Volume 74, Issue 3

September 2006

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Quantum information

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Connecting the discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks

Frederick W. Strauch

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030301(R) (2006) - Published 7 September, 2006

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Conditions for multipartite continuous-variable entanglement

E. Shchukin and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030302(R) (2006) - Published 7 September, 2006

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Quantum speed limit for perfect state transfer in one dimension

Man-Hong Yung

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030303(R) (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

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Geometric phase for $N$ -level systems through unitary integration

D. B. Uskov and A. R. P. Rau

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030304(R) (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

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Entanglement in Gaussian matrix-product states

Gerardo Adesso and Marie Ericsson

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030305(R) (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

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Genuine tripartite entangled states with a local hidden-variable model

Géza Tóth and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030306(R) (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Near-threshold absolute angle-differential cross sections for electron-impact excitation of argon and xenon

M. Allan, O. Zatsarinny, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 74, 030701(R) (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

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Coherently controlled adiabatic passage to multiple continuum channels

Ioannis Thanopulos and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031401(R) (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

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Step-ladder Rabi oscillations in molecules exposed to intense ultrashort vuv pulses

A. Palacios, H. Bachau, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031402(R) (2006) - Published 5 September, 2006

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Dark optical lattice of ring traps for cold atoms

Emmanuel Courtade, Olivier Houde, Jean-François Clément, Philippe Verkerk, and Daniel Hennequin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031403(R) (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

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Triple-ionization-induced dissociation of $NO$ in strong laser fields

Jian Wu, H. Zeng, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031404(R) (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

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Phase-dependent atomic ionization in few-cycle intense laser fields

X. M. Tong, K. Hino, and N. Toshima

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031405(R) (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Matter waves

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Bose-Einstein-condensate interferometer with macroscopic arm separation

O. Garcia, B. Deissler, K. J. Hughes, J. M. Reeves, and C. A. Sackett

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031601(R) (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

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Dephasing due to atom-atom interaction in a waveguide interferometer using a Bose-Einstein condensate

Munekazu Horikoshi and Ken’ichi Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031602(R) (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

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Thermodynamics of solitonic matter waves in a toroidal trap

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

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031603(R) (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

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Superfluid shells for trapped fermions with mass and population imbalance

G.-D. Lin, W. Yi, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031604(R) (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

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Dynamical density-density correlations in the one-dimensional Bose gas

Jean-Sébastien Caux and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031605(R) (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

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Deterministic cavity-QED source of polarization-entangled photon pairs

R. García-Maraver, K. Eckert, R. Corbalán, and J. Mompart

Phys. Rev. A 74, 031801(R) (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Dynamical Casimir effect instabilities

Y. N. Srivastava, A. Widom, S. Sivasubramanian, and M. Pradeep Ganesh

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032101 (2006) - Published 5 September, 2006

Electromagnetic manipulation for the anti-Zeno effect in an engineered quantum tunneling process

Lan Zhou, F. M. Hu, Jing Lu, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032102 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Phases of the amplitudes for transmission and near-side quantum reflection in attractive potential tails

Eskender Mesfin and Harald Friedrich

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032103 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Tunneling-time calculations for general finite wave packets based on the presence-time formalism

O. del Barco, M. Ortuño, and V. Gasparian

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032104 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Electroweak quantum chemistry for nuclear-magnetic-resonance-shielding constants: Impact of electron correlation

Guido Laubender and Robert Berger

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032105 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Violating Bell inequalities maximally for two $d$ -dimensional systems

Jing-Ling Chen, Chunfeng Wu, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Oh, and Mo-Lin Ge

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032106 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Robust observer for uncertain linear quantum systems

Naoki Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032107 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Local copying and local discrimination as a study for nonlocality of a set of states

Masaki Owari and Masahito Hayashi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032108 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Friedel theorem for Dirac fermions in $D$ dimensions

De-Hone Lin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032109 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Quantum information

Assessment of a quantum phase-gate operation based on nonlinear optics

S. Rebić, C. Ottaviani, G. Di Giuseppe, D. Vitali, and P. Tombesi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032301 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Efficient-phase-encoding protocols for continuous-variable quantum key distribution using coherent states and postselection

Ryo Namiki and Takuya Hirano

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032302 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Driven harmonic oscillator as a quantum simulator for open systems

Jyrki Piilo and Sabrina Maniscalco

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032303 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Trellises for stabilizer codes: Definition and uses

Harold Ollivier and Jean-Pierre Tillich

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032304 (2006) - Published 7 September, 2006

Optimal cloning of mixed Gaussian states

Mădălin Guţă and Keiji Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032305 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Measuring entanglement entropies in many-body systems

Israel Klich, Gil Refael, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032306 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Implementing the one-dimensional quantum (Hadamard) walk using a Bose-Einstein condensate

C. M. Chandrashekar

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032307 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Local entanglement and quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional transverse field Ising model

Shi-Quan Su, Jun-Liang Song, and Shi-Jian Gu

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032308 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Preparation of microwave single-photon states via a superconducting circuit

Yun-Feng Xiao, Xu-Bo Zou, Yong Hu, Zheng-Fu Han, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032309 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Quantum teleportation of composite systems via mixed entangled states

Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032310 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Characterization of the entanglement of two squeezed states

P. Marek, M. Paternostro, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032311 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Secure optical communication using antisqueezing

Tatsuya Tomaru and Masashi Ban

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032312 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Quantum interference and evolution of entanglement in a system of three-level atoms

Łukasz Derkacz and Lech Jakóbczyk

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032313 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Universality in dynamical formation of entanglement for quantum chaos

Hiroto Kubotani, Mikito Toda, and Satoshi Adachi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032314 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Bayesian updating of a probability distribution encoded on a quantum register

Andrei N. Soklakov and Rüdiger Schack

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032315 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Quantum measurement of a mesoscopic spin ensemble

G. Giedke, J. M. Taylor, D. D’Alessandro, M. D. Lukin, and A. Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032316 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Remote implementations of partially unknown quantum operations of multiqubits

An Min Wang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032317 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Purification of large bicolorable graph states

Kovid Goyal, Alex McCauley, and Robert Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032318 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Entanglement purification of any stabilizer state

S. Glancy, E. Knill, and H. M. Vasconcelos

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032319 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Entanglement-enhanced classical capacity of quantum communication channels with memory in arbitrary dimensions

E. Karpov, D. Daems, and N. J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032320 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Scalable quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces with trapped ions

Li-Xiang Cen, Z. D. Wang, and S. J. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032321 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

High-speed geometric quantum phase gates for trapped ions in thermal motion

Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032322 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Broadcasting of three-qubit entanglement via local copying and entanglement swapping

Satyabrata Adhikari and B. S. Choudhury

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032323 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

General form of genuine multipartite entanglement quantum channels for teleportation

Ping-Xing Chen, Shi-Yao Zhu, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032324 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Implementing a conditional $z$ gate by a combination of resonant interaction and quantum interference

Xubo Zou, Yuli Dong, and Guangcan Guo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032325 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Entanglement of Dirac fields in noninertial frames

P. M. Alsing, I. Fuentes-Schuller, R. B. Mann, and T. E. Tessier

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032326 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

State space for two qutrits has a phase space structure in its core

Bernhard Baumgartner, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr, and Heide Narnhofer

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032327 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Influence from cavity decay on geometric quantum computation in the large-detuning cavity QED model

Chang-Yong Chen, Xiao-Long Zhang, Zhi Jiao Deng, Ke-Lin Gao, and Mang Feng

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032328 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Output of multiphoton entangled states with cavity QED

Jie-Hui Huang and Shi-Yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032329 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Decoy-state quantum key distribution with two-way classical postprocessing

Xiongfeng Ma, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Frédéric Dupuis, Kai Chen, Kiyoshi Tamaki, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032330 (2006) - Published 25 September, 2006

Production of heralded pure single photons from imperfect sources using cross-phase-modulation

Thomas Konrad, Michael Nock, Artur Scherer, and Jürgen Audretsch

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032331 (2006) - Published 25 September, 2006

Transition behavior in the capacity of correlated noisy channels in arbitrary dimensions

V. Karimipour and L. Memarzadeh

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032332 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

Entanglement conditions for two-mode states: Applications

Mark Hillery and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032333 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Parallelism for quantum computation with qudits

Dianne P. O’Leary, Gavin K. Brennen, and Stephen S. Bullock

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032334 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Bell inequalities classifying biseparable three-qubit states

Bao-Zhi Sun and Shao-Ming Fei

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032335 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Variational reduced-density-matrix method using three-particle $N$ -representability conditions with application to many-electron molecules

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032501 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Halo state in realistic molecular systems

Yong Li, Qingdong Gou, and Tingyun Shi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032502 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Transition frequencies of the $D$ lines of ${}^{39}K$ , ${}^{40}K$ , and ${}^{41}K$ measured with a femtosecond laser frequency comb

Stephan Falke, Eberhard Tiemann, Christian Lisdat, Harald Schnatz, and Gesine Grosche

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032503 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Spectroscopy of ${Rb}_{2}$ dimers in solid ${}^{4}{He}$

P. Moroshkin, A. Hofer, S. Ulzega, and A. Weis

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032504 (2006) - Published 7 September, 2006

Explicit density-functional exchange potential with correct asymptotic behavior

Naoto Umezawa

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032505 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Fluctuation statistics of mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensates: Reconciling the master equation with the partition function to reexamine the Uhlenbeck-Einstein dilemma

Andrew N. Jordan, C. H. Raymond Ooi, and Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032506 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Exchange-correlation energy in molecules: A variational quantum Monte Carlo study

C. R. Hsing, M. Y. Chou, and T. K. Lee

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032507 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

Modified linear response for time-dependent density-functional theory: Application to Rydberg and charge-transfer excitations

Chunping Hu, Osamu Sugino, and Yoshiyuki Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032508 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

${Rb}^{*} {He}_{n}$ exciplexes in solid ${}^{4}{He}$

A. Hofer, P. Moroshkin, D. Nettels, S. Ulzega, and A. Weis

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032509 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Kinetic energy distributions and signature of target excitation in $N_{2}$ fragmentation on collisions with ${Ar}^{9 +}$ ions

Jyoti Rajput, Sankar De, A. Roy, and C. P. Safvan

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032701 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Perturbation theory for isotropic velocity-dependent potentials: Scattering case

M. I. Jaghoub

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032702 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Kinematically complete experiment on transfer excitation in intermediate-energy $p + He$ collisions

A. Hasan, B. Tooke, M. Zapukhlyak, T. Kirchner, and M. Schulz

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032703 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Parabolic versus spherical partial cross sections for photoionization excitation of He near threshold

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

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032704 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Strong final-state term dependence of nondipole photoelectron angular distributions from half-filled shell atoms

V. K. Dolmatov and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032705 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Quantum Kramers-like theory of the electron-transfer rate from weak-to-strong electronic coupling regions

Yi Zhao and WanZhen Liang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032706 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Renner-Teller effects in ${HCO}^{+}$ dissociative recombination

Ivan A. Mikhailov, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Åsa Larson, Stefano Tonzani, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032707 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Electron-impact ionization cross sections out of the ground and $6 {}^{2}P$ excited states of cesium

M. Łukomski, S. Sutton, W. Kedzierski, T. J. Reddish, K. Bartschat, P. L. Bartlett, I. Bray, A. T. Stelbovics, and J. W. McConkey

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032708 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Density-matrix formalism for the photoion-electron entanglement in atomic photoionization

T. Radtke, S. Fritzsche, and A. Surzhykov

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032709 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Collision between magnetically trapped $NH$ molecules in the $(N = 0, J = 1)$ state

Masatoshi Kajita

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032710 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Classical and quantal studies of the satellite features in the absorption spectra of lithium $(2 s − 2 p)$ perturbed by helium

K. Alioua and M. Bouledroua

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032711 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Low-energy electron scattering with polar molecule ${NH}_{3}$ using the $R$ -matrix method

Hema Munjal and K. L. Baluja

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032712 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Double ionization of helium by fast ion impact: Reexamination of the correlation function

L. Gulyás, A. Igarashi, and T. Kirchner

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032713 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

Ejected electron spectrum of He below the $N = 2$ threshold

B. A. deHarak, J. G. Childers, and N. L. S. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032714 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

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

Ionization distances of multiply charged Rydberg ions approaching solid surfaces

Lj. D. Nedeljković, N. N. Nedeljković, and D. K. Božanić

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032901 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Fragmentation processes of $C_{60}$ in multiple electron loss and capture collisions of $2 − MeV$ ${Si}^{2 +}$

T. Majima, Y. Nakai, T. Mizuno, H. Tsuchida, and A. Itoh

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033201 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Theory of double resonance magnetometers based on atomic alignment

Antoine Weis, Georg Bison, and Anatoly S. Pazgalev

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033401 (2006) - Published 5 September, 2006

Monte Carlo analysis of electron-positron pair creation by powerful laser-ion impact

J. Z. Kamiński, K. Krajewska, and F. Ehlotzky

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033402 (2006) - Published 5 September, 2006

Emergence from nonrelativistic strong-field rescattering to ultrastrong-field laser-atom physics: A semiclassical analysis

S. Palaniyappan, I. Ghebregziabher, A. DiChiara, J. MacDonald, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033403 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Transition of laser cooling between standard and Raman optical lattices

R. Zhang, R. E. Sapiro, N. V. Morrow, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033404 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Nonsequential double ionization of the hydrogen molecule in a few-cycle laser pulse

Silvio Baier, Camilo Ruiz, Luis Plaja, and Andreas Becker

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033405 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Wave-mixing interference in three-photon resonant atomic excitation with cross-polarized angled beams

V. Peet

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033406 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Phase information revealed by interferences in the ionization of rotational wave packets

Eric Charron and Maurice Raoult

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033407 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Direct measurement of dynamic alignment in strong fields

K. Zhao, L. N. Elberson, G. M. Menkir, and W. T. Hill, III

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033408 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Investigations of Stark effects in xenon Rydberg states by laser-induced fluorescence-dip spectroscopy

E. Wagenaars, G. M. W. Kroesen, and M. D. Bowden

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033409 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Selective excitation of metastable atomic states by femto- and attosecond laser pulses

A. D. Kondorskiy, L. P. Presnyakov, and Yu. Ralchenko

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033410 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Single-molecule orientational wave packet in ultrafast optical polarization

C. Mainos

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033411 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Light-induced force and torque on an atom outside a nanofiber

Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033412 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Analysis of femtosecond quantum control mechanisms with colored double pulses

Gerhard Vogt, Patrick Nuernberger, Reimer Selle, Frank Dimler, Tobias Brixner, and Gustav Gerber

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033413 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Landau-Zener tunneling in a nonlinear three-level system

Guan-Fang Wang, Di-Fa Ye, Li-Bin Fu, Xu-Zong Chen, and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033414 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Imaging electron molecular orbitals via ionization by intense femtosecond pulses

G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033415 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Matter waves

Semiclassical approach to Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple well potential

S. Mossmann and C. Jung

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033601 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Order parameter and Josephson effect of nonuniform molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

Hongwei Xiong, Shujuan Liu, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033602 (2006) - Published 5 September, 2006

Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory for atomic Fermi gases near the BCS-BEC crossover

M. Machida and T. Koyama

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033603 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Superfluidity in a three-flavor Fermi gas with $SU (3)$ symmetry

Lianyi He, Meng Jin, and Pengfei Zhuang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033604 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Validity of the lowest-Landau-level approximation for rotating Bose gases

Alexis G. Morris and David L. Feder

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033605 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Evaluating the phase diagram of superconductors with asymmetric spin populations

Massimo Mannarelli, Giuseppe Nardulli, and Marco Ruggieri

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033606 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Theory of ultracold superstrings

Michiel Snoek, S. Vandoren, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033607 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Phases of bosons or fermions in confined optical lattices

H. Heiselberg

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033608 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Feshbach resonance and growth of a Bose-Einstein condensate

C. Yuce and A. Kilic

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033609 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Nonlinear beam splitter in Bose-Einstein-condensate interferometers

L. Pezzé, A. Smerzi, G. P. Berman, A. R. Bishop, and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033610 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dependent scattering length

Shai Ronen, Daniele C. E. Bortolotti, D. Blume, and John L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033611 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Fragmentation of Bose-Einstein condensates

Erich J. Mueller, Tin-Lun Ho, Masahito Ueda, and Gordon Baym

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033612 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Reexamination of dynamical stabilization of matter-wave solitons

Alexander Itin, Toru Morishita, and Shinichi Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033613 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Partially incoherent gap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

I. M. Merhasin, Boris A. Malomed, and Y. B. Band

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033614 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Theory of vortex-lattice melting in a one-dimensional optical lattice

Michiel Snoek and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033615 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Stability limits for gap solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a time-modulated optical lattice

Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033616 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Chaotic ratchet dynamics with cold atoms in a pair of pulsed optical lattices

Gabriel G. Carlo, Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Sandro Wimberger, Oliver Morsch, Riccardo Mannella, and Ennio Arimondo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033617 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Effective potential and thermodynamics for a coupled two-field Bose-gas model

Marcus Benghi Pinto, Rudnei O. Ramos, and Frederico F. de Souza Cruz

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033618 (2006) - Published 25 September, 2006

Manipulation of ultracold atoms in dressed adiabatic radio-frequency potentials

I. Lesanovsky, S. Hofferberth, J. Schmiedmayer, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033619 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

First-principles quantum simulations of dissociation of molecular condensates: Atom correlations in momentum space

C. M. Savage, P. E. Schwenn, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033620 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

BEC-BCS crossover in an optical lattice

Arnaud Koetsier, D. B. M. Dickerscheid, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033621 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Transport of atom packets in a train of Ioffe-Pritchard traps

T. Lahaye, G. Reinaudi, Z. Wang, A. Couvert, and D. Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033622 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Bragg spectroscopy of cold atomic Fermi gases

G. M. Bruun and Gordon Baym

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033623 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Slow light with large fractional delays by spectral hole-burning in rubidium vapor

Ryan M. Camacho, Michael V. Pack, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033801 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Entanglement and decoherence of $N$ atoms and a mesoscopic field in a cavity

T. Meunier, A. Le Diffon, C. Ruef, P. Degiovanni, and J.-M. Raimond

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033802 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Leaky cavities with unwanted noise

A. A. Semenov, D. Yu. Vasylyev, W. Vogel, M. Khanbekyan, and D.-G. Welsch

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033803 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Coherent population trapping via a continuum with a train of ultrashort pulses

Elena Kuznetsova, Roman Kolesov, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033804 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Experimental observation of excess noise in a detuned phase-modulation harmonic mode-locking laser

Shiquan Yang and Xiaoyi Bao

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033805 (2006) - Published 8 September, 2006

Lasing and cooling in a finite-temperature cavity

Thomas Salzburger and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033806 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Collisional shifts in optical-lattice atom clocks

Y. B. Band and A. Vardi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033807 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Coherent backscattering in nonlinear atomic media: Quantum Langevin approach

Benoît Grémaud, Thomas Wellens, Dominique Delande, and Christian Miniatura

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033808 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Dispersion-managed mode-locking dynamics in a Ti:sapphire laser

Marco V. Tognetti, Miguel N. Miranda, and Helder M. Crespo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033809 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Testing quantum mechanics against macroscopic realism using the output of $χ^{(2)}$ nonlinearity

Sergey A. Podoshvedov and Jaewan Kim

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033810 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Input-output theory of cavities in the ultrastrong coupling regime: The case of time-independent cavity parameters

Cristiano Ciuti and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033811 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Observation of the four-photon de Broglie wavelength by state-projection measurement

F. W. Sun, B. H. Liu, Y. F. Huang, Z. Y. Ou, and G. C. Guo

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033812 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Conditional quantum-state engineering using ancillary squeezed-vacuum states

Hyunseok Jeong, Andrew M. Lance, Nicolai B. Grosse, Thomas Symul, Ping Koy Lam, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033813 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Dynamics of cavityless lasing generated by ultrafast multiphoton excitation

Victor Kimberg, Sergey Polyutov, Faris Gel’mukhanov, Hans Ågren, Alexander Baev, Qingdong Zheng, and Guang S. He

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033814 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Dipole lasing phase transitions in media with singularities in polarizabilities

I. E. Protsenko and E. P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033815 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Spontaneous emission spectra and simulating multiple spontaneous generation coherence in a five-level atomic medium

Li Jia-Hua, Liu Ji-Bing, Chen Ai-Xi, and Qi Chun-Chao

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033816 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Noninvasive measurements of cavity parameters by use of squeezed vacuum

Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Keisuke Goda, and Nergis Mavalvala

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033817 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Normal-mode coupling of rare-earth-metal ions in a crystal to a macroscopic optical cavity mode

Kouichi Ichimura and Hayato Goto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033818 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

Optical beam steering based on electromagnetically induced transparency

Qingqing Sun, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033819 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

Ray-wave correspondence in the nonlinear description of stadium-cavity lasers

Susumu Shinohara, Takahisa Harayama, Hakan E. Türeci, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033820 (2006) - Published 26 September, 2006

Controlled polarization rotation of an optical field in multi-Zeeman-sublevel atoms

Shujing Li, Bo Wang, Xudong Yang, Yanxu Han, Hai Wang, Min Xiao, and K. C. Peng

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033821 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Negative diffraction pattern dynamics in nonlinear cavities with left-handed materials

Pascal Kockaert, Philippe Tassin, Guy Van der Sande, Irina Veretennicoff, and Mustapha Tlidi

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033822 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Engineering quantum jump superoperators for single-photon detectors

A. V. Dodonov, S. S. Mizrahi, and V. V. Dodonov

Phys. Rev. A 74, 033823 (2006) - Published 29 September, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

Generalization of the Margolus-Levitin bound

Bartosz Zieliński and Magdalena Zych

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034301 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Physical implementation of holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces with trapped ions

Xin Ding Zhang, Qinghua Zhang, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034302 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Optimal quantum cloning via spin networks

Qing Chen, Jianhua Cheng, Ke-Lin Wang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034303 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Neutral atoms behave much like classical spherical capacitors

James C. Ellenbogen

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034501 (2006) - Published 28 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Why complex absorbing potentials work: A discrete-variable-representation perspective

Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034701 (2006) - Published 7 September, 2006

Electron-impact ionization of helium with large energy transfer

I. Bray, D. V. Fursa, and A. T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034702 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Relativistic corrections to a generalized sum rule

H. Sinky and P. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 74, 034703 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Majorana spin-flip transitions in a magnetic trap

D. M. Brink and C. V. Sukumar

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035401 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Ab initio studies of strong-field ionization of arbitrarily oriented $H_{2}^{+}$ molecules

T. K. Kjeldsen, L. B. Madsen, and J. P. Hansen

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035402 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Infrared frequency standard based on magnetically trapped NH molecules

Masatoshi Kajita

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035403 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

Matter waves

Dimerized ground state in the one-dimensional spin-1 boson Hubbard model

Vesa Apaja and Olav F. Syljuåsen

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035601 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Collective excitations of trapped Fermi or Bose gases

András Csordás and Zoltán Adam

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035602 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Optical bistability and multistability via atomic coherence in an $N$ -type atomic medium

Jia-Hua Li, Xin-You Lü, Jing-Min Luo, and Qiu-Jun Huang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035801 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Engineering multiphoton entangled states by quantum interference

B. Liu and Z. Y. Ou

Phys. Rev. A 74, 035802 (2006) - Published 27 September, 2006

COMMENTS

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

Dimitrios Charalambidis, P. Tzallas, N. A. Papadogiannis, L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, E. P. Benis, and G. D. Tsakiris

Phys. Rev. A 74, 037401 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Photoionization of helium atoms irradiated with intense vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser light. Part I. Experimental study of multiphoton and single-photon processes’ ”

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

Phys. Rev. A 74, 037402 (2006) - Published 6 September, 2006

Erratum: Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose particles in a double well potential: Two mode models and beyond [Phys. Rev. A 73, 013604 (2006)]

D. Ananikian and T. Bergeman

Phys. Rev. A 74, 039905 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006