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Physical Review B – 15 September 2003
Volume 68, Issue 12

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Conductance switching in a molecular device: The role of side groups and intermolecular interactions
Jeremy Taylor, Mads Brandbyge, and Kurt Stokbro
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
121101(R) [View PDF (523 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Dependence of the ionization energy of shallow donors and acceptors in silicon on the host isotopic mass
D. Karaiskaj, T. A. Meyer, M. L. W. Thewalt, and M. Cardona
Published 16 September 2003 (4 pages)
121201(R) [View PDF (46 kB)]

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

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Applicability of the ergodicity hypothesis to mesoscopic fluctuations
O. Tsyplyatyev, I. L. Aleiner, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, and Igor V. Lerner
Published 11 September 2003 (4 pages)
121301(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Vertical confinement and evolution of reentrant insulating transition in the fractional quantum Hall regime
I. Yang, W. Kang, S. T. Hannahs, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 11 September 2003 (4 pages)
121302(R) [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Indium phosphide (001)-(2×1): Direct evidence for a hydrogen-stabilized surface reconstruction
G. Chen, S. F. Cheng, D. J. Tobin, L. Li, K. Raghavachari, and R. F. Hicks
Published 11 September 2003 (3 pages)
121303(R) [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Self-affine-like magnetoconductance fluctuations: Quasiperiodicity with a Weierstrass-like spectrum
A. Budiyono and K. Nakamura
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
121304(R) [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Elastic deformation blockade in a single-electron transistor
Norihiko Nishiguchi
Published 16 September 2003 (4 pages)
121305(R) [View PDF (179 kB)]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Geometry-based simulation of submonolayer film growth
Maozhi Li, M. C. Bartelt, and J. W. Evans
Published 17 September 2003 (4 pages)
121401(R) [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Strongly size-dependent electronic properties in C60-encapsulated zigzag nanotubes and lower size limit of carbon nanopeapods
Jing Lu, Shigeru Nagase, Shuang Zhang, and Lianmao Peng
Published 18 September 2003 (4 pages)
121402(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Ordering of an incommensurate molecular layer with adsorbate-induced reconstruction: C60/Ag(100)
Woei Wu Pai and Ching-Ling Hsu
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
121403(R) [View PDF (367 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Calculated optical properties of 2H-MoS2 intercalated with lithium
Ali Hussain Reshak and S. Auluck
Published 2 September 2003 (7 pages)
125101 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Universal asymptotic behavior in flow equations of dissipative systems
Tobias Stauber
Published 4 September 2003 (14 pages)
125102 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Role of dynamical polarization of the ligand-to-metal charge transfer excitations in ab initio determination of effective exchange parameters
Alain Gellé, Markéta L. Munzarová, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit, and Francesc Illas
Published 8 September 2003 (7 pages)
125103 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Localization effects and inelastic scattering in disordered heavy electrons
M. C. O. Aguiar, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljević
Published 11 September 2003 (19 pages)
125104 [View PDF (1,071 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a system with a nested Fermi surface
P. Schlottmann
Published 12 September 2003 (12 pages)
125105 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Intra-atomic many-body effects in p-shell photoelectron spectra of Cr3+ ions
Eugene S. Ilton, Wibe A. deJong, and Paul S. Bagus
Published 15 September 2003 (8 pages)
125106 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Metal-insulator transition in EuO
P. Sinjukow and W. Nolting
Published 16 September 2003 (5 pages)
125107 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Anomalous 10-ns emission in Ce3+-doped Cs3LuCl6
P. Dorenbos, E.V.D. van Loef, C.W.E. van Eijk, K.W. Krämer, and H.U. Güdel
Published 22 September 2003 (6 pages)
125108 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Generalization of the shell model and correlation effects in strongly correlated oxides
A. S. Moskvin and Yu. D. Panov
Published 26 September 2003 (13 pages)
125109 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations with simple, localized, orthonormal real-space basis sets
Yi Liu, Dawn A. Yarne, and Mark E. Tuckerman
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
125110 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Electronic structure of the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor TTF-TCNQ
M. Sing, U. Schwingenschlögl, R. Claessen, P. Blaha, J. M. P. Carmelo, L. M. Martelo, P. D. Sacramento, M. Dressel, and C. S. Jacobsen
Published 29 September 2003 (10 pages)
125111 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Ultrafast photoinduced reflectivity transients in (Nd0.5Sr0.5)MnO3
T. Mertelj, D. Mihailovic, Z. Jagličič, A. A. Bosak, O. Yu. Gorbenko, and A. R. Kaul
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
125112 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Spin-guide source for the generation of highly spin-polarized currents
R. N. Gurzhi, A. N. Kalinenko, A. I. Kopeliovich, A. V. Yanovsky, E. N. Bogachek, and Uzi Landman
Published 29 September 2003 (12 pages)
125113 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Vacancy-induced half-metallicity in MnO and NiO
D. Ködderitzsch, W. Hergert, Z. Szotek, and W. M. Temmerman
Published 30 September 2003 (5 pages)
125114 [View PDF (631 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Aggregation of carbon interstitials in silicon carbide: A theoretical study
A. Gali, P. Deák, P. Ordejón, N. T. Son, E. Janzén, and W. J. Choyke
Published 8 September 2003 (11 pages)
125201 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Recombination of triplet excitons and polaron pairs in a derived paraphenylene vinylene pentamer
J. De Ceuster, E. Goovaerts, A. Bouwen, and V. Dyakonov
Published 10 September 2003 (9 pages)
125202 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of a ferromagnetic semiconductor: Co-doped TiO2 rutile
W. T. Geng and Kwang S. Kim
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
125203 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of substitutional 3d transition metal impurities in silicon carbide
M. S. Miao and Walter R. L. Lambrecht
Published 17 September 2003 (10 pages)
125204 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of polaron formation with the Wigner-function approach
Carlo Jacoboni, Rossella Brunetti, and Stefano Monastra
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
125205 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Limitations of electrical detection of x-ray absorption fine structure
J. Bollmann, S. Knack, J. Weber, V. Koteski, H.-E. Mahnke, and E. Welter
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
125206 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Long-range potential fluctuations and 1/f noise in hydrogenated amorphous silicon
B. V. Fine, J. P. R. Bakker, and J. I. Dijkhuis
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
125207 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Nonexponential relaxation of photoinduced conductance in organic field effect transistors
Soumya Dutta and K. S. Narayan
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
125208 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Energy landscape of relaxed amorphous silicon
Francis Valiquette and Normand Mousseau
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
125209 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Transport coefficients from first-principles calculations
T. J. Scheidemantel, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, T. Thonhauser, J. V. Badding, and J. O. Sofo
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
125210 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Dilute nonisovalent (II-VI)-(III-V) semiconductor alloys: Monodoping, codoping, and cluster doping in ZnSe-GaAs
L. G. Wang and Alex Zunger
Published 30 September 2003 (8 pages)
125211 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Electronic structure and transport in type-I and type-VIII clathrates containing strontium, barium, and europium
Georg K. H. Madsen, Karlheinz Schwarz, Peter Blaha, and David J. Singh
Published 30 September 2003 (7 pages)
125212 [View PDF (290 kB)]

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

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Lifetime of Wannier-Stark states in semiconductor superlattices under strong Zener tunneling to above-barrier bands
B. Rosam, K. Leo, M. Glück, F. Keck, H. J. Korsch, F. Zimmer, and K. Köhler
Published 2 September 2003 (7 pages)
125301 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Raman characterization of strain and composition in small-sized self-assembled Si/Ge dots
P. H. Tan, K. Brunner, D. Bougeard, and G. Abstreiter
Published 4 September 2003 (6 pages)
125302 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Correlation between overgrowth morphology and optical properties of single self-assembled InP quantum dots
M. K.-J. Johansson, U. Håkanson, M. Holm, J. Persson, T. Sass, J. Johansson, C. Pryor, L. Montelius, W. Seifert, L. Samuelson, and M.-E. Pistol
Published 4 September 2003 (9 pages)
125303 [View PDF (1,001 kB)]
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Electronic band structure of GaSe(0001):  Angle-resolved photoemission and ab initio theory
L. Plucinski, R. L. Johnson, B. J. Kowalski, K. Kopalko, B. A. Orlowski, Z. D. Kovalyuk, and G. V. Lashkarev
Published 5 September 2003 (8 pages)
125304 [View PDF (1,015 kB)]
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Characterization of GaN quantum discs embedded in AlxGa1-xN nanocolumns grown by molecular beam epitaxy
J. Ristić, E. Calleja, M. A. Sánchez-García, J. M. Ulloa, J. Sánchez-Páramo, J. M. Calleja, U. Jahn, A. Trampert, and K. H. Ploog
Published 8 September 2003 (5 pages)
125305 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Homogeneous surface iron silicide formation on Si(111): The c(8×4) phase
M. Krause, F. Blobner, L. Hammer, K. Heinz, and U. Starke
Published 8 September 2003 (11 pages)
125306 [View PDF (1,096 kB)]
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Edge reconstruction in the fractional quantum Hall regime
Xin Wan, E. H. Rezayi, and Kun Yang
Published 9 September 2003 (12 pages)
125307 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Coherent effects in spectrally resolved pump-probe differential reflectivity measurements at exciton resonance in GaAs quantum wells
Bipul Pal and A. S. Vengurlekar
Published 10 September 2003 (12 pages)
125308 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Energy-dependent Huang-Rhys factor of free excitons
Hui Zhao and H. Kalt
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
125309 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Nanoindentation: Depth dependence of silicon hardness studied within contact theory
M. Hebbache
Published 12 September 2003 (6 pages)
125310 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Light scattering on exciton resonance in a semiconductor quantum dot: Exact solution
S. V. Goupalov
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
125311 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Interference and zero-bias anomaly in tunneling between Luttinger-liquid wires
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Bertrand I. Halperin, Ophir M. Auslaender, and Amir Yacoby
Published 16 September 2003 (17 pages)
125312 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Relaxation oscillations and dynamical enhancement of the breakdown hysteresis in quantum Hall systems with Corbino geometry
N. G. Kalugin, B. E. Saǧol, A. Buß, A. Hirsch, C. Stellmach, G. Hein, and G. Nachtwei
Published 16 September 2003 (10 pages)
125313 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Photoemission study of clean and oxidized nonpolar 4H-SiC surfaces
C. Virojanadara and L. I. Johansson
Published 16 September 2003 (10 pages)
125314 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Thomas-Fermi-Poisson theory of screening for laterally confined and unconfined two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields
A. Siddiki and Rolf R. Gerhardts
Published 16 September 2003 (12 pages)
125315 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Trion, biexciton, and exciton dynamics in single self-assembled CdSe quantum dots
B. Patton, W. Langbein, and U. Woggon
Published 18 September 2003 (9 pages)
125316 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Intrasubband spin-flip relaxation by one-magnon processes in Cd1-xMnxTe quantum wells
E. Souto, O. A. C. Nunes, F. M. S. Lima, D. A. Agrello, and A. L. A. Fonseca
Published 18 September 2003 (6 pages)
125317 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Photoluminescence upconversion in colloidal CdTe quantum dots
Xiaoyong Wang, W. William Yu, Jiayu Zhang, Jose Aldana, Xiaogang Peng, and Min Xiao
Published 22 September 2003 (6 pages)
125318 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Optical anisotropy in individual CdS quantum dot ensembles
Jifa Qi, Chuanbin Mao, John M. White, and Angela M. Belcher
Published 24 September 2003 (6 pages)
125319 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Shot noise of coupled semiconductor quantum dots
G. Kießlich, A. Wacker, and E. Schöll
Published 24 September 2003 (8 pages)
125320 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Electronic structure of SiC(0001) surfaces studied by two-photon photoemission
Michael Wiets, Martin Weinelt, and Thomas Fauster
Published 24 September 2003 (11 pages)
125321 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Band-gap dependence of field emission from one-dimensional nanostructures grown on n-type and p-type silicon substrates
C. S. Chang, S. Chattopadhyay, L. C. Chen, K. H. Chen, C. W. Chen, Y. F. Chen, R. Collazo, and Z. Sitar
Published 24 September 2003 (5 pages)
125322 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Atomic and electronic structure of the Si/SrTiO3 interface
X. Zhang, A. A. Demkov, Hao Li, X. Hu, Yi Wei, and J. Kulik
Published 26 September 2003 (6 pages)
125323 [View PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Zero-phonon lines in the photoluminescence spectra of MgO:Mn2+ nanocrystals
Igor S. Altman, Peter V. Pikhitsa, Mansoo Choi, Ho-Jun Song, Albert G. Nasibulin, and Esko I. Kauppinen
Published 26 September 2003 (6 pages)
125324 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Carrier dynamics and intraminiband coupling in semiconductor superlattices
C. P. Holfeld, W. Schäfer, and K. Leo
Published 26 September 2003 (5 pages)
125325 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Crossing of two Coulomb blockade resonances
Hans A. Weidenmüller
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
125326 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Quantum transport and integrability of the Anderson model for a quantum dot with multiple leads
Sam Young Cho, Huan-Qiang Zhou, and Ross H. McKenzie
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
125327 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Surface versus bulk contributions from reflectance anisotropy and electron energy loss spectra of the GaAs(001)-c(4×4) surface
F. Arciprete, C. Goletti, E. Placidi, P. Chiaradia, M. Fanfoni, F. Patella, C. Hogan, and A. Balzarotti
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
125328 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Weak localization and conductance fluctuations in a quantum dot with parallel magnetic field and spin-orbit scattering
Jan-Hein Cremers, Piet W. Brouwer, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko
Published 29 September 2003 (14 pages)
125329 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Giant persistent current in a quantum ring with multiple arms
Han-Chun Wu, Yong Guo, Xin-Yi Chen, and Bing-Lin Gu
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
125330 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Nonlinear charging effect of quantum dots in a p-i-n diode
G. Kießlich, A. Wacker, E. Schöll, S. A. Vitusevich, A. E. Belyaev, S. V. Danylyuk, A. Förster, N. Klein, and M. Henini
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
125331 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Electron spin polarization in resonant interband tunneling devices
A. G. Petukhov, D. O. Demchenko, and A. N. Chantis
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
125332 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Photoluminescence of CdSe self-assembled quantum dots: Experiments and models
R. A. Jones, Jan M. Yarrison-Rice, L. M. Smith, Howard E. Jackson, M. Dobrowolska, and J. K. Furdyna
Published 30 September 2003 (9 pages)
125333 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Wetting transitions of hydrogen and deuterium on the surface of alkali metals
Wei Shi, J. Karl Johnson, and M. W. Cole
Published 2 September 2003 (7 pages)
125401 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Chirality-dependent absorption and third-order polarizability spectra in open single-wall carbon nanotubes
D.-S. Wu, W.-D. Cheng, H. Zhang, X.-D. Li, Y.-Z. Lan, D.-G. Chen, Y.-J. Gong, and Y.-C. Zhang
Published 8 September 2003 (7 pages)
125402 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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First-principles study of adhesion at Cu/SiO2 interfaces
Kazutaka Nagao, J. B. Neaton, and N. W. Ashcroft
Published 8 September 2003 (8 pages)
125403 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Perturbative approach for surface plasmon effects on flat interfaces periodically corrugated by subwavelength apertures
P. Lalanne, C. Sauvan, J. P. Hugonin, J. C. Rodier, and P. Chavel
Published 9 September 2003 (11 pages)
125404 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Optimized surface-slab excited-state muffin-tin potential and surface core level shifts
J. Rundgren
Published 10 September 2003 (9 pages)
125405 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Effects of the substrate on quantum well states: A first-principles study for Ag/Fe(100)
C. M. Wei and M. Y. Chou
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
125406 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Fe encapsulation by silicon clusters: Ab initio electronic structure calculations
Giannis Mpourmpakis, George E. Froudakis, Antonis N. Andriotis, and Madhu Menon
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
125407 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Scaling during shadowing growth of isolated nanocolumns
T. Karabacak, J. P. Singh, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
125408 [View PDF (569 kB)]
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Electron–optical phonon interaction in carbon nanotubes
G. D. Mahan
Published 16 September 2003 (5 pages)
125409 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Photoemission study of an N,N′-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diamine overlayer on Ag(111)
B. Lu, H. J. Zhang, H. Y. Li, S. N. Bao, P. He, and T. L. Hao
Published 16 September 2003 (5 pages)
125410 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Dimensional change as a function of charge injection in graphite intercalation compounds:  A density functional theory study
Guangyu Sun, Miklos Kertesz, Jenõ Kürti, and Ray H. Baughman
Published 22 September 2003 (7 pages)
125411 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Electron transmission through atom-contacted carbon nanotubes
L. F. Chibotaru, S. Compernolle, and A. Ceulemans
Published 24 September 2003 (31 pages)
125412 [View PDF (906 kB)]
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Carbon species confined inside carbon nanotubes: A density functional study
Yi Liu, R. O. Jones, Xinluo Zhao, and Yoshinori Ando
Published 24 September 2003 (7 pages)
125413 [View PDF (815 kB)]
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Maximum-entropy theory of steady-state quantum transport
P. Bokes and R. W. Godby
Published 24 September 2003 (5 pages)
125414 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Tunneling measurement of quantum spin oscillations
L. N. Bulaevskii, M. Hruška, and G. Ortiz
Published 26 September 2003 (17 pages)
125415 [View PDF (869 kB)]
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Dynamical study on polaron formation in a metal/polymer/metal structure
C. Q. Wu, Y. Qiu, Z. An, and K. Nasu
Published 26 September 2003 (5 pages)
125416 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy study of the anion-derived dangling-bond band on ZnO(101¯0)
K. Ozawa, K. Sawada, Y. Shirotori, K. Edamoto, and M. Nakatake
Published 26 September 2003 (6 pages)
125417 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Adsorption of atoms and fluids on spherical surfaces
E. Susana Hernandez, Milton W. Cole, and Massimo Boninsegni
Published 26 September 2003 (8 pages)
125418 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Phase diagrams of surface plasmon polaritonic crystals
M. Kretschmann
Published 26 September 2003 (5 pages)
125419 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Defective fullerenes and nanotubes as molecular magnets: An ab initio study
Yong-Hyun Kim, Jin Choi, K. J. Chang, and David Tománek
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
125420 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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H2 in the interstitial channels of nanotube bundles
M. C. Gordillo, J. Boronat, and J. Casulleras
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
125421 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Electrodynamics of spatial clusters of spheres: Substrate effects
Victor V. Gozhenko, Leonid G. Grechko, and Keith W. Whites
Published 29 September 2003 (16 pages)
125422 [View PDF (924 kB)]
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Influence of the spatial and temporal structure of the deposited-energy distribution in swift-ion-induced sputtering
M. Beuve, N. Stolterfoht, M. Toulemonde, C. Trautmann, and Herbert M. Urbassek
Published 29 September 2003 (6 pages)
125423 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Energetics and electronic structures of one-dimensional fullerene chains encapsulated in zigzag nanotubes
Minoru Otani, Susumu Okada, and Atsushi Oshiyama
Published 30 September 2003 (8 pages)
125424 [View PDF (588 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “X-ray resonant scattering studies of orbital and charge ordering in Pr1-xCaxMnO3”
Joaquín García and Gloria Subías
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
127101 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘X-ray resonant scattering studies of orbital and charge ordering in Pr1-xCaxMnO3’ ”
M. v. Zimmermann, S. Grenier, C. S. Nelson, J. P. Hill, Doon Gibbs, M. Blume, D. Casa, B. Keimer, Y. Murakami, C.-C. Kao, C. Venkataraman, T. Gog, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
Published 26 September 2003 (2 pages)
127102 [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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