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Physical Review B – 15 December 2003
Volume 68, Issue 24

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

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Geometry and electronic structure of α-Pu: A theoretical study
Babak Sadigh, Per Söderlind, and Wilhelm G. Wolfer
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
241101(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Magnetothermopower and Nernst effect in unconventional charge density waves
Balázs Dóra, Kazumi Maki, András Ványolos, and Attila Virosztek
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
241102(R) [View PDF (73 kB)]

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

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Luttinger liquid in a finite one-dimensional wire with box-like boundary conditions
Fabrizio Anfuso and Sebastian Eggert
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
241301(R) [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Microscopic theory of the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect in the first and second excited Landau levels
M. O. Goerbig, P. Lederer, and C. Morais Smith
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
241302(R) [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Hysteretic dynamic nuclear polarization in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs (110) quantum wells
H. Sanada, S. Matsuzaka, K. Morita, C. Y. Hu, Y. Ohno, and H. Ohno
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
241303(R) [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Generalized drift-diffusion model for miniband superlattices
L. L. Bonilla, R. Escobedo, and Álvaro Perales
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
241304(R) [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Parallel magnetic-field-induced conductance fluctuations in one- and two-subband ballistic quantum dots
C. Gustin, S. Faniel, B. Hackens, S. Melinte, M. Shayegan, and V. Bayot
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
241305(R) [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Reflection phase of scattering electrons in a single-channel atomic wire
H. Q. Xu, I. C. Fasth, D. Csontos, L. B. Zhang, and Y. Zhao
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
241306(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Ultrafast polarization dynamics in biased quantum wells under strong femtosecond optical excitation
D. Turchinovich, P. Uhd Jepsen, B. S. Monozon, M. Koch, S. Lahmann, U. Rossow, and A. Hangleiter
Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages)
241307(R) [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Linear temperature dependence of conductivity in the apparent insulating regime of dilute two-dimensional holes in GaAs
Hwayong Noh, M. P. Lilly, D. C. Tsui, J. A. Simmons, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
241308(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Quantum magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid
Gregory W. Martin, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Michael Yu. Reizer
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
241309(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Inelastic scattering approach to the theory of a magnetic tunnel transistor source
Emmanuel I. Rashba
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
241310(R) [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Scaling approach to electron-electron interactions in a chaotic quantum dot
Shaffique Adam, Piet W. Brouwer, and Prashant Sharma
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
241311(R) [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Raman spectroscopy of silicon nanowires
S. Piscanec, M. Cantoro, A. C. Ferrari, J. A. Zapien, Y. Lifshitz, S. T. Lee, S. Hofmann, and J. Robertson
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
241312(R) [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Si(111)-(7×7) surface probed by reflection high-energy positron diffraction
A. Kawasuso, Y. Fukaya, K. Hayashi, M. Maekawa, S. Okada, and A. Ichimiya
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
241313(R) [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Structural investigation of the ZnSe(001)-c(2×2) surface
W. Weigand, A. Müller, L. Kilian, T. Schallenberg, P. Bach, G. Schmidt, L. W. Molenkamp, O. Bunk, R. L. Johnson, C. Kumpf, and E. Umbach
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
241314(R) [View PDF (518 kB)]
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Spin currents in thermodynamic equilibrium: The challenge of discerning transport currents
Emmanuel I. Rashba
Published 31 December 2003 (3 pages)
241315(R) [View PDF (41 kB)]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Shapes of cagelike metal carbide clusters: First-principles calculations
G. K. Gueorguiev and J. M. Pacheco
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
241401(R) [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Oxygen vacancy mediated adsorption and reactions of molecular oxygen on the TiO2(110) surface
Xueyuan Wu, Annabella Selloni, Michele Lazzeri, and Saroj K. Nayak
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
241402(R) [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Coalescence of nanoscale metal clusters: Molecular-dynamics study
S. Hendy, S. A. Brown, and M. Hyslop
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
241403(R) [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Electronic structure and rebonding in the onionlike As@Ni12@As20 cluster
Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, Steven L. Richardson, and Mark R. Pederson
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
241404(R) [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Microscopic theory for nanotube piezoelectricity
Na Sai and E. J. Mele
Published 31 December 2003 (3 pages)
241405(R) [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Diameter dependent wall deformations during the compression of a carbon nanotube bundle
U. D. Venkateswaran, D. L. Masica, G. U. Sumanasekera, C. A. Furtado, U. J. Kim, and P. C. Eklund
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
241406(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Existence of broad acoustic bandgaps in three-component composite
Shu Zhang and Jianchun Cheng
Published 1 December 2003 (6 pages)
245101 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Unscreened Hartree-Fock calculations for metallic Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu from ab initio Hamiltonians
I. Schnell, G. Czycholl, and R. C. Albers
Published 2 December 2003 (11 pages)
245102 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Semiclassical action based on dynamical mean-field theory describing electrons interacting with local lattice fluctuations
Stefan Blawid and Gertrud Zwicknagl
Published 4 December 2003 (9 pages)
245103 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Tight-binding theory of Faraday rotation in graphite
Thomas G. Pedersen
Published 5 December 2003 (6 pages)
245104 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Theory of time-domain measurement of spin-dependent recombination with pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance
Christoph Boehme and Klaus Lips
Published 8 December 2003 (19 pages)
245105 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Applicability of the localization-interaction model to magnetoconductivity studies of polyaniline films at the metal-insulator boundary
G. Tzamalis, N. A. Zaidi, and A. P. Monkman
Published 9 December 2003 (11 pages)
245106 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Water molecule by the self-consistent atomic deformation method
M. M. Ossowski, L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, and M. R. Pederson
Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages)
245107 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Dielectric properties and dynamical conductivity of LaTiO3: From dc to optical frequencies
P. Lunkenheimer, T. Rudolf, J. Hemberger, A. Pimenov, S. Tachos, F. Lichtenberg, and A. Loidl
Published 11 December 2003 (11 pages)
245108 [View PDF (650 kB)]
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Signatures of an electronic nematic phase at the isotropic-nematic phase transition
Hae-Young Kee, Eugene H. Kim, and Chung-Hou Chung
Published 11 December 2003 (5 pages)
245109 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Evaluation of lensing in photonic crystal slabs exhibiting negative refraction
Zhi-Yuan Li and Lan-Lan Lin
Published 12 December 2003 (7 pages)
245110 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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Scaling properties of the projected SO(5) model in three dimensions
M. Jöstingmeier, A. Dorneich, E. Arrigoni, W. Hanke, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 12 December 2003 (6 pages)
245111 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Green function approach for the ab initio calculation of the optical and magneto-optical properties of solids:  Accounting for dynamical many-body effects
A. Perlov, S. Chadov, and H. Ebert
Published 16 December 2003 (5 pages)
245112 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Electronic and optical properties of the 1T phases of TiS2, TiSe2, and TiTe2
Ali Hussain Reshak and S. Auluck
Published 18 December 2003 (7 pages)
245113 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Determination of pressure-induced valence changes in YbAl2 by resonant inelastic x-ray emission
C. Dallera, E. Annese, J.-P. Rueff, A. Palenzona, G. Vankó, L. Braicovich, A. Shukla, and M. Grioni
Published 18 December 2003 (11 pages)
245114 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Strain-tunable optical valves at T-junction waveguides in photonic crystals
Natalia Malkova and Venkatraman Gopalan
Published 22 December 2003 (6 pages)
245115 [View PDF (679 kB)]
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On-site interaction effects on localization: Dominance of nonuniversal contributions
Moshe Goldstein and Richard Berkovits
Published 23 December 2003 (7 pages)
245116 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Application of structural symmetries in the plane-wave-based transfer-matrix method for three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides
Zhi-Yuan Li and Kai-Ming Ho
Published 29 December 2003 (20 pages)
245117 [View PDF (945 kB)]
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Fermi surface of UGe2 in the paramagnetic phase
M. Biasini and R. Troc
Published 29 December 2003 (6 pages)
245118 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Transport properties of Kondo-insulator alloys
L. Peche, E. V. Anda, and C. A. Büsser
Published 30 December 2003 (8 pages)
245119 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Alternative separation of exchange and correlation in density-functional theory
R. Armiento and A. E. Mattsson
Published 30 December 2003 (5 pages)
245120 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Dynamical properties of a strongly correlated model for quarter-filled layered organic molecular crystals
Jaime Merino, Andrés Greco, Ross H. McKenzie, and Matteo Calandra
Published 31 December 2003 (15 pages)
245121 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Atomistic simulations of the effect of Coulombic interactions on carrier fluctuations in doped silicon
Zudian Qin and Scott T. Dunham
Published 10 December 2003 (5 pages)
245201 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Near band edge recombination mechanisms in GaTe
A. Zubiaga, J. A. García, F. Plazaola, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé, and C. Martínez-Tomás
Published 17 December 2003 (6 pages)
245202 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Geminate pair recombination in molecular systems with correlated disorder
Darius Abramavicius and Leonas Valkunas
Published 23 December 2003 (7 pages)
245203 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Charge dynamics of muonium centers in Si revealed by photoinduced muon spin relaxation
R. Kadono, R. M. Macrae, and K. Nagamine
Published 29 December 2003 (17 pages)
245204 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Spin relaxation in n-doped GaAs due to impurity and electron-electron Elliot-Yafet scattering
P. I. Tamborenea, M. A. Kuroda, and F. L. Bottesi
Published 29 December 2003 (5 pages)
245205 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Predicted absence of ferromagnetism in manganese-doped diamond
Steven C. Erwin and C. Stephen Hellberg
Published 30 December 2003 (5 pages)
245206 [View PDF (449 kB)]

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

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Two-dimensional electron-hole capture in a disordered hopping system
N. C. Greenham and P. A. Bobbert
Published 1 December 2003 (7 pages)
245301 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Multiexcitons confined within a subexcitonic volume: Spectroscopic and dynamical signatures of neutral and charged biexcitons in ultrasmall semiconductor nanocrystals
M. Achermann, J. A. Hollingsworth, and V. I. Klimov
Published 3 December 2003 (5 pages)
245302 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Cyclotron resonance of an interacting polaron gas in a quantum well: Magnetoplasmon-phonon mixing
S. N. Klimin and J. T. Devreese
Published 5 December 2003 (8 pages)
245303 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Single scatterings in single artificial atoms: Quantum coherence and entanglement
Ulrich Hohenester, Claudia Sifel, and Pekka Koskinen
Published 5 December 2003 (12 pages)
245304 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Fano resonances in the overlapping regime
A. I. Magunov, I. Rotter, and S. I. Strakhova
Published 8 December 2003 (6 pages)
245305 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Spin-dependent transport through Cd1-xMnxTe diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dots
Shu-Shen Li, Kai Chang, Jian-Bai Xia, and Kenji Hirose
Published 8 December 2003 (5 pages)
245306 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Positron-annihilation-induced Auger electron spectroscopy studies of the (100) and (111) surfaces of silicon
N. G. Fazleev, J. Kim, J. L. Fry, and A. H. Weiss
Published 10 December 2003 (6 pages)
245307 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Raman scattering in large single indium nitride dots: Correlation between morphology and strain
F. Demangeot, J. Frandon, C. Pinquier, M. Caumont, O. Briot, B. Maleyre, S. Clur-Ruffenach, and B. Gil
Published 11 December 2003 (5 pages)
245308 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Effective masses of two-dimensional electron gases around cubic inclusions in hexagonal silicon carbide
H. P. Iwata, U. Lindefelt, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon
Published 12 December 2003 (7 pages)
245309 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Quantized acoustoelectric current transport through a static quantum dot using a surface acoustic wave
N. E. Fletcher, J. Ebbecke, T. J. B. M. Janssen, F. J. Ahlers, M. Pepper, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 12 December 2003 (9 pages)
245310 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Coherence and Coulomb blockade in single-electron devices: A unified treatment of interaction effects
S. Florens, P. San José, F. Guinea, and A. Georges
Published 15 December 2003 (12 pages)
245311 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Surface electronic structures of Ca-induced reconstructions on Si(111)
Y. K. Kim, J. W. Kim, H. S. Lee, Y. J. Kim, and H. W. Yeom
Published 17 December 2003 (6 pages)
245312 [View PDF (853 kB)]
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Ballistic electron motion in a random magnetic field
K. B. Efetov and V. R. Kogan
Published 18 December 2003 (10 pages)
245313 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Contrasting structural and bonding properties of trimethylamine and dimethylamine adsorbed on Si(001)
Jun-Hyung Cho and Leonard Kleinman
Published 18 December 2003 (6 pages)
245314 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Induced nonequilibrium currents in the magnetization of mesoscopic dots in the quantum Hall regime
M. P. Schwarz, D. Grundler, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, D. Reuter, and A. Wieck
Published 22 December 2003 (5 pages)
245315 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Band structure of the Ca/Si(111)-(2×1) surface
Kazuyuki Sakamoto, H. M. Zhang, and R. I. G. Uhrberg
Published 22 December 2003 (5 pages)
245316 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Quasistates and their relation to the Dicke effect in a mesoscopic ring coupled to a reservoir
Bernhard Wunsch and Alexander Chudnovskiy
Published 23 December 2003 (9 pages)
245317 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Interplay between quantum confinement and electron-electron interaction in deformed silicon quantum wires
G. Parascandolo, G. Cantele, D. Ninno, and G. Iadonisi
Published 24 December 2003 (10 pages)
245318 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Optical investigation of electrical spin injection into semiconductors
V. F. Motsnyi, P. Van Dorpe, W. Van Roy, E. Goovaerts, V. I. Safarov, G. Borghs, and J. De Boeck
Published 24 December 2003 (13 pages)
245319 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Vacuum-field Rabi splitting in quantum-well infrared photodetectors
E. Dupont, H. C. Liu, A. J. SpringThorpe, W. Lai, and M. Extavour
Published 29 December 2003 (9 pages)
245320 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Emergence of quasimetallic state in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas due to strong interactions
B. Rosenstein and Tran Minh-Tien
Published 31 December 2003 (18 pages)
245321 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Rashba effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic systems with transverse magnetic field
S. Bellucci and P. Onorato
Published 31 December 2003 (11 pages)
245322 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Kondo resonance in a quantum dot molecule
A.D. Güçlü, Qing Feng Sun, and Hong Guo
Published 31 December 2003 (5 pages)
245323 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Effects of three-dimensional atomic forces in topographical imaging of atoms with an atom force microscope
Wei Li Wang, S. Jack Hu, and Roy Clarke
Published 2 December 2003 (9 pages)
245401 [View PDF (548 kB)]
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Structure and energetics of clean and hydrogenated Ni surfaces and symmetrical tilt grain boundaries using the embedded-atom method
Motoyuki Shiga, Masatake Yamaguchi, and Hideo Kaburaki
Published 5 December 2003 (8 pages)
245402 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Phonons and specific heat of neon and methane on the surface of a nanotube bundle
Milen K. Kostov, M. Mercedes Calbi, and Milton W. Cole
Published 9 December 2003 (12 pages)
245403 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Simulations of denuded-zone formation during growth on surfaces with anisotropic diffusion
C. Ebner, K.-B. Park, J.-F. Nielsen, and J. P. Pelz
Published 9 December 2003 (10 pages)
245404 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Definition and measurement of the local density of electromagnetic states close to an interface
Karl Joulain, Rémi Carminati, Jean-Philippe Mulet, and Jean-Jacques Greffet
Published 10 December 2003 (10 pages)
245405 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Phonon transport in nanowires coated with an amorphous material: An atomistic Green’s function approach
N. Mingo and Liu Yang
Published 11 December 2003 (12 pages)
245406 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Relativistic effects in EELS of nanoporous alumina membranes
N. Zabala, A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham, A. Rivacoba, F. J. García de Abajo, and M. O. Wolf
Published 11 December 2003 (13 pages)
245407 [View PDF (783 kB)]
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Thermal expansion of the Ag(110) surface studied by low-energy electron diffraction and density-functional theory
V. B. Nascimento, E. A. Soares, V. E. de Carvalho, E. L. Lopes, R. Paniago, and C. M. C. de Castilho
Published 11 December 2003 (8 pages)
245408 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Competing stabilization mechanism for the polar ZnO(0001)-Zn surface
Georg Kresse, Olga Dulub, and Ulrike Diebold
Published 11 December 2003 (15 pages)
245409 [View PDF (1,527 kB)]
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From erosion to bombardment-induced growth on Ir(111)
Ansgar Petersen, Carsten Busse, Celia Polop, Udo Linke, and Thomas Michely
Published 12 December 2003 (9 pages)
245410 [View PDF (753 kB)]
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Enhanced electronic emission by excitation of an interface resonance in metallic bilayer gratings irradiated by short laser pulses
Serena Bastiani-Ceccotti, Patrick Monchicourt, and Thierry Lehner
Published 12 December 2003 (12 pages)
245411 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Nitrogen adsorption on carbon nanotube bundles:  Role of the external surface
Jianwen Jiang and Stanley I. Sandler
Published 12 December 2003 (9 pages)
245412 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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d-band quantum well states in ultrathin silver films on V(100)
M. Kralj, P. Pervan, M. Milun, T. Valla, P. D. Johnson, and D. P. Woodruff
Published 15 December 2003 (8 pages)
245413 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Aperiodic incommensurate phase of a C60 monolayer on Ag(100)
Ching-Ling Hsu and Woei Wu Pai
Published 15 December 2003 (12 pages)
245414 [View PDF (1,972 kB)]
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Electronic excitations and tunneling spectra of metallic nanograins
Gustavo A. Narvaez and George Kirczenow
Published 16 December 2003 (8 pages)
245415 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Reconstruction of charged surfaces: General trends and a case study of Pt(110) and Au(110)
Alexander Y. Lozovoi and Ali Alavi
Published 18 December 2003 (18 pages)
245416 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Calculation of surface stress for fcc transition metals
J. Kollár, L. Vitos, J. M. Osorio-Guillén, and R. Ahuja
Published 18 December 2003 (5 pages)
245417 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Local morphology and correlation lengths of reactive NiO/Cu(111) interfaces
A. Barbier, S. Stanescu, C. Boeglin, and J.-P. Deville
Published 18 December 2003 (7 pages)
245418 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Ring formation of single-walled carbon nanotubes:  Competition between conformation energy and entropy
Shengli Zhang, Shumin Zhao, Minggang Xia, Erhu Zhang, and Tao Xu
Published 22 December 2003 (7 pages)
245419 [View PDF (708 kB)]
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Collective modes of interacting dielectric spheres
Rodrigo Arias and D. L. Mills
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
245420 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Laser-driven electron transfer through metal-insulator-metal contacts: Time-dependent configuration interaction singles calculations for a jellium model
Tillmann Klamroth
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
245421 [View PDF (259 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nd3+→Yb3+ energy transfer in the YAl3(BO3)4 nonlinear laser crystal [Phys. Rev. B 68, 035118 (2003)]
D. Jaque, M. O. Ramirez, L. E. Bausa, J. García Solé, A. Speghini, M. Bettinelli, and E. Cavalli
Published 15 December 2003 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Ab initio study of Ti-contacted single-walled carbon nanotube [Phys. Rev. B 68, 193409 (2003)]
Yi Liu, Brian Larade, and Hong Guo
Published 31 December 2003 (1 page)
249902(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
 
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