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  • Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems
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  • Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics
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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

Periodic orbit resonances in layered metals in tilted magnetic fields Ross H. McKenzie and Perez Moses pp. R11241-R11244 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Localization and anticrossing of electron levels in GaAs1-xNx alloys T. Mattila, Su-Huai Wei, and Alex Zunger pp. R11245-R11248 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

NMR evidence for Kondo disorder in UCu3.5Pd1.5 B. Ambrosini, J. L. Gavilano, P. Vonlanthen, and H. R. Ott pp. R11249-R11252 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical studies of triplet excitations in poly(p-phenylene vinylene) R. Österbacka, M. Wohlgenannt, D. Chinn, and Z. V. Vardeny pp. R11253-R11256 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Quantum interference control of current in semiconductors: Universal scaling and polarization effects M. Sheik-Bahae pp. R11257-R11260 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Crystal anisotropy and spin-polarized photoluminescence of ordered GaxIn1-xP B. Fluegel, Y. Zhang, A. Mascarenhas, J. F. Geisz, J. M. Olson, and A. Duda pp. R11261-R11264 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ultrafast electron-phonon scattering in semiconductors studied by nondegenerate four-wave mixing M. Betz, G. Göger, A. Leitenstorfer, K. Ortner, C. R. Becker, G. Böhm, and A. Laubereau pp. R11265-R11268 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Chemical differences in surface diffusion: Si and Ge adatoms at the DB step on the hydrogenated Si(100) surface Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama pp. R11269-R11272 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-dimensional electron-hole systems in a strong magnetic field: Composite fermion picture for multicomponent plasmas Arkadiusz Wójs, Izabela Szlufarska, Kyung-Soo Yi, and John J. Quinn pp. R11273-R11276 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Experimental observation of the de Haas–van Alphen effect in a multiband quantum-well sample R. A. Shepherd, M. Elliott, W. G. Herrenden-Harker, M. Zervos, P. R. Morris, M. Beck, and M. Ilegems pp. R11277-R11280 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of electron-electron interactions on a two-dimensional electron gas in II-VI ZnS0.06Se0.94/Zn0.8Cd0.2Se quantum wells Ikai Lo, S. J. Chen, Li-Wei Tu, W. C. Mitchel, R. C. Tu, and Y. K. Su pp. R11281-R11284 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Insulating phases of two-dimensional electrons in high Landau levels: Observation of sharp thresholds to conduction K. B. Cooper, M. P. Lilly, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West pp. R11285-R11288 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electronic structure of self-assembled InAs quantum dots in InP: An anisotropic quantum-dot system H. Pettersson, R. J. Warburton, J. P. Kotthaus, N. Carlsson, W. Seifert, M.-E. Pistol, and L. Samuelson pp. R11289-R11292 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinearities in emission from the lower polariton branch of semiconductor microcavities A. I. Tartakovskii, V. D. Kulakovskii, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, V. N. Astratov, A. Armitage, and J. S. Roberts pp. R11293-R11296 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Photoelectron spectra of aluminum cluster anions: Temperature effects and ab initio simulations Jaakko Akola, Matti Manninen, Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman, Xi Li, and Lai-Sheng Wang pp. R11297-R11300 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic-scale stick-slip processes on Cu(111) R. Bennewitz, T. Gyalog, M. Guggisberg, M. Bammerlin, E. Meyer, and H.-J. Güntherodt pp. R11301-R11304 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Far-infrared gaps in single-wall carbon nanotubes A. Ugawa, A. G. Rinzler, and D. B. Tanner pp. R11305-R11308 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Giant thermopower in carbon nanotubes: A one-dimensional Kondo system L. Grigorian, G. U. Sumanasekera, A. L. Loper, S. L. Fang, J. L. Allen, and P. C. Eklund pp. R11309-R11312 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stress dependence of the magnetoelastic coupling constants B1 and B2 of epitaxial Fe(001) G. Wedler, J. Walz, A. Greuer, and R. Koch pp. R11313-R11316 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mechanisms of mound coarsening in unstable epitaxial growth Jacques G. Amar pp. R11317-R11320 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Optical properties of MFe4P12 filled skutterudites S. V. Dordevic, N. R. Dilley, E. D. Bauer, D. N. Basov, M. B. Maple, and L. Degiorgi pp. 11321-11328 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal density scheme for electronic-structure calculations Maurizia Palummo, Giovanni Onida, Rodolfo Del Sole, Massimiliano Corradini, and Lucia Reining pp. 11329-11335 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General result on charged and spin-excitation gaps in strongly correlated electron systems at half filling Guang-Shan Tian and Lei-Han Tang pp. 11336-11344 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of self-consistent solutions for the Hubbard model at intermediate and strong coupling V. Janiš pp. 11345-11360 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic Anderson model from the atomic limit and FeSi M. E. Foglio and M. S. Figueira pp. 11361-11373 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triplet-excitation transport kinetics in ultrathin molecular pores and wires S. A. Bagnich pp. 11374-11379 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited-state absorption spectroscopy of Er3+-doped Y3Al5O12, YVO4, and phosphate glass P. Le Boulanger, J.-L. Doualan, S. Girard, J. Margerie, and R. Moncorgé pp. 11380-11390 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body and one-body channels of the Auger core-valence-valence decay: A simplified approach Andrea Marini and Michele Cini pp. 11391-11403 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Physical optimization of quantum error correction circuits Guido Burkard, Daniel Loss, David P. DiVincenzo, and John A. Smolin pp. 11404-11416 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large absolute photonic band gaps created by rotating noncircular rods in two-dimensional lattices Xue-Hua Wang, Ben-Yuan Gu, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Guo-Zhen Yang pp. 11417-11421 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral properties of opal-based photonic crystals having a SiO2 matrix A. Reynolds, F. López-Tejeira, D. Cassagne, F. J. García-Vidal, C. Jouanin, and J. Sánchez-Dehesa pp. 11422-11426 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon dispersions: Performance of the generalized gradient approximation Fabio Favot and Andrea Dal Corso pp. 11427-11431 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperelliptic curves for multichannel quantum wires and the multichannel Kondo problem P. Fendley and H. Saleur pp. 11432-11438 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature spin dynamics of doped manganites: Roles of Mn t2g, Mn eg, and O 2p states Priya Mahadevan, I. V. Solovyev, and K. Terakura pp. 11439-11443 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization-dependent x-ray-absorption spectroscopy of single-crystal YNi2B2C superconductors H. von Lips, Z. Hu, C. Grazioli, S.-L. Drechsler, G. Behr, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, H. Rosner, and G. Kaindl pp. 11444-11448 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Computational study of interstitial oxygen and vacancy-oxygen complexes in silicon M. Pesola, J. von Boehm, T. Mattila, and R. M. Nieminen pp. 11449-11463 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Carrier concentration and lattice absorption in bulk and epitaxial silicon carbide determined using infrared ellipsometry Thomas E. Tiwald, John A. Woollam, Stefan Zollner, Jim Christiansen, R. B. Gregory, T. Wetteroth, S. R. Wilson, and Adrian R. Powell pp. 11464-11474 [View PDF (581 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformational disorder in vitreous systems probed by photoluminescence activity in SiO2 M. Leone, S. Agnello, R. Boscaino, M. Cannas, and F. M. Gelardi pp. 11475-11481 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frequency dependence of scaling exponents of hyperpolarizability in polyenes: A density-matrix renormalization-group approach G. P. Zhang pp. 11482-11486 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise and electron diffusion in doped n-type GaAs at heating electric fields R. Katilius, J. Liberis, A. Matulionis, R. Raguotis, P. Sakalas, J.-P. Nougier, J. C. Vaissière, L. Varani, and L. Rota pp. 11487-11493 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and optical properties of Si1-yCy alloys George Theodorou, George Tsegas, Pantelis C. Kelires, and Efthimios Kaxiras pp. 11494-11502 [View PDF (453 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature microscopy and spectroscopy on single defect centers in diamond A. Dräbenstedt, L. Fleury, C. Tietz, F. Jelezko, S. Kilin, A. Nizovtzev, and J. Wrachtrup pp. 11503-11508 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Stable adsorption sites and potential-energy surface of a Ga adatom on a GaAs(111)A surface Akihito Taguchi, Kenji Shiraishi, and Tomonori Ito pp. 11509-11513 [View PDF (369 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ellipsoidal deformation of vertical quantum dots D. G. Austing, S. Sasaki, S. Tarucha, S. M. Reimann, M. Koskinen, and M. Manninen pp. 11514-11523 [View PDF (367 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of hexagonal lateral ordering in strain-symmetrized PbSe/Pb1-xEuxTe quantum-dot superlattices M. Pinczolits, G. Springholz, and G. Bauer pp. 11524-11529 [View PDF (529 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance of one-dimensional subbands in tunnel-coupled double quantum wires J. S. Moon, M. A. Blount, J. A. Simmons, J. R. Wendt, S. K. Lyo, and J. L. Reno pp. 11530-11534 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absence of commensurability in magnetic antidot arrays with classical chaos Ralf Hennig and Michael Suhrke pp. 11535-11539 [View PDF (430 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of quantum spheres with wurtzite structure Jian-Bai Xia and Jingbo Li pp. 11540-11544 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton magnetic polarons in asymmetric diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells T. Stirner, J. Miao, W. E. Hagston, S. Takeyama, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Kossut pp. 11545-11549 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field-induced cavity polariton linewidth reduction in a GaAs/Al0.1Ga0.9As microcavity R. Harel, E. Cohen, Arza Ron, E. Linder, and L. N. Pfeiffer pp. 11550-11556 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical response of reconstructed GaP(001) surfaces M. Zorn, B. Junno, T. Trepk, S. Bose, L. Samuelson, J.-T. Zettler, and W. Richter pp. 11557-11563 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupling of InGaN quantum-well photoluminescence to silver surface plasmons I. Gontijo, M. Boroditsky, E. Yablonovitch, S. Keller, U. K. Mishra, and S. P. DenBaars pp. 11564-11567 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillator strength transfer from X to X+ in a CdTe quantum-well microcavity T. Brunhes, R. André, A. Arnoult, J. Cibert, and A. Wasiela pp. 11568-11571 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Luminescence processes in amorphous hydrogenated silicon-nitride nanometric multilayers F. Giorgis, C. F. Pirri, C. Vinegoni, and L. Pavesi pp. 11572-11576 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Valence-band photoemission from the GaN(0001) surface T. Strasser, C. Solterbeck, F. Starrost, and W. Schattke pp. 11577-11585 [View PDF (503 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution photoemission study of acetylene adsorption and reaction with the Si(100)-2×1 surface S. H. Xu, Y. Yang, M. Keeffe, G. J. Lapeyre, and E. Rotenberg pp. 11586-11592 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fullerene-structured nanowires of silicon Bjorn Marsen and Klaus Sattler pp. 11593-11600 [View PDF (412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compositional dependence of the elastic constants and the lattice parameter of AlxGa1-xAs S. Gehrsitz, H. Sigg, N. Herres, K. Bachem, K. Köhler, and F. K. Reinhart pp. 11601-11610 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Persistent current of three-dimensional spherical shells billiards Jun Ma and Katsuhiro Nakamura pp. 11611-11617 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman and photoluminescence investigations of disorder in ZnSe films deposited on n-GaAs Tapas Ganguli and Alka Ingale pp. 11618-11623 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of defect states on the nonlinear optical properties of GaN H. Haag, B. Hönerlage, O. Briot, and R. L. Aulombard pp. 11624-11630 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles investigation of tip-surface interaction on a GaAs(110) surface: Implications for atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopies S. H. Ke, T. Uda, R. Pérez, I. Štich, and K. Terakura pp. 11631-11638 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of tip-surface interactions in atomic force microscopy of an InP(110) surface with a Si tip J. Tóbik, I. Štich, R. Pérez, and K. Terakura pp. 11639-11644 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional epitaxial ErSi2 grown on B-passivated Si(111)-sqrt[3]×sqrt[3]R30° surfaces S. Pelletier, E. Ehret, B. Gautier, F. Palmino, J. C. Labrune, P. Wetzel, C. Pirri, and G. Gewinner pp. 11645-11652 [View PDF (684 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray photoelectron characterization of 6H-SiC(0001) L. Simon, J. L. Bischoff, and L. Kubler pp. 11653-11660 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitonic ions and pseudopotentials in two-dimensional systems: Evidence for quantum Hall states of an X- gas Arkadiusz Wójs, Pawel Hawrylak, and John J. Quinn pp. 11661-11665 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron spin resonance investigation of electronic states in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon J. Müller, F. Finger, R. Carius, and H. Wagner pp. 11666-11677 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Peltier effect and thermoconductance in nanowires E. N. Bogachek, A. G. Scherbakov, and Uzi Landman pp. 11678-11682 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo study of shot-noise suppression in semiconductor heterostructure diodes A. Reklaitis and L. Reggiani pp. 11683-11693 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization processes and reorientation transition for small magnetic dots R. L. Stamps and R. E. Camley pp. 11694-11699 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	X-ray photoelectron diffraction and Auger electron diffraction from TiO2(100) P. J. Hardman, P. L. Wincott, G. Thornton, A. P. Kaduwela, and C. S. Fadley pp. 11700-11706 [View PDF (776 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local layer-by-layer growth of Ni on hydrogen-terminated diamond C(111): A combined helium-atom scattering and XPS study J. Braun, J. P. Toennies, and Ch. Wöll pp. 11707-11715 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of noncontact dissipation force microscopy Michel Gauthier and Masaru Tsukada pp. 11716-11722 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trapping and desorption of energetic Cu atoms on Cu(111) and (001) surfaces at grazing incidence D. E. Hanson, J. D. Kress, A. F. Voter, and X.-Y. Liu pp. 11723-11729 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragmentation and recombination of copper dimers deposited on an Ar film M. Ratner, W. Harbich, and S. Fedrigo pp. 11730-11733 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the potential range on the heat capacity of 13-atom Morse clusters Michael Moseler and Johannes Nordiek pp. 11734-11737 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron dynamics in silver nanoparticles: Comparison between thin films and glass embedded nanoparticles V. Halté, J. Guille, J.-C. Merle, I. Perakis, and J.-Y. Bigot pp. 11738-11746 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster modeling of electronic structure and nonlinear properties for the optical materials MB6O10 (M=Cs2,Li2,CsLi) Wen-Dan Cheng, Jiu-Tong Chen, Qi-Shen Lin, Qian-Er Zhang, and Jia-Xi Lu pp. 11747-11754 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Line-focus probe excitation of Scholte acoustic waves at the liquid-loaded surfaces of periodic structures A. G. Every, R. E. Vines, and J. P. Wolfe pp. 11755-11760 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Essential finite-size effect in the two-dimensional XY model S. G. Chung pp. 11761-11764 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat of C60 and K3C60 thin films for T=6–400 K K. Allen and F. Hellman pp. 11765-11772 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotopic ordering in adsorbed hydrogen monolayers M. Bienfait, P. Zeppenfeld, R. C. Ramos, J. M. Gay, O. E. Vilches, and G. Coddens pp. 11773-11782 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resolving discrepancies between LEED and STM through ab initio calculations: Surface and bonding of sulfur on Mo(110) M. Chen, P. G. Clark, T. Mueller, C. M. Friend, and Efthimios Kaxiras pp. 11783-11788 [View PDF (511 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociation of N2 on chromium alloys:  A general mechanism for dissociation of diatomic molecules T. C. Guimarães, A. C. Pavão, C. A. Taft, and W. A. Lester pp. 11789-11794 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-energy of image states on copper surfaces I. Sarria, J. Osma, E. V. Chulkov, J. M. Pitarke, and P. M. Echenique pp. 11795-11803 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier mobilities and influence of oxygen in C60 films R. Könenkamp, G. Priebe, and B. Pietzak pp. 11804-11808 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology and magnetism of ultrathin Fe films on Pd(100) X. F. Jin, J. Barthel, J. Shen, S. S. Manoharan, and J. Kirschner pp. 11809-11812 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]