Physical Review B – 15 December 2000
(Volume 62, Issue 24)

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

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Add to article collection Multiatomic resonant photoemission spectroscopy on CuO and NiO: Observation of antiresonant behavior
M. Finazzi, G. Ghiringhelli, O. Tjernberg, L. Duò, A. Tagliaferri, P. Ohresser, and N. B. Brookes
pp. R16215-R16218 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Muffin-tin orbitals of arbitrary order
O. K. Andersen and T. Saha-Dasgupta
pp. R16219-R16222 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Classical phase fluctuations in incommensurate Peierls chains
Lorenz Bartosch and Peter Kopietz
pp. R16223-R16226 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Toward a systematic 1/d expansion: Two-particle properties
Gergely Zaránd, Daniel L. Cox, and Avraham Schiller
pp. R16227-R16230 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Charge transport in π-conjugated polymers from extraction current transients
G. Juška, K. Arlauskas, M. Viliūnas, K. Genevičius, R. Österbacka, and H. Stubb
pp. R16235-R16238 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Observation of short- and long-range hybridization of a buried Cu monolayer in Ni
O. Karis, M. Magnuson, T. Wiell, M. Weinelt, N. Wassdahl, A. Nilsson, N. Mårtensson, E. Holmström, A. M. Niklasson, and O. Eriksson
pp. R16239-R16242 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

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Add to article collection Parametric oscillation in a vertical microcavity: A polariton condensate or micro-optical parametric oscillation
J. J. Baumberg, P. G. Savvidis, R. M. Stevenson, A. I. Tartakovskii, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts
pp. R16247-R16250 [View PDF (346 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Extrinsic structure changes by STM at 65 K on Si(001)
T. Mitsui and K. Takayanagi
pp. R16251-R16254 [View PDF (408 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Reaction-diffusion model for thermal growth of silicon nitride films on Si
R. M. de Almeida and I. J. Baumvol
pp. R16255-R16258 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Excitonic collapse of higher Landau level fractional quantum Hall effect
V. W. Scarola, Kwon Park, and J. K. Jain
pp. R16259-R16262 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Microcavity polariton depopulation as evidence for stimulated scattering
P. Senellart, J. Bloch, B. Sermage, and J. Y. Marzin
pp. R16263-R16266 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Out-of-equilibrium Kondo effect: Response to pulsed fields
Avraham Schiller and Selman Hershfield
pp. R16271-R16274 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Direction-resolved transport and possible many-body effects in one-dimensional thermopower
N. J. Appleyard, J. T. Nicholls, M. Pepper, W. R. Tribe, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie
pp. R16275-R16278 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Electrical compensation in CdTe and Cd0.9Zn0.1Te by intrinsic defects
N. Krsmanovic, K. G. Lynn, M. H. Weber, R. Tjossem, Th. Gessmann, Cs. Szeles, E. E. Eissler, J. P. Flint, and H. L. Glass
pp. R16279-R16282 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Evidence for a negative interband photoconductivity in arrays of Ge/Si type-II quantum dots
A. I. Yakimov, A. V. Dvurechenskii, A. I. Nikiforov, O. P. Pchelyakov, and A. V. Nenashev
pp. R16283-R16286 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Optical transitions in charged CdSe quantum dots
Alberto Franceschetti and Alex Zunger
pp. R16287-R16290 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Transmission through quantum networks
Julien Vidal, Gilles Montambaux, and Benoît Douçot
pp. R16294-R16297 [View PDF (409 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Coulomb blockade in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime
Michael R. Geller and Daniel Loss
pp. R16298-R16301 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Band offsets and stability of BeTe/ZnSe (100) heterojunctions
Fabio Bernardini, Maria Peressi, and Vincenzo Fiorentini
pp. R16302-R16305 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Attenuation of two-dimensional plasmons
M. Yu. Reizer and V. M. Vinokur
pp. R16306-R16309 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Radiative behavior of negatively charged excitons in CdTe-based quantum wells: A spectral and temporal analysis
V. Ciulin, P. Kossacki, S. Haacke, J.-D. Ganière, B. Deveaud, A. Esser, M. Kutrowski, and T. Wojtowicz
pp. R16310-R16313 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Anisotropy of electronic wave functions in self-aligned InAs dots on GaAs(001) studied by magnetic-field-dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy
H. J. Zhu, M. Ramsteiner, K. H. Ploog, R. Zhang, R. Tsui, K. Shiralagi, and H. Goronkin
pp. R16314-R16317 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Dependence of the luminescence energy in InGaN quantum-well structures on applied biaxial strain
N. A. Shapiro, Y. Kim, H. Feick, E. R. Weber, P. Perlin, J. W. Yang, I. Akasaki, and H. Amano
pp. R16318-R16321 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Direct observation of the excitonic ac Stark splitting in a quantum well
Michele Saba, Francesco Quochi, Cristiano Ciuti, Denis Martin, Jean-Louis Staehli, Benoît Deveaud, Andrea Mura, and Giovanni Bongiovanni
pp. R16322-R16325 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Validity of the bond-energy picture for the energetics at Si-SiO2 interfaces
A. Bongiorno and Alfredo Pasquarello
pp. R16326-R16329 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Add to article collection Scanning tunneling microscopy investigation of the TiO2 anatase (101) surface
Wilhelm Hebenstreit, Nancy Ruzycki, Gregory S. Herman, Yufei Gao, and Ulrike Diebold
pp. R16334-R16336 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Thickness dependence of the stability of the charge-ordered state in Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 thin films
W. Prellier, Ch. Simon, A. M. Haghiri-Gosnet, B. Mercey, and B. Raveau
pp. R16337-R16340 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Modification of surface-state dispersion upon Xe adsorption: A scanning tunneling microscope study
Ji-Yong Park, U. D. Ham, S.-J. Kahng, Y. Kuk, K. Miyake, K. Hata, and H. Shigekawa
pp. R16341-R16344 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Variable and reversible quantum structures on a single carbon nanotube
Ç. Kılıç, S. Ciraci, O. Gülseren, and T. Yildirim
pp. R16345-R16348 [View PDF (594 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Graphitic ribbons without hydrogen-termination: Electronic structures and stabilities
Takazumi Kawai, Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Osamu Sugino, and Yoshinori Koga
pp. R16349-R16352 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Phase breaking in three-terminal contacted single-walled carbon nanotube bundles
V. Krstić, S. Roth, and M. Burghard
pp. R16353-R16355 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Electromagnetic energy transfer and switching in nanoparticle chain arrays below the diffraction limit
Mark L. Brongersma, John W. Hartman, and Harry A. Atwater
pp. R16356-R16359 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Size dependence of structural stability in nanocrystalline diamond
S. Prawer, J. L. Peng, J. O. Orwa, J. C. McCallum, D. N. Jamieson, and L. A. Bursill
pp. R16360-R16363 [View PDF (530 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Origin of the derivative discontinuity in density functional theory
Zhixin Qian and Viraht Sahni
pp. 16364-16369 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Correlation mechanism of f-electron delocalization
U. Lundin, I. Sandalov, O. Eriksson, and B. Johansson
pp. 16370-16377 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Successive opening of the Fermi surface in doped N-leg Hubbard ladders
Urs Ledermann, Karyn Le Hur, and T. M. Rice
pp. 16383-16391 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Density-functional embedding using a plane-wave basis
J. R. Trail and D. M. Bird
pp. 16402-16411 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure of Bi2Te3 studied by angle-resolved photoemission
V. A. Greanya, W. C. Tonjes, Rong Liu, C. G. Olson, D.-Y. Chung, and M. G. Kanatzidis
pp. 16425-16429 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure of monoclinic TeMo5O16: Prediction of semiconducting behavior
Josep M. Oliva, Pablo Ordejón, and Enric Canadell
pp. 16430-16434 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Full-potential LAPW calculation of magnetic Compton profiles of Ni
Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, and Anjali Kshirsagar
pp. 16435-16441 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Behavior of the thermopower in amorphous materials at the metal-insulator transition
C. Villagonzalo, R. A. Römer, M. Schreiber, and A. MacKinnon
pp. 16446-16452 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dynamical correlations in the electron gas
K. Sturm and A. Gusarov
pp. 16474-16491 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bulk electronic structure of YbInCu4 from photoemission: A unique test of the single impurity model
D. P. Moore, J. J. Joyce, A. J. Arko, J. L. Sarrao, L. Morales, H. Hochst, and Y. D. Chuang
pp. 16492-16499 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic excitations in shocked nitromethane
Evan J. Reed, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Laurence E. Fried
pp. 16500-16509 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magneto-optical Kerr spectroscopy of platinum
L. Uba, S. Uba, V. N. Antonov, A. N. Yaresko, and R. Gontarz
pp. 16510-16521 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical properties and electronic structure of α-Na1-xCaxV2O5
C. Presura, D. van der Marel, M. Dischner, C. Geibel, and R. K. Kremer
pp. 16522-16527 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution Compton scattering study of the electron momentum density in Al
T. Ohata, M. Itou, I. Matsumoto, Y. Sakurai, H. Kawata, N. Shiotani, S. Kaprzyk, P. E. Mijnarends, and A. Bansil
pp. 16528-16535 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Add to article collection X-ray crystallographic study of the optically active semiconductor (GaxIn1-x)2Se3
J. Ye, T. Hanada, Y. Nakamura, and O. Nittono
pp. 16549-16554 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic structure of the neutral silicon vacancy in 4H and 6H SiC
Mt. Wagner, B. Magnusson, W. M. Chen, E. Janzén, E. Sörman, C. Hallin, and J. L. Lindström
pp. 16555-16560 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reflection of light and heavy holes from a linear potential barrier
Anatoli Polkovnikov and Robert A. Suris
pp. 16566-16571 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magneto-optical studies of the 0.88-eV photoluminescence emission in electron-irradiated GaN
Mt. Wagner, I. A. Buyanova, N. Q. Thinh, W. M. Chen, B. Monemar, J. L. Lindström, H. Amano, and I. Akasaki
pp. 16572-16577 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Temperature dependence of the refractive index of diamond up to 925 K
T. Ruf, M. Cardona, C. S. Pickles, and R. Sussmann
pp. 16578-16581 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron g-factor for cubic Zn1-xCdxSe determined by spin-flip Raman scattering
O. Z. Karimov, D. Wolverson, J. J. Davies, S. I. Stepanov, T. Ruf, S. V. Ivanov, S. V. Sorokin, C. B. O’Donnell, and K. A. Prior
pp. 16582-16586 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection ESR and optical evidence for a Ni vacancy center in CVD diamond
K. Iakoubovskii, A. Stesmans, B. Nouwen, and G. J. Adriaenssens
pp. 16587-16594 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Origin of emission from porous silicon: Temperature-dependence correlation with proton conductivity
Bingsuo Zou, Jianping Wang, Chao Liu, John Z. Zhang, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed
pp. 16595-16599 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Raman intensity profiles of folded longitudinal phonon modes in SiC polytypes
S. Nakashima, H. Harima, T. Tomita, and T. Suemoto
pp. 16605-16611 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical study of the relative stability of structural phases in group-III nitrides at high pressures
Jorge Serrano, Angel Rubio, Eduardo Hernández, Alfonso Muñoz, and Andrés Mujica
pp. 16612-16623 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nonlinear acoustic and microwave absorption in disordered semiconductors
M. Kirkengen and Y. M. Galperin
pp. 16624-16631 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electrical properties of liquid Cd-Te alloys
A. Ben Moussa, B. Giordanengo, J. C. Humbert, H. Chaaba, M. Bestandji, and J. G. Gasser
pp. 16632-16637 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Positron annihilation at proton-induced defects in 6H-SiC/SiC and 6H-SiC/SiO2/Si structures
M.-F. Barthe, L. Henry, C. Corbel, G. Blondiaux, K. Saarinen, P. Hautojärvi, E. Hugonnard, L. Di Cioccio, F. Letertre, and B. Ghyselen
pp. 16638-16644 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quasi-one-dimensional transport in the extreme quantum limit of heavily doped n-InSb
S. S. Murzin, A. G. Jansen, and E. G. Haanappel
pp. 16645-16652 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Add to article collection Ge/Ag(111) semiconductor-on-metal growth: Formation of an Ag2Ge surface alloy
H. Oughaddou, S. Sawaya, J. Goniakowski, B. Aufray, G. Le Lay, J. M. Gay, G. Tréglia, J. P. Bibérian, N. Barrett, C. Guillot, A. Mayne, and G. Dujardin
pp. 16653-16656 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Tuning quantum dot properties by activated phase separation of an InGa(Al)As alloy grown on InAs stressors
M. V. Maximov, A. F. Tsatsul’nikov, B. V. Volovik, D. S. Sizov, Yu. M. Shernyakov, I. N. Kaiander, A. E. Zhukov, A. R. Kovsh, S. S. Mikhrin, V. M. Ustinov, Zh. I. Alferov, R. Heitz, V. A. Shchukin, N. N. Ledentsov, D. Bimberg, Yu. G. Musikhin, and W. Neumann
pp. 16671-16680 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optimization of gain in intersubband quantum well lasers by supersymmetry
Stanko Tomić, Vitomir Milanović, and Zoran Ikonić
pp. 16681-16685 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Mean parameter model for the Pekar-Fröhlich polaron in a multilayered heterostructure
M. A. Smondyrev, B. Gerlach, and M. O. Dzero
pp. 16692-16702 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Thermoelectric figure of merit of Bi/Pb1-xEuxTe superlattices
T. Koga, O. Rabin, and M. S. Dresselhaus
pp. 16703-16706 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Conductance fluctuations in a double-barrier resonant tunneling device
P. C. Main, T. J. Foster, P. McDonnell, L. Eaves, M. J. Gompertz, N. Mori, J. W. Sakai, M. Henini, and G. Hill
pp. 16721-16726 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electrostatics of quantum dots in high magnetic fields and single far-infrared photon detection
O. Astafiev, V. Antonov, T. Kutsuwa, and S. Komiyama
pp. 16731-16743 [View PDF (635 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Parity and time-reversal anomaly in a semiconductor
Oleg Tchernyshyov
pp. 16751-16755 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron mobility measurement in n-GaAs at low-temperature impurity breakdown
V. Novák, M. Cukr, D. Schowalter, and W. Prettl
pp. 16768-16772 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Enhanced shot noise from tunneling and space-charge positive feedback
A. Reklaitis and L. Reggiani
pp. 16773-16776 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Energy levels and far-infrared spectroscopy for two electrons in a nanoscopic semiconductor ring
Hui Hu, Jia-Lin Zhu, and Jia-Jiong Xiong
pp. 16777-16783 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (