Volume 86, Issue 5

Mariusz Piwiński, Łukasz Kłosowski, Dariusz Dziczek, Stanisław Chwirot, Tapasi Das, Rajesh Srivastava, A. D. Stauffer, Christopher J. Bostock, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052706 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Angular- and state-selective differential cross sections for single-electron capture in $p$ -He collisions at intermediate energies

D. L. Guo, X. Ma, S. F. Zhang, X. L. Zhu, W. T. Feng, R. T. Zhang, B. Li, H. P. Liu, S. C. Yan, P. J. Zhang, and Q. Wang

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052707 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Momentum spectroscopy of fragment ions of a multiply charged N $_{2}$ O molecule under impact of 10-keV electrons

Pragya Bhatt, Raj Singh, Namita Yadav, and R. Shanker

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052708 (2012) - Published 20 November, 2012

Integral relations and the adiabatic expansion method for $1 + 2$ reactions above the breakup threshold: Helium trimers with soft-core potentials

E. Garrido, C. Romero-Redondo, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052709 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Interruption of the inner rotation initiated in isolated electron-driven molecular rotors

Stanislav A. Pshenichnyuk, Nail L. Asfandiarov, and Alexander V. Kukhta

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052710 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Decoherence of quantum kinematical correlations: Elastic scattering of identical particles

M. C. Morais, M. C. Nemes, R. Lichtenthäler, and A. Lépine-Szily

Phys. Rev. A 86, 052711 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Clusters (including fullerenes)

Atom-fullerene-hybrid photoionization mediated by coupled $d$ states in Zn@C $_{60}$

Jaykob N. Maser, Mohammad H. Javani, Ruma De, Mohamed E. Madjet, Himadri S. Chakraborty, and Steven T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053201 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

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

Electric-field sensing near the surface microstructure of an atom chip using cold Rydberg atoms

J. D. Carter, O. Cherry, and J. D. D. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053401 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Cooling the motion of a trapped atom with a cavity field

Marc Bienert and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053402 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Sub-barrier Coulomb effects on the interference pattern in tunneling-ionization photoelectron spectra

Tian-Min Yan and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053403 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Attosecond electron interferometry for measurement of the quantum phase of free-electron wave packets

Candong Liu and Mauro Nisoli

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053404 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Time-delayed nonsequential double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses: Importance of the carrier-envelope phase

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, T. Shaaran, and M. T. Nygren

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053405 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Dyson norms in XUV and strong-field ionization of polyatomics: Cytosine and uracil

Michael Spanner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Congyi Zhou, Spiridoula Matsika, Marija Kotur, and Thomas C. Weinacht

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053406 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Dichotomy between tunneling and multiphoton ionization in atomic photoionization: Keldysh parameter γ versus scaled frequency Ω

Turker Topcu and Francis Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053407 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Dipole-quadrupole interference spectroscopy: Observation of an autoionizing He $^{1} D$ Rydberg series

B. Krässig, E. P. Kanter, S. H. Southworth, L. Young, R. Wehlitz, B. A. deHarak, and N. L. S. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053408 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Time-energy analysis of above-threshold ionization in few-cycle laser pulses

L. Guo, S. S. Han, and J. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053409 (2012) - Published 13 November, 2012

Threshold effects in strong-field ionization: Energy shifts and Rydberg structures

K. Krajewska, I. I. Fabrikant, and A. F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053410 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Frequency-resolved optical gating for time-resolving knockout in double ionization with attosecond pulses

H. Price, A. Staudte, P. B. Corkum, and A. Emmanouilidou

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053411 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Fast compression of a cold atomic cloud using a blue-detuned crossed dipole trap

Tom Bienaimé, Giovanni Barontini, Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Louis Bellando, Julien Chabé, and Robin Kaiser

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053412 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Test of the Stark-effect theory using photoionization microscopy

L. B. Zhao, I. I. Fabrikant, M. L. Du, and C. Bordas

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053413 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Optical dipole force on ladderlike three-level atomic systems induced by few-cycle-pulse laser fields

Parvendra Kumar and Amarendra K. Sarma

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053414 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Bichromatic slowing of metastable helium

M. A. Chieda and E. E. Eyler

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053415 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Transverse measurements of polarization in optically pumped Rb vapor cells

J. M. Dreiling, E. B. Norrgard, D. Tupa, and T. J. Gay

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053416 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Orientation dependence of nonadiabatic molecular high-order-harmonic generation from resonant polar molecules

Xue-Bin Bian and André D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053417 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Anomalous alignment dependence of the third-order harmonic of H $_{2}$ $^{+}$ ions in intense laser fields

Ying-Jun Jin, Xiao-Min Tong, and Nobuyuki Toshima

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053418 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Molecular alignment and orientation with a hybrid Raman scattering technique

Philip J. Bustard, R. Lausten, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053419 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Atomic harmonic generation in time-dependent $R$ -matrix theory

A. C. Brown, D. J. Robinson, and H. W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053420 (2012) - Published 28 November, 2012

Free-free transitions of the $e$ -H system inside a dense plasma irradiated by a laser field at very low incident-electron energies

A. K. Bhatia and C. Sinha

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053421 (2012) - Published 28 November, 2012

Laser-assisted electron-argon scattering at small angles

Nathan Morrison and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053422 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Multiphoton $L$ -shell ionization of H $_{2}$ S using intense x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser

B. F. Murphy, L. Fang, M.-H. Chen, J. D. Bozek, E. Kukk, E. P. Kanter, M. Messerschmidt, T. Osipov, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053423 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Time-dependent restricted-active-space configuration-interaction method for the photoionization of many-electron atoms

David Hochstuhl and Michael Bonitz

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053424 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Diffraction patterns in the ionization of the heteronuclear HeH $^{2 +}$ ion by attosecond x-ray radiation

Xiaoxu Guan, Ethan B. Secor, Ryan C. DuToit, and Klaus Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053425 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Two-electron dynamics in nonlinear double excitation of helium by intense ultrashort extreme-ultraviolet pulses

Chien-Nan Liu, Akiyoshi Hishikawa, and Toru Morishita

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053426 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Ground-state Hanle effect based on atomic alignment

Evelina Breschi and Antoine Weis

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053427 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Direct photoassociative formation of ultracold KRb molecules in the lowest vibrational levels of the electronic ground state

Jayita Banerjee, David Rahmlow, Ryan Carollo, Michael Bellos, Edward E. Eyler, Phillip L. Gould, and William C. Stwalley

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053428 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Localized electron dynamics in attosecond-pulse-excited molecular systems: Probing the time-dependent electron density by sudden photoionization

B. Mignolet, R. D. Levine, and F. Remacle

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053429 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules

Vortex–bright-soliton dipoles: Bifurcations, symmetry breaking, and soliton tunneling in a vortex-induced double well

M. Pola, J. Stockhofe, P. Schmelcher, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053601 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Anisotropic coherence properties in a trapped quasi-two-dimensional dipolar gas

Christopher Ticknor

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053602 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Effective-range dependence of resonantly interacting fermions

Michael McNeil Forbes, Stefano Gandolfi, and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053603 (2012) - Published 6 November, 2012

Rapid ramps across the BEC-BCS crossover: A route to measuring the superfluid gap

R. G. Scott, F. Dalfovo, L. P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053604 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Ultracold Fermi gas in a single-mode cavity: Cavity-mediated interaction and BCS-BEC evolution

Xiaoyong Guo, Zhongzhou Ren, Guangjie Guo, and Jie Peng

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053605 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Finite-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo technique for Bose-Fermi mixtures

Brenda M. Rubenstein, Shiwei Zhang, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053606 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Heat and spin transport in a cold atomic Fermi gas

Hyungwon Kim and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053607 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Modified Bethe-Peierls boundary condition for ultracold atoms with spin-orbit coupling

Peng Zhang, Long Zhang, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053608 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Measurement of phase fluctuations of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice

Bing Wang, Qiang Zhu, Hailong Zhou, Dezhi Xiong, Hongwei Xiong, and Baolong Lü

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053609 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Spin diffusion of lattice fermions in one dimension

Andrew P. Snyder and Theja N. De Silva

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053610 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Collisions of anisotropic two-dimensional bright solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

Rüdiger Eichler, Damir Zajec, Patrick Köberle, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053611 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Subdiffusive spreading of a Bose-Einstein condensate in random potentials

Bin Min, Tiejun Li, Matthias Rosenkranz, and Weizhu Bao

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053612 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Dynamics of inertial vortices in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates

Katsuhiro Nakamura, Doniyor Babajanov, Davron Matrasulov, and Michikazu Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053613 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Finite-temperature dynamical properties of SU( $N$ ) fermionic Hubbard models in the spin-incoherent regime

Akiyuki Tokuno and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053614 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Quenches in a quasidisordered integrable lattice system: Dynamics and statistical description of observables after relaxation

Christian Gramsch and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053615 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Circular-hyperbolic skyrmion in rotating pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling

Chao-Fei Liu, Heng Fan, Yi-Cai Zhang, Deng-Shan Wang, and Wu-Ming Liu

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053616 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Collective excitations, emergent Galilean invariance, and boson-boson interactions across the BCS-BEC crossover induced by a synthetic Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Jayantha P. Vyasanakere and Vijay B. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053617 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Rydberg-atom quantum simulation and Chern-number characterization of a topological Mott insulator

A. Dauphin, M. Müller, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053618 (2012) - Published 20 November, 2012

Finite-temperature dipolar ultracold Bose gas with exchange interactions

S. C. Cormack and D. A. W. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053619 (2012) - Published 20 November, 2012

BCS pairing in fully repulsive fermion mixtures

T. Espinosa-Ortega, O. Kyriienko, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053620 (2012) - Published 21 November, 2012

Classical and quantum regimes of two-dimensional turbulence in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

M. T. Reeves, B. P. Anderson, and A. S. Bradley

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053621 (2012) - Published 21 November, 2012

Staggered manipulation of ultracold atoms in optical lattices

Huirong Zhang, Qiuyi Guo, Zhaoyuan Ma, and Xuzong Chen

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053622 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Stability and structure of an anisotropically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate: Angular and linear rotons

A. D. Martin and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053623 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Vortices on demand in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates

R. Zamora-Zamora, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. F. Caballero-Benítez, and V. Romero-Rochín

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053624 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Analytical results for Josephson dynamics of ultracold bosons

Lena Simon and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053625 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Spin-driven spatial symmetry breaking of spinor condensates in a double well

M. Melé-Messeguer, S. Paganelli, B. Juliá-Díaz, A. Sanpera, and A. Polls

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053626 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Radio-frequency spectroscopy of weakly bound molecules in spin-orbit-coupled atomic Fermi gases

Hui Hu, Han Pu, Jing Zhang, Shi-Guo Peng, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053627 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Validity of a single-channel model for a spin-orbit-coupled atomic Fermi gas near Feshbach resonances

Jing-Xin Cui, Xia-Ji Liu, Gui Lu Long, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053628 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Quasihole dynamics as a detection tool for quantum Hall phases

T. Graß, B. Juliá-Díaz, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053629 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Classical rotons in cold atomic traps

H. Terças, J. T. Mendonça, and V. Guerra

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053630 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Universality and itinerant ferromagnetism in rotating strongly interacting Fermi gases

B. C. Mulkerin, C. J. Bradly, H. M. Quiney, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053631 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Tuning Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings: Effects on singlet and triplet condensation with Fermi atoms

L. Dell’Anna, G. Mazzarella, and L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053632 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

General relations for quantum gases in two and three dimensions. II. Bosons and mixtures

Félix Werner and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053633 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation

S. J. Rooney, P. B. Blakie, and A. S. Bradley

Phys. Rev. A 86, 053634 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

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

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

Nonlocal signaling in the configuration space model of quantum-classical interactions

Michael J. W. Hall, Marcel Reginatto, and C. M. Savage

Phys. Rev. A 86, 054101 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Quantum information

Improved lower and upper bounds for entanglement of formation

Xue-Na Zhu and Shao-Ming Fei

Phys. Rev. A 86, 054301 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Time-optimal transfer of coherence

Alberto Carlini and Tatsuhiko Koike

Phys. Rev. A 86, 054302 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

High-precision atomic clocks with highly charged ions: Nuclear-spin-zero $f^{12}$ -shell ions

V. A. Dzuba, A. Derevianko, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 86, 054501 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Ion clock and search for the variation of the fine-structure constant using optical transitions in Nd $^{13 +}$ and Sm $^{15 +}$

V. A. Dzuba, A. Derevianko, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. A 86, 054502 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

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

Sideband cooling of atoms with the help of an auxiliary transition

Zhen Yi, Wen-ju Gu, and Gao-xiang Li

Phys. Rev. A 86, 055401 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules

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

Enhancement of four reflection shifts by a three-layer surface-plasmon resonance

Luca Salasnich

Phys. Rev. A 86, 055801 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Optical angular momentum in dispersive media

T. G. Philbin and O. Allanson

Phys. Rev. A 86, 055802 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum phase for an arbitrary system with finite-dimensional Hilbert space”

Michael J. W. Hall and David T. Pegg

Phys. Rev. A 86, 056101 (2012) - Published 13 November, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Casimir effect with rough metallic mirrors [Phys. Rev. A 72, 012115 (2005)]

Paulo A. Maia Neto, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud

Phys. Rev. A 86, 059901 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Erratum: Full counting statistics of weak-value measurement [Phys. Rev. A 85, 032106 (2012)]

Antonio Di Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. A 86, 059902 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Erratum: Phase encoding schemes for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with basis-dependent flaw [Phys. Rev. A 85, 042307 (2012)]

Kiyoshi Tamaki, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, and Bing Qi

Phys. Rev. A 86, 059903 (2012) - Published 2 November, 2012

Erratum: Light-narrowed optically pumped $M_{x}$ magnetometer with a miniaturized Cs cell [Phys. Rev. A 84, 043416 (2011)]

T. Scholtes, V. Schultze, R. IJsselsteijn, S. Woetzel, and H.-G. Meyer

Phys. Rev. A 86, 059904 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Erratum: Proposal for a scalable universal bosonic simulator using individually trapped ions [Phys. Rev. A 85, 062329 (2012)]

Hoi-Kwan Lau and Daniel F. V. James

Phys. Rev. A 86, 059905 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012