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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Stability of a photoinduced insulator-metal transition in Pr1-xCaxMnO3 K. Ogawa, W. Wei, K. Miyano, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura pp. R15033-R15036 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes with chiral symmetry J.-C. Charlier and Ph. Lambin pp. R15037-R15039 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Confinement of interchain hopping by umklapp scattering in two coupled chains Y. Suzumura, M. Tsuchiizu, and G. Grüner pp. R15040-R15043 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Spin polarization of exciton luminescence from ordered Ga0.5In0.5P T. Kita, M. Sakurai, K. Bhattacharya, K. Yamashita, T. Nishino, C. Geng, F. Scholz, and H. Schweizer pp. R15044-R15047 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isolated interstitial hydrogen molecules in hydrogenated crystalline silicon R. E. Pritchard, M. J. Ashwin, J. H. Tucker, and R. C. Newman pp. R15048-R15051 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Energetics and electronic structure of stacking faults in AlN, GaN, and InN C. Stampfl and Chris G. Van de Walle pp. R15052-R15055 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-resolution structural analysis of the Sb-terminated GaAs(001)-(2×4) surface T.-L. Lee and M. J. Bedzyk pp. R15056-R15059 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic structure of the Ge(15 3 23) surface Zheng Gai, Xiaowei Li, R. G. Zhao, and W. S. Yang pp. R15060-R15063 [View PDF (423 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitons in InP quantum dots Huaxiang Fu and Alex Zunger pp. R15064-R15067 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Apparent metallic behavior at B=0 of a two-dimensional electron system in AlAs S. J. Papadakis and M. Shayegan pp. R15068-R15071 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tight-binding approach to excitons bound to monolayer impurity planes: Strong radiative properties of InAs in GaAs Rita Claudia Iotti, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and Massimiliano Di Ventra pp. R15072-R15075 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plastic flow of persistent currents in two-dimensional strongly interacting systems Richard Berkovits and Yshai Avishai pp. R15076-R15079 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fermi-level effect on steady-state and transient photoconductivity in microcrystalline silicon R. Brüggemann and C. Main pp. R15080-R15083 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Long phase-relaxation time in CuCl quantum dots: Four-wave-mixing signals analogous to dye molecules in polymers R. Kuribayashi, K. Inoue, K. Sakoda, V. A. Tsekhomskii, and A. V. Baranov pp. R15084-R15087 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Local density of states from transmission amplitudes in multichannel systems Mads Brandbyge and Masaru Tsukada pp. R15088-R15091 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crossover from regular to chaotic behavior in the conductance of periodic quantum chains J. Cserti, G. Szálka, and G. Vattay pp. R15092-R15095 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optically induced electric-field domains by bound-to-continuum transitions in n-type multiple quantum wells H. Schneider, C. Mermelstein, R. Rehm, C. Schönbein, A. Sa’ar, and M. Walther pp. R15096-R15099 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence of electronic confinement in pseudomorphic Si/GaAs superlattices Vincenzo Spagnolo, Gaetano Scamarcio, Raffaele Colombelli, Jean-Marc Jancu, Fabio Beltram, Lucia Sorba, Bernhard Meüller, and Alfonso Franciosi pp. R15100-R15103 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fano interference in periodic GaAs doping multilayers M. J. Bell, L. Ioriatti, and L. A. Nunes pp. R15104-R15107 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic-scale self-propagation of a molecular reaction on a semiconductor surface: O2/β-SiC(100)-3×2 A. Mayne, F. Semond, G. Dujardin, and P. Soukiassian pp. R15108-R15111 [View PDF (477 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Mesoscopic-scale dielectric relaxation at the glass transition L. E. Walther, N. E. Israeloff, E. Vidal Russell, and H. Alvarez Gomariz pp. R15112-R15115 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crossover from phonon- to photon-mediated charge transport observed in metal-cluster compounds J. A. Reedijk, L. J. Adriaanse, H. B. Brom, L. J. de Jongh, and G. Schmid pp. R15116-R15119 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probing electron conduction at the microscopic level in percolating nanocomposites by conducting atomic-force microscopy E. Z. Luo, I. H. Wilson, X. Yan, and J. B. Xu pp. R15120-R15123 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear single-electron tunneling through individually coated colloid particles at room temperature S.-T. Yau, P. Mulvaney, W. Xu, and G. M. Spinks pp. R15124-R15127 [View PDF (540 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Electronic structure of black sodalite Otto F. Sankey, Alexander A. Demkov, and Thomas Lenosky pp. 15129-15139 [View PDF (844 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge fluctuations in alloys: A coarse-grained model F. J. Pinski pp. 15140-15143 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-particle Green functions in exactly solvable models of Bose and Fermi liquids Girish S. Setlur and Yia-Chung Chang pp. 15144-15166 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of excitons in conjugated polymers: A density-matrix renormalization-group study M. Boman and R. J. Bursill pp. 15167-15176 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-correlation effects in calculations of atomic short-range order in metallic alloys F. J. Pinski, J. B. Staunton, and D. D. Johnson pp. 15177-15182 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the isotopic composition on the fundamental gap of CuCl A. Göbel, T. Ruf, M. Cardona, C. T. Lin, J. Wrzesinski, M. Steube, K. Reimann, J.-C. Merle, and M. Joucla pp. 15183-15190 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat and heavy-fermionic behavior in Ce8Pd24M (M=Ga, In, Sn, Sb, Pb, and Bi) B. K. Cho, R. A. Gordon, C. D. Jones, F. J. DiSalvo, J. S. Kim, and G. R. Stewart pp. 15191-15196 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional Yukawa Bose liquid: A Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sjölander study C. Bulutay, B. Tanatar, and M. Tomak pp. 15197-15203 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of Ni-Cu alloys: The d-electron charge distribution H. H. Hsieh, Y. K. Chang, W. F. Pong, J. Y. Pieh, P. K. Tseng, T. K. Sham, I. Coulthard, S. J. Naftel, J. F. Lee, S. C. Chung, and K. L. Tsang pp. 15204-15210 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio study of the electronic structures in LaCoO3-SrCoO3 systems Hidekazu Takahashi, Fumio Munakata, and Mitsugu Yamanaka pp. 15211-15218 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and optical properties of θ-Al2O3 and comparison to α-Al2O3 Shang-Di Mo and W. Y. Ching pp. 15219-15228 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic energy-level structure, correlation crystal-field effects, and f-f transition intensities of Er3+ in Cs3Lu2Cl9 Stefan R. Lüthi, Hans U. Güdel, Markus P. Hehlen, and John R. Quagliano pp. 15229-15241 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Localized defect modes in a two-dimensional triangular photonic crystal Vladimir Kuzmiak and Alexei A. Maradudin pp. 15242-15250 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Theoretical analysis of the electronic structure of the stable and metastable c(2×2) phases of Na on Al(001): Comparison with angle-resolved ultraviolet photoemission spectra C. Stampfl, K. Kambe, R. Fasel, P. Aebi, and M. Scheffler pp. 15251-15260 [View PDF (4103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective electronic response of a system of metallic cylinders J. M. Pitarke, F. J. García-Vidal, and J. B. Pendry pp. 15261-15266 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On-site Coulomb repulsion in the small polaron system La1-xCaxMnO3 D. C. Worledge, L. Miéville, and T. H. Geballe pp. 15267-15271 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-quadrupole interactions at 111Cd in HfO2 and ZrO2: A perturbed angular correlation study J. Luthin, K. P. Lieb, M. Neubauer, M. Uhrmacher, and B. Lindgren pp. 15272-15281 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Elementary electronic excitation in three-dimensional electron gases under free-electron laser radiations W. Xu pp. 15282-15292 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the one-body density matrix and excitation energies of silicon P. R. Kent, Randolph Q. Hood, M. D. Towler, R. J. Needs, and G. Rajagopal pp. 15293-15302 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical solutions of the block-diagonalized Hamiltonian for strained wurtzite semiconductors M. Kumagai, S. L. Chuang, and H. Ando pp. 15303-15314 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic Raman and infrared spectra of acceptors in isotopically controlled diamonds Hyunjung Kim, R. Vogelgesang, A. K. Ramdas, S. Rodriguez, M. Grimsditch, and T. R. Anthony pp. 15315-15327 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopic properties of polyacetylene segments in copolymers E. Mulazzi, A. Ripamonti, C. Godon, and S. Lefrant pp. 15328-15336 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second nonequilibrium-phonon bottleneck for carrier cooling in highly excited polar semiconductors A. Žukauskas pp. 15337-15344 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Longitudinal diffusivity in n-type Hg0.8Cd0.2Te in the extreme quantum limit: Effect of alloy scattering P. Banerji, C. Chakraborty, and C. K. Sarkar pp. 15345-15348 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-enhanced generation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon A. Ilie and B. Equer pp. 15349-15359 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ab initio calculation of the stoichiometry and structure of the (0001) surfaces of GaN and AlN Jürgen Fritsch, Otto F. Sankey, Kevin E. Schmidt, and John B. Page pp. 15360-15371 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection high-energy electron diffraction measurement of lattice-parameter oscillations during the homoepitaxial growth of CdTe J. M. Hartmann, A. Arnoult, L. Carbonell, V. H. Etgens, and S. Tatarenko pp. 15372-15375 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Substitutional geometry and strain effects in overlayers of phosphorus on Si(111) L. Vitali, M. G. Ramsey, and F. P. Netzer pp. 15376-15384 [View PDF (1180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Step structures and kinking on Si(001) D. R. Bowler and M. G. Bowler pp. 15385-15391 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Off-center D- centers in a quantum well in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field: Angular-momentum transitions and magnetic evaporation C. Riva, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters pp. 15392-15399 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum measurements performed with a single-electron transistor Alexander Shnirman and Gerd Schön pp. 15400-15407 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic magnetoconductance fluctuations in triangular quantum dots in the absence of selective probing P. Bøggild, A. Kristensen, H. Bruus, S. M. Reimann, and P. E. Lindelof pp. 15408-15415 [View PDF (713 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffusive transport in a Hall junction with a microinhomogeneous magnetic field I. S. Ibrahim, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters pp. 15416-15427 [View PDF (1353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hot-phonon-assisted resonant tunneling in a quantum well P. Král, F. W. Sheard, and F. F. Ouali pp. 15428-15438 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size dependence of strain relaxation and lateral quantization in deep etched CdxZn1-xSe/ZnSe quantum wires T. Kümmell, G. Bacher, A. Forchel, G. Lermann, W. Kiefer, B. Jobst, D. Hommel, and G. Landwehr pp. 15439-15447 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electroreflectance spectroscopy of strained Si1-xGex layers on silicon T. Ebner, K. Thonke, R. Sauer, F. Schaeffler, and H. J. Herzog pp. 15448-15453 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limiting processes for diamond epitaxial alignment on silicon K.-H. Thürer, M. Schreck, and B. Stritzker pp. 15454-15464 [View PDF (774 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size effects in fluctuation spectra of many-valley semiconductors V. A. Kochelap and V. N. Sokolov pp. 15465-15475 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Methods in angle-resolved photoelectron diffraction: Slab method versus separable propagator cluster approach Huasheng Wu, C. Y. Ng, T. P. Chu, and S. Y. Tong pp. 15476-15486 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen adsorption on the Ru(101¯0) surface: Anomalous coverage dependence S. Schwegmann, A. P. Seitsonen, V. De Renzi, H. Dietrich, H. Bludau, M. Gierer, H. Over, K. Jacobi, M. Scheffler, and G. Ertl pp. 15487-15495 [View PDF (2500 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of defect structures at surfaces and thin films on grazing scattering of fast ions R. Pfandzelter pp. 15496-15506 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic structure of the surface alloy formed by a room-temperature-deposited Mn monolayer on Ag(001) P. Schieffer, M.-H. Tuilier, M.-C. Hanf, C. Krembel, G. Gewinner, D. Chandesris, and H. Magnan pp. 15507-15512 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode localization in self-affine fractal interfaces observed by near-field microscopy Peng Zhang, Tom L. Haslett, Constantine Douketis, and Martin Moskovits pp. 15513-15518 [View PDF (513 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and dynamics of alkali-metal clusters and fission of highly charged clusters Yibing Li, Estela Blaisten-Barojas, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos pp. 15519-15532 [View PDF (368 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffusion on aluminum-cluster surfaces and the cluster growth S. Valkealahti and M. Manninen pp. 15533-15540 [View PDF (1715 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffraction characterization of rough films formed under stable and unstable growth conditions J. Wollschläger, E. Z. Luo, and M. Henzler pp. 15541-15552 [View PDF (419 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Changing thin-film growth by modulating the incident flux Nicolas Combe and Pablo Jensen pp. 15553-15560 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of step density on vicinal Pb(111) Z. H. Zhang and H. E. Elsayed-Ali pp. 15561-15566 [View PDF (459 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of 2×1 domain boundaries on the transition from 2×1 to c(2×8) at Ge(111) surfaces Y. Einaga, H. Hirayama, and K. Takayanagi pp. 15567-15571 [View PDF (6619 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculation of the potential energy surface for the dissociation of H2 on the sulfur-covered Pd(100) surface C. M. Wei, A. Groß, and M. Scheffler pp. 15572-15584 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic states in mixed FeX (X=3d) clusters on the Ag(001) surface V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, P. Rennert, K. Kokko, A. F. Tatarchenko, and K. Wildberger pp. 15585-15590 [View PDF (782 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ring formation and the structural and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon surfaces Jianjun Dong and David A. Drabold pp. 15591-15598 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plasmon excitations in graphitic carbon spheres Thomas Stöckli, Jean-Marc Bonard, André Châtelain, Zhong Lin Wang, and Pierre Stadelmann pp. 15599-15612 [View PDF (1186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shot noise of single-electron tunneling in one-dimensional arrays K. A. Matsuoka and K. K. Likharev pp. 15613-15622 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Interrelation of resistivity and inelastic electron-phonon scattering rate in impure NbC films K. S. Il’in, N. G. Ptitsina, A. V. Sergeev, G. N. Gol’tsman, E. M. Gershenzon, B. S. Karasik, E. V. Pechen, and S. I. Krasnosvobodtsev pp. 15623-15628 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic conductivity in bundles of FeCl3-intercalated multiwall carbon nanotubes M. Baxendale, V. Z. Mordkovich, S. Yoshimura, R. P. Chang, and A. G. Jansen pp. 15629-15632 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]