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Physical Review B – 15 October 2005
Volume 72, Issue 15

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Feedback effects on the current correlations in Y-shaped conductors
Shin-Tza Wu and Sungkit Yip
Published 5 October 2005 (4 pages)
153101 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Optical extinction due to intrinsic structural variations of photonic crystals
A. Femius Koenderink, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
153102 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Magnetization in lateral superlattices induced by strong dc and ac electric fields
P. Kleinert and V. V. Bryksin
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
153103 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Optically uniaxial left-handed materials
Nian-Hai Shen, Qin Wang, Jing Chen, Ya-Xian Fan, Jianping Ding, Hui-Tian Wang, Yongjun Tian, and Nai-Ben Ming
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
153104 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Nonlocal effects on the imaging properties of a silver superlens
R. Ruppin and K. Kempa
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
153105 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Interstitial H2 in germanium by Raman scattering and ab initio calculations
M. Hiller, E. V. Lavrov, J. Weber, B. Hourahine, R. Jones, and P. R. Briddon
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
153201 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Coulomb-blockade transport in quasi-one-dimensional polymer nanofibers
A. N. Aleshin, H. J. Lee, S. H. Jhang, H. S. Kim, K. Akagi, and Y. W. Park
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
153202 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Isotopic dependence of the E0′ and E1 direct gaps in the electronic band structure of Si
S. Tsoi, S. Rodriguez, A. K. Ramdas, J. W. Ager, III, H. Riemann, and E. E. Haller
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
153203 [View PDF (209 kB)]

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

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Schottky-barrier-induced spin relaxation in spin injection
Y. Y. Wang and M. W. Wu
Published 3 October 2005 (4 pages)
153301 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Submillisecond electron spin relaxation in InP quantum dots
Michio Ikezawa, Bipul Pal, Yasuaki Masumoto, Ivan V. Ignatiev, Sergey Yu. Verbin, and Il’ya Ya. Gerlovin
Published 3 October 2005 (4 pages)
153302 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Negative hydrogenic ion or D− center in a quantum wire
Y. C. Lee, J. F. Jan, and W. Z. Lee
Published 3 October 2005 (4 pages)
153303 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Real-time RHEED investigation of indium segregation in InGaAs layers grown on vicinal GaAs(001) substrates
S. Martini, A. A. Quivy, T. E. Lamas, and E. C. F. da Silva
Published 4 October 2005 (4 pages)
153304 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Mesoscopic effects in a single-mode Datta-Das spin field-effect transistor
Hyun-Woo Lee, S. Çalışkan, and Hyowon Park
Published 5 October 2005 (4 pages)
153305 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Bound state with negative binding energy induced by coherent transport in a two-dimensional quantum wire
Vidar Gudmundsson, Chi-Shung Tang, and Andrei Manolescu
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
153306 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Spin Hall effect and spin transfer in a disordered Rashba model
D. N. Sheng, L. Sheng, Z. Y. Weng, and F. D. M. Haldane
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
153307 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Electron conductivity and second generation composite fermions
Matteo Merlo, Nicodemo Magnoli, Maura Sassetti, and Bernhard Kramer
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
153308 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Algebraic analysis of composite fermion wavefunctions
V. Ruuska and M. Manninen
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
153309 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Excitons in germanium nanowires: Quantum confinement, orientation, and anisotropy effects within a first-principles approach
Mauro Bruno, Maurizia Palummo, Andrea Marini, Rodolfo Del Sole, Valerio Olevano, Alexandre N. Kholod, and Stefano Ossicini
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
153310 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Propagating coherent acoustic phonon wave packets in InxMn1−xAs∕GaSb
J. Wang, Y. Hashimoto, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata, G. D. Sanders, and C. J. Stanton
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
153311 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Current noise of a quantum dot p–i–n junction in a photonic crystal
Y. N. Chen, D. S. Chuu, and T. Brandes
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
153312 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Calculation of electronic density of states induced by impurities in TiO2 quantum dots
J. L. Movilla, G. Garcia-Belmonte, J. Bisquert, and J. Planelles
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
153313 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Spin-dependent tunneling through a symmetric semiconductor barrier: The Dresselhaus effect
L. G. Wang, Wen Yang, Kai Chang, and K. S. Chan
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
153314 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Intra-valence-band mixing in strain-compensated SiGe quantum wells
S. Tsujino, A. Borak, C. Falub, T. Fromherz, L. Diehl, H. Sigg, and D. Grützmacher
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
153315 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Infrared reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy of Si(111)-2×1: Surface excitons and polarons
G. Bussetti, C. Goletti, P. Chiaradia, and G. Chiarotti
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
153316 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Spin-dependent semiconductor Bloch equations: Microscopic theory of Bir-Aronov-Pikus spin relaxation
C. Lechner and U. Rössler
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
153317 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Enhanced second harmonic generation in a self-similar chain of metal nanospheres
Kuiru Li, Mark I. Stockman, and David J. Bergman
Published 3 October 2005 (4 pages)
153401 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Theory of the tangential G-band feature in the Raman spectra of metallic carbon nanotubes
S. M. Bose, S. Gayen, and S. N. Behera
Published 4 October 2005 (4 pages)
153402 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Molecular and dissociative adsorption of multiple hydrogen molecules on transition metal decorated C60
T. Yildirim, Jorge Íñiguez, and S. Ciraci
Published 6 October 2005 (4 pages)
153403 [View PDF (661 kB)]
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Reduction of amplitude and wavelength of Friedel oscillation on Na(111) surface
Y. Y. Sun, A. C. H. Huan, Y. P. Feng, and A. T. S. Wee
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
153404 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Resonances and rotation symmetries in the conductance of armchair carbon nanotubes with extended defect pairs
U. Lindefelt
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
153405 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Resonant transmission of microwaves through subwavelength fractal slits in a metallic plate
Weijia Wen, Lei Zhou, Bo Hou, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
153406 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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End electronic states in Cu chains on Cu(111): Ab initio calculations
V. S. Stepanyuk, A. N. Klavsyuk, L. Niebergall, and P. Bruno
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
153407 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Stress correction for slab asymmetry in supercell calculations
Peter J. Feibelman
Published 18 October 2005 (2 pages)
153408 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Energetics and electronic structures of potassium-intercalated C60 peapods
Susumu Okada
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
153409 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Adsorption, segregation, and magnetization of a single Mn adatom on the GaAs(110) surface
J. X. Cao, X. G. Gong, and R. Q. Wu
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
153410 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Formation of Po@C60
T. Ohtsuki and K. Ohno
Published 27 October 2005 (3 pages)
153411 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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 Hole-vibration coupling of the highest occupied state in pentacene thin films
H. Yamane, S. Nagamatsu, H. Fukagawa, S. Kera, R. Friedlein, K. K. Okudaira, and N. Ueno
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
153412 [View PDF (1,173 kB)]
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Cutting lines near the Fermi energy of single-wall carbon nanotubes
R. Saito, K. Sato, Y. Oyama, J. Jiang, Ge. G. Samsonidze, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
153413 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Manipulation of azobenzene molecules on Au(111) using scanning tunneling microscopy
M. J. Comstock, Jongweon Cho, A. Kirakosian, and M. F. Crommie
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
153414 [View PDF (799 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Analysis of the physical origin of surface modes on finite-size photonic crystals
S. Enoch, E. Popov, and N. Bonod
Published 3 October 2005 (7 pages)
155101 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Valence states of Cr and the insulator-to-metal transition in Cr-doped SrTiO3
G. I. Meijer, U. Staub, M. Janousch, S. L. Johnson, B. Delley, and T. Neisius
Published 4 October 2005 (5 pages)
155102 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Valence changes associated with the metal-insulator transition in Bi1−xLaxNiO3
H. Wadati, M. Takizawa, T. T. Tran, K. Tanaka, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, A. Chikamatsu, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, S. Ishiwata, M. Azuma, and M. Takano
Published 5 October 2005 (5 pages)
155103 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Luttinger theorem and nonlinear response of quantum many-particle systems
Yu-Liang Liu
Published 6 October 2005 (6 pages)
155104 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Pseudogaps in strongly correlated metals: A generalized dynamical mean-field theory approach
M. V. Sadovskii, I. A. Nekrasov, E. Z. Kuchinskii, Th. Pruschke, and V. I. Anisimov
Published 6 October 2005 (11 pages)
155105 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Comparative study of correlation effects in CaVO3 and SrVO3
I. A. Nekrasov, G. Keller, D. E. Kondakov, A. V. Kozhevnikov, Th. Pruschke, K. Held, D. Vollhardt, and V. I. Anisimov
Published 7 October 2005 (6 pages)
155106 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Coherent tunneling in Cu2+- and Ag2+-doped MgO and CaO:Cu2+ explored through ab initio calculations
P. García-Fernández, C. Sousa, J. A. Aramburu, M. T. Barriuso, and M. Moreno
Published 10 October 2005 (5 pages)
155107 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Theory of Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and their complexes with hydrogen in ZnO
M. G. Wardle, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon
Published 11 October 2005 (13 pages)
155108 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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GW+T theory of excited electron lifetimes in metals
V. P. Zhukov, E. V. Chulkov, and P. M. Echenique
Published 12 October 2005 (14 pages)
155109 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Single-particle spectral function of quarter-filled ladder systems
M. Aichhorn, E. Ya. Sherman, and H. G. Evertz
Published 12 October 2005 (10 pages)
155110 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Charge disproportionation and search for orbital ordering in NdNiO3 by use of resonant x-ray diffraction
V. Scagnoli, U. Staub, M. Janousch, A. M. Mulders, M. Shi, G. I. Meijer, S. Rosenkranz, S. B. Wilkins, L. Paolasini, J. Karpinski, S. M. Kazakov, and S. W. Lovesey
Published 14 October 2005 (7 pages)
155111 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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From Kondo semiconductor to a singular non-Fermi liquid via a quantum critical point: The case of CeRhSb1−xSnx
J. Spalek, A. Ślebarski, J. Goraus, L. Spalek, K. Tomala, A. Zarzycki, and A. Hackemer
Published 14 October 2005 (12 pages)
155112 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Transport properties in correlated systems: An analytical model
F. Rizzo, E. Cappelluti, and L. Pietronero
Published 18 October 2005 (10 pages)
155113 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Gigantic Kerr rotation induced by a d-d transition resonance in MCr2S4 (M=Mn,Fe)
K. Ohgushi, T. Ogasawara, Y. Okimoto, S. Miyasaka, and Y. Tokura
Published 20 October 2005 (5 pages)
155114 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Fermi surface and electron correlation effects of ferromagnetic iron
J. Schäfer, M. Hoinkis, Eli Rotenberg, P. Blaha, and R. Claessen
Published 20 October 2005 (11 pages)
155115 [View PDF (1,039 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity, thermopower, and figure of merit of La1−xSrxCoO3
K. Berggold, M. Kriener, C. Zobel, A. Reichl, M. Reuther, R. Müller, A. Freimuth, and T. Lorenz
Published 21 October 2005 (7 pages)
155116 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Light propagation in finite and infinite photonic crystals: The recursive Green’s function technique
A. I. Rahachou and I. V. Zozoulenko
Published 24 October 2005 (12 pages)
155117 [View PDF (1,037 kB)]
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Effective dielectric constants of photonic crystal of aligned anisotropic cylinders and the optical response of a periodic array of carbon nanotubes
E. Reyes, A. A. Krokhin, and J. Roberts
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
155118 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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X-ray line shapes of metals: Exact solutions of a final-state interaction model
Coenraad A. Swarts and John D. Dow
Published 27 October 2005 (22 pages)
155119 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic contributions to the free energy from the electron-phonon interaction in Na, K, Al, and Pb
N. Bock, D. Coffey, and Duane C. Wallace
Published 27 October 2005 (8 pages)
155120 [View PDF (844 kB)]
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Local defects and ferromagnetism in graphene layers
M. A. H. Vozmediano, M. P. López-Sancho, T. Stauber, and F. Guinea
Published 28 October 2005 (5 pages)
155121 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Ab initio study of the optical properties of shocked LiF
J. Clérouin, Y. Laudernet, V. Recoules, and S. Mazevet
Published 31 October 2005 (8 pages)
155122 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Decay and coherence of two-photon excited yellow orthoexcitons in Cu2O
K. Karpinska, M. Mostovoy, M. A. van der Vegte, A. Revcolevschi, and P. H. M. van Loosdrecht
Published 5 October 2005 (10 pages)
155201 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Structure and phonons of ZnGeN2
Walter R. L. Lambrecht, Erik Alldredge, and Kwiseon Kim
Published 5 October 2005 (6 pages)
155202 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Low-field memory and negative magnetization in semiconductors and polymers
I. Bulyzhenkov, A.-M. Lamarche, and G. Lamarche
Published 12 October 2005 (7 pages)
155203 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Multiphonon resonance Raman scattering in InxGa1−xN
J. W. Ager, III, W. Walukiewicz, W. Shan, K. M. Yu, S. X. Li, E. E. Haller, H. Lu, and W. J. Schaff
Published 21 October 2005 (7 pages)
155204 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Structural, luminescence, and electronic properties of the alkaline metal-strontium cyclotetravanadates M2Sr(VO3)4, (M=Na, K, Rb, Cs)
B. V. Slobodin, L. L. Surat, V. G. Zubkov, A. P. Tyutyunnik, I. F. Berger, M. V. Kuznetsov, L. A. Perelyaeva, I. R. Shein, A. L. Ivanovskii, B. V. Shulgin, V. I. Solomonov, G. Svensson, B. Forslund, and M. J. Sayagués
Published 21 October 2005 (12 pages)
155205 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Charge-carrier concentration dependence of the hopping mobility in organic materials with Gaussian disorder
R. Coehoorn, W. F. Pasveer, P. A. Bobbert, and M. A. J. Michels
Published 26 October 2005 (20 pages)
155206 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Resonant electronic Raman scattering in a Van Vleck II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor: Cd1−xFexTe
S. Tsoi, I. Miotkowski, S. Rodriguez, A. K. Ramdas, H. Alawadhi, and T. M. Pekarek
Published 28 October 2005 (8 pages)
155207 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Density-functional study of small interstitial clusters in Si: Comparison with experiments
A. Carvalho, R. Jones, J. Coutinho, and P. R. Briddon
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155208 [View PDF (288 kB)]

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

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Optical orientation and alignment of excitons in self-assembled CdSe∕ZnSe quantum dots: The role of excited states
Yu. G. Kusrayev, A. V. Koudinov, B. P. Zakharchenya, S. Lee, J. K. Furdyna, and M. Dobrowolska
Published 3 October 2005 (9 pages)
155301 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Nucleation and interface chemistry of ZnO deposited on 6H-SiC
A. B. M. A. Ashrafi, Y. Segawa, K. Shin, and T. Yao
Published 3 October 2005 (7 pages)
155302 [View PDF (2,365 kB)]
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Periodic array of misfit dislocations at the MnAs∕GaAs interface studied by synchrotron x-ray diffraction
D. K. Satapathy, V. M. Kaganer, B. Jenichen, W. Braun, L. Däweritz, and K. H. Ploog
Published 4 October 2005 (9 pages)
155303 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Spin accumulation and decay in magnetic Schottky barriers
Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, Jun Ren, Ke Xia, Maciej Zwierzycki, and Paul J. Kelly
Published 5 October 2005 (5 pages)
155304 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Charge Hall effect driven by spin-dependent chemical potential gradients and Onsager relations in mesoscopic systems
E. M. Hankiewicz, Jian Li, Tomas Jungwirth, Qian Niu, Shun-Qing Shen, and Jairo Sinova
Published 7 October 2005 (5 pages)
155305 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Meron excitations in the ν=1 quantum Hall bilayer and the plasma analogy
Milica V. Milovanović and Ivan Stanić
Published 11 October 2005 (6 pages)
155306 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Excitonic molecule in a quantum dot: Photoluminescence lifetime of a single InAs∕GaAs quantum dot
Shunsuke Kono, Akihiro Kirihara, Akihisa Tomita, Kazuo Nakamura, Junichi Fujikata, Keishi Ohashi, Hideaki Saito, and Kenichi Nishi
Published 12 October 2005 (5 pages)
155307 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Electron spin dynamics and hyperfine interactions in Fe∕Al0.1Ga0.9As∕GaAs spin injection heterostructures
J. Strand, X. Lou, C. Adelmann, B. D. Schultz, A. F. Isakovic, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell
Published 12 October 2005 (17 pages)
155308 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Terahertz-optical mixing in undoped and doped GaAs quantum wells: From excitonic to electronic intersubband transitions
S. G. Carter, V. Ciulin, M. Hanson, A. S. Huntington, C. S. Wang, A. C. Gossard, L. A. Coldren, and M. S. Sherwin
Published 13 October 2005 (5 pages)
155309 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Intraband transitions in quantum dot–superlattice heterostructures
F. F. Schrey, L. Rebohle, T. Müller, G. Strasser, K. Unterrainer, D. P. Nguyen, N. Regnault, R. Ferreira, and G. Bastard
Published 13 October 2005 (8 pages)
155310 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Dissipation-induced quantum phase transition in a quantum box
László Borda, Gergely Zaránd, and Pascal Simon
Published 17 October 2005 (10 pages)
155311 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Conduction electrons and the decoherence of impurity-bound electrons in a semiconductor
Kuljit S. Virk and J. E. Sipe
Published 18 October 2005 (10 pages)
155312 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm electron interferometer in the integer quantum Hall regime
F. E. Camino, W. Zhou, and V. J. Goldman
Published 19 October 2005 (6 pages)
155313 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Disorder effects on the spin-Hall current in a diffusive Rashba two-dimensional heavy-hole system
S. Y. Liu and X. L. Lei
Published 19 October 2005 (5 pages)
155314 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Dopant location identification in Nd3+-doped TiO2 nanoparticles
W. Li, A. I. Frenkel, J. C. Woicik, C. Ni, and S. Ismat Shah
Published 19 October 2005 (6 pages)
155315 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Few-electron eigenstates of concentric double quantum rings
B. Szafran and F. M. Peeters
Published 19 October 2005 (9 pages)
155316 [View PDF (1,127 kB)]
Role of semicore states in the electronic structure of group-III nitrides: An exact-exchange study
A. Qteish, A. I. Al-Sharif, M. Fuchs, M. Scheffler, S. Boeck, and J. Neugebauer
Published 20 October 2005 (8 pages)
155317 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nonlinear intersubband terahertz absorption in asymmetric quantum well structures
M. Bedoya and A. S. Camacho
Published 21 October 2005 (7 pages)
155318 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Optical properties of Si nanocrystals embedded in SiO2
B. Gallas, I. Stenger, C.-C. Kao, S. Fisson, G. Vuye, and J. Rivory
Published 21 October 2005 (10 pages)
155319 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Electrical and optical properties of radiation-induced dominant recombination center in InxGa1−xP space solar cells
M. Adachi, A. Khan, K. Ando, N. J. Ekins-Daukes, H. S. Lee, and M. Yamaguchi
Published 21 October 2005 (8 pages)
155320 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Explanation of quantum dot blinking without the long-lived trap hypothesis
Pavel A. Frantsuzov and R. A. Marcus
Published 24 October 2005 (10 pages)
155321 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Far-infrared absorption of vertically coupled self-assembled quantum rings
J. I. Climente and J. Planelles
Published 24 October 2005 (5 pages)
155322 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Beyond the heteroepitaxial quantum dot: Self-assembling complex nanostructures controlled by strain and growth kinetics
J. L. Gray, R. Hull, Chi-Hang Lam, P. Sutter, J. Means, and J. A. Floro
Published 25 October 2005 (11 pages)
155323 [View PDF (861 kB)]
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Bound-to-bound and bound-to-free transitions in surface photovoltage spectra: Determination of the band offsets for InxGa1−xAs and InxGa1−xAs1−yNy quantum wells
Massimo Galluppi, Lutz Geelhaar, Henning Riechert, Michael Hetterich, Andreas Grau, Stefan Birner, and Wolfgang Stolz
Published 25 October 2005 (12 pages)
155324 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Semiclassical theory of weak antilocalization and spin relaxation in ballistic quantum dots
Oleg Zaitsev, Diego Frustaglia, and Klaus Richter
Published 25 October 2005 (18 pages)
155325 [View PDF (1,152 kB)]
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Photon-assisted electron-hole shot noise in multiterminal conductors
Valentin S. Rychkov, Mikhail L. Polianski, and Markus Büttiker
Published 26 October 2005 (9 pages)
155326 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Imaging of integer quantum Hall edge state in a quantum point contact via scanning gate microscopy
N. Aoki, C. R. da Cunha, R. Akis, D. K. Ferry, and Y. Ochiai
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
155327 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Alloyed Ge(Si)∕Si(001) islands: The composition profile and the shape transformation
C. Lang, D. J. H. Cockayne, and D. Nguyen-Manh
Published 26 October 2005 (9 pages)
155328 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Third-harmonic generation in cylindrical parabolic quantum wires with an applied electric field
Guanghui Wang
Published 27 October 2005 (5 pages)
155329 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Absolute measurements of the triplet-triplet annihilation rate and the charge-carrier recombination layer thickness in working polymer light-emitting diodes based on polyspirobifluorene
C. Rothe, H. A. Al Attar, and A. P. Monkman
Published 27 October 2005 (9 pages)
155330 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Continuum and discrete excitation spectrum of single quantum rings
Benito Alén, Juan Martínez-Pastor, Daniel Granados, and Jorge M. García
Published 27 October 2005 (6 pages)
155331 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Charge fluctuations in coupled systems: Ring coupled to a wire or ring
P. Singha Deo, P. Koskinen, and M. Manninen
Published 27 October 2005 (5 pages)
155332 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Exciton-spin relaxation in quantum dots due to spin-orbit interaction
E. Tsitsishvili, R. v. Baltz, and H. Kalt
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155333 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Band structure engineering: A simple way to optimize key features of one-dimensional energy bands
David E. Rourke, Larisa A. Khodarinova, and T. Mark Fromhold
Published 31 October 2005 (12 pages)
155334 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Electron spin resonance probing of fundamental point defects in nanometer-sized silica particles
A. Stesmans, K. Clémer, and V. V. Afanas’ev
Published 31 October 2005 (12 pages)
155335 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Micro-Raman characterization of InxGa1−xN∕GaN∕Al2O3 heterostructures
A. G. Kontos, Y. S. Raptis, N. T. Pelekanos, A. Georgakilas, E. Bellet-Amalric, and D. Jalabert
Published 31 October 2005 (10 pages)
155336 [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Band-edge polarized optical absorption in europium chalcogenides
A. B. Henriques, A. Wierts, M. A. Manfrini, G. Springholz, P. H. O. Rappl, E. Abramof, and A. Y. Ueta
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155337 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Diffusion-equation approach to describe ionic mobility in nanostructured titania
V. Guidi, G. Martinelli, G. Schiffrer, A. Vomiero, G. Della Mea, E. Comini, M. Ferroni, and G. Sberveglieri
Published 4 October 2005 (9 pages)
155401 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of (4,4) picotube crystals
M. Machón, S. Reich, J. Maultzsch, H. Okudera, A. Simon, R. Herges, and C. Thomsen
Published 6 October 2005 (11 pages)
155402 [View PDF (903 kB)]
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First-principles calculation of the transport properties of molecular wires between Au clusters under equilibrium
Zhanyu Ning, Jingzhe Chen, Shimin Hou, Jiaxing Zhang, Zhenyu Liang, Jin Zhang, and Rushan Han
Published 6 October 2005 (7 pages)
155403 [View PDF (1,882 kB)]
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Adsorption and dissociation of hydrogen molecules on bare and functionalized carbon nanotubes
S. Dag, Y. Ozturk, S. Ciraci, and T. Yildirim
Published 6 October 2005 (8 pages)
155404 [View PDF (744 kB)]
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Size-dependent properties of small deposited chromium clusters by x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Matthias Reif, Leif Glaser, Michael Martins, and Wilfried Wurth
Published 7 October 2005 (6 pages)
155405 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Alkali-metal-doping dynamics and anomalous lattice contraction of individual debundled carbon nanotubes
Gugang Chen, C. A. Furtado, U. J. Kim, and P. C. Eklund
Published 10 October 2005 (7 pages)
155406 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Kinetics of island density in thin film growth in the framework of statistical mechanics of rigid disks
M. Tomellini and M. Fanfoni
Published 11 October 2005 (5 pages)
155407 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Ab initio study of molecule transport characteristics based on nonequilibrium Green’s function theory
F. Jiang, Y. X. Zhou, H. Chen, R. Note, H. Mizuseki, and Y. Kawazoe
Published 12 October 2005 (10 pages)
155408 [View PDF (890 kB)]
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Electric-field gradients in thin face-centered-tetragonal Co films observed by nuclear magnetic resonance
H. Wieldraaijer, W. J. M. de Jonge, and J. T. Kohlhepp
Published 12 October 2005 (10 pages)
155409 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Spin-orbit effects in single-electron states in coupled quantum dots
Peter Stano and Jaroslav Fabian
Published 14 October 2005 (14 pages)
155410 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Effects of morphology on phonons in nanoscopic silver grains
Gustavo A. Narvaez, Jeongnim Kim, and John W. Wilkins
Published 14 October 2005 (8 pages)
155411 [View PDF (697 kB)]
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Electrostatic (plasmon) resonances in nanoparticles
Isaak D. Mayergoyz, Donald R. Fredkin, and Zhenyu Zhang
Published 14 October 2005 (15 pages)
155412 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Modeling graphene layers and single-walled carbon nanotubes with regularized δ-function potentials
Han Hsu and L. E. Reichl
Published 14 October 2005 (9 pages)
155413 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Enhanced reactivity of adsorbed oxygen on Pd(111) induced by compression of the oxygen layer
S. H. Kim, J. Méndez, J. Wintterlin, and G. Ertl
Published 17 October 2005 (5 pages)
155414 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Theory of infrared-active phonons in carbon nanotubes
Gun Sang Jeon and G. D. Mahan
Published 17 October 2005 (9 pages)
155415 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of the electronic structure of one-dimensional C60 polymers
Titus A. Beu, Jun Onoe, and Akira Hida
Published 18 October 2005 (5 pages)
155416 [View PDF (697 kB)]
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Effect of surface bond-order loss on electrical resistivity of metallic polycrystalline thin films
T. C. Au Yeung, T. C. Chiam, C. K. Chen, C. Q. Sun, W. Z. Shangguan, W. K. Wong, and C. H. Kam
Published 18 October 2005 (7 pages)
155417 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Localization of excitons by molecular layer formation in a polymer film
S. Chattopadhyay and A. Datta
Published 18 October 2005 (9 pages)
155418 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Relationship between the electronic structure of embedded single to triple atomic monolayers and bulk alloys
W. Olovsson, E. Holmström, J. Wills, P. James, I. A. Abrikosov, and A. M. N. Niklasson
Published 18 October 2005 (7 pages)
155419 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Bond-length alternation and charge transfer in a linear carbon chain encapsulated within a single-walled carbon nanotube
Á. Rusznyák, V. Zólyomi, J. Kürti, S. Yang, and M. Kertesz
Published 18 October 2005 (6 pages)
155420 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Finite-size and nonlinear effects on the ultrafast electron transport in thin metal films
G. Manfredi and P.-A. Hervieux
Published 18 October 2005 (13 pages)
155421 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Structure of the thinnest most stable semiconducting and insulating nanotubes of SiOx (x=1,2)
Abhishek Kumar Singh, Vijay Kumar, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 18 October 2005 (5 pages)
155422 [View PDF (819 kB)]
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Origin of the C-induced p4g reconstruction of Ni(001)
Sergey Stolbov, Sampyo Hong, Abdelkader Kara, and Talat S. Rahman
Published 19 October 2005 (6 pages)
155423 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Ordered surface alloy formation of immiscible metals: The case of Pb deposited on Ag(111)
J. Dalmas, H. Oughaddou, C. Léandri, J-M. Gay, G. Le Lay, G. Tréglia, B. Aufray, O. Bunk, and R. L. Johnson
Published 20 October 2005 (6 pages)
155424 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Ab initio study of transport properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
Qimin Yan, Jian Wu, Gang Zhou, Wenhui Duan, and Bing-Lin Gu
Published 20 October 2005 (5 pages)
155425 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Localized surface plasmons on a torus in the nonretarded approximation
Alexandre Mary, Alain Dereux, and Thomas L. Ferrell
Published 20 October 2005 (11 pages)
155426 [View PDF (1,205 kB)]
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Electronic structure calculations of physisorption and chemisorption on oxide glass surfaces
Elam A. Leed, Jorge O. Sofo, and Carlo G. Pantano
Published 21 October 2005 (11 pages)
155427 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Molecular hydrogen confined within nanoporous framework materials: Comparison of density functional and classical force-field descriptions
A. W. C. van den Berg, S. T. Bromley, J. C. Wojdel, and J. C. Jansen
Published 24 October 2005 (7 pages)
155428 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Theoretical study of spin-dependent electron transport in atomic Fe nanocontacts
Hugh Dalgleish and George Kirczenow
Published 24 October 2005 (12 pages)
155429 [View PDF (789 kB)]
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Electronic structure of ensembles of gold nanoparticles: Size and proximity effects
Hongjian Liu, Bongjin Simon Mun, Geoff Thornton, Steven R. Isaacs, Young-Seok Shon, D. Frank Ogletree, and Miquel Salmeron
Published 24 October 2005 (5 pages)
155430 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Periodic unmixing of a binary metallic vapor
J. Maul, I. Strachnov, S. Karpuk, T. Schilling, A. Oelsner, P. Bernhard, H. J. Elmers, G. Schönhense, and G. Huber
Published 25 October 2005 (5 pages)
155431 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Growth and magnetism of ultrathin Fe films on Pt(100)
K. He, L. J. Zhang, X. C. Ma, J. F. Jia, Q. K. Xue, and Z. Q. Qiu
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
155432 [View PDF (831 kB)]
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Epitaxial growth of Ag on W(110)
C. Deisl, E. Bertel, M. Bürgener, G. Meister, and A. Goldmann
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
155433 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Structural modifications of Co ultrathin films grown on Au(111) vicinal surfaces
Y. Girard, G. Baudot, V. Repain, S. Rohart, S. Rousset, A. Coati, and Y. Garreau
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
155434 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Surface phonon-polariton mediated thermal conductivity enhancement of amorphous thin films
Dye-Zone A. Chen, Arvind Narayanaswamy, and Gang Chen
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
155435 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Similarities in the Raman RBM and D bands in double-wall carbon nanotubes
P. Puech, A. Bassil, J. Gonzalez, Ch. Power, E. Flahaut, S. Barrau, Ph. Demont, C. Lacabanne, E. Perez, and W. S. Bacsa
Published 27 October 2005 (6 pages)
155436 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Unusual polymerization in the Li4C60 fulleride
M. Riccò, T. Shiroka, M. Belli, D. Pontiroli, M. Pagliari, G. Ruani, D. Palles, S. Margadonna, and M. Tomaselli
Published 27 October 2005 (7 pages)
155437 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Intraband absorption and Stark effect in silicon nanocrystals
J. S. de Sousa, J.-P. Leburton, V. N. Freire, and E. F. da Silva, Jr.
Published 27 October 2005 (8 pages)
155438 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Structure and electronic properties of Al13X (X=F, Cl, Br, and I) clusters
Jaehoon Jung, Jong Chan Kim, and Young-Kyu Han
Published 28 October 2005 (5 pages)
155439 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Quasimetallic behavior of carrier-polarized C60 molecular layers: Experiment and theory
Z. H. Lu, C. C. Lo, C. J. Huang, Y. Y. Yuan, M. W. C. Dharma-wardana, and Marek Z. Zgierski
Published 28 October 2005 (7 pages)
155440 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Electronic structure and vibrational properties of Ba8Si46,Ba8AgnSi46−n, and Ba8AunSi46−n
J. S. Tse, T. Iitaka, T. Kume, H. Shimizu, K. Parlinski, H. Fukuoka, and S. Yamanaka
Published 28 October 2005 (9 pages)
155441 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Surface relaxations in quantum-confined Pb
A. Mans, J. H. Dil, A. R. H. F. Ettema, and H. H. Weitering
Published 31 October 2005 (10 pages)
155442 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Electronic and geometric structure of Si(111)-5×2-Au
H. S. Yoon, J. E. Lee, S. J. Park, I.-W. Lyo, and M.-H. Kang
Published 31 October 2005 (8 pages)
155443 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Half-metallic properties of atomic chains of carbon–transition-metal compounds
S. Dag, S. Tongay, T. Yildirim, E. Durgun, R. T. Senger, C. Y. Fong, and S. Ciraci
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155444 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Spin-polarized electron transport through nanometer-scale Al grains
L. Y. Zhang, C. Y. Wang, Y. G. Wei, X. Y. Liu, and D. Davidović
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155445 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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First-principles study of the composition, structure, and stability of the FeO (111) surface
Y. L. Li, K. L. Yao, Z. L. Liu, and G. Y. Gao
Published 31 October 2005 (5 pages)
155446 [View PDF (586 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Chirality dependence of the Raman cross section of carbon nanotubes [Phys. Rev. B 71, 153404 (2005)]
S. V. Goupalov
Published 11 October 2005 (1 page)
159901(E) [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Erratum: Spin-split two-dimensional electron gas perturbed by intense terahertz laser fields [Phys. Rev. B 70, 193301 (2004)]
W. Xu
Published 14 October 2005 (2 pages)
159902(E) [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Erratum: Spin-split two-dimensional electron gas perturbed by intense terahertz laser fields [Phys. Rev. B 70, 193301 (2004); Phys. Rev. B 72, 159902(E) (2005)]
W. Xu
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
159903(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Effects of magnetic field on the electronic structure of wurtzite quantum dots: Calculations using effective-mass envelope function theory [Phys. Rev. B 72, 075363 (2005)]
X. W. Zhang and J. B. Xia
Published 28 October 2005 (1 page)
159904(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
 
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