RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

QUANTUM INFORMATION

General scheme for construction of scalar separability criteria from positive maps
Remigiusz Augusiak and Julia Stasi\'{n}ska
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ARTICLES

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Boson-fermion pairing in Bose-Fermi mixtures on one-dimensional optical lattices
X. Barillier-Pertuisel, S. Pittel, L. Pollet, and P. Schuck
[abstract]

QUANTUM INFORMATION

Effect of the Dzyaloshinski-Moriya term in the quantum $({\small{SWAP}})^{\alpha}$ gate produced with exchange coupling
Roberto J. Guerrero and F. Rojas
[abstract]

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Geminal-based statistics for the energies of many-electron molecular systems
Adam E. Rothman and David A. Mazziotti
[abstract]

Double excitations and state-to-state transition dipoles in $\pi-\pi ^ \ast$ excited singlet states of linear polyenes: Time-dependent density-functional theory versus multiconfigurational methods
Ivan A. Mikhailov, Sergio Tafur, and Art\ " { e} m E. Masunov

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND INTERACTIONS

Two-color photoassociation spectroscopy of ytterbium atoms and the precise determinations of $s$-wave scattering lengths
Masaaki Kitagawa, Katsunari Enomoto, Kentaro Kasa, Yoshiro Takahashi, Roman Ciury{\l}o, Pascal Naidon, and Paul S. Julienne
[abstract]

Effects of nonintegrability on stabilization of Feshbach molecules in atom waveguides
V. A. Yurovsky
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ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS

Phase dependence of high-order above-threshold ionization in asymmetric molecules
Qing Liao, Peixiang Lu, Pengfei Lan, Wei Cao, and Yuhua Li
[abstract]

Controlled vibrational quenching of nuclear wave packets in D$_2^+$
Thomas Niederhausen and Uwe Thumm
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MATTER WAVES

Variational wave functions for homogeneous Bose systems
Andr\ ' { a} s S\"{u}t\H{o} and P\ ' { e} ter Sz\'{e}pfalusy
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Interference of an array of atom lasers
Giovanni Cennini, Carsten Geckeler, Gunnar Ritt, and Martin Weitz
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QUANTUM OPTICS, PHYSICS OF LASERS, NONLINEAR OPTICS, CLASSICAL OPTICS

Bright-dark solitons and their collisions in mixed $N$-coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations
M. Vijayajayanthi, T. Kanna, and M. Lakshmanan
[abstract]

Partially-time-ordered Schwinger-Keldysh loop expansion of coherent nonlinear optical susceptibilities
Shaul Mukamel

BRIEF REPORTS

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Determination of resonance parameters for the $e^{+}-$H system in Debye plasma environments using the complex-coordinate-rotation method
Sumana Chakraborty and Y. K. Ho

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

Correlations in orbital angular momentum of spatially entangled paired photons generated in parametric down-conversion
Clara I. Osorio, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, and Juan P. Torres
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