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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Field-dependent specific heat in Fe2VAl and the question of possible 3d heavy fermion behavior C. S. Lue, Joseph H. Ross, C. F. Chang, and H. D. Yang pp. R13941-R13945 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coupled-cluster approach to electron correlations in the two-dimensional Hubbard model Yoshihiro Asai and Hideki Katagiri pp. R13946-R13949 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Droplet state in an interacting two-dimensional electron system Junren Shi, Song He, and X. C. Xie pp. R13950-R13953 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Coulomb interaction of two electrons in the quantum dot formed by the surface acoustic wave in a narrow channel Godfrey Gumbs, G. R. Aǐzin, and M. Pepper pp. R13954-R13957 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetocapacitance and far-infrared photoconductivity in GaSb/InAs composite quantum wells M. J. Yang, C. H. Yang, and B. R. Bennett pp. R13958-R13961 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Modification of the Fermi-level pinning of GaAs surfaces through InAs quantum dots C. Walther, R. P. Blum, H. Niehus, W. T. Masselink, and A. Thamm pp. R13962-R13965 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orbital current mode in elliptical quantum dots Llorenç Serra, Antonio Puente, and Enrico Lipparini pp. R13966-R13969 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron spectrum of a semiconductor quantum dot influenced by an interface Leonid S. Braginsky pp. R13970-R13973 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anticrossing of the one-dimensional plasmon and the Kohn’s mode in periodically modulated quantum wires M. Hochgräfe, R. Krahne, Ch. Heyn, and D. Heitmann pp. R13974-R13976 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mesoscopic fluctuations of the ground-state spin of a small metal particle P. W. Brouwer, Yuval Oreg, and B. I. Halperin pp. R13977-R13980 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Breaking of phase rigidity by a time-varying field for a two-terminal modified Aharonov-Bohm ring Qing-feng Sun, Jian Wang, and Tsung-han Lin pp. R13981-R13984 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of an in-plane magnetic field on magnetic phase transitions in ν=2 bilayer quantum Hall systems Min-Fong Yang and Ming-Che Chang pp. R13985-R13988 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Zero-field spin splitting in InAs-AlSb quantum wells revisited S. Brosig, K. Ensslin, R. J. Warburton, C. Nguyen, B. Brar, M. Thomas, and H. Kroemer pp. R13989-R13992 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coherent carrier propagation in the continuum of asymmetric quantum-well structures C. Schönbein, H. Schneider, and M. Walther pp. R13993-R13996 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical second-harmonic generation from Ag quantum wells on Si(111)7×7: Experiment and theory Thomas Garm Pedersen, Kjeld Pedersen, and Thomas Brun Kristensen pp. R13997-R14000 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anti-Stokes photoluminescence of InP self-assembled quantum dots in the presence of electric current Ivan V. Ignatiev, Igor E. Kozin, Hong-Wen Ren, Shigeo Sugou, and Yasuaki Masumoto pp. R14001-R14004 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Suppression of carbon erosion by hydrogen shielding during high-flux hydrogen bombardment E. Salonen, K. Nordlund, J. Tarus, T. Ahlgren, J. Keinonen, and C. H. Wu pp. R14005-R14008 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Possible explanation for the conductance of a single quantum unit in metallic carbon nanotubes Hyoung Joon Choi, Jisoon Ihm, Young-Gui Yoon, and Steven G. Louie pp. R14009-R14011 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dependence of fluorescence lifetimes of Y2O3:Eu3+ nanoparticles on the surrounding medium R. S. Meltzer, S. P. Feofilov, B. Tissue, and H. B. Yuan pp. R14012-R14015 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dissociative chemisorption of hydrogen on Ir(111): Evidence for terminal site adsorption Christopher J. Hagedorn, Michael J. Weiss, and W. Henry Weinberg pp. R14016-R14018 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Sliding and quantum interference of charge-density waves moving through columnar defects in NbSe3 Yu. I. Latyshev, O. Laborde, Th. Fournier, and P. Monceau pp. 14019-14024 [View PDF (433 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculation of near-edge structures in electron-energy-loss spectra for metal-oxide crystals S. Köstlmeier and C. Elsässer pp. 14025-14034 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Full-potential band-structure calculation of iron pyrite I. Opahle, K. Koepernik, and H. Eschrig pp. 14035-14041 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio Hartree-Fock investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Mn3O4 Alain Chartier, Philippe D’Arco, Roberto Dovesi, and Victor R. Saunders pp. 14042-14048 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of alloying on the electron momentum density in the Cu-Ni system C. Metz, Th. Tschentscher, T. Sattler, K. Höppner, J. R. Schneider, K. Wittmaack, D. Frischke, and F. Bell pp. 14049-14056 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay between transport, magnetic, and ordering phenomena in Sm1-xCaxMnO3 J. Hejtmánek, Z. Jirák, M. Maryško, C. Martin, A. Maignan, M. Hervieu, and B. Raveau pp. 14057-14065 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of ac conductivity near the Anderson transition Hiroyuki Shima and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama pp. 14066-14071 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum theory of an exciton condensate subject to radiative decay P. Stenius pp. 14072-14079 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of dimensionality and anisotropy on the Holstein polaron Aldo H. Romero, David W. Brown, and Katja Lindenberg pp. 14080-14091 [View PDF (545 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical properties of the one-dimensional Holstein model Chunli Zhang, Eric Jeckelmann, and Steven R. White pp. 14092-14104 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculated magneto-optical properties of cubic and tetragonal Fe, Co, and Ni Anna Delin, Olle Eriksson, Börje Johansson, Sushil Auluck, and J. M. Wills pp. 14105-14114 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric and electronic structure effects in polarized V K-edge absorption near-edge structure spectra of V2O5 O. Šipr, A. Šimůnek, S. Bocharov, Th. Kirchner, and G. Dräger pp. 14115-14127 [View PDF (424 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the L3 edge of samarium J.-J. Gallet, J.-M. Mariot, L. Journel, C. F. Hague, A. Rogalev, H. Ogasawara, A. Kotani, and M. Sacchi pp. 14128-14131 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of nonlinear core corrections for density-functional based pseudopotential calculations Dirk Porezag, Mark R. Pederson, and Amy Y. Liu pp. 14132-14139 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear optical properties of one-dimensional Frenkel exciton systems with intersite energy correlations V. A. Malyshev, A. Rodríguez, and F. Domínguez-Adame pp. 14140-14146 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plasmon excitations in small diamond spheres by fast penetrating electrons R. P. Fehlhaber and L. A. Bursill pp. 14147-14153 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Hall ferromagnets: Induced topological term and electromagnetic interactions Rashmi Ray pp. 14154-14162 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static and dynamical strain control of ferromagnetism in (La0.5Sr0.5)CoO3/(Ba,Sr,Ca)TiO3 artificial lattices Hidekazu Tanaka and Tomoji Kawai pp. 14163-14171 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Graded transmission in a bent orifice Er’el Granot pp. 14172-14176 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Structural and electronic properties of germanium clathrates Ge46 and K8Ge46 Jijun Zhao, Alper Buldum, Jian Ping Lu, and C. Y. Fong pp. 14177-14181 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deconvolution of activated and variable-range-hopping conduction for barely insulating arsenic-doped silicon T. G. Castner and W. N. Shafarman pp. 14182-14196 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles study of the quantum states of muonium and hydrogen in crystalline silicon Takashi Miyake, Tadashi Ogitsu, and Shinji Tsuneyuki pp. 14197-14204 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of topological disorder on phase separation and local order in a-Si1-xGex alloys C. Tzoumanekas and P. C. Kelires pp. 14205-14208 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Metal-insulator transition in amorphous Si1-xNix: Evidence for Mott’s minimum metallic conductivity A. Möbius, C. Frenzel, R. Thielsch, R. Rosenbaum, C. J. Adkins, M. Schreiber, H.-D. Bauer, R. Grötzschel, V. Hoffmann, T. Krieg, N. Matz, H. Vinzelberg, and M. Witcomb pp. 14209-14223 [View PDF (344 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange and correlation effects beyond the LDA on the dielectric function of silicon Valerio Olevano, Maurizia Palummo, Giovanni Onida, and Rodolfo Del Sole pp. 14224-14233 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-time electron-LO-phonon quantum kinetics and the generalized Kadanoff-Baym approximation P. Gartner, L. Bányai, and H. Haug pp. 14234-14241 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon sidebands and optical gain of light-emitting conjugated polymers Hsin-Fei Meng and Vincent Chia-Hung Chang pp. 14242-14254 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Polarization dependence of the resonant Raman scattering from electrons in a spin-split subband of a III-V semiconductor quantum well V. A. Froltsov, A. G. Mal’shukov, and K. A. Chao pp. 14255-14259 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth of high-density small Ag islands on the Si(111)7×7 surface with adatom defects H. Hirayama, H. Okamoto, and K. Takayanagi pp. 14260-14264 [View PDF (386 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron escape from InAs quantum dots C. M. Kapteyn, F. Heinrichsdorff, O. Stier, R. Heitz, M. Grundmann, N. D. Zakharov, D. Bimberg, and P. Werner pp. 14265-14268 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary conditions in the effective-mass approximation with a position-dependent mass Mats-Erik Pistol pp. 14269-14271 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of the spin-orbit interaction on the band structure and conductance of quasi-one-dimensional systems A. V. Moroz and C. H. Barnes pp. 14272-14285 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism of the enhanced thermoelectric power in (111)-oriented n-type PbTe/Pb1-xEuxTe multiple quantum wells T. Koga, T. C. Harman, S. B. Cronin, and M. S. Dresselhaus pp. 14286-14293 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	TE- and TM-polarized roughness-assisted free-carrier absorption in quantum wells at midinfrared and terahertz wavelengths I. Vurgaftman and J. R. Meyer pp. 14294-14301 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cascade mixing in AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs during sputter profiling by noble-gas ions M. K. Linnarsson and B. G. Svensson pp. 14302-14310 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic and electronic structure of WSe2 from ab initio theory: Bulk crystal and thin film systems D. Voß, P. Krüger, A. Mazur, and J. Pollmann pp. 14311-14317 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant tunneling through linear arrays of quantum dots M. R. Wegewijs and Yu. V. Nazarov pp. 14318-14327 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Imaging point defects in a liquid environment: A model AFM study Kenichiro Koga and X. C. Zeng pp. 14328-14333 [View PDF (448 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Visible-infrared sum and difference frequency generation at adsorbate-covered Au Bernardo S. Mendoza, W. Luis Mochán, and Jesús A. Maytorena pp. 14334-14340 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth process and compressed phase of DMe-DCNQI on Ag(110) in the monolayer regime observed by LEED, XPS, and STM C. Seidel, H. Kopf, and H. Fuchs pp. 14341-14347 [View PDF (611 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of pore fractal dimensions and porosity of silica glasses from the dielectric response at percolation Alexander Puzenko, Nick Kozlovich, Anna Gutina, and Yuri Feldman pp. 14348-14359 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amorphous Fe-Si and Fe-Ge nanostructures quantitatively analyzed by x-ray-photoelectron spectroscopy Marika Schleberger, Peter Walser, Michael Hunziker, and Martin Landolt pp. 14360-14365 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Faceting and stress of missing-row reconstructed transition-metal (110) surfaces Alessio Filippetti and Vincenzo Fiorentini pp. 14366-14371 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analysis of surface structures through determination of their composition using STM: Si(100)4×3-In and Si(111)4×1-In reconstructions A. A. Saranin, A. V. Zotov, V. G. Lifshits, J. -T. Ryu, O. Kubo, H. Tani, T. Harada, M. Katayama, and K. Oura pp. 14372-14381 [View PDF (720 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic exchange processes and bimodal initial growth of Co/Cu(001) F. Nouvertné, U. May, M. Bamming, A. Rampe, U. Korte, G. Güntherodt, R. Pentcheva, and M. Scheffler pp. 14382-14386 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic-oxygen-assisted MBE growth of α-Fe2O3 on α-Al2O3(0001): Metastable FeO(111)-like phase at subnanometer thicknesses Susana Gota, Eric Guiot, Michèle Henriot, and Martine Gautier-Soyer pp. 14387-14395 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen adsorbed on oxidized Ru(0001) Artur Böttcher and Horst Niehus pp. 14396-14404 [View PDF (656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subthreshold desorption of metastable Ar* via electron resonances in thin O2-doped Ar films A. D. Bass, E. Vichnevetski, and L. Sanche pp. 14405-14411 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutralization of O+ during scattering and ion-stimulated desorption from the TiC(100) surface R. Souda, H. Kawanowa, S. Otani, and T. Aizawa pp. 14412-14416 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction rates for ionized physical vapor deposition modeling from molecular-dynamics calculations: Effect of surface roughness U. Hansen and A. Kersch pp. 14417-14421 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitonic singlet-triplet ratio in a semiconducting organic thin film M. A. Baldo, D. F. O’Brien, M. E. Thompson, and S. R. Forrest pp. 14422-14428 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of ferromagnetic order of Fe overlayers on the Rh(001) surface Chanyong Hwang, A. K. Swan, and S. C. Hong pp. 14429-14433 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	π plasmons in two-dimensional arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes F. L. Shyu and M. F. Lin pp. 14434-14440 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]