, Eugene S. Polzik, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062329 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Cloning of Gaussian states by linear optics

Stefano Olivares, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062330 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Entanglement of assistance is not a bipartite measure nor a tripartite monotone

Gilad Gour and Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062331 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Matrix-product-state simulation of an extended Brüschweiler bulk-ensemble database search

Akira SaiToh and Masahiro Kitagawa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062332 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Identifying a two-state Hamiltonian in the presence of decoherence

Jared H. Cole, Andrew D. Greentree, Daniel K. L. Oi, Sonia G. Schirmer, Cameron J. Wellard, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062333 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Programmable quantum-state discriminators with simple programs

János A. Bergou, Vladimír Bužek, Edgar Feldman, Ulrike Herzog, and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062334 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Dynamical entanglement and chaos: The case of Rydberg molecules

M. Lombardi and A. Matzkin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062335 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Creation of entanglement in a scalable spin quantum computer with long-range dipole-dipole interaction between qubits

D. I. Kamenev, G. P. Berman, and V. I. Tsifrinovich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062336 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Asymptotic adaptive bipartite entanglement-distillation protocol

Erik Hostens, Jeroen Dehaene, and Bart De Moor

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062337 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Determination of the nuclear quadrupole moment of ${}^{87}{Sr}$

Bijaya Kumar Sahoo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062501 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Many-body procedure for energy-dependent perturbation: Merging many-body perturbation theory with QED

Ingvar Lindgren, Sten Salomonson, and Daniel Hedendahl

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062502 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Quantum electrodynamic corrections to the hyperfine structure of excited $S$ states

Ulrich D. Jentschura and Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062503 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Shift and broadening in attenuated total reflection spectra of the hyperfine-structure-resolved $D_{2}$ line of dense rubidium vapor

Rikio Kondo, Satoshi Tojo, Takashi Fujimoto, and Masahiro Hasuo

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062504 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Variational reduced-density-matrix calculation of the one-dimensional Hubbard model

Jeff R. Hammond and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062505 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Multichannel quantum-defect-theory analysis of the observed odd-parity $5 d n d$ autoionization Rydberg series of neutral europium

S. Bhattacharyya, S. G. Nakhate, T. Jayasekharan, and M. A. N. Razvi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062506 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Far-infrared Rydberg-Rydberg transitions in a magnetic field: Deexcitation of antihydrogen atoms

A. Wetzels, A. Gürtler, L. D. Noordam, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062507 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Sideband cooling of ions in a non-neutral buffer gas

A. Kellerbauer et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062508 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Polarization spectroscopy in rubidium and cesium

M. L. Harris, C. S. Adams, S. L. Cornish, I. C. McLeod, E. Tarleton, and I. G. Hughes

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062509 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Near-threshold electron-impact excitation of the $(3 p^{5} 4 s 4 p)^{4} S_{3 ∕ 2}$ quasimetastable state in potassium

A. A. Borovik, Jr., A. A. Borovik, O. Zatsarinny, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062701 (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

Shape resonance in $K$ -shell photodetachment from $C^{-}$

C. W. Walter, N. D. Gibson, R. C. Bilodeau, N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, G. D. Ackerman, and A. Aguilar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062702 (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

Multielectron removal processes in ${He}^{2 +} + Na$ collisions

S. Knoop, V. G. Hasan, R. Morgenstern, and R. Hoekstra

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062703 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Kinematically complete experiment on single ionization in 75-keV $p + He$ collisions

M. Schulz, A. Hasan, N. V. Maydanyuk, M. Foster, B. Tooke, and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062704 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Siegert-state expansion for nonstationary systems: Coupled equations in the one-channel case

Oleg I. Tolstikhin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062705 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Doubly excited autoionizing states of $H_{2}$ converging to the $H (n = 2) + H (n^{'} = 2)$ limit

Yulian V. Vanne, Alejandro Saenz, Alex Dalgarno, Robert C. Forrey, Piotr Froelich, and Svante Jonsell

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062706 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Temporary electron localization and scattering in disordered single strands of DNA

Laurent Caron and Léon Sanche

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062707 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Control of autoionization widths: Doubly excited coherent elliptic states

Daniel Janby, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Valentin N. Ostrovsky

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062708 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Analysis of $1 s (2 s 2 p {}^{3}P) n l$ Rydberg states in the $K$ -shell photoionization of the Be atom

Fumiko Yoshida, Leo Matsuoka, Ryuta Takashima, Tetsuo Nagata, Yoshiro Azuma, Satoshi Obara, Fumihiro Koike, and Shuichi Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062709 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Scattering of $\bar{H} (1 s)$ off metastable helium atom at thermal energies

Prabal K. Sinha and A. S. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062710 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Inner-shell electron-impact ionization of neutral atoms

J. Colgan, C. J. Fontes, and H. L. Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062711 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Triple differential cross section for sequential double photoionization of atoms by ultrashort pulses

A. K. Kazansky and N. M. Kabachnik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062712 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Resonant vibrational excitation of CO by low-energy electrons

G. B. Poparić, D. S. Belić, and M. D. Vićić

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062713 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Laser-driven nuclear-polarized hydrogen internal gas target

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062714 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Inner-shell ionization of potassium atoms ionized by a femtosecond laser

M. P. Hertlein, H. Adaniya, J. Amini, C. Bressler, B. Feinberg, M. Kaiser, N. Neumann, M. H. Prior, and A. Belkacem

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062715 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Generalized oscillator strengths for the $3 d$ electrons of Cs, Ba, and Xe: Effects of spin-orbit-activated interchannel coupling

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062716 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Description of ${}^{4}{He}$ tetramer bound and scattering states

Rimantas Lazauskas and Jaume Carbonell

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062717 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Dielectronic satellite spectra of heliumlike iron and nickel from the unified recombination method

Sultana N. Nahar and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062718 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Absolute $K$ -shell ionization cross sections and $L α$ and $L β_{1}$ x-ray production cross sections of Ga and As by $1.5 - 39 − keV$ electrons

C. Merlet, X. Llovet, and J. M. Fernández-Varea

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062719 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Double autoionization of ${He}^{-} (2 s^{2} 2 p {}^{2}P)$

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

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062720 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

$5 p$ photoemission from laser-excited cesium atoms

J. Schulz, M. Määttä, S. Heinäsmäki, M. Huttula, R. Sankari, E. Kukk, T. Rander, S. Svensson, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062721 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Quantum calculation of cold-atom diffraction using periodic magnetic fields

Yin Hung, Bradley Schuller, John Giblin, and Janine Shertzer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062722 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Effect of plasma oscillations of $C_{60}$ collectivized electrons on photoionization of endohedral noble-gas atoms

M. Ya. Amusia and A. S. Baltenkov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062723 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Angular dependence of dissociative electron attachment to polyatomic molecules: Application to the ${}^{2}B_{1}$ metastable state of the $H_{2} O$ and $H_{2} S$ anions

Daniel J. Haxton, C. William McCurdy, and Thomas N. Rescigno

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062724 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

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

Transition from heating to cooling of channeled ion beams

Christian Toepffer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062901 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Influence of the dynamical image potential on the rainbows in ion channeling through short carbon nanotubes

D. Borka, S. Petrović, N. Nešković, D. J. Mowbray, and Z. L. Mišković

Phys. Rev. A 73, 062902 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Attenuation of ultraintense laser radiation in an assembly of molecular clusters

Isidore Last and Joshua Jortner

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063201 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Dissociation energies of gold clusters ${Au}_{N}^{+}$ , $N = 7 - 27$

K. Hansen, A. Herlert, L. Schweikhard, and M. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063202 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Lowest-energy endohedral fullerene structures of ${Si}_{N}$ $(30 ⩽ N ⩽ 39)$ clusters by density functional calculations

Li Ma, Jijun Zhao, Jianguang Wang, Baolin Wang, and Guanghou Wang

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063203 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Large- $N$ droplets in two dimensions

Dean Lee

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063204 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Two-dimensional electrostatic analog of the March model of $C_{60}$ with a semiquantitative application to planar ring clusters

Claudio Amovilli and Norman H. March

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063205 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Vacancy decay in endohedral atoms

M. Ya. Amusia and A. S. Baltenkov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063206 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Interaction of Rydberg atoms with two contrapropagating ultrashort laser pulses

A. V. Lugovskoy and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063401 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Laser cooling in a feedback-controlled optical shaker

Mark Y. Vilensky, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, and Yehiam Prior

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063402 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Resonant electric dipole-dipole interactions between cold Rydberg atoms in a magnetic field

K. Afrousheh, P. Bohlouli-Zanjani, J. D. Carter, A. Mugford, and J. D. D. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063403 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Production of cold formaldehyde molecules for study and control of chemical reaction dynamics with hydroxyl radicals

Eric R. Hudson, Christopher Ticknor, Brian C. Sawyer, Craig A. Taatjes, H. J. Lewandowski, J. R. Bochinski, J. L. Bohn, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063404 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Adiabatic-impulse approximation for avoided level crossings: From phase-transition dynamics to Landau-Zener evolutions and back again

Bogdan Damski and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063405 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Analytic wave model of Stark deceleration dynamics

Koos Gubbels, Gerard Meijer, and Bretislav Friedrich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063406 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Laser cooling of atoms and molecules with ultrafast pulses

D. Kielpinski

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063407 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Versatile electrostatic trap

Jacqueline van Veldhoven, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Melanie Schnell, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063408 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Femtosecond strong-field quantum control with sinusoidally phase-modulated pulses

M. Wollenhaupt, A. Präkelt, C. Sarpe-Tudoran, D. Liese, T. Bayer, and T. Baumert

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063409 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Optimizing the Stark-decelerator beamline for the trapping of cold molecules using evolutionary strategies

Joop J. Gilijamse, Jochen Küpper, Steven Hoekstra, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063410 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Quantum and semiclassical simulations in intense laser- $H_{2}^{+}$ interactions

Camilo Ruiz, Luis Plaja, Richard Taïeb, Valérie Véniard, and Alfred Maquet

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063411 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Spin-polarizing cold sodium atoms in a strong magnetic field

K. M. R. van der Stam, A. Kuijk, R. Meppelink, J. M. Vogels, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063412 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Creation of coherent superposition states in hydrogenlike ions via multiphoton resonant excitation

H. K. Avetissian, G. F. Mkrtchian, and M. G. Poghosyan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063413 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Bound and free atoms diagnosed by the recoil-induced resonances: One-dimensional optical lattice in a working magneto-optical trap

Maria Brzozowska, Tomasz M. Brzozowski, Jerzy Zachorowski, and Wojciech Gawlik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063414 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Three-dimensional cavity cooling and trapping in an optical lattice

K. Murr, S. Nußmann, T. Puppe, M. Hijlkema, B. Weber, S. C. Webster, A. Kuhn, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063415 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Matter waves

Spin-correlation functions in ultracold paired atomic-fermion systems: Sum rules, self-consistent approximations, and mean fields

Z. Yu and G. Baym

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063601 (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

Composite-fermion description of rotating Bose gases at low angular momenta

M. N. Korslund and S. Viefers

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063602 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

$δ$ -kick cooling using the Ioffe-Pritchard potential

T. Aoki, T. Kato, Y. Tanami, and H. Nakamatsu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063603 (2006) - Published 2 June, 2006

Self-localized impurities embedded in a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate and their quantum fluctuations

Krzysztof Sacha and Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063604 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Topological formation of a multiply charged vortex in the Rb Bose-Einstein condensate: Effectiveness of the gravity compensation

M. Kumakura, T. Hirotani, M. Okano, Y. Takahashi, and T. Yabuzaki

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063605 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Simulations of ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices with anharmonic traps

Olivier Gygi, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Matthias Troyer, Stefan Wessel, and G. George Batrouni

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063606 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition for ${}^{6}{Li}$ and ${}^{40}K$ atoms across the Feshbach resonance

W. Yi and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063607 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Quantum-statistical mechanics of an atom-dimer mixture: Lee-Yang cluster expansion approach

Takahiro Ohkuma and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063608 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Towards a generalized Landau-Zener formula for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a two-level system

D. Witthaut, E. M. Graefe, and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063609 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Quantum coherence of hard-core bosons: Extended, glassy, and Mott phases

Ana Maria Rey, Indubala I. Satija, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063610 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Phase transitions in the boson-fermion resonance model in one dimension

E. Orignac and R. Citro

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063611 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Gapless Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation for Bose gases

V. I. Yukalov and H. Kleinert

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063612 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Fringe spacing and phase of interfering matter waves

O. Vainio, C. J. Vale, M. J. Davis, N. R. Heckenberg, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063613 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Pairing of a harmonically trapped fermionic Tonks-Girardeau gas

A. Minguzzi and M. D. Girardeau

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063614 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Vortex creation during magnetic trap manipulations of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

A. P. Itin, T. Morishita, M. Satoh, O. I. Tolstikhin, and S. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063615 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Gravitational quantum states of neutrons in a rough waveguide

A. E. Meyerovich and V. V. Nesvizhevsky

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063616 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Ground-state properties of one-dimensional ultracold Bose gases in a hard-wall trap

Yajiang Hao, Yunbo Zhang, J. Q. Liang, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063617 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Entanglement properties of degenerate four-wave mixing of matter waves in a periodic potential

M. K. Olsen and M. J. Davis

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063618 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Bose atoms in a trap: A variational Monte Carlo formulation for the universal behavior at the van der Waals length scale

Imran Khan and Bo Gao

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063619 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Structure and generation of the vortex-antivortex superposed state in Bose-Einstein condensates

M. Liu, L. H. Wen, H. W. Xiong, and M. S. Zhan

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063620 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Simple and efficient generation of gap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Michał Matuszewski, Wieslaw Królikowski, Marek Trippenbach, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063621 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Kinetics of the evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

Thierry Lahaye and David Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063622 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Ordered structures in rotating ultracold Bose gases

N. Barberán, M. Lewenstein, K. Osterloh, and D. Dagnino

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063623 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Effect of a magnetic field gradient and gravitational acceleration on a time-domain grating-echo interferometer

M. Weel, I. Chan, S. Beattie, A. Kumarakrishnan, D. Gosset, and I. Yavin

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063624 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Bifurcations in resonance widths of an open Bose-Hubbard dimer

Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, and Alexander Ossipov

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063625 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

General variational many-body theory with complete self-consistency for trapped bosonic systems

Alexej I. Streltsov, Ofir E. Alon, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063626 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Coherent and phase-sensitive phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses propagating in three-level $Λ$ -type systems studied with the finite-difference time-domain method

Yurii Loiko and Carles Serrat

Phys. Rev. A 73, 063809 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Conserved current in Markovian open-quantum systems

András Bodor and Lajos Diósi

Phys. Rev. A 73, 064101 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Semiclassical corrections to the Herman-Kluk propagator

Gili Hochman and Kenneth G. Kay

Phys. Rev. A 73, 064102 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Alternative method to control radiative vortex forces in a magneto-optical trap

K. Kiersnowski, T. Kawalec, and T. Dohnalik

Phys. Rev. A 73, 065401 (2006) - Published 1 June, 2006

Matter waves

Expansion of a Fermi cloud in the BCS-BEC crossover

G. Diana, N. Manini, and L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. A 73, 065601 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

COMMENTS

Comment on “All quantum observables in a hidden-variable model must commute simultaneously”

Koji Nagata

Phys. Rev. A 73, 066101 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘All quantum observables in a hidden-variable model must commute simultaneously’” [Phys. Rev. A 73, 066101 (2006)]

J. D. Malley and A. Fine

Phys. Rev. A 73, 066102 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Comment on “Interference-induced gain in the Autler-Townes doublet of a V-type atom in a cavity” and “Cavity implementation of quantum interference in a Λ-type atom”

R. Arun

Phys. Rev. A 73, 067801 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Laser-assisted electron-helium scattering at very low collision energies [Phys. Rev. A 73, 053407 (2006)]

K. M. Dunseath and M. Terao-Dunseath

Phys. Rev. A 73, 069901 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Erratum: Dipole nanolaser [Phys. Rev. A 71, 063812 (2005)]

I. E. Protsenko, A. V. Uskov, O. A. Zaimidoroga, V. N. Samoilov, and E. P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. A 73, 069902 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Publisher's Note: Teaching the environment to control quantum systems [Phys. Rev. A 73, 062102 (2006)]

Alexander Pechen and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 73, 069903 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Erratum: Description and analysis of low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with isotropic optical feedback by a distant reflector [Phys. Rev. A 68, 033805 (2003)]

A. V. Naumenko, N. A. Loiko, M. Sondermann, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. A 73, 069904 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006