Volume 74, Issue 5

T. Nakamura, M. Wada, K. Okada, A. Takamine, Y. Ishida, Y. Yamazaki, T. Kambara, Y. Kanai, T. M. Kojima, Y. Nakai, N. Oshima, A. Yoshida, T. Kubo, S. Ohtani, K. Noda, I. Katayama, V. Lioubimov, H. Wollnik, V. Varentsov, and H. A. Schuessler

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052503 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Photoionization broadening of the $1 S − 2 S$ transition in a beam of atomic hydrogen

N. Kolachevsky, M. Haas, U. D. Jentschura, M. Herrmann, P. Fendel, M. Fischer, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, C. H. Keitel, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052504 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Ab initio calculation of harmonic generation spectra of helium using a time-dependent non-Hermitian formalism

Ido Gilary, Petra R. Kaprálová-Žd'ánská, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052505 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Leading-order relativistic and radiative corrections to the rovibrational spectrum of $H_{2}^{+}$ and $H D^{+}$ molecular ions

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052506 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Direct calculation of the scattering amplitude without partial-wave analysis. III. Inclusion of correlation effects

Janine Shertzer and Aaron Temkin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052701 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Double photoionization of aligned molecular hydrogen

W. Vanroose, D. A. Horner, F. Martín, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052702 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Levinson theorem for Aharonov-Bohm scattering in two dimensions

Denis D. Sheka and Franz G. Mertens

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052703 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Photodissociation of singly charged oligonucleotide cations: Arrhenius parameters and identification of nonstatistical processes

Bo Liu, Preben Hvelplund, Steen Brøndsted Nielsen, and Shigeo Tomita

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052704 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Angular momentum dependence of photoionization cross sections from the excited states of lithium

Shahid Hussain, M. Saleem, and M. A. Baig

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052705 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Semiclassical description of protonium formation in antiproton collisions with molecular hydrogen

W. A. Beck, L. Wilets, and M. A. Alberg

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052706 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

$K$ -shell and total ionization cross sections following electron-molecule collisions: An empirical scaling law

F. Frémont, A. Hajaji, and J.-Y. Chesnel

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052707 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Low-energy electron scattering from Ca atoms and photodetachment of ${Ca}^{-}$

Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat, Sergey Gedeon, Viktor Gedeon, and Vladimir Lazur

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052708 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Charge transfer and ionization in collisions of ${Si}^{3 +}$ with H from low to high energy

J. G. Wang, B. He, Y. Ning, C. L. Liu, J. Yan, P. C. Stancil, and D. R. Schultz

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052709 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

$K α_{1}$ radiation from heavy, heliumlike ions produced in relativistic collisions

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

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052710 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

States of fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice across a Feshbach resonance

T. Goodman and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052711 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Classical dynamics of enhanced low-energy electron-ion recombination in storage rings

Maria Hörndl, Shuhei Yoshida, Andreas Wolf, Gerald Gwinner, Marek Seliger, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052712 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Electron- $F_{2} O$ collision study using the $R$ -matrix method

Monika Gupta and K. L. Baluja

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052713 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Projectile atomic number dependence of the relativistic effect on the $K$ -shell ionization of high $Z$ elements under heavy-ion impact

Y. P. Singh, Ajay Kumar, U. Kadhane, Lokesh C. Tribedi, and D. Trautmann

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052714 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Low-energy expansion of the Jost function for long-range potentials

Kai Willner and Franco A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052715 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Theoretical study of electron collisions with the $C F_{2}$ radical

M.-T. Lee, I. Iga, L. E. Machado, L. M. Brescansin, E. A. y Castro, and G. L. C. de Souza

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052716 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Multiple scattering of charged particles in a free-electron gas

Claudio D. Archubi and Néstor R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052717 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Cold $He + H_{2}$ collisions near dissociation

Akiko Mack, Tricia K. Clark, Robert C. Forrey, N. Balakrishnan, Teck-Ghee Lee, and P. C. Stancil

Phys. Rev. A 74, 052718 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Polar di-halogen molecules solvated in bosonic helium clusters: The paradigm of $I Cl (X)$

M. P. de Lara-Castells, R. Prosmiti, G. Delgado-Barrio, D. López-Durán, P. Villarreal, F. A. Gianturco, and J. Jellinek

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053201 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Analysis of two-dimensional photoelectron momentum spectra and the effect of the long-range Coulomb potential in single ionization of atoms by intense lasers

Zhangjin Chen, Toru Morishita, Anh-Thu Le, M. Wickenhauser, X. M. Tong, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053405 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Influence of magnetic quantum number $m$ and spin-angular symmetry on sequential double detachment in strong laser fields

Hugo W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053406 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Threshold effects in strong-field detachment of $H^{-}$ and $F^{-}$ : Plateau enhancements and angular distribution variations

K. Krajewska, Ilya I. Fabrikant, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053407 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Reducing multiphoton ionization in a linearly polarized microwave field by local control

S. Huang, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053408 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Observation of multiple ionization pathways for OCS in an intense laser field resolved by three-dimensional covariance mapping and visualized by hierarchical ionization topology

W. A. Bryan, W. R. Newell, J. H. Sanderson, and A. J. Langley

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053409 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Matter waves

Rogue decoherence in the formation of a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition

Olavi Dannenberg and Matt Mackie

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053601 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov vortex lattice states in fermionic cold-atom systems

Y.-P. Shim, R. A. Duine, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053602 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Nonequilibrium dynamics of condensates in a lattice with the two-particle-irreducible effective action in the $1 ∕ N$ expansion

Kristan Temme and Thomas Gasenzer

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053603 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Molecule condensate production from an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate via Feshbach scattering in an optical lattice: Gap solitons

Richard S. Tasgal, G. Menabde, and Y. B. Band

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053613 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Manipulation of Zeeman coherence in solids at room temperature: Ramsey interference in the coherent-population-trapping spectrum of ruby

Roman Kolesov, Marlan O. Scully, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053820 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Normal-mode splitting with large collective cooperativity

A. K. Tuchman, R. Long, G. Vrijsen, J. Boudet, J. Lee, and M. A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053821 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Spectral and temporal modifications of a weak resonant ultrashort pulse propagating in a two-level system driven by a strong nonresonant field

J. C. Delagnes, F. A. Hashmi, and M. A. Bouchene

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053822 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

${TEM}_{10}$ homodyne detection as an optimal small-displacement and tilt-measurement scheme

V. Delaubert, N. Treps, M. Lassen, C. C. Harb, C. Fabre, P. K. Lam, and H-A. Bachor

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053823 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Characteristics of bistable localized emission states in broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective feedback

Y. Tanguy, T. Ackemann, and R. Jäger

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053824 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Critical property of the geometric phase in the Dicke model

Gang Chen, Juqi Li, and J.-Q. Liang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 054101 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Entanglement induced in spin- $1 ∕ 2$ particles by a spin chain near its critical points

X. X. Yi, H. T. Cui, and L. C. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 74, 054102 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Measurement of the lifetimes of $S$ and $D$ states below $n = 31$ using cold Rydberg gas

V. A. Nascimento, L. L. Caliri, A. L. de Oliveira, V. S. Bagnato, and L. G. Marcassa

Phys. Rev. A 74, 054501 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Rb $n f$ quantum defects from millimeter-wave spectroscopy of cold ${}^{85}{Rb}$ Rydberg atoms

Jianing Han, Yasir Jamil, D. V. L. Norum, Paul J. Tanner, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 74, 054502 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Density-potential relation via the single-particle kinetic energy density for one-dimensional two-level fermion systems with application to Be-like atomic ions in the ${(1 s)}^{2} {(2 s)}^{2}$ configuration

I. A. Howard and N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 74, 054503 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Photoionization of hydrogen in white dwarf strength magnetic fields

L. B. Zhao and P. C. Stancil

Phys. Rev. A 74, 055401 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Coherent control of quantum interference in two-photon absorption

H. G. Barros, J. Ferraz, W. Lozano B., L. H. Acioli, and S. S. Vianna

Phys. Rev. A 74, 055402 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Matter waves

Collective excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an anharmonic trap

Guan-Qiang Li, Li-Bin Fu, Ju-Kui Xue, Xu-Zong Chen, and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. A 74, 055601 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Vortex lattices in fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensates between the Thomas-Fermi and the lowest-Landau-level regimes

Zhongzhou Chen, C. R. Ma, and Yong-li Ma

Phys. Rev. A 74, 055602 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics

Generation of pure multipartite entangled vibrational states for ions trapped in a cavity

Gao-xiang Li

Phys. Rev. A 74, 055801 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Sound velocity and multibranch Bogoliubov spectrum of an elongated Fermi superfluid in the BEC-BCS crossover”

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

Phys. Rev. A 74, 057601 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Sound velocity and multibranch Bogoliubov spectrum of an elongated Fermi superfluid in the BEC-BCS crossover’”

Tarun Kanti Ghosh and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. A 74, 057602 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Preparation of cluster states and $W$ states with superconducting quantum-interference-device qubits in cavity QED [Phys. Rev. A 74, 024303 (2006)]

X. L. Zhang, K. L. Gao, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. A 74, 059901 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Erratum: Detecting quantum entanglement by means of local operations and classical communication [Phys. Rev. A 69, 052305 (2004)]

Yan-Kui Bai, Shu-Shen Li, and Hou-Zhi Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 74, 059908 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Erratum: Normal-mode coupling of rare-earth-metal ions in a crystal to a macroscopic optical cavity mode [Phys. Rev. A 74, 033818 (2006)]

Kouichi Ichimura and Hayato Goto

Phys. Rev. A 74, 059909 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006