• BRIEF REPORTS
  • 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

BRIEF REPORTS

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

•	Crossover in the nature of the metallic phases in the perovskite-type RNiO3 K. Okazaki, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, E. V. Sampathkumaran, M. J. Martinez-Lope, and J. A. Alonso Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 073101 [View PDF (505 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range correlation in an electron gas: A scattering approach I. Nagy, J. I. Juaristi, R. Díez Muiño, and P. M. Echenique Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 073102 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupling characteristics of localized photons in two-dimensional photonic crystals Chul-Sik Kee, H. Lim, and Jungil Lee Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages) 073103 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupole interaction of positronium in α-quartz N. Suzuki, H. Saito, Y. Nagai, T. Hyodo, H. Murakami, M. Sano, I. V. Bondarev, and S. A. Kuten Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages) 073104 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sound propagation in a nematic Fermi liquid Hae-Young Kee Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 073105 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunable light propagation in Y-shaped waveguides in two-dimensional photonic crystals utilizing liquid crystals as linear defects Hiroyuki Takeda and Katsumi Yoshino Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 073106 [View PDF (703 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Stress and strain fields from an array of spherical inclusions in semi-infinite elastic media: Ge nanoinclusions in Si Maxim A. Makeev and Anupam Madhukar Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages) 073201 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Effect of an external magnetic field on electron-spin dephasing induced by hyperfine interaction in quantum dots Y. G. Semenov and K. W. Kim Published 12 February 2003 (4 pages) 073301 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dephasing in an isolated double-quantum-dot system deduced from single-electron polarization measurements S. Gardelis, C. G. Smith, J. Cooper, D. A. Ritchie, E. H. Linfield, Y. Jin, and M. Pepper Published 12 February 2003 (4 pages) 073302 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime of metastable states in resonant tunneling structures O. A. Tretiakov, T. Gramespacher, and K. A. Matveev Published 14 February 2003 (4 pages) 073303 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective excitations in spontaneously spin-polarized phases of semiconductor double-quantum-well systems P. G. Bolcatto, C. R. Proetto, and F. A. Reboredo Published 19 February 2003 (4 pages) 073304 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Currents in a system of noisy mesoscopic rings J. Dajka, J. Łuczka, M. Szopa, and E. Zipper Published 21 February 2003 (4 pages) 073305 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reinvestigation of the Si 2p photoemission line shape from a clean Si(001)c(4×2) surface H. Koh, J. W. Kim, W. H. Choi, and H. W. Yeom Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 073306 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Variational approach to excitons in carbon nanotubes Thomas G. Pedersen Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages) 073401 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Patterson function from low-energy electron diffraction measured intensities and structural discrimination Celia Rogero, Jose-Angel Martin-Gago, and Pedro L. de Andres Published 12 February 2003 (4 pages) 073402 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective dielectric properties of composite materials in the surface layer R. Stepanyan Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages) 073403 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Dynamical mean-field theory of correlated hopping: A rigorous local approach Andrij M. Shvaika Published 5 February 2003 (12 pages) 075101 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge distribution and chemical bonding in Cu2O Robert Laskowski, Peter Blaha, and Karlheinz Schwarz Published 5 February 2003 (8 pages) 075102 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Landau-Gutzwiller quasiparticles Jörg Bünemann, Florian Gebhard, and Rüdiger Thul Published 10 February 2003 (11 pages) 075103 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties and electronic structures of single crystalline RAl3 (R=Sc, Yb, and Lu) S. J. Lee, J. M. Park, P. C. Canfield, and D. W. Lynch Published 12 February 2003 (6 pages) 075104 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Induced charge-density oscillation under a quantizing magnetic field and intense terahertz radiation M. Fujita, T. Toyoda, J. C. Cao, and C. Zhang Published 12 February 2003 (5 pages) 075105 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical excitations in a one-dimensional Mott insulator Eric Jeckelmann Published 14 February 2003 (12 pages) 075106 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy intensities from the CuO2 plane C. Dahnken and R. Eder Published 18 February 2003 (19 pages) 075107 [View PDF (340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamic and spectral properties of compressed Ce calculated using a combined local-density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory A. K. McMahan, K. Held, and R. T. Scalettar Published 21 February 2003 (18 pages) 075108 [View PDF (701 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Focusing of light in a three-dimensional cubic photonic crystal J. Mizuguchi, Y. Tanaka, S. Tamura, and M. Notomi Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages) 075109 [View PDF (482 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cellular dynamical mean-field theory for the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model C. J. Bolech, S. S. Kancharla, and G. Kotliar Published 28 February 2003 (9 pages) 075110 [View PDF (838 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic, thermodynamic, NMR, and transport properties of the heavy-fermion semiconductor U2Ru2Sn V. H. Tran, S. Paschen, A. Rabis, N. Senthilkumaran, M. Baenitz, F. Steglich, P. de V. du Plessis, and A. M. Strydom Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 075111 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Dopant redistribution and electrical activation in silicon following ultra-low energy boron implantation and excimer laser annealing S. Whelan, A. La Magna, V. Privitera, G. Mannino, M. Italia, C. Bongiorno, G. Fortunato, and L. Mariucci Published 5 February 2003 (8 pages) 075201 [View PDF (603 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant resonant enhancement of the nonstationary holographic currents in an alternating electric field Mikhail Bryushinin, Vladimir Kulikov, and Igor Sokolov Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages) 075202 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Validity of simplified Shockley-Read-Hall statistics for modeling carrier lifetimes in crystalline silicon Daniel Macdonald and Andrés Cuevas Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages) 075203 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improving the convergence of defect calculations in supercells: An ab initio study of the neutral silicon vacancy M. I. Probert and M. C. Payne Published 13 February 2003 (11 pages) 075204 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modeling the current-voltage characteristics of bilayer polymer photovoltaic devices J. A. Barker, C. M. Ramsdale, and N. C. Greenham Published 18 February 2003 (9 pages) 075205 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic expressions for linear optical susceptibilities of conjugated polymers Thomas Bastholm Lynge and Thomas Garm Pedersen Published 28 February 2003 (15 pages) 075206 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Bistable tunneling current through a molecular quantum dot A. S. Alexandrov, A. M. Bratkovsky, and R. Stanley Williams Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages) 075301 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixed dimensionality quantum heterostructures grown in axially modulated V grooves B. Dwir, K. Leifer, and E. Kapon Published 5 February 2003 (10 pages) 075302 [View PDF (3261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectrum of qubit oscillations from generalized Bloch equations Rusko Ruskov and Alexander N. Korotkov Published 5 February 2003 (8 pages) 075303 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo simulation method for Laughlin-like states in a disk geometry Orion Ciftja and Carlos Wexler Published 6 February 2003 (8 pages) 075304 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-component simulation for molecular beam epitaxy growth of GaAs Z. Zhang and B. G. Orr Published 6 February 2003 (8 pages) 075305 [View PDF (1217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of self-assembled InP/GaP quantum dots from high-pressure photoluminescence A. R. Goñi, C. Kristukat, F. Hatami, S. Dreßler, W. T. Masselink, and C. Thomsen Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 075306 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization group approach to energy level statistics at the integer quantum Hall transition Philipp Cain, Rudolf A. Römer, and M. E. Raikh Published 7 February 2003 (9 pages) 075307 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Theoretical and experimental investigation of electronic structure and relaxation of colloidal nanocrystalline indium phosphide quantum dots Randy J. Ellingson, Jeff L. Blackburn, Jovan Nedeljkovic, Garry Rumbles, Marcus Jones, Huaxiang Fu, and Arthur J. Nozik Published 7 February 2003 (8 pages) 075308 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong localization of carriers in δ-doped GaAs structures J. P. Noh, F. Shimogishi, and N. Otsuka Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages) 075309 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of exciton super-radiance due to spatially separated scatterers Masakatsu Hirasawa, Tetsuo Ogawa, and Teruya Ishihara Published 13 February 2003 (6 pages) 075310 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductance anomalies and the extended Anderson model for nearly perfect quantum wires T. Rejec, A. Ramšak, and J. H. Jefferson Published 18 February 2003 (16 pages) 075311 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schottky-barrier behavior of metals on n- and p-type 6H-SiC M. O. Aboelfotoh, C. Fröjdh, and C. S. Petersson Published 21 February 2003 (7 pages) 075312 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hybrid exciton state in a quantum dot–dendrite system: Green functions Nguyen Que Huong and Joseph L. Birman Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages) 075313 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonuniform H distribution in thin-film hydrogenated amorphous Si by small-angle neutron scattering D. L. Williamson, D. W. Marr, J. Yang, B. Yan, and S. Guha Published 27 February 2003 (13 pages) 075314 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling of Coulomb and exchange-correlation effects with quantum dot size R. K. Pandey, Manoj K. Harbola, and Vijay A. Singh Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages) 075315 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of strain relaxation in heteroepitaxial systems A. C. Schindler, M. F. Gyure, G. D. Simms, D. D. Vvedensky, R. E. Caflisch, C. Connell, and Erding Luo Published 28 February 2003 (14 pages) 075316 [View PDF (788 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Spin reorientation transition in Fe(110) thin films: The role of surface anisotropy I.-G. Baek, H. G. Lee, H.-J. Kim, and E. Vescovo Published 5 February 2003 (7 pages) 075401 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface structure of Fe/Ag multilayers prepared by pulsed laser deposition Ratnesh Gupta, Martin Weisheit, Hans-Ulrich Krebs, and Peter Schaaf Published 5 February 2003 (7 pages) 075402 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced cohesion of matter on a cylindrical surface M. K. Kostov, M. W. Cole, G. D. Mahan, C. Carraro, and M. L. Glasser Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages) 075403 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aharonov-Bohm oscillation modes in double-barrier nanorings Jia-Lin Zhu, Xiquan Yu, Zhensheng Dai, and Xiao Hu Published 6 February 2003 (7 pages) 075404 [View PDF (609 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute step and kink formation energies of Pb derived from step roughening of two-dimensional islands and facets M. Nowicki, C. Bombis, A. Emundts, and H. P. Bonzel Published 6 February 2003 (7 pages) 075405 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intershell conductance in multiwall carbon nanotubes Anders Hansson and Sven Stafström Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages) 075406 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-frequency standing longitudinal acoustic resonances in supported thin films X. Zhang, R. S. Bandhu, R. Sooryakumar, and B. T. Jonker Published 12 February 2003 (5 pages) 075407 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irreversible nucleation in molecular beam epitaxy: From theory to experiments Paolo Politi and Claudio Castellano Published 12 February 2003 (10 pages) 075408 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light emission induced by a scanning tunnel microscope from a doubly layered substrate Katsuki Amemiya Published 13 February 2003 (6 pages) 075409 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical results for coupled collective modes in a periodic superlattice of quantum wires embedded in a local bulk medium Yüksel Ayaz Published 14 February 2003 (5 pages) 075410 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of interfacial energy during pattern formation of electropolishing Weidong Guo and Duane Johnson Published 18 February 2003 (7 pages) 075411 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intra- and extramolecular vibrations of fulleride surfaces C. Silien, P. A. Thiry, and Y. Caudano Published 25 February 2003 (6 pages) 075412 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Step-edge versus interior barriers to atom incorporation at lattice steps Sang-Mun Oh, Kentaro Kyuno, Shi Cai Wang, and Gert Ehrlich Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages) 075413 [View PDF (1039 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of bending instabilities on the measurements of mechanical properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes Jefferson Z. Liu, Quanshui Zheng, and Qing Jiang Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages) 075414 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism of Co nanocluster burrowing on Cu(100) J. Frantz and K. Nordlund Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages) 075415 [View PDF (1390 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stress-driven instability in growing multilayer films Zhi-Feng Huang and Rashmi C. Desai Published 26 February 2003 (19 pages) 075416 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic resonance states in metallic nanowires during the breaking process simulated with the ultimate jellium model E. Ogando, T. Torsti, N. Zabala, and M. J. Puska Published 28 February 2003 (11 pages) 075417 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical study of ion-beam oxidation: Incorporation of hyperthermal oxygen ions into silicon oxide thin films T. Tzvetkov, X. Qin, and D. C. Jacobs Published 28 February 2003 (7 pages) 075418 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ordered phases of fullerene molecules formed inside carbon nanotubes Miroslav Hodak and L. A. Girifalco Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages) 075419 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	MgO/Ag(100): Confined vibrational modes in the limit of ultrathin films L. Savio, E. Celasco, L. Vattuone, M. Rocca, and P. Senet Published 28 February 2003 (5 pages) 075420 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Spin-polarized electron electron liquid at arbitrary temperatures: Exchange-correlation energies, electron-distribution functions, and the static response functions [Phys. Rev. B 62, 16 536 (2000)] François Perrot and M. W. Dharma-wardana Published 4 February 2003 (1 pages) 079901 [View PDF (11 kB) ]

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Publisher’s Note: Vacancy ordering phase transition in ZrBe2(H/D)x: NMR and electronic structure study [Phys. Rev. B 67, 045107 (2003)] Vikram D. Kodibagkar, Peter A. Fedders, Caleb D. Browning, Robert C. Bowman, Natalie L. Adolphi, and Mark S. Conradi Published 5 February 2003 (1 pages) 079902 [View PDF (11 kB) ]