• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • 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

Semiconductors I: bulk

Electrical deactivation by vacancy-impurity complexes in highly As-doped Si V. Ranki, K. Saarinen, J. Fage-Pedersen, J. Lundsgaard Hansen, and A. Nylandsted Larsen Published 22 January 2003 (4 pages) 041201 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor junction in the Kondo regime Yshai Avishai, Anatoly Golub, and Andrei D. Zaikin Published 9 January 2003 (4 pages) 041301 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coulomb-correlated electron-hole plasma and gain in a quantum-wire laser of high uniformity Hidefumi Akiyama, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Masahiro Yoshita, Aron Pinczuk, Peter B. Littlewood, Ken W. West, Manyalibo J. Matthews, and James Wynn Published 9 January 2003 (4 pages) 041302 [View PDF (452 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Multifractality at the spin quantum Hall transition F. Evers, A. Mildenberger, and A. D. Mirlin Published 17 January 2003 (4 pages) 041303 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas with Coulomb interaction A. O. Lyakhov and E. G. Mishchenko Published 29 January 2003 (4 pages) 041304 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hidden symmetries of two-electron quantum dots in a magnetic field N. S. Simonović and R. G. Nazmitdinov Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 041305 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonpolar InxGa1-xN/GaN(11¯00) multiple quantum wells grown on γ-LiAlO2(100) by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy Yue Jun Sun, Oliver Brandt, Sven Cronenberg, Subhabrata Dhar, Holger T. Grahn, Klaus H. Ploog, Patrick Waltereit, and James S. Speck Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 041306 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mesoscopic Stern-Gerlach device to polarize spin currents Radu Ionicioiu and Irene D’Amico Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 041307 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First-principles calculation of the effect of strain on the diffusion of Ge adatoms on Si and Ge(001) surfaces A. van de Walle, M. Asta, and P. W. Voorhees Published 31 January 2003 (4 pages) 041308 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Role of disorder on transport in boron-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes V. Krstić, S. Blumentritt, J. Muster, S. Roth, and A. Rubio Published 13 January 2003 (4 pages) 041401 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Angle-resolved photoemission study of the near-surface electronic structure of Cr(001) N. Nakajima, O. Morimoto, H. Kato, and Y. Sakisaka Published 23 January 2003 (4 pages) 041402 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Metal surface energy: Persistent cancellation of short-range correlation effects beyond the random phase approximation J. M. Pitarke and J. P. Perdew Published 6 January 2003 (5 pages) 045101 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noncrossing approximation solution of the anisotropic Anderson impurity model Peter S. Riseborough Published 14 January 2003 (9 pages) 045102 [View PDF (581 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-temperature properties of a quantum particle coupled to dissipative environments F. Guinea Published 16 January 2003 (9 pages) 045103 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single photoelectron trapping, storage, and detection in a field effect transistor Hideo Kosaka, Deepak S. Rao, Hans D. Robinson, Prabhakar Bandaru, Kikuo Makita, and Eli Yablonovitch Published 17 January 2003 (5 pages) 045104 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge and current fluctuations in a superconducting single-electron transistor near a Cooper pair resonance Mahn-Soo Choi, Francesco Plastina, and Rosario Fazio Published 21 January 2003 (11 pages) 045105 [View PDF (520 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of geometric anisotropy on optical nonlinearity enhancement for periodic composites Baifeng Yang, Chengxiang Zhang, and Decheng Tian Published 22 January 2003 (6 pages) 045106 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Vacancy ordering phase transition in ZrBe2(H/D)x: NMR and electronic structure study Vikram D. Kodibagkar, Peter A. Fedders, Caleb D. Browning, Robert C. Bowman, Natalie L. Adolphi, and Mark S. Conradi Published 22 January 2003 (7 pages) 045107 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Orbital excitations in LaMnO3 studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering T. Inami, T. Fukuda, J. Mizuki, S. Ishihara, H. Kondo, H. Nakao, T. Matsumura, K. Hirota, Y. Murakami, S. Maekawa, and Y. Endoh Published 27 January 2003 (6 pages) 045108 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron correlation effects in electron-hole recombination in organic light-emitting diodes Kunj Tandon, S. Ramasesha, and S. Mazumdar Published 30 January 2003 (19 pages) 045109 [View PDF (473 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mobility theory of intermediate-bandwidth carriers in organic crystals: Scattering by acoustic and optical phonons L. Giuggioli, John D. Andersen, and V. M. Kenkre Published 30 January 2003 (10 pages) 045110 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray dichroism in noncentrosymmetric crystals Paolo Carra, Andrés Jerez, and Ivan Marri Published 31 January 2003 (8 pages) 045111 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallicity and thermopower of the misfit cobaltite [Bi2Ba1.8Co0.2O4]RS[CoO2]2 M. Hervieu, A. Maignan, C. Michel, V. Hardy, N. Créon, and B. Raveau Published 31 January 2003 (7 pages) 045112 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photoacoustic and optical absorption spectroscopy studies of luminescent Cr3+ and Cr4+ centers in yttrium aluminum garnet M. Grinberg, A. Sikorska, A. Śliwiński, J. Barzowska, Y. R. Shen, S. B. Ubizskii, and S. S. Melnyk Published 31 January 2003 (9 pages) 045113 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoacoustic signal in strongly luminescent crystals: Bulk-surface states deexcitation model M. Grinberg, A. Sikorska, and A. Śliwiński Published 31 January 2003 (8 pages) 045114 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	1/f noise in variable range hopping conduction B. I. Shklovskii Published 17 January 2003 (6 pages) 045201 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder-induced noncollinear ferromagnetism in models for (III,Mn)V semiconductors John Schliemann Published 24 January 2003 (10 pages) 045202 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impurity center in a semiconductor quantum ring in the presence of crossed magnetic and electric fields B. S. Monozon and P. Schmelcher Published 24 January 2003 (14 pages) 045203 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound polarons in semiconductor nanostructures U. Woggon, D. Miller, F. Kalina, B. Gerlach, D. Kayser, K. Leonardi, and D. Hommel Published 27 January 2003 (5 pages) 045204 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Drude optical conductivity of (III,Mn)V ferromagnetic semiconductors S.-R. Eric Yang, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth, Y. P. Shim, and A. H. MacDonald Published 29 January 2003 (7 pages) 045205 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational modes and electronic properties of nitrogen defects in silicon J. P. Goss, I. Hahn, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, and S. Öberg Published 30 January 2003 (11 pages) 045206 [View PDF (484 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-range behavior and frequency dependence of exchange-correlation kernels in solids Rodolfo Del Sole, Giovanni Adragna, Valerio Olevano, and Lucia Reining Published 31 January 2003 (5 pages) 045207 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Evolution and tunneling time of electron wave packets through a superlattice Herbert P. Simanjuntak and Pedro Pereyra Published 6 January 2003 (7 pages) 045301 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band offsets measured by internal photoemission-induced second-harmonic generation Z. Marka, R. Pasternak, S. N. Rashkeev, Y. Jiang, S. T. Pantelides, N. H. Tolk, P. K. Roy, and J. Kozub Published 6 January 2003 (5 pages) 045302 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional-quantum-Hall edge electrons and Fermi statistics U. Zülicke, J. J. Palacios, and A. H. MacDonald Published 6 January 2003 (8 pages) 045303 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inverse distribution of hot electrons in a two-level quantum well with nonsymmetric scattering A. Hernández-Cabrera, P. Aceituno, and F. T. Vasko Published 9 January 2003 (9 pages) 045304 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Well-width dependence of optical properties of rare-earth ion-doped ZnS0.8Se0.2/undoped ZnS multiple quantum wells Masanori Tanaka, Hisashi Yamada, Takahiro Maruyama, and Katsuhiro Akimoto Published 9 January 2003 (5 pages) 045305 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of electron tunneling in semiconductor nanostructures Steven L. Konsek and T. P. Pearsall Published 14 January 2003 (7 pages) 045306 [View PDF (402 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shot noise and the transmission of dilute Laughlin quasiparticles C. L. Kane and Matthew P. Fisher Published 14 January 2003 (17 pages) 045307 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoinduced magneto-optic Kerr effects in asymmetric semiconductor microcavities D. Pereda Cubian, M. Haddad, R. André, R. Frey, G. Roosen, J. L. Diego, and C. Flytzanis Published 14 January 2003 (8 pages) 045308 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Highly anisotropic electron transport in shallow InGaAs heterostructures S. Löhr, S. Mendach, T. Vonau, Ch. Heyn, and W. Hansen Published 14 January 2003 (4 pages) 045309 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density dependence of critical magnetic fields at the metal-insulator bifurcation in two dimensions D. J. Geldart and D. Neilson Published 15 January 2003 (6 pages) 045310 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-field-induced transformations of Wigner molecule symmetry in quantum dots B. Szafran, S. Bednarek, and J. Adamowski Published 15 January 2003 (4 pages) 045311 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microtwinning in microcrystalline silicon and its effect on grain-size measurements L. Houben, M. Luysberg, and R. Carius Published 16 January 2003 (10 pages) 045312 [View PDF (598 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size dependence of the electron-hole recombination rates in semiconductor quantum dots S. Corni, M. Braskén, M. Lindberg, J. Olsen, and D. Sundholm Published 16 January 2003 (9 pages) 045313 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multilayer model for Hall effect data analysis of semiconductor structures with step-changed conductivity B. Arnaudov, T. Paskova, S. Evtimova, E. Valcheva, M. Heuken, and B. Monemar Published 16 January 2003 (10 pages) 045314 [View PDF (491 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape, size, and number density of InAs quantum dots grown on the GaAs(1¯1¯3¯)B surface at various temperatures T. Suzuki, Y. Temko, and K. Jacobi Published 16 January 2003 (7 pages) 045315 [View PDF (1011 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling resonances and Andreev reflection in transport of electrons through a ferromagnetic metal/quantum dot/superconductor system Jin-Fu Feng and Shi-Jie Xiong Published 21 January 2003 (7 pages) 045316 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interedge tunneling in quantum Hall line junctions Eun-Ah Kim and Eduardo Fradkin Published 23 January 2003 (17 pages) 045317 [View PDF (346 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic edge states of an impenetrable stripe A. Matulis and T. Pyragienė Published 27 January 2003 (8 pages) 045318 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of a strong magnetic field on the Wannier-Stark states of an electrically biased GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs superlattice A. B. Hummel, T. Bauer, H. G. Roskos, S. Glutsch, and K. Köhler Published 29 January 2003 (10 pages) 045319 [View PDF (592 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited states in artificial atoms via equation-of-motion coupled cluster theory Thomas M. Henderson, Keith Runge, and Rodney J. Bartlett Published 30 January 2003 (8 pages) 045320 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic mapping of strain relaxation in uncoalesced pendeoepitaxial GaN on SiC U. T. Schwarz, P. J. Schuck, M. D. Mason, R. D. Grober, A. M. Roskowski, S. Einfeldt, and R. F. Davis Published 30 January 2003 (4 pages) 045321 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Hermitian scattering theory: Resonant tunneling probability amplitude in a quantum dot Hadas Barkay, Edvardas Narevicius, and Nimrod Moiseyev Published 30 January 2003 (6 pages) 045322 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of neutral and charged exciton scattering with electrons in semiconductor quantum wells G. Ramon, A. Mann, and E. Cohen Published 31 January 2003 (17 pages) 045323 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-polarized current oscillations in diluted magnetic semiconductor multiple quantum wells Manuel Béjar, David Sánchez, Gloria Platero, and A. H. MacDonald Published 31 January 2003 (5 pages) 045324 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio study of the GaAs(001)-In(4×2) surface R. H. Miwa, R. Miotto, A. C. Ferraz, and G. P. Srivastava Published 31 January 2003 (5 pages) 045325 [View PDF (518 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient luminescence of dense InAs/GaAs quantum dot arrays J. W. Tomm, T. Elsaesser, Yu. I. Mazur, H. Kissel, G. G. Tarasov, Z. Ya. Zhuchenko, and W. T. Masselink Published 31 January 2003 (8 pages) 045326 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multisubband photoluminescence in p-type modulation-doped AlxGa1-xN/GaN superlattices Erik L. Waldron, E. Fred Schubert, and Amir M. Dabiran Published 31 January 2003 (7 pages) 045327 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of charged oxide layers on TEM imaging of reverse-biased p-n junctions M. Beleggia, P. F. Fazzini, P.G. Merli, and G. Pozzi Published 31 January 2003 (4 pages) 045328 [View PDF (495 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Short-range order in two-dimensional binary alloys L. Ottaviano, B. Ressel, C. Di Teodoro, G. Profeta, S. Santucci, V. Cháb, and K. C. Prince Published 9 January 2003 (9 pages) 045401 [View PDF (900 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional theory applied to Rh(111) and CO/Rh(111) systems: Geometries, energies, and chemical shifts M. Birgersson, C.-O. Almbladh, M. Borg, and J. N. Andersen Published 14 January 2003 (14 pages) 045402 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computer simulation of phase diagrams of trimers adsorbed on a square lattice W. Rżysko and M. Borówko Published 16 January 2003 (9 pages) 045403 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface morphology of Ge(111) during etching by keV ions Jaichan Kim, David G. Cahill, and R. S. Averback Published 16 January 2003 (6 pages) 045404 [View PDF (543 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoelectronic and optical properties of carbon nanotubes F. L. Shyu, C. P. Chang, R. B. Chen, C. W. Chiu, and M. F. Lin Published 17 January 2003 (9 pages) 045405 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface plasmon dispersion on sputtered and nanostructured Ag(001) L. Savio, L. Vattuone, and M. Rocca Published 22 January 2003 (5 pages) 045406 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecules interacting with a metallic nanowire M. Boustimi, J. Baudon, and J. Robert Published 27 January 2003 (8 pages) 045407 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subsurface oxygen and surface oxide formation at Ag(111): A density-functional theory investigation Wei-Xue Li, Catherine Stampfl, and Matthias Scheffler Published 29 January 2003 (16 pages) 045408 [View PDF (717 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Far-infrared vibrational properties of linear C60 polymers:  A comparison between neutral and charged materials Z.-T. Zhu, J. L. Musfeldt, K. Kamarás, G. B. Adams, J. B. Page, L. S. Kashevarova, A. V. Rakhmanina, and V. A. Davydov Published 29 January 2003 (9 pages) 045409 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of MgO(100) ultrathin layers on Pd(100): Influence of the metal support Livia Giordano, Jacek Goniakowski, and Gianfranco Pacchioni Published 29 January 2003 (8 pages) 045410 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectromicroscopy study of the dynamics of submonolayer Pd on a polycrystalline Ni surface A. W. Potts, G. R. Morrison, L. Gregoratti, M. Kiskinova, and A. Locatelli Published 29 January 2003 (6 pages) 045411 [View PDF (642 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of structural evolution in the quantum conductance behavior of gold nanowires during stretching L. G. Rego, A. R. Rocha, V. Rodrigues, and D. Ugarte Published 30 January 2003 (10 pages) 045412 [View PDF (563 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact study of lattice dynamics of single-walled carbon nanotubes J. X. Cao, X. H. Yan, Y. Xiao, Y. Tang, and J. W. Ding Published 30 January 2003 (6 pages) 045413 [View PDF (472 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology transitions during the growth of alkali halides from solution F. J. Lamelas, S. Seader, M. Zunic, C. V. Sloane, and May Xiong Published 30 January 2003 (11 pages) 045414 [View PDF (1553 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Hall effect in a time-periodic electric field and related phenomena A. A. Ovchinnikov Published 31 January 2003 (10 pages) 045415 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: First-principles calculations of the structural and electronic properties of the ScN(001) surface [Phys. Rev. B 65, 235307 (2002)] Noboru Takeuchi and Sergio E. Ulloa Published 23 January 2003 (1 pages) 049901 [View PDF (7 kB) ]

•	Publisher’s Note: Dynamics of electron tunneling in semiconductor nanostructures [Phys. Rev. B 67, 045306 (2003)] Steven L. Konsek and T. P. Pearsall Published 27 January 2003 (1 pages) 049902 [View PDF (7 kB) ]