Volume 78, Issue 4

October 2008

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: APS now leaves copyright with authors for derivative works

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040001 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiple membrane cavity optomechanics

M. Bhattacharya and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041801(R) (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamical symmetry of Dirac hydrogen atom with spin symmetry and its connection with Ginocchio’s oscillator

Fu-Lin Zhang, Bo Fu, and Jing-Ling Chen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040101(R) (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Quantum information

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Entangling distant quantum dots using classical interference

Jonathan Busch, Elica S. Kyoseva, Michael Trupke, and Almut Beige

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040301(R) (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Spectral linewidth broadening from pair fluctuations in a frozen Rydberg gas

B. Sun and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040701(R) (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Three-body breakup in dissociative electron attachment to the water molecule

Daniel J. Haxton, Thomas N. Rescigno, and C. William McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040702(R) (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Low-energy resonances and bound states of aligned bosonic and fermionic dipoles

K. Kanjilal and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040703(R) (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Melting a frozen Rydberg gas with an attractive potential

Matthieu Viteau, Amodsen Chotia, Daniel Comparat, Duncan A. Tate, T. F. Gallagher, and Pierre Pillet

Phys. Rev. A 78, 040704(R) (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

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

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Molecular rescattering signature in above-threshold ionization

C. Cornaggia

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041401(R) (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

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Enhancement of high-order harmonic emission and intense sub- $50 − as$ pulse generation

Zhen Zhai, Ruo-Fei Yu, Xue-Shen Liu, and Yu-Jun Yang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041402(R) (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

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Controlling the population imbalance of a Bose-Einstein condensate by a symmetry-breaking driving field

Luis Morales-Molina and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041403(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Matter waves

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Thomas-Fermi versus one- and two-dimensional regimes of a trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

N. G. Parker and D. H. J. O’Dell

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041601(R) (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

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Signatures of strong correlations in one-dimensional ultracold atomic Fermi gases

Paata Kakashvili, S. G. Bhongale, Han Pu, and C. J. Bolech

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041602(R) (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiple membrane cavity optomechanics

M. Bhattacharya and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041801(R) (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evidence of lasing without inversion in a hot rubidium vapor under electromagnetically-induced-transparency conditions

Haibin Wu, Min Xiao, and J. Gea-Banacloche

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041802(R) (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

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Collision of solitons in electromagnetically induced transparency

V. Ramesh Kumar, R. Radha, and Miki Wadati

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041803(R) (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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Enhancement of collective atomic recoil lasing due to pump phase modulation

G. R. M. Robb, R. T. L. Burgess, and W. J. Firth

Phys. Rev. A 78, 041804(R) (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Testing Bell inequalities with photon-subtracted Gaussian states

Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042101 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Adiabatic approximation, Gell-Mann and Low theorem, and degeneracies: A pedagogical example

Christian Brouder, Gabriel Stoltz, and Gianluca Panati

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042102 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Dependence of the decoherence of polarization states in phase-damping channels on the frequency spectrum envelope of photons

Yan-Xiao Gong, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Yu-Li Dong, Xiao-Ling Niu, Yun-Feng Huang, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042103 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Consistent classical and quantum mixed dynamics

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042104 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Quantum criticality as a resource for quantum estimation

Paolo Zanardi, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Lorenzo Campos Venuti

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042105 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Optimal quantum estimation in spin systems at criticality

Carmen Invernizzi, Michael Korbman, Lorenzo Campos Venuti, and Matteo G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042106 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Alternative calculation of the Casimir forces between birefringent plates

T. G. Philbin and U. Leonhardt

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042107 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Geometry of density matrix states

Luis J. Boya and Kuldeep Dixit

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042108 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Dynamical Casimir effect in oscillating media

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042109 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Orientation-dependent Casimir force arising from highly anisotropic crystals: Application to ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Mark B. Romanowsky and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042110 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Incomplete entanglement: Consequences for the quantum Zeno effect

R. Rossi, Jr., A. R. Bosco de Magalhães, and M. C. Nemes

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042111 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Classicality of spin states

Olivier Giraud, Petr Braun, and Daniel Braun

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042112 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Generalization of the Born rule

Bruno Galvan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042113 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Decoherence and disentanglement for two qubits in a common squeezed reservoir

Maritza Hernandez and Miguel Orszag

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042114 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

$P T$ -symmetric brachistochrone problem, Lorentz boosts, and nonunitary operator equivalence classes

Uwe Günther and Boris F. Samsonov

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042115 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Quantum information

Multiple quantum NMR and entanglement dynamics in dipolar coupling spin systems

G. B. Furman, V. M. Meerovich, and V. L. Sokolovsky

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042301 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Universal teleportation via continuous-variable graph states

Lijie Ren, Guangqiang He, and Guihua Zeng

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042302 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Quantum-error-correcting codes using qudit graph states

Shiang Yong Looi, Li Yu, Vlad Gheorghiu, and Robert B. Griffiths

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042303 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Transport and quantum walk of nonclassical light in coupled waveguides

Amit Rai, G. S. Agarwal, and J. H. H. Perk

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042304 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Entanglement and the speed of evolution in mixed states

Judy Kupferman and Benni Reznik

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042305 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Secret-key-assisted private classical communication capacity over quantum channels

Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Zhicheng Luo, and Todd Brun

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042306 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Preparation of entangled states by quantum Markov processes

B. Kraus, H. P. Büchler, S. Diehl, A. Kantian, A. Micheli, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042307 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Observable estimation of entanglement for arbitrary finite-dimensional mixed states

Cheng-Jie Zhang, Yan-Xiao Gong, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042308 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Graph states for quantum secret sharing

Damian Markham and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042309 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Genuine multipartite entanglement of symmetric Gaussian states: Strong monogamy, unitary localization, scaling behavior, and molecular sharing structure

Gerardo Adesso and Fabrizio Illuminati

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042310 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Role of interference in quantum cloning

Benoit Roubert and Daniel Braun

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042311 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Maximal sets of mutually unbiased quantum states in dimension 6

Stephen Brierley and Stefan Weigert

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042312 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Stimulated Raman process in a scattering medium applied to the quantum memory scheme

O. S. Mishina, N. V. Larionov, A. S. Sheremet, I. M. Sokolov, and D. V. Kupriyanov

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042313 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Multiparty quantum states stabilized by the diagonal subgroup of the local unitary group

David W. Lyons and Scott N. Walck

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042314 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Optical realization of the unambiguous discriminator for unknown quantum states

Xiaohua Wu and Yixi Gong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042315 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Tomography increases key rates of quantum-key-distribution protocols

Shun Watanabe, Ryutaroh Matsumoto, and Tomohiko Uyematsu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042316 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Entanglement-redistribution boxes

Andrzej Grudka, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki, and Marco Piani

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042317 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Chaos, entanglement, and decoherence in the quantum kicked top

Shohini Ghose, Rene Stock, Poul Jessen, Roshan Lal, and Andrew Silberfarb

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042318 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Evaluation of pairwise entanglement in translationally invariant systems with the random phase approximation

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

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042319 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Finite-time decoherence could be suppressed efficiently in a photonic crystal

Fa-Qiang Wang, Zhi-Ming Zhang, and Rui-Sheng Liang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042320 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Preparation and characterization of arbitrary states of four-dimensional qudits based on biphotons

So-Young Baek, Stanislav S. Straupe, Alexander P. Shurupov, Sergei P. Kulik, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042321 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Quantum search by parallel eigenvalue adiabatic passage

D. Daems, S. Guérin, and N. J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042322 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Entanglement dynamics in a dispersively coupled qubit-oscillator system

D. Wahyu Utami and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042323 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Stability of quantum concatenated-code Hamiltonians

Dave Bacon

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042324 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Constructing functional braids for low-leakage topological quantum computing

Haitan Xu and Xin Wan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042325 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Particle partitioning entanglement in itinerant many-particle systems

O. S. Zozulya, Masudul Haque, and K. Schoutens

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042326 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Simplex of bound entangled multipartite qubit states

B. C. Hiesmayr, F. Hipp, M. Huber, P. Krammer, and Ch. Spengler

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042327 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Generation of entangled channels for perfect teleportation using multielectron quantum dots

D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao, Sayantan Ghosh, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042328 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Purifying Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states using degenerate quantum codes

K. H. Ho and H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042329 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Security proof of differential phase shift quantum key distribution in the noiseless case

Yi-Bo Zhao, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Zheng-Fu Han, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042330 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Quantum capacity of a class of compound channels

Igor Bjelaković, Holger Boche, and Janis Nötzel

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042331 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Random circuits by measurements on weighted graph states

A. Douglas K. Plato, Oscar C. Dahlsten, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042332 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Quantum hacking: Experimental demonstration of time-shift attack against practical quantum-key-distribution systems

Yi Zhao, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Bing Qi, Christine Chen, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042333 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Quantum walks on circles in phase space via superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamics

Peng Xue, Barry C. Sanders, Alexandre Blais, and Kevin Lalumière

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042334 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

One-way quantum computation with two-photon multiqubit cluster states

Giuseppe Vallone, Enrico Pomarico, Francesco De Martini, and Paolo Mataloni

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042335 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Speedup via quantum sampling

Pawel Wocjan and Anura Abeyesinghe

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042336 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Entanglement growth and simulation efficiency in one-dimensional quantum lattice systems

Álvaro Perales and Guifré Vidal

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042337 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Wigner tomography of two-qubit states and quantum cryptography

Thomas Durt, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares, and Alexander Ling

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042338 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Avoiding entanglement sudden death via measurement feedback control in a quantum network

Naoki Yamamoto, Hendra I. Nurdin, Matthew R. James, and Ian R. Petersen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042339 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Planar Coulomb bicrystals

I. M. Buluta and S. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042340 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Relativistic many-body calculations of excited-state energies and transition wavelengths for six-valence-electron sulfurlike ions

Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Marius J. Vilkas

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042501 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Correlation potential and ladder diagrams

V. A. Dzuba

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042502 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Dissociative states of $S F_{4}^{2 +}$ probed by fragment momentum spectroscopy

B. Bapat, Vandana Sharma, and S. V. K. Kumar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042503 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Reexamining blackbody shifts for hydrogenlike ions

Ulrich D. Jentschura and Martin Haas

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042504 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Many-body theory of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

David J. Masiello and George C. Schatz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042505 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Compact wave functions for four-electron atomic systems

Alexei M. Frolov and David M. Wardlaw

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042506 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Stark widths and shifts of $Kr II$ uv spectral lines

S. Djurović, R. J. Peláez, M. Ćirišan, J. A. Aparicio, and S. Mar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042507 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Fourier-transform spectroscopy of ${Sr}_{2}$ and revised ground-state potential

A. Stein, H. Knöckel, and E. Tiemann

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042508 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Dissociative electron attachment to muonic hydrogen: $e + μ p \to μ + H$

Kazuhiro Sakimoto

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042509 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Parameter-free one-center model potential for an effective one-electron description of molecular hydrogen

Armin Lühr, Yulian V. Vanne, and Alejandro Saenz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042510 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Simultaneous ionization of both collision partners in the strong perturbative energy range $(20 - 500 keV ∕ amu)$

J. X. Shao, X. M. Chen, X. R. Zou, X. A. Wang, and F. J. Lou

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042701 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Ionization of the cytosine molecule by protons: Ab initio calculation of differential and total cross sections

C. Dal Cappello, P. A. Hervieux, I. Charpentier, and F. Ruiz-Lopez

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042702 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Electron-impact ionization of ${Li}_{2}$ and ${Li}_{2}^{+}$

M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, C. P. Ballance, and J. Colgan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042703 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Comparative study of electron and positron scattering by $H_{2}$ : The role of the ${}^{2}Σ_{g}^{+}$ Feshbach resonance

Eliane M. de Oliveira, Marco A. P. Lima, and Márcio T. do N. Varella

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042704 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Development of a confined variational method for elastic scattering

J. Y. Zhang, J. Mitroy, and K. Varga

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042705 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Spin-orbit interaction and large inelastic rates in bismuth-helium collisions

S. E. Maxwell, M. T. Hummon, Y. Wang, A. A. Buchachenko, R. V. Krems, and J. M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042706 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Positron scattering from formic acid

Antonio Zecca, Luca Chiari, A. Sarkar, Marco A. P. Lima, Márcio H. F. Bettega, Kate L. Nixon, and Michael J. Brunger

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042707 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Double-electron-capture cross sections from helium by fully stripped projectile ions in intermediate-to-high energies

S. Ghosh, A. Dhara, C. R. Mandal, and M. Purkait

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042708 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Chemical reactions between cold trapped ${Ba}^{+}$ ions and neutral molecules in the gas phase

B. Roth, D. Offenberg, C. B. Zhang, and S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042709 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Diffraction in low-energy electron scattering from DNA: Bridging gas-phase and solid-state theory

Laurent Caron, Léon Sanche, Stefano Tonzani, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042710 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Effects of Debye plasmas on two-photon transitions in lithium atoms

S. Paul and Y. K. Ho

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042711 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Measurement of low-energy total absolute atomic collision cross sections with the metastable ${}^{3}P_{2}$ state of neon using a magneto-optical trap

K. J. Matherson, R. D. Glover, D. E. Laban, and R. T. Sang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042712 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Electron-impact excitation of the $(5 d^{10} 6 s) {}^{2}S_{1 ∕ 2} \to (5 d^{9} 6 s^{2}) {}^{2}D_{5 ∕ 2, 3 ∕ 2}$ transitions in gold atoms

O. Zatsarinny, K. Bartschat, M. Maslov, M. J. Brunger, and P. J. O. Teubner

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042713 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Scattering of cold electrons by ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide

N. C. Jones, D. Field, S. L. Lunt, and J.-P. Ziesel

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042714 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

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

Lifshitz theory of atom-wall interaction with applications to quantum reflection

V. B. Bezerra, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko, and C. Romero

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042901 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Noise from metallic surfaces: Effects of charge diffusion

Carsten Henkel and Baruch Horovitz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 042902 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Kinetic-energy-release distributions and barrier heights for $C_{2}^{+}$ emission from multiply charged $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$ fullerenes

N. Haag, Z. Berényi, P. Reinhed, D. Fischer, M. Gudmundsson, H. A. B. Johansson, H. T. Schmidt, H. Cederquist, and H. Zettergren

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043201 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

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

Theoretical analysis of xuv photoabsorption spectra of laser-produced iodine plasmas

M. G. Su, C. Z. Dong, N. Murphy, G. O’Sullivan, P. Hayden, and J. White

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043401 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

State preparation by optical pumping in erbium-doped solids using stimulated emission and spin mixing

B. Lauritzen, S. R. Hastings-Simon, H. de Riedmatten, M. Afzelius, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043402 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Angular distributions of atomic photoelectrons produced in the uv and xuv regimes

S. Bauch and M. Bonitz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043403 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Ellipticity dependence of the validity of the saddle-point method in strong-field ionization by few-cycle laser pulses

C. P. J. Martiny and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043404 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Experimental observation of the dependence of Autler-Townes splitting on the probe and coupling laser wave-number ratio in Doppler-broadened open molecular cascade systems

A. Lazoudis, E. H. Ahmed, L. Li, T. Kirova, P. Qi, A. Hansson, J. Magnes, and A. M. Lyyra

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043405 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Gas-phase spin relaxation of ${}^{129}{Xe}$

B. C. Anger, G. Schrank, A. Schoeck, K. A. Butler, M. S. Solum, R. J. Pugmire, and B. Saam

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043406 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Quantum interference in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization in diatomic molecules: Role of alignment and orbital symmetry

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, T. Shaaran, X. Liu, and W. Yang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043407 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Molecular-orientation-dependent ac Stark effect and its impact on multiphoton processes

Xi Chu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043408 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

X-ray refractive index of laser-dressed atoms

Christian Buth and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043409 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Extreme-ultraviolet Ramsey-type spectroscopy

Angela Pirri, Emiliano Sali, Chiara Corsi, Marco Bellini, Stefano Cavalieri, and Roberto Eramo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043410 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Ionization suppression of diatomic molecules in strong laser fields

Xianghe Ren, Jingtao Zhang, Peng Liu, Yi Wang, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043411 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Spontaneous recoil effects of optical pumping on trapped atoms

S. Wallentowitz and P. E. Toschek

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043412 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Theory of dissipative chaotic atomic transport in an optical lattice

V. Yu. Argonov and S. V. Prants

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043413 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Ramsey interferometry with a spin embedded in a Coulomb chain

Gabriele De Chiara, Tommaso Calarco, Shmuel Fishman, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043414 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Ultralarge Rydberg dimers in optical lattices

B. Vaucher, S. J. Thwaite, and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043415 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Triple differential cross sections and nuclear recoil in two-photon double ionization of helium

D. A. Horner, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043416 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Engineering an all-optical route to ultracold molecules in their vibronic ground state

Christiane P. Koch and Robert Moszyński

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043417 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Achieving very long lifetimes in optical lattices with pulsed cooling

Michael J. Gibbons, Soo Y. Kim, Kevin M. Fortier, Peyman Ahmadi, and Michael S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043418 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Multiple occurrence of zero-width resonances in photodissociation: Effect of laser field intensity and frequency

O. Atabek and R. Lefebvre

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043419 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Attosecond control of electron-ion-recollision dynamics

François Légaré

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043420 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Dynamics of interatomic Coulombic decay in a Ne dimer following the $K − L_{1} L_{2, 3} ({}^{1}P)$ Auger transition in the Ne atom

Ph. V. Demekhin, S. Scheit, S. D. Stoychev, and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043421 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Relaxation processes following $1 s$ photoionization and Auger decay in ${Ne}_{2}$

K. Kreidi et al.

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043422 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Optical Stern-Gerlach effect beyond the rotating-wave approximation

V. E. Lembessis

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043423 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Time dependence of ionization and excitation by few-cycle laser pulses

Darko Dimitrovski and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043424 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Matter waves

Supercurrent behavior of low-energy Bogoliubov phonons and the anomalous tunneling effect in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Yoji Ohashi and Shunji Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043601 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Spin-vortex nucleation in a Bose-Einstein condensate by a spin-dependent rotating trap

Hiroki Chiba and Hiroki Saito

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043602 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Mott-Hubbard transition of bosons in optical lattices with three-body interactions

Bo-lun Chen, Xiao-bin Huang, Su-peng Kou, and Yunbo Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043603 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Ultracold dipolar gas in an optical lattice: The fate of metastable states

C. Trefzger, C. Menotti, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043604 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Three-body recombination of identical bosons with a large positive scattering length at nonzero temperature

Eric Braaten, H.-W. Hammer, Daekyoung Kang, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043605 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Continuous vortex pumping into a spinor condensate with magnetic fields

Z. F. Xu, P. Zhang, C. Raman, and L. You

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043606 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Dislocation-mediated melting in superfluid vortex lattices

S. Andrew Gifford and Gordon Baym

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043607 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Stability of the density-wave state of a dipolar condensate in a pancake-shaped trap

O. Dutta, R. Kanamoto, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043608 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Stability and dynamical property for two-species ultracold atoms in double wells

Xiao-Qiang Xu, Li-Hua Lu, and You-Quan Li

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043609 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Effective Lagrangian of unitary Fermi gas from $ε$ expansion

Andrei Kryjevski

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043610 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Resonant sequential scattering in two-frequency-pumping superradiance from a Bose-Einstein condensate

Fan Yang, Xiaoji Zhou, Juntao Li, Yuankai Chen, Lin Xia, and Xuzong Chen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043611 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Fermions with attractive interactions on optical lattices and implications for correlated systems

Chih-Chun Chien, Qijin Chen, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043612 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Faraday waves in elongated superfluid fermionic clouds

P. Capuzzi and P. Vignolo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043613 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Vortex solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

I. Tikhonenkov, B. A. Malomed, and A. Vardi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043614 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Off-resonant Raman transition impact in an atom interferometer

A. Gauguet, T. E. Mehlstäubler, T. Lévèque, J. Le Gouët, W. Chaibi, B. Canuel, A. Clairon, F. Pereira Dos Santos, and A. Landragin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043615 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Superfluid Bose-Fermi mixture from weak coupling to unitarity

S. K. Adhikari and Luca Salasnich

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043616 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a trapped quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance

Wei Zhang (張威), G.-D. Lin (林俊達), and L.-M. Duan (段路明)

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043617 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Mean-field dynamics of a Bose Josephson junction in an optical cavity

J. M. Zhang, W. M. Liu, and D. L. Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043618 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Fluid-dynamical scheme for equilibrium properties of two trapped fermion species with pairing interactions

P. Capuzzi, E. S. Hernández, and L. Szybisz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043619 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

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

Probing the quantum commutation rules through cavity QED

Qingqing Sun, M. Al-Amri, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043801 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Interaction of few-optical-cycle solitons

H. Leblond, I. V. Mel’nikov, and D. Mihalache

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043802 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Molding the flow of electromagnetic waves and creating a mirage with a magnetic field

Shaowen Chen, Junjie Du, Shiyang Liu, Zhifang Lin, and S. T. Chui

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043803 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Cross compression of light bullets by two-color cofilamentation

Pierre Béjot, Jérome Kasparian, and Jean-Pierre Wolf

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043804 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Optical binding in nanoparticle assembly: Potential energy landscapes

Justo Rodríguez, Luciana C. Dávila Romero, and David L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043805 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Analysis of soliton pattern formation in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

A. Haboucha, H. Leblond, M. Salhi, A. Komarov, and F. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043806 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Predicting the filamentation of high-power beams and pulses without numerical integration: A nonlinear geometrical optics method

Nir Gavish, Gadi Fibich, Luat T. Vuong, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043807 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Backward retrieval in optical quantum memory controlled by an external field

Alexey Kalachev and Stefan Kröll

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043808 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Metallic photonic-band-gap filament architectures for optimized incandescent lighting

Sajeev John and Rongzhou Wang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043809 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Fourier relationship between the angle and angular momentum of entangled photons

A. K. Jha, B. Jack, E. Yao, J. Leach, R. W. Boyd, G. S. Buller, S. M. Barnett, S. Franke-Arnold, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043810 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Multipole approach to metamaterials

J. Petschulat, C. Menzel, A. Chipouline, C. Rockstuhl, A. Tünnermann, F. Lederer, and T. Pertsch

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043811 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Quantum memory for light using extended atomic ensembles in a tunable cavity

Alexey Kalachev

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043812 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Spatiotemporal control of ultrashort laser pulses using intense single-cycle terahertz pulses

Yuzhen Shen, G. L. Carr, James B. Murphy, Thomas Y. Tsang, Xijie Wang, and Xi Yang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043813 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Practical schemes for the measurement of angular-momentum covariance matrices in quantum optics

Ángel Rivas and Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043814 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Self-induced fractional Fourier transform and revivable higher-order spatial solitons in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media

Daquan Lu, Wei Hu, Yajian Zheng, Yanbin Liang, Longgui Cao, Sheng Lan, and Qi Guo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 043815 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Considerations on the probability density in complex space

Chia-Chun Chou and Robert E. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044101 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Reformulation of the quantum Zeno effect for exponentially decaying systems

Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044102 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Quantum information

Protecting, enhancing, and reviving entanglement

J. G. Oliveira, Jr., R. Rossi, Jr., and M. C. Nemes

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044301 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Quantum information processing in a spin-bus system of coupled chains

Xiang Hao and Shiqun Zhu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044302 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Differential virial theorem in density-functional theory in terms of the Pauli potential for spherically symmetric electron densities: Illustrative example for the family of Be-like atomic ions

N. H. March and Á. Nagy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044501 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

$S$ -wave resonances in positron-lithium scattering below the Li $(n = 4)$ thresholds

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

Phys. Rev. A 78, 044701 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

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

Generation of quasiclassical Bohr-like wave packets using half-cycle pulses

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

Phys. Rev. A 78, 045401 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Matter waves

Generic features of the spectrum of trapped polarized fermions

Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 045601 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Fermionization and bosonization of expanding one-dimensional anyonic fluids

A. del Campo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 045602 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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

Quantum-beat lasers as bright sources of entangled sub-Poissonian light

Xiang-ming Hu and Jin-hua Zou

Phys. Rev. A 78, 045801 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Influence of pure dephasing on emission spectra from single photon sources

A. Naesby, T. Suhr, P. T. Kristensen, and J. Mørk

Phys. Rev. A 78, 045802 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Controllable electrostatic guiding for cold polar molecules on the surface of a chip [Phys. Rev. A 78, 033426 (2008)]

Min Sun and Jianping Yin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 049901 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Erratum: Confined quantum time of arrival for the vanishing potential [Phys. Rev. A 72, 062107 (2005)]

Eric A. Galapon, Roland F. Caballar, and Ricardo Bahague

Phys. Rev. A 78, 049902 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Erratum: 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 [Phys. Rev. A 77, 043422 (2008)]

Christopher R. Schleif and John B. Delos

Phys. Rev. A 78, 049903 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Erratum: Emission spectra and quantum efficiency of single-photon sources in the cavity-QED strong-coupling regime [Phys. Rev. A 73, 053807 (2006)]

Guoqiang Cui and M. G. Raymer

Phys. Rev. A 78, 049904 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Erratum: Entanglement invariant for the double Jaynes-Cummings model [Phys. Rev. A 76, 042313 (2007)]

Isabel Sainz and Gunnar Björk

Phys. Rev. A 78, 049905 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008