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  • 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

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

Band-theoretical description of the magneto-optical spectra of UAsSe P. M. Oppeneer, M. S. Brooks, V. N. Antonov, T. Kraft, and H. Eschrig pp. R10437-R10440 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Self-consistent order-N density-functional calculations for very large systems Pablo Ordejón, Emilio Artacho, and José M. Soler pp. R10441-R10444 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Density-matrix renormalization-group method in momentum space T. Xiang pp. R10445-R10448 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Strain-induced reduction of 1 / f noise of sliding charge-density waves I. Bloom pp. R10449-R10452 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effects of weak disorder on two coupled Hubbard chains E. Orignac and T. Giamarchi pp. R10453-R10456 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Chemical trends in band offsets of Zn- and Mn-based II-VI superlattices: d-level pinning and offset compression Su-Huai Wei and Alex Zunger pp. R10457-R10460 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetic relaxation studied by transient reflectivity in Cd1-xMnxTe W. Farah, D. Scalbert, and M. Nawrocki pp. R10461-R10464 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Picosecond-luminescence study of exciton formation dynamics in CdSe S. S. Prabhu, A. S. Vengurlekar, and Jagdeep Shah pp. R10465-R10468 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Vacuum Rabi coupling enhancement and Zeeman splitting in semiconductor quantum microcavity structures in a high magnetic field T. A. Fisher, A. M. Afshar, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts pp. R10469-R10472 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local-field effect in the second-harmonic-generation spectra of Si surfaces Bernardo S. Mendoza and W. Luis Mochán pp. R10473-R10476 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Theory of GaN(101̅ 0) and (112̅ 0) surfaces John E. Northrup and J. Neugebauer pp. R10477-R10480 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nucleation and growth of Fe on GaAs(001)-(2×4) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy P. M. Thibado, E. Kneedler, B. T. Jonker, B. R. Bennett, B. V. Shanabrook, and L. J. Whitman pp. R10481-R10484 [View PDF (1806 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Temperature dependence of the photoluminescence of ZnSe/ZnS quantum-dot structures Yi-hong Wu, Kenta Arai, and Takafumi Yao pp. R10485-R10488 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Size dependence of electron—LO-phonon coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals G. Scamarcio, V. Spagnolo, G. Ventruti, M. Lugará, and G. C. Righini pp. R10489-R10492 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Experimental study of the effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit L. D. Hicks, T. C. Harman, X. Sun, and M. S. Dresselhaus pp. R10493-R10496 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical properties of strained InP quantum dots in Ga0.5In0.5P studied by space-charge techniques H. Pettersson, S. Anand, H. G. Grimmeiss, and L. Samuelson pp. R10497-R10500 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear optical effects in strain-induced laterally ordered (InP)2/(GaP)2 quantum wires Y. Tang, H. T. Lin, D. H. Rich, P. Colter, and S. M. Vernon pp. R10501-R10504 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subband renormalization in dense electron-hole plasmas in In0.53Ga0.47As/InP quantum wires K. H. Wang, M. Bayer, A. Forchel, P. Ils, S. Benner, H. Haug, Ph. Pagnod-Rossiaux, and L. Goldstein pp. R10505-R10508 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nature of optical transitions in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots M. Grundmann, N. N. Ledentsov, O. Stier, J. Böhrer, D. Bimberg, V. M. Ustinov, P. S. Kop'ev, and Zh. I. Alferov pp. R10509-R10511 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetoplasma excitations in electron rings E. Zaremba pp. R10512-R10515 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Weakly correlated exciton pair states in large quantum dots Selvakumar V. Nair and T. Takagahara pp. R10516-R10519 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dimensional crossover and confinement-induced optical anisotropy in GaAs T-shaped quantum wires Hidefumi Akiyama, Takao Someya, and Hiroyuki Sakaki pp. R10520-R10523 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Zero-Hall-resistance state in a semimetallic InAs/GaSb superlattice M. S. Daly, K. S. Dalton, M. Lakrimi, N. J. Mason, R. J. Nicholas, M. van der Burgt, P. J. Walker, D. K. Maude, and J. C. Portal pp. R10524-R10527 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron scattering by steps in a vicinal heterointerface Y. Tokura, T. Saku, and Y. Horikoshi pp. R10528-R10531 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Analysis of the x-ray diffuse scattering in C60 from microscopic models Sylvain Ravy, Pascale Launois, and Roger Moret pp. R10532-R10535 [View PDF (1735 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Theory of a scanning tunneling microscope with a two-protrusion tip Michael E. Flatté and Jeff M. Byers pp. R10536-R10539 [View PDF (300 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cluster diffusion by evaporation-condensation José M. Soler pp. R10540-R10543 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin-polarized photoelectrons excited by circularly polarized radiation from a nonmagnetic solid K. Starke, A. P. Kaduwela, Y. Liu, P. D. Johnson, M. A. Van Hove, C. S. Fadley, V. Chakarian, E. E. Chaban, G. Meigs, and C. T. Chen pp. R10544-R10547 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Suppression of the magnetocrystalline bulk anisotropy in thin epitaxial Co(110) films on Cu(110) B. Hillebrands, J. Fassbender, R. Jungblut, G. Güntherodt, D. J. Roberts, and G. A. Gehring pp. R10548-R10551 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Optical and transport studies of Ni(dmit)2-based organic conductors H. L. Liu, D. B. Tanner, A. E. Pullen, K. A. Abboud, and J. R. Reynolds pp. 10557-10568 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved treatment of retarded self-energy calculations in perturbation theory S. Wermbter pp. 10569-10578 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of quasiparticle damping on magnetic stability T. Herrmann and W. Nolting pp. 10579-10588 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Further orbital-free kinetic-energy functionals for ab initio molecular dynamics Michael Foley and Paul A. Madden pp. 10589-10598 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of Li12Si7 H. van Leuken, G. A. de Wijs, W. van der Lugt, and R. A. Groot pp. 10599-10604 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure and bonding in skutterudite-type phosphides Miquel Llunell, Pere Alemany, Santiago Alvarez, Vladlen P. Zhukov, and Andreas Vernes pp. 10605-10609 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic origins of ordering in multicomponent metallic alloys: Application to the Cu-Ni-Zn system J. D. Althoff, D. D. Johnson, F. J. Pinski, and J. B. Staunton pp. 10610-10625 [View Page Images , PDF (3336 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of Pt in polyyne Michael Springborg and R. C. Albers pp. 10626-10631 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superhyperfine structures of the relaxed excited state of the F centers in KCl observed by zero-frequency optical detection of electron-nuclear double resonance Norio Akiyama and Hiroshi Ohkura pp. 10632-10640 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersive photoconductivity in the layered perovskite Nd2Ti3O9 Bertrand Dulieu, Jacques Bullot, Jany Wéry, Mireille Richard, and Luc Brohan pp. 10641-10650 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternative equations of motion for dynamical simulated annealing of the density functional J. C. Greer pp. 10651-10655 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear optical susceptibilities of conjugated polymers: Damping, resonances, and scaling laws V. A. Shakin, S. Abe, and T. Kobayashi pp. 10656-10666 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	O 1s near-edge x-ray absorption of La2-xSrxNiO4+δ: Holes, polarons, and excitons E. Pellegrin, J. Zaanen, H.-J. Lin, G. Meigs, C. T. Chen, G. H. Ho, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida pp. 10667-10679 [View PDF (284 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-gap phase of strongly correlated fermions P. Lederer and Elihu Abrahams pp. 10680-10684 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio pseudopotential study of Fe, Co, and Ni employing the spin-polarized LAPW approach Jun-Hyung Cho and Matthias Scheffler pp. 10685-10689 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conducting state of polyaniline films: Dependence on moisture N. J. Pinto, P. D. Shah, P. K. Kahol, and B. J. McCormick pp. 10690-10694 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Semiconductor band switching by charging a small grain with a single electron J. W. Wildöer, A. J. van Roij, C. J. Harmans, and H. van Kempen pp. 10695-10698 [View PDF (435 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray diffraction examinations of EL2-like defect metastability in low-temperature gallium arsenide M. Leszczynski pp. 10699-10702 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Terms linear in k in the band structure of wurtzite-type semiconductors L. C. Lew Yan Voon, M. Willatzen, M. Cardona, and N. E. Christensen pp. 10703-10714 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coexistence of the DX center with nonmetastable states of the donor impurity in Si-doped AlxGa1-xAs: Effects on the low-temperature electron mobility A. Baraldi, P. Frigeri, C. Ghezzi, A. Parisini, A. Bosacchi, S. Franchi, E. Gombia, and R. Mosca pp. 10715-10727 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman spectroscopy of Cd1-xCrxS A. Twardowski, D. Heiman, M. T. Liu, Y. Shapira, and M. Demianiuk pp. 10728-10731 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fe-based semimagnetic semiconductors with two anions A. Mycielski, M. Arciszewska, W. Dobrowolski, A. L/usakowski, K. Dybko, R. Szymczak, A. Szadkowski, C. Rigaux, A. Mauger, M. Menant, and M. Guillot pp. 10732-10739 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation ionization energy in a-Si:H J. Dubeau, L. A. Hamel, and T. Pochet pp. 10740-10750 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of second-order optical response in semiconductors James L. Hughes and J. E. Sipe pp. 10751-10763 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of photoinduced charge transfer in a molecularly doped conjugated polymer M. J. Rice and Yu. N. Gartstein pp. 10764-10770 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Suppression of Si-Ge interfacial vibration mode in the Raman spectrum of a Si6Ge4 superlattice Chi Sheng, Tie-cheng Zhou, Qun Cai, Dawei-Gong, Ming-ren Yu, Xiang-jiu Zhang, and Xun Wang pp. 10771-10774 [View PDF (127 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple phase structures of NiSi2 on Si(001): An atomic view Y. Khang and Y. Kuk pp. 10775-10780 [View PDF (715 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion-energy effects in silicon ion-beam epitaxy J. W. Rabalais, A. H. Al-Bayati, K. J. Boyd, D. Marton, J. Kulik, Z. Zhang, and W. K. Chu pp. 10781-10792 [View PDF (9805 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient exciton energy transfer between widely separated quantum wells at low temperatures A. Tomita, J. Shah, and R. S. Knox pp. 10793-10803 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of exciton recombination from the magnetically induced Wigner crystal N. R. Cooper pp. 10804-10812 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified Lanczos procedure for Wannier-Stark resonances in solids Virgilio Dolcher, Giuseppe Grosso, Liana Martinelli, and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini pp. 10813-10819 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structures of low-lying states of a four-electron system in a quantum dot Bao Chengguang, Ruan Wenying, and Liu Youyang pp. 10820-10829 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrostatic-pressure determination of tensile-strained GaxIn1-xP-(AlyGa1-y)0.52In0.48P quantum-well band offsets O. P. Kowalski, J. W. Cockburn, D. J. Mowbray, M. S. Skolnick, M. D. Dawson, G. Duggan, and A. H. Kean pp. 10830-10836 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitonic molecules and stimulated emission in a ZnSe single quantum well V. Kozlov, P. Kelkar, A. V. Nurmikko, C.-C. Chu, D. C. Grillo, J. Han, C. G. Hua, and R. L. Gunshor pp. 10837-10840 [View PDF (139 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charging and infrared spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots in a magnetic field Arkadiusz Wojs and Pawel Hawrylak pp. 10841-10845 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compressibility of the electron gas: Analytical results for width effects within the Hartree-Fock approximation L. Calmels and A. Gold pp. 10846-10851 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of growth direction and strain conditions on the band lineup at GaSb/InSb and InAs/InSb interfaces S. Picozzi, A. Continenza, and A. J. Freeman pp. 10852-10857 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory for the cyclotron resonance of holes in strained asymmetric Ge-SiGe quantum wells R. Winkler, M. Merkler, T. Darnhofer, and U. Rössler pp. 10858-10865 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening effects on the confined and interface polarons in cylindrical quantum wires B. Tanatar, K. Güven, C. R. Bennett, and N. C. Constantinou pp. 10866-10870 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eckardt frame theory of interacting electrons in quantum dots P. A. Maksym pp. 10871-10886 [View PDF (358 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimization of resonant intersubband nonlinear optical susceptibility in semiconductor quantum wells: The coordinate transform approach V. Milanović, Z. Ikonić, and D. Indjin pp. 10887-10893 [View PDF (191 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charged steps on III-V compound semiconductor surfaces M. Heinrich, C. Domke, Ph. Ebert, and K. Urban pp. 10894-10897 [View PDF (191 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical study of localization in the two-state Landau level K. Minakuchi and S. Hikami pp. 10898-10905 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge of the Laughlin droplet Nilanjana Datta, Rudolf Morf, and Ruggero Ferrari pp. 10906-10915 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrostatic-pressure coefficient of the direct band-gap energy of AlxGa1-xAs for x=0-0.35 Hyeonsik M. Cheong, J. H. Burnett, W. Paul, P. F. Hopkins, K. Campman, and A. C. Gossard pp. 10916-10920 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave modulation of circularly polarized exciton photonluminescence in GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum wells Z. Chen-Esterlit, E. Lifshitz, E. Cohen, and L. N. Pfeiffer pp. 10921-10927 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance in the Fermi-edge singularity of one-dimensional systems Yuval Oreg and Alexander M. Finkel’stein pp. 10928-10941 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of Si 2p core-level shifts at the Si(001)-SiO2 interface Alfredo Pasquarello, Mark S. Hybertsen, and Roberto Car pp. 10942-10950 [View PDF (195 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative quantum transport in a quantum wire C. C. Wan, Ying Huang, and Hong Guo pp. 10951-10972 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heavy-hole–light-hole quantum beats in nonlinear transmission spectroscopy K. Wundke, U. Neukirch, J. Gutowski, and D. Hommel pp. 10973-10977 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elasticity theory of straight dislocations in a multilayer R. Bonnet pp. 10978-10982 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin-flip Raman-scattering studies of compensating donor centers in nitrogen-doped zinc selenide grown by molecular-beam epitaxy C. M. Townsley, J. J. Davies, D. Wolverson, P. J. Boyce, G. Horsburgh, T. A. Steele, K. A. Prior, and B. C. Cavenett pp. 10983-10987 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the finite band width in a two-dimensional electron gas: The renormalization constant and the effective mass J. D. Lee and B. I. Min pp. 10988-10994 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cavity-polariton photoluminescence in semiconductor microcavities: Experimental evidence R. P. Stanley, R. Houdré, C. Weisbuch, U. Oesterle, and M. Ilegems pp. 10995-11007 [View PDF (228 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state description of quasi-one-dimensional polarons with arbitrary electron-phonon coupling strength A. Erçelebi and R. T. Senger pp. 11008-11015 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatially resolved Raman scattering from hot acoustic and optic plasmons A. S. Bhatti, D. Richards, H. P. Hughes, and D. A. Ritchie pp. 11016-11024 [View PDF (211 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacancylike structure of the DX center in Te-doped AlxGa1-xAs T. Laine, J. Mäkinen, K. Saarinen, P. Hautojärvi, C. Corbel, M. L. Fille, and P. Gibart pp. 11025-11033 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linearized quantum transport equations: ac conductance of a quantum wire with an electron-phonon interaction Petr Král pp. 11034-11050 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference of current distortion patterns and magnetoresistance anisotropy in a composite with periodic microstructure Yakov M. Strelniker and David J. Bergman pp. 11051-11059 [View PDF (811 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of magnetic sawtooth superlattices P. Harrison, T. Piorek, T. Stirner, and W. E. Hagston pp. 11060-11063 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiclassical calculation of magnetoresistance oscillations of a two-dimensional electron gas in spatially periodic magnetic and electrostatic fields Rolf R. Gerhardts pp. 11064-11075 [View PDF (475 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Layer-KKR theory of negative-ion formation in adsorbed molecules P. J. Rous pp. 11076-11090 [View PDF (308 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Moiré pattern in scanning tunneling microscopy: Mechanism in observation of subsurface nanostructures Katsuyoshi Kobayashi pp. 11091-11099 [View PDF (306 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scanning tunneling microscopy of the phase transition between H/Si(100)-(2×1) and H/Si(100)-(3×1) X. R. Qin and P. R. Norton pp. 11100-11107 [View PDF (2993 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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