Physical Review B – 15 December 2000
(Volume 62, Issue 23)

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Add to article collection Exact bounds on the ground-state energy of the infinite-U Hubbard model
Federico Becca, Luca Capriotti, Sandro Sorella, and Alberto Parola
pp. 15277-15278 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fluctuation-correlation analysis of the Calogero-Sutherland model
Rudolf A. Römer and Paul Ziesche
pp. 15279-15282 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection First-principles molecular dynamics of metals: A Lagrangian formulation
Massimiliano Stengel and Alessandro De Vita
pp. 15283-15286 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Universal features of self-trapping in nonlinear tight-binding lattices
C. A. Bustamante and M. I. Molina
pp. 15287-15290 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mechanism of population inversion in uniaxially strained p-Ge continuous-wave lasers
M. A. Odnoblyudov, I. N. Yassievich, M. S. Kagan, and K. A. Chao
pp. 15291-15294 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interpretation of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and x-ray absorption near-edge structure in Ni
A. I. Nesvizhskii, A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr, and K. Baberschke
pp. 15295-15298 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metallic photonic crystals at optical wavelengths
I. El-Kady, M. M. Sigalas, R. Biswas, K. M. Ho, and C. M. Soukoulis
pp. 15299-15302 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Add to article collection Approximate ab initio calculations of electronic structure of amorphous silicon
M. Durandurdu, D. A. Drabold, and N. Mousseau
pp. 15307-15310 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Unusual evolution of the lowest unoccupied state in Ga(As0.5-yP0.5-yN2y)
L. Bellaiche, N. A. Modine, and E. D. Jones
pp. 15311-15314 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Passivation and thermal reactivation of Mg acceptors in p-type GaAs
M. C. Wagener, J. R. Botha, and A. W. Leitch
pp. 15315-15318 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Surface topography of the Si(111)-7×7 reconstruction
S. H. Ke, T. Uda, and K. Terakura
pp. 15319-15322 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical observation of the energy-momentum dispersion of spatially indirect excitons
A. Parlangeli, P. C. Christianen, J. C. Maan, I. V. Tokatly, C. B. Soerensen, and P. E. Lindelof
pp. 15323-15326 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Hydrogenic impurity states at a semiconductor edge
Yosuke Kayanuma
pp. 15334-15336 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Surface polymerization of epitaxial Sb wires on Si(001)
S. Rogge, R. H. Timmerman, P. M. Scholte, L. J. Geerligs, and H. W. Salemink
pp. 15341-15344 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Excitation of two-dimensional plasmons with cross-grating couplers
R. Krahne, M. Hochgräfe, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, M. Hauser, and K. Eberl
pp. 15345-15347 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metal-insulator transitions in the cyclotron resonance of periodic semiconductor nanostructures due to avoided band crossings
L. Hufnagel, M. Weiss, A. Iomin, R. Ketzmerick, S. Fishman, and T. Geisel
pp. 15348-15351 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum ac transport through coupled quantum dots
Zhongshui Ma, Junren Shi, and X. C. Xie
pp. 15352-15355 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase breaking and energy relaxation in open quantum-dot arrays
C. Prasad, D. K. Ferry, A. Shailos, M. Elhassan, J. P. Bird, L.-H. Lin, N. Aoki, Y. Ochiai, K. Ishibashi, and Y. Aoyagi
pp. 15356-15358 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Derivation of the semicircle law from the law of corresponding states
C. P. Burgess, Rim Dib, and Brian P. Dolan
pp. 15359-15362 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase diagram of the integer quantum Hall effect
D. N. Sheng and Z. Y. Weng
pp. 15363-15366 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Paired Hall states versus unidirectional CDW in a tilted field for ν=5 / 2
Yue Yu, Shi-Jie Yang, and Zhao-Bin Su
pp. 15371-15374 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Confinement symmetry, mobility anisotropy, and metallic behavior in (311)A GaAs two-dimensional holes
S. J. Papadakis, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan
pp. 15375-15378 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quasielastic light scattering in silicon
P. R. Stoddart and J. D. Comins
pp. 15383-15385 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Coherent control and enhancement of refractive index in an asymmetric double quantum well
S. M. Sadeghi, H. M. van Driel, and J. M. Fraser
pp. 15386-15389 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Onset of exciton absorption in modulation-doped GaAs quantum wells
G. Yusa, H. Shtrikman, and I. Bar-Joseph
pp. 15390-15393 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Add to article collection Carbon clusters near the crossover to fullerene stability
P. R. Kent, M. D. Towler, R. J. Needs, and G. Rajagopal
pp. 15394-15397 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Strain relief and island shape evolution in heteroepitaxial metal growth
V. S. Stepanyuk, D. I. Bazhanov, A. N. Baranov, W. Hergert, P. H. Dederichs, and J. Kirschner
pp. 15398-15401 [View PDF (379 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reversibility of water dissociation on the MgO (100) surface
Livia Giordano, Jacek Goniakowski, and Jean Suzanne
pp. 15406-15408 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Surface size effect on the growth mode and morphology of InP epitaxial films
H. R. Gutiérrez, M. A. Cotta, J. R. Bortoleto, D. Ugarte, M. A. Pudenzi, A. L. Gobbi, and M. M. de Carvalho
pp. 15409-15412 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic and electronic shells of Al77
X. G. Gong, D. Y. Sun, and Xiao-Qian Wang
pp. 15413-15416 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy of the Na/Cu(110)(1×2) surface reconstruction
D. S. Martin, A. M. Davarpanah, S. D. Barrett, and P. Weightman
pp. 15417-15419 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Solid C36 as hexaclathrate form of carbon
Madhu Menon, Ernst Richter, and Leonid Chernozatonskii
pp. 15420-15423 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection No multiatom resonances observed in x-ray fluorescence
A. Moewes, E. Z. Kurmaev, D. L. Ederer, and T. A. Callcott
pp. 15427-15430 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Step-induced one-dimensional surface state on Cu(332)
F. Baumberger, T. Greber, and J. Osterwalder
pp. 15431-15434 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Scaling functions for island-size distributions
D. D. Vvedensky
pp. 15435-15438 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Adsorption energies and bond lengths of adatoms at surfaces simulated by clusters
D. Geschke, S. Fritzsche, W.-D. Sepp, B. Fricke, S. Varga, and J. Anton
pp. 15439-15442 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

Add to article collection Symmetry considerations regarding light propagation and light polarization for coherent interactions with ions in crystals
Y. Sun, G. M. Wang, R. L. Cone, R. W. Equall, and M. J. Leask
pp. 15443-15451 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the colored Hubbard model
Tobias Baier, Eike Bick, and Christof Wetterich
pp. 15471-15479 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single-hole dynamics in the t-J model on a square lattice
Michael Brunner, Fakher F. Assaad, and Alejandro Muramatsu
pp. 15480-15492 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of electrons with orbital degeneracy
You-Quan Li and Ulrich Eckern
pp. 15493-15498 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optimal basis set for electronic structure calculations in periodic systems
Sandro Scandolo and Jorge Kohanoff
pp. 15499-15504 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Wannier-function description of the electronic polarization and infrared absorption of high-pressure hydrogen
Ivo Souza, Richard M. Martin, Nicola Marzari, Xinyuan Zhao, and David Vanderbilt
pp. 15505-15520 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Gradient search method for orbital-dependent density-functional calculations
R. A. Hyman, M. D. Stiles, and A. Zangwill
pp. 15521-15526 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Parameter-free exchange functional
Takao Tsuneda and Kimihiko Hirao
pp. 15527-15531 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomistic model of plutonium
M. I. Baskes
pp. 15532-15537 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure and exchange coupling in α-NaV2O5
A. N. Yaresko, V. N. Antonov, H. Eschrig, P. Thalmeier, and P. Fulde
pp. 15538-15546 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure and optical properties of ThPd3 and UPd3
T. Nautiyal, S. Auluck, P. Blaha, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
pp. 15547-15552 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground state of half-metallic zinc-blende MnAs
Stefano Sanvito and Nicola A. Hill
pp. 15553-15560 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic transport properties and structural transformations of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]I
M. A. Tanatar, S. Kagoshima, T. Ishiguro, H. Ito, V. S. Yefanov, V. A. Bondarenko, N. D. Kushch, and E. B. Yagubskii
pp. 15561-15568 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Energy spectra, wave functions, and quantum diffusion for quasiperiodic systems
H. Q. Yuan, U. Grimm, P. Repetowicz, and M. Schreiber
pp. 15569-15578 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground state of a dissipative two-level system
Han Rongsheng, Gao Xianlong, Wang Kelin, and Li Tongzhong
pp. 15579-15588 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Metal-insulator transition in the oxysulfides (La1-xCaxO)Cu1-xNixS studied by NMR
Y. Furukawa, S. Ikeda, K. Kumagai, K. Mori, Y. Takano, and K. Sekizawa
pp. 15598-15603 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Film morphology and photophysics of polyfluorene
A. J. Cadby, P. A. Lane, H. Mellor, S. J. Martin, M. Grell, C. Giebeler, D. D. Bradley, M. Wohlgenannt, C. An, and Z. V. Vardeny
pp. 15604-15609 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin susceptibility of the electron gas in a Fock approximation
Marilyn F. Bishop and T. McMullen
pp. 15610-15627 [View PDF (382 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Statistical model for energy-transfer-induced up-conversion in Er3+-doped glasses
S. V. Sergeyev and B. Jaskorzynska
pp. 15628-15633 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical investigation of a τ-phase organic molecular conductor: τ-(EDO-(S,S)-DMEDT-TTF)2(AuBr2)(AuBr2)y (y≈0.75)
I. Olejniczak, J. L. Musfeldt, G. C. Papavassiliou, and G. A. Mousdis
pp. 15634-15639 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Soft-x-ray fluorescence study of the quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet tetraphenylverdazyl
E. Z. Kurmaev, V. R. Galakhov, S. Shimada, T. Otsuka, K. Endo, S. Stadler, D. L. Ederer, A. Moewes, H. Schuerman, M. Neumann, S. Tomiyoshi, N. Azuma, and M. Iwami
pp. 15660-15665 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure of the energetic material 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene
S. Kakar, A. J. Nelson, R. Treusch, C. Heske, T. van Buuren, I. Jiménez, P. Pagoria, and L. J. Terminello
pp. 15666-15672 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-frequency conductivity and phonon properties of La7/8Sr1/8MnO3
F. Mayr, C. Hartinger, M. Paraskevopoulos, A. Pimenov, J. Hemberger, A. Loidl, A. A. Mukhin, and A. M. Balbashov
pp. 15673-15679 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Add to article collection Optimal activation and diffusion paths of perfect events in amorphous silicon
Yinglei Song, Rachid Malek, and Normand Mousseau
pp. 15680-15685 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Structural and electronic properties of glassy GeSe2 surfaces
Xiaodong Zhang and D. A. Drabold
pp. 15695-15701 [View PDF (551 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Microscopic origin of light-induced ESR centers in undoped hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Takahide Umeda, Satoshi Yamasaki, Junichi Isoya, and Kazunobu Tanaka
pp. 15702-15710 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Native vacancies in nitrogen-doped and undoped ZnSe layers studied by positron annihilation
P. Desgardin, J. Oila, K. Saarinen, P. Hautojärvi, E. Tournié, J.-P. Faurie, and C. Corbel
pp. 15711-15717 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photophysics of a poly(phenylenevinylene) with alternating meta-phenylene and para-phenylene rings
P. A. Lane, A. J. Cadby, H. Mellor, S. J. Martin, D. G. Lidzey, D. D. Bradley, S. M. Lipson, D. F. O’Brien, and W. J. Blau
pp. 15718-15723 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonequilibrium plasmons in optically excited semiconductors
M. Bonitz, J. F. Lampin, F. X. Camescasse, and A. Alexandrou
pp. 15724-15734 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Influence of localization on the optical properties of ordered (Al0.5Ga0.5)0.52In0.48P
U. Dörr, R. Lutz, E. Tsitsishvili, and H. Kalt
pp. 15745-15753 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transient photoconductivity in GaAs as measured by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy
Matthew C. Beard, Gordon M. Turner, and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer
pp. 15764-15777 [View PDF (941 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Structure and electronic states of InAs(001)-(2×4) surfaces
R. H. Miwa and G. P. Srivastava
pp. 15778-15787 [View PDF (1302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Structures of Gen clusters (n=3–10) and comparisons to Sin clusters
Bao-xing Li and Pei-lin Cao
pp. 15788-15796 [View PDF (1775 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phonons on II-VI (110) semiconductor surfaces
H. M. Tütüncü, R. Miotto, and G. P. Srivastava
pp. 15797-15805 [View PDF (572 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetoresistance of coherently strained La2/3Ba1/3MnO3/SrTiO3 superlattices
Yafeng Lu, J. Klein, C. Höfener, B. Wiedenhorst, J. B. Philipp, F. Herbstritt, A. Marx, L. Alff, and R. Gross
pp. 15806-15814 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Strain-induced modulation versus superlattice ordering in epitaxial (GaIn)P layers
Jiechao Jiang, Andreas K. Schaper, Zeljko Spika, and Wolfgang Stolz
pp. 15826-15833 [View PDF (759 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Edge magnetoplasmons in periodically modulated structures
O. G. Balev, Nelson Studart, and P. Vasilopoulos
pp. 15834-15841 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin splitting of one-dimensional subbands in high quality quantum wires at zero magnetic field
K. S. Pyshkin, C. J. Ford, R. H. Harrell, M. Pepper, E. H. Linfield, and D. A. Ritchie
pp. 15842-15850 [View PDF (519 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of the electronic structure of GaN/AlN hexagonal quantum dots
A. D. Andreev and E. P. O’Reilly
pp. 15851-15870 [View PDF (840 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Excitonic photoluminescence quenching by impact ionization of excitons and donors in GaAs/Al0.35Ga0.65As quantum wells with an in-plane electric field
J. Kundrotas, G. Valušis, A. Čėsna, A. Kundrotaitė, A. Dargys, A. Sužiedėlis, J. Gradauskas, S. Ašmontas, and K. Köhler
pp. 15871-15878 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron transport through a single InAs quantum dot
K. H. Schmidt, M. Versen, U. Kunze, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck
pp. 15879-15887 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Noise-induced leakage and counting errors in the electron pump
R. L. Kautz, Mark W. Keller, and John M. Martinis
pp. 15888-15902 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theory of magnetophonon resonance in quantum wells
V. V. Afonin, V. L. Gurevich, and R. Laiho
pp. 15913-15924 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ultrafast Coulomb-induced dynamics of quantum well magnetoexcitons
T. V. Shahbazyan, N. Primozich, and I. E. Perakis
pp. 15925-15941 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Photoluminescence properties of silicon nanocrystals as a function of their size
G. Ledoux, O. Guillois, D. Porterat, C. Reynaud, F. Huisken, B. Kohn, and V. Paillard
pp. 15942-15951 [View PDF (327 kB) or