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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

DX-behavior of Si in AlN R. Zeisel, M. W. Bayerl, S. T. Goennenwein, R. Dimitrov, O. Ambacher, M. S. Brandt, and M. Stutzmann pp. R16283-R16286 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ground-state properties of the Hubbard model by Lanczos diagonalizations Federico Becca, Alberto Parola, and Sandro Sorella pp. R16287-R16290 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Correlated sampling in quantum Monte Carlo: A route to forces Claudia Filippi and C. J. Umrigar pp. R16291-R16294 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electronic specific heat at the boundary region of the metal-insulator transition in the two-dimensional electronic system of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br Y. Nakazawa, H. Taniguchi, A. Kawamoto, and K. Kanoda pp. R16295-R16298 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum-critical dynamics of the Skyrmion lattice A. G. Green pp. R16299-R16302 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Noise of entangled electrons: Bunching and antibunching Guido Burkard, Daniel Loss, and Eugene V. Sukhorukov pp. R16303-R16306 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stability of trions in strongly spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gases S. A. Crooker, E. Johnston-Halperin, D. D. Awschalom, R. Knobel, and N. Samarth pp. R16307-R16310 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phonon-induced conductivity of ballistic quantum wires A. J. Kent, A. J. Naylor, P. Hawker, and M. Henini pp. R16311-R16314 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Addition spectrum of a lateral dot from Coulomb and spin-blockade spectroscopy M. Ciorga, A. S. Sachrajda, P. Hawrylak, C. Gould, P. Zawadzki, S. Jullian, Y. Feng, and Z. Wasilewski pp. R16315-R16318 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bernstein modes in density-modulated two-dimensional electron systems and quantum dots R. Krahne, M. Hochgräfe, Ch. Heyn, and D. Heitmann pp. R16319-R16322 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Imaging of low-compressibility strips in the quantum Hall liquid G. Finkelstein, P.I. Glicofridis, S.H. Tessmer, R.C. Ashoori, and M. R. Melloch pp. R16323-R16326 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Proposal for a quantum Hall pump Steven H. Simon pp. R16327-R16330 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Experimental determination of Auger capture coefficients in self-assembled quantum dots S. Raymond, K. Hinzer, S. Fafard, and J. L. Merz pp. R16331-R16334 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Understanding reflectance anisotropy: Surface-state signatures and bulk-related features in the optical spectrum of InP(001)(2×4) W. G. Schmidt, N. Esser, A. M. Frisch, P. Vogt, J. Bernholc, F. Bechstedt, M. Zorn, Th. Hannappel, S. Visbeck, F. Willig, and W. Richter pp. R16335-R16338 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Growth of mesoscopic correlated droplet patterns by high-vacuum sublimation Martin Brinkmann, Fabio Biscarini, Carlo Taliani, Iolinda Aiello, and Mauro Ghedini pp. R16339-R16342 [View PDF (412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes through energetic radical collisions Boris Ni and Susan B. Sinnott pp. R16343-R16346 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Structural determination by single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy and microscopy: Contrast between copper and iron carbonyls H. J. Lee and W. Ho pp. R16347-R16350 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ordered phases of atoms adsorbed in nanotube arrays Carlo Carraro pp. R16351-R16354 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Solving the phase problem in surface crystallography: Indirect excitation via a bulk reflection V. M. Kaganer, M. Albrecht, A. Hirnet, M. Gierer, W. Moritz, B. Jenichen, and K. H. Ploog pp. R16355-R16358 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fine structure in the energy spectra of ultrasmall Au nanoparticles Dragomir Davidović and M. Tinkham pp. R16359-R16361 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetoresistance and differential conductance in multiwalled carbon nanotubes Jeong-O Lee, Jae-Ryoung Kim, Ju-Jin Kim, Jinhee Kim, Nam Kim, Jong Wan Park, Kyung-Hwa Yoo, and Kang-Ho Park pp. R16362-R16365 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Friction, order, and transverse pinning of a two-dimensional elastic lattice under periodic and impurity potentials Takaaki Kawaguchi and Hiroshi Matsukawa pp. R16366-R16369 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Electronic structure of NiS1-xSex S. R. Krishnakumar, N. Shanthi, Priya Mahadevan, and D. D. Sarma pp. 16370-16376 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tricritical behavior in the extended Hubbard chains Masaaki Nakamura pp. 16377-16392 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interchain conductivity of coupled Luttinger liquids and organic conductors Antoine Georges, Thierry Giamarchi, and Nancy Sandler pp. 16393-16396 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional excitations in the Luttinger liquid K.-V. Pham, M. Gabay, and P. Lederer pp. 16397-16422 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of electron-hole interaction on the dynamic structure factor: Application to nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering J. A. Soininen and Eric L. Shirley pp. 16423-16429 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density functional for short-range correlation: Accuracy of the random-phase approximation for isoelectronic energy changes Zidan Yan, John P. Perdew, and Stefan Kurth pp. 16430-16439 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear-scaling density-functional theory with Gaussian orbitals and periodic boundary conditions: Efficient evaluation of energy and forces via the fast multipole method Konstantin N. Kudin and Gustavo E. Scuseria pp. 16440-16453 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic model for d-wave charge-carrier pairing and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a purely repulsive two-dimensional electron system Mona Berciu and Sajeev John pp. 16454-16469 [View PDF (558 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-species percolation and scaling theory of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions Yigal Meir pp. 16470-16476 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure, optical absorption, and luminescence energy calculations of Ce3+ defects in LiBaF3 M. Marsman, J. Andriessen, and C. W. van Eijk pp. 16477-16490 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	GW quasiparticle band structure of YH3 Takashi Miyake, Ferdi Aryasetiawan, Hiori Kino, and Kiyoyuki Terakura pp. 16491-16496 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical study of the piezochromic transition in CuMoO4 by pressure spectroscopy F. Rodríguez, D. Hernández, J. Garcia-Jaca, H. Ehrenberg, and H. Weitzel pp. 16497-16501 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical conductivity of finite metallic systems: Disorder Lucian Dulca, John Banhart, and Gerd Czycholl pp. 16502-16513 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric characterization of the water-matrix interaction in porous materials by thermal depolarization spectroscopy Anthony N. Papathanassiou and John Grammatikakis pp. 16514-16521 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon absorption of conduction-band electrons and their effects on laser-induced damage to optical materials Tian-qing Jia, Hong Chen, and Yu-mei Zhang pp. 16522-16529 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Site-selective yellow to violet and near-infrared to green upconversion in BaLu2F8:Nd3+ Oliver S. Wenger, Daniel R. Gamelin, Hans U. Güdel, Andrei V. Butashin, and Alexander A. Kaminskii pp. 16530-16537 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure, morphology, and optical properties of highly ordered films of para-sexiphenyl E. Zojer, N. Koch, P. Puschnig, F. Meghdadi, A. Niko, R. Resel, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, J. L. Brédas, and G. Leising pp. 16538-16549 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Peierls or Jahn-Teller effect in endohedrally doped silicon clathrates: An EXAFS study F. Brunet, P. Mélinon, A. San Miguel, P. Kéghélian, A. Perez, A. M. Flank, E. Reny, C. Cros, and M. Pouchard pp. 16550-16560 [View PDF (645 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum-dependent excitation processes in crystalline and amorphous films of conjugated oligomers E. Zojer, M. Knupfer, Z. Shuai, J. Fink, J. L. Brédas, H.-H. Hörhold, J. Grimme, U. Scherf, T. Benincori, and G. Leising pp. 16561-16569 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model for phase breaking in the electronic conduction in mesoscopic systems Pier A. Mello, Yoseph Imry, and Boris Shapiro pp. 16570-16581 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure and Fermi surface of CrO2 N. E. Brener, J. M. Tyler, J. Callaway, D. Bagayoko, and G. L. Zhao pp. 16582-16588 [View PDF (432 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Electronic structure, structural properties, and dielectric functions of IV-VI semiconductors: PbSe and PbTe E. A. Albanesi, C. M. Okoye, C. O. Rodriguez, E. L. Peltzer y Blanca, and A. G. Petukhov pp. 16589-16595 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variable-range hopping in the critical regime T. G. Castner pp. 16596-16609 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct observation of Fermi-pressure-driven electron-hole plasma expansion in GaAs on a picosecond time scale R. Ziebold, T. Witte, M. Hübner, and R. G. Ulbrich pp. 16610-16618 [View PDF (382 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auger decay, spin exchange, and their connection to Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in Cu2O G. M. Kavoulakis and A. Mysyrowicz pp. 16619-16622 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electronic states in valence and conduction bands of group-III nitrides: Experiment and theory K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, T. Suski, I. Gorczyca, N. E. Christensen, K. E. Attenkofer, R. C. Perera, E. M. Gullikson, J. H. Underwood, D. L. Ederer, and Z. Liliental Weber pp. 16623-16632 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and electronic characterization of a dissociated 60° dislocation in GeSi P. E. Batson pp. 16633-16641 [View PDF (1066 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Femtosecond high-field transport in compound semiconductors A. Leitenstorfer, S. Hunsche, J. Shah, M. C. Nuss, and W. H. Knox pp. 16642-16652 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton interaction with hot electrons in GaAs I. Reimand and J. Aaviksoo pp. 16653-16658 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weakly bound carbon-hydrogen complex in silicon L. Hoffmann, E. V. Lavrov, B. Bech Nielsen, B. Hourahine, R. Jones, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon pp. 16659-16666 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Maximum entropy principle within a total energy scheme: Application to hot-carrier transport in semiconductors M. Trovato and L. Reggiani pp. 16667-16681 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Ab initio calculation of the phonon dispersion of antimony-covered (110) surfaces of III-V compounds J. Fritsch, M. Arnold, and U. Schröder pp. 16682-16691 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray scattering study of the Ge(001):Te(1×1) surface structure Osami Sakata, P. F. Lyman, B. P. Tinkham, D. A. Walko, D. L. Marasco, T.-L. Lee, and M. J. Bedzyk pp. 16692-16696 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local adsorption geometry of acetylene on Si(100)(2×1) R. Terborg, P. Baumgärtel, R. Lindsay, O. Schaff, T. Gießel, J. T. Hoeft, M. Polcik, R. L. Toomes, S. Kulkarni, A. M. Bradshaw, and D. P. Woodruff pp. 16697-16703 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles calculations of the Si(110)(2×3)Sb surface Noboru Takeuchi pp. 16704-16707 [View PDF (409 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface acoustic waves and magnetotransport in an embedded modulated two-dimensional electron gas C. Eckl, Yu. A. Kosevich, and A. P. Mayer pp. 16708-16719 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impurity cyclotron resonance lines of barrier donor electrons in quantum wells David M. Larsen and Herbert L. Fox pp. 16720-16729 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ferromagnetic correlations in quasi-one-dimensional conducting channels Boris Spivak and Fei Zhou pp. 16730-16735 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metal-induced gap states and Schottky barrier heights at nonreactive GaN/noble-metal interfaces S. Picozzi, A. Continenza, G. Satta, S. Massidda, and A. J. Freeman pp. 16736-16742 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical transitions in broken gap heterostructures E. Halvorsen, Y. Galperin, and K. A. Chao pp. 16743-16749 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear response of a Kondo system: Perturbation approach to the time-dependent Anderson impurity model Y. Goldin and Y. Avishai pp. 16750-16772 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of InAs nanocrystal quantum dots Oded Millo, David Katz, YunWei Cao, and Uri Banin pp. 16773-16777 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium effects in transport through quantum dots E. Bascones, C. P. Herrero, F. Guinea, and Gerd Schön pp. 16778-16786 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wigner crystal state for the edge electrons in the quantum Hall effect at filling ν=2 J. P. Rodriguez, M. J. Franco, and L. Brey pp. 16787-16795 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of quantum interference in the nonlinear conductance of metallic microconstrictions A. Namiranian, Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, and A. N. Omelyanchouk pp. 16796-16800 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermopower of the molecular state in a double quantum dot Xiaoshuang Chen, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp pp. 16801-16806 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low- and high-field transport properties of modulation-doped Si/SiGe and Ge/SiGe heterostructures: Effect of phonon confinement in germanium quantum wells S. Madhavi, V. Venkataraman, J. C. Sturm, and Y. H. Xie pp. 16807-16818 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Character of the Cd distribution in ultrathin CdSe layers in a ZnSe matrix D. Litvinov, A. Rosenauer, D. Gerthsen, and N. N. Ledentsov pp. 16819-16826 [View PDF (682 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Raman spectral study of silicon nanowires: High-order scattering and phonon confinement effects Rong-ping Wang, Guang-wen Zhou, Yu-long Liu, Shao-hua Pan, Hong-zhou Zhang, Da-peng Yu, and Ze Zhang pp. 16827-16832 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier capture in ultrathin InAs/GaAs quantum wells J. Brübach, A. Yu. Silov, J. E. Haverkort, W. van der Vleuten, and J. H. Wolter pp. 16833-16840 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Layer interface roughness effects in the coherent intraband transitions of excitons in quantum well structures S. M. Sadeghi and J. Meyer pp. 16841-16846 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Capture, relaxation, and recombination in two-dimensional quantum-dot superlattices Sheng Lan, Kouichi Akahane, Hai-Zhi Song, Yoshitaka Okada, Mitsuo Kawabe, Tetsuya Nishimura, and Osamu Wada pp. 16847-16853 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-wire exciton dispersion in a multiband real-space scheme Anastassios Siarkos and Erich Runge pp. 16854-16861 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mobility of electrons in bulk GaN and AlxGa1-xN/GaN heterostructures B. K. Ridley, B. E. Foutz, and L. F. Eastman pp. 16862-16869 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Energy transfer from photocarriers into the magnetic ion system mediated by a two-dimensional electron gas in (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells B. König, I. A. Merkulov, D. R. Yakovlev, W. Ossau, S. M. Ryabchenko, M. Kutrowski, T. Wojtowicz, G. Karczewski, and J. Kossut pp. 16870-16882 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Stoichiometry and adhesion of Nb/Al2O3 W. Zhang and J. R. Smith pp. 16883-16889 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Stranski-Krastanov growth in 1+1 dimensions with anharmonic interactions: An equilibrium study Elka Korutcheva, Antonio M. Turiel, and Ivan Markov pp. 16890-16901 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Pb deposits on the Si(100)2×1 surface at room temperature L. Juré, L. Magaud, J.-M. Gómez-Rodríguez, P. Mallet, and J.-Y. Veuillen pp. 16902-16910 [View PDF (870 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational characterization of a high-density Ru(001)-(2×2)-(NO+3O) phase K. L. Kostov, D. Menzel, and W. Widdra pp. 16911-16920 [View PDF (270 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	H2 adsorbed in a two-dimensional quantum rotor state on a stepped copper surface L. Bengtsson, K. Svensson, M. Hassel, J. Bellman, M. Persson, and S. Andersson pp. 16921-16932 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational properties of ultrathin PTCDA films on Ag(110) F. S. Tautz, S. Sloboshanin, J. A. Schaefer, R. Scholz, V. Shklover, M. Sokolowski, and E. Umbach pp. 16933-16947 [View PDF (847 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure and chemical reactivity of oxide-metal interfaces: MgO(100)/Ag(100) S. Altieri, L. H. Tjeng, and G. A. Sawatzky pp. 16948-16955 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium electron dynamics in noble metals N. Del Fatti, C. Voisin, M. Achermann, S. Tzortzakis, D. Christofilos, and F. Vallée pp. 16956-16966 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Temperature dependence of silicon carbide interface formation:  A photoelectron spectroscopy study P. Reinke, D. Rudmann, and P. Oelhafen pp. 16967-16971 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]