Volume 75, Issue 1

January 2007

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement: Unification of Optics Papers in the Physical Review

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010001 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

High-fidelity transfer of an arbitrary quantum state between harmonic oscillators

K. Jahne, B. Yurke, and U. Gavish

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010301(R) (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Error tolerance and tradeoffs in loss- and failure-tolerant quantum computing schemes

Peter P. Rohde, Timothy C. Ralph, and William J. Munro

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010302(R) (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Efficiently implementable codes for quantum key expansion

Zhicheng Luo and Igor Devetak

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010303(R) (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Producing ultracold and trappable antihydrogen atoms

S. X. Hu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010501(R) (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Threshold effect in the energy loss of slow protons and deuterons channeled in Au crystals

E. A. Figueroa, E. D. Cantero, J. C. Eckardt, G. H. Lantschner, J. E. Valdés, and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 75, 010901(R) (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Mapping broadband single-photon wave packets into an atomic memory

J. Nunn, I. A. Walmsley, M. G. Raymer, K. Surmacz, F. C. Waldermann, Z. Wang, and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011401(R) (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Strong optical forces from adiabatic rapid passage

X. Miao, E. Wertz, M. G. Cohen, and H. Metcalf

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011402(R) (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Alignment dynamics in a laser-produced plasma

C. Höhr, E. R. Peterson, N. Rohringer, J. Rudati, D. A. Arms, E. M. Dufresne, R. W. Dunford, D. L. Ederer, E. P. Kanter, B. Krässig, E. C. Landahl, R. Santra, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011403(R) (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Generation of twin Fock states via transition from a two-component Mott insulator to a superfluid

M. Rodríguez, S. R. Clark, and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011601(R) (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Population and phase coherence during the growth of an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate

M. Hugbart, J. A. Retter, A. F. Varón, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and M. J. Davis

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011602(R) (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Density fingerprint of giant vortices in Fermi gases near a Feshbach resonance

Hui Hu and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011603(R) (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Arresting soliton collapse in two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger systems via spatiotemporal modulation of the external potential

Kestutis Staliunas, Ramon Herrero, and Germán J. de Valcárcel

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011604(R) (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Vibration insensitive optical cavity

S. A. Webster, M. Oxborrow, and P. Gill

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011801(R) (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Universal output directionality of single modes in a deformed microcavity

Sang-Bum Lee, Juhee Yang, Songky Moon, Jai-Hyung Lee, Kyungwon An, Jeong-Bo Shim, Hai-Woong Lee, and Sang Wook Kim

Phys. Rev. A 75, 011802(R) (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Entanglement generation in atoms immersed in a thermal bath of external quantum scalar fields with a boundary

Jialin Zhang and Hongwei Yu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012101 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Loschmidt echo and Berry phase of a quantum system coupled to an $X Y$ spin chain: Proximity to a quantum phase transition

Zi-Gang Yuan, Ping Zhang, and Shu-Shen Li

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012102 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Modeling Pauli measurements on graph states with nearest-neighbor classical communication

Jonathan Barrett, Carlton M. Caves, Bryan Eastin, Matthew B. Elliott, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012103 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Preparation of pure and mixed polarization qubits and the direct measurement of figures of merit

R. B. A. Adamson, L. K. Shalm, and A. M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012104 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Inverse kinetic theory for quantum hydrodynamic equations

Massimo Tessarotto, Marco Ellero, and Piero Nicolini

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012105 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Bell pair in a generic random matrix environment

Carlos Pineda and Thomas H. Seligman

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012106 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Local quantum measurement discrimination

D. Mundarain and M. Orszag

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012107 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Passage-time distributions from a spin-boson detector model

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt, Jens Timo Neumann, and Lawrence S. Schulman

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012108 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Medium effects on the van der Waals force

M. S. Tomaš

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012109 (2007) - Published 19 January, 2007

Circuit analysis of quantum measurement

Yuji Kurotani and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012110 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Tunneling and delay time of cutoff Gaussian wave packets

Jorge Villavicencio, Roberto Romo, and Elmer Cruz

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012111 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Objective approach to biased tomography schemes

D. Mogilevtsev, J. Řeháček, and Z. Hradil

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012112 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Fractional revivals of the quantum state in a tight-binding chain

Bing Chen, Z. Song, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012113 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Quantum information

Efficient quantum logic with cold trapped ions for maximally entangled states

S. Fujiwara, H. Osaki, I. M. Buluta, and S. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012301 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Optimal control of coupled Josephson qubits

A. Spörl, T. Schulte-Herbrüggen, S. J. Glaser, V. Bergholm, M. J. Storcz, J. Ferber, and F. K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012302 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Quantum capacities of channels with small environment

Michael M. Wolf and David Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012303 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Scalable designs for quantum computing with rare-earth-ion-doped crystals

Janus H. Wesenberg, Klaus Mølmer, Lars Rippe, and Stefan Kröll

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012304 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007

Class of positive-partial-transpose bound entangled states associated with almost any set of pure entangled states

Marco Piani and Caterina E. Mora

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012305 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Information-disturbance tradeoff for spin coherent state estimation

Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012306 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Spin- $1 ∕ 2$ particles moving on a two-dimensional lattice with nearest-neighbor interactions can realize an autonomous quantum computer

Dominik Janzing

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012307 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Equivalent qubit dynamics under classical and quantum noise

O.-P. Saira, V. Bergholm, T. Ojanen, and M. Möttönen

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012308 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Classical simulation of traceless binary observables on any bipartite quantum state

Julien Degorre, Sophie Laplante, and Jérémie Roland

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012309 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Generation of atomic entangled states with selective resonant interaction in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Yun-Feng Xiao, Xu-Bo Zou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012310 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Entanglement conditions for multimode states

Zong-Guo Li, Shao-Ming Fei, Zhi-Xi Wang, and Ke Wu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012311 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Practical decoy-state method in quantum key distribution with a heralded single-photon source

Qin Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012312 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Heralded generation of multiphoton entanglement

Philip Walther, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012313 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Controllable coupling of superconducting transmission-line resonators

Yong Hu, Yun-Feng Xiao, Zheng-Wei Zhou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012314 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Superbroadcasting and classical information

Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo M. D’Ariano, Chiara Macchiavello, Paolo Perinotti, and Francesco Buscemi

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012315 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Security of quantum-key-distribution protocols using two-way classical communication or weak coherent pulses

Barbara Kraus, Cyril Branciard, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012316 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Experimental realization of $1 \to 2$ asymmetric phase-covariant quantum cloning

Hongwei Chen, Xianyi Zhou, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012317 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Two-qubit gates between noninteracting qubits in endohedral-fullerene-based quantum computation

Chenyong Ju, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012318 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Measuring two-photon orbital angular momentum entanglement

G. F. Calvo, A. Picón, and A. Bramon

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012319 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Entanglement generation resonances in $X Y$ chains

R. Rossignoli and C. T. Schmiegelow

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012320 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Physical accessible transformations on a finite number of quantum states

Xiang-Fa Zhou, Qing Lin, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012321 (2007) - Published 19 January, 2007

Shortest paths for efficient control of indirectly coupled qubits

Navin Khaneja, Björn Heitmann, Andreas Spörl, Haidong Yuan, Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen, and Steffen J. Glaser

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012322 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Navigation between quantum states by quantum mirrors

P. A. Ivanov, B. T. Torosov, and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012323 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Multiatom and resonant interaction scheme for quantum state transfer and logical gates between two remote cavities via an optical fiber

Zhang-qi Yin and Fu-li Li

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012324 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Enhancement of entanglement transfer in a spin chain by phase-shift control

Koji Maruyama, Toshiaki Iitaka, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012325 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Demonstrating multipartite entanglement of single-particle $W$ states: Linear optical schemes

Hyunchul Nha and Jaewan Kim

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012326 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Quantum string seal is insecure

H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012327 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Optimal quantum measurements of expectation values of observables

Emanuel Knill, Gerardo Ortiz, and Rolando D. Somma

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012328 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Quantum control of a single qubit

Agata M. Brańczyk, Paulo E. M. F. Mendonça, Alexei Gilchrist, Andrew C. Doherty, and Stephen D. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012329 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Optimal control of entanglement via quantum feedback

Stefano Mancini and Howard M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012330 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Using error correction to determine the noise model

Martin Laforest, Damien Simon, Jean-Christian Boileau, Jonathan Baugh, Michael J. Ditty, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012331 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Entanglement between two fermionic atoms inside a cylindrical harmonic trap

B. Sun, L. You, and D. L. Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012332 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Quantum protocols for anonymous voting and surveying

J. A. Vaccaro, Joseph Spring, and Anthony Chefles

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012333 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols

Joonwoo Bae and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012334 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Preamplified photodetectors for high-fidelity postselecting optical devices

John Jeffers

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012335 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Entanglement quantification through local observable correlations

Christian Kothe and Gunnar Björk

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012336 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Classical simulation versus universality in measurement-based quantum computation

M. Van den Nest, W. Dür, G. Vidal, and H. J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012337 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Optimum quantum error recovery using semidefinite programming

Andrew S. Fletcher, Peter W. Shor, and Moe Z. Win

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012338 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Interferences in the $3 p^{4} n l$ satellite emission following the excitation of argon across the $2 p_{1 ∕ 2}^{5} 4 s$ and $2 p_{3 ∕ 2}^{5} 3 d$ $J = 1$ resonances

S. Fritzsche, J. Nikkinen, S.-M. Huttula, H. Aksela, M. Huttula, and S. Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012501 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Dipole moments and orientation polarizabilities of diatomic molecular ions for precision atomic mass measurement

Michelle Cheng, John M. Brown, Pavel Rosmus, Roberto Linguerri, Najia Komiha, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012502 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Combining multiconfigurational wave functions with correlation density functionals: A size-consistent method based on natural orbitals and occupation numbers

Ángel J. Pérez-Jiménez and José M. Pérez-Jordá

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012503 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Calculations of energies of the hydrogen molecular ion

Hua Li, Jun Wu, Bing-Lu Zhou, Jiong-Ming Zhu, and Zong-Chao Yan

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012504 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Ionization potentials of neutral atoms and positive ions in the limit of large atomic number

Nicolás A. Cordero, Norman H. March, and Julio A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012505 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Time-dependent density-matrix-functional theory

Katarzyna Pernal, Oleg Gritsenko, and Evert Jan Baerends

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012506 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Long-lived anionic states of $H_{2}$ , HD, $D_{2}$ , and $T_{2}$

Martin Čížek, Jiří Horáček, and Wolfgang Domcke

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012507 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Comparison of the utility of the shape function and electron density for predicting periodic properties: Atomic ionization potentials

Paul W. Ayers, Frank De Proft, and Paul Geerlings

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012508 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Grand-canonical-ensemble representability problem for the one-electron reduced density matrix

D. R. Alcoba, R. C. Bochicchio, G. E. Massacessi, L. Lain, and A. Torre

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012509 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Electric ring currents in atomic orbitals and magnetic fields induced by short intense circularly polarized $π$ laser pulses

Ingo Barth and Jörn Manz

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012510 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Double-to-single ionization ratios of helium colliding with low-to-intermediate velocity charged ions

J. X. Shao, X. M. Chen, and B. W. Ding

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012701 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Dielectronic recombination of He-like to C-like iodine ions

H. Watanabe, H. Tobiyama, A. P. Kavanagh, Y. M. Li, N. Nakamura, H. A. Sakaue, F. J. Currell, and S. Ohtani

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012702 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

ARTICLES

Integral cross section with magnetic sublevels and polarization degree of He-like Cl ions by electron impact

Takeshi Kai, Shinobu Nakazaki, Tohru Kawamura, Hiroaki Nishimura, and Kunioki Mima

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012703 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

ARTICLES

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Cold collisions between OH and Rb: The field-free case

Manuel Lara, John L. Bohn, Daniel E. Potter, Pavel Soldán, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012704 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Casimir-Polder interaction between an excited atom and a gas dielectric medium

Yury Sherkunov

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012705 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Reexamination of the Lyman-Birge-Hopfield transition of $N_{2}$ : Configuration-interaction generalized oscillator strengths

Tiago Giannerini, Itamar Borges, Jr., and Eduardo Hollauer

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012706 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Intermolecular Raman spectroscopy of long-range interactions: The $C O_{2} − Ar$ collision-induced $ν_{3}$ $C O_{2}$ band

M. Chrysos, F. Rachet, N. I. Egorova, and A. P. Kouzov

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012707 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Sympathetic cooling of $NH (X^{3} Σ^{-})$ molecules by Rb and Cs atoms at ultralow energies

Mario Tacconi, Enrico Bodo, and Franco A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012708 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Quantum interference between nuclear excitation by electron capture and radiative recombination

Adriana Pálffy, Zoltán Harman, and Werner Scheid

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012709 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Dissociative electron attachment to the $H_{2} O$ molecule I. Complex-valued potential-energy surfaces for the ${}^{2}B_{1}$ , ${}^{2}A_{1}$ , and ${}^{2}B_{2}$ metastable states of the water anion

Daniel J. Haxton, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012710 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Dissociative electron attachment to the $H_{2} O$ molecule. II. Nuclear dynamics on coupled electronic surfaces within the local complex potential model

Daniel J. Haxton, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012711 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Photon angular distribution and nuclear-state alignment in nuclear excitation by electron capture

Adriana Pálffy, Zoltán Harman, Andrey Surzhykov, and Ulrich D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012712 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Optimizing the paths for including the correction term to the hyperspherical hidden crossing method: Application to Ps formation in $e^{+} − Li$ collisions

S. J. Ward, J. Shertzer, S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, and J. H. Macek

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012713 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

$1 s (2 s 2 p {}^{1}P) {}^{2}P n l$ , $1 s (2 s 3 s {}^{3, 1}S) {}^{2}S n p$ , and $1 s (2 s 3 p {}^{1}P) {}^{2}P n s$ K-shell photoexcited Rydberg series of beryllium atoms

Fumiko Yoshida, Fumihiro Koike, Satoshi Obara, Yoshiro Azuma, Tetsuo Nagata, and Shuichi Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012714 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Wave-packet-evolution approach for single and double ionization of two-electron systems by fast electrons

Vladislav V. Serov, Vladimir L. Derbov, Boghos B. Joulakian, and Sergue I. Vinitsky

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012715 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Experimental and theoretical study of double-electron capture in collisions of slow $C^{4 +} (1 s^{2} {}^{1}S)$ with $He (1 s^{2} {}^{1}S)$

M. Hoshino, L. Pichl, Y. Kanai, Y. Nakai, M. Kitajima, M. Kimura, Y. Li, H.-P. Liebermann, R. J. Buenker, H. Tanaka, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012716 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Control of ultraslow inelastic collisions by Feshbach resonances and quasi-one- dimensional confinement

V. A. Yurovsky and Y. B. Band

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012717 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Strong influence of configuration interactions on the orientation and alignment dichroism in the $3 p$ photoelectron spectra of free laser-polarized Fe atoms

R. Müller, J. Schulz, Ph. Wernet, K. Godehusen, M. Martins, B. Sonntag, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012718 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Resonant inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by the argon atom near $K$ and $K M_{23}$ ionization thresholds

Alexey Hopersky, Alexey Nadolinsky, and Victor Yavna

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012719 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

$R$ -matrix calculation of integral and differential cross sections for low-energy electron-impact excitations of the $N_{2}$ molecule

Motomichi Tashiro and Keiji Morokuma

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012720 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Angular momentum effects in the ionization-with-excitation process of open and closed $3 d$ -shell states of zinc atoms

L. Pravica, J. F. Williams, D. Cvejanović, and S. A. Napier

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012721 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

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

Simulation of swift boron clusters traversing amorphous carbon foils

Santiago Heredia-Avalos, Isabel Abril, Cristian D. Denton, and Rafael Garcia-Molina

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012901 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Plasmon excitation by slow ions

G. A. Bocan, N. R. Arista, and J. E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012902 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Relaxation of slow highly charged ions hitting thin metallic foils

Z. D. Pešić, Gy. Vikor, S. Atanassova, J. Anton, S. Leontein, M. Björkhage, A. Paál, H. Hanafy, and R. Schuch

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012903 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Clusters (including fullerenes)

First-principles studies of $Al {Pb}_{n}$ and $Al {Pb}_{n}^{+}$ clusters $(n = 1 - 12)$ : Search for Al-doped clusters with large stabilities

De-Li Chen, Wei Quan Tian, and Chia-Chung Sun

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013201 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Energy loss of slow carbon cluster ions in thin carbon foils

Yasuyuki Takahashi, Toshiyuki Hattori, and Noriyosu Hayashizaki

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013202 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Variational reduced-density-matrix method for ground-state nuclear motion

Eugene Kamarchik and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013203 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Stark dynamics of two-electron atoms probed by scaled energy spectroscopy

J. Murray-Krezan, J. Kelly, M. R. Kutteruf, and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013401 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Theoretical studies on sequential multiple ionizations of benzene and hexafluorobenzene in high-power lasers

K. Nagaya, H. Mineo, K. Mishima, A. A. Villaeys, M. Hayashi, and S. H. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013402 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Resonances of the helium atom in a strong magnetic field

Armin Lühr, Omar-Alexander Al-Hujaj, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013403 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007

Mixing of ultracold atomic clouds by merging of two magnetic traps

Jesper Fevre Bertelsen, Henrik Kjaer Andersen, Sune Mai, and Michael Budde

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013404 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Photoassociation adiabatic passage of ultracold Rb atoms to form ultracold ${Rb}_{2}$ molecules

Evgeny A. Shapiro, Moshe Shapiro, Avi Pe’er, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013405 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Diffraction-limited optics for single-atom manipulation

Y. R. P. Sortais, H. Marion, C. Tuchendler, A. M. Lance, M. Lamare, P. Fournet, C. Armellin, R. Mercier, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013406 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Time-dependent formation of the profile of the He $2 s 2 p {}^{1}P^{o}$ state excited by a short laser pulse

Th. Mercouris, Y. Komninos, and C. A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013407 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Excitation and ionization of molecular hydrogen by ultrashort vuv laser pulses

A. Palacios, H. Bachau, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013408 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Doppler-free Stark spectroscopy of the second excited level of atomic hydrogen for measurements of electric fields

Minja Gemišić Adamov, Andreas Steiger, Klaus Grützmacher, and Joachim Seidel

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013409 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Isolated core excitation of ${}^{11}B H$ : Photoabsorption in competition with Rydberg predissociation

C. Ricardo Viteri, Andrew T. Gilkison, Scott J. Rixon, and Edward R. Grant

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013410 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in molecules: The effects of background states

Taiwang Cheng, Hariyanto Darmawan, and Alex Brown

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013411 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Focal averaging and incoherent scattering in laser-assisted radiative recombination and scattering processes

A. Čerkić and D. B. Milošević

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013412 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Mixed quantum and classical processes in strong fields

H. R. Reiss

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013413 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Dephasing of Stark wave packets induced by colored noise

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013414 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Electrostatic deflection of the water molecule: A fundamental asymmetric rotor

Ramiro Moro, Jaap Bulthuis, Jonathon Heinrich, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013415 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Spin-exchange optical pumping of ${}^{3}{He}$ with Rb-K mixtures and pure K

W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile, T. G. Walker, and E. Babcock

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013416 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Degenerate Landau-Zener model: Analytical solution

G. S. Vasilev, S. S. Ivanov, and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013417 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Momentum distribution of multiply charged ions produced by intense $(50 - 70 ‐ PW ∕ {cm}^{2})$ lasers

K. I. Dimitriou, S. Yoshida, J. Burgdörfer, H. Shimada, H. Oyama, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013418 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Optical gratings induced by field-free alignment of molecules

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013419 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Light forces in ultracold photoassociation

E. Gomez, A. T. Black, L. D. Turner, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013420 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Controlling molecular orientation through radiative rotational transitions in strong static electric fields

Michael Mayle, Rosario González-Férez, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013421 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Optimizing dynamic alignment in room temperature CO

D. Pinkham, K. E. Mooney, and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013422 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Spontaneous radiative decay of translational levels of an atom near a dielectric surface

Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013423 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Electromagnetically induced transparency with structured multicontinua

Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013424 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Unitary and nonunitary approaches in quantum field theory

K. D. Lamb, C. C. Gerry, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013425 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Matter waves

Collective excitations of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature

C.-H. Zhang and H. A. Fertig

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013601 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Nonuniform vortex lattices in inhomogeneous rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Gordon Baym, C. J. Pethick, S. Andrew Gifford, and Gentaro Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013602 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007

Acoustic attenuation rate in the Fermi-Bose model with a finite-range fermion-fermion interaction

Bogdan Mihaila, Sergio Gaudio, Kevin S. Bedell, Krastan B. Blagoev, and Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013603 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate with dipole-dipole interactions

D. H. J. O’Dell and C. Eberlein

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013604 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Interferometry for fermionic atoms with transverse momentum

Tun Wang and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013605 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Association of molecules using a resonantly modulated magnetic field

Thomas M. Hanna, Thorsten Köhler, and Keith Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013606 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Broken-axisymmetry phase of a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate

Keiji Murata, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013607 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Transistorlike behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a triple-well potential

James A. Stickney, Dana Z. Anderson, and Alex A. Zozulya

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013608 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Two-dimensional matter-wave solitons in rotating optical lattices

Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013609 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Reaching ${}^{7}{Li}$ quantum degeneracy with a minitrap

Ruquan Wang, Mingchang Liu, Francesco Minardi, and Mark Kasevich

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013610 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Dynamics of condensate shells: Collective modes and expansion

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013611 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Phase diagrams of one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms

L. Mathey and D.-W. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013612 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Quantum dynamics of Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians beyond the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation: The Bogoliubov back-reaction approximation

I. Tikhonenkov, J. R. Anglin, and A. Vardi

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013613 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Evolution from a Bose-Einstein condensate to a Tonks-Girardeau gas: An exact diagonalization study

Frank Deuretzbacher, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock, and Daniela Pfannkuche

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013614 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Energy-dependent effective interactions for dilute many-body systems

A. Collin, P. Massignan, and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013615 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Detecting multiatomic composite states in optical lattices

Anatoly Kuklov and Henning Moritz

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013616 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Bose-Einstein condensates in accelerated double-periodic optical lattices: Coupling and crossing of resonances

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013617 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Fiber Bragg gratings for atom chips

Steve Helsby, Costantino Corbari, Morten Ibsen, Peter Horak, and Peter Kazansky

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013618 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

On-site number statistics of ultracold lattice bosons

Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, Evgeny Kozik, Nikolay Prokof’ev, and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013619 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Lowest-Landau-level description of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a rapidly rotating anisotropic trap

Alexander L. Fetter

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013620 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Topological defect formation in a quenched ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensates

Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013621 (2007) - Published 23 January, 2007

Ground-state competition of two-component bosons in an optical lattice near a Feshbach resonance

Liping Guo, Yunbo Zhang, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013622 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Fermi-Bose mixture across a Feshbach resonance

Luca Salasnich and Flavio Toigo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013623 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Band structure and stability of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices with two- and three-atom interactions

Ai-Xia Zhang and Ju-Kui Xue

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013624 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Management of Bose-Einstein condensates by a spatially periodic modulation of the atomic $s$ -wave scattering length

Guangjiong Dong and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013625 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Nonlinear adiabatic evolution and emission of coherent Bloch waves in optical lattices

Andrea Fratalocchi and Gaetano Assanto

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013626 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Competing compressible and incompressible phases in rotating atomic Bose gases at filling factor $ν = 2$

N. R. Cooper and E. H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013627 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Analytical calculations on Landau damping of collective modes in anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates

Xiaodong Ma, Yong-li Ma, and Guoxiang Huang

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013628 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics

Slow light waves at sonic propagation speed in active photonic lattices

S. Riyopoulos

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013801 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Quantum noise limits to simultaneous quadrature amplitude and phase stabilization of solid-state lasers

E. H. Huntington, C. C. Harb, M. Heurs, and T. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013802 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Semiconductor model for quantum-dot-based microcavity lasers

Christopher Gies, Jan Wiersig, Michael Lorke, and Frank Jahnke

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013803 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Proposed realization of the Dicke-model quantum phase transition in an optical cavity QED system

F. Dimer, B. Estienne, A. S. Parkins, and H. J. Carmichael

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013804 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Antisymmetric entangled two-photon states generated in nonlinear $Ga N ∕ Al N$ photonic-band-gap structures

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013805 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Inclusion of nonidealities in the continuous photodetection model

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013806 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Determination of quantum-noise parameters of realistic cavities

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

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013807 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Single photon emitted by a single particle in free-space vacuum modes and its resonant interaction with two- and three-level absorbers

R. N. Shakhmuratov, J. Odeurs, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013808 (2007) - Published 19 January, 2007

Four-level atom dynamics and emission statistics using a quantum jump approach

S. N. Sandhya

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013809 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Beam splitting and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference for stored light

A. Raczyński, J. Zaremba, and S. Zielińska-Kaniasty

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013810 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Microscopic derivation of the Jaynes-Cummings model with cavity losses

M. Scala, B. Militello, A. Messina, J. Piilo, and S. Maniscalco

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013811 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Role of degenerate Zeeman states in the storage and retrieval of light pulses

Pei-Chen Guan, Yong-Fan Chen, and Ite A. Yu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013812 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Alternative perspective on photonic tunneling

Zhi-Yong Wang, Cai-Dong Xiong, and Bing He

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013813 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Carrier to envelope and dispersion control in a cavity with prism pairs

Ladan Arissian and Jean-Claude Diels

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013814 (2007) - Published 25 January, 2007

Optically induced Faraday effect in a $Λ$ configuration of spin-polarized cold cesium atoms

Jai Min Choi, Jang Myun Kim, Q-Han Park, and D. Cho

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013815 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Phase-dependent light propagation in atomic vapors

Sarah Kajari-Schröder, Giovanna Morigi, Sonja Franke-Arnold, and Gian-Luca Oppo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013816 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

High- $Q$ TM whispering-gallery modes in three-dimensional microcylinders

Yue-De Yang, Yong-Zhen Huang, and Qin Chen

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013817 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

X-ray laser pulses at the Fourier transform limit

P. Mistry, G. J. Tallents, and M. H. Edwards

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013818 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Coherent Stark nonlinear spectroscopy with chirped pulses

C. Serrat, Yu. Loiko, R. de la Cruz, and J. M. Cela

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013819 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Correlation of photon pairs from the double Raman amplifier: Generalized analytical quantum Langevin theory

C. H. Raymond Ooi, Qingqing Sun, M. Suhail Zubairy, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 75, 013820 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

Implementation of quantum gates based on geometric phases accumulated in the eigenstates of periodic invariant operators

L. B. Shao, Z. D. Wang, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014301 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Implementing a conditional $N$ -qubit phase gate in a largely detuned optical cavity

Yun-Feng Xiao, Xu-Bo Zou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014302 (2007) - Published 24 January, 2007

Driving a known state by a discrete sequence of direct measurements

Luis Roa, G. A. Olivares-Rentería, M. L. Ladrón de Guevara, and A. Delgado

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014303 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Matrix realignment and partial-transpose approach to entangling power of quantum evolutions

Zhihao Ma and Xiaoguang Wang

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014304 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Distinguishing bipartite states by local operations and classical communication

Heng Fan

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014305 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Spin-dependent localized Hartree-Fock density-functional approach for the accurate treatment of inner-shell excitation of closed-shell atoms

Zhongyuan Zhou and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014501 (2007) - Published 17 January, 2007

Lifetime calculations for the $5 s 5 p {}^{3}P_{2}$ metastable level of ${}^{88}{Sr} I$

Yong Liu, Martin Andersson, Tomas Brage, Yaming Zou, and Roger Hutton

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014502 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Observation of core-hole double excitations in water using fluorescence spectroscopy

A. Kivimäki, M. de Simone, M. Coreno, V. Feyer, E. Melero García, J. Álvarez Ruiz, R. Richter, and K. C. Prince

Phys. Rev. A 75, 014503 (2007) - Published 18 January, 2007

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields

Loading and characterization of a printed-circuit-board atomic ion trap

Kenneth R. Brown, Robert J. Clark, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz, Philip Richerme, David R. Leibrandt, and Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. A 75, 015401 (2007) - Published 19 January, 2007

Collective oscillations of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates and accurate comparison between contact and dipolar interactions

S. Giovanazzi, L. Santos, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. A 75, 015604 (2007) - Published 22 January, 2007

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics

Interference structure of two-photon amplitude revealed by dispersion spreading

G. Brida, M. Genovese, L. A. Krivitsky, and M. V. Chekhova

Phys. Rev. A 75, 015801 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Generation of attosecond unidirectional half-cycle pulses: Inclusion of propagation effects [Phys. Rev. A 74, 013818 (2006)]

E. Persson, K. Schiessl, A. Scrinzi, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019901 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Pairing fluctuations and the superfluid density through the BCS-BEC crossover [Phys. Rev. A 74, 063626 (2006)]

E. Taylor, A. Griffin, N. Fukushima, and Y. Ohashi

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019902 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Publisher's Note: Asymmetric matter-wave solitons at nonlinear interfaces [Phys. Rev. A 74, 063616 (2006)]

Fangwei Ye, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019903 (2007) - Published 16 January, 2007

Publisher's Note: Relaxation of slow highly charged ions hitting thin metallic foils [Phys. Rev. A 75, 012903 (2007)]

Z. D. Pešić, Gy. Vikor, S. Atanassova, J. Anton, S. Leontein, M. Björkhage, A. Paál, H. Hanafy, and R. Schuch

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019904 (2007) - Published 26 January, 2007

Publisher's Note: Threshold effect in the energy loss of slow protons and deuterons channeled in Au crystals [Phys. Rev. A 75, 010901 (2007)]

E. A. Figueroa, E. D. Cantero, J. C. Eckardt, G. H. Lantschner, J. E. Valdés, and N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019905 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Erratum: Analysis of the temporal and spectral output properties of a mode-locked and $Q$ -switched laser oscillator with a nonlinear mirror based on stimulated Brillouin scattering [Phys. Rev. A 74, 013809 (2006)]

P. Kappe, R. Menzel, and M. Ostermeyer

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019906 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Publisher's Note: Demonstrating multipartite entanglement of single-particle $W$ states: Linear optical schemes [Phys. Rev. A 75, 012326 (2007)]

Hyunchul Nha and Jaewan Kim

Phys. Rev. A 75, 019907 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007