Accepted in January 2008, to be published in Physical Review A


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Nested entangled states for distributed quantum channels
C. Di Franco, M. Paternostro, and M. S. Kim
[abstract]

Quantum computing with a single molecular ensemble and a Cooper-pair box
Karl Tordrup and Klaus M{\o}lmer
[abstract]

Universal observable detecting all two-qubit entanglement and determinant-based separability tests
Remigiusz Augusiak, Maciej Demianowicz, and Pawe{ \ l} Horodecki
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    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Hyperfine structure of $S$ states in Li and Be$^+$
V. A. Yerokhin
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Dynamics of a Rabi oscillation under a pulsed perturbation
Jai Min Choi, Gee-Na Kim, and D. Cho
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

\textit{Ab initio} theoretical investigation of the frequency comb structure and coherence in the vuv-xuv regimes via high-order harmonic generation
Juan J. Carrera, Sang-Kil Son, and Shih-I Chu
[abstract]

Enhancement of intermediate-field two-photon absorption by rationally shaped femtosecond pulses
Lev Chuntonov, Leonid Rybak, Andrey Gandman, and Zohar Amitay
[abstract]

Observation of sub-Doppler temperatures in bosonic magnesium
T. E. Mehlst\"{a}ubler, K. Moldenhauer, M. Riedmann, N. Rehbein, J. Friebe, E. M. Rasel, and W. Ertmer
[abstract]

    MATTER WAVES

Degenerate Bose-Bose mixture in a three-dimensional optical lattice
J. Catani, L. De Sarlo, G. Barontini, F. Minardi, and M. Inguscio
[abstract]

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

Temporal coherence and indistinguishability in two-photon interference effects
Anand Kumar Jha, Malcolm N. O'Sullivan, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, and Robert W. Boyd
[abstract]

Experimental comparison between conventional and hybrid long-range surface plasmon waveguide bends
Aloyse Degiron, Sang-Yeon Cho, Cameron Harrison, Nan-Marie Jokerst, Claudio Dellagiacoma, Olivier J. F. Martin, and David R. Smith
[abstract]

Gain-assisted superluminal optical solitons at very low light intensity
Guoxiang Huang, Chao Hang, and L. Deng
[abstract]

ARTICLES

    FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Sudden death of entanglement at finite temperature
Asma Al-Qasimi and Daniel F. V. James
[abstract]

Characterization of quantum angular-momentum fluctuations via principal components
\ ' { A} ngel Rivas and Alfredo Luis
[abstract]

Holonomy for quantum channels
David Kult, Johan {\AA}berg, and Erik Sj\"{o}qvist
[abstract]

Tradeoff between extractable mechanical work, accessible entanglement, and ability to act as a reference system, under arbitrary superselection rules
J. A. Vaccaro, F. Anselmi, H. M. Wiseman, and K. Jacobs
[abstract]

Generalized Ardehali-Bell inequalities for graph states
Otfried G{\"u}hne and Ad\ ' { a} n Cabello
[abstract]

Geometric measure of indistinguishability for groups of identical particles
Patrick Cassam-Chena{\"i}

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument and Bell inequalities for Bose-Einstein spin condensates
F. Lalo\"{e} and W. J. Mullin
[abstract]

Quantum states with strong positive partial transpose
Dariusz Chru\'{s}ci\'{n}ski, Jacek Jurkowski, and Andrzej Kossakowski
[abstract]

Restricted quantum-classical correspondence and counting statistics for a coherent transition
Maya Chuchem and Doron Cohen
[abstract]

Switching effect on the quantum Brownian motion near a reflecting boundary
Masafumi Seriu and Chun-Hsien Wu
[abstract]

Decoherence of molecular vibrational wave packets: Oscillatory decay of purity
M. Schlesinger and W. T. Strunz
[abstract]

No-signaling bound on quantum state discrimination
Sarah Croke, Erika Andersson, and Stephen M. Barnett
[abstract]

Flux continuity and probability conservation in complexified Bohmian mechanics
Bill Poirier
[abstract]

Monitoring derivation of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation
Klaus Hornberger and Bassano Vacchini
[abstract]

    QUANTUM INFORMATION

Correlated errors can lead to better performance of quantum codes
A. Shabani
[abstract]

Teleportation of two-mode squeezed states
Satyabrata Adhikari, A. S. Majumdar, and N. Nayak
[abstract]

Entanglement distribution in pure-state quantum networks
S\ ' { e} bastien Perseguers, J. Ignacio Cirac, Antonio Ac\'{\i}n, Maciej Lewenstein, and Jan Wehr
[abstract]

Experimental sub-Rayleigh resolution by an unseeded high-gain optical parametric amplifier for quantum lithography
Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino, Chiara Vitelli, Ryan G. Glasser, Hugo Cable, and Jonathan P. Dowling
[abstract]

Experimental quantum-state tomography of a solid-state qubit
L. Rippe, B. Julsgaard, A. Walther, Yan Ying, and S. Kr\"{o}ll

Efficient vibrational state coupling in an optical tilted-washboard potential via multiple spatial translations and application to pulse echoes
Samansa Maneshi, Jalani F. Kanem, Chao Zhuang, Matt Partlow, and Aephraim M. Steinberg
[abstract]

Elliptic functions and efficient control of Ising spin chains with unequal couplings
Haidong Yuan, Robert Zeier, and Navin Khaneja
[abstract]

Tangles of superpositions and the convex-roof extension
Andreas Osterloh, Jens Siewert, and Armin Uhlmann
[abstract]

Perfect state transfer over distance-regular spin networks
M. A. Jafarizadeh and R. Sufiani
[abstract]

Coherent communication with linear optics
Mark M. Wilde, Todd A. Brun, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Hwang Lee
[abstract]

Quantum walks on a random environment
Yue Yin, D. E. Katsanos, and S. N. Evangelou
[abstract]

Classification of nonproduct states with maximum stabilizer dimension
David W. Lyons, Scott N. Walck, and Stephanie A. Blanda
[abstract]

Dynamic generation of Bell states in a double-quantum-dot array including electron-phonon interaction
L. D. Contreras-Pulido and F. Rojas
[abstract]

Continuous-variable telecloning with phase-conjugate inputs
Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, Kunchi Peng, and Peter van Loock
[abstract]

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution with noisy coherent states
Radim Filip
[abstract]

Suppression of the heating effect in a geometric logic gating in a strong-driving-assisted cavity QED scheme
Chang-Yong Chen and Mang Feng
[abstract]

Geometric phases in open tripod systems
Ditte M{\o}ller, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Klaus M{\o}lmer
[abstract]

Laserless trapped-ion quantum simulations without spontaneous scattering using microtrap arrays
J. Chiaverini and W. E. Lybarger Jr.
[abstract]

Effects of spectral entanglement in polarization: Entanglement swapping and type-I fusion gates
Travis S. Humble and Warren P. Grice

Exact minimum and maximum of yield with a finite number of decoy light intensities
Toyohiro Tsurumaru, Alexandre Soujaeff, and Shigeki Takeuchi
[abstract]

High-fidelity continuous-variable quantum teleportation toward multistep quantum operations
Mitsuyoshi Yukawa, Hugo Benichi, and Akira Furusawa
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Photon pairs with tailor-made entanglement obtained from the two-photon decay of atomic hydrogen
Thomas Radtke, Andrey Surzhykov, and Stephan Fritzsche
[abstract]

Experimental and theoretical study of the ${nf}$-level lifetimes of potassium
M. G{\l}\'{o}d\'{z}, A. Huzandrov, M. S. Safronova, I. Sydoryk, J. Szonert, and J. Klavins

Laser-induced-fluorescence lifetime measurements and relativistic Hartree-Fock oscillator strength calculations in singly ionized platinum
Pascal Quinet, Patrick Palmeri, Vanessa Fivet, \ ' { E} mile Bi\'{e}mont, Hampus Nilsson, Lars Engstr\"{o}m, and Hans Lundberg
[abstract]

Relativistic corrections to transition frequencies of Ag {\small{I}} , Dy {\small{I}}, Ho {\small{I}}, Yb {\small{II}}, Yb {\small{III}}, Au {\small{I}}, and Hg {\small{II}} and search for variation of the fine-structure constant
V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum
[abstract]

Discontinuity of the exchange-correlation potential: Support for assumptions used to find it
Espen Sagvolden and John P. Perdew
[abstract]

Vibrations of acrylonitrile in N $1s$ excited states
V. Ilakovac, S. Carniato, J.-J. Gallet, E. Kukk, D. Horvati\'{c}, and A. Ilakovac
[abstract]

Relativistic corrections to transition frequencies of Fe {\small{I}} and search for variation of the fine-structure constant
V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum
[abstract]

Complete $\alpha^2$ relativistic corrections to the pure vibrational non-Born-Oppenheimer energies of HeH$^{+}$
Monika Stanke, Dariusz K\c{e}dziera, Sergiy Bubin, and Ludwik Adamowicz
[abstract]

Approach to kinetic energy density functionals: Nonlocal terms with the structure of the von Weizs\"{a}cker functional
David Garc{\'i}a-Aldea and J. E. Alvarellos
[abstract]

Prospects of detecting $m_e/m_p$ variance using vibrational transition frequencies of $^{2}$$\Sigma$-state molecules
Masatoshi Kajita
[abstract]

Hyperfine structure of the metastable $^3P_2$ state of alkaline-earth-metal atoms as an accurate probe of nuclear magnetic octupole moments
K. Beloy, A. Derevianko, and W. R. Johnson
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND INTERACTIONS

Multiple-state Feshbach resonances mediated by high-order couplings
Christopher J. Hemming and Roman V. Krems
[abstract]

Dynamics of He$^{2+}$+H ($1s$) excitation and electron-capture processes in Debye plasmas
L. Liu, J. G. Wang, and R. K. Janev

Calculations of inner-shell ionization by electron impact with the distorted-wave and plane-wave Born approximations
David Bote and Francesc Salvat
[abstract]

Cross sections for short-pulse single and double ionization of helium
A. Palacios, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy
[abstract]

Jost functions and singular attractive potentials
Florian Arnecke, Javier Madro\~{n}ero, and Harald Friedrich
[abstract]

Zeros in the photoionization partial cross sections of H$_2^+$
R. Della Picca, P. D. Fainstein, M. L. Martiarena, and A. Dubois
[abstract]

Relativistic close-coupling calculation of photoionization and photorecombination of Fe {\small{XVI}}
Guo-Xin Chen
[abstract]

Electron detachment of negative ions: The influence of the outermost electron and its neutral core atom in collision with He, Ne, and Ar
Ginette Jalbert, W. Wolff, S. D. Magalh\~{a}es, and N. V. de Castro Faria
[abstract]

Hyperfine state-changing collisions of Cs(6$P_{1/2}$) atoms with argon perturbers
L. Morgus, T. Morgus, T. Drake, and J. Huennekens

Elastic electron scattering by a Pb atom
S. D. To\v{s}i\'{c}, M. S. Rabasovi\'{c}, D. \v{S}evi\'{c}, V. Pej\v{c}ev, D. M. Filipovi\'{c}, Lalita Sharma, A. N. Tripathi, Rajesh Srivastava, and B. P. Marinkovi\'{c}

Projectile angular-differential cross sections for transfer and transfer excitation in proton collisions with helium
M. Zapukhlyak, T. Kirchner, A. Hasan, B. Tooke, and M. Schulz
[abstract]

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

Fundamental processes in nanosecond pulsed laser ablation of metals in vacuum
P. \'{E}cija, M. N. S\'{a}nchez Rayo, R. Mart\'{\i}nez, B. Sierra, C. Redondo, F. J. Basterretxea, and F. Casta\~{n}o

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

Effects of laser linewidth on an effective method for excitation in three-level atomic systems by two optimally detuned counterpropagating pulsed lasers
G. P. Gupta and B. M. Suri

Theoretical interpretation of multiphoton ionization of neon by soft-x-ray intense radiation
M. G. Makris and P. Lambropoulos
[abstract]

H$_2$ double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses
S. Saugout, E. Charron, and C. Cornaggia
[abstract]

Impact of coherence in radiation from ultrahigh-field atomic ionization
Isaac Ghebregziabher and Barry C. Walker

Resonant uv pump-probe spectroscopy of dipicolinic acid via impulsive excitation
Robert K. Murawski, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Sterling Backus, Daisy Raymondson, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, and Marlan O. Scully
[abstract]

Tunable high-order harmonic generation and the role of the folded quantum path
Zhinan Zeng, Ya Cheng, Yuxi Fu, Xiaohong Song, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Quasienergy spectrum of complex atoms
E. Mese and R. M. Potvliege
[abstract]

Quantum path contribution to high-order harmonic spectra
E. Brunetti, R. Issac, and D. A. Jaroszynski

Efficient generation of moderately high harmonics by multiphoton resonant excitation of atoms
H. K. Avetissian, B. R. Avchyan, and G. F. Mkrtchian
[abstract]

Steering quantum transitions between three crossing energy levels
S. S. Ivanov and N. V. Vitanov
[abstract]

Rovibrational wave-packet manipulation using shaped midinfrared femtosecond pulses
Masaaki Tsubouchi, Alexander Khramov, and Takamasa Momose

Laser-assisted ion-atom collisions: Plateau, cutoff, and multiphoton peaks
Marcelo F. Ciappina and Lars Bojer Madsen
[abstract]

High-order harmonic generation from diatomic molecules with large internuclear distance: The effect of two-center interference
Y. J. Chen and J. Liu
[abstract]

    MATTER WAVES

Emulating non-Abelian topological matter in cold-atom optical lattices
V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma
[abstract]

All-optical production of $^7$Li Bose-Einstein condensation using Feshbach resonances
Noam Gross and Lev Khaykovich
[abstract]

Two-point correlations of a trapped interacting Bose gas at finite temperature
A. Bezett, E. Toth, and P. B. Blakie
[abstract]

Pairing of one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures with unequal masses
Matteo Rizzi and Adilet Imambekov
[abstract]

Symbiotic gap and semigap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
Sadhan K. Adhikari and Boris A. Malomed
[abstract]

Molecular superfluid phase in systems of one-dimensional multicomponent fermionic cold atoms
S. Capponi, G. Roux, P. Lecheminant, P. Azaria, E. Boulat, and S. R. White
[abstract]

Multicomponent strongly attractive Fermi gas: A color superconductor in a one-dimensional harmonic trap
Xia-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and Peter D. Drummond
[abstract]

Quantum noise, scaling, and domain formation in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
George I. Mias, Nigel R. Cooper, and S. M. Girvin
[abstract]

Pairing mean-field theory for the dynamics of dissociation of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
M. J. Davis, S. J. Thwaite, M. K. Olsen, and K. V. Kheruntsyan
[abstract]

Quantum fluctuations in the superfluid state of the BCS-BEC crossover
Roberto B. Diener, Rajdeep Sensarma, and Mohit Randeria
[abstract]

Radially symmetric nonlinear states of harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
G. Herring, L. D. Carr, R. Carretero-Gonz\'{a}lez, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
[abstract]

Localized modes of binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates in nonlinear optical lattices
F. Kh. Abdullaev, A. Gammal, M. Salerno, and Lauro Tomio
[abstract]

Conversion efficiencies of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules
Shohei Watabe and Tetsuro Nikuni
[abstract]

Dimer states in atomic mixtures
K. Ziegler
[abstract]

Squeezing and entanglement of a Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices
X. P. Liu and P. T. Leung
[abstract]

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

Adiabatic entanglement in two-atom cavity QED
C. Lazarou and B. M. Garraway
[abstract]

Entangled-state cycles of atomic collective-spin states
A. Chia and A. S. Parkins
[abstract]

Far-off-resonant wave interaction in one-dimensional photonic crystals with quadratic nonlinearity
Johannes-Geert Hagmann, Lasha Tkeshelashvili, Kurt Busch, and Guido Schneider
[abstract]

Model for chaotic dielectric microresonators
J. P. Keating, M. Novaes, and H. Schomerus
[abstract]

Conditional preparation of states containing a definite number of photons
Malcolm N. O'Sullivan, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, and Robert W. Boyd
[abstract]

Single-photon filtering by a cavity quantum electrodynamics system
Kazuki Koshino
[abstract]

Plane waves and localized modes in quadratic waveguide arrays
H. Susanto, R. L. Horne, N. Whitaker, and P. G. Kevrekidis
[abstract]

All-optical switching with transverse optical patterns
Andrew M. C. Dawes, Lucas Illing, Joel A. Greenberg, and Daniel J. Gauthier
[abstract]

Coherent output of photons from coupled superconducting transmission line resonators controlled by charge qubits
Lan Zhou, Y. B. Gao, Z. Song, and C. P. Sun
[abstract]

Interacting dark states with enhanced nonlinearity in an ideal four-level tripod atomic system
Yanxu Han, Jintao Xiao, Yonghong Liu, Chunhong Zhang, Hai Wang, Min Xiao, and Kunchi Peng

Temporal shaping of a heralded single-photon wave packet
So-Young Baek, Osung Kwon, and Yoon-Ho Kim
[abstract]

Preparation of entangled states of two photons in several spatial modes
Karel Lemr and Jarom{ \ ' i} r Fiur\'{a}\v{s}ek
[abstract]

Experimental position-time entanglement with degenerate single photons
A. J. Bennett, D. G. Gevaux, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields, P. Atkinson, and D. A. Ritchie
[abstract]

Limitations of decomposition-based imaging of longitudinal absorber configurations
S. D. Campbell, S. D. Grobe, I. L. Goodin, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Quantum theory for spatial motion of polaritons in inhomogeneous fields
Lan Zhou, Jing Lu, D. L. Zhou, and C. P. Sun
[abstract]

Dynamic properties and optical phase conjugation of two-photon pumped ultrashort blue stimulated emission in a chromophore solution
Guang S. He, Hai-Yan Qin, Qingdong Zheng, Paras N. Prasad, Steffen Jockusch, Nicholas J. Turro, Marlin Halim, Dalibor Sames, Hans \r{A}gren, and Sailing He

Complete tunneling of light through impedance-mismatched barrier layers
Kyoung-Youm Kim and Byoungho Lee

Two-photon detuning and decoherence in cavity electromagnetically induced transparency for quantized fields
P. Barberis-Blostein
[abstract]

One-atom correlated-emission laser
Ho-Joon Kim, Ashfaq H. Khosa, H. Woong Lee, and M. Suhail Zubairy
[abstract]

Superluminal group velocity in a birefringent crystal
Tore Gunnar Halvorsen and Jon Magne Leinaas
[abstract]

Dark-state polaritons in single- and double-$\Lambda$ media
Y. D. Chong and Marin Solja\v{c}i\'{c}
[abstract]

Control of the Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift of a light beam via a coherent driving field
Li-Gang Wang, Manzoor Ikram, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Spatial morphology of the macroscopic superposition of three-dimensional coherent laser waves in degenerate cavities
T. H. Lu, Y. F. Chen, and K. F. Huang

Demonstration of a saturated Ni-like Ag x-ray laser pumped by a single profiled laser pulse from a 10-Hz Ti:sapphire laser system
H. T. Kim, I. W. Choi, N. Hafz, J. H. Sung, T. J. Yu, K. H. Hong, T. M. Jeong, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, K. A. Janulewicz, J. T\"{u}mmler, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, and J. Lee

BRIEF REPORTS

    FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Local vertical measurements and violation of the Bell inequality
Yang Xiang and Shi-Jie Xiong
[abstract]

    QUANTUM INFORMATION

Degradation of nonmaximal entanglement of scalar and Dirac fields in noninertial frames
Qiyuan Pan and Jiliang Jing
[abstract]

Physical implementation of topologically decoherence-protected superconducting qubits
Zheng-Yuan Xue, Z. D. Wang, and Shi-Liang Zhu
[abstract]

Geometric entanglement witnesses and bound entanglement
Reinhold A. Bertlmann and Philipp Krammer
[abstract]

General relation between the transformation operator and an invariant under stochastic local operations and classical communication in quantum teleportation
Xin-Wei Zha and Kuan Fang Ren

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND INTERACTIONS

Fully differential ionization cross sections for proton collisions with multielectronic targets
S. Mart\'{\i}nez, S. Otranto, and C. R. Garibotti
[abstract]

    ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

Three-dimensional analysis of the magneto-optical trap for (1+3)-level atoms
Sang-Kyung Choi, Sang Eon Park, Jingbiao Chen, and Vladimir G. Minogin
[abstract]

High-precision quasienergies for a driven two-level atom at the two-photon preresonance
Dong-Sheng Guo, J. T. Wang, and Yong-Shi Wu
[abstract]

Compensation of noise in optical lattices via feedback: Low-temperature limit
T. Yu. Ivanova and D. A. Ivanov
[abstract]

Field ionization of the frozen Rydberg gas
Jianing Han and T. F. Gallagher
[abstract]

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

Incoherently coupled two-color Manakov vector solitons in nonlocal media
Ming Shen, Qian Kong, Jielong Shi, and Qi Wang
[abstract]

COMMENTS

Comment on ``Canonical formalism and quantization of the perturbative sector of higher-derivative theories''
Kwang-Hua W. Chu

Reply to ``Comment on `Canonical formalism and quantization of the perturbative sector of higher-derivative theories'''
K. Andrzejewski, K. Bolonek, J. Gonera, and P. Maslanka

Comment on ``Quantum time-of-flight distribution for cold trapped atoms''
J. Viana Gomes, M. Belsley, and D. Boiron

Reply to ``Comment on `Quantum time-of-flight distribution for cold trapped atoms' ''
Md. Manirul Ali, Dipankar Home, A. S. Majumdar, and Alok K. Pan

Comment on ``Asymptotic form of the Kohn-Sham correlation potential''
A. Holas

ERRATA

Erratum: Hellmann-Feynman theorem in a mixed ensemble [Phys. Rev. A 75}, 032514 (2007)]
Dhurba Rai