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Spectral statistics near the quantum percolation threshold Richard Berkovits and Yshai Avishai pp. R16125-R16128 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Radiative recombination and self-trapping of excitons via biexciton states in RbI Toru Tsujibayashi, Koichi Toyoda, and Tetsusuke Hayashi pp. R16129-R16132 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical-bias effect on transient electron-drift measurements in a-Si:H: Implications on the distribution and capture cross sections of the dangling bonds C. Longeaud and J. P. Kleider pp. R16133-R16136 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relaxation dynamics of electrons between Landau levels in GaAs R. M. Hannak, W. W. Rühle, and K. Köhler pp. R16137-R16139 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coherent phonon-plasmon modes in GaAs:AlxGa1-xAs heterostructures J. J. Baumberg and D. A. Williams pp. R16140-R16143 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Etching of double-height-stepped Si(100)-2×1: Steps and their interactions Y. Gong, D. W. Owens, and J. H. Weaver pp. R16144-R16147 [View PDF (547 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Adsorbed and substituted Sb dimers on GaAs(001) P. Moriarty, P. H. Beton, Y. -R. Ma, M. Henini, and D. A. Woolf pp. R16148-R16151 [View PDF (487 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Valence-band maximum in the layered semiconductor WSe2: Application of constant-energy contour mapping by photoemission Th. Straub, K. Fauth, Th. Finteis, M. Hengsberger, R. Claessen, P. Steiner, S. Hüfner, and P. Blaha pp. R16152-R16155 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetoexciton anisotropy in quantum wells versus quantum wires M. V. Marquezini, M. J. Brasil, M. A. Cotta, J. A. Brum, and A. A. Bernussi pp. R16156-R16159 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Concentrated oscillator strength of one-dimensional excitons in quantum wires observed with photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy Hidefumi Akiyama, Takao Someya, and Hiroyuki Sakaki pp. R16160-R16163 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence of the ordered growth of monomolecular ZnTe islands in CdTe/(Cd,Zn)Te quantum wells on a nominal (001) surface V. Calvo, P. Lefebvre, J. Allègre, A. Bellabchara, H. Mathieu, Q. X. Zhao, and N. Magnea pp. R16164-R16167 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Edge-state transport in separately contacted double-layer quantum Hall systems D. Yoshioka and A. H. MacDonald pp. R16168-R16171 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ultrafast in-well screening of the piezoelectric field in (111) quantum wells E. Vanelle, A. Alexandrou, J. -P. Likforman, D. Block, J. Cibert, and R. Romestain pp. R16172-R16175 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crystal azimuthal-angle dependence of excited-state production and core-rearrangement processes in Ne+ scattering on Al(111) R. G. Pregliasco, E. A. Sanchez, O. Grizzi, V. A. Esaulov, and Vu Ngoc Tuan pp. R16176-R16179 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Load-dependent topographic and friction studies of individual ion tracks in layered materials by scanning force microscopy and lateral force microscopy M. Seider, U. D. Schwarz, and R. Wiesendanger pp. R16180-R16183 [View PDF (552 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Phase separation in the binary-alloy problem: The one-dimensional spinless Falicov-Kimball model J. K. Freericks, Ch. Gruber, and N. Macris pp. 16189-16196 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature specific heat of the Coulomb glass: Role of correlations A. Möbius and M. Pollak pp. 16197-16200 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of positron states and annihilation in solids: A density-gradient-correction scheme B. Barbiellini, M. J. Puska, T. Korhonen, A. Harju, T. Torsti, and R. M. Nieminen pp. 16201-16213 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doped Mott insulator: Results from mean-field theory Henrik Kajueter, Gabriel Kotliar, and Goetz Moeller pp. 16214-16226 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of conversion of conduction electrons into a collective charge-density-wave current Alexander S. Kovalev, Yurij V. Pershin, and Alexander S. Rozhavsky pp. 16227-16230 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong effects of photonic band structures on the diffraction of colloidal crystals Willem L. Vos, Rudolf Sprik, Alfons van Blaaderen, Arnout Imhof, Ad Lagendijk, and Gerard H. Wegdam pp. 16231-16235 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Assessment of the polarizabilities (α, β) of a nonlinear optical compound [N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol] from an experimental electronic density study Abdallah Fkyerat, Abdelhalim Guelzim, François Baert, Joseph Zyss, and A. Périgaud pp. 16236-16246 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure variation of the electrical conductivity of dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2] A. N. Papathanassiou and J. Grammatikakis pp. 16247-16251 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defect dipole relaxation in polycrystalline dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2] A. N. Papathanassiou and J. Grammatikakis pp. 16252-16257 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-polarization effects in (AB2)n polymeric chains Celso P. de Melo and Sérgio A. Azevedo pp. 16258-16264 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Structure of a-Si:H from Harris-functional molecular dynamics Blair Tuttle and James B. Adams pp. 16265-16271 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stark broadening of impurity absorption lines by inhomogeneous electric fields in highly compensated germanium Y. Harada, K. Fujii, T. Ohyama, K. M. Itoh, and E. E. Haller pp. 16272-16278 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface stability of Ti(SiGe)2 and SiGe alloys: Tie lines in the ternary equilibrium diagram D. B. Aldrich, F. M. d’Heurle, D. E. Sayers, and R. J. Nemanich pp. 16279-16282 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-photon spectroscopy study of ZnS and CdS under hydrostatic pressure A. Mang, K. Reimann, St. Rübenacke, and M. Steube pp. 16283-16288 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interstitial hydrogen and enhanced dissociation of C-H complexes in GaAs S. J. Breuer, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, and S. Öberg pp. 16289-16296 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen passivation of Se and Te in AlSb M. D. McCluskey, E. E. Haller, W. Walukiewicz, and P. Becla pp. 16297-16301 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recombination and photoluminescence mechanism in hydrogenated amorphous carbon J. Robertson pp. 16302-16305 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization memory of photoluminescence in amorphous carbon Rusli, Gehan A. Amaratunga, and J. Robertson pp. 16306-16309 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic constants and related properties of tetrahedrally bonded BN, AlN, GaN, and InN Kwiseon Kim, Walter R. Lambrecht, and Benjamin Segall pp. 16310-16326 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical and experimental studies of the interaction between sodium and oligothiophenes M. Lögdlund, P. Dannetun, C. Fredriksson, W. R. Salaneck, and J. L. Brédas pp. 16327-16333 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Stress-induced self-organization of nanoscale structures in SiGe/Si multilayer films C. Teichert, M. G. Lagally, L. J. Peticolas, J. C. Bean, and J. Tersoff pp. 16334-16337 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement and assignment of the size-dependent optical spectrum in CdSe quantum dots D. J. Norris and M. G. Bawendi pp. 16338-16346 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size dependence of exciton fine structure in CdSe quantum dots D. J. Norris, Al. L. Efros, M. Rosen, and M. G. Bawendi pp. 16347-16354 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrawell and interwell magnetoexcitons in InxGa1-xAs/GaAs coupled double quantum wells A. B. Dzyubenko and A. L. Yablonskii pp. 16355-16364 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum and transport mobilities in δ-doped semiconductors A. B. Henriques pp. 16365-16371 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of ferromagnetic spin waves on persistent currents in one-dimensional mesoscopic rings Shen-Shang Wu, Zhong-Shui Ma, and Jian Wang pp. 16372-16378 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductance through a quantum dot in an Aharonov-Bohm ring G. Hackenbroich and H. A. Weidenmüller pp. 16379-16389 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current fluctuations in mesoscopic systems with Andreev scattering M. P. Anantram and S. Datta pp. 16390-16402 [View PDF (345 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasi-one-dimensional transport near the ballistic limit Y. Tokura and S. Tarucha pp. 16403-16407 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance states of open quantum dots Yongjiang Wang, Ningjia Zhu, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo pp. 16408-16413 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant tunneling in CdTe/Cd1-xMgxTe double-barrier single-quantum-well heterostructures G. Reuscher, M. Keim, F. Fischer, A. Waag, and G. Landwehr pp. 16414-16419 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Edge states of integral quantum Hall states versus edge states of antiferromagnetic quantum spin chains Yong Baek Kim pp. 16420-16424 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical absorption near the band edge in GaN grown by metalorganic chemical-vapor deposition M. O. Manasreh pp. 16425-16428 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Femtosecond coherent fields induced by many-particle correlations in transient four-wave mixing W. Schäfer, D. S. Kim, J. Shah, T. C. Damen, J. E. Cunningham, K. W. Goossen, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. Köhler pp. 16429-16443 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field-induced formation of exciton magnetic polarons in ZnSe/Zn1-xMnxSe quantum-well structures V. V. Rossin, F. Henneberger, and J. Puls pp. 16444-16452 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perpendicular-electric-field dependence of exciton binding energy studied by continuous-wave photoluminescence Kejian Luo, Houzhi Zheng, Shijie Xu, Xiaoping Yang, Penghua Zhang, Wei Zhang, and Chengfang Li pp. 16453-16457 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetoluminescence studies of InyAl1-yAs self-assembled quantum dots in AlxGa1-xAs matrices P. D. Wang, J. L. Merz, S. Fafard, R. Leon, D. Leonard, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, M. Oestreich, P. M. Petroff, K. Uchida, N. Miura, H. Akiyama, and H. Sakaki pp. 16458-16461 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear and nonlinear optical properties of realistic quantum-wire structures: The dominant role of Coulomb correlation Fausto Rossi and Elisa Molinari pp. 16462-16473 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Slow relaxation of excited states in strain-induced quantum dots T. H. Gfroerer, M. D. Sturge, K. Kash, J. A. Yater, A. S. Plaut, P. S. Lin, L. T. Florez, J. P. Harbison, S. R. Das, and L. Lebrun pp. 16474-16480 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct observation of magnetophonon resonances in Landau-level lifetimes of a semiconductor heterostructure T. A. Vaughan, R. J. Nicholas, C. J. Langerak, B. N. Murdin, C. R. Pidgeon, N. J. Mason, and P. J. Walker pp. 16481-16484 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green’s functions theory for semiconductor-quantum-well laser spectra M. F. Pereira and K. Henneberger pp. 16485-16496 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of classical and tight-binding molecular dynamics for silicon growth Hartmut Hensel, Peter Klein, Herbert M. Urbassek, and Thomas Frauenheim pp. 16497-16503 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary conditions and spurious solutions in envelope-function theory M. J. Godfrey and A. M. Malik pp. 16504-16509 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray-absorption spectroscopy of CoSi2 W. F. Pong, Y. K. Chang, R. A. Mayanovic, G. H. Ho, H. J. Lin, S. H. Ko, P. K. Tseng, C. T. Chen, A. Hiraya, and M. Watanabe pp. 16510-16515 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-resolved spontaneous emission of excitons in a microcavity: Behavior of the individual exciton-photon mixed states B. Sermage, S. Long, I. Abram, J. Y. Marzin, J. Bloch, R. Planel, and V. Thierry-Mieg pp. 16516-16523 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton dynamics in a single quantum well with self-assembled islands M. V. Marquezini, M. J. Brasil, J. A. Brum, P. Poole, S. Charbonneau, and M. C. Tamargo pp. 16524-16530 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative tunneling in asymmetric double-quantum-well systems: A coherence phenomenon H. Vaupel, P. Thomas, O. Kühn, V. May, K. Maschke, A. P. Heberle, W. W. Rühle, and K. Köhler pp. 16531-16542 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Exciton fine structure in undoped GaN epitaxial films D. Volm, K. Oettinger, T. Streibl, D. Kovalev, M. Ben-Chorin, J. Diener, B. K. Meyer, J. Majewski, L. Eckey, A. Hoffmann, H. Amano, I. Akasaki, K. Hiramatsu, and T. Detchprohm pp. 16543-16550 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Width dependence of quantum lifetimes in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterostructures K.-H. Yoo, J. W. Park, J. B. Choi, H. K. Lee, J. J. Lee, and T. W. Kim pp. 16551-16554 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fokker-Planck description of the transfer-matrix limiting distribution in the scattering approach to quantum transport Dirk Endesfelder pp. 16555-16567 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact effective action for fermions in one dimension with backscattering at a boundary Manuel Fuentes, Ana Lopez, and Eduardo Fradkin pp. 16568-16572 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnus force on skyrmions in ferromagnets and quantum Hall systems Michael Stone pp. 16573-16578 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Mobility of grain boundary dislocations during the conservative untwisting of [001] twist boundaries Siu-Wai Chan and V. S. Boyko pp. 16579-16586 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoelectron spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy studies of the initial growth of the Sm-on-Pt(100) interface H. J. Venvik, C. Berg, A. Borg, and S. Raaen pp. 16587-16594 [View PDF (574 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of the tip atom in STM and AFM: Theory of atom transfer E. Koetter, D. Drakova, and G. Doyen pp. 16595-16608 [View PDF (2215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic diffusion between the step-up and the step-down directions on a Si(001) surface Takahisa Doi, Masakazu Ichikawa, Shigeyuki Hosoki, and Ken Ninomiya pp. 16609-16614 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical model for the interpretation of the geometry of the (4×2) CO layer adsorbed on MgO (001) C. Girardet, P. N. Hoang, and S. Picaud pp. 16615-16620 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of Eu and Yb graphite intercalation compounds S. L. Molodtsov, C. Laubschat, M. Richter, Th. Gantz, and A. M. Shikin pp. 16621-16630 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multifractal analysis of the spatial distribution of secondary-electron emission sites Li Hua, Ding Ze-jun, and Wu Ziqin pp. 16631-16636 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mössbauer study of the proximity gettering of cobalt atoms to He-induced nanosized voids in c-Si W. Deweerd, T. Barancira, S. Bukshpan, S. Demuynck, G. Langouche, K. Milants, R. Moons, J. Verheyden, and H. Pattyn pp. 16637-16643 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	CO on copper clusters: Orbital symmetry rules Lotta Holmgren, Henrik Grönbeck, Mats Andersson, and Arne Rosén pp. 16644-16651 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrete-variational Xα calculations of C60Fx with x=0, 36, and 48 S. Kawasaki, F. Okino, H. Touhara, and T. Sonoda pp. 16652-16655 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]