• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems
  • Semiconductors I: bulk
  • Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics
  • Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics
• ARTICLES
  • Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems
  • Semiconductors I: bulk
  • Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics
  • Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics
• ERRATA

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Optical constants of lithium triborate crystals in the 55–71 eV region Tian-Jie Chen, R. N. Zitter, R. Tao, W. R. Hunter, and J. C. Rife pp. 13703-13706 [View Page Images , PDF (649 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact criterion for choosing the hopping operator in the four-slave-boson approach E. Arrigoni and G. C. Strinati pp. 13707-13710 [View Page Images , PDF (676 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spectral weight transfer and mass renormalization in Mott-Hubbard systems SrVO3 and CaVO3: Influence of long-range Coulomb interaction K. Morikawa, T. Mizokawa, K. Kobayashi, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, F. Iga, and Y. Nishihara pp. 13711-13714 [View Page Images , PDF (754 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band reconstructions of KxC60 caused by the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect A. A. Remova, V. P. Shpakov, U-Hyon Paek, and V. R. Belosludov pp. 13715-13717 [View Page Images , PDF (471 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical orbitals of the self-interaction-corrected local-spin-density approximation in doped systems Shoji Kobayashi, Masao Arai, and Takeo Fujiwara pp. 13718-13721 [View Page Images , PDF (599 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact diagonalization study of the two-dimensional t-J-Holstein model A. Dobry, A. Greco, S. Koval, and J. Riera pp. 13722-13725 [View Page Images , PDF (683 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Bandlike and localized states at extended defects in silicon W. Schröter, J. Kronewitz, U. Gnauert, F. Riedel, and M. Seibt pp. 13726-13729 [View Page Images , PDF (624 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Polaron-pair binding due to interchain coupling in conjugated polymers Z. Shuai and J. L. Brédas pp. 13730-13733 [View Page Images , PDF (587 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic properties of (111) twin boundaries and twinning superlattices in lead sulfide Z. Ikonic, G. P. Srivastava, and J. C. Inkson pp. 13734-13737 [View Page Images , PDF (655 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of deformation-potential electron–acoustic-phonon coupling in Si δ-doped GaAs structures P. Hawker, N. Hauser, G. Li, C. Jagadish, and M. R. Melloch pp. 13738-13741 [View Page Images , PDF (590 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laughlin wave function and one-dimensional free fermions Prasanta K. Panigrahi and M. Sivakumar pp. 13742-13744 [View Page Images , PDF (453 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reconstruction-dependent orientation of Ag(111) films on Si(001) S. Fölsch, G. Meyer, D. Winau, K. H. Rieder, M. Horn-von Hoegen, T. Schmidt, and M. Henzler pp. 13745-13748 [View Page Images , PDF (1139 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experiments on inelastic scattering in the integer quantum Hall effect Edmond Chow and H. P. Wei pp. 13749-13752 [View Page Images , PDF (716 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic nature of the symmetric dimer model of Si(001)-(2×1) Michael Rohlfing, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann pp. 13753-13756 [View Page Images , PDF (815 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation effects in a quantum dot at high magnetic fields Kang-Hun Ahn, J. H. Oh, and K. J. Chang pp. 13757-13760 [View Page Images , PDF (625 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-oscillations of domains in doped GaAs-AlAs superlattices J. Kastrup, R. Klann, H. T. Grahn, K. Ploog, L. L. Bonilla, J. Galán, M. Kindelan, M. Moscoso, and R. Merlin pp. 13761-13764 [View Page Images , PDF (753 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic light scattering from a modulated two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic fields H. L. Cui, V. Fessatidis, and P. Vasilopoulos pp. 13765-13768 [View Page Images , PDF (649 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional periods of persistent currents in frustrated systems M. Y. Choi and J. Yi pp. 13769-13772 [View Page Images , PDF (682 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prediction of sawtooth oscillations in an electron Y-branch switch Thomas Palm pp. 13773-13775 [View Page Images , PDF (584 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hartree contribution to the band-gap renormalization in semiconductor microstructures Stephan Glutsch, Nguyen Trung Dan, and Friedhelm Bechstedt pp. 13776-13779 [View Page Images , PDF (611 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Composite-fermion analysis of the double-layer fractional quantum Hall system T. Nakajima and H. Aoki pp. 13780-13783 [View Page Images , PDF (707 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic states of digital versus analog graded quantum wells S. Vlaev, F. García-Moliner, and V. R. Velasco pp. 13784-13787 [View Page Images , PDF (746 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing growth-related disorder by high-field transport in semiconductor superlattices A. Wacker, G. Schwarz, F. Prengel, E. Schöll, J. Kastrup, and H. T. Grahn pp. 13788-13791 [View Page Images , PDF (828 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective-field approach to the Gaussian random-matrix model A. Bulatov, D. Schmeltzer, and Joseph L. Birman pp. 13792-13795 [View Page Images , PDF (602 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Thermovoltage across a vacuum barrier investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy: Imaging of standing electron waves D. Hoffmann, J. Y. Grand, R. Möller, A. Rettenberger, and K. Läuger pp. 13796-13798 [View Page Images , PDF (770 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range magnetic order in FeN and NiN clusters G. M. Pastor and J. Dorantes-Dávila pp. 13799-13800 [View Page Images , PDF (366 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Step barrier for interlayer diffusion in Fe/Fe(100) epitaxial growth Jacques G. Amar and Fereydoon Family pp. 13801-13804 [View Page Images , PDF (993 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possibility of a ferromagnetic Rh(001) surface: A plane-wave-basis partial-core pseudopotential approach Jun-Hyung Cho and Myung-Ho Kang pp. 13805-13807 [View Page Images , PDF (532 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	3d and 4d x-ray-photoelectron spectra of Pr under gradual oxidation S. Lütkehoff, M. Neumann, and A. Ślebarski pp. 13808-13811 [View Page Images , PDF (525 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Divalent scandium atoms in the cage of C84 T. Takahashi, A. Ito, M. Inakuma, and H. Shinohara pp. 13812-13814 [View Page Images , PDF (549 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Multiple-scattering calculations of the uranium L3-edge x-ray-absorption near-edge structure E. A. Hudson, J. J. Rehr, and J. J. Bucher pp. 13815-13826 [View Page Images , PDF (2189 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray-absorption problem in metals within the one-electron approximation V. M. Adamjan, J. Ortner, A. G. Salistra, and I. M. Tkachenko pp. 13827-13837 [View Page Images , PDF (1305 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of charge transfer to the conduction band within a single-impurity model on the Ni 2p core-level line shapes of Ni compounds A. E. Bocquet, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, M. Matoba, and S. Anzai pp. 13838-13849 [View Page Images , PDF (2063 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-density-wave phase slip and contact effects in NbSe3 M. P. Maher, T. L. Adelman, D. A. DiCarlo, J. P. McCarten, and R. E. Thorne pp. 13850-13864 [View Page Images , PDF (2782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of PrNiO3 studied by photoemission and x-ray-absorption spectroscopy: Band gap and orbital ordering T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, N. Mōri, and J. Akimitsu pp. 13865-13873 [View Page Images , PDF (1619 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of electronic correlation on the shape of a large bipolaron: Four-lobed planar large bipolaron in an ionic medium David Emin pp. 13874-13882 [View Page Images , PDF (1405 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadratic response theory of the energy loss of charged particles in an electron gas J. M. Pitarke, R. H. Ritchie, and P. M. Echenique pp. 13883-13902 [View Page Images , PDF (2324 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral correlations from the metal to the mobility edge D. Braun and G. Montambaux pp. 13903-13909 [View Page Images , PDF (1159 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetric Hubbard chain at half-filling Gábor Fáth, Zbigniew Domański, and Romuald Lemański pp. 13910-13915 [View Page Images , PDF (1093 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance of multiply connected Al samples N. Gauss, A. Neumann, A. G. Jansen, and G. J. Bruls pp. 13916-13921 [View Page Images , PDF (955 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anderson-Mott transition as a quantum-glass problem D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick pp. 13922-13935 [View Page Images , PDF (2831 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Nonlinear transport in photoexcited plasma in semiconductors: Non-Ohmic mobility and a generalized Einstein relation A. R. Vasconcellos, A. C. Algarte, and R. Luzzi pp. 13936-13945 [View Page Images , PDF (1581 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen diffusion in a-Si:H: Solution of the tracer equations including capture by exchange Mathieu Kemp and Howard M. Branz pp. 13946-13954 [View Page Images , PDF (1527 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the line shape of one-phonon replicas in polar semiconductors having direct forbidden band gaps A. Amtout pp. 13955-13964 [View Page Images , PDF (1243 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of a strain-inducing defect in CdTe by magnetoluminescence spectroscopy L. Worschech, W. Ossau, and G. Landwehr pp. 13965-13974 [View Page Images , PDF (1858 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	d-band excitations in II-VI semiconductors: A broken-symmetry approach to the core hole S. B. Zhang, S.-H. Wei, and Alex Zunger pp. 13975-13982 [View Page Images , PDF (1468 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution study of the magnetic-field effect on the 4E state of Mn2+ in cubic ZnS by laser spectroscopy R. Parrot, D. Boulanger, B. Litzenburger, U. W. Pohl, H. E. Gumlich, and M. N. Diarra pp. 13983-13991 [View Page Images , PDF (1539 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of ordering on the electron effective mass and strain deformation potential in GaInP2: Deficiencies of the k⋅p model Alberto Franceschetti, Su-Huai Wei, and Alex Zunger pp. 13992-13997 [View Page Images , PDF (1103 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic motions in an unusual molecular semiconductor: NaSn Ronald Dean Stoddard, Mark S. Conradi, A. F. McDowell, Marie-Louise Saboungi, and David Long Price pp. 13998-14005 [View Page Images , PDF (1464 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of femtosecond photon-echo decay in semiconductors S. V. Gantsevich, V. L. Gurevich, M. I. Muradov, and D. A. Parshin pp. 14006-14017 [View Page Images , PDF (1705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preparation of a-GeOx:H alloys: Vibrational, optical, and structural properties M. Zacharias and J. Bläsing pp. 14018-14024 [View Page Images , PDF (1104 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	In-plane dispersion relations of InAs/AlSb/GaSb/AlSb/InAs interband resonant-tunneling diodes J. Genoe, K. Fobelets, C. Van Hoof, and G. Borghs pp. 14025-14034 [View Page Images , PDF (1462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface crystal field at the Er/Si(111) interface studied by soft-x-ray linear dichroism P. Castrucci, F. Yubero, F. C. Vicentin, J. Vogel, and M. Sacchi pp. 14035-14039 [View Page Images , PDF (907 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiepitaxial growth of the organic molecular semiconductor 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride Y. Hirose, S. R. Forrest, and A. Kahn pp. 14040-14047 [View Page Images , PDF (1667 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering interference of energetic electrons along atomic chains: The effect of the atomic environment S. Valeri, G. C. Gazzadi, and A. di Bona pp. 14048-14057 [View Page Images , PDF (1765 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Radiative states in type-II GaSb/GaAs quantum wells N. N. Ledentsov, J. Böhrer, M. Beer, F. Heinrichsdorff, M. Grundmann, D. Bimberg, S. V. Ivanov, B. Ya. Meltser, S. V. Shaposhnikov, I. N. Yassievich, N. N. Faleev, P. S. Kop’ev, and Zh. I. Alferov pp. 14058-14066 [View Page Images , PDF (1601 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge states, Aharonov-Bohm oscillations, and thermodynamic and spectral properties in a two-dimensional electron gas with an antidot E. N. Bogachek and Uzi Landman pp. 14067-14077 [View Page Images , PDF (1827 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of twinning superlattices in diamond-type and zinc-blende-type semiconductors Z. Ikonic, G. P. Srivastava, and J. C. Inkson pp. 14078-14085 [View Page Images , PDF (1545 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface modification of GaAs(110) by low-energy ion irradiation H. Gnaser, B. Heinz, W. Bock, and H. Oechsner pp. 14086-14092 [View Page Images , PDF (1342 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hofstadter spectra in two-dimensional superlattice potentials with arbitrary modulation strength M. A. Neto and P. A. Schulz pp. 14093-14097 [View Page Images , PDF (832 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Landau levels in the presence of dilute short-range scatterers M. Ya. Azbel’ and B. I. Halperin pp. 14098-14103 [View Page Images , PDF (968 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and electronic evolution on the Ge(111)-Ag surface M. Göthelid, M. Hammar, U. O. Karlsson, C. Wigren, and G. LeLay pp. 14104-14110 [View Page Images , PDF (1210 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relative importance of self-consistency and variable symmetry in the calculation of exciton energies in type-I and type-II semiconductor heterostructures T. Piorek, W. E. Hagston, and P. Harrison pp. 14111-14117 [View Page Images , PDF (1028 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Valence band structure, edge states, and interband absorption in quantum-well wires in high magnetic fields G. Goldoni and A. Fasolino pp. 14118-14125 [View Page Images , PDF (1313 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-body analysis of the effects of electron density and temperature on the intersubband transition in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs multiple quantum wells Danhong Huang, Godfrey Gumbs, and M. O. Manasreh pp. 14126-14130 [View Page Images , PDF (707 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical study on interband tunneling of holes through GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single-barrier heterostructures M. Morifuji and C. Hamaguchi pp. 14131-14136 [View Page Images , PDF (935 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal equilibrium currents in the quantum Hall fluid Michael R. Geller and Giovanni Vignale pp. 14137-14143 [View Page Images , PDF (1076 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Optical-phonon emission in GaAs/AlAs multiple-quantum-well structures determined by hot-electron luminescence V. F. Sapega, M. P. Chamberlain, T. Ruf, M. Cardona, D. N. Mirlin, K. Tötemeyer, A. Fischer, and K. Eberl pp. 14144-14149 [View Page Images , PDF (1101 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Molecular-orbital study of Li and LiOH adsorbed on a Cu(001) surface Yoshiko Sakai, Eisaku Miyoshi, and Shinichi Katsuki pp. 14150-14158 [View Page Images , PDF (1488 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bi-intercalation of ICl into a stage-5 FeCl3 graphite intercalation compound Takeshi Abe, Yasukazu Yokota, Yasuo Mizutani, Mitsuru Asano, and Toshio Harada pp. 14159-14162 [View Page Images , PDF (642 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of surface roughness on the electronic shell structure of metal clusters J. Lermé, M. Pellarin, E. Cottancin, B. Baguenard, J. L. Vialle, and M. Broyer pp. 14163-14176 [View Page Images , PDF (2861 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical shifts and coupling interactions for the bonding vibrational modes for CO/Cu(111) and (100) surfaces Carol J. Hirschmugl and Gwyn P. Williams pp. 14177-14184 [View Page Images , PDF (1239 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering of He atoms from KCN(001): Analysis of the energy exchange Srilal M. Weera, J. R. Manson, Jeff Baker, E. S. Gillman, J. J. Hernández, G. G. Bishop, S. A. Safron, and J. G. Skofronick pp. 14185-14191 [View Page Images , PDF (1250 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of fractal dimension by cyclic I-V studies: The Laplace-transform method M. Stro/mme, G. A. Niklasson, and C. G. Granqvist pp. 14192-14197 [View Page Images , PDF (917 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified tight-binding equations for wave functions of semi-infinite crystals and interfaces V. M. Tapilin pp. 14198-14205 [View Page Images , PDF (977 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in alkali-metal-doped C60 Shugo Suzuki and Kenji Nakao pp. 14206-14218 [View Page Images , PDF (2027 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of a polarizable medium on the nonlocal optical response of a metal surface A. Liebsch and W. L. Schaich pp. 14219-14234 [View Page Images , PDF (2445 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface states and photoemission of magnetic multilayer systems S. V. Halilov, J. Henk, T. Scheunemann, and R. Feder pp. 14235-14244 [View Page Images , PDF (1862 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crack stability and branching at interfaces Robb Thomson pp. 14245-14253 [View Page Images , PDF (1510 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of the excitonic effect in solid C60 Xudong Jiang and Zizhao Gan pp. 14254-14262 [View Page Images , PDF (1471 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coarsening and slope evolution during unstable spitaxial growth Pavel Šmilauer and Dimitri D. Vvedensky pp. 14263-14272 [View Page Images , PDF (2237 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Low-frequency Raman scattering from small silver particles embedded in SiO2 thin films M. Fujii, T. Nagareda, S. Hayashi, and K. Yamamoto pp. 14273 [View Page Images or PDF (70 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Ion-surface interactions in the electron-stimulated desorption of Cl+ from Cl2/Si(111)-7×7 W. C. Simpson and J. A. Yarmoff pp. 14273 [View Page Images or PDF (70 kB) ]