• 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
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Magnetic destabilization of Ni7Al C. Wolverton and Alex Zunger pp. 12165-12168 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rayleigh-wave attenuation by a semi-infinite two-dimensional elastic-band-gap crystal F. Meseguer, M. Holgado, D. Caballero, N. Benaches, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, C. López, and J. Llinares pp. 12169-12172 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Corrected penalty-functional method for linear-scaling calculations within density-functional theory P. D. Haynes and M. C. Payne pp. 12173-12176 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-field de Haas–van Alphen measurements in Pd J. J. Vuillemin, N. Harrison, and R. G. Goodrich pp. 12177-12179 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetry and theory of heavy fermions C. Pépin and M. Lavagna pp. 12180-12183 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics and thermodynamics of the Bose-Hubbard model N. Elstner and H. Monien pp. 12184-12187 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculations of the dynamical response of copper I. Campillo, A. Rubio, and J. M. Pitarke pp. 12188-12191 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Coulomb repulsion and magnetic frustration on persistent currents in the Hubbard model J. Yi, Hyeonjin Doh, and Sung-Ik Lee pp. 12192-12195 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of the electrical transport properties in a tunneling-percolation system Z. Rubin, S. A. Sunshine, M. B. Heaney, I. Bloom, and I. Balberg pp. 12196-12199 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Geometry and core-level shifts of As on GaAs(110) Jun-Hyung Cho, Zhenyu Zhang, Sung-Hoon Lee, and Myung-Ho Kang pp. 12200-12203 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of a macroscopic circuit on polarons in a p-n tunnel junction W. H. Richardson pp. 12204-12207 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coefficients of a dispersion equation for the pressure-optic coefficients in Ge and GaAs Gorachand Ghosh and Hiroyoshi Yajima pp. 12208-12211 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Fano interference of collective excitations in semiconductor quantum wells and lasing without inversion Dmitri E. Nikonov, Ataç Imamoğlu, and Marlan O. Scully pp. 12212-12215 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum beats of confined exciton-LO phonon complexes in CuCl nanocrystals Hideki Ohmura and Arao Nakamura pp. 12216-12219 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of local-interfacial optical phonons at buried interfaces using time-resolved second-harmonic generation Y.-M. Chang, L. Xu, and H. W. Tom pp. 12220-12223 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	(sqrt[3]×sqrt[3]) R30° reconstruction of the 6H-SiC (0001) surface: A simple T4 Si adatom structure solved by grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction A. Coati, M. Sauvage-Simkin, Y. Garreau, R. Pinchaux, T. Argunova, and K. Aïd pp. 12224-12227 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Structure determination of the indium-induced Si(111)-(4×1) reconstruction by surface x-ray diffraction O. Bunk, G. Falkenberg, J. H. Zeysing, L. Lottermoser, R. L. Johnson, M. Nielsen, F. Berg-Rasmussen, J. Baker, and R. Feidenhans’l pp. 12228-12231 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size quantization of surface-state electrons on the Si(001) surface Takashi Yokoyama and Kunio Takayanagi pp. 12232-12235 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semimetal to semiconductor transition in ErP islands grown on InP(001) due to quantum-size effects L. Bolotov, T. Tsuchiya, A. Nakamura, T. Ito, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Takeda pp. 12236-12239 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport through a finite Hubbard chain connected to reservoirs Akira Oguri pp. 12240-12243 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbation treatment for transport through a quantum dot Luis Craco and Kicheon Kang pp. 12244-12247 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonuniversal conductance steps in mesoscopic quantum wires Kamran Houshangpour and Klaus Maschke pp. 12248-12251 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlled wave-function mixing in strongly coupled one-dimensional wires K. J. Thomas, J. T. Nicholls, M. Y. Simmons, W. R. Tribe, A. G. Davies, and M. Pepper pp. 12252-12255 [View PDF (561 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Persistent currents in quantum chaotic systems Shiro Kawabata pp. 12256-12259 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hamiltonian description of composite fermions: Calculation of gaps Ganpathy Murthy and R. Shankar pp. 12260-12263 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subgap conductance in ferromagnet-superconductor mesoscopic structures M. Leadbeater, C. J. Lambert, K. E. Nagaev, R. Raimondi, and A. F. Volkov pp. 12264-12267 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature electron-paramagnetic-resonance study of extrinsic and intrinsic defects in CuGaSe2 M. Birkholz, P. Kanschat, T. Weiss, M. Czerwensky, and K. Lips pp. 12268-12271 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermoreflectance study of the direct optical gap in epitaxial AlxGa1-xSb (x<~0.5) V. Bellani, M. Geddo, G. Guizzetti, S. Franchi, and R. Magnanini pp. 12272-12274 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization splitting of the gain band in quantum wire and quantum dot arrays G. Ya. Slepyan, S. A. Maksimenko, V. P. Kalosha, J. Herrmann, N. N. Ledentsov, I. L. Krestnikov, Zh. I. Alferov, and D. Bimberg pp. 12275-12278 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transmission electron microscopy study of InxGa1-xAs quantum dots on a GaAs(001) substrate J. Zou, X. Z. Liao, D. J. Cockayne, and R. Leon pp. 12279-12282 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Inhomogeneous structure in hydrogenated tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin films Doug H. Lee, Amit Misra, Kevin C. Walter, and Michael Nastasi pp. 12283-12285 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metastable body-centered-tetragonal phase of vanadium on Cu{001} Y. Tian, F. Jona, and P. M. Marcus pp. 12286-12289 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermopower of atomic-size metallic contacts B. Ludoph and J. M. Ruitenbeek pp. 12290-12293 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface and bulk 4f photoemission spectra of CeIr2 Hyeong-Do Kim, H. Kumigashira, See-Hun Yang, T. Takahashi, H. Aoki, T. Suzuki, G. Chiaia, O. Tjernberg, H. Nylén, I. Lindau, and A. Ochiai pp. 12294-12297 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Work-function changes in high-dose B-implanted Si with keV Cs+ bombardment Hideyuki Yamazaki and Shin-ichi Nakamura pp. 12298-12300 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dipole correction for surface supercell calculations Lennart Bengtsson pp. 12301-12304 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermally enhanced second-harmonic generation from Si(111)-7×7 and “1×1” Takanori Suzuki, Shouji Kogo, Motowo Tsukakoshi, and Masakazu Aono pp. 12305-12308 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Coulomb interactions and generalized pairing in condensed matter K. Moulopoulos and N. W. Ashcroft pp. 12309-12325 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confinement-deconfinement transition in two coupled chains with umklapp scattering M. Tsuchiizu and Y. Suzumura pp. 12326-12337 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant heat transport through a Luttinger liquid I. V. Krive pp. 12338-12343 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo energy and variance-minimization techniques for optimizing many-body wave functions P. R. Kent, R. J. Needs, and G. Rajagopal pp. 12344-12351 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Real-space local polynomial basis for solid-state electronic-structure calculations: A finite-element approach J. E. Pask, B. M. Klein, C. Y. Fong, and P. A. Sterne pp. 12352-12358 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	F center in sodium electrosodalite as a physical manifestation of a non-nuclear attractor in the electron density G. K. Madsen, C. Gatti, B. B. Iversen, Lj. Damjanovic, G. D. Stucky, and V. I. Srdanov pp. 12359-12369 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetotransport studies of the Fermi surface in the organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br H. Weiss, M. V. Kartsovnik, W. Biberacher, E. Steep, E. Balthes, A. G. Jansen, K. Andres, and N. D. Kushch pp. 12370-12378 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple model for non-Fermi-liquid behavior induced by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations P. Schlottmann pp. 12379-12389 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic, calorimetric, and transport properties of Ce(Pd1-xNix)2Ge2 and CeNi2(Ge1-ySiy)2 G. Knebel, M. Brando, J. Hemberger, M. Nicklas, W. Trinkl, and A. Loidl pp. 12390-12397 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamics of the dissipative two-state system: A Bethe-ansatz study T. A. Costi and G. Zaránd pp. 12398-12418 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Itinerant versus localized transport in La1-xSrxMnO3 for x<~0.175 A. Pimenov, Ch. Hartinger, A. Loidl, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, and A. M. Balbashov pp. 12419-12424 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoinduced transient thermoelectric effect in a perovskite manganite Pr0.67Sr0.33MnO3 film M. Sasaki, G. R. Wu, W. X. Gao, H. Negishi, M. Inoue, and G. C. Xiong pp. 12425-12430 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-phonon-surface scattering in Ga Ya. B. Bazaliy and L. T. Tsymbal pp. 12431-12434 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1/f noise in the half-metallic oxides CrO2, Fe3O4, and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 B. Raquet, J. M. Coey, S. Wirth, and S. von Molnár pp. 12435-12443 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffraction satellites in indium caused by thermal-diffuse scattering A. S. Bakulin, G. Lacueva, and A. W. Overhauser pp. 12444-12449 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linearly polarized Cu K-edge absorption spectroscopy of CuGeO3: Orbital population, band dispersion, and exchange interactions D. Z. Cruz, M. Abbate, H. Tolentino, P. J. Schiling, E. Morikawa, A. Fujimori, and J. Akimitsu pp. 12450-12456 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of electronic structure with dimensionality in divalent nickelates K. Maiti, Priya Mahadevan, and D. D. Sarma pp. 12457-12470 [View PDF (439 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Designed nonlocal pseudopotentials for enhanced transferability Nicholas J. Ramer and Andrew M. Rappe pp. 12471-12478 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Optical detection of electron paramagnetic resonance in electron-irradiated GaN C. Bozdog, H. Przybylinska, G. D. Watkins, V. Härle, F. Scholz, M. Mayer, M. Kamp, R. J. Molnar, A. E. Wickenden, D. D. Koleske, and R. L. Henry pp. 12479-12486 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape and dielectric mismatch effects in semiconductor quantum dots P. G. Bolcatto and C. R. Proetto pp. 12487-12498 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Tuning band offsets at the AlAs/GaAs interface by group-IV intralayer deposition R. H. Miwa and A. C. Ferraz pp. 12499-12504 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron transport through a metal-molecule-metal junction C. Kergueris, J.-P. Bourgoin, S. Palacin, D. Esteve, C. Urbina, M. Magoga, and C. Joachim pp. 12505-12513 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-dependent tunneling in double-barrier semiconductor heterostructures A. Voskoboynikov, Shiue Shin Liu, and C. P. Lee pp. 12514-12520 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise measurements and fractional charge in fractional quantum Hall liquids Nancy P. Sandler, Claudio de Chamon, and Eduardo Fradkin pp. 12521-12536 [View PDF (422 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cyclotron emission from quantized Hall devices: Injection of nonequilibrium electrons from contacts Y. Kawano, Y. Hisanaga, and S. Komiyama pp. 12537-12546 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-filled Landau level as a Fermi liquid of dipolar quasiparticles Ady Stern, Bertrand I. Halperin, Felix von Oppen, and Steven H. Simon pp. 12547-12567 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin exchange between a quantum well and the donor layer in Si/Si1-xCx H.-J. Kümmerer, K. Hüftle, C. Weinzierl, G. Denninger, N. Nestle, and K. Eberl pp. 12568-12572 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enlarged symmetry and coherence in arrays of quantum dots A. V. Onufriev and J. B. Marston pp. 12573-12578 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermoelectric power of bismuth nanowires J. Heremans and C. M. Thrush pp. 12579-12583 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Femtosecond four-wave-mixing spectroscopy of interacting magnetoexcitons in semiconductor quantum wells S. Yokojima, T. Meier, V. Chernyak, and S. Mukamel pp. 12584-12597 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hopping conduction and field effect in Si modulation-doped structures with embedded Ge quantum dots A. I. Yakimov, C. J. Adkins, R. Boucher, A. V. Dvurechenskii, A. I. Nikiforov, O. P. Pchelyakov, and G. Biskupski pp. 12598-12603 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomistic investigation of various GaN (0001) phases on the 6H-SiC (0001) surface Qi-zhen Xue, Q. K. Xue, R. Z. Bakhtizin, Y. Hasegawa, I. S. Tsong, T. Sakurai, and T. Ohno pp. 12604-12611 [View PDF (1289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical phonons in isotope superlattices of GaAs, GaP, and GaSb studied by Raman scattering A. Göbel, T. Ruf, A. Fischer, K. Eberl, M. Cardona, J. P. Silveira, and F. Briones pp. 12612-12621 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Strong localization of near-field second-harmonic generation for nonlinear mesoscopic surface structures Zhi-Yuan Li, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-Zhen Yang pp. 12622-12626 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weakly bound and strained C60 monolayer on the Si(111)sqrt[3]×sqrt[3]R30°-Ag substrate surface T. Nakayama, J. Onoe, K. Takeuchi, and M. Aono pp. 12627-12631 [View PDF (1125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mapping molecular orientation and conformation at interfaces by surface nonlinear optics X. Zhuang, P. B. Miranda, D. Kim, and Y. R. Shen pp. 12632-12640 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of ultrathin Ni/Cu(001) films as a function of film thickness, temperature, and magnetic order W. Platow, U. Bovensiepen, P. Poulopoulos, M. Farle, K. Baberschke, L. Hammer, S. Walter, S. Müller, and K. Heinz pp. 12641-12646 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrathin films of Mn on V{001}: γ- or δ-Mn? Y. Tian, F. Jona, and P. M. Marcus pp. 12647-12651 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of cylindrical simple-metal nanowires in the stabilized jellium model N. Zabala, M. J. Puska, and R. M. Nieminen pp. 12652-12660 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flat surface-plasmon-polariton bands and resonant optical absorption on short-pitch metal gratings W.-C. Tan, T. W. Preist, J. R. Sambles, and N. P. Wanstall pp. 12661-12666 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of titanium fulleride studied by x-ray spectroscopies L. Qian, L. Norin, J.-H. Guo, C. Såthe, A. Agui, U. Jansson, and J. Nordgren pp. 12667-12671 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometry and electronic structure of magic iron oxide clusters Q. Wang, Q. Sun, M. Sakurai, J. Z. Yu, B. L. Gu, K. Sumiyama, and Y. Kawazoe pp. 12672-12677 [View PDF (432 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio structural, elastic, and vibrational properties of carbon nanotubes Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Emilio Artacho, José M. Soler, Angel Rubio, and Pablo Ordejón pp. 12678-12688 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Lagrange-multiplier method in correlated-electron systems: Exact diagonalization study” Shun-Qing Shen pp. 12689-12691 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Lagrange-multiplier method in correlated-electron systems: Exact diagonalization study’ ” Takashi Yanagisawa pp. 12692 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Localized defect modes in a two-dimensional triangular photonic crystal [Phys. Rev. B 57, 15 242 (1998)] Vladimir Kuzmiak and Alexei A. Maradudin pp. 12693 [View PDF (19 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Correlation energy of an electron gas in strong magnetic fields at high densities [Phys. Rev. B 58, 15 460 (1998)] M. Steinberg and J. Ortner pp. 12693 [View PDF (43 kB) ]