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Physical Review B – 15 October 2005
Volume 72, Issue 16

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Temperature-dependent Eu 3d-4f x-ray absorption and resonant photoemission study of the valence transition in EuNi2(Si0.2Ge0.8)2
K. Yamamoto, K. Horiba, M. Taguchi, M. Matsunami, N. Kamakura, A. Chainani, Y. Takata, K. Mimura, M. Shiga, H. Wada, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and S. Shin
Published 6 October 2005 (4 pages)
161101(R) [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Transverse tunneling current through guanine traps in DNA
Vadim Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
161102(R) [View PDF (71 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Universal adiabatic dynamics in the vicinity of a quantum critical point
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
161201(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations of threshold displacement energies in silicon carbide
G. Lucas and L. Pizzagalli
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
161202(R) [View PDF (257 kB)]

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

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Pulsed-gate measurements of the singlet-triplet relaxation time in a two-electron double quantum dot
J. R. Petta, A. C. Johnson, A. Yacoby, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard
Published 5 October 2005 (4 pages)
161301(R) [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Shot noise of photon-excited electron-hole pairs in open quantum dots
M. L. Polianski, P. Samuelsson, and M. Büttiker
Published 5 October 2005 (4 pages)
161302(R) [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Spin dynamics in electrochemically charged CdSe quantum dots
N. P. Stern, M. Poggio, M. H. Bartl, E. L. Hu, G. D. Stucky, and D. D. Awschalom
Published 6 October 2005 (4 pages)
161303(R) [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Asymmetric exchange between electron spins in coupled semiconductor quantum dots
Ş. C. Bădescu, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, and T. L. Reinecke
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
161304(R) [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Pauli spin blockade in cotunneling transport through a double quantum dot
H. W. Liu, T. Fujisawa, T. Hayashi, and Y. Hirayama
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
161305(R) [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Quantum theory of spectral-diffusion-induced electron spin decoherence
W. M. Witzel, Rogerio de Sousa, and S. Das Sarma
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
161306(R) [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Oxygen-vacancy mediated adsorption and reactions of molecular oxygen on the ZnO(101̅ 0) surface
Yanfa Yan, M. M. Al-Jassim, and Su-Huai Wei
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
161307(R) [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Quantum mechanical magnetic-field-gradient drift velocity: An analytically solvable model
K. Handrich
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
161308(R) [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Transport properties of nanodevices: A one-dimensional model study
Zhongxi Zhang, C. F. Destefani, Chris McDonald, and Thomas Brabec
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
161309(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Radius-dependent polarization anisotropy in semiconductor nanowires
A. V. Maslov and C. Z. Ning
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
161310(R) [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Electric field dependence of spin coherence in (001) GaAs∕AlxGa1−xAs quantum wells
Wayne H. Lau and Michael E. Flatté
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
161311(R) [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Individual neutral and charged InxGa1−xAs-GaAs quantum dots with strong in-plane optical anisotropy
D. N. Krizhanovskii, A. Ebbens, A. I. Tartakovskii, F. Pulizzi, T. Wright, M. S. Skolnick, and M. Hopkinson
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
161312(R) [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Appearance of room-temperature ferromagnetism in Cu-doped TiO2−δ films
S. Duhalde, M. F. Vignolo, F. Golmar, C. Chiliotte, C. E. Rodríguez Torres, L. A. Errico, A. F. Cabrera, M. Rentería, F. H. Sánchez, and M. Weissmann
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
161313(R) [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Broadband terahertz study of excitonic resonances in the high-density regime in GaAs∕AlxGa1−xAs quantum wells
Rupert Huber, Robert A. Kaindl, Ben A. Schmid, and Daniel S. Chemla
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
161314(R) [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Spin-orientation-dependent spatial structure of a magnetic acceptor state in a zinc-blende semiconductor
Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatté
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
161315(R) [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Light localization for broadband integrated optics in three dimensions
Alongkarn Chutinan and Sajeev John
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
161316(R) [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Spectrum of one-dimensional plasmons in a single stripe of two-dimensional electrons
I. V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, V. A. Kovalskii, S. I. Gubarev, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
161317(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Disorder-induced scattering loss of line-defect waveguides in photonic crystal slabs
E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, S. Hughes, A. Shinya, T. Watanabe, and L. Ramunno
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
161318(R) [View PDF (528 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Migration-assisted energy transfer at conjugated polymer/metal interfaces
D. E. Markov and P. W. M. Blom
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
161401(R) [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Kinetic electron emission induced by grazing scattering of slow atoms: Local probe of the Compton profile near the Fermi edge
HP. Winter, S. Lederer, H. Winter, C. Lemell, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
161402(R) [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Charging mechanism for the bond elongation observed in suspended chains of gold atoms
A. Ayuela, M. J. Puska, R. M. Nieminen, and J. A. Alonso
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
161403(R) [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Fine structure of the radial breathing mode of double-wall carbon nanotubes
R. Pfeiffer, F. Simon, H. Kuzmany, and V. N. Popov
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
161404(R) [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Scattering of surface plasmons by one-dimensional periodic nanoindented surfaces
F. López-Tejeira, F. J. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
161405(R) [View PDF (629 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Vacancy-mediated hydrogen desorption in NaAlH4
C. Moysés Araújo, S. Li, R. Ahuja, and P. Jena
Published 3 October 2005 (6 pages)
165101 [View PDF (462 kB)]
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Determining the effective electromagnetic properties of negative-refractive-index metamaterials from internal fields
Bogdan-Ioan Popa and Steven A. Cummer
Published 4 October 2005 (5 pages)
165102 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for electron tunneling in complex two- and three-dimensional structures
P. A. Sundqvist, Q. X. Zhao, and M. Willander
Published 7 October 2005 (14 pages)
165103 [View PDF (931 kB)]
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Hybrid LDA and generalized tight-binding method for electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated electron systems
M. M. Korshunov, V. A. Gavrichkov, S. G. Ovchinnikov, I. A. Nekrasov, Z. V. Pchelkina, and V. I. Anisimov
Published 7 October 2005 (13 pages)
165104 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Adjacent face scattering and stability of the square Fermi surface
Olav F. Syljuåsen and A. Luther
Published 11 October 2005 (6 pages)
165105 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Low-energy excited photoemission study of the valence transition of YbInCu4
Kunta Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sato, Masashi Arita, Yukiharu Takeda, Koichi Hiraoka, Kenichi Kojima, Kenichiro Tsuji, Hirofumi Namatame, and Masaki Taniguchi
Published 13 October 2005 (5 pages)
165106 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Automatic generation of matrix element derivatives for tight binding models
Alin M. Elena and Matthias Meister
Published 17 October 2005 (7 pages)
165107 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Expressions for the second-order mixed partial derivatives of Slater-Koster matrix elements at spherical coordinate singularities
Matthias Meister
Published 17 October 2005 (6 pages)
165108 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Hubbard model with infinite-range attractive interaction
Carlindo Vitoriano, K. Rocha, Jr., and M. D. Coutinho-Filho
Published 19 October 2005 (7 pages)
165109 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Universality of ac conduction for generalized space-charge transport in ordered solids
H. H. P. Gommans, M. Kemerink, and W. H. A. Schilders
Published 21 October 2005 (6 pages)
165110 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Enhanced light confinement in a triangular aperture: Experimental evidence and numerical calculations
G. Colas des Francs, D. Molenda, U. C. Fischer, and A. Naber
Published 24 October 2005 (6 pages)
165111 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Electromagnetic wave propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals: A study of anomalous refractive effects
S. Foteinopoulou and C. M. Soukoulis
Published 24 October 2005 (20 pages)
165112 [View PDF (1,466 kB)]
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Using genetic algorithms to map first-principles results to model Hamiltonians: Application to the generalized Ising model for alloys
Volker Blum, Gus L. W. Hart, Michael J. Walorski, and Alex Zunger
Published 26 October 2005 (13 pages)
165113 [View PDF (967 kB)]
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Spin Hall effect in a doped Mott insulator
Su-Peng Kou, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Zheng-Yu Weng
Published 27 October 2005 (5 pages)
165114 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Influence of eigenmode characteristics on optical tuning of a two-dimensional silicon photonic crystal
H. W. Tan, H. M. van Driel, S. L. Schweizer, and R. B. Wehrspohn
Published 28 October 2005 (8 pages)
165115 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Dynamics of the infrared-to-visible upconversion in an Er3+-doped KPb2Br5 crystal
A. J. Garcia-Adeva, R. Balda, J. Fernández, Ei Ei Nyein, and U. Hömmerich
Published 31 October 2005 (11 pages)
165116 [View PDF (360 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Anisotropic magnetization of the III-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor In1−xMnxS in the mixed state
J. L. Tracy, G. Franzese, Ashlee Byrd, J. Garner, T. M. Pekarek, I. Miotkowski, and A. K. Ramdas
Published 6 October 2005 (8 pages)
165201 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Structure and magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles
B. Martínez, F. Sandiumenge, Ll. Balcells, J. Arbiol, F. Sibieude, and C. Monty
Published 11 October 2005 (8 pages)
165202 [View PDF (1,090 kB)]
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Magnetic and electronic transport percolation in epitaxial Ge1–xMnx films
N. Pinto, L. Morresi, M. Ficcadenti, R. Murri, F. D’Orazio, F. Lucari, L. Boarino, and G. Amato
Published 12 October 2005 (7 pages)
165203 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Prospects for high temperature ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As semiconductors
T. Jungwirth, K. Y. Wang, J. Mašek, K. W. Edmonds, Jürgen König, Jairo Sinova, M. Polini, N. A. Goncharuk, A. H. MacDonald, M. Sawicki, A. W. Rushforth, R. P. Campion, L. X. Zhao, C. T. Foxon, and B. L. Gallagher
Published 13 October 2005 (13 pages)
165204 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Competition between cubic and uniaxial anisotropy in Ga1−xMnxAs in the low-Mn-concentration limit
L. V. Titova, M. Kutrowski, X. Liu, R. Chakarvorty, W. L. Lim, T. Wojtowicz, J. K. Furdyna, and M. Dobrowolska
Published 28 October 2005 (7 pages)
165205 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Temperature and sample dependence of the binding free energies of complexes in crystals: The case of acceptor-oxygen complexes in Si
M. Sanati and S. K. Estreicher
Published 28 October 2005 (8 pages)
165206 [View PDF (748 kB)]

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

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Time-dependent simulations of electron transport through a quantum ring: Effect of the Lorentz force
B. Szafran and F. M. Peeters
Published 3 October 2005 (8 pages)
165301 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Coexistence of deep levels with optically active InAs quantum dots
S. W. Lin, C. Balocco, M. Missous, A. R. Peaker, and A. M. Song
Published 3 October 2005 (7 pages)
165302 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Role of open volume defects in Mg-doped GaN films studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy
S. Hautakangas, K. Saarinen, L. Liszkay, J. A. Freitas, Jr., and R. L. Henry
Published 3 October 2005 (10 pages)
165303 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Effective Hamiltonian approach for magnetic band structure and additional oscillations in the magnetization originating from the Fermi surface at finite magnetic fields
M. Taut, H. Eschrig, and Manuel Richter
Published 3 October 2005 (12 pages)
165304 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Violation of the symmetry rule for the [2+2] addition in the chemisorption of C2H4 on Si(100)
X. L. Fan, Y. F. Zhang, W. M. Lau, and Z. F. Liu
Published 3 October 2005 (6 pages)
165305 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Acoustic-phonon cavity modes in one-dimensional multilayered elastic structures
Shin-ichiro Tamura, Haruka Watanabe, and Takashi Kawasaki
Published 3 October 2005 (11 pages)
165306 [View PDF (898 kB)]
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Fano resonance in transport through a mesoscopic two-lead ring
Khee-Kyun Voo and Chon Saar Chu
Published 4 October 2005 (9 pages)
165307 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Singlet-triplet spin blockade and charge sensing in a few-electron double quantum dot
A. C. Johnson, J. R. Petta, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard
Published 5 October 2005 (7 pages)
165308 [View PDF (807 kB)]
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Two-stage Kondo effect in a four-electron artificial atom
G. Granger, M. A. Kastner, Iuliana Radu, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard
Published 5 October 2005 (7 pages)
165309 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Optical response in a quantum dot superlattice nanoring under a lateral electric field
T. Y. Zhang, W. Zhao, and J. C. Cao
Published 6 October 2005 (6 pages)
165310 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Screening of point charges in Si quantum dots
A. Franceschetti and M. C. Troparevsky
Published 7 October 2005 (4 pages)
165311 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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ac ballistic transport in a two-dimensional electron gas measured in GaAs∕AlGaAs heterostructures
Sungmu Kang, Peter J. Burke, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 7 October 2005 (5 pages)
165312 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Transport through a strongly correlated quantum dot with Fano interference
B. H. Wu, J. C. Cao, and Kang-Hun Ahn
Published 10 October 2005 (6 pages)
165313 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Luminescence of double quantum wells subject to in-plane magnetic fields
M. Orlita, R. Grill, P. Hlídek, M. Zvára, G. H. Döhler, S. Malzer, and M. Byszewski
Published 11 October 2005 (9 pages)
165314 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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X-ray study of atomic ordering in self-assembled Ge islands grown on Si(001)
A. Malachias, T. U. Schülli, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, L. G. Cançado, M. Stoffel, O. G. Schmidt, T. H. Metzger, and R. Magalhães-Paniago
Published 12 October 2005 (9 pages)
165315 [View PDF (1,355 kB)]
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Dependence of the intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin-orbit interaction character
K. Nomura, Jairo Sinova, N. A. Sinitsyn, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 13 October 2005 (10 pages)
165316 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Tight-binding model for semiconductor nanostructures
S. Schulz and G. Czycholl
Published 14 October 2005 (13 pages)
165317 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Chemistry and electronic properties of a metal-organic semiconductor interface: In on CuPc
V. Yu. Aristov, O. V. Molodtsova, V. M. Zhilin, D. V. Vyalikh, and M. Knupfer
Published 17 October 2005 (7 pages)
165318 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Coupled lateral and vertical electron dynamics in semiconductor superlattices
A. Amann and E. Schöll
Published 17 October 2005 (5 pages)
165319 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Optical pumping of the electron spin polarization in bulk CuCl
W. Ungier and R. Buczko
Published 17 October 2005 (7 pages)
165320 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of the energy transfer from excitons confined in Si nanocrystals to oxygen molecules
Minoru Fujii, Dmitri Kovalev, Bernhard Goller, Shingo Minobe, Shinji Hayashi, and Victor Yu. Timoshenko
Published 17 October 2005 (8 pages)
165321 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures: Unification of ballistic and diffusive transport
R. Lipperheide and U. Wille
Published 17 October 2005 (22 pages)
165322 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Microwave photoconductivity of a modulated two-dimensional electron gas due to intra-Landau-level transitions
Christian Joas, Jürgen Dietel, and Felix von Oppen
Published 17 October 2005 (6 pages)
165323 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Magnetism in one-dimensional quantum dot arrays
K. Kärkkäinen, M. Koskinen, S. M. Reimann, and M. Manninen
Published 19 October 2005 (6 pages)
165324 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Hole-hole interaction in a strained InxGa1−xAs two-dimensional system
G. M. Minkov, A. A. Sherstobitov, A. V. Germanenko, O. E. Rut, V. A. Larionova, and B. N. Zvonkov
Published 19 October 2005 (7 pages)
165325 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Inelastic cotunneling-induced decoherence and relaxation, charge, and spin currents in an interacting quantum dot under a magnetic field
Bing Dong, Norman J. M. Horing, and H. L. Cui
Published 20 October 2005 (14 pages)
165326 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Photoelectron diffraction study of the 6H-SiC(0001) √3×√3 R30° reconstruction
G. Zampieri, S. Lizzit, L. Petaccia, A. Goldoni, A. Baraldi, M. Bremholm, J. E. Gayone, S. V. Hoffmann, and Ph. Hofmann
Published 20 October 2005 (9 pages)
165327 [View PDF (1,028 kB)]
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Mechanisms for correlated surface diffusion of weakly bonded dimers
E. Pijper and A. Fasolino
Published 20 October 2005 (5 pages)
165328 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Coherent transport and Andreev reflection in ferromagnetic semiconductor/superconductor/ferromagnetic semiconductor double tunneling junctions
Y. C. Tao and J. G. Hu
Published 20 October 2005 (9 pages)
165329 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Engineering waveguide-cavity resonant side coupling in a dynamically tunable ultracompact photonic crystal filter
Lan-Lan Lin, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Bin Lin
Published 20 October 2005 (10 pages)
165330 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Pulse propagation in resonant tunneling
Ulrich Wulf and V. V. Skalozub
Published 20 October 2005 (6 pages)
165331 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Atomic-scale structure and photoluminescence of InAs quantum dots in GaAs and AlAs
P. Offermans, P. M. Koenraad, J. H. Wolter, K. Pierz, M. Roy, and P. A. Maksym
Published 25 October 2005 (6 pages)
165332 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Nuclear spin diffusion in quantum dots: Effects of inhomogeneous hyperfine interaction
Changxue Deng and Xuedong Hu
Published 25 October 2005 (8 pages)
165333 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Electric field control and optical signature of entanglement in quantum dot molecules
Gabriel Bester and Alex Zunger
Published 25 October 2005 (7 pages)
165334 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Longitudinal and spin-Hall conductance of a two-dimensional Rashba system with arbitrary disorder
Cătălin Paşcu Moca and D. C. Marinescu
Published 26 October 2005 (6 pages)
165335 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Spin-dependent magnetotransport through a mesoscopic ring in the presence of spin-orbit interaction
X. F. Wang and P. Vasilopoulos
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
165336 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Nucleation of merons in double quantum dots with spontaneous interlayer phase coherence
S.-R. Eric Yang, N. Y. Hwang, and Sooa Park
Published 26 October 2005 (7 pages)
165337 [View PDF (897 kB)]
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Effect of electronic interactions on the persistent current in one-dimensional disordered rings
E. Gambetti
Published 26 October 2005 (15 pages)
165338 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Singlet and triplet trion states in high magnetic fields: Photoluminescence and reflectivity spectra of modulation-doped CdTe∕Cd0.7Mg0.3Te quantum wells
D. Andronikov, V. Kochereshko, A. Platonov, T. Barrick, S. A. Crooker, and G. Karczewski
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
165339 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Universal Fano factor and anomalous I-V characteristics in weakly interacting quantum dots
A. M. S. Macêdo and Andre M. C. Souza
Published 26 October 2005 (12 pages)
165340 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Coherent control of time delay and localized electromagnetic modes in active and passive one-dimensional photonic band gaps
S. M. Sadeghi and W. Li
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
165341 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Linear combination of bulk bands method for investigating the low-dimensional electron gas in nanostructured devices
David Esseni and Pierpaolo Palestri
Published 27 October 2005 (14 pages)
165342 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Magnon transport and spin current switching through quantum dots
Olaf Strelcyk, Thomas Korb, and Herbert Schoeller
Published 27 October 2005 (10 pages)
165343 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Quadratic response theory for spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures
Bradley A. Foreman
Published 28 October 2005 (19 pages)
165344 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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First-principles envelope-function theory for lattice-matched semiconductor heterostructures
Bradley A. Foreman
Published 28 October 2005 (23 pages)
165345 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Exciton states and their entanglement in coupled quantum dots
Jia-Lin Zhu, Weidong Chu, Zhensheng Dai, and Dong Xu
Published 28 October 2005 (7 pages)
165346 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Statistics of charge transfer in a tunnel junction coupled to an oscillator
J. Wabnig, D. V. Khomitsky, J. Rammer, and A. L. Shelankov
Published 28 October 2005 (16 pages)
165347 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Current and noise expressions for radio-frequency single-electron transistors
Jung Hyun Oh, D. Ahn, and S. W. Hwang
Published 28 October 2005 (17 pages)
165348 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Coulomb blockade peak spacings: Interplay of spin and dot-lead coupling
Serguei Vorojtsov and Harold U. Baranger
Published 31 October 2005 (12 pages)
165349 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Variational study of two-electron quantum dots
B. S. Kandemir
Published 31 October 2005 (6 pages)
165350 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Polarization of interacting mesoscopic two-dimensional spintronic systems
Godfrey Gumbs
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
165351 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Interrupted chain-assisted Al atomic wires on Si(211): Density functional calculations
Bikash C. Gupta and Inder P. Batra
Published 31 October 2005 (9 pages)
165352 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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Energy relaxation of electrons in InAs∕GaAs quantum dot molecules
G. Ortner, R. Oulton, H. Kurtze, M. Schwab, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, S. Fafard, Z. Wasilewski, and P. Hawrylak
Published 31 October 2005 (6 pages)
165353 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Multiscale modeling of carbon nanotubes under axial tension and compression
S. H. Yeak, T. Y. Ng, and K. M. Liew
Published 3 October 2005 (9 pages)
165401 [View PDF (939 kB)]
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Texture evolution during shadowing growth of isolated Ru columns
F. Tang, T. Karabacak, P. Morrow, C. Gaire, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu
Published 3 October 2005 (6 pages)
165402 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Growth shapes of supported Pd nanocrystals on SrTiO3(001)
Fabien Silly, Andrew C. Powell, Marta G. Martin, and Martin R. Castell
Published 3 October 2005 (6 pages)
165403 [View PDF (704 kB)]
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Thermionic field emission from nanocrystalline diamond-coated silicon tip arrays
J. M. Garguilo, F. A. M. Koeck, R. J. Nemanich, X. C. Xiao, J. A. Carlisle, and O. Auciello
Published 4 October 2005 (6 pages)
165404 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Evolution of geometric and electronic structure at the Bi∕Ag(001) interface
T. Nakagawa, Y. Saito, O. Ohgami, H. Okuyama, M. Nishijima, and T. Aruga
Published 5 October 2005 (11 pages)
165405 [View PDF (1,144 kB)]
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Ultrafast dynamics and decoherence of quasiparticles in surface bands: Development of the formalism
Branko Gumhalter
Published 5 October 2005 (18 pages)
165406 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Trends and strain in the structures of two-dimensional rare-earth silicides studied using medium-energy ion scattering
C. Bonet, I. M. Scott, D. J. Spence, T. J. Wood, T. C. Q. Noakes, P. Bailey, and S. P. Tear
Published 6 October 2005 (8 pages)
165407 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Low-energy electronic excitation in atomic collision cascades: A nonlinear transport model
A. Duvenbeck and A. Wucher
Published 7 October 2005 (9 pages)
165408 [View PDF (1,302 kB)]
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Field enhancement and gap-dependent resonance in a system of two opposing tip-to-tip Au nanotriangles
Arvind Sundaramurthy, K. B. Crozier, G. S. Kino, D. P. Fromm, P. J. Schuck, and W. E. Moerner
Published 7 October 2005 (6 pages)
165409 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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First-principles study of the interfacial adhesion between SiO2 and MoSi2
D. E. Jiang and Emily A. Carter
Published 10 October 2005 (7 pages)
165410 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Structural growth in iron oxide clusters: Rings, towers, and hollow drums
N. O. Jones, B. V. Reddy, F. Rasouli, and S. N. Khanna
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
165411 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Plasmon-polaritons on the surface of a pseudosphere
Igor I. Smolyaninov, Quirino Balzano, and Christopher C. Davis
Published 11 October 2005 (5 pages)
165412 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Nearly-free-electron gas in a silicon cage
J. Ulises Reveles and S. N. Khanna
Published 14 October 2005 (6 pages)
165413 [View PDF (763 kB)]
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Gas-phase-dependent properties of SnO2 (110), (100), and (101) single-crystal surfaces: Structure, composition, and electronic properties
Matthias Batzill, Khabibulakh Katsiev, James M. Burst, Ulrike Diebold, Anne M. Chaka, and Bernard Delley
Published 14 October 2005 (20 pages)
165414 [View PDF (2,247 kB)]
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Mechanisms of decomposition of metal during femtosecond laser ablation
Changrui Cheng and Xianfan Xu
Published 17 October 2005 (15 pages)
165415 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Phase transitions in a two-dimensional lattice gas model of orientable diatomic molecules
W. Rżysko, A. Patrykiejew, and K. Binder
Published 17 October 2005 (21 pages)
165416 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Influence of electromechanical interaction on the morphological instability of an elastic conducting halfspace
Fuqian Yang and Wei Song
Published 18 October 2005 (7 pages)
165417 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Sputter ripples and radiation-enhanced surface kinetics on Cu(001)
Wai Lun Chan and Eric Chason
Published 19 October 2005 (7 pages)
165418 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Kinetic electron excitation in the interaction of slow Kr+ ions with Al surfaces
M. Commisso, M. Minniti, A. Sindona, A. Bonanno, A. Oliva, R. A. Baragiola, and P. Riccardi
Published 19 October 2005 (6 pages)
165419 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Amplitude-mode electrostatic force microscopy in UHV: Quantification of nanocrystal charge storage
M. J. Gordon and T. Baron
Published 21 October 2005 (14 pages)
165420 [View PDF (619 kB)]
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Resonant backward scattering of light by a subwavelength metallic slit with two open sides
S. V. Kukhlevsky, M. Mechler, L. Csapó, K. Janssens, and O. Samek
Published 21 October 2005 (7 pages)
165421 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Structural and electronic properties of Au, Pt, and their bimetallic nanowires
Abu Md. Asaduzzaman and Michael Springborg
Published 21 October 2005 (8 pages)
165422 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Structure and formation energy of carbon nanotube caps
S. Reich, L. Li, and J. Robertson
Published 21 October 2005 (8 pages)
165423 [View PDF (798 kB)]
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Surface electron bands and Fermi surface of Be(0001)
I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, M. Mulazzi, G. Panaccione, M. Hochstrasser, and G. Rossi
Published 25 October 2005 (6 pages)
165424 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Current-constraining variational approaches to quantum transport
P. Bokes, H. Mera, and R. W. Godby
Published 25 October 2005 (10 pages)
165425 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Thermoelectric effect in molecular junctions: A tool for revealing transport mechanisms
Dvira Segal
Published 26 October 2005 (7 pages)
165426 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Electron backscattering from dynamical impurities in a Luttinger liquid
Pablo San-Jose, Francisco Guinea, and Thierry Martin
Published 26 October 2005 (8 pages)
165427 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Elastic moduli of single-walled carbon nanotubes and their ropes
Shuchi Gupta, K. Dharamvir, and V. K. Jindal
Published 27 October 2005 (16 pages)
165428 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Direct measurements of the spin and valley splittings in the magnetization of a Si∕SiGe quantum well in tilted magnetic fields
M. A. Wilde, M. Rhode, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, D. Grundler, U. Zeitler, F. Schäffler, and R. J. Haug
Published 28 October 2005 (12 pages)
165429 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Self-assembly of base-functionalized carbon nanotubes
Chen Song, Yueyuan Xia, Mingwen Zhao, Xiangdong Liu, Boda Huang, Feng Li, and Yanju Ji
Published 31 October 2005 (6 pages)
165430 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Ab initio study of the surface properties and ideal strength of (100) silicon thin films
Yoshitaka Umeno, Akihiro Kushima, Takayuki Kitamura, Peter Gumbsch, and Ju Li
Published 31 October 2005 (7 pages)
165431 [View PDF (535 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Polarization-based identification of bulk contributions in surface nonlinear optics [Phys. Rev. B 72, 033412 (2005)]
Stefano Cattaneo and Martti Kauranen
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
169901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures: Unification of ballistic and diffusive transport [Phys. Rev. B 72, 165322 (2005)]
R. Lipperheide and U. Wille
Published 31 October 2005 (1 page)
169902(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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