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ARTICLES

Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

•	Heats of formation of transition-metal alloys: Full-potential approach and the Pt-Ti system G. W. Fernando, R. E. Watson, and M. Weinert pp. 8233-8238 [View Page Images , PDF (982 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band gaps of diamond under anisotropic stress Michael P. Surh, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen pp. 8239-8247 [View Page Images , PDF (1494 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of a CaF2 crystal Fanqi Gan, Yong-Nian Xu, Ming-Zhu Huang, W. Y. Ching, and Joseph G. Harrison pp. 8248-8255 [View Page Images , PDF (1295 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for photoinduced absorption in charge-density-wave materials with non-half-filled bands G. Minton and J. W. Brill pp. 8256-8263 [View Page Images , PDF (1282 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Singlet and triplet excitons in conjugated polymers Shuji Abe, J. Yu, and W. P. Su pp. 8264-8271 [View Page Images , PDF (1129 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of ordered and disordered CuxPd1-x alloys via the linear-muffin-tin-orbitals method S. K. Bose, J. Kudrnovský, O. Jepsen, and O. K. Andersen pp. 8272-8282 [View Page Images , PDF (1707 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-energy-spectroscopy studies of a charge-transfer insulator: X-ray spectra of α-Fe2O3 G. Dräger, W. Czolbe, and J. A. Leiro pp. 8283-8287 [View Page Images , PDF (984 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gutzwiller projection with embedded clusters A. Barbieri, D. M. Deaven, and D. S. Rokhsar pp. 8288-8299 [View Page Images , PDF (1953 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Electronic aspects of the optical-absorption spectrum of the EL2 defect in GaAs G. A. Baraff and M. A. Schluter pp. 8300-8309 [View Page Images , PDF (1855 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical detection of EPR and electron-nuclear double resonance for substitutional MnIn-(d5) in InP:Sn H. J. Sun, R. E. Peale, and G. D. Watkins pp. 8310-8315 [View Page Images , PDF (1010 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hole burning in the resonance fluorescence of impurity centers Xinfu Xia, X. Li, D. L. Lin, and Thomas F. George pp. 8316-8320 [View Page Images , PDF (619 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculation of the electronic, structural, and dynamical properties of AlAs and CdTe Bal K. Agrawal and Savitri Agrawal pp. 8321-8327 [View Page Images , PDF (1060 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local vibrational modes of Ge-rich c-Si1-xGex alloys C. H. Grein and M. Cardona pp. 8328-8333 [View Page Images , PDF (1028 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order harmonic generation in a crystalline solid L. Plaja and L. Roso-Franco pp. 8334-8341 [View Page Images , PDF (1153 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatial measurements near the instability threshold in ultrapure Ge A. M. Kahn, D. J. Mar, and R. M. Westervelt pp. 8342-8347 [View Page Images , PDF (1133 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weizsacker correction in the Thomas-Fermi and Thomas-Fermi-Dirac models of static dielectric screening in undoped semiconductors: Impurity donor ions in silicon and germanium Leonard M. Scarfone pp. 8348-8354 [View Page Images , PDF (1274 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of diffusion mechanisms in amorphous silicon S. Coffa, J. M. Poate, D. C. Jacobson, W. Frank, and W. Gustin pp. 8355-8358 [View Page Images , PDF (710 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional hydrogenlike atoms in the presence of a magnetic field: Quasifractional approximations Pablo Martín, Jose Jesus Rodriguez-Nuñez, and Jose Luis Marquez pp. 8359-8362 [View Page Images , PDF (563 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing localization and mobility of an excess electron in a-Si by quantum molecular dynamics A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, R. K. Kalia, and L. H. Yang pp. 8363-8368 [View Page Images , PDF (1084 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rate equations for the study of femtosecond intervalley scattering in compound semiconductors C. J. Stanton and D. W. Bailey pp. 8369-8377 [View Page Images , PDF (1248 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation processes of hot holes in p-type germanium studied by picosecond infrared spectroscopy M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, and W. Kaiser pp. 8378-8387 [View Page Images , PDF (1788 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of elastic-network relaxation: The Si1-xGex random alloy Matthew R. Weidmann and Kathie E. Newman pp. 8388-8396 [View Page Images , PDF (1351 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

•	Strained α-Sn/Ge superlattices: Geometrical structures and phonon spectra Jian Zi, Kaiming Zhang, and Xide Xie pp. 8397-8403 [View Page Images , PDF (1051 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electromagnetic analogies to general-Hamiltonian effective-mass electron wave propagation in semiconductors with spatially varying effective mass and potential energy Gregory N. Henderson, Thomas K. Gaylord, and Elias N. Glytsis pp. 8404-8407 [View Page Images , PDF (689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-electron excitons and Fermi-edge singularities in wide, parabolic (Al,Ga)As quantum wells M. Fritze, W. Chen, A. V. Nurmikko, J. Jo, M. Santos, and M. Shayegan pp. 8408-8412 [View Page Images , PDF (873 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties and electronic structure of thin (Ga,In)As-AlAs multiple quantum wells and superlattices under internal and external strain fields Philippe Boring, Bernard Gil, and Karen J. Moore pp. 8413-8423 [View Page Images , PDF (1647 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laser-induced electronic processes on GaP (110) surfaces: Particle emission and ablation initiated by defects Ken Hattori, Akiko Okano, Yasuo Nakai, and Noriaki Itoh pp. 8424-8436 [View Page Images , PDF (2406 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersion of longitudinal plasmons for a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas W. H. Backes, F. M. Peeters, F. Brosens, and J. T. Devreese pp. 8437-8442 [View Page Images , PDF (916 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation and morphology of InAs/GaAs heterointerfaces O. Brandt, K. Ploog, L. Tapfer, M. Hohenstein, R. Bierwolf, and F. Phillipp pp. 8443-8453 [View Page Images , PDF (1881 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum transport and pinning of a one-dimensional Wigner crystal L. I. Glazman, I. M. Ruzin, and B. I. Shklovskii pp. 8454-8463 [View Page Images , PDF (1608 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitonic enhancement of the Fermi-edge singularity in a dense two-dimensional electron gas W. Chen, M. Fritze, W. Walecki, A. V. Nurmikko, D. Ackley, J. M. Hong, and L. L. Chang pp. 8464-8477 [View Page Images , PDF (2627 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of ionic defects at semiconductor-insulator interfaces: Spectroscopic results on CaF2/InP(001) and SrF2/InP(001) structures W. Weiss, H. D. Wiemhöfer, and W. Göpel pp. 8478-8489 [View Page Images , PDF (1889 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth of a two-dimensional Er silicide on Si(111) P. Paki, U. Kafader, P. Wetzel, C. Pirri, J. C. Peruchetti, D. Bolmont, and G. Gewinner pp. 8490-8493 [View Page Images , PDF (772 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-density-functional theory of the surface properties of electron-hole droplets in a strong magnetic field G. Vignale, P. Skudlarski, and Mark Rasolt pp. 8494-8497 [View Page Images , PDF (585 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection high-energy electron-diffraction and photoemission spectroscopy study of GaAs(001) surface modified by Se adsorption Shinichiro Takatani, Takeshi Kikawa, and Masatoshi Nakazawa pp. 8498-8505 [View Page Images , PDF (1478 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic conductance of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of periodic potentials Y. Takagaki and D. K. Ferry pp. 8506-8515 [View Page Images , PDF (1601 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density of states, electron-transport mechanisms, and chemical potentials in the presence of inelastic processes A. N. Khondker and Muhammad A. Alam pp. 8516-8525 [View Page Images , PDF (1699 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density scaling and optical properties of semiconductor parabolic and square quantum wells M. P. Stopa and S. Das Sarma pp. 8526-8534 [View Page Images , PDF (1578 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nonspectroscopic approach to the determination of the chemical potential and band-gap renormalization in quantum wells E. H. Böttcher, N. Kirstaedter, M. Grundmann, D. Bimberg, R. Zimmermann, C. Harder, and H. P. Meier pp. 8535-8541 [View Page Images , PDF (1193 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant tunneling in a resistive wire A. Kna¨bchen pp. 8542-8549 [View Page Images , PDF (1253 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics of intersubband optical excitation and photoinduced electron transfer in an asymmetric double quantum well Mark I. Stockman, Leonid S. Muratov, Lakshmi N. Pandey, and Thomas F. George pp. 8550-8561 [View Page Images , PDF (1931 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binding energy of a confined hydrogenic impurity in a semiconductor quantum well B. Sunder pp. 8562-8564 [View Page Images , PDF (523 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strain-shift coefficients for phonons in Si1-xGex epilayers on silicon D. J. Lockwood and J.-M. Baribeau pp. 8565-8571 [View Page Images , PDF (1078 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave propagation in one-dimensional disordered structures Stephen B. Haley and Paul Erdös pp. 8572-8584 [View Page Images , PDF (1842 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transmission characteristics of mesoscopic dichotomic Markov filters Zbigniew Domanski, Paul Erdös, and Stephen B. Haley pp. 8585-8597 [View Page Images , PDF (1651 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Resonant ir laser stimulation of the desorption of methanol adsorbed on Cu(110) A. Peremans, A. Dereux, F. Maseri, J. Darville, J-M. Gilles, and J-P. Vigneron pp. 8598-8609 [View Page Images , PDF (2144 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure, energetics, and molecular- to atomic-ordering transitions in hydrogen thin films J. Z. Wu, S. B. Trickey, J. R. Sabin, and J. C. Boettger pp. 8610-8622 [View Page Images , PDF (2084 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance effects in multiple light scattering from statistically rough metallic surfaces J. A. Sánchez-Gil and M. Nieto-Vesperinas pp. 8623-8633 [View Page Images , PDF (1903 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon emission stimulated by scanning tunneling microscopy in air V. Sivel, R. Coratger, F. Ajustron, and J. Beauvillain pp. 8634-8637 [View Page Images , PDF (870 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coverage dependence of adsorption-site geometry in the Cs/Ru(0001) system: A low-energy electron-diffraction analysis H. Over, H. Bludau, M. Skottke-Klein, G. Ertl, W. Moritz, and C. T. Campbell pp. 8638-8649 [View Page Images , PDF (2115 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic scaling in polycrystalline growth J. M. Thijssen, H. J. Knops, and A. J. Dammers pp. 8650-8656 [View Page Images , PDF (1029 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge exchange in many-body time-dependent processes E. C. Goldberg and F. Flores pp. 8657-8664 [View Page Images , PDF (998 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiharmonic generation in the high-frequency limit at a metal surface Aparajita Misra and Joel I. Gersten pp. 8665-8670 [View Page Images , PDF (620 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equilibrium geometry and electronic structure of the low-temperature W(001) surface Rici Yu, H. Krakauer, and D. Singh pp. 8671-8678 [View Page Images , PDF (1529 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronically stimulated adsorbate dissociation in the presence of an electronegative coadsorbate: (NO2+O) on Pt(111) T. M. Orlando, A. R. Burns, D. R. Jennison, and E. B. Stechel pp. 8679-8688 [View Page Images , PDF (1915 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductivity and magnetoresistance of magnetic multilayered structures S. Zhang, P. M. Levy, and A. Fert pp. 8689-8702 [View Page Images , PDF (2049 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk and surface singularity indices in the alkali metals G. K. Wertheim, D. M. Riffe, and P. H. Citrin pp. 8703-8708 [View Page Images , PDF (1120 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inverse-photoemission study of the Pd(001) surface S. C. Wu, D. M. Poirier, M. B. Jost, and J. H. Weaver pp. 8709-8713 [View Page Images , PDF (751 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roughening and melting of Au(110) surfaces A. Hoss, M. Nold, P. von Blanckenhagen, and O. Meyer pp. 8714-8720 [View Page Images , PDF (1155 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport of physisorbed Xe atoms on Ni(110) using a scanning tunneling microscope: A theoretical approach J. R. Cerdá, P. L. de Andres, F. Flores, and R. Perez pp. 8721-8729 [View Page Images , PDF (1535 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

•	Correlation energy of a spin-polarized electron gas at high density Gary G. Hoffman pp. 8730-8733 [View Page Images , PDF (335 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple thermodynamic model for the specific heat of the fluorite crystals PbF2, CaF2, and SrCl2 Yves Bouteiller pp. 8734-8737 [View Page Images , PDF (475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	First-principles calculation of nonlinear optical susceptibilities in GaAs Ming-Zhu Huang and W. Y. Ching pp. 8738-8741 [View Page Images , PDF (708 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magneto-optical interband absorption in diluted magnetic Pb1-xMnxSe W. Hofmann, U. Fichtel, H. Pascher, N. Frank, and G. Bauer pp. 8742-8745 [View Page Images , PDF (492 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-temperature magnetic susceptibility of Cd1-xFexTe diluted magnetic semiconductors M. Arciszewska, A. Mycielski, C. Testelin, C. Rigaux, and A. Mauger pp. 8746-8748 [View Page Images , PDF (368 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

•	Tunneling spectroscopy of energy levels in wide quantum wells in tilted magnetic fields C. Kutter, V. Chitta, J. C. Maan, V. I. Fal’ko, M. L. Leadbeater, M. Henini, and L. Eaves pp. 8749-8751 [View Page Images , PDF (492 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of poly(dihexylgermane): A comparison with poly(dihexylsilane) H. Tachibana, Y. Kawabata, A. Yamaguchi, Y. Moritomo, S. Koshihara, and Y. Tokura pp. 8752-8755 [View Page Images , PDF (628 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic basis for a sum rule for polar-optical-phonon scattering of carriers in heterostructures Leonard F. Register pp. 8756-8759 [View Page Images , PDF (547 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hole-bound-state calculation for semiconductor quantum wells Z. Ikonic´ and V. Milanovic´ pp. 8760-8762 [View Page Images , PDF (330 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-induced coupling of the edge and bulk channels in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterostructures P. Svoboda, P. Středa, G. Nachtwei, A. Jaeger, M. Cukr, and M. Láznička pp. 8763-8766 [View Page Images , PDF (738 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Multilayer adsorption isotherm study of Ar films on boron nitride M. T. Alkhafaji and A. D. Migone pp. 8767-8770 [View Page Images , PDF (542 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wake-potential formation in a thin foil F. J. Garci´a de Abajo and P. M. Echenique pp. 8771-8774 [View Page Images , PDF (440 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determining ab initio interfacial energetics T. Hong, J. R. Smith, D. J. Srolovitz, J. G. Gay, and R. Richter pp. 8775-8778 [View Page Images , PDF (675 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation effects in ideal metals T. L. Ainsworth and E. Krotscheck pp. 8779-8781 [View Page Images , PDF (462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Radiative recombination processes of the many-body states in multiple quantum wells’’ H. Hillmer, S. Hansmann, and A. Forchel pp. 8782-8784 [View Page Images , PDF (293 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Radiative recombination processes of the many-body states in multiple quantum wells’ ’’ R. Cingolani, K. Ploog, C. Moro, and M. Ferrara pp. 8785-8786 [View Page Images , PDF (188 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

Monte Carlo diagonalization of many-body problems: Application to fermion systems Hans De Raedt and Wolfgang von der Linden pp. 8787-8790 [View Page Images , PDF (603 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonclassical transport in a fluctuating gauge field Giuliano Gavazzi and Joseph Wheatley pp. 8791-8794 [View Page Images , PDF (472 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear conduction in the spin-density-wave ground state O. Traetteberg, G. Kriza, and G. Miha´ly pp. 8795-8798 [View Page Images , PDF (638 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal-stress-induced averaging of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in submicrometer Au loops A. H. Verbruggen, H. Vloeberghs, P. A. Holweg, C. Van Haesendonck, S. Radelaar, and Y. Bruynseraede pp. 8799-8802 [View Page Images , PDF (696 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Diffusion and electronic states of hydrogen in n-type GaAs and n-type Ga1-xAlxAs J. Chevallier, B. Machayekhi, C. M. Grattepain, R. Rahbi, and B. Theys pp. 8803-8806 [View Page Images , PDF (659 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-photon resonant hyper-Raman scattering by optic phonons due to the 2P exciton of ZnSe Kuon Inoue, Kouji Yoshida, Fujio Minami, and Yukio Kato pp. 8807-8810 [View Page Images , PDF (551 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Unoccupied d states of Au impurities in silicon as studied by x-ray-absorption spectroscopy Z. H. Lu, T. K. Sham, M. Vos, A. Bzowski, I. V. Mitchell, and P. R. Norton pp. 8811-8814 [View Page Images , PDF (611 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Infrared absorption by deep levels in low-temperature electron-irradiated GaAs A. Pillukat and P. Ehrhart