Volume 77, Issue 5

May 2008

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Fundamental concepts

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Decays in quantum hierarchical models

Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050101(R) (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

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Wave-packet Rabi oscillations from phase-space flow in mesoscopic cavity QED

Omri Gat

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050102(R) (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Quantum information

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Simple and secure quantum key distribution with biphotons

I. Bregman, D. Aharonov, M. Ben-Or, and H. S. Eisenberg

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050301(R) (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

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Distribution of continuous-variable entanglement by separable Gaussian states

Ladislav Mišta, Jr. and Natalia Korolkova

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050302(R) (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

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Geometric phase gate on an optical transition for ion trap quantum computation

K. Kim, C. F. Roos, L. Aolita, H. Häffner, V. Nebendahl, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050303(R) (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

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Tunneling phase gate for neutral atoms in a double-well lattice

Frederick W. Strauch, Mark Edwards, Eite Tiesinga, Carl Williams, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050304(R) (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

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Character of locally inequivalent classes of states and entropy of entanglement

Indrani Chattopadhyay and Debasis Sarkar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050305(R) (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

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Memory effects in spin-chain channels for information transmission

Abolfazl Bayat, Daniel Burgarth, Stefano Mancini, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050306(R) (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

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Emergence of atom-light-mirror entanglement inside an optical cavity

C. Genes, D. Vitali, and P. Tombesi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050307(R) (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

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Multilevel multiparty singlets as ground states and their role in entanglement distribution

Christopher Hadley and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050308(R) (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Frequency evaluation of the doubly forbidden ${}^{1}{S_{0}} \to {}^{3}{P_{0}}$ transition in bosonic ${}^{174}{Yb}$

N. Poli, Z. W. Barber, N. D. Lemke, C. W. Oates, L. S. Ma, J. E. Stalnaker, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, J. C. Bergquist, A. Brusch, S. Jefferts, T. Heavner, and T. Parker

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050501(R) (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Selective enhancement of $1 s 2 s 2 p {}^{4}P_{J}$ metastable states populated by cascades in single-electron transfer collisions of $F^{7 +} (1 s^{2} ∕ 1 s 2 s {}^{3}S)$ ions with He and $H_{2}$ targets

T. J. M. Zouros, B. Sulik, L. Gulyás, and K. Tökési

Phys. Rev. A 77, 050701(R) (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

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

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Stopping supersonic oxygen with a series of pulsed electromagnetic coils: A molecular coilgun

Edvardas Narevicius, Adam Libson, Christian G. Parthey, Isaac Chavez, Julia Narevicius, Uzi Even, and Mark G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051401(R) (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

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Smooth inductively coupled ring trap for atoms

P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, and A. S. Arnold

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051402(R) (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

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Radial compression of a non-neutral plasma in a cusp trap for antihydrogen synthesis

H. Saitoh, A. Mohri, Y. Enomoto, Y. Kanai, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051403(R) (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

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Signature of quantum interferences in above-threshold detachment of negative ions by a short infrared pulse

S. Bivona, G. Bonanno, R. Burlon, D. Gurrera, and C. Leone

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051404(R) (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Matter waves

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Dissipative quantum Ising model in a cold-atom spin-boson mixture

Peter P. Orth, Ivan Stanic, and Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051601(R) (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

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Equation of state and phases of a polarized unitary Fermi gas

S. Y. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051602(R) (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

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Bright solitary waves of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates under rotation

N. A. Jamaludin, N. G. Parker, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051603(R) (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

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

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Optical coupling of fundamental whispering-gallery modes in bispheres

L. I. Deych, C. Schmidt, A. Chipouline, T. Pertsch, and A. Tünnermann

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051801(R) (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

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Brownian soliton motion

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051802(R) (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

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Slowing light through Zeeman coherence oscillations in a duplicated two-level system

F. A. Hashmi and M. A. Bouchene

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051803(R) (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

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Detection of spin correlations in optical lattices by light scattering

Inés de Vega, J. Ignacio Cirac, and D. Porras

Phys. Rev. A 77, 051804(R) (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Nonclassical correlation in a multipartite quantum system: Two measures and evaluation

Akira SaiToh, Robabeh Rahimi, and Mikio Nakahara

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052101 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Weak measurement takes a simple form for cumulants

Graeme Mitchison

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052102 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Electromagnetic radiation by gravitating bodies

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052103 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Binary search trees for generalized measurements

Erika Andersson and Daniel K. L. Oi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052104 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Multiparticle entanglement in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

H. T. Cui

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052105 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Quantum homogenization and state randomization in semiquantal spin systems

Mátyás Koniorczyk, Árpád Varga, Peter Rapčan, and Vladimír Bužek

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052106 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Quantitative complementarity between local and nonlocal character of quantum states in a three-qubit system

Xinhua Peng, Jingfu Zhang, Jiangfeng Du, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052107 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Quantum indirect estimation theory and joint estimate of all moments of two incompatible observables

G. M. D’Ariano, P. Perinotti, and M. F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052108 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Block entanglement entropy of ground states with long-range magnetic order

Wenxin Ding, Nicholas E. Bonesteel, and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052109 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Quantum correlation bounds for optimization of quantum-information experiments: The Wigner inequality case

F. A. Bovino and I. P. Degiovanni

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052110 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Stochastic master equation for a probed system in a cavity

Anne E. B. Nielsen and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052111 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Bang-bang control of a qubit coupled to a quantum critical spin bath

D. Rossini, P. Facchi, R. Fazio, G. Florio, D. A. Lidar, S. Pascazio, F. Plastina, and P. Zanardi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052112 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Proposal for a loophole-free test of nonlocal realism with electron spins of donors

Fang-Yu Hong and Shi-Jie Xiong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052113 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Quantum measurements without macroscopic superpositions

Dominique Spehner and Fritz Haake

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052114 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Loschmidt echo and Berry phase around degeneracies in nonlinear systems

X. X. Yi, X. L. Huang, and W. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052115 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Quantum information

Criteria for dynamically stable decoherence-free subspaces and incoherently generated coherences

Raisa I. Karasik, Karl-Peter Marzlin, Barry C. Sanders, and K. Birgitta Whaley

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052301 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Fidelity between partial states as a signature of quantum phase transitions

N. Paunković, P. D. Sacramento, P. Nogueira, V. R. Vieira, and V. K. Dugaev

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052302 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Optimal control theory for continuous-variable quantum gates

Rebing Wu, Raj Chakrabarti, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052303 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Systematic generation of entanglement measures for pure states

Ayumu Sugita

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052304 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Many-body protected entanglement generation in interacting spin systems

A. M. Rey, L. Jiang, M. Fleischhauer, E. Demler, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052305 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Sequentially generated states for the study of two-dimensional systems

M. C. Bañuls, D. Pérez-García, M. M. Wolf, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052306 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Quantum error correction may delay, but also cause, entanglement sudden death

Isabel Sainz and Gunnar Björk

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052307 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Quantum cloning of a pair of orthogonally polarized photons with linear optics

Jaromír Fiurášek and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052308 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Scalability of quantum computation with addressable optical lattices

T. R. Beals, J. Vala, and K. B. Whaley

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052309 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Quantum advantages in classically defined tasks

N. Aharon and L. Vaidman

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052310 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Metric character of the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence

P. W. Lamberti, A. P. Majtey, A. Borras, M. Casas, and A. Plastino

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052311 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Quantum entanglement of formation between qudits

Seunghwa Ryu, Wei Cai, and Alfredo Caro

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052312 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Quantum cloning of continuous-variable entangled states

Christian Weedbrook, Nicolai B. Grosse, Thomas Symul, Ping Koy Lam, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052313 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Statistical comparison of ensemble implementations of Grover’s search algorithm to classical sequential searches

Tomasz M. Kott and David Collins

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052314 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Deterministic error model for quantum computer simulation

Eric Chi, Stephen A. Lyon, and Margaret Martonosi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052315 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Broadband squeezed light from phase-locked single-mode sub-Poissonian lasers

T. Golubeva, D. Ivanov, and Yu. Golubev

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052316 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Lower bounds on entanglement measures from incomplete information

O. Gühne, M. Reimpell, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052317 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Belief propagation algorithm for computing correlation functions in finite-temperature quantum many-body systems on loopy graphs

David Poulin and Ersen Bilgin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052318 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Bounding fault-tolerant thresholds for purification and quantum computation

Alastair Kay

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052319 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Parameter estimation with mixed-state quantum computation

Sergio Boixo and Rolando D. Somma

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052320 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Effect of detector dead times on the security evaluation of differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution against sequential attacks

Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki, and Tobias Moroder

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052321 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Entanglement of finite cyclic chains at factorizing fields

R. Rossignoli, N. Canosa, and J. M. Matera

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052322 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Qubit channels with small correlations

Filippo Caruso, Vittorio Giovannetti, Chiara Macchiavello, and Mary Beth Ruskai

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052323 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Lossy bosonic quantum channel with non-Markovian memory

Oleg V. Pilyavets, Vadim G. Zborovskii, and Stefano Mancini

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052324 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Phase-noise measurements in long-fiber interferometers for quantum-repeater applications

Jiří Minář, Hugues de Riedmatten, Christoph Simon, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052325 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Rovibrational wave-packet manipulation using shaped midinfrared femtosecond pulses toward quantum computation: Optimization of pulse shape by a genetic algorithm

Masaaki Tsubouchi and Takamasa Momose

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052326 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Quantum key distribution with an unknown and untrusted source

Yi Zhao, Bing Qi, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052327 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Simulation of time evolution with multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz

Matteo Rizzi, Simone Montangero, and Guifre Vidal

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052328 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Bell-inequality violation versus entanglement in the presence of local decoherence

A. G. Kofman and A. N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052329 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Continuous positive-operator-valued measurement of photon polarization

Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052330 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Nonperturbative $k$ -body to two-body commuting conversion Hamiltonians and embedding problem instances into Ising spins

J. D. Biamonte

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052331 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Tuning quantum tunneling and quantum information properties among the trion states in coupled quantum dots

Y. B. Wen and W. X. Yan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052332 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Optimal control of atom transport for quantum gates in optical lattices

G. De Chiara, T. Calarco, M. Anderlini, S. Montangero, P. J. Lee, B. L. Brown, W. D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052333 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Error-resistant single-qubit gates with trapped ions

N. Timoney, V. Elman, S. Glaser, C. Weiss, M. Johanning, W. Neuhauser, and Chr. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052334 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Determination of dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of ${Mg}^{+}$ by fine-structure measurements in high- $L$ $n = 17$ Rydberg states of magnesium

E. L. Snow and S. R. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052501 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

$K α$ transition probabilities for fluorinelike ions from neon to gold: Ab initio relativistic coupled-cluster calculations

Chiranjib Sur, Sultana N. Nahar, and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052502 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Nuclear magnetic octupole moment and the hyperfine structure of the $5 D_{3 / 2, 5 / 2}$ states of the ${Ba}^{+}$ ion

K. Beloy, A. Derevianko, V. A. Dzuba, G. T. Howell, B. B. Blinov, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052503 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Hyperfine quenching of the $2 s 2 p {}^{3}P_{0}$ state of berylliumlike ions

K. T. Cheng (鄭國錚), M. H. Chen (陳茂雄), and W. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052504 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Stability conditions for hydrogen-antihydrogen–like quasimolecules

Alejandro Ferrón, Pablo Serra, and Sabre Kais

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052505 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Relativistic $R$ -matrix close-coupling method based on the effective many-body Hamiltonian: Benchmarks on the electron-impact excitations of the ${Kr}^{6 +}$ ion

Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Marius J. Vilkas

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052701 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Analytic models of ultracold atomic collisions at negative energies for application to confinement-induced resonances

S. G. Bhongale, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052702 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

$4 d$ photoionization and subsequent Auger decay in atomic Eu

A. Sankari, R. Sankari, S. Heinäsmäki, M. Huttula, S. Aksela, and H. Aksela

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052703 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Feshbach-resonance-mediated annihilation in positron interactions with large molecules

J. A. Young and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052704 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Near-threshold model for ultracold KRb dimers from interisotope Feshbach spectroscopy

Andrea Simoni, Matteo Zaccanti, Chiara D’Errico, Marco Fattori, Giacomo Roati, Massimo Inguscio, and Giovanni Modugno

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052705 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Polarization effects on low-energy electron collisions with propane

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

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052706 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Applications of the hybrid theory to the scattering of electrons from ${He}^{+}$ and ${Li}^{2 +}$ and resonances in these systems

A. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052707 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Water-molecule dissociation by impact of ${He}^{+}$ ions

P. M. Y. Garcia, G. M. Sigaud, H. Luna, A. C. F. Santos, E. C. Montenegro, and M. B. Shah

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052708 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Ultracold atom-molecule collisions with fermionic atoms

J. P. D’Incao, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052709 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

$K$ -shell and $L$ -shell $(e, 3 e)$ double ionization of beryllium by fast electron impact

M. Becher, B. Joulakian, C. Le Sech, and M. Chrysos

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052710 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Decisive role of rotational couplings in the dissociative recombination and superelastic collisions of $H_{2}^{+}$ with low-energy electrons

Ousmanou Motapon, Francois Olivier Waffeu Tamo, Xavier Urbain, and Ioan F. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052711 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Dynamics of low-density ultracold Rydberg gases

J. O. Day, E. Brekke, and T. G. Walker

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052712 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Antiproton and proton collisions with the alkali-metal atoms Li, Na, and K

Armin Lühr and Alejandro Saenz

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052713 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Hyperspherical partial wave theory with two-term error correction

S. Paul

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052714 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

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

Coulomb heating of channeled $C^{+}$ and $C_{2}^{+}$ molecules in Si

R. C. Fadanelli, J. F. Dias, and M. Behar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052901 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Fluorescence of an organic-dye thin film by interaction with individual slow highly charged ions

Masahide Tona, Takashi Abe, Hirofumi Watanabe, Jian Sun, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Chikashi Yamada, Masahiro Kotani, and Shunsuke Ohtani

Phys. Rev. A 77, 052902 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Modified nanoplasma model for laser-cluster interaction

S. Micheau, H. Jouin, and B. Pons

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053201 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

2D-3D transition of gold cluster anions resolved

Mikael P. Johansson, Anne Lechtken, Detlef Schooss, Manfred M. Kappes, and Filipp Furche

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053202 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Identification of the ${SiF}_{6}^{2 -}$ dianion by accelerator mass spectrometry and a fully relativistic computation of its photodetachment spectrum

Hubert Gnaser, Robin Golser, Markus Pernpointner, Oliver Forstner, Walter Kutschera, Alfred Priller, Peter Steier, and Anton Wallner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053203 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

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

${HD}^{+}$ in a beam in intense pulsed laser fields: Dissociation and ionization with high-energy resolution of the fragments

Andreas Kiess, Domagoj Pavičić, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Hartmut Figger

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053401 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Ab initio quantum approach to planar helium under periodic driving

Javier Madroñero and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053402 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Classical dynamics of a charged particle in a laser field beyond the dipole approximation

Paul Jameson and Arsen Khvedelidze

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053403 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Resonant Auger effect at high x-ray intensity

Nina Rohringer and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053404 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Dissociative ionization of a large molecule studied by intense phase-controlled laser fields

Hideki Ohmura, Naoaki Saito, Hidehiko Nonaka, and Shingo Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053405 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Mott-insulator transition for ultracold fermions in two-dimensional optical lattices

N. Goldman

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053406 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Direct Coulomb-explosion imaging of coherent nuclear dynamics induced by few-cycle laser pulses in light and heavy hydrogen

I. A. Bocharova, H. Mashiko, M. Magrakvelidze, D. Ray, P. Ranitovic, C. L. Cocke, and I. V. Litvinyuk

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053407 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Relaxation of spin polarized ${}^{3}H e$ in mixtures of ${}^{3}H e$ and ${}^{4}H e$ below the ${}^{4}H e$ lambda point

Q. Ye, D. Dutta, H. Gao, K. Kramer, X. Qian, X. Zong, L. Hannelius, R. D. McKeown, B. Heyburn, S. Singer, R. Golub, and E. Korobkina

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053408 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Coulomb-corrected quantum trajectories in strong-field ionization

S. V. Popruzhenko, G. G. Paulus, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053409 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Retrieval of electron-atom scattering cross sections from laser-induced electron rescattering of atomic negative ions in intense laser fields

XiaoXin Zhou, Zhangjin Chen, Toru Morishita, Anh-Thu Le, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053410 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

High-order harmonic generation as a probe of rotational dynamics

S. Ramakrishna and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053411 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Extreme-ultraviolet frequency combs by surface-enhanced optical fields with diatomic molecules

Jian Wu, Hongxing Qi, and Heping Zeng

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053412 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Averaging out magnetic forces with fast rf sweeps in an optical trap for metastable chromium atoms

Q. Beaufils, R. Chicireanu, A. Pouderous, W. de Souza Melo, B. Laburthe-Tolra, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, J. C. Keller, and O. Gorceix

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053413 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Experimental mapping of the absolute magnitude of the transition dipole moment function $μ_{e} (R)$ of the ${Na}_{2}$ $A {{}^{1}Σ}_{u}^{+} - X {{}^{1}Σ}_{g}^{+}$ transition

E. H. Ahmed, P. Qi, B. Beser, J. Bai, R. W. Field, J. P. Huennekens, and A. M. Lyyra

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053414 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Orientation effects in the Coulomb-explosion ionization of an $H_{2}^{+}$ wave packet by short xuv pulses: Applicability of the fixed-nuclei approximation

Morten Førre and Henri Bachau

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053415 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Matter waves

Quasienergies and Floquet states of two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates under periodic driving

Xiaobing Luo (罗小兵), Qiongtao Xie (谢琼涛), and Biao Wu (吴飙)

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053601 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Noise correlations of the ultracold Fermi gas in an optical lattice

T. Paananen, T. K. Koponen, P. Törmä, and J.-P. Martikainen

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053602 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Functional renormalization for Bose-Einstein condensation

S. Floerchinger and C. Wetterich

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053603 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Ground-state properties, vortices, and collective excitations in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate with gravitylike interatomic attraction

A. Keleş, S. Sevinçli, and B. Tanatar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053604 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Heteronuclear fermionic superfluids with spin degrees of freedom

D. B. M. Dickerscheid, Y. Kawaguchi, and M. Ueda

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053605 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Dynamics of matter-wave solitons in a time-modulated two-dimensional optical lattice

Gennadiy Burlak and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053606 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate in a high-frequency driving field that directly couples the two modes

Qi Zhang, Peter Hänggi, and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053607 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

One-dimensional Bose gases with $N$ -body attractive interactions

E. Fersino, G. Mussardo, and A. Trombettoni

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053608 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Ultracold bosons in lattices with binary disorder

K. V. Krutitsky, M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and R. Graham

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053609 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Vortex dipole in a trapped two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate

Weibin Li, Masudul Haque, and Stavros Komineas

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053610 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Atom-to-molecule conversion efficiency and adiabatic fidelity

Li-Hua Lu and You-Quan Li

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053611 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Stability of quantized vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an optical lattice

K. J. H. Law, L. Qiao, P. G. Kevrekidis, and I. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053612 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Bose-Einstein condensate as a nonlinear Ramsey interferometer operating beyond the Heisenberg limit

S. Choi and B. Sundaram

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053613 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Correlation effects on atom-density profiles of one- and two-dimensional polarized atomic Fermi gases loaded on an optical lattice

M. Machida, S. Yamada, M. Okumura, Y. Ohashi, and H. Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053614 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Lowest-Landau-level vortex structure of a Bose-Einstein condensate rotating in a harmonic plus quartic trap

Xavier Blanc and Nicolas Rougerie

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053615 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Binding energies of ${}^{6}L i$ $p$ -wave Feshbach molecules

J. Fuchs, C. Ticknor, P. Dyke, G. Veeravalli, E. Kuhnle, W. Rowlands, P. Hannaford, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053616 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Superfluidity at the BEC-BCS crossover in two-dimensional Fermi gases with population and mass imbalance

G. J. Conduit, P. H. Conlon, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053617 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

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

High-visibility multiphoton interference of Hanbury Brown–Twiss type for classical light

I. N. Agafonov, M. V. Chekhova, T. Sh. Iskhakov, and A. N. Penin

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053801 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Resonant Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts at photonic crystal slabs

Thomas Paul, Carsten Rockstuhl, Christoph Menzel, and Falk Lederer

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053802 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Modes of a rotating astigmatic optical cavity

Steven J. M. Habraken and Gerard Nienhuis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053803 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Multimode regimes in quantum cascade lasers: From coherent instabilities to spatial hole burning

Ariel Gordon, Christine Y. Wang, L. Diehl, F. X. Kärtner, A. Belyanin, D. Bour, S. Corzine, G. Höfler, H. C. Liu, H. Schneider, T. Maier, M. Troccoli, J. Faist, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053804 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Quasimode-projection approach to quantum-dot–photon interactions in photonic-crystal-slab coupled-cavity systems

D. P. Fussell and M. M. Dignam

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053805 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Effects of spontaneously generated coherence in a microwave-driven four-level atomic system

Ai-Jun Li, Xiao-Li Song, Xiao-Gang Wei, Lei Wang, and Jin-Yue Gao

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053806 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

High-sensitivity imaging with multi-mode twin beams

E. Brambilla, L. Caspani, O. Jedrkiewicz, L. A. Lugiato, and A. Gatti

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053807 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Quantum interference structures in trapped-ion dynamics beyond the Lamb-Dicke and rotating wave approximations

Dong Wang, Tony Hansson, Åsa Larson, Hans O. Karlsson, and Jonas Larson

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053808 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Subhertz linewidth diode lasers by stabilization to vibrationally and thermally compensated ultralow-expansion glass Fabry-Pérot cavities

J. Alnis, A. Matveev, N. Kolachevsky, Th. Udem, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053809 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Near and intermediate fields of an ultrashort pulse transmitted through Young’s double-slit experiment

A. M. Nugrowati, S. F. Pereira, and A. S. van de Nes

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053810 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Quantum phase transition in the generalized Dicke model: Inhomogeneous coupling and universality

Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053811 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Generation of high-flux hyperentangled photon pairs using a microstructure-fiber Sagnac interferometer

Jun Chen, Jingyun Fan, Matthew D. Eisaman, and Alan Migdall

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053812 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Spatially localized modes in two-dimensional chirped photonic lattices

Mario I. Molina, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053813 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

From single-cycle self-compressed filaments to isolated attosecond pulses in noble gases

Arnaud Couairon, Himadri S. Chakraborty, and Mette B. Gaarde

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053814 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Radiation from a dynamically deforming mirror immersed in the electromagnetic vacuum

Mohammad Montazeri and MirFaez Miri

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053815 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Observation of simultaneous fast and slow light

Pablo Bianucci, Chris R. Fietz, John W. Robertson, Gennady Shvets, and Chih-Kang Shih

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053816 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Vibrational Bloch-Siegert effect in trapped ions

I. Lizuain, J. G. Muga, and J. Eschner

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053817 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Coherent-states engineering with linear optics: Possible and impossible tasks

Bing He and János A. Bergou

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053818 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Quantum phase transitions in photonic cavities with two-level systems

M. I. Makin, Jared H. Cole, Charles Tahan, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, and Andrew D. Greentree

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053819 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Extended photon correlation in a negative-temperature medium

C. H. Raymond Ooi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053820 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Directive emission based on anisotropic metamaterials

Yu Yuan, Linfang Shen, Lixin Ran, Tao Jiang, Jiangtao Huangfu, and Jin Au Kong

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053821 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer with one and two photon pairs

Olavo Cosme, S. Pádua, Fabio A. Bovino, A. Mazzei, Fabio Sciarrino, and Francesco De Martini

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053822 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Dynamics of atom-field entanglement: Towards strong-coupling and non-Markovian regimes

N. I. Cummings and B. L. Hu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053823 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Interatomic van der Waals potential in the presence of a magnetoelectric sphere

Hassan Safari, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Ho Trung Dung, and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053824 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Arbitrary coherent superpositions of quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates via orbital angular momentum of light

Sulakshana Thanvanthri, Kishore T. Kapale, and Jonathan P. Dowling

Phys. Rev. A 77, 053825 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Quantum random number generator based on spin noise

G. E. Katsoprinakis, M. Polis, A. Tavernarakis, A. T. Dellis, and I. K. Kominis

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054101 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Quantum information

Delayed sudden birth of entanglement

Zbigniew Ficek and Ryszard Tanaś

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054301 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Proof of a lower bound for bipartite concurrence via equivalence to an observable entanglement measure

Xi-Jun Ren, Zheng-Wei Zhou, Xingxiang Zhou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054302 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Lowest quartet states of ${Li}_{2} A$ ( $A = Na$ , K, Rb, Cs)

Pavel Soldán

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054501 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Infrared frequency standard using electrically trapped molecules

Masatoshi Kajita

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054502 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Measurements of total cross sections for positron scattering by uracil molecules

E. Surdutovich, G. Setzler, W. E. Kauppila, S. J. Rehse, and T. S. Stein

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054701 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Resonant enhancement of photoemission leading to the ${Ne}^{+} [2 p^{2}] ({}^{1}D) 3 p {}^{2}P$ state across the $[1 s 2 p] ({}^{3}P) 3 p^{2}^{1} P$ double-excitation resonance of Ne

M. Oura, Y. Senba, and H. Ohashi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054702 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008

Low-energy positron scattering by ${CO}_{2}$

S. d’A. Sanchez, F. Arretche, and M. A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054703 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Mg $2 p$ ionization by electron impact

P. Bolognesi, L. Pravica, S. Veronesi, E. Fainelli, J. Martinez, H. R. J. Walters, Colm T. Whelan, H. Bohachov, A. Borovik, and L. Avaldi

Phys. Rev. A 77, 054704 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Stochastic local operations and classical communication invariant and the residual entanglement for $n$ qubits”

Xin-Wei Zha, Hai-Yang Song, and Ming-Liang Hu

Phys. Rev. A 77, 056301 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Stochastic local operations and classical communication invariant and the residual entanglement for $n$ qubits’ ”

Dafa Li, Xiangrong Li, Hongtao Huang, and Xinxin Li

Phys. Rev. A 77, 056302 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Comment on “Reduced coherence in double-slit diffraction of neutrons”

A. S. Sanz and F. Borondo

Phys. Rev. A 77, 057601 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Reduced coherence in double-slit diffraction of neutrons’ ”

R. Tumulka, A. Viale, and N. Zanghì

Phys. Rev. A 77, 057602 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Two-electron QED contributions to the ground-state binding energy in He-like ${Kr}^{34 +}$ ions [Phys. Rev. A 77, 012506 (2008)]

P. H. Mokler, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, F. J. Currell, N. Nakamura, S. Ohtani, C. J. Osborne, H. Tawara, J. Ullrich, and H. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 77, 059901 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Erratum: Efficient polarization-entanglement purification based on parametric down-conversion sources with cross-Kerr nonlinearity [Phys. Rev. A 77, 042308 (2008)]

Yu-Bo Sheng, Fu-Guo Deng, and Hong-Yu Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 77, 059902 (2008) - Published 16 May, 2008