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Physical Review A

Volume 77, Issue 2

February 2008

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Quantum information

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum computing with a single molecular ensemble and a Cooper-pair box

Karl Tordrup and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 020301(R) (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quantum memory for images: A quantum hologram

Denis V. Vasilyev, Ivan V. Sokolov, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. A 77, 020302(R) (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

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Nested entangled states for distributed quantum channels

C. Di Franco, M. Paternostro, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. A 77, 020303(R) (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Hyperfine structure of $S$ states in Li and ${Be}^{+}$

V. A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 020501(R) (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

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

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Doppler cooling of calcium ions using a dipole-forbidden transition

Richard J. Hendricks, Jens L. Sørensen, Caroline Champenois, Martina Knoop, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021401(R) (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of sub-Doppler temperatures in bosonic magnesium

T. E. Mehlstäubler, K. Moldenhauer, M. Riedmann, N. Rehbein, J. Friebe, E. M. Rasel, and W. Ertmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021402(R) (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

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Enhancement of intermediate-field two-photon absorption by rationally shaped femtosecond pulses

Lev Chuntonov, Leonid Rybak, Andrey Gandman, and Zohar Amitay

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021403(R) (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Matter waves

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Feshbach molecules in a one-dimensional optical lattice

N. Nygaard, R. Piil, and K. Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021601(R) (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

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Tkachenko modes in a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity

Gentaro Watanabe, Marco Cozzini, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021602(R) (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

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

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Temporal coherence and indistinguishability in two-photon interference effects

Anand Kumar Jha, Malcolm N. O’Sullivan, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021801(R) (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

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Phase matching with pulsed Bessel beams for high-order harmonic generation

Alessandro Averchi, Daniele Faccio, Ricardo Berlasso, Miroslav Kolesik, Jerome V. Moloney, Arnaud Couairon, and Paolo Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021802(R) (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

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Steady-state pulse component in ultrafast pulse propagation in an anomalously dispersive dielectric

Heejeong Jeong and Ulf L. Österberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021803(R) (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

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Experimental comparison between conventional and hybrid long-range surface plasmon waveguide bends

Aloyse Degiron, Sang-Yeon Cho, Cameron Harrison, Nan Marie Jokerst, Claudio Dellagiacoma, Olivier J. F. Martin, and David R. Smith

Phys. Rev. A 77, 021804(R) (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Effective tunneling coefficient of a coupled double-well system modulated by anharmonic periodic potentials

N. Tsukada, H. Yoshida, and T. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022101 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Nuclear-spin relaxation of ${}^{207}{Pb}$ in ferroelectric powders

L.-S. Bouchard, A. O. Sushkov, D. Budker, J. J. Ford, and A. S. Lipton

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022102 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Atomic entanglement versus visibility of photon interference for quantum criticality of a hybrid system

M. X. Huo, Ying Li, Z. Song, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022103 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Exponential complexity and ontological theories of quantum mechanics

A. Montina

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022104 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Characterization of quantum angular-momentum fluctuations via principal components

Ángel Rivas and Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022105 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Relativistic nature of a magnetoelectric modulus of ${Cr}_{2} O_{3}$ crystals: A four-dimensional pseudoscalar and its measurement

Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov, Jean-Pierre Rivera, and Hans Schmid

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022106 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Switching effect on the quantum Brownian motion near a reflecting boundary

Masafumi Seriu and Chun-Hsien Wu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022107 (2008) - Published 15 February, 2008

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument and Bell inequalities for Bose-Einstein spin condensates

F. Laloë and W. J. Mullin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022108 (2008) - Published 15 February, 2008

Two-spin-subsystem entanglement in spin-1/2 rings with long-range interactions

M. Gaudiano, O. Osenda, and G. A. Raggio

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022109 (2008) - Published 15 February, 2008

Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of single, few, and many molecules: Nonequilibrium Green’s function QED approach

Christoph A. Marx, Upendra Harbola, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022110 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Decoherence and dissipation of a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to two-level systems

Maximilian Schlosshauer, A. P. Hines, and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022111 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Monitoring derivation of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation

Klaus Hornberger and Bassano Vacchini

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022112 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Quantum states with strong positive partial transpose

Dariusz Chruściński, Jacek Jurkowski, and Andrzej Kossakowski

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022113 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Flux continuity and probability conservation in complexified Bohmian mechanics

Bill Poirier

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022114 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Quantum information

Using measurement-induced disturbance to characterize correlations as classical or quantum

Shunlong Luo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022301 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Quantum walks on a random environment

Yue Yin, D. E. Katsanos, and S. N. Evangelou

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022302 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Efficient vibrational state coupling in an optical tilted-washboard potential via multiple spatial translations and application to pulse echoes

Samansa Maneshi, Jalani F. Kanem, Chao Zhuang, Matt Partlow, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022303 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Two-way quantum key distribution at telecommunication wavelength

Rupesh Kumar, Marco Lucamarini, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Riccardo Natali, Giorgio Mancini, and Paolo Tombesi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022304 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Deterministic dense coding and entanglement entropy

P. S. Bourdon, E. Gerjuoy, J. P. McDonald, and H. T. Williams

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022305 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Geometric phases in open tripod systems

Ditte Møller, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022306 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Experimental quantum-state tomography of a solid-state qubit

L. Rippe, B. Julsgaard, A. Walther, Yan Ying, and S. Kröll

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022307 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Entanglement distribution in pure-state quantum networks

Sébastien Perseguers, J. Ignacio Cirac, Antonio Acín, Maciej Lewenstein, and Jan Wehr

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022308 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Classification of nonproduct states with maximum stabilizer dimension

David W. Lyons, Scott N. Walck, and Stephanie A. Blanda

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022309 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution with noisy coherent states

Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022310 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Scalable continuous-variable entanglement of light beams produced by optical parametric oscillators

Katiuscia N. Cassemiro and Alessandro S. Villar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022311 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Effects of spectral entanglement in polarization-entanglement swapping and type-I fusion gates

Travis S. Humble and Warren P. Grice

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022312 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Genuine tripartite entanglement monotone of $(2 \otimes 2 \otimes n)$ -dimensional systems

Chang-shui Yu, L. Zhou, and He-shan Song

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022313 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

High-fidelity continuous-variable quantum teleportation toward multistep quantum operations

Mitsuyoshi Yukawa, Hugo Benichi, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022314 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

Perfect state transfer over distance-regular spin networks

M. A. Jafarizadeh and R. Sufiani

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022315 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

Continuous-variable telecloning with phase-conjugate inputs

Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, Kunchi Peng, and Peter van Loock

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022316 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Decoherence induced by a dynamic spin environment: The universal regime

Cecilia Cormick and Juan Pablo Paz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022317 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Interference versus success probability in quantum algorithms with imperfections

Daniel Braun and Bertrand Georgeot

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022318 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Exact minimum and maximum of yield with a finite number of decoy light intensities

Toyohiro Tsurumaru, Alexandre Soujaeff, and Shigeki Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022319 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Non-Markovian disentanglement dynamics of a two-qubit system

Xiufeng Cao and Hang Zheng

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022320 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Coherent communication with linear optics

Mark M. Wilde, Todd A. Brun, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Hwang Lee

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022321 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Characteristics and benchmarks of entanglement of mixed states: The two-qubit case

Shanthanu Bhardwaj and V. Ravishankar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022322 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Correlated errors can lead to better performance of quantum codes

A. Shabani

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022323 (2008) - Published 26 February, 2008

Laserless trapped-ion quantum simulations without spontaneous scattering using microtrap arrays

J. Chiaverini and W. E. Lybarger, Jr.

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022324 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Analytic expressions for geometric measure of three-qubit states

Levon Tamaryan, DaeKil Park, and Sayatnova Tamaryan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022325 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Quantum query complexity for qutrits

Boaz Tamir

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022326 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008

Quantum Chernoff bound metric for the $X Y$ model at finite temperature

Damian F. Abasto, N. Tobias Jacobson, and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022327 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008

Finding flows in the one-way measurement model

Niel de Beaudrap

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022328 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Laser-induced-fluorescence lifetime measurements and relativistic Hartree-Fock oscillator strength calculations in singly ionized platinum

Pascal Quinet, Patrick Palmeri, Vanessa Fivet, Émile Biémont, Hampus Nilsson, Lars Engström, and Hans Lundberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022501 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Approach to kinetic energy density functionals: Nonlocal terms with the structure of the von Weizsäcker functional

David García-Aldea and J. E. Alvarellos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022502 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Experimental and theoretical study of the $n f$ -level lifetimes of potassium

M. Głódź, A. Huzandrov, M. S. Safronova, I. Sydoryk, J. Szonert, and J. Klavins

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022503 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Some consequences of scaling in density-functional theory and the virial as a density functional

L. Calderín and M. J. Stott

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022504 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Resonant phenomena in antihydrogen-hydrogen scattering

A. Yu. Voronin and P. Froelich

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022505 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Complete $α^{2}$ relativistic corrections to the pure vibrational non-Born-Oppenheimer energies of ${HeH}^{+}$

Monika Stanke, Dariusz Kędziera, Sergiy Bubin, and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022506 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Photon pairs with tailor-made entanglement obtained from the two-photon decay of atomic hydrogen

Thomas Radtke, Andrey Surzhykov, and Stephan Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022507 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Ab initio study of $M {Xe}_{n}^{+}$ ( $M = Cu$ , Ag, and Au; $n = 1, 2$ )

Li Xin-Ying and Cao xue

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022508 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Relativistic corrections of $m α^{6}$ order to the rovibrational spectrum of $H_{2}^{+}$ and ${HD}^{+}$ molecular ions

Vladimir I. Korobov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022509 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008

Relativistic many-body calculation of energies, lifetimes, hyperfine constants, and polarizabilities in ${}^{7}L i$

W. R. Johnson, U. I. Safronova, A. Derevianko, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022510 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Relativistic distorted-wave procedures with pseudostates

Guo-Xin Chen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022701 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Zeros in the photoionization partial cross sections of $H_{2}^{+}$

R. Della Picca, P. D. Fainstein, M. L. Martiarena, and A. Dubois

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022702 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Relativistic close-coupling calculation of photoionization and photorecombination of $Fe XVI$

Guo-Xin Chen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022703 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Dissociative recombination dynamics of the ozone cation

V. Zhaunerchyk, W. D. Geppert, F. Österdahl, M. Larsson, R. D. Thomas, E. Bahati, M. E. Bannister, M. R. Fogle, and C. R. Vane

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022704 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Multiple-state Feshbach resonances mediated by high-order couplings

Christopher J. Hemming and Roman V. Krems

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022705 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

Nonstatistical enhancement of the $1 s 2 s 2 p {}^{4}P$ state in electron transfer in $0.5 - 1.0 − MeV ∕ u$ $C^{4, 5 +}$ + He and Ne collisions

D. Strohschein, D. Röhrbein, T. Kirchner, S. Fritzsche, J. Baran, and J. A. Tanis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022706 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Femtosecond photodissociation of molecules facilitated by noise

Kamal P. Singh, Anatole Kenfack, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022707 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Ion-induced dissociation dynamics of acetylene

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022708 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Charge exchange and x-ray emission cross sections for multiply charged ions colliding with $H_{2} O$

S. Otranto and R. E. Olson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022709 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Experimental investigation of electron impact on ${Si}_{2}^{-}$

A. O. Lindahl, P. Andersson, G. F. Collins, D. Hanstorp, D. J. Pegg, M. Danielsson, W. D. Geppert, M. Hamberg, R. D. Thomas, V. Zhaunerchyk, C. Diehl, N. D. Gibson, and A. Källberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022710 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Jost functions and singular attractive potentials

Florian Arnecke, Javier Madroñero, and Harald Friedrich

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022711 (2008) - Published 26 February, 2008

Nonrelativistic quantum theory of the contact inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by an atom

Alexey N. Hopersky and Alexey M. Nadolinsky

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022712 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Ratio of double-to-single photoionization cross sections of plasma-embedded helium atoms at x-ray energies

Sabyasachi Kar and Y. K. Ho

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022713 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008

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

Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium

Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, Sandro Stringari, and Vitaly B. Svetovoy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022901 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Determination of the spin polarization of a ${{}^{4}H e}^{+}$ ion beam

T. Suzuki and Y. Yamauchi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022902 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Laser-assisted photoemission from surfaces

G. Saathoff, L. Miaja-Avila, M. Aeschlimann, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. A 77, 022903 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

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

Theoretical interpretation of multiphoton ionization of neon by soft-x-ray intense radiation

M. G. Makris and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023401 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules

Benjamin L. Lev, András Vukics, Eric R. Hudson, Brian C. Sawyer, Peter Domokos, Helmut Ritsch, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023402 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Resonant uv pump-probe spectroscopy of dipicolinic acid via impulsive excitation

Robert K. Murawski, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Sterling Backus, Daisy Raymondson, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023403 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

$H_{2}$ double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses

S. Saugout, E. Charron, and C. Cornaggia

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023404 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Rovibrational wave-packet manipulation using shaped midinfrared femtosecond pulses

Masaaki Tsubouchi, Alexander Khramov, and Takamasa Momose

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023405 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Steering quantum transitions between three crossing energy levels

S. S. Ivanov and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023406 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Field-free molecular orientation by nonresonant and quasiresonant two-color laser pulses

R. Tehini and D. Sugny

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023407 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Robust quantum control of molecular tunneling ionization in the space domain by phase-controlled laser fields

Hideki Ohmura and M. Tachiya

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023408 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Efficient generation of moderately high harmonics by multiphoton resonant excitation of atoms

H. K. Avetissian, B. R. Avchyan, and G. F. Mkrtchian

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023409 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

$M 1 − E 2$ interference in the Zeeman spectra of Bi I

S. Werbowy and J. Kwela

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023410 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a multilevel atom

A. D. Boozer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023411 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Laser-assisted ion-atom collisions: Plateau, cutoff, and multiphoton peaks

Marcelo F. Ciappina and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023412 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

One- and two-photon phase-sensitive coherent control of total ionization yields in the presence of static electric fields

A. Bolovinos, S. Cohen, and I. Liontos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023413 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Quasienergy spectrum of complex atoms

E. Meṣe and R. M. Potvliege

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023414 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Reexamination of multiphoton ionization of xenon under 12.7-eV radiation

M. G. Makris and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023415 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Tunable high-order harmonic generation and the role of the folded quantum path

Zhinan Zeng, Ya Cheng, Yuxi Fu, Xiaohong Song, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023416 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Impact of coherence in radiation from ultrahigh-field atomic ionization

Isaac Ghebregziabher and Barry C. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023417 (2008) - Published 26 February, 2008

Rydberg-Rydberg interaction in the second-harmonic generation from rubidium atoms

Natalia R. de Melo and Sandra S. Vianna

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023418 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Effects of laser linewidth on an effective method for excitation in three-level atomic systems by two optimally detuned counterpropagating pulsed lasers

G. P. Gupta and B. M. Suri

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023419 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Almost sudden perturbation of a quantum system with ultrashort electric pulses

Andrey Lugovskoy and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023420 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

Unitary photoassociation: One-step production of ground-state bound molecules

S. Kallush and R. Kosloff

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023421 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

Quantum path contribution to high-order harmonic spectra

E. Brunetti, R. Issac, and D. A. Jaroszynski

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023422 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

Matter waves

One-dimensional Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model in the heavy-fermion limit

A. Mering and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023601 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Two-point correlations of a trapped interacting Bose gas at finite temperature

A. Bezett, E. Toth, and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023602 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

Minimum instances of topological matter in an optical plaquette

Belén Paredes and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023603 (2008) - Published 1 February, 2008

All-optical production of ${}^{7}L i$ Bose-Einstein condensation using Feshbach resonances

Noam Gross and Lev Khaykovich

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023604 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Vortex structures formed by the interference of sliced condensates

R. Carretero-González, N. Whitaker, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023605 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Variational wave functions for homogenous Bose systems

András Sütő and Péter Szépfalusy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023606 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Symbiotic gap and semigap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Sadhan K. Adhikari and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023607 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Mixture of bosonic and spin-polarized fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

Lode Pollet, Corinna Kollath, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023608 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Atom-wave diffraction between the Raman-Nath and the Bragg regime: Effective Rabi frequency, losses, and phase shifts

Holger Müller, Sheng-wey Chiow, and Steven Chu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023609 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Dynamics of Bloch oscillations in disordered lattice potentials

T. Schulte, S. Drenkelforth, G. Kleine Büning, W. Ertmer, J. Arlt, M. Lewenstein, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023610 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in a time-dependent trap

V. Ramesh Kumar, R. Radha, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023611 (2008) - Published 8 February, 2008

Emulating non-Abelian topological matter in cold-atom optical lattices

V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023612 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Controlling soliton interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates by synchronizing the Feshbach resonance and harmonic trap

Xiao-Fei Zhang, Qin Yang, Jie-Fang Zhang, X. Z. Chen, and W. M. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023613 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Equilibrium population of spin components in a trapped spin-1 Bose gas

Zhibing Li, Chengguang Bao, and Jacob Katriel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023614 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Localized modes of binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates in nonlinear optical lattices

F. Kh. Abdullaev, A. Gammal, M. Salerno, and Lauro Tomio

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023615 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Quantum noise, scaling, and domain formation in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

George I. Mias, Nigel R. Cooper, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023616 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Pairing mean-field theory for the dynamics of dissociation of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

M. J. Davis, S. J. Thwaite, M. K. Olsen, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023617 (2008) - Published 15 February, 2008

Superfluidity of an interacting trapped quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas

T. P. Simula, M. J. Davis, and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023618 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Quantum-field dynamics of expanding and contracting Bose-Einstein condensates

S. Wüster, B. J. Dabrowska-Wüster, S. M. Scott, J. D. Close, and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023619 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Localization and delocalization of ultracold bosonic atoms in finite optical lattices

Dirk-Sören Lühmann, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock, and Daniela Pfannkuche

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023620 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Pairing of one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures with unequal masses

Matteo Rizzi and Adilet Imambekov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023621 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Generation of macroscopic superposition states in ring superlattices

Andreas Nunnenkamp, Ana Maria Rey, and Keith Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023622 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Achieving the Néel state in an optical lattice

Arnaud Koetsier, R. A. Duine, Immanuel Bloch, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023623 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Limitations of the modulation method to smooth wire-guide roughness

I. Bouchoule, J.-B. Trebbia, and C. L. Garrido Alzar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023624 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Radially symmetric nonlinear states of harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

G. Herring, L. D. Carr, R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023625 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Quantum fluctuations in the superfluid state of the BCS-BEC crossover

Roberto B. Diener, Rajdeep Sensarma, and Mohit Randeria

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023626 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

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

Partially-time-ordered Schwinger-Keldysh loop expansion of coherent nonlinear optical susceptibilities

Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023801 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Preparation of entangled states of two photons in several spatial modes

Karel Lemr and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023802 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Experimental position-time entanglement with degenerate single photons

A. J. Bennett, D. G. Gevaux, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields, P. Atkinson, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023803 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Conditional preparation of states containing a definite number of photons

Malcolm N. O’Sullivan, Kam Wai Clifford Chan (陳錦為), Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023804 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Single-photon filtering by a cavity quantum electrodynamics system

Kazuki Koshino

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023805 (2008) - Published 5 February, 2008

Optical trapping and binding in air: Imaging and spectroscopic analysis

Marc Guillon and Brian Stout

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023806 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Demonstration of a saturated Ni-like Ag x-ray laser pumped by a single profiled laser pulse from a 10-Hz Ti:sapphire laser system

H. T. Kim, I. W. Choi, N. Hafz, J. H. Sung, T. J. Yu, K.-H. Hong, T. M. Jeong, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, K. A. Janulewicz, J. Tümmler, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, and J. Lee

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023807 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Superluminal group velocity in a birefringent crystal

Tore Gunnar Halvorsen and Jon Magne Leinaas

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023808 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

Far-off-resonant wave interaction in one-dimensional photonic crystals with quadratic nonlinearity

Johannes-Geert Hagmann, Lasha Tkeshelashvili, Kurt Busch, and Guido Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023809 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Finite-difference time-domain simulation of thermal noise in open cavities

Jonathan Andreasen, Hui Cao, Allen Taflove, Prem Kumar, and Chang-qi Cao

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023810 (2008) - Published 8 February, 2008

Control of the Goos-Hänchen shift of a light beam via a coherent driving field

Li-Gang Wang, Manzoor Ikram, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023811 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Reversed propagation dynamics of Laguerre-Gaussian beams in left-handed materials

Hailu Luo, Zhongzhou Ren, Weixing Shu, and Shuangchun Wen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023812 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Bright bichromatic entanglement and quantum dynamics of sum frequency generation

M. K. Olsen and A. S. Bradley

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023813 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Dissipative solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers

W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023814 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Demonstration of the three-photon de Broglie wavelength by projection measurement

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023815 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Quantum theory for spatial motion of polaritons in inhomogeneous fields

Lan Zhou, Jing Lu, D. L. Zhou, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023816 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

One-atom correlated-emission laser

Ho-Joon Kim, Ashfaq H. Khosa, Hai-Woong Lee, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023817 (2008) - Published 14 February, 2008

Adiabatic entanglement in two-atom cavity QED

C. Lazarou and B. M. Garraway

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023818 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Observation of Raman self-focusing in an alkali-metal vapor cell

N. A. Proite, B. E. Unks, J. T. Green, and D. D. Yavuz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023819 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Time-domain squeezing and quantum distributions in the pulsed regime

N. H. Adamyan, H. H. Adamyan, and G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023820 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Limitations of decomposition-based imaging of longitudinal absorber configurations

S. D. Campbell, S. D. Grobe, I. L. Goodin, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023821 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Complete tunneling of light through impedance-mismatched barrier layers

Kyoung-Youm Kim and Byoungho Lee

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023822 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Transmission spectrum of a double quantum-dot–nanocavity system in photonic crystals

Jun Qian, Yong Qian, Xun-Li Feng, Shi-Qi Jin, and Shang-Qing Gong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023823 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Interacting dark states with enhanced nonlinearity in an ideal four-level tripod atomic system

Yanxu Han, Jintao Xiao, Yonghong Liu, Chunhong Zhang, Hai Wang, Min Xiao, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023824 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Teleportation of atomic states via position measurements

Michele Tumminello and Francesco Ciccarello

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023825 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Theory of biphoton generation in a single-resonant optical parametric oscillator far below threshold

Ulrike Herzog, Matthias Scholz, and Oliver Benson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023826 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008

Accurate description of a radially polarized Gaussian beam

Shaohui Yan and Baoli Yao

Phys. Rev. A 77, 023827 (2008) - Published 29 February, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Relativistic quantum nonlocality for the three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state

Shahpoor Moradi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024101 (2008) - Published 27 February, 2008

Quantum information

Physical implementation of topologically decoherence-protected superconducting qubits

Zheng-Yuan Xue, Z. D. Wang, and Shi-Liang Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024301 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Degradation of nonmaximal entanglement of scalar and Dirac fields in noninertial frames

Qiyuan Pan and Jiliang Jing

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024302 (2008) - Published 8 February, 2008

Geometric entanglement witnesses and bound entanglement

Reinhold A. Bertlmann and Philipp Krammer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024303 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Electric dipole moments of actinide atoms and RaO molecule

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024501 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Fully differential ionization cross sections for proton collisions with multielectronic targets

S. Martínez, S. Otranto, and C. R. Garibotti

Phys. Rev. A 77, 024701 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

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

High-precision quasienergies for a driven two-level atom at the two-photon preresonance

Dong-Sheng Guo, J. T. Wang, and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 025401 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Compensation of noise in optical lattices via feedback: Low-temperature limit

T. Yu. Ivanova and D. A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 025402 (2008) - Published 13 February, 2008

Matter waves

Properties of Bose-Einstein condensates in a quasi-one-dimensional box trap

Chongshan Zhang, Kwangsik Nho, and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. A 77, 025601 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

Two-dimensional multisolitons and azimuthons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Volodymyr M. Lashkin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 025602 (2008) - Published 11 February, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum time-of-flight distribution for cold trapped atoms”

J. Viana Gomes, M. Belsley, and D. Boiron

Phys. Rev. A 77, 026101 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Quantum time-of-flight distribution for cold trapped atoms’ ”

Md. Manirul Ali, Dipankar Home, A. S. Majumdar, and Alok K. Pan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 026102 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Comment on “Canonical formalism and quantization of the perturbative sector of higher-derivative theories”

Kwang-Hua W. Chu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 026103 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Canonical formalism and quantization of the perturbative sector of higher-derivative theories’ ”

K. Andrzejewski, K. Bolonek, J. Gonera, and P. Maslanka

Phys. Rev. A 77, 026104 (2008) - Published 25 February, 2008

Comment on “Asymptotic form of the Kohn-Sham correlation potential”

A. Holas

Phys. Rev. A 77, 026501 (2008) - Published 6 February, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Controlling molecular orientation through radiative rotational transitions in strong static electric fields [Phys. Rev. A 75, 013421 (2007)]

Michael Mayle, Rosario González-Férez, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 77, 029901 (2008) - Published 4 February, 2008

Publisher's Note: Strongly correlated multiparticle transport in one dimension through a quantum impurity [Phys. Rev. A 76, 062709 (2007)]

Jung-Tsung Shen and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 029902 (2008) - Published 7 February, 2008

Erratum: Absolute triple-differential cross sections for ionization-excitation of helium [Phys. Rev. A 76, 024703 (2007)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 029903 (2008) - Published 12 February, 2008

Publisher's Note: Laser-assisted ion-atom collisions: Plateau, cutoff, and multiphoton peaks [Phys. Rev. A 77, 023412 (2008)]

Marcelo F. Ciappina and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 029904 (2008) - Published 28 February, 2008