• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • 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
• 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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Origin of the increased resistivity in epitaxial Fe3O4 films W. Eerenstein, T. T. Palstra, T. Hibma, and S. Celotto Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 201101 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Tailoring the polariton dispersion by optical confinement: Access to a manifold of elastic polariton pair scattering channels G. Dasbach, M. Schwab, M. Bayer, D.N. Krizhanovskii, and A. Forchel Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages) 201201 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electric-field dependent spin diffusion and spin injection into semiconductors Z. G. Yu and M. E. Flatté Published 14 November 2002 (4 pages) 201202 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Properties of hexagonal ScN versus wurtzite GaN and InN N. Farrer and L. Bellaiche Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages) 201203 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Spin injection from (Ga,Mn)As into InAs quantum dots Y. Chye, M. E. White, E. Johnston-Halperin, B. D. Gerardot, D. D. Awschalom, and P. M. Petroff Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages) 201301 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Scaling behavior in InAs/GaAs(001) quantum-dot formation T. J. Krzyzewski, P. B. Joyce, G. R. Bell, and T. S. Jones Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages) 201302 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermopower of a multiprobe ballistic conductor A. G. Pogosov, M. V. Budantsev, D. Uzur, A. Nogaret, A. E. Plotnikov, A. K. Bakarov, and A. I. Toropov Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages) 201303 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Sign reversal of drag in bilayer systems with in-plane periodic potential modulation Audrius Alkauskas, Karsten Flensberg, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and Antti-Pekka Jauho Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages) 201304 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optimal quantum pump in the presence of a superconducting lead Baigeng Wang and Jian Wang Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages) 201305 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiclassical theory of current correlations in chaotic dot-superconductor systems P. Samuelsson and M. Büttiker Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 201306 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Graphite-like surface reconstructions on C{111} and their implication for n-type diamond Yanfa Yan, S. B. Zhang, and M. M. Al-Jassim Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 201401 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probing vortex unbinding via dipole fluctuations H. A. Fertig and Joseph P. Straley Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 201402 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effects of the narrow band gap on the properties of InN J. Wu, W. Walukiewicz, W. Shan, K. M. Yu, J. W. Ager, E. E. Haller, Hai Lu, and William J. Schaff Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 201403 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Systematic generation of finite-range atomic basis sets for linear-scaling calculations Eduardo Anglada, José M. Soler, Javier Junquera, and Emilio Artacho Published 7 November 2002 (4 pages) 205101 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mott transition at large orbital degeneracy: Dynamical mean-field theory S. Florens, A. Georges, G. Kotliar, and O. Parcollet Published 8 November 2002 (13 pages) 205102 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum mechanical image potential theory Zhixin Qian and Viraht Sahni Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages) 205103 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic models for fractionalized phases in strongly correlated systems T. Senthil and O. Motrunich Published 19 November 2002 (9 pages) 205104 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical resistivity at large temperatures: Saturation and lack thereof M. Calandra and O. Gunnarsson Published 19 November 2002 (20 pages) 205105 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron scattering in atomic liquids: Application to the maximum of electron mobility Vladimir M. Atrazhev, Andrey V. Berezhnov, and Igor V. Timoshkin Published 20 November 2002 (8 pages) 205106 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of the organic crystal DAST: Polarization dependence and contribution of molecular vibrations to the linear electro-optic effect Ch. Bosshard, R. Spreiter, L. Degiorgi, and P. Günter Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages) 205107 [View PDF (475 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic first-principles study of impurity hybridization in NiAl David Djajaputra and Bernard R. Cooper Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages) 205108 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional investigation of magnetism in δ-Pu Per Söderlind, Alex Landa, and Babak Sadigh Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 205109 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk contribution from isotropic media in surface sum-frequency generation H. Held, A. I. Lvovsky, X. Wei, and Y. R. Shen Published 27 November 2002 (7 pages) 205110 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transition and critical behavior of the d=3 Gross-Neveu model F. Höfling, C. Nowak, and C. Wetterich Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 205111 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-scale numerical investigation of excited states in poly(para-phenylene) Robert J. Bursill and William Barford Published 27 November 2002 (8 pages) 205112 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Molecular electronic model and vibronic coupling to ɛ-vibrational modes of the fluorescent level 4T1 of d5 ions in II-VI and III-V compounds D. Boulanger and R. Parrot Published 12 November 2002 (8 pages) 205201 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Realistic tight-binding model for the electronic structure of II-VI semiconductors Sameer Sapra, N. Shanthi, and D. D. Sarma Published 18 November 2002 (8 pages) 205202 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental and theoretical study of the electronic structure of Fe3Al, Fe2VAl, and Fe2VGa L.-S. Hsu, Y.-K. Wang, G. Y. Guo, and C. S. Lue Published 18 November 2002 (5 pages) 205203 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure-induced structural phase transition of paracrystalline silicon Murat Durandurdu and D. A. Drabold Published 18 November 2002 (6 pages) 205204 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First principles calculations of the ground-state properties and structural phase transformation in CdO Roberto J. Guerrero-Moreno and Noboru Takeuchi Published 19 November 2002 (6 pages) 205205 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mn-doped CuGaS2 chalcopyrites: An ab initio study of ferromagnetic semiconductors Silvia Picozzi, Yu-Jun Zhao, Arthur J. Freeman, and Bernard Delley Published 20 November 2002 (6 pages) 205206 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractal-like model of porous silicon M. Wesolowski Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages) 205207 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nondispersive charge-carrier transport in disordered organic materials containing traps I. I. Fishchuk, A. K. Kadashchuk, H. Bässler, and D. S. Weiss Published 27 November 2002 (12 pages) 205208 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled plasmon–LO-phonon modes in Ga1-xMnxAs W. Limmer, M. Glunk, S. Mascheck, A. Koeder, D. Klarer, W. Schoch, K. Thonke, R. Sauer, and A. Waag Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 205209 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Photothermal transitions of magnetoexcitons in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells J. Černe, J. Kono, M. Su, and M. S. Sherwin Published 1 November 2002 (6 pages) 205301 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi surfaces of surface states on Si(111)-Ag, Au J. N. Crain, K. N. Altmann, C. Bromberger, and F. J. Himpsel Published 1 November 2002 (8 pages) 205302 [View PDF (688 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle Landau-Zener problem: Application to quantum dots N. A. Sinitsyn Published 6 November 2002 (6 pages) 205303 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical detection of magnetic fields using giant magnetoresistance in undoped coupled quantum wells S. Denev, V. Negoita, D. W. Snoke, B. Laikhtman, K. Eberl, and L. Pfeiffer Published 6 November 2002 (6 pages) 205304 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intersubband spin-density excitations in quantum wells with Rashba spin splitting C. A. Ullrich and M. E. Flatté Published 6 November 2002 (10 pages) 205305 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of transverse interdot coupling on transport properties of an Aharonov-Bohm structure composed by two dots and two reservoirs Z. T. Jiang, J. Q. You, S. B. Bian, and H. Z. Zheng Published 7 November 2002 (5 pages) 205306 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo studies of stress fields and intermixing in Ge/Si(100) quantum dots Ph. Sonnet and P. C. Kelires Published 7 November 2002 (6 pages) 205307 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrons in a twisted quantum wire M. V. Entin and L. I. Magarill Published 7 November 2002 (5 pages) 205308 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of electron states at a narrow-gap semiconductor surface in an accumulation-layer formation process Shuma Abe, Takeshi Inaoka, and Masayuki Hasegawa Published 8 November 2002 (8 pages) 205309 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Existence of extended states in disordered two-dimensional crystals with a half-filled band Y. H. Yang, D. Y. Xing, M. Liu, and Y. G. Wang Published 8 November 2002 (4 pages) 205310 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct atomic structure determination of epitaxially grown films: Gd2O3 on GaAs(100) M. Sowwan, Y. Yacoby, J. Pitney, R. MacHarrie, M. Hong, J. Cross, D. A. Walko, R. Clarke, R. Pindak, and E. A. Stern Published 8 November 2002 (12 pages) 205311 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Determination of the localization times of electrons and holes in the HgS well in a CdS/HgS/CdS quantum dot–quantum well nanoparticle Markus Braun, Stephan Link, Clemens Burda, and Mostafa El-Sayed Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages) 205312 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Algebra of observables in the Calogero model and in the Chern-Simons matrix model Larisa Jonke and Stjepan Meljanac Published 12 November 2002 (17 pages) 205313 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb correlations in a two-dimensional electron gas in large magnetic fields N. A. Fromer, C. Schüller, C. W. Lai, D. S. Chemla, I. E. Perakis, D. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard Published 13 November 2002 (13 pages) 205314 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Commensurate-incommensurate transitions of quantum Hall stripe states in double quantum well systems R. Côté, H. A. Fertig, J. Bourassa, and D. Bouchiha Published 18 November 2002 (17 pages) 205315 [View PDF (599 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic correlations in symmetric electron-electron and electron-hole bilayers R. K. Moudgil, Gaetano Senatore, and L. K. Saini Published 20 November 2002 (10 pages) 205316 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Characteristics of electron transport through vertical double-barrier quantum-dot structures: Effects of symmetric and asymmetric variations of the lateral confinement potentials Dan Csontos and H. Q. Xu Published 21 November 2002 (12 pages) 205317 [View PDF (528 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance calculations for a two-dimensional electron gas with unilateral short-period strong modulation Karel Výborný, Ludvík Smrčka, and Rainer A. Deutschmann Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages) 205318 [View PDF (591 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized conductance formula for the multiband tight-binding model P. S. Krstić, X.-G. Zhang, and W. H. Butler Published 21 November 2002 (12 pages) 205319 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Floquet scattering theory of quantum pumps M. Moskalets and M. Büttiker Published 26 November 2002 (10 pages) 205320 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Change in low-temperature thermodynamic functions of a semiconductor due to a quantum dot V. K. Tewary Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 205321 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening and electronic correlations in quantum wires in strong magnetic fields: Filling factor dependence Zhongxi Zhang and P. Vasilopoulos Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 205322 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoluminescence lifetimes of Si quantum wires X. Zianni and A. G. Nassiopoulou Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 205323 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface photovoltage studies of InxGa1-xAs and InxGa1-xAs1-yNy quantum well structures Gh. Dumitras, H. Riechert, H. Porteanu, and F. Koch Published 27 November 2002 (8 pages) 205324 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy excitations of double quantum dots in the lowest Landau level regime N. Barberán and J. Soto Published 27 November 2002 (7 pages) 205325 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fröhlich electron-phonon interaction Hamiltonian in a quantum dot quantum well Li Zhang, Hong-Jing Xie, and Chuan-Yu Chen Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 205326 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-polarized parametric pumping: Theory and numerical results Junling Wu, Baigeng Wang, and Jian Wang Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 205327 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculations of surface effects on phonon modes and Raman intensities of Ge quantum dots Shang-Fen Ren and Wei Cheng Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 205328 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Surface-induced resistivity of thin metallic films bounded by a rough fractal surface Raúl C. Munoz, Ricardo Finger, Claudio Arenas, German Kremer, and Luis Moraga Published 6 November 2002 (9 pages) 205401 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of oxygen pressure on the optical and structural properties of Cu:Al2O3 nanocomposite films R. Serna, D. Babonneau, A. Suárez-García, C. N. Afonso, E. Fonda, A. Traverse, A. Naudon, and D. E. Hole Published 6 November 2002 (10 pages) 205402 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ab initio calculations and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments of the Si(111)-(sqrt[7]×sqrt[3])-Pb surface S. Brochard, Emilio Artacho, O. Custance, I. Brihuega, A. M. Baró, J. M. Soler, and J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez Published 7 November 2002 (9 pages) 205403 [View PDF (1878 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous atomic shuffle in flat terraces: Ag(100) F. Montalenti, A. F. Voter, and R. Ferrando Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages) 205404 [View PDF (436 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon drag effect in single-walled carbon nanotubes V. W. Scarola and G. D. Mahan Published 13 November 2002 (7 pages) 205405 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption of He atoms in external grooves of single-wall carbon nanotube bundles Antonio Šiber Published 14 November 2002 (6 pages) 205406 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Character of tightly bound excitons in small argon clusters: Insights from size-dependent energy shifts T. Laarmann, K. von Haeften, A. Kanaev, H. Wabnitz, and T. Möller Published 15 November 2002 (7 pages) 205407 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface plasmon polaritons on narrow-ridged short-pitch metal gratings I. R. Hooper and J. R. Sambles Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages) 205408 [View PDF (542 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extraordinary temperature amplification in ion-stimulated surface processes at low energies Z. Wang and E. G. Seebauer Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages) 205409 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and magnetic properties of Cr in Cr/Ru(0001) multilayers M. Albrecht, M. Maret, J. Köhler, B. Gilles, R. Poinsot, J. L. Hazemann, J. M. Tonnerre, C. Teodorescu, and E. Bucher Published 22 November 2002 (9 pages) 205410 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Epitaxy and strain in the growth of GaN on AlN: A polarized x-ray absorption spectroscopy study F. d’Acapito, F. Boscherini, S. Mobilio, A. Rizzi, and R. Lantier Published 25 November 2002 (7 pages) 205411 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-frequency Raman scattering in the orientationally disordered phase of a C60 crystal N. V. Surovtsev, A. E. Batalov, V. I. Kulakov, R. K. Nikolaev, A. M. Pugachev, and V. K. Malinovsky Published 26 November 2002 (5 pages) 205412 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy magnetoplasmon excitations in semimetallic carbon nanotubes Godfrey Gumbs Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 205413 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels I. I. Smolyaninov, A. V. Zayats, A. Stanishevsky, and C. C. Davis Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 205414 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of growth of Cu on Ag(001) at experimental deposition rates J. A. Sprague, F. Montalenti, B. P. Uberuaga, J. D. Kress, and A. F. Voter Published 27 November 2002 (10 pages) 205415 [View PDF (975 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-principles study of vibrational and dielectric properties of C3N4 polymorphs G.-M. Rignanese, J.-C. Charlier, and X. Gonze Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 205416 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous optical absorption in ultrathin Pb films M. Jałochowski, M. Str⊙żak, and R. Zdyb Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 205417 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local bonding behavior and domain size relation for vacancy lines on Si(001) Eunja Kim and Changfeng Chen Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 205418 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Voltage-probe and imaginary-potential models for dephasing in a chaotic quantum dot [Phys. Rev. B 55, 004695 (1997)] P. W. Brouwer and C. W. Beenakker Published 7 November 2002 (1 pages) 209901 [View PDF (12 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Atomic structure of the GaAs(001)-(2×4) surface under As flux [Phys. Rev. B 65, 165315 (2002)] Akihiro Ohtake, Masashi Ozeki, Tetsuji Yasuda, and Takashi Hanada Published 27 November 2002 (1 pages) 209902 [View PDF (29 kB) ]