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COMMENTS

Comment on “Gain-assisted superluminal propagation and rotary drag of photon and surface plasmon polaritons” (2 pages) ...... 057801 Bruno Macke and Bernard Ségard

Reply to “Comment on ‘Gain-assisted superluminal propagation and rotary drag of photon and surface plasmon polaritons”’ (5 pages)...... 057802 Naveed Khan, Bakht Amin Bacha, Azmat Iqbal, Amin Ur Rahman, and A. Afaq

ERRATA

Erratum: Estimation of coherent error sources from stabilizer measurements [Phys. Rev. A 93, 042303 (2016)] (4 pages) ...... 059901(E) Davide Orsucci, Markus Tiersch, and Hans J. Briegel

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Phase retrieval for Bragg coherent diffraction imaging at high x-ray energies (10 pages) ...... 053838 S. Maddali, M. Allain, W. Cha, R. Harder, J.-S. Park, P. Kenesei, J. Almer, Y. Nashed, and S. O. Hruszkewycz

Aberration-free imaging of inelastic-scattering spectra with x-ray echo spectrometers (18 pages) ...... 053839 Manuel Sánchez del Río and Yuri Shvyd’ko

Generation of quadripartite unlockable bound entanglement from cascaded four-wave mixing processes (10 pages) ...... 053840 Jun Xin, Xiao-Ming Lu, Guolong Li, and Jietai Jing

Trirefringence in nonlinear magnetoelectric metamaterials revisited (8 pages) ...... 053841 V. A. De Lorenci, A. L. Ferreira Junior, and J. P. Pereira

Quantum model of decoherence in the polarization domain for the ﬁber channel (5 pages) ...... 053842 Anton Kozubov, Andrei Gaidash, and George Miroshnichenko

Figure of merit for single-photon generation based on cavity quantum electrodynamics (5 pages)...... 053843 Hayato Goto, Shota Mizukami, Yuuki Tokunaga, and Takao Aoki

Level shift and decay dynamics of a quantum emitter around a plasmonic nanostructure (10 pages) ...... 053844 Meng Tian, Yong-Gang Huang, Sha-Sha Wen, Xiao-Yun Wang, Hong Yang, Jin-Zhang Peng, and He-Ping Zhao

Spin-Orbit Coupling of Light in Photonic Crystal Waveguides (13 pages) ...... 053845 Moïse Sotto, Kapil Debnath, Isao Tomita, and Shinichi Saito

Half-cycle soliton and periodic waves of arbitrarily high amplitude in a two-level system (8 pages) ...... 053846 Hervé Leblond

Control of spontaneous emission of qubits from weak to strong coupling (11 pages) ...... 053847 Wai-Keong Mok, Jia-Bin You, Wenzu Zhang, Wan-Li Yang, and Ching Eng Png

Multisoliton hybrid generation of ﬁber lasers with anomalous dispersion (6 pages) ...... 053848 Andrey Komarov, Alexander Dmitriev, Konstantin Komarov, Yichang Meng, Georges Semaan, and François Sanchez

Quantum plasmonics of ﬁnite-size particles with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (13 pages) ...... 053849 C. H. Raymond Ooi and C. H. Kam

Manipulation and improvement of multiphoton blockade in a cavity-QED system with two cascade three-level atoms (8 pages) ...... 053850 J. Z. Lin, K. Hou, C. J. Zhu, and Y. P. Yang

Inversion-symmetry breaking in spin patterns by a weak magnetic ﬁeld (13 pages) ...... 053851 I. Krešic,´ G. R. M. Robb, G. Labeyrie, R. Kaiser, and T. Ackemann

Quantum acousto-optic control of light-matter interactions in nanophotonic networks (14 pages) ...... 053852 G. Calajó, M. J. A. Schuetz, H. Pichler, M. D. Lukin, P. Schneeweiss, J. Volz, and P. Rabl

Stabilization of an optical transition energy via nuclear Zeno dynamics in quantum-dot–cavity systems (9 pages) ...... 053853 Thomas Nutz, Petros Androvitsaneas, Andrew Young, Ruth Oulton, and Dara P. S. McCutcheon

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Uniﬁed dispersion model for the electric susceptibilities of physically realizable materials (13 pages) ...... 053822 Richard A. Shepherd, Sr.

High-gain quantum free-electron laser: Emergence and exponential gain (15 pages) ...... 053823 Peter Kling, Enno Giese, C. Moritz Carmesin, Roland Sauerbrey, and Wolfgang P. Schleich

Energy budget and optical theorem for scattering of source-induced ﬁelds (16 pages) ...... 053824 Alexander E. Moskalensky and Maxim A. Yurkin

Progress toward cryogen-free spin-photon interfaces based on nitrogen-vacancy centers and optomechanics (5 pages) ...... 053825 Roohollah Ghobadi, Stephen Wein, Hamidreza Kaviani, Paul Barclay, and Christoph Simon

Pancharatnam-Berry phase in electromagnetic double-pinhole interference (7 pages) ...... 053826 Antti Hannonen, Henri Partanen, Jani Tervo, Tero Setälä, and Ari T. Friberg

Surface transverse linear momenta accompanying the reﬂection and refraction of a paraxial light beam (20 pages) ...... 053827 V. G. Fedoseyev

Statistics of chaos in a bursting laser (9 pages) ...... 053828 Wendson A. S. Barbosa, Edison J. Rosero, Jorge R. Tredicce, and José R. Rios Leite

Classiﬁcation of dark states in multilevel dissipative systems (11 pages) ...... 053829 Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Simone Felicetti, Thorsten Hansen, Tõnu Pullerits, and Arne Keller

Satellite-mediated quantum atmospheric links (27 pages) ...... 053830 D. Vasylyev, W. Vogel, and F. Moll

Spatially entangled photon-pair generation using a partial spatially coherent pump beam (9 pages) ...... 053831 Hugo Deﬁenne and Sylvain Gigan

Analytic generalized description of a perturbative nonparaxial elegant Laguerre-Gaussian phasor for ultrashort pulses in the time domain (10 pages)...... 053832 Andrew Vikartofsky, Ethan C. Jahns, and Anthony F. Starace

Mechanically generating entangled photons from the vacuum: A microwave circuit-acoustic resonator analog of the oscillatory Unruh effect (18 pages) ...... 053833 Hui Wang (), M. P. Blencowe, C. M. Wilson, and A. J. Rimberg

Creating lattice gauge potentials in circuit QED: The bosonic Creutz ladder (10 pages) ...... 053834 Hadiseh Alaeian, Chung Wai Sandbo Chang, Mehran Vahdani Moghaddam, Christopher M. Wilson, Enrique Solano, and Enrique Rico

Ultrafast parametric process in a photonic-crystal nanocavity switch (7 pages) ...... 053835 Per Lunnemann, Yi Yu, Kristoffer Joanesarson, and Jesper Mørk

Interface states in polariton topological insulators (9 pages) ...... 053836 Yiqi Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Albert Ferrando

Carrier-mediated cavity optomechanics in a semiconductor laser (10 pages) ...... 053837 Xiang Xi, Jingwen Ma, and Xiankai Sun

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Signal-to-noise properties of correlation plenoptic imaging with chaotic light (11 pages) ...... 053808 Giovanni Scala, Milena D’Angelo, Augusto Garuccio, Saverio Pascazio, and Francesco V. Pepe

Stabilizing quantum coherence against pure dephasing in the presence of time-delayed coherent feedback at ﬁnite temperature (12 pages)...... 053809 Nikolett Német, Scott Parkins, Andreas Knorr, and Alexander Carmele

Phase sensitivity for an unbalanced interferometer without input phase-matching restrictions (10 pages)...... 053810 Anca Preda and Stefan Ataman

Excitation of surface plasmon polariton waves along the direction of periodicity of a one-dimensional photonic crystal (6 pages) ...... 053811 Muhammad Kamran and Muhammad Faryad

Photonic systems with two-dimensional landscapes of complex refractive index via time-dependent supersymmetry (25 pages) ...... 053812 A. Contreras-Astorga and V. Jakubský

Experimental investigation of linear-optics-based quantum target detection (6 pages) ...... 053813 G. H. Aguilar, M. A. de Souza, R. M. Gomes, J. Thompson, M. Gu, L. C. Céleri, and S. P. Walborn

Bloch oscillations of topological edge modes (7 pages) ...... 053814 Chunyan Li, Weifeng Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Dmitry V. Skryabin, and Fangwei Ye

Mechanical backreaction effect of the dynamical Casimir emission (17 pages) ...... 053815 Salvatore Butera and Iacopo Carusotto

Efﬁcient representation of Gaussian states for multimode non-Gaussian quantum state engineering via subtraction of arbitrary number of photons (10 pages) ...... 053816 Christos N. Gagatsos and Saikat Guha

Quantum sensing for dynamical tracking of chemical processes (5 pages) ...... 053817 Valeria Cimini, Ilaria Gianani, Ludovica Ruggiero, Tecla Gasperi, Marco Sbroscia, Emanuele Roccia, Daniela Tofani, Fabio Bruni, Maria Antonietta Ricci, and Marco Barbieri

Emergent and broken symmetries of atomic self-organization arising from Gouy phase shifts in multimode cavity QED (15 pages) ...... 053818 Yudan Guo, Varun D. Vaidya, Ronen M. Kroeze, Rhiannon A. Lunney, Benjamin L. Lev, and Jonathan Keeling

Wave breaking and formation of dispersive shock waves in a defocusing nonlinear optical material (18 pages) ...... 053819 M. Isoard, A. M. Kamchatnov, and N. Pavloff

Lasing thresholds and photon statistics in high-β buried multiple quantum well photonic crystal nanocavity lasers (16 pages) ...... 053820 N. Takemura, M. Takiguchi, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, T. Sato, K. Takeda, S. Matsuo, and M. Notomi

Electromagnetically induced transparency in inhomogeneously broadened solid media (7 pages) ...... 053821 H. Q. Fan, K. H. Kagalwala, S. V. Polyakov, A. L. Migdall, and E. A. Goldschmidt

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Fragility of the bosonic Laughlin state (6 pages) ...... 053613 A. Roussou, J. Smyrnakis, M. Magiropoulos, N. K. Efremidis, W. von Klitzing, and G. M. Kavoulakis Quantum phases and topological properties of interacting fermions in one-dimensional superlattices (17 pages) ...... 053614 L. Stenzel, A. L. C. Hayward, C. Hubig, U. Schollwöck, and F. Heidrich-Meisner From the moving piston to the dynamical Casimir effect: Explorations with shaken condensates (24 pages) ...... 053615 Marios H. Michael, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Eugene Demler Controlling excitation avalanches in driven Rydberg gases (8 pages) ...... 053616 Kai Klocke and Michael Buchhold Pair fraction in a ﬁnite-temperature Fermi gas on the BEC side of the BCS-BEC crossover (5 pages) ...... 053617 Thomas Paintner, Daniel K. Hoffmann, Manuel Jäger, Wolfgang Limmer, Wladimir Schoch, Benjamin Deissler, Michele Pini, Pierbiagio Pieri, Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati, Cheng Chin, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag Collective dynamics and atom loss in bright-soliton matter waves (8 pages) ...... 053618 Daniel Longenecker and Erich J. Mueller Nonlinear waves in an experimentally motivated ring-shaped Bose-Einstein-condensate setup (13 pages) ...... 053619 M. Haberichter, P. G. Kevrekidis, R. Carretero-González, and M. Edwards Scrambling dynamics and many-body chaos in a random dipolar spin model (7 pages) ...... 053620 Ahmet Kele¸s, Erhai Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu

Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum signatures in quadratic optomechanics (8 pages) ...... 053801 J. D. P. Machado, R. J. Slooter, and Ya. M. Blanter Terahertz control of air lasing (7 pages) ...... 053802 M. Clerici, A. Bruhács, D. Faccio, M. Peccianti, M. Spanner, A. Markov, B. E. Schmidt, T. Ozaki, F. Légaré, F. Vidal, and R. Morandotti Dueling dynamical backaction in a cryogenic optomechanical cavity (22 pages) ...... 053803 B. D. Hauer, T. J. Clark, P. H. Kim, C. Doolin, and J. P. Davis Experimental observation of a symmetry-protected bound state in the continuum in a chain of dielectric disks (10 pages) ...... 053804 Z. F. Sadrieva, M. A. Belyakov, M. A. Balezin, P. V. Kapitanova, E. A. Nenasheva, A. F. Sadreev, and A. A. Bogdanov Three-path interference of a photon and reexamination of the nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer (7 pages) . . . . 053805 QiZhang Yuan and Xunli Feng Scully-Lamb quantum laser model for parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities: Gain saturation effects and nonreciprocity (14 pages) ...... 053806 Ievgen I. Arkhipov, Adam Miranowicz, Omar Di Stefano, Roberto Stassi, Salvatore Savasta, Franco Nori, andSahin ¸ K. Özdemir Accelerating self-imaging effect for Airy pulse trains (10 pages) ...... 053807 Tianwen Han, Bing Wang, and Peixiang Lu

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Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency in a large Hilbert space (8 pages) ...... 053426 Yongmei Xue, Liping Hao, Yuechun Jiao, Xiaoxuan Han, Suying Bai, Jianming Zhao, and Georg Raithel

3+ Dynamics of three-particle fragmentation of (CO2 )2 ions produced by intense femtosecond laser ﬁelds (9 pages) ...... 053427 Pan Song, Xiaowei Wang, Congsen Meng, Wenpu Dong, Yongjun Li, Zhihui Lv, Dongwen Zhang, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

85 Rovibrational cooling of photoassociated Rb2 molecules at millikelvin temperature (7 pages) ...... 053428 Meng Wang, Bing-Kuan Lyu, Jing-Lun Li, Gao-Ren Wang, Mao-Du Chen, and Shu-Lin Cong

Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules

Finite-temperature properties of interacting bosons on a two-leg ﬂux ladder (12 pages) ...... 053601 Maximilian Buser, Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, and Ulrich Schollwöck

Symmetry breaking of quantum droplets in a dual-core trap (8 pages) ...... 053602 Bin Liu, Hua-Feng Zhang, Rong-Xuan Zhong, Xi-Liang Zhang, Xi-Zhou Qin, Chunqing Huang, Yong-Yao Li, and Boris A. Malomed

Geometric mass acquisition via a quantum metric: An effective-band-mass theorem for the helicity bands (6 pages) ...... 053603 M. Iskin

7 Rapid production of large Li Bose-Einstein condensates using D1 gray molasses (7 pages) ...... 053604 Kyungtae Kim, SeungJung Huh, Kiryang Kwon, and Jae-yoon Choi

Emergent limit cycles and time crystal dynamics in an atom-cavity system (6 pages) ...... 053605 Hans Keßler, Jayson G. Cosme, Michal Hemmerling, Ludwig Mathey, and Andreas Hemmerich

Dynamical detection of topological charges (11 pages) ...... 053606 Long Zhang, Lin Zhang, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Anomalous frequency shifts in a one-dimensional trapped Bose gas (8 pages) ...... 053607 M. Valiente and V. Pastukhov

Origin of ﬂat-band superﬂuidity on the Mielke checkerboard lattice (9 pages) ...... 053608 M. Iskin

Quench dynamics in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-orbit coupling (7 pages) ...... 053609 Sheng Liu and Yongsheng Zhang

Enhancement of the Bose glass phase in the presence of an artiﬁcial gauge ﬁeld (10 pages) ...... 053610 Sukla Pal, Rukmani Bai, Soumik Bandyopadhyay, K. Suthar, and D. Angom

Cavity-induced superconducting and 4kF charge-density-wave states (8 pages) ...... 053611 Ameneh Sheikhan and Corinna Kollath

Measurement-induced dynamics and stabilization of spinor-condensate domain walls (6 pages) ...... 053612 Hilary M. Hurst and I. B. Spielman

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Strong-ﬁeld-induced bond rearrangement in triatomic molecules (10 pages) ...... 053412 S. Zhao, Bethany Jochim, Peyman Feizollah, Jyoti Rajput, F. Ziaee, Kanaka Raju P., B. Kaderiya, K. Borne, Y. Malakar, Ben Berry, J. Harrington, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, K. D. Carnes, E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, and T. Severt

Air lasing from singly ionized N2 driven by bicircular two-color fields (5 pages) ...... 053413 Hanxiao Li, Qiying Song, Jinping Yao, Zhaoxiang Liu, Jinming Chen, Bo Xu, Kang Lin, Junjie Qiang, Boqu He, Huailiang Xu, Ya Cheng, Heping Zeng, and Jian Wu Strong-field ionization dynamics of asymmetric equilateral triatomic model molecules in circularly polarized laser fields (22 pages) ...... 053414 Matthias Paul and Stefanie Gräfe Optimal periodic control of spin systems: Application to the maximization of the signal-to-noise ratio per unit time (8 pages) ...... 053415 N. Jbili, K. Hamraoui, S. J. Glaser, J. Salomon, and D. Sugny Spatiotemporal evolution of ultrafast magnetic-field generation in molecules with intense bichromatic circularly polarized UV laser pulses (10 pages) ...... 053416 Jing Guo, Kai-Jun Yuan, Huizhong Lu, and André D Bandrauk Interactions between nonresonant rf fields and atoms with strong spin-exchange collisions (5 pages) ...... 053417 C.-P. Hao, Z.-R. Qiu, Q. Sun, Y. Zhu, and D. Sheng Signatures of self-modulation effects during pulse propagation in single-pulse absorption spectra (6 pages) ...... 053418 Yu He, Zuoye Liu, Zuwen Cui, Yuxuan Zhang, Adrian N. Pfeiffer, Thomas Pfeifer, Jingjie Ding, and Bitao Hu Direct imaging of molecular rotation with high-order-harmonic generation (8 pages) ...... 053419 Yanqing He, Lixin He, Pengfei Lan, Baoning Wang, Liang Li, Xiaosong Zhu, Wei Cao, and Peixiang Lu Quantitative investigation of the Zeeman and Paschen-Back effects of the hyperfine structure during the rubidium 2 2 5 S1/2 → 5 D5/2 two-photon transition (8 pages) ...... 053420 Masashi Abe, Ryohei Itoyama, Yuta Komiyama, Takuma Ito, Taro Mashimo, and Satoshi Tojo Design of an experimental platform for hybridization of atomic and superconducting quantum systems (7 pages) ...... 053421 Alessandro Landra, Christoph Hufnagel, Lim Chin Chean, Thomas Weigner, Yung Szen Yap, Long Hoang Nguyen, and Rainer Dumke Exit momentum and instantaneous ionization rate of nonadiabatic tunneling ionization in elliptically polarized laser fields (6 pages) ...... 053422 Siqiang Luo, Min Li, Wenhai Xie, Kun Liu, Yudi Feng, Baojie Du, Yueming Zhou, and Peixiang Lu Observation of short-lived laser-dressed quantum states in the frequency plane (8 pages) ...... 053423 M. Žitnik, A. Mihelic,ˇ K. Bucar,ˇ M. Hrast, Ž. Barba, Š. Krušic,ˇ P. Rebernik Ribic,ˇ J. Urbanciˇ c,ˇ B. Ressel, M. Stupar, L. Poletto, M. Coreno, D. Gauthier, and G. De Ninno Orientation of linear molecules in two-color laser fields with perpendicularly crossed polarizations (10 pages) . . . 053424 Je Hoi Mun, Hirofumi Sakai, and Rosario González-Férez Coherent driving versus decoherent dissipation in the double inner-shell ionization of neon atoms by attosecond pulses (11 pages) ...... 053425 Jianpeng Liu, Yongqiang Li, and Jianmin Yuan

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Radiative electron capture as a tunable source of highly linearly polarized x rays (6 pages) ...... 052702 M. Vockert, G. Weber, H. Bräuning, A. Surzhykov, C. Brandau, S. Fritzsche, S. Geyer, S. Hagmann, S. Hess, C. Kozhuharov, R. Märtin, N. Petridis, R. Hess, S. Trotsenko, Yu. A. Litvinov, J. Glorius, A. Gumberidze, M. Steck, S. Litvinov, T. Gaßner, P.-M. Hillenbrand, M. Lestinsky, F. Nolden, M. S. Sanjari, U. Popp, C. Trageser, D. F. A. Winters, U. Spillmann, T. Krings, and Th. Stöhlker Measurement of charge exchange between Na and Ca+ in a hybrid trap (9 pages) ...... 052703 J. M. Kwolek, D. S. Goodman, B. Slayton, R. Blümel, J. E. Wells, F. A. Narducci, and W. W. Smith Quantitative analysis of p-wave three-body losses via a cascade process (6 pages) ...... 052704 Muhammad Waseem, Jun Yoshida, Taketo Saito, and Takashi Mukaiyama Dissociative electron attachment in NCCN: Absolute cross sections and velocity-map imaging (8 pages) ...... 052705 Pamir Nag, Miroslav Polášek, and Juraj Fedor Wave-packet continuum-discretization approach to proton collisions with helium (13 pages) ...... 052706 Sh. U. Alladustov, I. B. Abdurakhmanov, A. S. Kadyrov, I. Bray, and K. Bartschat

Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses Rydberg-atom acceleration by tightly focused intense laser pulses (6 pages) ...... 053401 P. Cai, J. J. Zha, Y. J. Xie, Q. Wei, and P. X. Wang Robustness of topologically sensitive harmonic generation in laser-driven linear chains (7 pages)...... 053402 Helena Drüeke and Dieter Bauer Analytic description of high-order harmonic generation in the adiabatic limit with application to an initial s state in an intense bicircular laser pulse (24 pages) ...... 053403 M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Minina, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii, M. Yu. Ivanov, and Anthony F. Starace Nondipole strong-field approximation for spatially structured laser fields (11 pages) ...... 053404 Birger Böning, Willi Paufler, and Stephan Fritzsche Inclusion of Coulomb effects in laser-atom interactions (20 pages) ...... 053405 J. Dubois, S. A. Berman, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer Strong-field tunneling ionization in the relativistic regime (8 pages) ...... 053406 Xiaoyang Yu and Yunquan Liu Resonant anisotropic emission in two-photon interferometric spectroscopy (10 pages) ...... 053407 B. Ghomashi, N. Douguet, and L. Argenti Proton transfer dynamics following strong-field ionization of the water dimer (8 pages) ...... 053408 C. Zhang, J. Lu, T. Feng, and H. Rottke Interacting Langevin equation and a microscopic mechanism for kinks in trapped ions (9 pages) ...... 053409 Wei Wen, Yue-Xin Huang, Wei Wu, Baoquan Ou, Yi Xie, and Pingxing Chen Breakdown of the nonrelativistic approximation in superintense laser-matter interactions (8 pages) ...... 053410 Morten Førre Driven-dissipative quantum dynamics in ultra-long-lived dipoles in an optical cavity (13 pages) ...... 053411 Diego Barberena, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

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1 3 87 Frequency of the ultranarrow S0- P2 transition in Sr (8 pages) ...... 052503 Oleksiy Onishchenko, Sergey Pyatchenkov, Alexander Urech, Chun-Chia Chen (), Shayne Bennetts, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and Florian Schreck Functional derivative of the zero-point-energy functional from the strong-interaction limit of density-functional theory (11 pages) ...... 052504 Juri Grossi, Michael Seidl, Paola Gori-Giorgi, and Klaas J. H. Giesbertz Quantum-electrodynamic corrections to the 1s3d states of the helium atom (12 pages) ...... 052505 Albert Wienczek, Krzysztof Pachucki, Mariusz Puchalski, Vojtechˇ Patkóš, and Vladimir A. Yerokhin Apparatus to probe the influence of the Mott-Anderson metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors on the Casimir effect (13 pages) ...... 052506 Giuseppe Bimonte Casimir effect between superconductors (8 pages) ...... 052507 Giuseppe Bimonte Quantum work distributions associated with the dynamical Casimir effect (12 pages) ...... 052508 Zhaoyu Fei, Jingning Zhang, Rui Pan, Tian Qiu, and H. T. Quan Cross-section determination for one- and two-photon absorption of cobalt at hard-x-ray energies (8 pages) ...... 052509 Krzysztof Tyrała, Christopher Milne, Klaudia Wojtaszek, Anna Wach, Joanna Czapla-Masztafiak, Wojciech M. Kwiatek, Yves Kayser, and Jakub Szlachetko Rydberg states of the CdAr van der Waals complex (22 pages) ...... 052510 Marek Krosnicki,´ Andrzej K˛edziorski, Tomasz Urbanczyk,´ and Jarosław Koperski 1+ Experimental study of the 6 g state of the rubidium dimer (8 pages) ...... 052511 Phillip T. Arndt, Vladimir B. Sovkov, Jie Ma, Xinhua Pan, David S. Beecher, Jeng Y. Tsai, Yafei Guan, A. Marjatta Lyyra, and Ergin H. Ahmed Explicitly correlated wave functions of the ground state and the lowest quintuplet state of the carbon atom (7 pages) ...... 052512 Krzysztof Strasburger Semiclassical limitations for photon emission in strong external fields (13 pages) ...... 052513 E. Raicher, S. Eliezer, C. H. Keitel, and K. Z. Hatsagortsyan Electronic level structure of Th+ in the range of the 229mTh isomer energy (6 pages) ...... 052514 D.-M. Meier, J. Thielking, P. Głowacki, M. V. Okhapkin, R. A. Müller, A. Surzhykov, and E. Peik Evaluation of the P, T -odd Faraday effect in Xe and Hg atoms (9 pages) ...... 052515 D. V. Chubukov, L. V. Skripnikov, L. N. Labzowsky, V. N. Kutuzov, and S. D. Chekhovskoi

PART B

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Bremsstrahlung of 5–25-keV electron impact with Al, Cu, Ag, Te, and Au thick solid targets with no polarization contribution (8 pages) ...... 052701 Ling Li (),ZhuAn(), Jingjun Zhu (), Wenjing Tan (), Qi Sun (), and Mantian Liu ()

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Dispersive readout of a weakly coupled qubit via the parity-time-symmetric phase transition (8 pages) ...... 052341 Guo-Qiang Zhang, Yi-Pu Wang, and J. Q. You Quantum simulation of long-range XY quantum spin glass with strong area-law violation using trapped ions (8 pages) ...... 052342 Nilanjan Roy, Auditya Sharma, and Rick Mukherjee Deterministic versus probabilistic quantum information masking (4 pages) ...... 052343 Bo Li, Shu-han Jiang, Xiao-Bin Liang, Xianqing Li-Jost, Heng Fan, and Shao-Ming Fei Deterministic entanglement extraction (6 pages) ...... 052344 Luis Roa, Ariana Muñoz, Carlos Muñoz, and Andrei B. Klimov Entanglement of identical particles and coherence in the first quantization language (10 pages) ...... 052345 Seungbeom Chin and Joonsuk Huh Optimal verification and fidelity estimation of maximally entangled states (10 pages) ...... 052346 Huangjun Zhu and Masahito Hayashi Control limit on quantum state preparation under decoherence (10 pages) ...... 052347 Kohei Kobayashi and Naoki Yamamoto Bounds on entanglement catalysts (8 pages) ...... 052348 Michael Grabowecky and Gilad Gour Efficient and robust detection of multipartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like states (7 pages) ...... 052349 Qi Zhao, Gerui Wang, Xiao Yuan, and Xiongfeng Ma Statistical analysis of randomized benchmarking (7 pages) ...... 052350 Robin Harper, Ian Hincks, Chris Ferrie, Steven T. Flammia, and Joel J. Wallman Advantages of versatile neural-network decoding for topological codes (13 pages) ...... 052351 Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica, and Tomas Jochym-O’Connor Implementing positive maps with multiple copies of an input state (11 pages) ...... 052352 Qingxiuxiong Dong, Marco Túlio Quintino, Akihito Soeda, and Mio Murao Device-independent tests of quantum states (5 pages) ...... 052353 Michele Dall’Arno Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization (28 pages) ...... 052354 Katarzyna Macieszczak, Emanuele Levi, Tommaso Macrì, Igor Lesanovsky, and Juan P. Garrahan Box algorithm for the solution of differential equations on a quantum annealer (10 pages) ...... 052355 Siddhartha Srivastava and Veera Sundararaghavan

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision measurements Lower bound on the Hartree-Fock energy of the electron gas (8 pages) ...... 052501 David Gontier, Christian Hainzl, and Mathieu Lewin RaH as a potential candidate for electron electric-dipole-moment searches (5 pages) ...... 052502 N. M. Fazil, V. S. Prasannaa, K. V. P. Latha, M. Abe, and B. P. Das

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Decomposition of a symmetric multipartite observable (11 pages) ...... 052324 You Zhou, Chenghao Guo, and Xiongfeng Ma Efficient passive measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (6 pages)...... 052325 Chun-Hui Zhang, Chun-Mei Zhang, and Qin Wang Upper bounds on the quantum capacity for a general attenuator and amplifier (5 pages) ...... 052326 Youngrong Lim, Soojoon Lee, Jaewan Kim, and Kabgyun Jeong Gradient-based optimal control of open quantum systems using quantum trajectories and automatic differentiation (18 pages)...... 052327 Mohamed Abdelhafez, David I. Schuster, and Jens Koch Entanglement through qubit motion and the dynamical Casimir effect (7 pages)...... 052328 Andrés Agustí, Enrique Solano, and Carlos Sabín Framework for covert and secret key expansion over classical-quantum channels (11 pages) ...... 052329 Mehrdad Tahmasbi and Matthieu R. Bloch Near-term quantum-repeater experiments with nitrogen-vacancy centers: Overcoming the limitations of direct transmission (29 pages) ...... 052330 Filip Rozp˛edek, Raja Yehia, Kenneth Goodenough, Maximilian Ruf, Peter C. Humphreys, Ronald Hanson, Stephanie Wehner, and David Elkouss Quantum-assisted Gaussian process regression (6 pages) ...... 052331 Zhikuan Zhao, Jack K. Fitzsimons, and Joseph F. Fitzsimons Ultrafast variational simulation of nontrivial quantum states with long-range interactions (8 pages) ...... 052332 Wen Wei Ho, Cheryne Jonay, and Timothy H. Hsieh Optimal quantum subsystem codes in two dimensions (17 pages) ...... 052333 Theodore J. Yoder Structure of minimum error discrimination for linearly independent states (7 pages) ...... 052334 Tanmay Singal, Eunsang Kim, and Sibasish Ghosh Digitization of scalar fields for quantum computing (29 pages) ...... 052335 Natalie Klco and Martin J. Savage Optimal realistic attacks in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (11 pages) ...... 052336 Nedasadat Hosseinidehaj, Nathan Walk, and Timothy C. Ralph Quantifying entanglement of formation for two-mode Gaussian states: Analytical expressions for upper and lower bounds and numerical estimation of its exact value (5 pages) ...... 052337 Spyros Tserkis, Sho Onoe, and Timothy C. Ralph Upper bound on certifiable randomness from a quantum black-box device (6 pages) ...... 052338 Marie Ioannou, Jonatan Bohr Brask, and Nicolas Brunner Minimal nonorthogonal gate decomposition for qubits with limited control (15 pages) ...... 052339 Xiao-Ming Zhang, Jianan Li, Xin Wang, and Man-Hong Yung Convexity properties of superpositions of degenerate bipartite eigenstates (14 pages) ...... 052340 Natalia Giovenale, Federico M. Pont, Pablo Serra, and Omar Osenda

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Learning and inference on generative adversarial quantum circuits (8 pages) ...... 052306 Jinfeng Zeng, Yufeng Wu, Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang, and Jiangping Hu

Approximate stabilizer rank and improved weak simulation of Clifford-dominated circuits for qudits (13 pages) ...... 052307 Yifei Huang and Peter Love

Experimental linear optical computing of the matrix permanent (8 pages) ...... 052308 Yosep Kim, Kang-Hee Hong, Joonsuk Huh, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Nonadiabatic holonomic multiqubit controlled gates (6 pages) ...... 052309 P. Z. Zhao, G. F. Xu, and D. M. Tong

Quantum anomaly detection with density estimation and multivariate Gaussian distribution (6 pages) ...... 052310 Jin-Min Liang, Shu-Qian Shen, Ming Li, and Lei Li

Practical and reliable error bars for quantum process tomography (23 pages) ...... 052311 Le Phuc Thinh, Philippe Faist, Jonas Helsen, David Elkouss, and Stephanie Wehner

Phase transition in a noisy Kitaev toric code model (10 pages) ...... 052312 Mohammad Hossein Zarei and Afshin Montakhab

Experimental generation of entanglement-assisted quantum random access code (6 pages) ...... 052313 Xiao-Run Wang, Lu-Yan Wu, Chen-Xi Liu, Tong-Jun Liu, Jian Li, and Qin Wang

Photonic quantum memory using an intra-atomic frequency comb (10 pages) ...... 052314 G. P. Teja, Christoph Simon, and Sandeep K. Goyal

Communicating without shared reference frames (8 pages) ...... 052315 Alexander R. H. Smith

Local control theory for superconducting qubits (8 pages) ...... 052316 M. Mališ, P. Kl. Barkoutsos, M. Ganzhorn, S. Filipp, D. J. Egger, S. Bonella, and I. Tavernelli

Nonclassical correlations for quantum metrology in thermal equilibrium (9 pages) ...... 052318 Akira Sone, Quntao Zhuang, Changhao Li, Yi-Xiang Liu, and Paola Cappellaro

Optimal quantum subtracting machine (12 pages)...... 052319 Farzad Kianvash, Marco Fanizza, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Bound on ergotropic gap for bipartite separable states (17 pages) ...... 052320 Mir Alimuddin, Tamal Guha, and Preeti Parashar

Geometric formalism for constructing arbitrary single-qubit dynamically corrected gates (7 pages) ...... 052321 Junkai Zeng, C. H. Yang, A. S. Dzurak, and Edwin Barnes

Detection of out-of-time-order correlators and information scrambling in cold atoms: Ladder-XX model (10 pages) ...... 052322 Ceren B. Dag˘ and L.-M. Duan

Statistical correlations between locally randomized measurements: A toolbox for probing entanglement in many-body quantum states (12 pages) ...... 052323 A. Elben, B. Vermersch, C. F. Roos, and P. Zoller

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Defining a bulk-edge correspondence for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians via singular-value decomposition (10 pages) ...... 052118 Loïc Herviou, Jens H. Bardarson, and Nicolas Regnault Memory effect and non-Markovian dynamics in an open quantum system (9 pages) ...... 052119 Fujing Liu, Xingxiang Zhou, and Zheng-Wei Zhou Observing thermal Schwinger pair production (8 pages) ...... 052120 Oliver Gould, Stuart Mangles, Arttu Rajantie, Steven Rose, and Cheng Xie State-independent uncertainty relations from eigenvalue minimization (13 pages) ...... 052121 Paolo Giorda, Lorenzo Maccone, and Alberto Riccardi Güney-Hillery approach to Bell inequalities (6 pages) ...... 052122 Katarzyna Bolonek-Lason´ and Piotr Kosinski´ Robust self-testing of two-qubit states (17 pages) ...... 052123 Tim Coopmans, J˛edrzej Kaniewski, and Christian Schaffner Exotic Bohmian arrival times of spin-1/2 particles: An analytical treatment (13 pages) ...... 052124 Siddhant Das, Markus Nöth, and Detlef Dürr Conditional past-future correlation induced by non-Markovian dephasing reservoirs (11 pages) ...... 052125 Adrián A. Budini Bath engineering of a fluorescing artificial atom with a photonic crystal (8 pages) ...... 052126 P. M. Harrington, M. Naghiloo, D. Tan, and K. W. Murch Analysis of counterfactuality of counterfactual communication protocols (8 pages) ...... 052127 Lev Vaidman Enhancing the sensitivity of rotation in a multiatom Sagnac interferometer (10 pages) ...... 052128 Fei Yao, Yanming Che, Yuguo Su, Hongbin Liang, Jiancheng Pei, and Xiaoguang Wang

Quantum information Arbitrary two-particle high-dimensional Bell-state measurement by auxiliary entanglement (5 pages) ...... 052301 Hao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Xiao-Min Hu, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo Monitoring an untrusted light source with single-photon detectors in measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (8 pages) ...... 052302 Yucheng Qiao, Gan Wang, Zhengyu Li, Bingjie Xu, and Hong Guo Quantum correlations and global coherence in distributed quantum computing (13 pages) ...... 052303 Farid Shahandeh, Austin P. Lund, and Timothy C. Ralph Changing the circuit-depth complexity of measurement-based quantum computation with hypergraph states (14 pages) ...... 052304 Mariami Gachechiladze, Otfried Gühne, and Akimasa Miyake Analysis of the effects of imperfections in an optical heterodyne quantum random-number generator (10 pages) ...... 052305 Ugo Zanforlin, Ross J. Donaldson, Robert J. Collins, and Gerald S. Buller

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ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Quantum Zeno effect in a circuit-QED system (9 pages) ...... 052101 Shu He, Li-Wei Duan, Chen Wang, and Qing-Hu Chen Dynamics and thermalization in a simple mesoscopic fermionic bath (13 pages) ...... 052102 Michael Mwalaba, Ilya Sinayskiy, and Francesco Petruccione Analytically solvable 2×2 PT -symmetry dynamics from su(1,1)-symmetry problems (7 pages) ...... 052103 R. Grimaudo, A. S. M. de Castro, H. Nakazato, and A. Messina Wigner entropy production and heat transport in linear quantum lattices (10 pages) ...... 052104 William T. B. Malouf, Jader P. Santos, Luis A. Correa, Mauro Paternostro, and Gabriel T. Landi Energetic and entropic effects of bath-induced coherences (13 pages)...... 052105 C. L. Latune, I. Sinayskiy, and F. Petruccione Non-Markov enhancement of maximum power for quantum thermal machines (20 pages) ...... 052106 Paolo Abiuso and Vittorio Giovannetti Spontaneous and stimulated emissions of a preformed quantum free-electron wave function (13 pages) ...... 052107 Yiming Pan and Avraham Gover Geometric structure of quantum correlators via semidefinite programming (14 pages) ...... 052108 Le Phuc Thinh, Antonios Varvitsiotis, and Yu Cai Detecting Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering through entanglement detection (10 pages) ...... 052109 Debarshi Das, Souradeep Sasmal, and Sovik Roy S-matrix pole symmetries for non-Hermitian scattering Hamiltonians (12 pages) ...... 052110 M. A. Simón, A. Buendía, A. Kiely, Ali Mostafazadeh, and J. G. Muga Quantum collapse dynamics with attractive densities (13 pages) ...... 052111 F. Laloë Classical limit of entangled states of two angular momenta (7 pages) ...... 052112 Marek Kus,´ Jan Mostowski, and Joanna Pietraszewicz Scaling of decoherence and energy flow in interacting quantum spin systems (15 pages) ...... 052113 Davide Rossini and Ettore Vicari Monotonicity of quantumness of ensembles under commutativity-preserving channels (5 pages) ...... 052114 Nan Li, Shunlong Luo, and Hongting Song Generation of quantum states by the dynamics of spin chains: Analytical solution (8 pages) ...... 052115 Morteza Moradi and Vahid Karimipour States of charged quantum fields and their statistical properties in the presence of critical potential steps (23 pages) 052116 S. P. Gavrilov, D. M. Gitman, and A. A. Shishmarev Quantum walker as a probe for its coin parameter (10 pages) ...... 052117 Shivani Singh, C. M. Chandrashekar, and Matteo G. A. Paris

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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 99, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS MAY 2019 PARTS A AND B

The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages 050501(R)–052515, and Part B pages 052701–059901(E).

PART A

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision measurements

High-precision determination of Lorentz-symmetry-violating parameters in Ca+ (5 pages) ...... 050501(R) B. K. Sahoo

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

Electric feedback cooling of single charged nanoparticles in an optical trap (5 pages) ...... 051401(R) M. Iwasaki, T. Yotsuya, T. Naruki, Y. Matsuda, M. Yoneda, and K. Aikawa

Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules

Low-dimensional self-bound quantum Rabi-coupled bosonic droplets (6 pages)...... 051601(R) Emerson Chiquillo

Experimental realization of a long-lived striped Bose-Einstein condensate induced by momentum-space hopping (6 pages) ...... 051602(R) Thomas M. Bersano, Junpeng Hou, Sean Mossman, Vandna Gokhroo, Xi-Wang Luo, Kuei Sun, Chuanwei Zhang, and Peter Engels

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

Zero supermode-based multipartite entanglement in χ (2) nonlinear waveguide arrays (6 pages) ...... 051801(R) David Barral, Kamel Bencheikh, Nadia Belabas, and Juan Ariel Levenson

Polaritonic frequency-comb generation and breather propagation in a negative-index metamaterial with a cold four-level atomic medium (5 pages) ...... 051802(R) Saeid Asgarnezhad-Zorgabad, Pierre Berini, and Barry C. Sanders

Cavity-QED simulator of slow and fast scrambling (6 pages) ...... 051803(R) J. Marino and A. M. Rey

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