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 99, NUMBER 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 2019 PARTS A AND B The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages 010101(R)–012712, and Part B pages 013401–019904(E). PART A RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Fundamental concepts Quantum coarse-grained entropy and thermodynamics (6 pages) ........................................... 010101(R) Dominik Šafránek, J. M. Deutsch, and Anthony Aguirre Non-Markovian dynamics revealed at a bound state in the continuum (6 pages) .............................. 010102(R) Savannah Garmon, Kenichi Noba, Gonzalo Ordonez, and Dvira Segal Modification of counterfactual communication protocols that eliminates weak particle traces (6 pages) .......... 010103(R) Yakir Aharonov and Lev Vaidman Multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering sharing with separable states (6 pages) ........................ 010104(R) Yu Xiang, Xiaolong Su, Ladislav Mišta, Jr., Gerardo Adesso, and Qiongyi He Emergent locality in systems with power-law interactions (5 pages) ........................................ 010105(R) David J. Luitz and Yevgeny Bar Lev Quantum information Passive, deterministic photonic conditional-PHASE gate via two-level systems (5 pages) ....................... 010301(R) William Konyk and Julio Gea-Banacloche Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision measurements QED calculations of the n = 2ton = 1 x-ray transition energies in middle-Z heliumlike ions (7 pages) ......... 010501(R) A. V. Malyshev, Y. S. Kozhedub, D. A. Glazov, I. I. Tupitsyn, and V. M. Shabaev Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions Efimov-enhanced Kondo effect in alkali-metal and alkaline-earth-metal atomic gas mixtures (5 pages) .......... 010701(R) Juan Yao, Hui Zhai, and Ren Zhang Atomic and molecular processes in external fields, including interactions with strong fields and short pulses 40Ca+ ion optical clock with micromotion-induced shifts below 1 × 10−18 (6 pages) ......................... 011401(R) Y. Huang, H. Guan, M. Zeng, L. Tang, and K. Gao Copyright 2019 by American Physical Society (Continued) 2469-9926(201901)99:1:A;1-Q 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 99, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2019 Coherent interference of molecular electronic states in NO by two-color femtosecond laser pulses (6 pages) . 011402(R) Wenhui Hu, Yong Liu, Sizuo Luo, Xing Li, Jiaqi Yu, Xiaokai Li, Zhigang Sun, Kai-Jun Yuan, André D. Bandrauk, and Dajun Ding Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules High-order exceptional points in ultracold Bose gases (6 pages) ........................................... 011601(R) Lei Pan, Shu Chen, and Xiaoling Cui Quantum optics, physics of lasers, nonlinear optics, classical optics Coherent metamaterial absorption of two-photon states with 40% efficiency (5 pages) ........................ 011801(R) Ashley Lyons, Dikla Oren, Thomas Roger, Vassili Savinov, João Valente, Stefano Vezzoli, Nikolay I. Zheludev, Mordechai Segev, and Daniele Faccio ARTICLES Fundamental concepts Return to the origin problem for a particle on a one-dimensional lattice with quasi-Zeno dynamics (9 pages) . 012101 Sourabh Lahiri and Abhishek Dhar Current in an open tight-binding system (7 pages) ....................................................... 012102 Shuang Xu, H. Z. Shen, and X. X. Yi Quantum coarse-grained entropy and thermalization in closed systems (38 pages) ............................ 012103 Dominik Šafránek, J. M. Deutsch, and Anthony Aguirre Thermal operations involving a single-mode bosonic bath (9 pages) ........................................ 012104 Xueyuan Hu and Feng Ding Uncertainty principle as a postquantum nonlocality witness for the continuous-variable multimode scenario (9 pages) ................................................................................... 012105 Prathik Cherian J, Amit Mukherjee, Arup Roy, Some Sankar Bhattacharya, and Manik Banik Many-body open quantum systems beyond Lindblad master equations (8 pages) ............................. 012106 Xiansong Xu, Juzar Thingna, Chu Guo, and Dario Poletti Piecewise adiabatic following: General analysis and exactly solvable models (15 pages) ...................... 012107 Jiangbin Gong () and Qing-hai Wang () Uncertainty relations for time-averaged weak values (14 pages) ........................................... 012108 Eli Pollak and Salvador Miret-Artés Resilience of realism-based nonlocality to local disturbance (8 pages) ...................................... 012109 V. S. Gomes and R. M. Angelo Nonvanishing effect of detuning errors in dynamical-decoupling-based quantum sensing experiments (10 pages) .............................................................................. 012110 J. E. Lang, T. Madhavan, J.-P. Tetienne, D. A. Broadway, L. T. Hall, T. Teraji, T. S. Monteiro, A. Stacey, and L. C. L. Hollenberg Controlling chaos in the quantum regime using adaptive measurements (9 pages) ............................ 012111 Jessica K. Eastman, Stuart S. Szigeti, Joseph J. Hope, and André R. R. Carvalho (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 99, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2019 Disentangling theorem and scattering functions for long-range coherent tunneling (11 pages) .................. 012112 Peter S. M. Townsend and Alex W. Chin Partial topological Zak phase and dynamical confinement in a non-Hermitian bipartite system (12 pages) ....... 012113 X. Z. Zhang and Z. Song Time-reversal and rotational symmetries in noncommutative phase space (6 pages) ........................... 012114 Kh. P. Gnatenko, M. I. Samar, and V. M. Tkachuk General approach to quantum mechanics as a statistical theory (13 pages) ................................... 012115 R. P. Rundle, Todd Tilma, J. H. Samson, V. M. Dwyer, R. F. Bishop, and M. J. Everitt Decoherence of quantum systems sequentially interacting with a common environment (17 pages) ............. 012116 Masashi Ban Duality of bounded and scattering wave systems with local symmetries (8 pages) ............................ 012117 I. Kiorpelidis, F. K. Diakonos, G. Theocharis, V. Pagneux, O. Richoux, P. Schmelcher, and P. A. Kalozoumis Decoherence entails exponential forgetting in systems complying with the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (7 pages) ................................................................................. 012118 Lars Knipschild and Jochen Gemmer Achieving continuously tunable critical exponents for long-range spin systems simulated with trapped ions (5 pages) ...................................................................................... 012119 Fan Yang, Shao-Jian Jiang, and Fei Zhou Crossed-laser-beam solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation (13 pages) .................................... 012120 Mihai Gavrila Relaxed Bell inequalities with arbitrary measurement dependence for each observer (23 pages) ................ 012121 Andrew S. Friedman, Alan H. Guth, Michael J. W. Hall, David I. Kaiser, and Jason Gallicchio Quantum phase transitions in the dimerized extended Bose-Hubbard model (7 pages)......................... 012122 Koudai Sugimoto, Satoshi Ejima, Florian Lange, and Holger Fehske Qubit-channel metrology with very noisy initial states (17 pages) .......................................... 012123 David Collins Quasiprobability for the arrival-time problem with links to backflow and the Leggett-Garg inequalities (12 pages) 012124 J. J. Halliwell, H. Beck, B. K. B. Lee, and S. O’Brien Quantum information Quantum analog-digital conversion (8 pages) ........................................................... 012301 Kosuke Mitarai, Masahiro Kitagawa, and Keisuke Fujii Securing quantum networking tasks with multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering (10 pages)............. 012302 Chien-Ying Huang, Neill Lambert, Che-Ming Li, Yen-Te Lu, and Franco Nori Correlation measure detecting almost all non-Markovian evolutions (12 pages) .............................. 012303 Dario De Santis, Markus Johansson, Bogna Bylicka, Nadja K. Bernardes, and Antonio Acín Entanglement criterion for multipartite systems based on quantum Fisher information (6 pages) ................ 012304 Y. Akbari-Kourbolagh and M. Azhdargalam (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 99, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2019 Quantum limit to subdiffraction incoherent optical imaging (12 pages) ..................................... 012305 Mankei Tsang Controlled teleportation of qubit states: Relation between teleportation faithfulness, controller’s authority, and tripartite entanglement (9 pages)................................................................... 012306 Artur Barasinski´ and Jiríˇ Svozilík Efficient machine-learning representations of a surface code with boundaries, defects, domain walls, and twists (15 pages) ...............................................................................