http://pra.aps.org/ Rapid Communications published in Phys. Rev. A en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-06T22:15:02-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-06T22:15:02-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050301 Author(s): Salvatore M. Giampaolo and Fabrizio Illuminati<br/>We introduce quantum spin models whose ground states allow for sizable entanglement between distant spins. We discuss how spin models with global end-to-end entanglement realize quantum teleportation channels with optimal compromise between scalability and resilience to thermal decoherence and can b...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 050301] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Salvatore M. Giampaolo and Fabrizio Illuminati 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050301 Phys. Rev. A 80, 050301 text/html article Physical Review A 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 050301 Quantum information Quantum information http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050702 Author(s): C. Beilmann, O. Postavaru, L. H. Arntzen, R. Ginzel, C. H. Keitel, V. Mäckel, P. H. Mokler, M. C. Simon, H. Tawara, I. I. Tupitsyn, J. Ullrich, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Z. Harman<br/>We report the observation of trielectronic recombination with simultaneous excitation of a K -shell and an L -shell electron, hence involving three active electrons. This process was identified in the x-ray emission spectrum of recombining highly charged Kr ions. An energy resolution three times hig...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 050702] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 C. Beilmann, O. Postavaru, L. H. Arntzen, R. Ginzel, C. H. Keitel, V. Mäckel, P. H. Mokler, M. C. Simon, H. Tawara, I. I. Tupitsyn, J. Ullrich, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Z. Harman 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050702 Phys. Rev. A 80, 050702 text/html article Physical Review A 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 050702 Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.051601 Author(s): J. A. M. Huhtamäki, T. P. Simula, M. Kobayashi, and K. Machida<br/>We propose methods to create fractional vortices in the cyclic state of an F=2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate by manipulating its internal spin structure using pulsed microwave and laser fields. The stability of such vortices is studied as a function of the rotation frequency of the confining harmo...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 051601] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 J. A. M. Huhtamäki, T. P. Simula, M. Kobayashi, and K. Machida 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.051601 Phys. Rev. A 80, 051601 text/html article Physical Review A 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 051601 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050701 Author(s): A. M. Kaufman, R. P. Anderson, Thomas M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga, P. S. Julienne, and D. S. Hall<br/>We demonstrate and theoretically analyze the dressing of several proximate Feshbach resonances in ^{87} Rb using radio-frequency (rf) radiation. We present accurate measurements and characterizations of the resonances, and the dramatic changes in scattering properties that can arise through the rf d...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 050701] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 A. M. Kaufman, R. P. Anderson, Thomas M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga, P. S. Julienne, and D. S. Hall 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.050701 Phys. Rev. A 80, 050701 text/html article Physical Review A 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 050701 Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040501 Author(s): V. A. Yerokhin<br/>The two-loop self-energy correction to the ground-state Lamb shift is calculated for hydrogenlike ions with the nuclear charge Z=10–30 without any expansion in the binding field of the nucleus. A calculational technique is reported for treatment of Feynman diagrams in the mixed coordinate-momentum...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040501] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 V. A. Yerokhin 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040501 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040501 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 040501 Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040902 Author(s): William P. Putnam and Mehmet Fatih Yanik<br/>We propose the use of interaction-free quantum measurements with electrons to eliminate sample damage in electron microscopy. This might allow noninvasive molecular-resolution imaging. We show the possibility of such measurements in the presence of experimentally measured quantum decoherence rates a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040902] Published Fri Oct 23, 2009 William P. Putnam and Mehmet Fatih Yanik 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040902 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040902 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 040902 Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041404 Author(s): C. L. Cesar, F. Robicheaux, and N. Zagury<br/>We propose a usage of microwave radiation in a magnetic trap for improving the cooling and trapping of cold antihydrogen atoms which are initially produced in high magnetic moment states. Inducing transitions toward lower magnetic moments near the turning points of the atom in the trap, followed by ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041404] Published Fri Oct 23, 2009 C. L. Cesar, F. Robicheaux, and N. Zagury 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041404 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041404 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 041404 Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041808 Author(s): Barak Alfassi, Carmel Rotschild, and Mordechai Segev<br/>We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically random-phase surface solitons in effectively instantaneous nonlinear media. The key mechanism for self-trapping is played by a nonlocal nature of the nonlinearity, in contrast to other incoherent solitons involving time averaging. These incoherent surf...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041808] Published Thu Oct 22, 2009 Barak Alfassi, Carmel Rotschild, and Mordechai Segev 2009-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041808 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041808 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 041808 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040104 Author(s): D. Maclaurin, A. D. Greentree, J. H. Cole, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and A. M. Martin<br/>We propose an experiment that would produce and measure a large Aharonov-Casher (AC) phase in a solid-state system under macroscopic motion. A diamond crystal is mounted on a spinning disk in the presence of a uniform electric field. Internal magnetic states of a single nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) defect...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040104] Published Wed Oct 21, 2009 D. Maclaurin, A. D. Greentree, J. H. Cole, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and A. M. Martin 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040104 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040104 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 040104 Fundamental concepts Fundamental concepts http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040303 Author(s): Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura<br/>A scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) with probabilistic two-qubit gates is proposed. The error thresholds for FTQC are estimated by numerical simulations, where the conditional error probability (the error probability under the condition of “success”) is taken into account in a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040303] Published Tue Oct 20, 2009 Hayato Goto and Kouichi Ichimura 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040303 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040303 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 040303 Quantum information Quantum information http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041807 Author(s): Qinghai Song, Wei Fang, Boyang Liu, Seng-Tiong Ho, Glenn S. Solomon, and Hui Cao<br/>We demonstrate a chaotic microcavity laser whose quality is comparable to typical nonchaotic microcavity lasers, yet it has the unique characteristic of unidirectional output. The cavity shape is a disk with the boundary defined by a curve called limaçon of Pascal. For a lasing mode of volume less ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041807] Published Tue Oct 20, 2009 Qinghai Song, Wei Fang, Boyang Liu, Seng-Tiong Ho, Glenn S. Solomon, and Hui Cao 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041807 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041807 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 041807 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041604 Author(s): P. Azaria, S. Capponi, and P. Lecheminant<br/>We investigate the effect of the anisotropy between the s -wave scattering lengths of a three-component atomic Fermi gas loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find four different phases which support trionic instabilities made of bound states of three fermions. These phases distinguish t...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041604] Published Mon Oct 19, 2009 P. Azaria, S. Capponi, and P. Lecheminant 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041604 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041604 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 041604 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041605 Author(s): G. L. Gattobigio, A. Couvert, M. Jeppesen, R. Mathevet, and D. Guéry-Odelin<br/>We have experimentally demonstrated a high level of control of the mode populations of guided-atom lasers (GALs) by showing that the entropies per particle of an optically GAL and the one of the trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) from which it has been produced are the same. The BEC is prepared ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041605] Published Mon Oct 19, 2009 G. L. Gattobigio, A. Couvert, M. Jeppesen, R. Mathevet, and D. Guéry-Odelin 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041605 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041605 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 041605 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041603 Author(s): F. Heidrich-Meisner, S. R. Manmana, M. Rigol, A. Muramatsu, A. E. Feiguin, and E. Dagotto<br/>Correlations between particles can lead to subtle and sometimes counterintuitive phenomena. We analyze one such case, occurring during the sudden expansion of fermions in a lattice when the initial state has a strong admixture of double occupancies. We promote the notion of quantum distillation: dur...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041603] Published Fri Oct 16, 2009 F. Heidrich-Meisner, S. R. Manmana, M. Rigol, A. Muramatsu, A. E. Feiguin, and E. Dagotto 2009-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041603 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041603 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 041603 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040901 Author(s): S. Masuda, K. Sasaki, M. Sogo, M. Aoki, and Y. Morikawa<br/>Electron emission spectra obtained by thermal collisions of He^{∗} (2 ^{1} S and 2 ^{3} S ) atoms with Au(111) and Pt(111) surfaces were measured to clarify the electronically excited atom-metal interactions. It has been recognized that the metastable atoms de-excite on ordinary noble- and transit...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040901] Published Wed Oct 14, 2009 S. Masuda, K. Sasaki, M. Sogo, M. Aoki, and Y. Morikawa 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040901 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040901 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 040901 Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041602 Author(s): Kensuke Inaba and Sei-ichiro Suga<br/>We investigate the finite-temperature properties of attractive three-component (colors) fermionic atoms in optical lattices using a self-energy functional approach. As the strength of the attractive interaction increases in the low-temperature region, we observe a second-order transition from a Ferm...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041602] Published Wed Oct 14, 2009 Kensuke Inaba and Sei-ichiro Suga 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041602 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041602 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 041602 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040103 Author(s): Jonathan Allcock, Nicolas Brunner, Marcin Pawlowski, and Valerio Scarani<br/>Recently, the principle of information causality has appeared as a good candidate for an information-theoretic principle that would single out quantum correlations among more general nonsignaling models. Here, we present results going in this direction, namely, we show that part of the boundary of q...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040103] Published Wed Oct 14, 2009 Jonathan Allcock, Nicolas Brunner, Marcin Pawlowski, and Valerio Scarani 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040103 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040103 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 040103 Fundamental concepts Fundamental concepts http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041806 Author(s): Hitoshi Odashima, Maki Tachikawa, and Kei Takehiro<br/>We experimentally demonstrate that thermal radiation from a micron-sized dielectric particle depends sensitively on its size and shape through the cavity quantum-electrodynamic effect. Our laser trapping technique levitated a high-temperature microsphere of Al_{2} O_{3} and enabled emission spectros...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041806] Published Tue Oct 13, 2009 Hitoshi Odashima, Maki Tachikawa, and Kei Takehiro 2009-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041806 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041806 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 041806 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041403 Author(s): G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk<br/>We investigate harmonic generation from H _{2} ^{+} molecules driven by intense few-cycle laser pulses whose linearly polarization axis makes an arbitrary angle χ with respect to the molecular axis. The H _{2} ^{+} molecule is considered initially in various orbitals with nodal planes. It is found ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041403] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041403 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041403 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 041403 Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040102 Author(s): Karl Svozil<br/>The noncontextuality of quantum mechanics can be directly tested by measuring two entangled particles with more than two outcomes per particle. The two associated contexts are “interlinked” by common observables.<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040102] Published Fri Oct 09, 2009 Karl Svozil 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040102 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040102 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 040102 Fundamental concepts Fundamental concepts http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041804 Author(s): Amit Mizrahi, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Fabio Bonomelli, Vitaliy Lomakin, and Yeshaiahu Fainman<br/>We introduce a fundamental property of waveguides induced by the forces of the guided light, namely, the ability to self-align or be in instability. A nanoscale waveguide broken by an offset and a gap may tend to self-align to form a continuous waveguide. Conversely, depending on the geometry and li...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041804] Published Fri Oct 09, 2009 Amit Mizrahi, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Fabio Bonomelli, Vitaliy Lomakin, and Yeshaiahu Fainman 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041804 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041804 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 041804 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041805 Author(s): Yanhong Xiao, Tun Wang, Maria Baryakhtar, Mackenzie Van Camp, Michael Crescimanno, Michael Hohensee, Liang Jiang, David F. Phillips, Mikhail D. Lukin, Susanne F. Yelin, and Ronald L. Walsworth<br/>We demonstrate and characterize two coherent phenomena that can mitigate the effects of laser phase noise for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT): a laser-power-broadening-resistant resonance in the transmitted intensity cross correlation between EIT optical fields, and a resonant suppres...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041805] Published Fri Oct 09, 2009 Yanhong Xiao, Tun Wang, Maria Baryakhtar, Mackenzie Van Camp, Michael Crescimanno, Michael Hohensee, Liang Jiang, David F. Phillips, Mikhail D. Lukin, Susanne F. Yelin, and Ronald L. Walsworth 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041805 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041805 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 041805 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040101 Author(s): Teiko Heinosaari and Juha-Pekka Pellonpää<br/>We show that the canonical phase measurement is pure in the sense that the corresponding positive operator valued measure (POVM) is extremal in the convex set of all POVMs. This means that the canonical phase measurement cannot be interpreted as a noisy measurement even if it is not a projection val...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040101] Published Thu Oct 08, 2009 Teiko Heinosaari and Juha-Pekka Pellonpää 2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040101 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040101 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00 040101 Fundamental concepts Fundamental concepts http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041803 Author(s): David J. Starling, P. Ben Dixon, Andrew N. Jordan, and John C. Howell<br/>The amplification obtained using weak values is quantified through a detailed investigation of the signal-to-noise ratio for an optical beam-deflection measurement. We show that for a given deflection, input power and beam radius, the use of interferometric weak values allows one to obtain the optim...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041803] Published Thu Oct 08, 2009 David J. Starling, P. Ben Dixon, Andrew N. Jordan, and John C. Howell 2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041803 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041803 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00 041803 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041402 Author(s): B. Moser and G. N. Gibson<br/>We report a mode of dissociative ionization in an intense two-color laser field. When bond softened by the superposition of 800 and 400 nm ultrafast laser pulses in a narrow intensity range, H _{2} ^{+} molecular ions experience ultraslow dissociation. This near-zero kinetic-energy release is suppor...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041402] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 B. Moser and G. N. Gibson 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041402 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041402 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 041402 Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041801 Author(s): Or Peleg, Yonatan Plotnik, Nimrod Moiseyev, Oren Cohen, and Mordechai Segev<br/>We present soleakon: nonlinear self-trapped leaky modes displaying particlelike features. A “soleakon” forms when a wave function induces a potential barrier, whose resonant state (leaky mode) corresponds to the wave function itself. We show that, for a proper set of parameters, soleakons are ro...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041801] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 Or Peleg, Yonatan Plotnik, Nimrod Moiseyev, Oren Cohen, and Mordechai Segev 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041801 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041801 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 041801 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041802 Author(s): A. Dantan, M. Albert, J. P. Marler, P. F. Herskind, and M. Drewsen<br/>We present an investigation of the coherent coupling of various transverse field modes of an optical cavity to ion Coulomb crystals. The obtained experimental results, which include the demonstration of identical collective coupling rates for different transverse modes of a cavity field to ions in t...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041802] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 A. Dantan, M. Albert, J. P. Marler, P. F. Herskind, and M. Drewsen 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041802 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041802 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 041802 Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040302 Author(s): Magnus Rådmark, Marcin Wieśniak, Marek Żukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane<br/>Invariant entangled states remain unchanged under simultaneous identical unitary transformations of all their subsystems. We experimentally generate and characterize such invariant two-, four-, and six-photon polarization entangled states. This is done only with a suitable filtering procedure of mul...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 040302] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 Magnus Rådmark, Marcin Wieśniak, Marek Żukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040302 Phys. Rev. A 80, 040302 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 040302 Quantum information Quantum information http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041401 Author(s): M. Zeppenfeld, M. Motsch, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe<br/>We present an optoelectrical cooling scheme for polar molecules based on a Sisyphus-type cooling cycle in suitably tailored electric trapping fields. Dissipation is provided by spontaneous vibrational decay in a closed level scheme found in symmetric-top rotors comprising six low-field-seeking rovib...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041401] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 M. Zeppenfeld, M. Motsch, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041401 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041401 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 041401 Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041601 Author(s): L. Mathey and A. Polkovnikov<br/>We study the dynamics of the relative phase of a bilayer of two-dimensional superfluids after the two superfluids have been decoupled, using truncated Wigner approximation. On short time scales the relative phase shows “light-cone”-like thermalization and creates a metastable superfluid state, w...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. A 80, 041601] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 L. Mathey and A. Polkovnikov 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041601 Phys. Rev. A 80, 041601 text/html article Physical Review A 80 4 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 041601 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules