Volume 77, Issue 4

M. A. Khakoo, J. Blumer, K. Keane, C. Campbell, H. Silva, M. C. A. Lopes, C. Winstead, V. McKoy, R. F. da Costa, L. G. Ferreira, M. A. P. Lima, and M. H. F. Bettega

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042705 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Electron-induced resonant dissociation and excitation of ${NeH}^{+}$ and ${NeD}^{+}$

V. Ngassam, A. I. Florescu-Mitchell, and A. E. Orel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042706 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Production of long-lived atomic vapor inside high-density buffer gas

A. O. Sushkov and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042707 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Low-energy elastic scattering of positrons by $N_{2} O$

F. Arretche, K. T. Mazon, S. E. Michelin, M.-T. Lee, and M. A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042708 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Dissociative electron attachment to acetylene

S. T. Chourou and A. E. Orel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042709 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Resonant double Auger decay in carbon $K$ -shell excitation of CO

L. Journel, R. Guillemin, A. Haouas, P. Lablanquie, F. Penent, J. Palaudoux, L. Andric, M. Simon, D. Céolin, T. Kaneyasu, J. Viefhaus, M. Braune, W. B. Li, C. Elkharrat, F. Catoire, J.-C. Houver, and D. Dowek

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042710 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Multi-ionization of helium by slow highly charged ions

J. X. Shao, X. M. Chen, Z. Y. Liu, R. Qi, and X. R. Zou

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042711 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Dynamics of ${He}^{2 +} + H (1 s)$ ionization with screened Coulomb interactions

L. Liu, J. G. Wang, and R. K. Janev

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042712 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Occupation of fine-structure states in electron capture and transport

Marek Seliger, Carlos O. Reinhold, Tatsuya Minami, David R. Schultz, Shuhei Yoshida, Joachim Burgdörfer, Emily Lamour, Jean-Pierre Rozet, and Dominique Vernhet

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042713 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Relativistic time dilation and the spectrum of electrons emitted by 33-TeV lead ions penetrating thin foils

B. Najjari, A. Surzhykov, and A. B. Voitkiv

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042714 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Electron scattering in ethene: Excitation of the $\tilde{a} {{}^{3}B}_{1 u}$ state, elastic scattering, and vibrational excitation

M. Allan, C. Winstead, and V. McKoy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042715 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Ultralow-energy vibrational quenching in ionic collisions: Isotope effects in ${Li}^{+} + D_{2}$ encounters

S. Bovino, E. Bodo, and F. A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042716 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Electron and positron scattering cross sections for propene and cyclopropane

C. Makochekanwa, M. Hoshino, H. Kato, O. Sueoka, M. Kimura, and H. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042717 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Spin depolarization of $N_{2}^{+}$ $({{}^{2}Σ}^{+})$ in collisions with ${}^{3}H e$ and ${}^{4}H e$ in a magnetic field

G. Guillon, T. Stoecklin, and A. Voronin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042718 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Long-time deviations from exponential decay for inverse-square potentials

J. Martorell, J. G. Muga, and D. W. L. Sprung

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042719 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Extension of the exact trajectory model to the case of asymmetric tops and its application to infrared nitrogen-broadened linewidths of ethylene

Jeanna Buldyreva and Linh Nguyen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042720 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Multichannel atomic scattering and confinement-induced resonances in waveguides

Shahpoor Saeidian, Vladimir S. Melezhik, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042721 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Alignment of heavy few-electron ions following excitation by relativistic Coulomb collisions

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042722 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Polarization effects on electronic excitation of the $\tilde{a} {{}^{3}B}_{1 u}$ state of ethylene by low-energy electron impact

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042723 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Electron attachment to ${SF}_{6}$ and lifetimes of ${SF}_{6}^{-}$ negative ions

L. G. Gerchikov and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042724 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

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

Theoretical and experimental study of energy loss of Li ions in Zn

C. C. Montanari, J. E. Miraglia, M. Behar, P. F. Duarte, N. R. Arista, J. C. Eckardt, and G. H. Lantschner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042901 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Proposed method for measuring the duration of electron pulses by attosecond streaking

P. Reckenthaeler, M. Centurion, V. S. Yakovlev, M. Lezius, F. Krausz, and E. E. Fill

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042902 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Position distribution of cold thermal atoms in the vicinity of a dielectric surface

Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta

Phys. Rev. A 77, 042903 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Fragmentation patterns of multicharged $C_{60}^{r +}$ $(r = 3 - 5)$ studied with well-controlled internal excitation energy

S. Martin, L. Chen, A. Salmoun, B. Li, J. Bernard, and R. Brédy

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043201 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Photoelectron spectroscopy study of free potassium clusters: Core-level lines and plasmon satellites

A. Rosso, G. Öhrwall, I. L. Bradeanu, S. Svensson, O. Björneholm, and M. Tchaplyguine

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043202 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

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

Twisted optical molasses for all-optical atomic cooling and trapping

A. R. Carter and M. Babiker

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Radiating dipoles near curved interfaces

Steve Pressé and Robert J. Silbey

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043402 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Effect of dressing on high-order harmonic generation in vibrating $H_{2}$ molecules

C. C. Chirilă and M. Lein

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043403 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Manipulating molecular rotational wave packets with strong femtosecond laser pulses

Yunan Gao, Chengyin Wu, Nan Xu, Guiping Zeng, Hongbing Jiang, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043404 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Symmetry-forbidden x-ray Raman scattering induced by a strong infrared-laser field

Ji-Cai Liu, Yasen Velkov, Zilvinas Rinkevicius, Hans Ågren, and Faris Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043405 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Modifying atom-surface interactions with optical fields

John D. Perreault, M. Bhattacharya, Vincent P. A. Lonij, and Alexander D. Cronin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043406 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Semiclassical guided optimal control of molecular processes of many degrees of freedom

Alexey Kondorskiy and Hiroki Nakamura

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043407 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

ac electric trapping of neutral atoms

Sophie Schlunk, Adela Marian, Wieland Schöllkopf, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043408 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Laser-frequency locking using light-pressure-induced spectroscopy in a calcium beam

A. K. Mollema, L. W. Wansbeek, L. Willmann, K. Jungmann, R. G. E. Timmermans, and R. Hoekstra

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043409 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Physics of a two-dimensional electron gas with cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials

Indubala I. Satija, Daniel C. Dakin, J. Y. Vaishnav, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043410 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Above-threshold ionization and high-order harmonic generation by mid-infrared and far-infrared laser pulses

Chengpu Liu, Takashi Nakajima, Tetsuo Sakka, and Hideaki Ohgaki

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043411 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Field-free molecular alignment of asymmetric top molecules using elliptically polarized laser pulses

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043412 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Intense-field zero-width resonances and control of molecular photodissociation

O. Atabek, R. Lefebvre, C. Lefebvre, and T. T. Nguyen-Dang

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043413 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Configuration-interaction method with Hylleraas-Gaussian-type basis functions in cylindrical coordinates: Helium atom in a strong magnetic field

Xiaofeng Wang and Haoxue Qiao

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043414 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Understanding the role of respresentation in controlled quantum-dynamical mechanism analysis

Abhra Mitra, Ignacio R. Sola, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043415 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Focusing of light following a 4- $f$ pulse shaper: Considerations for quantum control

Benjamin J. Sussman, Rune Lausten, and Albert Stolow

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043416 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Influence of Coulomb potential for photoionization of H atoms in an elliptically polarized laser field: Velocity gauge versus length gauge

Jingtao Zhang and Takashi Nakajima

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043417 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Trapped-atom cooling beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit using electromagnetically induced transparency

Maryam Roghani and Hanspeter Helm

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043418 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Observation of superfluorescent emissions from laser-cooled atoms

E. Paradis, B. Barrett, A. Kumarakrishnan, R. Zhang, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043419 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Nonsequential two-photon double ionization of helium

J. Feist, S. Nagele, R. Pazourek, E. Persson, B. I. Schneider, L. A. Collins, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043420 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Dynamics of two-photon double ionization of helium in short intense xuv laser pulses

Xiaoxu Guan, K. Bartschat, and B. I. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043421 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Semiclassical theory of the structure of the hydrogen spectrum in near-perpendicular electric and magnetic fields: Derivations and formulas for Einstein-Brillouin-Keller-Maslov quantization and description of monodromy

Christopher R. Schleif and John B. Delos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043422 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Matter waves

Condition for emergence of complex eigenvalues in the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations

Y. Nakamura, M. Mine, M. Okumura, and Y. Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043601 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Vortex velocity field in inhomogeneous media: A numerical study in Bose-Einstein condensates

D. M. Jezek and H. M. Cataldo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043602 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Trapping cold atoms by quantum reflection

Alexander Jurisch and Jan-Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043603 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Theoretical analysis of a single- and double-reflection atom interferometer in a weakly confining magnetic trap

James A. Stickney, Rudra P. Kafle, Dana Z. Anderson, and Alex A. Zozulya

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043604 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Effects of boundaries and density inhomogeneity on states of vortex matter in Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature

S. Kragset, E. Babaev, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043605 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Quantum-limited position measurements of a dark matter-wave soliton

Antonio Negretti, Carsten Henkel, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043606 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Matter waves in anharmonic periodic potentials

Tristram J. Alexander, Mario Salerno, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043607 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Fermions out of dipolar bosons in the lowest Landau level

B. Chung and Th. Jolicœur

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043608 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Macroscopic periodic tunneling of Fermi atoms in the BCS-BEC crossover

L. Salasnich, N. Manini, and F. Toigo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043609 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Nonlinear dynamical instabilities of a condensate system in an atom-molecule dark state

A. P. Itin, S. Watanabe, and V. V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043610 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Three fully polarized fermions close to a $p$ -wave Feshbach resonance

M. Jona-Lasinio, L. Pricoupenko, and Y. Castin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043611 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Bright and dark solitary waves in a one-dimensional spin-polarized gas of fermionic atoms with $p$ -wave interactions in a hard-wall trap

M. D. Girardeau and E. M. Wright

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043612 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Multiband-driven superfluid-insulator transition of fermionic atoms in optical lattices: A dynamical mean-field-theory study

Takuji Higashiyama, Kensuke Inaba, and Sei-ichiro Suga

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043624 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

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

Effects of dispersion on squeezing and photon statistics of down-converted light

Yuta Takahashi, Jonas Söderholm, Keiichi Hirano, Naoto Namekata, Susumu Machida, Shigehiko Mori, Sunao Kurimura, Shinichi Komatsu, and Shuichiro Inoue

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043801 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Spectral evolution of angularly resolved third-order harmonic generation by infrared femtosecond laser-pulse filamentation in air

Hui Xiong, Han Xu, Yuxi Fu, Ya Cheng, Zhizhan Xu, and See Leang Chin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043802 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Experimental and theoretical study of dynamical hysteresis and scaling laws in the polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Jon Paul, Cristina Masoller, Paul Mandel, Yanhua Hong, Paul S. Spencer, and K. Alan Shore

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043803 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Spectral properties of entangled photon pairs generated via frequency-degenerate type-I spontaneous parametric down-conversion

So-Young Baek and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043807 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Transverse nonlinear optics in heavy-metal-oxide glass

Alessia Pasquazi, Salvatore Stivala, Gaetano Assanto, José Gonzalo, and Javier Solis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043808 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Characterizing temporal distinguishability of an $N$ -photon state by a generalized photon bunching effect with multiphoton interference

Z. Y. Ou

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043829 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Theory of thermal motion in electromagnetically induced transparency: Effects of diffusion, Doppler broadening, and Dicke and Ramsey narrowing

O. Firstenberg, M. Shuker, R. Pugatch, D. R. Fredkin, N. Davidson, and A. Ron

Phys. Rev. A 77, 043830 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Decoherent-history approach to the probability distribution of tunneling time

S. Boonchui and V. Sa-yakanit

Phys. Rev. A 77, 044101 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Relativistic Hylleraas configuration-interaction method projected into positive-energy space

M. Bylicki, G. Pestka, and J. Karwowski

Phys. Rev. A 77, 044501 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Description of positron-hydrogen resonances using the stochastic variational method

K. Varga, J. Mitroy, J. Zs. Mezei, and A. T. Kruppa

Phys. Rev. A 77, 044502 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Vinylidene dissociation following the Auger-electron decay of inner-shell ionized acetylene

R. Flammini, E. Fainelli, F. Maracci, and L. Avaldi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 044701 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

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

Investigation of loading of pulsed and continuous-wave optical dipole force traps

M. Shiddiq, E. M. Ahmed, M. D. Havey, and C. I. Sukenik

Phys. Rev. A 77, 045401 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Zitterbewegung by quantum field-theory considerations

Zhi-Yong Wang and Cai-Dong Xiong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 045402 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Matter waves

Solitons in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates

Shunji Tsuchiya, Franco Dalfovo, and Lev Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. A 77, 045601 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a superfluid Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover

S. K. Adhikari

Phys. Rev. A 77, 045602 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Arbitrated quantum-signature scheme”

Marcos Curty and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. A 77, 046301 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical suppression of decoherence by phase kicks: Master equation approach [Phys. Rev. A 76, 022307 (2007)]

Masashi Ban, Sachiko Kitajima, and Fumiaki Shibata

Phys. Rev. A 77, 049901 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Conditional preparation of states containing a definite number of photons [Phys. Rev. A 77, 023804 (2008)]

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 049902 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Erratum: Effects of diffusion and surface interactions on the line shape of electron paramagnetic resonances in the presence of a magnetic field gradient [Phys. Rev. A 76, 062502 (2007)]

M. Schaden, K. F. Zhao, and Z. Wu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 049903 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Attosecond light-pulse-induced photoassociation [Phys. Rev. A 77, 033421 (2008)]

Paula Rivière, Camilo Ruiz, and Jan-Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. A 77, 049904 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008