The European Physical Journal D

Radiative lifetimes along even-parity J = 1, 2 Rydberg series of neutral tin p. 1

Visible superfluorescence from optically pumped europium atoms p. 9

Soft X-ray laser emission from W ⁴⁶⁺ p. 17

Elastic scattering of 59.54-keV γ-rays in elements with 22 ≤ Z ≤ 92 at momentum transfer 0.4 ≤ x ≤ 4.7 Å^-1 p. 23

QED corrections for the valence electron in the heavy and superheavy metal atoms from the 11 and 12 groups p. 35

Electron–electron interaction effects in heliumlike atoms confined in finite external square-well potential p. 43

Efficient atomization of cesium metal in solid helium by low energy (10 μJ) femtosecond pulses p. 53

Theoretical studies on dielectronic recombination of neonlike gold and its effects on plasma ionization balance and radiation energy p. 57

Systematics of perturbative semiclassical quantum defect expansions probed by RKR-QDT and a Fisher-information-based criterion p. 67

On the suitability of the ILJ function to match different formulations of the electrostatic potential for water-water interactions p. 75

Structure and stability of AgXe _n ^Z (–3, , 0, +1) clusters. Theoretical insights p. 87

Double ionization of Sc⁺ ions by electron impact p. 93

Dynamics of coupled ultraslow optical solitons in a coherent four-state double-Λ system p. 99

A DFT study on small M-doped titanium (M = V, Fe, Ni) clusters: structures, chemical bonds and magnetic properties p. 111

Mass spectrometric studies of laser ablated plume from a superconducting material p. 121

MHD waves and instabilities in flowing solar flux-tube plasmas in the framework of Hall magnetohydrodynamics p. 127

Numerical analysis of the irradiation uniformity of a directly driven inertial confinement fusion capsule p. 139

Dynamically compressed bright and dark solitons in highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates p. 147

Non-Bragg bandgaps of quasi-one-dimensional comb-like structures composed of positive and negative index materials p. 155

Slow vector optical solitons in a cold four-level inverted-Y atomic system p. 161

Squeezing molecular matter waves with a squeezed associating light p. 167

Non-Markovian effects on entanglement dynamics in lossy cavities p. 173

Non-Markovian weak coupling limit of quantum Brownian motion p. 181

Splitting four ensembles of two-qubit quantum information via three Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs p. 189

Entanglement witnesses and characterizing entanglement properties of some PPT states p. 197

Generation of Ising interaction and cluster states in a one-dimensional coupled resonator waveguide p. 205

Quantum-state transfer on spin-chain channels with random imperfections p. 211

Quantum computation in a decoherence-free subspace with superconducting devices p. 223

Quantum entanglement in an interacting electron gas p. 229

Multipartite entanglement purification with quantum nondemolition detectors p. 235

Method to eliminate the damage aroused by intrinsic prepulse of Blumlein transmission line in capillary discharge soft X-ray laser system p. 243