TM PERIODICALS PHYSICALREVIEWA Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, please see inside front cover APS Subscription Services (ISSN: 2469-9926) P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 96, NUMBER 4 CONTENTS OCTOBER 2017 PARTS A AND B The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages 040301(R)–043426, and Part B pages 043601–049907(E). PART A RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Quantum information Continuous-time quantum walks on spatially correlated noisy lattices (5 pages) .............................. 040301(R) Matteo A. C. Rossi, Claudia Benedetti, Massimo Borrelli, Sabrina Maniscalco, and Matteo G. A. Paris Hardness of classically sampling the one-clean-qubit model with constant total variation distance error (4 pages) ...................................................................................... 040302(R) Tomoyuki Morimae Quantification of multidimensional entanglement stored in a crystal (6 pages) ............................... 040303(R) Alexey Tiranov, Sébastien Designolle, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Jonathan Lavoie, Nicolas Brunner, Mikael Afzelius, Marcus Huber, and Nicolas Gisin Entanglement-enhanced lidars for simultaneous range and velocity measurements (6 pages) ................... 040304(R) Quntao Zhuang, Zheshen Zhang, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics Saturation properties of helium drops from a leading-order description (5 pages) ............................. 040501(R) A. Kievsky, A. Polls, B. Juliá-Díaz, and N. K. Timofeyuk P,T -odd and magnetic hyperfine-interaction constants and excited-state lifetime for HfF+ (4 pages) ........... 040502(R) Timo Fleig Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses + Alignment-dependent population inversion in N2 in intense few-cycle laser fields (6 pages) .................. 041401(R) Huailiang Xu, Erik Lötstedt, Toshiaki Ando, Atsushi Iwasaki, and Kaoru Yamanouchi Rydberg excitation of cold atoms inside a hollow-core fiber (7 pages) ...................................... 041402(R) Maria Langbecker, Mohammad Noaman, Niels Kjærgaard, Fetah Benabid, and Patrick Windpassinger Copyright 2017 by American Physical Society (Continued) 2469-9926(201710)96:4:A;1-Y The editors and referees of PRA find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. A 88, 020001 (2013). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 96, NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 2017 Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules Observation of a modulational instability in Bose-Einstein condensates (5 pages) ............................ 041601(R) P. J. Everitt, M. A. Sooriyabandara, M. Guasoni, P. B. Wigley, C. H. Wei, G. D. McDonald, K. S. Hardman, P. Manju, J. D. Close, C. C. N. Kuhn, S. S. Szigeti, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. P. Robins Experimental signatures of an absorbing-state phase transition in an open driven many-body quantum system (6 pages) .................................................................................... 041602(R) Ricardo Gutiérrez, Cristiano Simonelli, Matteo Archimi, Francesco Castellucci, Ennio Arimondo, Donatella Ciampini, Matteo Marcuzzi, Igor Lesanovsky, and Oliver Morsch Topological properties of a dense atomic lattice gas (6 pages) ............................................. 041603(R) Robert J. Bettles, Jiríˇ Minár,ˇ Charles S. Adams, Igor Lesanovsky, and Beatriz Olmos Dimensional crossover in a strongly interacting ultracold atomic Fermi gas (6 pages) ......................... 041604(R) Umberto Toniolo, Brendan C. Mulkerin, Chris J. Vale, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu Collective many-body bounce in the breathing-mode oscillations of a Tonks-Girardeau gas (6 pages) ........... 041605(R) Y. Y. Atas, I. Bouchoule, D. M. Gangardt, and K. V. Kheruntsyan Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Quantum-limited measurement of space-time curvature with scaling beyond the conventional Heisenberg limit (6 pages) ...................................................................................... 041801(R) S. P. Kish and T. C. Ralph Non-Markovian dynamics of few emitters in a laser-driven cavity (6 pages) ................................. 041802(R) D. Pagel and H. Fehske Disorder-induced localization of excitability in an array of coupled lasers (5 pages) .......................... 041803(R) M. Lamperti and A. M. Perego Curved-space topological phases in photonic lattices (6 pages) ............................................ 041804(R) Eran Lustig, Moshe-Ishay Cohen, Rivka Bekenstein, Gal Harari, Miguel A. Bandres, and Mordechai Segev ARTICLES Fundamental concepts Oscillating potential well in the complex plane and the adiabatic theorem (12 pages) ......................... 042101 Stefano Longhi Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities (8 pages) ................... 042102 Clive Emary Asymptotic Floquet states of non-Markovian systems (6 pages) ........................................... 042103 Luca Magazzù, Sergey Denisov, and Peter Hänggi Adiabatic evolution of decoherence-free subspaces and its shortcuts (15 pages) .............................. 042104 S. L. Wu (), X. L. Huang (), H. Li (), and X. X. Yi () Exact path-integral evaluation of locally interacting systems: The subtlety of operator ordering (7 pages) ........ 042105 Nobuhiko Taniguchi (Continued) The editors and referees of PRA find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. A 88, 020001 (2013). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 96, NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 2017 Kramers-Kronig potentials for the discrete Schrödinger equation (7 pages) .................................. 042106 Stefano Longhi Probing various formulations of macrorealism for unsharp quantum measurements (10 pages) ................. 042107 Swati Kumari and A. K. Pan Localization of a magnetic moment using a two-qubit probe (13 pages) ..................................... 042108 Jan Krzywda, Łukasz Cywinski,´ and Piotr Szankowski´ Nonequilibrium quantum bounds to Landauer’s principle: Tightness and effectiveness (7 pages) ............... 042109 Steve Campbell, Giacomo Guarnieri, Mauro Paternostro, and Bassano Vacchini Supersensitive ancilla-based adaptive quantum phase estimation (7 pages) .................................. 042110 Walker Larson and Bahaa E. A. Saleh Double-time correlation functions of two quantum operations in open systems (20 pages) ..................... 042111 Masashi Ban Data processing inequality and open quantum systems: Beyond Markov states (7 pages) ...................... 042112 A. Türkmen, A. Verçin, and S. Yılmaz Deep learning and the Schrödinger equation (9 pages) .................................................... 042113 Kyle Mills, Michael Spanner, and Isaac Tamblyn Control-enhanced multiparameter quantum estimation (11 pages) .......................................... 042114 Jing Liu and Haidong Yuan Vector-magnetic-field sensing via multifrequency control of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond (11 pages) . 042115 Sayaka Kitazawa, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Soya Saijo, Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Shiro Saito, and Junko Ishi-Hayase Semiclassical construction of Green’s functions for multidimensional systems with barrier tunneling (13 pages) ................................................................................. 042116 Kenneth G. Kay Dirac electron in a chiral space-time crystal created by counterpropagating circularly polarized plane electromagnetic waves (14 pages) ..................................................................... 042117 G. N. Borzdov Role of atoms in atomic gravitational-wave detectors (8 pages) ............................................ 042118 Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R. K. Cline, and James K. Thompson Measuring molecular parity nonconservation using nuclear-magnetic-resonance spectroscopy (7 pages) ......... 042119 J. Eills, J. W. Blanchard, L. Bougas, M. G. Kozlov, A. Pines, and D. Budker Fermi problem in disordered systems (7 pages) .......................................................... 042120 G. Menezes, N. F. Svaiter, H. R. de Mello, and C. A. D. Zarro Operational quasiprobabilities for continuous variables (9 pages) .......................................... 042121 Jeongwoo Jae, Junghee Ryu, and Jinhyoung Lee Quantum information Quenched dynamics of entangled states in correlated quantum dots (7 pages) ................................ 042301 N. S. Maslova, P. I. Arseyev, and V. N. Mantsevich (Continued) The editors and referees of PRA find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. A 88, 020001 (2013). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW A THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 96, NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 2017 Error rates and resource overheads of encoded three-qubit gates (13 pages).................................. 042302 Ryuji Takagi, Theodore J. Yoder, and Isaac L. Chuang Clustering in Hilbert space of a quantum optimization problem (10 pages) .................................. 042303 S. C. Morampudi, B. Hsu, S. L. Sondhi, R. Moessner, and C. R. Laumann Second law of thermodynamics with quantum memory (6 pages) .......................................... 042304 Li-Hang Ren and Heng Fan Millimeter-wave interconnects for microwave-frequency quantum machines (13 pages) ....................... 042305 Marek Pechal and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini High-fidelity Rydberg quantum