CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2008 Reply to “Comment on ‘Precision measurement of the Casimir-Lifshitz force in a fluid’ ” (4 pages) ........ 036103 J. N. Munday and Federico Capasso ERRATA Erratum: Local copying and local discrimination as a study for nonlocality of a set of states ͓Phys. Rev. A 74, 032108 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...................................................................... 039901͑E͒ Masaki Owari and Masahito Hayashi Publisher’s Note: Effective theory for trapped few-fermion systems ͓Phys. Rev. A 76, 063613 ͑2007͔͒ (1 page) ................................................................................... 039902͑E͒ I. Stetcu, B. R. Barrett, U. van Kolck, and J. P. Vary Erratum: Lower bounds on concurrence and separability conditions ͓Phys. Rev. A 75, 052320 ͑2007͔͒ (1 page) ................................................................................... 039903͑E͒ Julio I. de Vicente Erratum: Tunneling of a diatomic molecule incident upon a potential barrier ͓Phys. Rev. A 71, 032719 ͑2005͔͒ (1 page) ................................................................................... 039904͑E͒ Glen L. Goodvin and Mark R. A. Shegelski Publisher’s Note: Observation of optomechanical multistability in a high-Q torsion balance oscillator ͓Phys. Rev. A 77, 031802͑R͒͑2008͔͒ (1 page) .......................................................... 039905͑E͒ F. Mueller, S. Heugel, and L. J. Wang Publisher’s Note: Dissipation control in cavity QED with oscillating mode structures ͓Phys. Rev. A 77, 033831 ͑2008͔͒ (1 page) ...................................................................... 039906͑E͒ I. E. Linington and B. M. Garraway Erratum: Quantum phase gate and controlled entanglement with polar molecules ͓Phys. Rev. A 75, 033414 ͑2007͔͒ (2 pages) ............................................................................ 039907͑E͒ Eric Charron, Pérola Milman, Arne Keller, and Osman Atabek Erratum: Quantum liquid of repulsively bound pairs of particles in a lattice ͓Phys. Rev. A 76, 033606 ͑2007͔͒ (1 page) ................................................................................... 039908͑E͒ David Petrosyan, Bernd Schmidt, James R. Anglin, and Michael Fleischhauer CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2008 Ground state of octahedral platinum hexafluoride (4 pages) .......................................... 034502 Luis Alvarez-Thon, J. David, Ramiro Arratia-Pérez, and Konrad Seppelt Recurrence spectroscopy of potassium near ionization using laser diodes (4 pages) ...................... 034503 M. L. Keeler Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions + Dissociative recombination of D2H : Comparison between recent storage-ring results and theoretical calculations (4 pages) ........................................................................ 034701 V. Zhaunerchyk, R. D. Thomas, W. D. Geppert, M. Hamberg, M. Kaminska, E. Vigren, and M. Larsson Photoionization and recombination of a hydrogen atom in a magnetic field (4 pages) ..................... 034702 O. Chuluunbaatar, A. A. Gusev, S. I. Vinitsky, V. L. Derbov, L. A. Melnikov, and V. V. Serov Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses B-spline algorithm for magnetized multielectron atomic structures (4 pages) ............................ 035401 L. B. Zhao and P. C. Stancil Matter waves Effects of axial vorticity in elongated mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates (4 pages) ................... 035601 L. Salasnich, B. A. Malomed, and F. Toigo Solitons and vortices in an evolving Bose-Einstein condensate (4 pages) ............................... 035602 Shi-Jie Yang, Quan-Sheng Wu, Shiping Feng, Yu-Chuan Wen, and Yue Yu Spatially entangled atomic deflections in twin-photon light beams (4 pages) ............................ 035603 Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan, Mihai Macovei, and Christoph H. Keitel Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Collisions of three-wave solitons in media with competing quadratic and cubic nonlinearities (4 pages) ...... 035801 Roei Grinfeld and Boris A. Malomed Quantum bouncing ball on a lattice: An optical realization (4 pages) .................................. 035802 Stefano Longhi Wavelength dependence of light diffusion in strongly scattering macroporous gallium phosphide (4 pages) ................................................................................... 035803 W. H. Peeters, I. M. Vellekoop, A. P. Mosk, and A. Lagendijk Supercontinuum generation in irregularly microstructured elliptic core fibers (4 pages) ................... 035804 Hyoung-Gyu Choi, Chul-Sik Kee, Jae Hee Sung, Tae Jun Yu, Do-Kyeong Ko, Jongmin Lee, Hae Yong Park, and Jae-Eun Kim COMMENTS Comment on “Relativistic Aharonov-Bohm effect in the presence of planar Coulomb potentials” (2 pages) ................................................................................... 036101 C. R. Hagen Comment on “Precision measurement of the Casimir-Lifshitz force in a fluid” (3 pages) .................. 036102 B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2008 Matrix approach for light scattering from a multilayered rotationally symmetric bianisotropic sphere (11 pages) .................................................................................. 033849 Andrey Novitsky and Leonid Barkovsky Photon-photon correlations as a probe of vacuum-induced coherence effects (7 pages) .................... 033850 Sumanta Das and G. S. Agarwal Quantum enhancement in laser-assisted photoionization and a method for the measurement of an attosecond xuv pulse (16 pages) ......................................................................... 033851 Yucheng Ge Arbitrary control of multiple-qubit systems in the symmetric Dicke subspace (4 pages) ................... 033852 Shi-Biao Zheng Quantum light depolarization: The phase-space perspective (6 pages) .................................. 033853 A. B. Klimov, J. L. Romero, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, A. Messina, and A. Napoli Slow light with a doublet structure: Underlying physical processes and basic limitations (9 pages) .......... 033854 R. N. Shakhmuratov and J. Odeurs BRIEF REPORTS Fundamental concepts Quantum operation time reversal (4 pages) ....................................................... 034101 Gavin E. Crooks SO͑4͒ symmetry in the relativistic hydrogen atom (4 pages) ......................................... 034102 Jing-Ling Chen, Dong-Ling Deng, and Ming-Guang Hu Quantum information Analytic results on long-distance entanglement mediated by gapped spin chains (4 pages) ................. 034301 Aires Ferreira and J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos Realization of universal quantum cloning with superconducting quantum-interference device qubits in a cavity (4 pages) ................................................................................... 034302 Jian Yang, Ya-Fei Yu, Zhi-Ming Zhang, and Song-Hao Liu Density-matrix renormalization-group study of entanglement and entropy in an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chain with domain walls (4 pages) .......................................................... 034303 Jie Ren and Shiqun Zhu Local and nonlocal cloning of coherent states with known phases using linear optics (4 pages) ............. 034304 Yu-Li Dong, Xu-Bo Zou, and Guang-Can Guo Running key mapping in a quantum stream cipher by the Yuen 2000 protocol (4 pages) .................. 034305 Tetsuya Shimizu, Osamu Hirota, and Yuki Nagasako Programmable discriminator of coherent states: Experimental realization (4 pages) ....................... 034306 Lucie Bartůšková, Antonín Černoch, Jan Soubusta, and Miloslav Dušek Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics Asymptotic form at large r of a third-order linear homogeneous differential equation for the ground-state electron density of the He atom (2 pages) ........................................................ 034501 N. H. March, Á. Nagy, and C. Amovilli (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2008 Nonrelativistic limit in the 2+1 Dirac oscillator: A Ramsey-interferometry effect (9 pages) ................ 033832 A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, and A. Luis Manipulation of the Raman process via incoherent pump, tunable intensity, and phase control (9 pages) ..... 033833 Li-Gang Wang, Sajid Qamar, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy Families of vortex solitons in periodic media (9 pages) ............................................. 033834 Jiandong Wang and Jianke Yang Spatially dependent spontaneous emission and Rabi oscillations of atoms in an open cavity with nonorthogonal eigenmodes (5 pages) ............................................................ 033835 Yuh-Jen Cheng Pump-probe spectroscopy in degenerate two-level atoms with arbitrarily strong fields (11 pages) ........... 033836 T. Zigdon, A. D. Wilson-Gordon, and H. Friedmann Maintained reducibility and optical vortex dynamics in polynomial Gaussian beams (8 pages) ............. 033837 Filippus S. Roux Ultraslow bright and dark solitons in semiconductor quantum wells (7 pages) ........................... 033838 Wen-Xing Yang, Jing-Min Hou, and Ray-Kuang Lee Monitoring atom-atom entanglement and decoherence in a solvable tripartite open system in cavity QED (12 pages) .................................................................................. 033839 Matteo Bina, Federico