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Physical Review B – 15 November 2005
Volume 72, Issue 19

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Superlens based on metal-dielectric composites
Wenshan Cai, Dentcho A. Genov, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
193101 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Enhancement of electromagnetic fields with subwavelength microwave resonators
Chang S. Shin, De-Kui Qing, Zhijie Deng, and Philip R. Hemmer
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
193102 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Three-dimensional array of dielectric spheres with an isotropic negative permeability at infrared frequencies
Mark S. Wheeler, J. Stewart Aitchison, and Mohammad Mojahedi
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
193103 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Energy-loss near-edge structure changes with bond length in carbon systems
J. T. Titantah and D. Lamoen
Published 23 November 2005 (4 pages)
193104 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Origin of the sum rule change when composite excitons are bosonized
M. Combescot and O. Betbeder-Matibet
Published 28 November 2005 (3 pages)
193105 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Atomistic spin-orbit coupling and k∙p parameters in III-V semiconductors
J.-M. Jancu, R. Scholz, E. A. de Andrada e Silva, and G. C. La Rocca
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
193201 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Pd-vacancy complex in Si identified with the perturbed angular correlation technique
D. A. Brett, R. Dogra, A. P. Byrne, J. Mestnik-Filho, and M. C. Ridgway
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
193202 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Electronic and ionic carrier transport in discotic liquid crystalline photoconductor
Hiroaki Iino, Jun-ichi Hanna, and Dietrich Haarer
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
193203 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Conduction-band tight-binding description for Si applied to P donors
A. S. Martins, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, and Belita Koiller
Published 29 November 2005 (4 pages)
193204 [View PDF (215 kB)]

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

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Negative-mass transport in semiconductor diodes
A. Dyson and B. K. Ridley
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
193301 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Noninvasive detection of charge rearrangement in a quantum dot in high magnetic fields
C. Fricke, M. C. Rogge, B. Harke, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, F. Hohls, and R. J. Haug
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
193302 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Quantum dot photonic-crystal-slab nanocavities: Quality factors and lasing
J. Hendrickson, B. C. Richards, J. Sweet, S. Mosor, C. Christenson, D. Lam, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, T. Yoshie, A. Scherer, O. B. Shchekin, and D. G. Deppe
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
193303 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Transient response of photoexcited electrons: Negative and oscillating current
O. E. Raichev and F. T. Vasko
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
193304 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Anomalous spin-dependent behavior of one-dimensional subbands
A. C. Graham, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
193305 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Coexistence of fast and slow luminescence in three-dimensional Si∕Si1−xGex nanostructures
B. V. Kamenev, L. Tsybeskov, J.-M. Baribeau, and D. J. Lockwood
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
193306 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Molecular dissociation of group-V hydrides on Si(001)
T. L. McDonell, N. A. Marks, O. Warschkow, H. F. Wilson, P. V. Smith, and M. W. Radny
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
193307 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic semiconducting behavior of Mn1−xCrxTe compounds
Y. B. Li, Y. Q. Zhang, N. K. Sun, Q. Zhang, D. Li, J. Li, and Z. D. Zhang
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
193308 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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First-principles investigation of the Ca∕Si(111)2×1 surface
Sukmin Jeong, Ji Young Lee, and Myung Ho Kang
Published 23 November 2005 (4 pages)
193309 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Reflected in-plane conductance near a barrier with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling
Mou Yang and Shu-Shen Li
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
193310 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Nearly closed ballistic billiard with random boundary transmission
Igor Rozhkov and Ganpathy Murthy
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
193311 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Continuum of extended states in the spectrum of a one-dimensional random potential
Alberto Rodríguez and Jose M. Cerveró
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
193312 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Lifetimes of Shockley electrons and holes at Cu(111)
M. G. Vergniory, J. M. Pitarke, and S. Crampin
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
193401 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Reactive Co magic cluster formation on Si(111)-(7×7)
M. A. K. Zilani, Y. Y. Sun, H. Xu, Lei Liu, Y. P. Feng, X.-S. Wang, and A. T. S. Wee
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
193402 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Photoemission microscopy study of the temperature evolution of a Pd film deposited on a polycrystalline Ni substrate
A. W. Potts, G. R. Morrison, A. Barinov, L. Gregoratti, and M. Kiskinova
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
193403 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Stability and electronic confinement of free-standing InP nanowires: Ab initio calculations
T. M. Schmidt, R. H. Miwa, P. Venezuela, and A. Fazzio
Published 8 November 2005 (4 pages)
193404 [View PDF (688 kB)]
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Polarization properties of a periodically-modulated metal film in regions of anomalous optical transparency
A. V. Kats, M. L. Nesterov, and A. Yu. Nikitin
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
193405 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Unoccupied surface state on Pt(111) revealed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
J. Wiebe, F. Meier, K. Hashimoto, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, P. Ferriani, S. Heinze, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
193406 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Long-range interaction between Stone-Wales defects in zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes
Tao Zhou, Li Yang, Jian Wu, Wenhui Duan, and Bing-Lin Gu
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
193407 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Evaluation of the diffusion barrier continuity on porous low-k films using positronium time of flight spectroscopy
H. K. M. Tanaka, T. Kurihara, and A. P. Mills, Jr.
Published 11 November 2005 (4 pages)
193408 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Parametric excitation of higher-order electromechanical vibrations of carbon nanotubes
Amir Ahmad and V. K. Tripathi
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
193409 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Current-voltage characteristics in donor-acceptor systems: Implications of a spatially varying electric field
S. Lakshmi and Swapan K. Pati
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
193410 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Double-wall carbon nanotubes under pressure: Probing the response of individual tubes and their intratube correlation
J. Arvanitidis, D. Christofilos, K. Papagelis, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, H. Kataura, S. Ves, and G. A. Kourouklis
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
193411 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Charge screening of single-walled carbon nanotubes in a uniform transverse electric field
S. C. Chen, W. C. Hseih, and M. F. Lin
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
193412 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Length dependence of the electronic and structural properties of monoatomic gold wires
N. V. Skorodumova, S. I. Simak, A. E. Kochetov, and B. Johansson
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
193413 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Temperature effects on microwave-induced resistivity oscillations and zero-resistance states in two-dimensional electron systems
J. Iñarrea and G. Platero
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
193414 [View PDF (384 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Robustness of one-dimensional photonic band gaps under random variations of geometrical parameters
H. Sami Sözüer and Koray Sevim
Published 2 November 2005 (10 pages)
195101 [View PDF (852 kB)]
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Electronic structure and bonding of β-rhombohedral boron using cluster fragment approach
Dasari L. V. K. Prasad, Musiri M. Balakrishnarajan, and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
195102 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Electromagnetic metamaterial with built-in microstructures
Jensen Li and C. T. Chan
Published 14 November 2005 (10 pages)
195103 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Heat bath approach to Landau damping and Pomeranchuk quantum critical points
Johan Nilsson and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 14 November 2005 (9 pages)
195104 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Kondo resonance decoherence caused by an external potential
R. C. Monreal and F. Flores
Published 14 November 2005 (6 pages)
195105 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Phase diagram and structure of the charge-density-wave state in a high magnetic field in quasi-one-dimensional materials: A mean-field approach
P. D. Grigoriev and D. S. Lyubshin
Published 16 November 2005 (13 pages)
195106 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Ab initio Green’s function formalism for band structures
Christian Buth, Uwe Birkenheuer, Martin Albrecht, and Peter Fulde
Published 17 November 2005 (18 pages)
195107 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Analysis of the thermal behavior of photoluminescent optical memory based on CaS:Eu,Sm media
C. Chen, K. L. Teo, T. C. Chong, D. M. Newman, and J. P. Wu
Published 17 November 2005 (8 pages)
195108 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Thermopower of the Hubbard model: Effects of multiple orbitals and magnetic fields in the atomic limit
Subroto Mukerjee
Published 21 November 2005 (9 pages)
195109 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Emission from an active photonic crystal
I. El-Kady, W. W. Chow, and J. G. Fleming
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
195110 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Nonlinear time-resolved study of dynamics of a CO adsorbate on a metal: Time-evolving Fano resonance with electron-hole continuum
J. D. Lee and M. Nishino
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
195111 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Variation of 5d-level position and emission properties of BaF2:Pr crystals
P. A. Rodnyi, G. B. Stryganyuk, C. W. E. van Eijk, and A. S. Voloshinovskii
Published 23 November 2005 (6 pages)
195112 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Electronic structure of boron nitride single crystals and films
J. B. MacNaughton, A. Moewes, R. G. Wilks, X. T. Zhou, T. K. Sham, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. Y. Chan, W. J. Zhang, I. Bello, S. T. Lee, and H. Hofsäss
Published 23 November 2005 (8 pages)
195113 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Fermi-surface-induced lattice distortion in NbTe2
Corsin Battaglia, Hervé Cercellier, Florian Clerc, Laurent Despont, Michael Gunnar Garnier, Christian Koitzsch, Philipp Aebi, Helmuth Berger, László Forró, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 23 November 2005 (10 pages)
195114 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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High-resolution x-ray spectroscopic study of the electronic structure of the prototypical p-type transparent conducting oxide CuAlO2
D. J. Aston, D. J. Payne, A. J. H. Green, R. G. Egdell, D. S. L. Law, J. Guo, P. A. Glans, T. Learmonth, and K. E. Smith
Published 28 November 2005 (9 pages)
195115 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Magnetic coupling between nonmagnetic ions: Eu3+ in EuN and EuP
M. D. Johannes and W. E. Pickett
Published 28 November 2005 (10 pages)
195116 [View PDF (966 kB)]
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Near degeneracy and pseudo Jahn-Teller effects in mixed-valence ladders: The phase transition in NaV2O5
L. Hozoi, S. Nishimoto, and A. Yamasaki
Published 28 November 2005 (5 pages)
195117 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Extended plane-wave expansion method in three-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystals
Young-Chung Hsue, Arthur J. Freeman, and Ben-Yuan Gu
Published 30 November 2005 (10 pages)
195118 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Transient kinetics of light-induced metastable states in single crystals and aqueous solutions of Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]∙2H2O
D. Schaniel, Th. Woike, C. Merschjann, and M. Imlau
Published 30 November 2005 (5 pages)
195119 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Quantum transport for a Bloch electron quasiparticle in an inhomogeneous electric field scattering from a random distribution of impurities: A Wigner approach
J. B. Krieger, A. A. Kiselev, and G. J. Iafrate
Published 4 November 2005 (10 pages)
195201 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Electronic states of Mn impurities and magnetic coupling between Mn spins in diluted magnetic semiconductors
W. H. Wang, Liang-Jian Zou, and Y. Q. Wang
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
195202 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Calculated pressure dependence of the localized vibrational mode of nitrogen in GaNxAs1−x
A. M. Teweldeberhan and S. Fahy
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
195203 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Mean-field study of Fe2+- and Co2+-doped diluted magnetic semiconductors
Y. H. Zheng and J. B. Xia
Published 14 November 2005 (6 pages)
195204 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Magnetism in MnxGe1−x semiconductors mediated by impurity band carriers
A. P. Li, J. F. Wendelken, J. Shen, L. C. Feldman, J. R. Thompson, and H. H. Weitering
Published 17 November 2005 (9 pages)
195205 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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First-principles calculation of intrinsic defect formation volumes in silicon
Scott A. Centoni, Babak Sadigh, George H. Gilmer, Thomas J. Lenosky, Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, and Charles B. Musgrave
Published 18 November 2005 (9 pages)
195206 [View PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Kinetics of divacancy annealing and divacancy-oxygen formation in oxygen-enriched high-purity silicon
M. Mikelsen, E. V. Monakhov, G. Alfieri, B. S. Avset, and B. G. Svensson
Published 22 November 2005 (6 pages)
195207 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Ultrafast dynamics of charge carrier photogeneration and geminate recombination in conjugated polymer:fullerene solar cells
J. G. Müller, J. M. Lupton, J. Feldmann, U. Lemmer, M. C. Scharber, N. S. Sariciftci, C. J. Brabec, and U. Scherf
Published 22 November 2005 (10 pages)
195208 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Mixed valence, percolation, and ferromagnetism in transition-metal-doped GaN
V. I. Litvinov
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
195209 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Magnetic properties and disorder effects in diluted magnetic semiconductors
L. Bergqvist, O. Eriksson, J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, A. Bergman, L. Nordström, and I. Turek
Published 28 November 2005 (9 pages)
195210 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Hydrogen local modes and shallow donors in ZnO
G. Alvin Shi, Michael Stavola, S. J. Pearton, M. Thieme, E. V. Lavrov, and J. Weber
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
195211 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Hydrogen-related conversion processes of Ge-related point defects in silica triggered by ultraviolet laser irradiation
F. Messina and M. Cannas
Published 29 November 2005 (7 pages)
195212 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Relative concentration and structure of native defects in GaP
A. Höglund, C. W. M. Castleton, and S. Mirbt
Published 30 November 2005 (16 pages)
195213 [View PDF (469 kB)]

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

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Role of the continuum background for carrier relaxation in InAs quantum dots
E. W. Bogaart, J. E. M. Haverkort, T. Mano, T. van Lippen, R. Nötzel, and J. H. Wolter
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
195301 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Phononless thermally activated transport through a disordered array of quantum wires
A. L. Chudnovskiy
Published 2 November 2005 (11 pages)
195302 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Nonvolatile bistability effect based on the electrically controlled phase transition in scaled magnetic semiconductor nanostructures
Y. G. Semenov and K. W. Kim
Published 3 November 2005 (5 pages)
195303 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Monte Carlo investigation of drift and diffusion in semiconductor superlattices in the Wannier-Stark regime
Marcello Rosini and Lino Reggiani
Published 3 November 2005 (7 pages)
195304 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Two reaction pathways of acetic acid on the Si(001) surface: Density-functional calculations
Hyung-Jin Kim and Jun-Hyung Cho
Published 4 November 2005 (5 pages)
195305 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Phase boundary between the fractional quantum Hall liquid and the Wigner crystal at low filling factors and low temperatures: A path integral Monte Carlo study
W. J. He, T. Cui, Y. M. Ma, C. B. Chen, Z. M. Liu, and G. T. Zou
Published 4 November 2005 (5 pages)
195306 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Singlet-triplet splitting, correlation, and entanglement of two electrons in quantum dot molecules
Lixin He, Gabriel Bester, and Alex Zunger
Published 4 November 2005 (12 pages)
195307 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Spatially selective laser cooling of carriers in semiconductor quantum wells
Danhong Huang, T. Apostolova, P. M. Alsing, and D. A. Cardimona
Published 7 November 2005 (8 pages)
195308 [View PDF (806 kB)]
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Charge pumping in one-dimensional Kronig-Penney models
V. Gasparian, B. Altshuler, and M. Ortuño
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
195309 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Symmetry background of the fractional Aharonov-Bohm oscillation and an oscillation in dipole-transitions of narrow quantum rings with a few electrons
C. G. Bao, G. M. Huang, and Y. M. Liu
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
195310 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Spin accumulation in lateral semiconductor superlattices induced by a constant electric field
P. Kleinert, V. V. Bryksin, and O. Bleibaum
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
195311 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Time-resolved intraband relaxation of strongly confined electrons and holes in colloidal PbSe nanocrystals
Jeffrey M. Harbold, Hui Du, Todd D. Krauss, Kyung-Sang Cho, Chris B. Murray, and Frank W. Wise
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
195312 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Origin and evolution of photoluminescence from Si nanocrystals embedded in a SiO2 matrix
X. X. Wang, J. G. Zhang, L. Ding, B. W. Cheng, W. K. Ge, J. Z. Yu, and Q. M. Wang
Published 9 November 2005 (6 pages)
195313 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Nanoscale properties of melting at the surface of semiconductors
Kerwyn Casey Huang, Tairan Wang, and John D. Joannopoulos
Published 9 November 2005 (9 pages)
195314 [View PDF (2,201 kB)]
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Ground-state energy and Wigner crystallization in thick two-dimensional electron systems
D. Jost and M. W. C. Dharma-wardana
Published 9 November 2005 (9 pages)
195315 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Collective excitations in charged nanocrystals and in close-packed arrays of charged nanocrystals
C. Delerue, G. Allan, and Y. M. Niquet
Published 9 November 2005 (6 pages)
195316 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Scaling flow diagram in the fractional quantum Hall regime of GaAs∕AlxGa1−xAs heterostructures
S. S. Murzin, S. I. Dorozhkin, D. K. Maude, and A. G. M. Jansen
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
195317 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Effects of Coulomb interaction on electron dynamics in a double-barrier potential: Decay and trapping
F. Delgado, J. G. Muga, H. Cruz, D. Luis, and D. G. Austing
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
195318 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Fermi liquid parameters in two dimensions with spin-orbit interaction
D. S. Saraga and Daniel Loss
Published 11 November 2005 (8 pages)
195319 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Kinetic origin of island intermixing during the growth of Ge on Si(001)
G. Katsaros, G. Costantini, M. Stoffel, R. Esteban, A. M. Bittner, A. Rastelli, U. Denker, O. G. Schmidt, and K. Kern
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
195320 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Anomalous spin polarization of GaAs two-dimensional hole systems
R. Winkler, E. Tutuc, S. J. Papadakis, S. Melinte, M. Shayegan, D. Wasserman, and S. A. Lyon
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
195321 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Self-ordering on vicinal Si(111) during molecular beam epitaxy
Hiroo Omi and Yoshikazu Homma
Published 14 November 2005 (7 pages)
195322 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Observation of substitutional and interstitial phosphorus on clean Si(100)-(2×1) with scanning tunneling microscopy
Geoffrey W. Brown, Blas P. Uberuaga, Holger Grube, Marilyn E. Hawley, Steven R. Schofield, Neil J. Curson, Michelle Y. Simmons, and Robert G. Clark
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
195323 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Giant enhancement of dynamic conductance in molecular devices
Junling Wu, Baigeng Wang, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
195324 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Optically induced spin-to-charge transduction in donor-spin readout
M. J. Testolin, Andrew D. Greentree, C. J. Wellard, and L. C. L. Hollenberg
Published 15 November 2005 (7 pages)
195325 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Multivalley transport and the integer quantum Hall effect in a PbTe quantum well
V. A. Chitta, W. Desrat, D. K. Maude, B. A. Piot, N. F. Oliveira, Jr., P. H. O. Rappl, A. Y. Ueta, and E. Abramof
Published 17 November 2005 (6 pages)
195326 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Giant magneto-oscillations of electric-field-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas
Maxim G. Vavilov
Published 18 November 2005 (6 pages)
195327 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Magnetoplasmons and cyclotron resonance in a two-dimensional electron gas
Yu. A. Bychkov and G. Martinez
Published 18 November 2005 (9 pages)
195328 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Kinetic-equation approach to the anomalous Hall effect in a diffusive Rashba two-dimensional electron system with magnetization
S. Y. Liu and X. L. Lei
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
195329 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Tunneling through nanosystems: Combining broadening with many-particle states
Jonas Nyvold Pedersen and Andreas Wacker
Published 21 November 2005 (9 pages)
195330 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Tuning of coupling modes in laterally parallel double open quantum dots
Chi-Shung Tang, Wing Wa Yu, and Vidar Gudmundsson
Published 21 November 2005 (12 pages)
195331 [View PDF (2,332 kB)]
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Single-photon emission from pyramidal quantum dots: The impact of hole thermalization on photon emission statistics
A. Malko, D. Y. Oberli, M. H. Baier, E. Pelucchi, F. Michelini, K. F. Karlsson, M.-A. Dupertuis, and E. Kapon
Published 22 November 2005 (7 pages)
195332 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Resonances in electronic transport through a quantum wire with impurities and variable cross-sectional shape
Vassilios Vargiamidis and Hariton M. Polatoglou
Published 22 November 2005 (12 pages)
195333 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Ordering mechanism of stacked CdSe∕ZnSxSe1−x quantum dots: A combined reciprocal-space and real-space approach
Th. Schmidt, E. Roventa, T. Clausen, J. I. Flege, G. Alexe, S. Bernstorff, C. Kübel, A. Rosenauer, D. Hommel, and J. Falta
Published 23 November 2005 (10 pages)
195334 [View PDF (993 kB)]
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Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy of propagating coherent acoustic phonons in InxGa1−xN∕GaN heterostructures
Rongliang Liu, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton, Chang Sub Kim, J. S. Yahng, Y. D. Jho, K. J. Yee, E. Oh, and D. S. Kim
Published 23 November 2005 (11 pages)
195335 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Cherenkov radiation of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons from a superluminal optical spot
M. I. Bakunov, A. V. Maslov, and S. B. Bodrov
Published 23 November 2005 (9 pages)
195336 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Electron cyclotron mass in undoped CdTe∕CdMnTe quantum wells
A. A. Dremin, D. R. Yakovlev, A. A. Sirenko, S. I. Gubarev, O. P. Shabelsky, A. Waag, and M. Bayer
Published 23 November 2005 (5 pages)
195337 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Nonlinear response of radiatively coupled intersubband transitions of quasi-two-dimensional electrons
T. Shih, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, I. Waldmüller, A. Knorr, R. Hey, and K. H. Ploog
Published 23 November 2005 (8 pages)
195338 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy on a single self-assembled charge-tunable quantum dot
S. Seidl, M. Kroner, P. A. Dalgarno, A. Högele, J. M. Smith, M. Ediger, B. D. Gerardot, J. M. Garcia, P. M. Petroff, K. Karrai, and R. J. Warburton
Published 28 November 2005 (6 pages)
195339 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Photovoltaic effect in bent quantum wires in the ballistic transport regime
Yuriy V. Pershin and Carlo Piermarocchi
Published 29 November 2005 (4 pages)
195340 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Ground and excited state energy trend in InAs∕InGaAs quantum dots monitored by scanning photoluminescence spectroscopy
T. V. Torchynska, M. Dybiec, and S. Ostapenko
Published 29 November 2005 (7 pages)
195341 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Structural investigation of the quasi-one-dimensional reconstructions induced by Eu adsorption on a Si(111) surface
Kazuyuki Sakamoto, A. Pick, and R. I. G. Uhrberg
Published 29 November 2005 (9 pages)
195342 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Exchange coupling in a one-dimensional Wigner crystal
A. D. Klironomos, R. R. Ramazashvili, and K. A. Matveev
Published 29 November 2005 (5 pages)
195343 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Exchange interaction in quantum rings and wires in the Wigner-crystal limit
Michael M. Fogler and Eugene Pivovarov
Published 29 November 2005 (11 pages)
195344 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Size dependency of strain in arbitrary shaped anisotropic embedded quantum dots due to nonlocal dispersive effects
X. Zhang and P. Sharma
Published 30 November 2005 (16 pages)
195345 [View PDF (1,400 kB)]
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Transport through single-channel atomic wires: Effects of connected sites on scattering phase and odd-even parity oscillations
Feng Zhai and H. Q. Xu
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
195346 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Spin polarization via electron tunneling through an indirect-gap semiconductor barrier
Subodha Mishra, Sunita Thulasi, and Sashi Satpathy
Published 30 November 2005 (5 pages)
195347 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Atomic and electronic structure of the Fe3O4(111)∕MgO(111) model polar oxide interface
V. K. Lazarov, M. Weinert, S. A. Chambers, and M. Gajdardziska-Josifovska
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
195401 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Structure of gold nanoparticles suspended in water studied by x-ray diffraction and computer simulations
Valeri Petkov, Yong Peng, Geoff Williams, Baohua Huang, Donald Tomalia, and Yang Ren
Published 3 November 2005 (8 pages)
195402 [View PDF (708 kB)]
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Optical transitions in carbon nanotubes
S. V. Goupalov
Published 3 November 2005 (5 pages)
195403 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Unstrained islands with interface coincidence sites versus strained islands: X-ray measurements on Ag∕ZnO
N. Jedrecy, G. Renaud, R. Lazzari, and J. Jupille
Published 4 November 2005 (7 pages)
195404 [View PDF (860 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of the structural and dynamic properties of graphite-supported bimetallic transition metal clusters
Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, and Babu Joseph
Published 4 November 2005 (15 pages)
195405 [View PDF (1,466 kB)]
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Silicon overlayer growth on clean and hydrogen-terminated two-dimensional holmium silicide
E. W. Perkins, C. Bonet, and S. P. Tear
Published 7 November 2005 (5 pages)
195406 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Conductance fluctuations and higher order moments of a disordered carbon nanotube
Wei Ren, Jian Wang, and Zhongshui Ma
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
195407 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Pulsed-laser-induced nanoscale island formation in thin metal-on-oxide films
S. J. Henley, J. D. Carey, and S. R. P. Silva
Published 8 November 2005 (10 pages)
195408 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Electronic structure of the trimetal nitride fullerene Dy3N@C80
H. Shiozawa, H. Rauf, T. Pichler, D. Grimm, X. Liu, M. Knupfer, M. Kalbac, S. Yang, L. Dunsch, B. Büchner, and D. Batchelor
Published 9 November 2005 (5 pages)
195409 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Dynamics of a two-level system strongly coupled to a high-frequency quantum oscillator
E. K. Irish, J. Gea-Banacloche, I. Martin, and K. C. Schwab
Published 10 November 2005 (14 pages)
195410 [View PDF (873 kB)]
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Entanglement from a nanomechanical resonator weakly coupled to a single Cooper-pair box
L. Tian
Published 10 November 2005 (5 pages)
195411 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Strain sensing of carbon nanotubes: Numerical analysis of the vibrational frequency of deformed single-wall carbon nanotubes
Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen, and Jeffrey W. Kysar
Published 10 November 2005 (6 pages)
195412 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Surface protrusion parameters in film columnar growth
J. L. Sacedón, E. Rodríguez-Cañas, C. Munuera, A. I. Oliva, and J. A. Aznárez
Published 14 November 2005 (11 pages)
195413 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of the diarsenic complex in crystalline silicon
Scott A. Harrison, Thomas F. Edgar, and Gyeong S. Hwang
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
195414 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Phonon-assisted exciton relaxation dynamics for a (6,5)-enriched DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotube sample
S. G. Chou, M. F. DeCamp, J. Jiang, Ge. G. Samsonidze, E. B. Barros, F. Plentz, A. Jorio, M. Zheng, G. B. Onoa, E. D. Semke, A. Tokmakoff, R. Saito, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Published 15 November 2005 (8 pages)
195415 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Finite size effects in surface states of stepped Cu nanostripes
J. E. Ortega, M. Ruiz-Osés, and J. Kuntze
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
195416 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Atomic-orbital analysis of the Cu Fermi surface by two-dimensional photoelectron spectroscopy
Fumihiko Matsui, Hiroaki Miyata, Oliver Rader, Yohji Hamada, Youjiro Nakamura, Koji Nakanishi, Koji Ogawa, Hidetoshi Namba, and Hiroshi Daimon
Published 18 November 2005 (5 pages)
195417 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Bistability and hysteresis in the sliding friction of a dimer
S. Gonçalves, C. Fusco, A. R. Bishop, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
195418 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Unified kinetic model of dopant segregation during vapor-phase growth
Craig B. Arnold and Michael J. Aziz
Published 18 November 2005 (17 pages)
195419 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Simultaneous etching and oxidation of vicinal Si(100) surfaces: Atomistic lattice-gas modeling of morphological evolution
Marvin A. Albao, Da-Jiang Liu, Mark S. Gordon, and J. W. Evans
Published 18 November 2005 (12 pages)
195420 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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STM images and tunneling channels of substituted benzene molecules
Jouko Nieminen, Eeva Niemi, Violeta Simic-Milosevic, and Karina Morgenstern
Published 21 November 2005 (8 pages)
195421 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Enhanced absorptance of gold following multipulse femtosecond laser ablation
A. Y. Vorobyev and Chunlei Guo
Published 21 November 2005 (5 pages)
195422 [View PDF (546 kB)]
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First-principles approach for the calculation of optical properties of one-dimensional systems with helical symmetry: The case of carbon nanotubes
Eric Chang, Giovanni Bussi, Alice Ruini, and Elisa Molinari
Published 22 November 2005 (8 pages)
195423 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of (YC)2@C82 and Y2@C82
Shojun Hino, Norihiko Wanita, Kentaro Iwasaki, Daisuke Yoshimura, Takao Akachi, Takeshi Inoue, Yasuhiro Ito, Toshiki Sugai, and Hisanori Shinohara
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
195424 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Dynamics of very low energy photoelectrons interacting with image charge of Cs∕Cu(111) surface
K. Hayashi, R. Arafune, S. Ueda, Y. Uehara, and S. Ushioda
Published 22 November 2005 (3 pages)
195425 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Electronic properties of single-walled silicon nanotubes compared to carbon nanotubes
Xiaobao Yang and Jun Ni
Published 22 November 2005 (5 pages)
195426 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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MgO(001) surface phonons from ab initio calculations
Vladimir Shpakov, Anders Gotte, Micael Baudin, Tom Woo, and Kersti Hermansson
Published 23 November 2005 (6 pages)
195427 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Image formation in a transmission electron microscope equipped with an environmental cell: Single-walled carbon nanotubes in source gases
H. Yoshida and S. Takeda
Published 23 November 2005 (7 pages)
195428 [View PDF (648 kB)]
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Surface plasmon resonances of single and coupled metallic nanoparticles: A boundary integral method approach
Ulrich Hohenester and Joachim Krenn
Published 28 November 2005 (9 pages)
195429 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Surface-induced disorder on the clean Ni3Al(111) surface
Oier Bikondoa, Germán R. Castro, Xavier Torrelles, Frank Wendler, and Wolfgang Moritz
Published 29 November 2005 (8 pages)
195430 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Ballistic electron transport in Au films
X. Liu, R. Stock, and W. Rudolph
Published 29 November 2005 (6 pages)
195431 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Transient electric birefringence in suspensions of single-walled carbon nanotubes
K. J. Donovan and K. Scott
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
195432 [View PDF (117 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Experimental evidence for N-induced strong coupling of host conduction band states in GaNxP1−x: Insight into the dominant mechanism for giant band-gap bowing”
B. Fluegel, Yong Zhang, J. F. Geisz, and A. Mascarenhas
Published 30 November 2005 (3 pages)
197301 [View PDF (231 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Meron excitations in the ν=1 quantum Hall bilayer and the plasma analogy [Phys. Rev. B 72, 155306 (2005)]
Milica V. Milovanović and Ivan Stanić
Published 3 November 2005 (1 page)
199901(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Polar vibration spectra of interface optical phonons and electron-interface optical phonon interactions in a wurtzite GaN-AlN nanowire [Phys. Rev. B 71, 245324 (2005)]
Li Zhang, Jun-jie Shi, and T. L. Tansley
Published 11 November 2005 (1 page)
199902(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Singlet-triplet splitting, correlation, and entanglement of two electrons in quantum dot molecules [Phys. Rev. B 72, 195307 (2005)]
Lixin He, Gabriel Bester, and Alex Zunger
Published 17 November 2005 (1 page)
199903(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Maximum-entropy theory of steady-state quantum transport [Phys. Rev. B 68, 125414 (2003)]
P. Bokes and R. W. Godby
Published 17 November 2005 (1 page)
199904(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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