Accepted in December 2007, to be published in Physical Review A


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

    FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Amplification of high-order harmonics using weak perturbative high-frequency radiation
Avner Fleischer and Nimrod Moiseyev
[abstract]

Coherent destruction of tunneling, dynamic localization, and the Landau-Zener formula
Yosuke Kayanuma and Keiji Saito
[abstract]

    QUANTUM INFORMATION

Robust creation of arbitrary-sized Dicke states of trapped ions by global addressing
I. E. Linington and N. V. Vitanov
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

Doppler cooling of calcium ions using a dipole-forbidden transition
Richard J. Hendricks, Jens L. S{\o}rensen, Caroline Champenois, Martina Knoop, and Michael Drewsen
[abstract]

    MATTER WAVES

Tkachenko modes in a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity
Gentaro Watanabe, Marco Cozzini, and Sandro Stringari
[abstract]

Feshbach molecules in a one-dimensional optical lattice
N. Nygaard, R. Piil, and K. M{\o}lmer
[abstract]

    QUANTUM OPTICS, PHYSICS OF LASERS, NONLINEAR OPTICS, CLASSICAL OPTICS

Quasirelativistic behavior of cold atoms in light fields
Gediminas Juzeli\={u}nas, Julius Ruseckas, Markus Lindberg, Luis Santos, and Patrik \"{O}hberg
[abstract]

ARTICLES

    FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Foldy-Wouthyusen transformation and semiclassical limit for relativistic particles in strong external fields
Alexander J. Silenko
[abstract]

Two-spin-subsystem entanglement in spin-1/2 rings with long-range interactions
M. Gaudiano, O. Osenda, and G. A. Raggio
[abstract]

Quantum trajectory approach to circuit QED: Quantum jumps and the Zeno effect
Jay Gambetta, Alexandre Blais, M. Boissonneault, A. A. Houck, D. I. Schuster, and S. M. Girvin
[abstract]

Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of single, few, and many molecules: Nonequilibrium Green's function QED approach
Christoph A. Marx, Upendra Harbola, and Shaul Mukamel

Locality in the creation of electron-positron pairs
T. Cheng, S. P. Bowen, C. C. Gerry, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Entanglement-induced decoherence and energy eigenstates
Wen-ge Wang, Jiangbin Gong, G. Casati, and Baowen Li
[abstract]

Relativistic nature of a magnetoelectric modulus of Cr$_2$O$_3$ crystals: A four-dimensional pseudoscalar and its measurement
Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov, Jean-Pierre Rivera, and Hans Schmid
[abstract]

Casimir-Polder forces on excited atoms in the strong atom-field coupling regime
Stefan Yoshi Buhmann and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
[abstract]

    QUANTUM INFORMATION

Steady atomic entanglement with different quantum feedbacks
Jun-Gang Li, Jian Zou, Bin Shao, and Jin-Fang Cai
[abstract]

Using measurement-induced disturbance to characterize correlations as classical or quantum
Shunlong Luo
[abstract]

Convertibility between two-qubit states using stochastic local quantum operations assisted by classical communication
Yeong-Cherng Liang, Llu{ \ ' i} s Masanes, and Andrew C. Doherty
[abstract]

Two-way quantum key distribution at telecommunication wavelength
Rupesh Kumar, Marco Lucamarini, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Riccardo Natali, Giorgio Mancini, and Paolo Tombesi
[abstract]

Controlled-{\small{NOT}} gate for multiparticle qubits and topological quantum computation based on parity measurements
Oded Zilberberg, Bernd Braunecker, and Daniel Loss
[abstract]

Deterministic dense coding and entanglement entropy
P. S. Bourdon, E. Gerjuoy, J. P. McDonald, and H. T. Williams
[abstract]

Interference versus success probability in quantum algorithms with imperfections
Daniel Braun and Bertrand Georgeot
[abstract]

Coherent and optimal control of adiabatic motion of ions in a trap
Meiyu Zhao and Dmitri Babikov

Entanglement of subspaces in terms of entanglement of superpositions
Gilad Gour and Aidan Roy
[abstract]

Minimum-error discrimination between mixed quantum states
Daowen Qiu

Soft-pulse dynamical decoupling in a cavity
Leonid P. Pryadko and Gregory Quiroz
[abstract]

Synthesis of arbitrary unitary transformations of collective states of trapped ions by quantum Householder reflections
Peter A. Ivanov and Nikolay V. Vitanov
[abstract]

Decoherence induced by a dynamic spin environment: The universal regime
Cecilia Cormick and Juan Pablo Paz
[abstract]

Quantum Cayley networks of the hypercube
Christopher Facer, Jason Twamley, and James Cresser
[abstract]

Quantum computational method of finding the ground-state energy and expectation values
Sangchul Oh
[abstract]

Three-qubit phase gate based on cavity quantum electrodynamics
Jun-Tao Chang and M. Suhail Zubairy
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Some consequences of scaling in density-functional theory and the virial as a density functional
L. Calder\'{\i}n and M. J. Stott
[abstract]

Radiative decay spectra of selected doubly excited states in helium
Johan S\"{o}derstr\"{o}m, Marcus Ag{\aa}ker, Anna Zimina, Raimund Feifel, Stefan Eisebitt, Rolf Follath, Gerd Reichardt, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Wolfgang Eberhardt, Andrej Miheli\v{c}, Matja\ v{ z} \v{Z}itnik, and Jan-Erik Rubensson
[abstract]

Stimulated Raman spectroscopy and the determination of the $D$-fine-structure level separation in $^{40}$Ca$^+$
Rekishu Yamazaki, Hideyuki Sawamura, Kenji Toyoda, and Shinji Urabe
[abstract]

Exact-exchange energy density in the gauge of a semilocal density-functional approximation
Jianmin Tao, Viktor N. Staroverov, Gustavo E. Scuseria, and John P. Perdew
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND INTERACTIONS

Exactly solvable coupled-channel potential models of atom-atom magnetic Feshbach resonances from supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Andrey M. Pupasov, Boris F. Samsonov, and Jean-Marc Sparenberg
[abstract]

Analytic Born completion in the calculation of differential cross sections for electron scattering from a linear molecule
Andrew N. Feldt and Michael A. Morrison
[abstract]

Relativistic distorted-wave procedures with pseudostates
Guo-Xin Chen
[abstract]

$S$-wave resonances in positron-sodium scattering
Huili Han, Zhenxiang Zhong, Xianzhou Zhang, and Tingyun Shi
[abstract]

Exchange effects in elastic collisions of spin-polarized electrons with open-shell molecules with ${}^3 \Sigma_{g}^{-}$ symmetry
Motomichi Tashiro
[abstract]

\textit{Ab initio} relativistic many-body calculation of hyperfine splittings of $^{113}$Cd$^{+}$
Gopal Dixit, H. S. Nataraj, B. K. Sahoo, R. K. Chaudhuri, and Sonjoy Majumder
[abstract]

Dissociative recombination dynamics of the ozone cation
V. Zhaunerchyk, W. D. Geppert, F. \"{O}sterdahl, M. Larsson, R. D. Thomas, E. Bahati, M. E. Bannister, M. R. Fogle, and C. R. Vane
[abstract]

Polarization effects on electronic excitation of molecules by low-energy electron impact: Study on $e^-$-furan scattering
Romarly F. da Costa, M\ ' { a} rcio H. F. Bettega, and Marco A. P. Lima
[abstract]

    PHOTON, ELECTRON, ATOM, AND MOLECULE INTERACTIONS WITH SOLIDS AND SURFACES

Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium
Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, Sandro Stringari, and Vitaly B. Svetovoy
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a multilevel atom
A. D. Boozer
[abstract]

Robust quantum control of molecular tunneling ionization in the space domain by phase-controlled laser fields
Hideki Ohmura and M. Tachiya

One- and two-photon phase-sensitive coherent control of total ionization yields in the presence of static electric fields
A. Bolovinos, S. Cohen, and I. Liontos

Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules
Benjamin L. Lev, Andr\ ' { a} s Vukics, Eric R. Hudson, Brian C. Sawyer, Peter Domokos, Helmut Ritsch, and Jun Ye
[abstract]

Transferring Rydberg wave packets between islands across the chaotic sea
S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgd\"{o}rfer, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning
[abstract]

Field-free molecular orientation by nonresonant and quasiresonant two-color laser pulses
R. Tehini and D. Sugny
[abstract]

Theoretical modeling of resonant laser excitation of atoms in a magnetic field
Andrew James Murray, William MacGillivray, and Martyn Hussey

$M1$-$E2$ interference in the Zeeman spectra of Bi {\small I}
S. Werbowy and J. Kwela
[abstract]

Parallel solver for the three-dimensional Cartesian-grid-based time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation and its applications in laser-H$_{2}^{+}$ interaction studies
Y.-M. Lee, J.-S. Wu, T.-F. Jiang, and Y.-S. Chen

\textit{Ab initio} calculation of time-dependent control dynamics in polyelectronic systems involving bound and resonance states: Application to a quartet spectrum of He$^{-}$
Yannis Komninos, Theodoros Mercouris, and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

Theory of x-ray absorption by laser-aligned symmetric-top molecules
Christian Buth and Robin Santra
[abstract]

    MATTER WAVES

Nonlinear intraband tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a cubic three-dimensional lattice
V. S. Shchesnovich and V. V. Konotop
[abstract]

Controlling soliton interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates by synchronizing the Feshbach resonance and harmonic trap
Xiao-Fei Zhang, Qin Yang, Jie-Fang Zhang, X. Z. Chen, and W. M. Liu
[abstract]

Minimum instances of topological matter in an optical plaquette
Bel\ ' { e} n Paredes and Immanuel Bloch
[abstract]

Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in a time-dependent trap
V. Ramesh Kumar, R. Radha, and Prasanta K. Panigrahi
[abstract]

Mixture of bosonic and spin-polarized fermionic atoms in an optical lattice
Lode Pollet, Corinna Kollath, Ulrich Schollw\"{o}ck, and Matthias Troyer
[abstract]

One-dimensional Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model in the heavy-fermion limit
A. Mering and M. Fleischhauer
[abstract]

Dynamics of Bloch oscillations in disordered lattice potentials
T. Schulte, S. Drenkelforth, G. Kleine B\"{u}ning, W. Ertmer, J. Arlt, M. Lewenstein, and L. Santos
[abstract]

Vortex structures formed by the interference of sliced condensates
R. Carretero-Gonz\'alez, N. Whitaker, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
[abstract]

Limitations of the modulation method to smooth wire-guide roughness
I. Bouchoule, J.-B. Trebbia, and C. L. Garrido Alzar
[abstract]

Effective mean-field equations for cigar-shaped and disk-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates
A. Mu\~{n}oz Mateo and V. Delgado
[abstract]

Atom-wave diffraction between the Raman-Nath and the Bragg regime: Effective Rabi frequency, losses, and phase shifts
Holger M\"{u}ller, Sheng-wey Chiow, and Steven Chu
[abstract]

Discovery of exceptional points in the Bose-Einstein condensation of gases with attractive $1/r$ interaction
Holger Cartarius, J\ " { o} rg Main, and G\ " { u} nter Wunner
[abstract]

Fermi-Fermi mixtures in the strong-attraction limit
M. Iskin and C. A. R. S\'{a} de Melo
[abstract]

Quality factor of a matter-wave beam
F. Impens
[abstract]

Bright solitary-matter-wave collisions in a harmonic trap: Regimes of solitonlike behavior
A. D. Martin, C. S. Adams, and S. A. Gardiner
[abstract]

Index of refraction of gases for matter waves: Effect of the motion of the gas particles on the calculation of the index
Caroline Champenois, Marion Jacquey, Steven Lepoutre, Matthias B\"{u}chner, G\ ' erard Tr\'{e}nec, and Jacques Vigu\'{e}
[abstract]

    QUANTUM OPTICS, PHYSICS OF LASERS, NONLINEAR OPTICS, CLASSICAL OPTICS

Teleportation of atomic states via position measurements
Michele Tumminello and Francesco Ciccarello
[abstract]

Entanglement of a Laguerre-Gaussian cavity mode with a rotating mirror
M. Bhattacharya, P.-L. Giscard, and P. Meystre
[abstract]

Statistical studies of random-lasing modes and amplified spontaneous-emission spikes in weakly scattering systems
X. Wu and H. Cao
[abstract]

Three-dimensional theory for light-matter interaction
Martin W. S{\o}rensen and Anders S. S{\o}rensen
[abstract]

Transmission spectrum of a double quantum-dot--nanocavity system in photonic crystals
Jun Qian, Yong Qian, Xun-Li Feng, Shi-Qi Jin, and Shang-Qing Gong
[abstract]

Dipole-dipole interaction between orthogonal dipole moments in time-dependent geometries
Sandra Isabelle Schmid and J\ " { o} rg Evers
[abstract]

Photon conversion processes in dispersive microcavities: Quantum-field model
Alex Hayat and Meir Orenstein

Material parameter equation for elliptical cylindrical cloaks
Hua Ma, Shaobo Qu, Zhuo Xu, Jieqiu Zhang, Biwu Chen, and Jiafu Wang

BRIEF REPORTS

    QUANTUM INFORMATION

Weak measurement and control of entanglement generation
Charles Hill and Jason Ralph
[abstract]

One-step generation of cluster states in microwave cavity QED
Jun-Qi Li, Gang Chen, and J.-Q. Liang
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND INTERACTIONS

Projectile charge-state dependence of methane fragmentation
Jyoti Rajput and C. P. Safvan
[abstract]

    MATTER WAVES

Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model
Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, \ c{ S} ebnem G\ " { u} ne\ c{ s} S\"{o}yler, Nikolay Prokof'ev, and Boris Svistunov
[abstract]

Collective excitations of trapped one-dimensional dipolar quantum gases
P. Pedri, S. De Palo, E. Orignac, R. Citro, and M. L. Chiofalo
[abstract]

    QUANTUM OPTICS, PHYSICS OF LASERS, NONLINEAR OPTICS, CLASSICAL OPTICS

Direct determination of the wave field of an x-ray nanobeam
Hidekazu Mimura, Hirokatsu Yumoto, Satoshi Matsuyama, Soichiro Handa, Takashi Kimura, Yasuhisa Sano, Makina Yabashi, Yoshinori Nishino, Kenji Tamasaku, Tetsuya Ishikawa, and Kazuto Yamauchi

ERRATA

Erratum: Controlling molecular orientation through radiative rotational transitions in strong static electric fields [Phys. Rev. A 75}, 013421 (2007)]
Michael Mayle, Rosario Gonz\'{a}lez-F\'{e}rez, and Peter Schmelcher
[abstract]

Erratum: Security of quantum bit-string generation [Phys. Rev. A 70}, 052310 (2004)]
Jonathan Barrett and Serge Massar