Volume 77, Issue 1

Johan Söderström, Marcus Agåker, Anna Zimina, Raimund Feifel, Stefan Eisebitt, Rolf Follath, Gerd Reichardt, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Wolfgang Eberhardt, Andrej Mihelič, Matjaž Žitnik, and Jan-Erik Rubensson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012513 (2008) - Published 28 January, 2008

Relativistic corrections to transition frequencies of $Fe I$ and search for variation of the fine-structure constant

V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012514 (2008) - Published 28 January, 2008

Relativistic corrections to transition frequencies of $Ag I$ , $Dy I$ , $Ho I$ , $Yb II$ , $Yb III$ , $Au I$ , and $Hg II$ and search for variation of the fine-structure constant

V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012515 (2008) - Published 29 January, 2008

Vibrations of acrylonitrile in N $1 s$ excited states

V. Ilakovac, S. Carniato, J.-J. Gallet, E. Kukk, D. Horvatić, and A. Ilakovac

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012516 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Discontinuity of the exchange-correlation potential: Support for assumptions used to find it

Espen Sagvolden and John P. Perdew

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012517 (2008) - Published 31 January, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

State-selective electron capture by $O^{3 +}$ ions from atomic and molecular targets

E. Y. Kamber, O. Abu-Haija, and J. A. Wardwell

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012701 (2008) - Published 4 January, 2008

Cooling and slowing in high-pressure jet expansions

Wolfgang Christen and Klaus Rademann

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012702 (2008) - Published 4 January, 2008

Near-threshold quantization and scattering lengths

Harald Friedrich and Patrick Raab

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012703 (2008) - Published 7 January, 2008

Electron-impact excitation of $X {}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+} (v^{″} = 0)$ to the $a^{″} {}^{1}Σ_{g}^{+}$ , $b {}^{1}Π_{u}$ , $c_{3} {}^{1}Π_{u}$ , $o_{3} {}^{1}Π_{u}$ , $b^{'} {}^{1}Σ_{u}^{+}$ , $c_{4}^{'} {}^{1}Σ_{u}^{+}$ , $G {}^{3}Π_{u}$ , and $F {}^{3}Π_{u}$ states of molecular nitrogen

M. A. Khakoo, C. P. Malone, P. V. Johnson, B. R. Lewis, R. Laher, S. Wang, V. Swaminathan, D. Nuyujukian, and I. Kanik

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012704 (2008) - Published 7 January, 2008

Use of double-bound three-body Coulomb distorted-wave-like basis sets for two-electron wave functions

G. Gasaneo and L. U. Ancarani

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012705 (2008) - Published 8 January, 2008

Ab initio calculation of charge-transfer and excitation cross sections in ${Li}^{+} + H (1 s)$ collisions

L. F. Errea, F. Guzmán, L. Méndez, B. Pons, and A. Riera

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012706 (2008) - Published 9 January, 2008

Integrals of the two-body $T$ matrix in configuration space

George Rawitscher and Walter Glöckle

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012707 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Asymptotic transitions around conical intersections in ion-diatom collisions

J. Suárez, L. F. Errea, C. Illescas, A. Macías, L. Méndez, B. Pons, I. Rabadán, and A. Riera

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012708 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Vibration-induced suppression of valence-Rydberg mixing in the O $1 s \to n s σ$ Rydberg series in $N_{2} O$

T. Tanaka, M. Hoshino, H. Kato, M. Ehara, N. Yamada, R. Fukuda, H. Nakatsuji, Y. Tamenori, J. R. Harries, G. Prümper, H. Tanaka, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012709 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Probing the nonlocal approximation to resonant collisions of electrons with diatomic molecules

Karel Houfek, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012710 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Energy-dependent Ps-He momentum-transfer cross section at low energies

J. J. Engbrecht, M. J. Erickson, C. P. Johnson, A. J. Kolan, A. E. Legard, S. P. Lund, M. J. Nyflot, and J. D. Paulsen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012711 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Dynamical instabilities of Bose-Einstein condensates at the band edge in one-dimensional optical lattices

Andrew J. Ferris, Matthew J. Davis, Reece W. Geursen, P. Blair Blakie, and Andrew C. Wilson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012712 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Excitation of the $C {}^{1}Σ^{+} + c {}^{3}Π$ and $E {}^{1}Π$ electronic states of carbon monoxide by electron impact

H. Kawahara, H. Kato, M. Hoshino, H. Tanaka, and M. J. Brunger

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012713 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Cross sections for 11–14-eV $e {-H}_{2}$ resonant collisions: Vibrational excitation

R. Celiberto, R. K. Janev, J. M. Wadehra, and A. Laricchiuta

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012714 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Photoionization accompanied by excitation at intermediate photon energies

E. G. Drukarev, E. Z. Liverts, M. Ya. Amusia, R. Krivec, and V. B. Mandelzweig

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012715 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Effects of nonintegrability on stabilization of Feshbach molecules in atom waveguides

V. A. Yurovsky

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012716 (2008) - Published 22 January, 2008

Polarization effects on electronic excitation of molecules by low-energy electron impact: Study on $e^{-}$ -furan scattering

Romarly F. da Costa, Márcio H. F. Bettega, and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012717 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Ab initio relativistic many-body calculation of hyperfine splittings of ${{}^{113}C d}^{+}$

Gopal Dixit, H. S. Nataraj, B. K. Sahoo, R. K. Chaudhuri, and Sonjoy Majumder

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012718 (2008) - Published 24 January, 2008

Two-color photoassociation spectroscopy of ytterbium atoms and the precise determinations of $s$ -wave scattering lengths

Masaaki Kitagawa, Katsunari Enomoto, Kentaro Kasa, Yoshiro Takahashi, Roman Ciuryło, Pascal Naidon, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012719 (2008) - Published 28 January, 2008

Projectile angular-differential cross sections for transfer and transfer excitation in proton collisions with helium

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012720 (2008) - Published 28 January, 2008

$S$ -wave resonances in positron-sodium scattering

Huili Han, Zhenxiang Zhong, Xianzhou Zhang, and Tingyun Shi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012721 (2008) - Published 29 January, 2008

Electron detachment of negative ions: The influence of the outermost electron and its neutral core atom in collision with He, Ne, and Ar

Ginette Jalbert, W. Wolff, S. D. Magalhães, and N. V. de Castro Faria

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012722 (2008) - Published 29 January, 2008

Exchange effects in elastic collisions of spin-polarized electrons with open-shell molecules with ${{}^{3}Σ}_{g}^{-}$ symmetry

Motomichi Tashiro

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012723 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Exactly solvable coupled-channel potential models of atom-atom magnetic Feshbach resonances from supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Andrey M. Pupasov, Boris F. Samsonov, and Jean-Marc Sparenberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012724 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Elastic electron scattering by a Pb atom

S. D. Tošić, M. S. Rabasović, D. Šević, V. Pejčev, D. M. Filipović, Lalita Sharma, A. N. Tripathi, Rajesh Srivastava, and B. P. Marinković

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012725 (2008) - Published 31 January, 2008

Analytic Born completion in the calculation of differential cross sections for electron scattering from a linear molecule

Andrew N. Feldt and Michael A. Morrison

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012726 (2008) - Published 31 January, 2008

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Structure, stability, dipole polarizability and differential polarizability in small gallium arsenide clusters from all-electron ab initio and density-functional-theory calculations

Panaghiotis Karamanis, Claude Pouchan, and George Maroulis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013201 (2008) - Published 8 January, 2008

Structure, stability, and magnetism of ${Sc}_{n} Al$ $(n = 1 - 8, 12)$ clusters: Density-functional theory investigations

Fu-Yang Tian, Qun Jing, and Yuan-Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013202 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses

Coulomb-Volkov approximation for near-threshold ionization by short laser pulses

Diego G. Arbó, Jorge E. Miraglia, María Silvia Gravielle, Klaus Schiessl, Emil Persson, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013401 (2008) - Published 8 January, 2008

Rosen-Zener transition in a nonlinear two-level system

Di-Fa Ye, Li-Bin Fu, and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013402 (2008) - Published 9 January, 2008

Classical trajectory perspective on double-ionization dynamics of diatomic molecules irradiated by ultrashort intense laser pulses

D. F. Ye, J. Chen, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013403 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Super-Tonks-Girardeau regime in trapped one-dimensional dipolar gases

G. E. Astrakharchik and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013404 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Method to image high-order harmonic generation and quantum trajectories in the real-time–frequency domain

Pengfei Lan and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013405 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Dynamics of periodic anticrossings: Decoherence, pointer states, and hysteresis curves

Péter Földi, Mihály G. Benedict, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013406 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Controlled vibrational quenching of nuclear wave packets in $D_{2}^{+}$

Thomas Niederhausen and Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013407 (2008) - Published 22 January, 2008

Phase dependence of high-order above-threshold ionization in asymmetric molecules

Qing Liao, Peixiang Lu, Pengfei Lan, Wei Cao, and Yuhua Li

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013408 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Theoretical modeling of resonant laser excitation of atoms in a magnetic field

Andrew James Murray, William MacGillivray, and Martyn Hussey

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013409 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

High-order harmonic generation from diatomic molecules with large internuclear distance: The effect of two-center interference

Y. J. Chen and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013410 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Transferring Rydberg wave packets between islands across the chaotic sea

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013411 (2008) - Published 25 January, 2008

Ab initio calculation of time-dependent control dynamics in polyelectronic systems involving bound and resonance states: Application to a quartet spectrum of ${He}^{-}$

Yannis Komninos, Theodoros Mercouris, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013412 (2008) - Published 29 January, 2008

Theory of x-ray absorption by laser-aligned symmetric-top molecules

Christian Buth and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013413 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Parallel solver for the three-dimensional Cartesian-grid-based time-dependent Schrödinger equation and its applications in laser- $H_{2}^{+}$ interaction studies

Y.-M. Lee, J.-S. Wu, T.-F. Jiang, and Y.-S. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013414 (2008) - Published 31 January, 2008

Matter waves

Focusing of atomic beams by near-field atom microlenses: The Bethe-type and the Fresnel-type microlenses

V. I. Balykin and V. G. Minogin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013601 (2008) - Published 2 January, 2008

Self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices: The effect of the lattice dimension

Ju-Kui Xue, Ai-Xia Zhang, and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013602 (2008) - Published 2 January, 2008

Manipulating atoms in an optical lattice: Fractional fermion number and its optical quantum measurement

J. Ruostekoski, J. Javanainen, and G. V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013603 (2008) - Published 3 January, 2008

Splitting dynamics of doubly quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates

Halvor M. Nilsen and Emil Lundh

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013604 (2008) - Published 4 January, 2008

Trap-imbalanced fermion mixtures

M. Iskin and C. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013605 (2008) - Published 7 January, 2008

Many-body Landau-Zener tunneling in the Bose-Hubbard model

Andrea Tomadin, Riccardo Mannella, and Sandro Wimberger

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013606 (2008) - Published 7 January, 2008

Spin-charge separation in two-component Bose gases

A. Kleine, C. Kollath, I. P. McCulloch, T. Giamarchi, and U. Schollwöck

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013607 (2008) - Published 9 January, 2008

Quantum matter-wave dynamics with moving mirrors

A. del Campo, J. G. Muga, and M. Kleber

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013608 (2008) - Published 9 January, 2008

Quantum phases of mixtures of atoms and molecules on optical lattices

V. G. Rousseau and P. J. H. Denteneer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013609 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Influence of spontaneous emission on a single-state atom interferometer

S. Beattie, B. Barrett, M. Weel, I. Chan, C. Mok, S. B. Cahn, and A. Kumarakrishnan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013610 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Bose-Einstein condensates on a ring with periodic scattering length: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and entanglement

Lisa C. Qian, Michael L. Wall, Shaoliang Zhang, Zhengwei Zhou, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013611 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Density correlations in ultracold Fermi systems within the exact Richardson solution

Simon Staudenmayer, Wolfgang Belzig, and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013612 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Interference of an array of atom lasers

Giovanni Cennini, Carsten Geckeler, Gunnar Ritt, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013613 (2008) - Published 22 January, 2008

Nonlinear intraband tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a cubic three-dimensional lattice

V. S. Shchesnovich and V. V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013614 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Squeezing and entanglement of a Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices

X. P. Liu and P. T. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013615 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Conversion efficiencies of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules

Shohei Watabe and Tetsuro Nikuni

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013616 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Effective mean-field equations for cigar-shaped and disk-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates

A. Muñoz Mateo and V. Delgado

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013617 (2008) - Published 24 January, 2008

Discovery of exceptional points in the Bose-Einstein condensation of gases with attractive $1 / r$ interaction

Holger Cartarius, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013618 (2008) - Published 25 January, 2008

Quality factor of a matter-wave beam

F. Impens

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013619 (2008) - Published 25 January, 2008

Bright solitary-matter-wave collisions in a harmonic trap: Regimes of solitonlike behavior

A. D. Martin, C. S. Adams, and S. A. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013620 (2008) - Published 25 January, 2008

Index of refraction of gases for matter waves: Effect of the motion of the gas particles on the calculation of the index

Caroline Champenois, Marion Jacquey, Steven Lepoutre, Matthias Büchner, Gérard Trénec, and Jacques Vigué

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013621 (2008) - Published 25 January, 2008

Multicomponent strongly attractive Fermi gas: A color superconductor in a one-dimensional harmonic trap

Xia-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and Peter D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013622 (2008) - Published 29 January, 2008

Dimer states in atomic mixtures

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013623 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Molecular superfluid phase in systems of one-dimensional multicomponent fermionic cold atoms

S. Capponi, G. Roux, P. Lecheminant, P. Azaria, E. Boulat, and S. R. White

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013624 (2008) - Published 30 January, 2008

Fermi-Fermi mixtures in the strong-attraction limit

M. Iskin and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013625 (2008) - Published 31 January, 2008

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

Cooperative enhancement of channeling of emission from atoms into a nanofiber

Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013801 (2008) - Published 4 January, 2008

Ultrafast transient ring-shaped population grating

Keyu Xia, Yueping Niu, Ni Cui, and Shangqing Gong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013802 (2008) - Published 8 January, 2008

Quantum properties of counterpropagating two-photon states generated in a planar waveguide

Jan Peřina, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013803 (2008) - Published 8 January, 2008

Circular dielectric cavity and its deformations

R. Dubertrand, E. Bogomolny, N. Djellali, M. Lebental, and C. Schmit

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013804 (2008) - Published 9 January, 2008

Backward surface electromagnetic waves in semi-infinite one-dimensional photonic crystals containing left-handed materials

J. Barvestani, M. Kalafi, A. Soltani-Vala, and A. Namdar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013805 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Numerical investigation of the quantum fluctuations of optical fields transmitted through an atomic medium

A. Lezama, P. Valente, H. Failache, M. Martinelli, and P. Nussenzveig

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013806 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Spatial dispersion in negative-index composite metamaterials

A. I. Căbuz, D. Felbacq, and D. Cassagne

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013807 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Effects of self-phase-modulation on weak nonlinear optical quantum gates

Pieter Kok

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013808 (2008) - Published 11 January, 2008

Second-harmonic generation from metallodielectric multilayer photonic-band-gap structures

M. C. Larciprete, A. Belardini, M. G. Cappeddu, D. de Ceglia, M. Centini, E. Fazio, C. Sibilia, M. J. Bloemer, and M. Scalora

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013809 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Imbert-Fedorov shift at metamaterial interfaces

C. Menzel, C. Rockstuhl, T. Paul, S. Fahr, and F. Lederer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013810 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Influence of slab thickness on the Casimir force

I. Pirozhenko and A. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013811 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Laser multiple filamentation control in air using a smooth phase mask

P. Rohwetter, M. Queißer, K. Stelmaszczyk, M. Fechner, and L. Wöste

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013812 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Observation of enhanced optical spring damping in a macroscopic mechanical resonator and application for parametric instability control in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

S. W. Schediwy, C. Zhao, L. Ju, D. G. Blair, and P. Willems

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013813 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Role of transverse magnetic fields in electromagnetically induced absorption for elliptically polarized light

J. Dimitrijević, A. Krmpot, M. Mijailović, D. Arsenović, B. Panić, Z. Grujić, and B. M. Jelenković

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013814 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Effect of biased noise fluctuations on entanglement and statistical properties in a two-photon phase-sensitive laser

Sintayehu Tesfa

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013815 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Upper bound for the success probability of cavity-mediated adiabatic transfer in the presence of dissipation

Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013816 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Two-color vector-soliton interactions in nematic liquid crystals in the local response regime

Benjamin D. Skuse and Noel F. Smyth

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013817 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Spectroscopy of nonlinear band structures of one-dimensional photonic crystals

Christian E. Rüter and Detlef Kip

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013818 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Broadband optical coupling between microstructured fibers and photonic band gap circuits: Two-dimensional paradigms

James Bauer and Sajeev John

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013819 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Bright-dark solitons and their collisions in mixed $N$ -coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

M. Vijayajayanthi, T. Kanna, and M. Lakshmanan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013820 (2008) - Published 22 January, 2008

Two-photon detuning and decoherence in cavity electromagnetically induced transparency for quantized fields

P. Barberis-Blostein

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013821 (2008) - Published 22 January, 2008

Dipole-dipole interaction between orthogonal dipole moments in time-dependent geometries

Sandra Isabelle Schmid and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013822 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Dark-state polaritons in single- and double- $Λ$ media

Y. D. Chong and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013823 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008

Dynamic properties and optical phase conjugation of two-photon pumped ultrashort blue stimulated emission in a chromophore solution

Guang S. He, Hai-Yan Qin, Qingdong Zheng, Paras N. Prasad, Steffen Jockusch, Nicholas J. Turro, Marlin Halim, Dalibor Sames, Hans Ågren, and Sailing He

Phys. Rev. A 77, 013824 (2008) - Published 23 January, 2008