Volume 78, Issue 5

November 2008

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Quantum information

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Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics

Nicolas Sangouard, Christoph Simon, Thomas Coudreau, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 050301(R) (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Atomic parity nonconservation in ${Ra}^{+}$

L. W. Wansbeek, B. K. Sahoo, R. G. E. Timmermans, K. Jungmann, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. A 78, 050501(R) (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Quantum-fluctuation-driven coherent spin dynamics in small condensates

Xiaoling Cui, Yupeng Wang, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. A 78, 050701(R) (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

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Magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen $({}^{14}N)$ and cotrapping of NH $(X {}^{3}Σ^{-})$

Matthew T. Hummon, Wesley C. Campbell, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Yihua Wang, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. A 78, 050702(R) (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

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

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Three-body fragmentation of $C O_{2}^{2 +}$ upon $K$ -shell photoionization

Z. D. Pešić, D. Rolles, R. C. Bilodeau, I. Dimitriu, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051401(R) (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

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Comparison of $R$ -dependent ionization and bond softening as mechanisms for creating vibrational coherence in hot molecules

L. Fang and G. N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051402(R) (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

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Rayleigh superradiance and dynamic Bragg gratings in an end-pumped Bose-Einstein condensate

A. Hilliard, F. Kaminski, R. le Targat, C. Olausson, E. S. Polzik, and J. H. Müller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051403(R) (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Matter waves

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Macroscopic superpositions of phase states with Bose-Einstein condensates

F. Piazza, L. Pezzé, and A. Smerzi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051601(R) (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

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Enhancement of on-site interactions of tunneling ultracold atoms in optical potentials using radio-frequency dressing

Martin Shotter, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, and Christopher Foot

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051602(R) (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

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Radio-frequency-induced ground-state degeneracy in a Bose-Einstein condensate of chromium atoms

Q. Beaufils, T. Zanon, R. Chicireanu, B. Laburthe-Tolra, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, J.-C. Keller, and O. Gorceix

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051603(R) (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

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

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Numerically exact solution to the finite-size Dicke model

Qing-Hu Chen, Yu-Yu Zhang, Tao Liu, and Ke-Lin Wang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051801(R) (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

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Four-wave mixing enhanced white-light cavity

Robert Fleischhaker and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051802(R) (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

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Backaction noise produced via cavity-aided nondemolition measurement of an atomic clock state

Igor Teper, Geert Vrijsen, Jongmin Lee, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051803(R) (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

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Polarized light bursts from kicked quantum rings

A. S. Moskalenko and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 051804(R) (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Collective processes of an ensemble of spin- $1 ∕ 2$ particles

Bradley A. Chase and J. M. Geremia

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052101 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Casimir-effect instabilities and phase transitions

M. Pradeep Ganesh, A. Widom, S. Sivasubramanian, and Y. N. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052102 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Multisetting Bell inequality for qudits

Se-Wan Ji, Jinhyoung Lee, James Lim, Koji Nagata, and Hai-Woong Lee

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052103 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Quantum brachistochrone evolution of systems of two identical particles: The role of entanglement

A. Borras, A. R. Plastino, M. Casas, and A. Plastino

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052104 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Exchange symmetry and multipartite entanglement

Tsubasa Ichikawa, Toshihiko Sasaki, Izumi Tsutsui, and Nobuhiro Yonezawa

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052105 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Phase-space-region operators and the Wigner function: Geometric constructions and tomography

Demosthenes Ellinas and Anthony J. Bracken

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052106 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Enhancement of motional entanglement of cold atoms by pairwise scattering of photons

Rui Guo, Xiaoji Zhou, and Xuzong Chen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052107 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Qubit phase space: $SU (n)$ coherent-state $P$ representations

D. W. Barry and P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052108 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes in the case of continuous spectra

M. Maamache and Y. Saadi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052109 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Possible entanglement detection with the naked eye

Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052110 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Simulation of partial entanglement with nonsignaling resources

Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Sandu Popescu, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052111 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Effect of feedback on the control of a two-level dissipative quantum system

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

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052112 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Completely positive Markovian quantum dynamics in the weak-coupling limit

David Taj and Fausto Rossi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052113 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Repeatable quantum memory channels

Tomáš Rybár and Mário Ziman

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052114 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Comparison theorems for the Klein-Gordon equation in $d$ dimensions

Richard L. Hall and M. D. Aliyu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052115 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Photon wave function: A covariant formulation and equivalence with QED

F. Tamburini and D. Vicino

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052116 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Classical and quantum fold catastrophe in the presence of axial symmetry

G. Dhont and B. I. Zhilinskií

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052117 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Noise-induced interference fringes in trapped ultracold bosonic gases

S. Anderloni, F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, and G. G. Guerreschi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052118 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle for simultaneous measurement of positive-operator-valued measures

Takayuki Miyadera and Hideki Imai

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052119 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Information-geometric reconstruction of quantum theory

Philip Goyal

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052120 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Anyon statistics with continuous variables

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

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052121 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Choice of measurement sets in qubit tomography

Mark D. de Burgh, Nathan K. Langford, Andrew C. Doherty, and Alexei Gilchrist

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052122 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Quantum information

Spatial entanglement of paired photons generated in cold atomic ensembles

Clara I. Osorio, Sergio Barreiro, Morgan W. Mitchell, and Juan P. Torres

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052301 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Entanglement of two blocks of spins in the critical Ising model

P. Facchi, G. Florio, C. Invernizzi, and S. Pascazio

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052302 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Entanglement of solitons in the Frenkel-Kontorova model

S. Marcovitch and B. Reznik

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052303 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Teleportation using squeezed single photons

Agata M. Brańczyk and T. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052304 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Entangling characterization of ${SWAP}^{1 ∕ m}$ and controlled unitary gates

S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052305 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Scalable ellipsoidal classification for bipartite quantum states

David A. Herrera-Martí

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052306 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Graphical description of local Gaussian operations for continuous-variable weighted graph states

Jing Zhang (张靖)

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052307 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Comparison of the relative entropy of entanglement and negativity

Adam Miranowicz, Satoshi Ishizaka, Bohdan Horst, and Andrzej Grudka

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052308 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Generic quantum walk using a coin-embedded shift operator

C. M. Chandrashekar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052309 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Architectures for a quantum random access memory

Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052310 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Construction of bilinear control Hamiltonians using the series product and quantum feedback

J. E. Gough

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052311 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Experimental continuous-variable cloning of partial quantum information

Metin Sabuncu, Gerd Leuchs, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052312 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Environment-assisted creation and enhancement of two-mode entanglement in a joint decoherent model

Shao-Hua Xiang, Bin Shao, and Ke-Hui Song

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052313 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Entanglement swapping between spacelike-separated atoms

Juan León and Carlos Sabín

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052314 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Implementation of holonomic quantum gates by an isospectral deformation of an Ising dimer chain

Yukihiro Ota, Masamitsu Bando, Yasusi Kondo, and Mikio Nakahara

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052315 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Symmetry-noise interplay in a quantum walk on an $n$ -cycle

Subhashish Banerjee, R. Srikanth, C. M. Chandrashekar, and Pranaw Rungta

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052316 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Multipartite entanglement criterion from uncertainty relations

J. Gillet, T. Bastin, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052317 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Increasing entanglement of local qubits by applying electron current

Ye Xiong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052318 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Unifying several separability conditions using the covariance matrix criterion

O. Gittsovich, O. Gühne, P. Hyllus, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052319 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Quantum networks on cubelike graphs

Anna Bernasconi, Chris Godsil, and Simone Severini

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052320 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Generating entanglement between quantum dots with different resonant frequencies based on dipole-induced transparency

Deepak Sridharan and Edo Waks

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052321 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Quantum adaptation of noisy channels

Miroslav Gavenda and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052322 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Experimental asymmetric phase-covariant quantum cloning of polarization qubits

Jan Soubusta, Lucie Bartůšková, Antonín Černoch, Miloslav Dušek, and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052323 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Exact solution of a Yang-Baxter spin- $1 ∕ 2$ chain model and quantum entanglement

Ming-Guang Hu, Kang Xue, and Mo-Lin Ge

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052324 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Quantum simulation of interacting high-dimensional systems: The influence of noise

Wolfgang Dür, Michael J. Bremner, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052325 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Generalized parity measurements

Radu Ionicioiu, Anca E. Popescu, William J. Munro, and Timothy P. Spiller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052326 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Gate complexity using dynamic programming

Srinivas Sridharan, Mile Gu, and Matthew R. James

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052327 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Symmetric construction of reference-frame-free qudits

Jun Suzuki, Gelo Noel Macuja Tabia, and Berthold-Georg Englert

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052328 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Dynamical properties across a quantum phase transition in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

Paolo Solinas, Pedro Ribeiro, and Rémy Mosseri

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052329 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Alternative fidelity measure between quantum states

Paulo E. M. F. Mendonça, Reginaldo d. J. Napolitano, Marcelo A. Marchiolli, Christopher J. Foster, and Yeong-Cherng Liang

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052330 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Fault-tolerant quantum computation against biased noise

Panos Aliferis and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052331 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Parameters of pseudorandom quantum circuits

Yaakov S. Weinstein, Winton G. Brown, and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052332 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Optimal state for keeping reference frames aligned and the platonic solids

Piotr Kolenderski and Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052333 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Heisenberg chains cannot mirror a state

Marcin Wieśniak

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052334 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Chiral asymmetry in the angle-resolved O and C $1 s^{- 1}$ core photoemissions of the $R$ enantiomer of glycidol

Ivan Powis, Chris J. Harding, Silko Barth, Sanjeev Joshi, Volker Ulrich, and Uwe Hergenhahn

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052501 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

In silico prediction of atomic static electric-dipole polarizabilities of the early tetravalent actinide ions: ${Th}^{4 +} (5 f^{0})$ , ${Pa}^{4 +} (5 f^{1})$ , and $U^{4 +} (5 f^{2})$

Florent Réal, Valérie Vallet, Carine Clavaguéra, and Jean-Pierre Dognon

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052502 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Electric dipole rovibrational transitions in the HD molecule

Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052503 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

High-accuracy calculation of energies, lifetimes, hyperfine constants, multipole polarizabilities, and blackbody radiation shift in ${}^{39}K$

U. I. Safronova and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052504 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Relativistic fluorescence yields for hollow atoms in the range $12 ⩽ Z ⩽ 56$

L. Natarajan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052505 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Relativistic and electron correlation effects in static dipole polarizabilities for the group-14 elements from carbon to element $Z = 114$ : Theory and experiment

Christian Thierfelder, Behnam Assadollahzadeh, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Sascha Schäfer, and Rolf Schäfer

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052506 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Accuracy limits on the description of the lowest $S$ excitation in the Li atom using explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions

Monika Stanke, Jacek Komasa, Dariusz Kȩdziera, Sergiy Bubin, and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052507 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Beyond the quantum adiabatic approximation: Adiabatic perturbation theory

Gustavo Rigolin, Gerardo Ortiz, and Victor Hugo Ponce

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052508 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Double-quantum-coherence attosecond x-ray spectroscopy of spatially separated, spectrally overlapping core-electron transitions

Igor V. Schweigert and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052509 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Adaptive analytical mapping procedure for efficiently solving the radial Schrödinger equation

Vladimir V. Meshkov, Andrey V. Stolyarov, and Robert J. Le Roy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052510 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Relativistic, QED, and finite nuclear mass corrections for low-lying states of Li and ${Be}^{+}$

Mariusz Puchalski and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052511 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Efficient positronium laser excitation for antihydrogen production in a magnetic field

F. Castelli, I. Boscolo, S. Cialdi, M. G. Giammarchi, and D. Comparat

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052512 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Density functional with full exact exchange, balanced nonlocality of correlation, and constraint satisfaction

John P. Perdew, Viktor N. Staroverov, Jianmin Tao, and Gustavo E. Scuseria

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052513 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Measurement of light shifts at two off-resonant wavelengths in a single trapped ${Ba}^{+}$ ion and the determination of atomic dipole matrix elements

J. A. Sherman, A. Andalkar, W. Nagourney, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052514 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Polarizability of the ${Si}^{2 +}$ ion

J. Mitroy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052515 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Young-type interference effect on angular distribution of secondary electrons emitted from $H_{2}$ in collisions with fast electrons

Shyamal Chatterjee, D. Misra, A. H. Kelkar, Lokesh C. Tribedi, C. R. Stia, O. A. Fojón, and R. D. Rivarola

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052701 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

$R$ -matrix treatment of high-energy electron-impact excitation processes: The generalized oscillator strengths for the Na $3 s − 3 p$ and $2 p − 3 s$ transitions

Xiaoying Han, Yueming Li, Hong Zhang, Jun Yan, JiaMing Li, and Lan Voky

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052702 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Avoided crossings between bound states of ultracold cesium dimers

Jeremy M. Hutson, Eite Tiesinga, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052703 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Indirect dissociative recombination of $Li H_{2}^{+} + e^{-}$

Daniel J. Haxton and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052704 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Ionization of the He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe isoelectronic series by proton impact

J. E. Miraglia and M. S. Gravielle

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052705 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Inelastic processes in collisions of $Na (3 s, 3 p)$ with He at thermal energies

C. Y. Lin, P. C. Stancil, H.-P. Liebermann, P. Funke, and R. J. Buenker

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052706 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Creating ultracold molecules by collisions with ultracold rare-gas atoms in an optical trap

P. Barletta, J. Tennyson, and P. F. Barker

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052707 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Electron-impact ionization of $C^{+}$ in both ground and metastable states

J. A. Ludlow, S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola, C. P. Ballance, D. C. Griffin, M. E. Bannister, and M. Fogle

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052708 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Long-range potentials and $(n - 1) d + n s$ molecular resonances in an ultracold Rydberg gas

J. Stanojevic, R. Côté, D. Tong, E. E. Eyler, and P. L. Gould

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052709 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Electron scattering from $H_{2} O$ : Elastic scattering

M. A. Khakoo, H. Silva, J. Muse, M. C. A. Lopes, C. Winstead, and V. McKoy

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052710 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Near-threshold scattering, quantum reflection, and quantization in two dimensions

Florian Arnecke, Harald Friedrich, and Patrick Raab

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052711 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Collision-induced fragmentation cross sections of $C O_{2}^{+}$ on He: Experiment and theory

Olmo González-Magaña, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, and Guillermo Hinojosa

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052712 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Multiphoton scattering in a one-dimensional waveguide with resonant atoms

V. I. Yudson and P. Reineker

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052713 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

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

Surface-induced heating of cold polar molecules

Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, M. R. Tarbutt, Stefan Scheel, and E. A. Hinds

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052901 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Measurements of the x-ray mass-attenuation coefficient and imaginary component of the form factor of copper

J. L. Glover, C. T. Chantler, Z. Barnea, N. A. Rae, C. Q. Tran, D. C. Creagh, D. Paterson, and B. B. Dhal

Phys. Rev. A 78, 052902 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Effect of pulse duration on the x-ray emission from Ar clusters in intense laser fields

Christophe Prigent, Cornelia Deiss, Emily Lamour, Jean-Pierre Rozet, Dominique Vernhet, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053201 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Multiple ionization of $C_{60}$ by fast ${Si}^{q +}$ ions

T. Mizuno, H. Tsuchida, T. Majima, Y. Nakai, and A. Itoh

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053202 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

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

Quantum beating in uv radiation generation by ultrashort laser pulses via four-wave mixing

A. Gogyan and Yu. Malakyan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053401 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Time-dependent $R$ -matrix calculations for multiphoton ionization of argon atoms in strong laser pulses

Xiaoxu Guan, C. J. Noble, O. Zatsarinny, K. Bartschat, and B. I. Schneider

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053402 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Effects of narrow-band pulse shaping on a resonant multilevel system

A. S. Meijer, A. V. Kimel, Th. Rasing, and W. J. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053403 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Chirped fields for $Rb + Cs$ photoassociation

A. Homer and G. Roberts

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053404 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Photoionization of doubly-charged scandium ions

A. M. Sossah, H.-L. Zhou, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053405 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Resonant enhancement of generation of harmonics

I. A. Ivanov and A. S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053406 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Four-wave mixing in a $Λ$ system

P. R. Berman and Xiaodong Xu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053407 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Ionization dynamics of linear molecular ion $H_{3}^{2 +}$ in dc and low-frequency laser fields

Xue-Bin Bian, Liang-You Peng, and Ting-Yun Shi

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053408 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Theory of x-ray diffraction from laser-aligned symmetric-top molecules

Phay J. Ho and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053409 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Adiabatic fidelity for atom-molecule conversion in a nonlinear three-level $Λ$ system

Shao-Ying Meng, Li-Bin Fu, and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053410 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Outer-shell photodetachment of the metastable ${Mg}^{-}$ $[core] 3 s 3 p^{2}$ and ${Ca}^{-}$ $[core] 4 s 4 p^{2}$ ${}^{4}P^{e}$ states

José Luis Sanz-Vicario, Juan Carlos Cardona, and Eva Lindroth

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053411 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Raman coupling of Zeeman sublevels in an alkali-metal Bose-Einstein condensate

K. C. Wright, L. S. Leslie, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053412 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Generation of higher-order harmonics upon the addition of high-frequency XUV radiation to IR radiation: Generalization of the three-step model

Avner Fleischer

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053413 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Probing $H_{2}^{+}$ vibrational motions with high-order harmonic generation

Jing Zhao and Zengxiu Zhao

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053414 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Manipulation of dark states and control of coherent processes with spectrally broad light

M. Auzinsh, N. N. Bezuglov, and K. Miculis

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053415 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Matter waves

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a nonlinear double-well structure

Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo, Boris A. Malomed, and Guangjiong Dong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053601 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Free expansion of a Lieb-Liniger gas: Asymptotic form of the wave functions

D. Jukić, R. Pezer, T. Gasenzer, and H. Buljan

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053602 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Stability of bosonic atomic and molecular condensates near a Feshbach resonance

Sourish Basu and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053603 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Vortex waves in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

T. P. Simula, T. Mizushima, and K. Machida

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053604 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Pair correlations of scattered atoms from two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates: Perturbative approach

J. Chwedeńczuk, P. Ziń, M. Trippenbach, A. Perrin, V. Leung, D. Boiron, and C. I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053605 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Universal relations for a strongly interacting Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance

Eric Braaten, Daekyoung Kang, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053606 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Role of the mean field in Bloch oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice and harmonic trap

R. Zhang, R. E. Sapiro, R. R. Mhaskar, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053607 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Phase locking of two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates under a high-frequency driving field

Qiongtao Xie and Wenhua Hai

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053608 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Collective oscillations of a Fermi gas in the unitarity limit: Temperature effects and the role of pair correlations

S. Riedl, E. R. Sánchez Guajardo, C. Kohstall, A. Altmeyer, M. J. Wright, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm, G. M. Bruun, and H. Smith

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053609 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Topologically trapped vortex molecules in Bose-Einstein condensates

R. Geurts, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053610 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Quantum nucleation and macroscopic quantum tunneling in cold-atom boson-fermion mixtures

Dmitry Solenov and Dmitry Mozyrsky

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053611 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Phase separation in a two-species atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with an interspecies Feshbach resonance

Lu Zhou, Jing Qian, Han Pu, Weiping Zhang, and Hong Y. Ling

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053612 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Dynamical pattern formation during growth of a dual-species Bose-Einstein condensate

Shai Ronen, John L. Bohn, Laura Elisa Halmo, and Mark Edwards

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053613 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Wigner-transform phase-space densities of a two-dimensional harmonically confined charged quantum gas subjected to a magnetic field

K. Bencheikh and L. M. Nieto

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053614 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Genuine phase diffusion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the microcanonical ensemble: A classical field study

A. Sinatra and Y. Castin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053615 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Stationary rings of vortices in nonrotating Bose-Einstein condensates

D. M. Jezek, P. Capuzzi, M. Guilleumas, and R. Mayol

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053616 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Simulation of the quantum Hall effect in a staggered modulated magnetic field with ultracold atoms

Fuxiang Li, L. B. Shao, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053617 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Magnetization of a half-quantum vortex in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Shoichi Hoshi and Hiroki Saito

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053618 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Radial quadrupole and scissors modes in trapped Fermi gases across the BCS phase transition

Michael Urban

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053619 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Josephson physics mediated by the Mott insulating phase

Smitha Vishveshwara and Courtney Lannert

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053620 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Superfluid equation of state of cold fermionic gases in the Bose-Einstein regime

R. Combescot and X. Leyronas

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053621 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Green-function method in the theory of ultraslow electromagnetic waves in an ideal gas with Bose-Einstein condensates

Yurii Slyusarenko and Andrii Sotnikov

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053622 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Atom-chip diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates: The role of interatomic interactions

T. E. Judd, R. G. Scott, and T. M. Fromhold

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053623 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Problem with the single-particle description and the spectra of intrinsic modes of degenerate boson-fermion systems

P. A. Andreev and L. S. Kuzmenkov

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053624 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Selective manipulation of degenerate interferometer loops by an atom-optics kicked rotor

A. Tonyushkin and M. Prentiss

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053625 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Extended Thomas-Fermi density functional for the unitary Fermi gas

Luca Salasnich and Flavio Toigo

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053626 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Ground-state energy of a low-density Bose gas: A second-order upper bound

László Erdős, Benjamin Schlein, and Horng-Tzer Yau

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053627 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Finite-temperature coherence of the ideal Bose gas in an optical lattice

Gevorg Muradyan and James R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053628 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

Superfluid-to-insulator phase transition in a unitary Fermi gas

Nir Barnea

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053629 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Photosolitonic effect

M. Khodas, A. Kamenev, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053630 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

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

Group-velocity-matching relationship in the process of third-harmonic generation

Yisheng Yang, Wei Han, Wanguo Zheng, Jichun Tan, Fuquan Li, Fang Wang, Yong Xiang, Keyu Li, Bin Feng, Huaiting Jia, Dingxiang Cao, and Jun Dong

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053801 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Quantum control of dispersion in electromagnetically induced transparency via interacting dressed ground states

James Owen Weatherall and Christopher P. Search

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053802 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Analysis of enhanced two-photon absorption in tapered optical fibers

Hao You, S. M. Hendrickson, and J. D. Franson

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053803 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Consequences of optical pumping and interference for excitation spectra in a coherently driven molecular ladder system

N. N. Bezuglov, R. Garcia-Fernandez, A. Ekers, K. Miculis, L. P. Yatsenko, and K. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053804 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Rabi model beyond the rotating-wave approximation: Generation of photons from vacuum through decoherence

T. Werlang, A. V. Dodonov, E. I. Duzzioni, and C. J. Villas-Bôas

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053805 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Controlling quasibound states in a one-dimensional continuum through an electromagnetically-induced-transparency mechanism

Z. R. Gong, H. Ian, Lan Zhou, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053806 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Light-induced orientational effects in periodic photonic structures with pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystal defects

Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Etienne Brasselet, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053823 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Dispersion-enhanced laser gyroscope

David D. Smith, Hongrok Chang, L. Arissian, and J. C. Diels

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053824 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

Single-mode coupling efficiencies of type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion: Collinear, noncollinear, and beamlike phase matching

Osung Kwon, Young-Wook Cho, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. A 78, 053825 (2008) - Published 21 November, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Quantum information

Bell-state preparation for fullerene-based electron spins in distant nanotubes

W. L. Yang, H. Wei, X. L. Zhang, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. A 78, 054301 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Calculation of the spectrum of the superheavy element $Z = 120$

T. H. Dinh, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and J. S. M. Ginges

Phys. Rev. A 78, 054501 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Experimental determination of the hyperfine constants of the $X_{1}$ and $A$ states of ${}^{207}{Pb} {}^{19}F$

C. P. McRaven, P. Sivakumar, and N. E. Shafer-Ray

Phys. Rev. A 78, 054502 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Calculation of cross sections for muonic atom scattering from hydrogenic molecules using the Morse potential

Jakub Gronowski and Andrzej Adamczak

Phys. Rev. A 78, 054701 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Magnetic-field-induced interference of scattering states in ultracold collisions

Felipe Herrera

Phys. Rev. A 78, 054702 (2008) - Published 20 November, 2008

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

Controlling the orientation of polar molecules in a rovibrationally selective manner with an infrared laser pulse and a delayed half-cycle pulse

Chuan-Cun Shu (束传存), Kai-Jun Yuan (元凯军), Wen-Hui Hu (胡文辉), Jing Yang (杨静), and Shu-Lin Cong (丛书林)

Phys. Rev. A 78, 055401 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Matter waves

Quantum squeezing effects in creating triatomic molecules from ultracold atoms

H. Jing, F. Zheng, and Z. Geng

Phys. Rev. A 78, 055601 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Critique of the foundations of time-dependent density-functional theory”

Neepa T. Maitra, Robert van Leeuwen, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. A 78, 056501 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Reply to “Comment on ‘Critique of the foundations of time-dependent density-functional theory’ ”

J. Schirmer and A. Dreuw

Phys. Rev. A 78, 056502 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Uncertainty relations for positive-operator-valued measures [Phys. Rev. A 76, 042114 (2007)]

Serge Massar

Phys. Rev. A 78, 059901 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Erratum: Casimir force between left-handed-material slabs [Phys. Rev. A 77, 015803 (2008)]

Yaping Yang, Ran Zeng, Jingping Xu, and Shutian Liu

Phys. Rev. A 78, 059902 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Erratum: Analysis of experimental data for ion-impact single ionization of helium with Monte Carlo event generators based on quantum theory [Phys. Rev. A 75, 062708 (2007)]

M. Dürr, B. Najjari, M. Schulz, A. Dorn, R. Moshammer, A. B. Voitkiv, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. A 78, 059903 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008