• 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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

Heavy carriers and non-Drude optical conductivity in MnSi F. P. Mena, D. van der Marel, A. Damascelli, M. Fäth, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages) 241101 [View PDF (489 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Noiseless scattering states in a chaotic cavity P. G. Silvestrov, M. C. Goorden, and C. W. Beenakker Published 9 June 2003 (4 pages) 241301 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stress and composition of C-induced Ge dots on Si(100) G. Hadjisavvas, Ph. Sonnet, and P. C. Kelires Published 9 June 2003 (4 pages) 241302 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Current-voltage characteristics and the zero-resistance state in a two-dimensional electron gas F. S. Bergeret, B. Huckestein, and A. F. Volkov Published 10 June 2003 (4 pages) 241303 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large splitting of the cyclotron-resonance line in AlxGa1-xN/GaN heterostructures S. Syed, M. J. Manfra, Y. J. Wang, H. L. Stormer, and R. J. Molnar Published 11 June 2003 (4 pages) 241304 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Entanglement of solid-state qubits by measurement Rusko Ruskov and Alexander N. Korotkov Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages) 241305 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Narrow-line excitonic photoluminescence in GaN/AlxGa1-xN quantum well structures with inversion domains T. V. Shubina, V. N. Jmerik, S. V. Ivanov, P. S. Kop’ev, A. Kavokin, K. F. Karlsson, P. O. Holtz, and B. Monemar Published 17 June 2003 (4 pages) 241306 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Kondo excitons in self-assembled quantum dots A. O. Govorov, K. Karrai, and R. J. Warburton Published 17 June 2003 (4 pages) 241307 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ferromagnetism and high Curie temperature in semiconductor heterostructures with Mn δ-doped GaAs and p-type selective doping Ahsan M. Nazmul, S. Sugahara, and M. Tanaka Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages) 241308 [View PDF (483 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Role of finite layer thickness in spin polarization of GaAs two-dimensional electrons in strong parallel magnetic fields E. Tutuc, S. Melinte, E. P. De Poortere, M. Shayegan, and R. Winkler Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages) 241309 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Dual nature of a charge-density-wave transition on In/Cu(001) T. Nakagawa, H. Okuyama, M. Nishijima, T. Aruga, H. W. Yeom, E. Rotenberg, B. Krenzer, and S. D. Kevan Published 10 June 2003 (4 pages) 241401 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electronic structure of silver subnanowires in self-assembled organic nanotubes: Density functional calculations Seung Bum Suh, Byung Hee Hong, P. Tarakeshwar, Suk Joo Youn, Sukmin Jeong, and Kwang S. Kim Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages) 241402 [View PDF (571 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermoelectric effect in molecular electronics Magnus Paulsson and Supriyo Datta Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages) 241403 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Long-wavelength spatial oscillations of high-frequency current noise in one-dimensional electron systems B. Trauzettel and H. Grabert Published 5 June 2003 (6 pages) 245101 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Hall skyrmion lattices at g≈0 Sumithra Sankararaman and R. Shankar Published 9 June 2003 (13 pages) 245102 [View PDF (790 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Peierls transition in the presence of finite-frequency phonons in the one-dimensional extended Peierls-Hubbard model at half-filling Pinaki Sengupta, Anders W. Sandvik, and David K. Campbell Published 10 June 2003 (6 pages) 245103 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the K edge of Mn3GaC Manabu Takahashi and Jun-ichi Igarashi Published 11 June 2003 (5 pages) 245104 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited-state level crossing and quantum phase transition in one-dimensional correlated fermion models Guang-Shan Tian and Hai-Qing Lin Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages) 245105 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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LiBC electronic, vibrational, structural, and low-temperature chemical behavior of a layered material isoelectronic with MgB2 A. M. Fogg, P. R. Chalker, J. B. Claridge, G. R. Darling, and M. J. Rosseinsky Published 17 June 2003 (10 pages) 245106 [View PDF (603 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory for elastic wave scattering by a two-dimensional periodical array of cylinders: An ideal approach for band-structure calculations Jun Mei, Zhengyou Liu, Jing Shi, and Decheng Tian Published 23 June 2003 (7 pages) 245107 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and optical properties of Y2SiO5 and Y2Si2O7 with comparisons to α-SiO2 and Y2O3 W. Y. Ching, Lizhi Ouyang, and Yong-Nian Xu Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages) 245108 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunable photonic band schemes in two-dimensional photonic crystals composed of copper oxide high-temperature superconductors Hiroyuki Takeda and Katsumi Yoshino Published 25 June 2003 (6 pages) 245109 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Halogen-mediated exchange in the coupled-tetrahedra quantum spin systems Cu2Te2O5X2 (X=Br,Cl) Roser Valentí, T. Saha-Dasgupta, Claudius Gros, and H. Rosner Published 26 June 2003 (5 pages) 245110 [View PDF (587 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermionic Sherrington-Kirkpatrick models with Hubbard interaction: Magnetism and electronic structure R. Oppermann and D. Sherrington Published 27 June 2003 (25 pages) 245111 [View PDF (2358 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical properties of Cd2Re2O7 under pressure N. Barišić, L. Forró, D. Mandrus, R. Jin, J. He, and P. Fazekas Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages) 245112 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Large well-relaxed models of vitreous silica, coordination numbers, and entropy R. L. Vink and G. T. Barkema Published 5 June 2003 (7 pages) 245201 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density matrix renormalization calculations of the relaxed energies and solitonic structures of polydiacetylene Alan Race, William Barford, and Robert J. Bursill Published 12 June 2003 (9 pages) 245202 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of excited-state absorption in phenylene-based π-conjugated polymers Alok Shukla, Haranath Ghosh, and Sumit Mazumdar Published 27 June 2003 (9 pages) 245203 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Modeling and perspectives of the Si nanocrystals–Er interaction for optical amplification Domenico Pacifici, Giorgia Franzò, Francesco Priolo, Fabio Iacona, and Luca Dal Negro Published 4 June 2003 (13 pages) 245301 [View PDF (634 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-beam propagation in a two-dimensional electron gas E. G. Novik, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp Published 6 June 2003 (7 pages) 245302 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape effects on scattering in quantum wires with a transverse magnetic field Vassilios Vargiamidis and Hariton M. Polatoglou Published 9 June 2003 (11 pages) 245303 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural relaxation in Si and Ge nanocrystallites: Influence on the electronic and optical properties H.-Ch. Weissker, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt Published 10 June 2003 (7 pages) 245304 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strain and substoichiometry at the Si(100)/SiO2 interface A. Roy Chowdhuri, Dong-Un Jin, J. Rosado, and C. G. Takoudis Published 10 June 2003 (7 pages) 245305 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic effects in a self-consistent Hartree model for electrons under an ac electric field in multiple quantum wells Danhong Huang and D. A. Cardimona Published 11 June 2003 (10 pages) 245306 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots: A noncrossing approximation study Ramón Aguado and David C. Langreth Published 11 June 2003 (20 pages) 245307 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation of a kinetic hole due to carrier-carrier scattering in multisubband single-quantum-well semiconductors H. Dery, B. Tromborg, and G. Eisenstein Published 12 June 2003 (13 pages) 245308 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low temperature annealing in tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin films observed by 13C NMR spectroscopy Todd M. Alam, T. A. Friedmann, Peter A. Schultz, and Daniel Sebastiani Published 12 June 2003 (11 pages) 245309 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of impurities in stabilizing quantum Hall effect plateaus Alejandro Cabo de Oca and Danny Martinez-Pedrera Published 12 June 2003 (7 pages) 245310 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron/nuclear spin domain walls in quantum Hall systems Aditi Mitra and S. M. Girvin Published 13 June 2003 (11 pages) 245311 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear σ model for long-range disorder and quantum chaos K. B. Efetov and V. R. Kogan Published 17 June 2003 (21 pages) 245312 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface and bulk origin of the optical anisotropy of As-rich GaAs(001) and Ga1-xInxAs(001) D. Paget, C. Hogan, V. L. Berkovits, and O. E. Tereshchenko Published 17 June 2003 (4 pages) 245313 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Phase separation in solid 3He-4He mixtures: Comparison with theory of homogeneous nucleation A. Smith, V. A. Maidanov, E. Ya. Rudavskii, V. N. Grigor’ev, V. V. Slezov, M. Poole, J. Saunders, and B. Cowan Published 17 June 2003 (7 pages) 245314 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of carrier localization on two-dimensional GaN substitution layers embedded in GaAs Heidemarie Schmidt and Georg Böhm Published 17 June 2003 (10 pages) 245315 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermions, strings, and gauge fields in lattice spin models Michael Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen Published 20 June 2003 (10 pages) 245316 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoquantum oscillations and confinement effects in arrays of 270-nm-diameter bismuth nanowires T. E. Huber, K. Celestine, and M. J. Graf Published 20 June 2003 (11 pages) 245317 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature and excitation density dependence of the photoluminescence from annealed InAs/GaAs quantum dots E. C. Le Ru, J. Fack, and R. Murray Published 23 June 2003 (12 pages) 245318 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weak localization and integer quantum Hall effect in a periodic potential G. Schwiete, D. Taras-Semchuk, and K. B. Efetov Published 26 June 2003 (12 pages) 245319 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green-function theory of confined plasmons in coaxial cylindrical geometries: Zero magnetic field M. S. Kushwaha and B. Djafari-Rouhani Published 26 June 2003 (19 pages) 245320 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Smoothed Coulomb blockade peak height fluctuations in a chaotic quantum cavity: Semiclassical approach A. Budiyono and K. Nakamura Published 26 June 2003 (5 pages) 245321 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective potentials in the integral quantum Hall effect F. Lado Published 26 June 2003 (9 pages) 245322 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kondo effect of quantum dots in the quantum Hall regime Mahn-Soo Choi, N. Y. Hwang, and S.-R. Eric Yang Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages) 245323 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic transport properties of free-base tape-porphyrin molecular wires studied by self-consistent tight-binding calculations Katsunori Tagami, Masaru Tsukada, Takuya Matsumoto, and Tomoji Kawai Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages) 245324 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of boron clusters and boron-interstitial clusters in silicon J. Adey, J. P. Goss, R. Jones, and P. R. Briddon Published 30 June 2003 (5 pages) 245325 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Energy loss of slow ions in a nonuniform electron gas H. Winter, J. I. Juaristi, I. Nagy, A. Arnau, and P. M. Echenique Published 5 June 2003 (6 pages) 245401 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio dynamical response of metal monolayers A. Bergara, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, and P. M. Echenique Published 5 June 2003 (8 pages) 245402 [View PDF (447 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric contrast mechanisms in helium atom scattering: The growth of the Fe/Cu(100) system P. C. Dastoor and W. Allison Published 6 June 2003 (6 pages) 245403 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparative theoretical study of single-wall carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes Brahim Akdim, Ruth Pachter, Xiaofeng Duan, and W. Wade Adams Published 6 June 2003 (8 pages) 245404 [View PDF (802 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defect generation and pileup of atoms during nanoindentation of Fe single crystals Roger Smith, D. Christopher, S. D. Kenny, Asta Richter, and Bodo Wolf Published 6 June 2003 (10 pages) 245405 [View PDF (1442 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple configurations of N-methylpyrrole binding on Si(111)-7×7 Feng Tao, Ze Liang Yuan, Xian Feng Chen, Ming Hua Qiao, Zhong Hai Wang, Yu Jing Dai, Hai Gou Huang, Yong Cao, and Guo Qin Xu Published 6 June 2003 (8 pages) 245406 [View PDF (994 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scanning tunneling microscopy and x-ray photoelectron diffraction investigation of C60 films on Cu(100) M. Abel, A. Dmitriev, R. Fasel, N. Lin, J. V. Barth, and K. Kern Published 9 June 2003 (7 pages) 245407 [View PDF (1014 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear rate of grain growth in thin films during deposition K. N. Tu, A. M. Gusak, and I. Sobchenko Published 10 June 2003 (5 pages) 245408 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the elastic dipole at the atomic steps of Pt(977) from surface x-ray diffraction G. Prévot, P. Steadman, and S. Ferrer Published 17 June 2003 (6 pages) 245409 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local Friedel sum rule on graphs Christophe Texier and Markus Büttiker Published 20 June 2003 (15 pages) 245410 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Conductance of single-atom platinum contacts: Voltage dependence of the conductance histogram S. K. Nielsen, Y. Noat, M. Brandbyge, R. H. Smit, K. Hansen, L. Y. Chen, A. I. Yanson, F. Besenbacher, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages) 245411 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nanoscale magnetism probed by nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation R. Röhlsberger, J. Bansmann, V. Senz, K. L. Jonas, A. Bettac, K. H. Meiwes-Broer, and O. Leupold Published 26 June 2003 (16 pages) 245412 [View PDF (694 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum dynamics of a hydrogen molecule confined in a cylindrical potential Taner Yildirim and A. B. Harris Published 27 June 2003 (15 pages) 245413 [View PDF (602 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of sulfur on the adhesion of the nickel/alumina interface W. Zhang, J. R. Smith, X.-G. Wang, and A. G. Evans Published 27 June 2003 (12 pages) 245414 [View PDF (1167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Incoherent dynamics of vibrating single-molecule transistors Kevin D. McCarthy, Nikolay Prokof’ev, and Mark T. Tuominen Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages) 245415 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Modeling heterogeneity and memory effects on the kinetic roughening of silica films grown by chemical vapor deposition Fernando Ojeda, Rodolfo Cuerno, Roberto Salvarezza, Fernando Agulló-Rueda, and Luis Vázquez Published 27 June 2003 (13 pages) 245416 [View PDF (1005 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-resolved measurements of photoinduced electron transfer from polyfluorene to C60 Qing-Hua Xu, Daniel Moses, and Alan J. Heeger Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages) 245417 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Morphology evolution during the growth of strained-layer superlattices [Phys. Rev. B 62, 8397 (2000)] L. E. Shilkrot, D. J. Srolovitz, and J. Tersoff Published 17 June 2003 (1 pages) 249901 [View PDF (15 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Surface photovoltage studies of InxGa1-xAs and InxGa1-xAs1-yNy quantum well structures [Phys. Rev. B 66, 205324 (2002)] Gh. Dumitras, H. Riechert, H. Porteanu, and F. Koch Published 27 June 2003 (1 pages) 249902 [View PDF (13 kB) ]