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Physical Review B – 15 November 2005
Volume 72, Issue 20

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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Modeling inelastic phonon scattering in atomic- and molecular-wire junctions
Magnus Paulsson, Thomas Frederiksen, and Mads Brandbyge
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
201101(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Orbital-selective Mott-Hubbard transition in the two-band Hubbard model
R. Arita and K. Held
Published 29 November 2005 (4 pages)
201102(R) [View PDF (190 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Characterization of magnetic components in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Zn1−xCoxO by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
M. Kobayashi, Y. Ishida, J. l. Hwang, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, K. Mamiya, J. Okamoto, Y. Takeda, T. Okane, Y. Saitoh, Y. Muramatsu, A. Tanaka, H. Saeki, H. Tabata, and T. Kawai
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
201201(R) [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Stress-induced platelet formation in silicon: A molecular dynamics study
J. G. Swadener, M. I. Baskes, and M. Nastasi
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
201202(R) [View PDF (118 kB)]

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

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Experimental evidence for nonequilibrium Bose condensation of exciton polaritons
M. Richard, J. Kasprzak, R. André, R. Romestain, Le Si Dang, G. Malpuech, and A. Kavokin
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
201301(R) [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Injection of ballistic pure spin currents in semiconductors by a single-color linearly polarized beam
Hui Zhao, Xinyu Pan, Arthur L. Smirl, R. D. R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J. E. Sipe, and H. M. van Driel
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
201302(R) [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Robustness of the fractional quantum Hall effect
J. K. Jain and Gun Sang Jeon
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
201303(R) [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Entanglement distillation by adiabatic passage in coupled quantum dots
Jaroslav Fabian and Ulrich Hohenester
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
201304(R) [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall effect
T. Jonckheere, P. Devillard, A. Crépieux, and T. Martin
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
201305(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Coupling between semiconductor quantum dots and two-dimensional surface plasmons
Jiayu Zhang, Yong-Hong Ye, Xiaoyong Wang, P. Rochon, and Min Xiao
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
201306(R) [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Tunable effective g factor in InAs nanowire quantum dots
M. T. Björk, A. Fuhrer, A. E. Hansen, M. W. Larsson, L. E. Fröberg, and L. Samuelson
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
201307(R) [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Chirality in Coulomb-blockaded quantum dots
David Sánchez and Markus Büttiker
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
201308(R) [View PDF (233 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Two-dimensional electron and hole gases at the surface of graphite
S. V. Morozov, K. S. Novoselov, F. Schedin, D. Jiang, A. A. Firsov, and A. K. Geim
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
201401(R) [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Resonant slot optical guiding in metallic nanoparticle chains
K. J. Webb and J. Li
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
201402(R) [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Nonadiabaticity in the initial oxidation of Mg(0001): First-principles density-functional calculations
A. Hellman
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
201403(R) [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Anomalous behavior of satellite features at the surface and interface in the Ni L-edge x-ray absorption spectra
Kenta Amemiya, Enju Sakai, Daiju Matsumura, Hitoshi Abe, and Toshiaki Ohta
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
201404(R) [View PDF (244 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Infrared signatures of hole and spin stripes in La2−xSrxCuO4
W. J. Padilla, M. Dumm, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
205101 [View PDF (859 kB)]
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Optical studies of the charge-density-wave phase transition in Lu5Rh4Si10
H. L. Liu, G. S. Wu, J. L. Her, and H. D. Yang
Published 2 November 2005 (6 pages)
205102 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Electromagnetic response of a point-dipole crystal
K. Kempa, R. Ruppin, and J. B. Pendry
Published 2 November 2005 (6 pages)
205103 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Combined theoretical and experimental study of the low-temperature properties of BaZrO3
A. R. Akbarzadeh, I. Kornev, C. Malibert, L. Bellaiche, and J. M. Kiat
Published 2 November 2005 (8 pages)
205104 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Acceleration and deceleration of moving photonic crystals under irradiation
Tetsuyuki Ochiai and Kazuaki Sakoda
Published 2 November 2005 (8 pages)
205105 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Band structures and optical spectra of InN polymorphs: Influence of quasiparticle and excitonic effects
J. Furthmüller, P. H. Hahn, F. Fuchs, and F. Bechstedt
Published 3 November 2005 (14 pages)
205106 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Failure of the Wiedemann-Franz law in mesoscopic conductors
Maxim G. Vavilov and A. Douglas Stone
Published 7 November 2005 (5 pages)
205107 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Ab initio investigation of the nitrofluoride SiNF
E. Betranhandy and S. F. Matar
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
205108 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Photonic band gaps in highly conformal inverse-opal based photonic crystals
D. Gaillot, T. Yamashita, and C. J. Summers
Published 7 November 2005 (10 pages)
205109 [View PDF (2,264 kB)]
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Cherenkov radiation by an electron bunch that moves in a vacuum above a left-handed material
Yu. O. Averkov and V. M. Yakovenko
Published 7 November 2005 (10 pages)
205110 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Assessment of transition-metal coordination in glasses by electron energy-loss spectroscopy
Thomas Höche, Michael Grodzicki, Frank Heyroth, and Peter A. van Aken
Published 8 November 2005 (5 pages)
205111 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Interfacial operator approach to computing modes of surface plasmon polaritons for periodic structures
Chien C. Chang, R. L. Chern, C. Chung Chang, and R. R. Hwang
Published 9 November 2005 (12 pages)
205112 [View PDF (2,471 kB)]
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High-resolution valence-band XPS spectra of the nonconductors quartz and olivine
V. P. Zakaznova-Herzog, H. W. Nesbitt, G. M. Bancroft, J. S. Tse, X. Gao, and W. Skinner
Published 9 November 2005 (13 pages)
205113 [View PDF (1,073 kB)]
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Quantitative analysis of Sr2RuO4 angle-resolved photoemission spectra: Many-body interactions in a model Fermi liquid
N. J. C. Ingle, K. M. Shen, F. Baumberger, W. Meevasana, D. H. Lu, Z.-X. Shen, A. Damascelli, S. Nakatsuji, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura
Published 11 November 2005 (9 pages)
205114 [View PDF (1,275 kB)]
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Bragg reflection spectroscopy of opal-like photonic crystals
G. M. Gajiev, V. G. Golubev, D. A. Kurdyukov, A. V. Medvedev, A. B. Pevtsov, A. V. Sel’kin, and V. V. Travnikov
Published 15 November 2005 (9 pages)
205115 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Hardcore bosons on checkerboard lattices near half filling: Geometric frustration, vanishing charge order, and a fractional phase
Yi Zhou
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
205116 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Optical properties and London dispersion interaction of amorphous and crystalline SiO2 determined by vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry
G. L. Tan, M. F. Lemon, D. J. Jones, and R. H. French
Published 16 November 2005 (10 pages)
205117 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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First-principles study of rare-earth oxides
L. Petit, A. Svane, Z. Szotek, and W. M. Temmerman
Published 16 November 2005 (9 pages)
205118 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Energy relaxation due to magnetic impurities in mesoscopic wires: Logarithmic approach
O. Újsághy, A. Jakovác, and A. Zawadowski
Published 18 November 2005 (12 pages)
205119 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Gap maps for triangular photonic crystals with a dispersive and absorbing component
Andreas Rung, Carl G. Ribbing, and Min Qiu
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
205120 [View PDF (988 kB)]
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High-order correlation effects in the two-dimensional Hubbard model
Satoru Odashima, Adolfo Avella, and Ferdinando Mancini
Published 18 November 2005 (9 pages)
205121 [View PDF (754 kB)]
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Gallium stabilization of δ-Pu: Density-functional calculations
Babak Sadigh and Wilhelm G. Wolfer
Published 21 November 2005 (12 pages)
205122 [View PDF (1,330 kB)]
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Transferability of the Slater-Koster tight-binding scheme from an environment-dependent minimal-basis perspective
W. C. Lu, C. Z. Wang, K. Ruedenberg, and K. M. Ho
Published 21 November 2005 (8 pages)
205123 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Orbital-selective Mott transition in multiband systems: Slave-spin representation and dynamical mean-field theory
L. de’Medici, A. Georges, and S. Biermann
Published 22 November 2005 (15 pages)
205124 [View PDF (747 kB)]
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Energy-resolved inelastic electron scattering off a magnetic impurity
Markus Garst, Peter Wölfle, László Borda, Jan von Delft, and Leonid Glazman
Published 23 November 2005 (14 pages)
205125 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Dynamical behavior across the Mott transition of two bands with different bandwidths
Michel Ferrero, Federico Becca, Michele Fabrizio, and Massimo Capone
Published 23 November 2005 (11 pages)
205126 [View PDF (933 kB)]
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Optical conductivity and x-ray absorption and emission study of the band structure of MnN films
S. Granville, B. J. Ruck, F. Budde, A. Koo, J. E. Downes, H. J. Trodahl, A. Bittar, N. Strickland, G. V. M. Williams, W. R. L. Lambrecht, Timothy Learmonth, Kevin E. Smith, V. J. Kennedy, A. Markwitz, and Thorsten Schmitt
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
205127 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Order-parameter symmetries for magnetic and superconducting instabilities: Bethe-Salpeter analysis of functional renormalization-group solutions
A. A. Katanin and A. P. Kampf
Published 30 November 2005 (7 pages)
205128 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Sign change of the Grüneisen parameter and magnetocaloric effect near quantum critical points
Markus Garst and Achim Rosch
Published 30 November 2005 (10 pages)
205129 [View PDF (398 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Two-level model of longitudinal magnetic field-induced current instability and chaos in n-GaAs
Shwu-Yun Tsay Tzeng and Yiharn Tzeng
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
205201 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Large magnetoresistance in nonmagnetic π-conjugated semiconductor thin film devices
Ö. Mermer, G. Veeraraghavan, T. L. Francis, Y. Sheng, D. T. Nguyen, M. Wohlgenannt, A. Köhler, M. K. Al-Suti, and M. S. Khan
Published 10 November 2005 (12 pages)
205202 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Relative bulk and interface contributions to optical second-harmonic generation in silicon
H. J. Peng, E. J. Adles, J.-F. T. Wang, and D. E. Aspnes
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
205203 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Structure and diffusion of excess Si atoms in SiO2
Decai Yu, Gyeong S. Hwang, Taras A. Kirichenko, and Sanjay K. Banerjee
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
205204 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Electronic properties of oligoacenes from first principles
Kerstin Hummer and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 14 November 2005 (10 pages)
205205 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Theoretical study of B diffusion with charged defects in strained Si
L. Lin, T. Kirichenko, B. R. Sahu, G. S. Hwang, and S. K. Banerjee
Published 15 November 2005 (8 pages)
205206 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Kondo lattice behavior in the ordered dilute magnetic semiconductor Yb14−xLaxMnSb11
B. C. Sales, P. Khalifah, T. P. Enck, E. J. Nagler, R. E. Sykora, R. Jin, and D. Mandrus
Published 30 November 2005 (5 pages)
205207 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Pinning and depinning of a classic quasi-one-dimensional Wigner crystal in the presence of a constriction
G. Piacente and F. M. Peeters
Published 30 November 2005 (17 pages)
205208 [View PDF (706 kB)]

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

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Optical transitions in quantum ring complexes
T. Kuroda, T. Mano, T. Ochiai, S. Sanguinetti, K. Sakoda, G. Kido, and N. Koguchi
Published 2 November 2005 (8 pages)
205301 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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STM studies of PtSi formation on Si(111) by solid state epitaxy
A. Wawro, S. Suto, and A. Kasuya
Published 3 November 2005 (10 pages)
205302 [View PDF (995 kB)]
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Low-density spin-polarized transport in two-dimensional semiconductor structures: Temperature-dependent magnetoresistance of Si MOSFETs in an in-plane applied magnetic field
S. Das Sarma and E. H. Hwang
Published 3 November 2005 (10 pages)
205303 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Effect of the Pekar mechanism on the phonon-drag thermopower in p-type Si∕Si1−xGex heterostructures
S. S. Kubakaddi and M. Tsaousidou
Published 3 November 2005 (6 pages)
205304 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Topographic evolution during deposition of plasma-deposited hydrogenated silicon on glass
G. T. Dalakos, J. P. Plawsky, and P. D. Persans
Published 3 November 2005 (7 pages)
205305 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Intraband spectroscopy and photophysics in GaSe nanoparticles
Haohua Tu, Karoly Mogyorosi, and David F. Kelley
Published 4 November 2005 (13 pages)
205306 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Observation of strong direct-like oscillator strength in the photoluminescence of Si nanoparticles
A. Smith, Z. H. Yamani, N. Roberts, J. Turner, S. R. Habbal, S. Granick, and M. H. Nayfeh
Published 7 November 2005 (5 pages)
205307 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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First-principles study of oxygen-deficient SrTiO3∕MgO(100) interfaces
P. Casek, F. Finocchi, and C. Noguera
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
205308 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Hindered electronic transport in two-dimensional metallic ErSi2 nanoscale islands on Si(111): An STM study
I. Brihuega, E. Dupont-Ferrier, P. Mallet, L. Magaud, S. Pons, J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez, and J-Y. Veuillen
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
205309 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Quantum transport through a double Aharonov-Bohm interferometer in the presence of Andreev reflection
Yong-Ping Zhang, Hui Yu, Ying-Fang Gao, and J. -Q. Liang
Published 7 November 2005 (12 pages)
205310 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Band-edge diagrams for strained III–V semiconductor quantum wells, wires, and dots
C. E. Pryor and M.-E. Pistol
Published 8 November 2005 (11 pages)
205311 [View PDF (1,151 kB)]
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Structural and optical properties of CdSxSe1−x nanowires
S. Joon Kwon, Young-Jin Choi, Jae-Hwan Park, In-Sung Hwang, and Jae-Gwan Park
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
205312 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Excitonic condensate and quasiparticle transport in electron-hole bilayer systems
Yogesh N. Joglekar, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Michael P. Lilly
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
205313 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Effects of shape and magnetic field on the optical properties of wurtzite quantum rods
X. W. Zhang and J. B. Xia
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
205314 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Magnetic flux induced spin polarization in semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
G. S. Lozano and M. J. Sánchez
Published 9 November 2005 (5 pages)
205315 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Oxygen-induced atomic desorptions in oxynitrides: Density functional calculations
W. Orellana, Antônio J. R. da Silva, and A. Fazzio
Published 10 November 2005 (5 pages)
205316 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Solitons and quasielectrons in the quantum Hall matrix model
T. H. Hansson, J. Kailasvuori, A. Karlhede, and R. von Unge
Published 10 November 2005 (12 pages)
205317 [View PDF (1,021 kB)]
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Photoluminescence measurements of quantum-dot-containing semiconductor microdisk resonators using optical fiber taper waveguides
Kartik Srinivasan, Andreas Stintz, Sanjay Krishna, and Oskar Painter
Published 10 November 2005 (9 pages)
205318 [View PDF (761 kB)]
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Probing level renormalization by sequential transport through double quantum dots
Bernhard Wunsch, Matthias Braun, Jürgen König, and Daniela Pfannkuche
Published 11 November 2005 (9 pages)
205319 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Optical and electronic properties in (In0.53Ga0.47As)1−z∕(In0.52Al0.48As)z digital alloys
J. T. Woo, J. H. Kim, T. W. Kim, J. D. Song, and Y. J. Park
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
205320 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Time-controlled charge injection in a quantum Hall fluid
T. Jonckheere, M. Creux, and T. Martin
Published 15 November 2005 (6 pages)
205321 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Voltage-controlled spin injection in a (Ga,Mn)As∕(Al,Ga)As Zener diode
P. Van Dorpe, W. Van Roy, J. De Boeck, G. Borghs, P. Sankowski, P. Kacman, J. A. Majewski, and T. Dietl
Published 15 November 2005 (7 pages)
205322 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Growth of ultrathin silicon nitride on Si(111) at low temperatures
A. Bahari, U. Robenhagen, P. Morgen, and Z. S. Li
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
205323 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Electronic and optical properties of Si∕SiO2 nanostructures. I. Electron-hole collective processes in single Si∕SiO2 quantum wells
N. Pauc, V. Calvo, J. Eymery, F. Fournel, and N. Magnea
Published 18 November 2005 (13 pages)
205324 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Electronic and optical properties of Si∕SiO2 nanostructures. II. Electron-hole recombination at the Si∕SiO2 quantum-well–quantum-dot transition
N. Pauc, V. Calvo, J. Eymery, F. Fournel, and N. Magnea
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
205325 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Ground state structure and conductivity of quantum wires of infinite length and finite width
F. Malet, M. Pi, M. Barranco, and E. Lipparini
Published 18 November 2005 (10 pages)
205326 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of composite fermions in quantum dots: The effect of Landau-level mixing
A. D. Güçlü, Gun Sang Jeon, C. J. Umrigar, and J. K. Jain
Published 18 November 2005 (6 pages)
205327 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Chemical reaction at the interface between pentacene and HfO2
S. J. Kang, Y. Yi, C. Y. Kim, K.-H. Yoo, A. Moewes, M. H. Cho, J. D. Denlinger, C. N. Whang, and G. S. Chang
Published 18 November 2005 (6 pages)
205328 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Two-electron lateral quantum-dot molecules in a magnetic field
M. Helle, A. Harju, and R. M. Nieminen
Published 21 November 2005 (24 pages)
205329 [View PDF (4,780 kB)]
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Electronic efficiency in nanostructured thermionic and thermoelectric devices
M. F. O’Dwyer, R. A. Lewis, C. Zhang, and T. E. Humphrey
Published 21 November 2005 (10 pages)
205330 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Homogeneous broadening in quantum dots due to Auger scattering with wetting layer carriers
H. H. Nilsson, J.-Z. Zhang, and I. Galbraith
Published 21 November 2005 (8 pages)
205331 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Manifestation of fundamental quantum complementarities in time-domain interference experiments with quantum dots: A theoretical analysis
Paweł Machnikowski
Published 21 November 2005 (8 pages)
205332 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Electrical properties of epitaxial junctions between Nb:SrTiO3 and optimally doped, underdoped, and Zn-doped YBa2Cu3O7−δ
W. Ramadan, S. B. Ogale, S. Dhar, L. F. Fu, S. R. Shinde, Darshan C. Kundaliya, M. S. R. Rao, N. D. Browning, and T. Venkatesan
Published 22 November 2005 (9 pages)
205333 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Two-dimensional quantum-dot helium in a magnetic field: Variational theory
Orion Ciftja and M. Golam Faruk
Published 22 November 2005 (10 pages)
205334 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Time evolution of a two-hole state in Auger-induced desorption
Akira Yasui, Takayuki Uozumi, and Yosuke Kayanuma
Published 23 November 2005 (8 pages)
205335 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Electronic structure evolution during the growth of ultrathin insulator films on semiconductors: From interface formation to bulklike CaF2∕Si(111) films
Andreas Klust, Taisuke Ohta, Aaron A. Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Qiuming Yu, Fumio S. Ohuchi, and Marjorie A. Olmstead
Published 28 November 2005 (5 pages)
205336 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Spin current induced by in-plane magnetoelectric δ-barriers in a two-dimensional electron gas
S. G. Tan, Mansoor B. A. Jalil, and Thomas Liew
Published 28 November 2005 (7 pages)
205337 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Two-probe theory of scanning tunneling microscopy of single molecules: Zn(II)-etioporphyrin on alumina
John Buker and George Kirczenow
Published 29 November 2005 (11 pages)
205338 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Monitoring surface charge migration in the spectral dynamics of single CdSe∕CdS nanodot/nanorod heterostructures
J. Müller, J. M. Lupton, A. L. Rogach, J. Feldmann, D. V. Talapin, and H. Weller
Published 29 November 2005 (12 pages)
205339 [View PDF (1,050 kB)]
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Assessment of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations of GaAs deposition
D. A. Murdick, X. W. Zhou, and H. N. G. Wadley
Published 30 November 2005 (14 pages)
205340 [View PDF (658 kB)]
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Coherent effects in magnetotransport through Zeeman-split levels
S. A. Gurvitz, D. Mozyrsky, and G. P. Berman
Published 30 November 2005 (10 pages)
205341 [View PDF (186 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Local density profiles in thin films and multilayers from diffuse x-ray and neutron scattering
M. Rauscher, H. Reichert, S. Engemann, and H. Dosch
Published 1 November 2005 (10 pages)
205401 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Observation of shell effects in nanowires for the noble metals Cu, Ag, and Au
A. I. Mares and J. M. van Ruitenbeek
Published 2 November 2005 (7 pages)
205402 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Nonlinear membrane-spring model for carbon nanotubes
M. Wang, X. Zhang, and M. W. Lu
Published 2 November 2005 (7 pages)
205403 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Energy partitioning in the femtosecond-laser-induced associative D2 desorption from Ru(0001)
Steffen Wagner, Christian Frischkorn, Martin Wolf, Marco Rutkowski, Helmut Zacharias, and Alan C. Luntz
Published 3 November 2005 (10 pages)
205404 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Thickness dependence of surface plasmon damping and dispersion in ultrathin Ag films
Yinghui Yu, Ying Jiang, Zhe Tang, Qinlin Guo, Jinfeng Jia, Qikun Xue, Kehui Wu, and Enge Wang
Published 3 November 2005 (6 pages)
205405 [View PDF (1,524 kB)]
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Coulomb screening and electronic instabilities of small-diameter (5,0) nanotubes
J. González and E. Perfetto
Published 4 November 2005 (15 pages)
205406 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Laser-driven coupled electron-nuclear dynamics: Quantum mechanical simulation of molecular photodesorption from metal films
Tillmann Klamroth, Dominik Kröner, and Peter Saalfrank
Published 4 November 2005 (11 pages)
205407 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Effects of contact geometry on transport properties of a Si4 cluster
Z. X. Dai, X. H. Zheng, X. Q. Shi, and Z. Zeng
Published 7 November 2005 (9 pages)
205408 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Surface segregation and ordering of alloy surfaces in the presence of adsorbates
B. C. Han, A. Van der Ven, G. Ceder, and Bing-Joe Hwang
Published 7 November 2005 (9 pages)
205409 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Surface characterization and electronic structure of HgTe nanocrystalline thin films
S. Rath, D. Paramanik, S. N. Sarangi, S. Varma, and S. N. Sahu
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
205410 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Strain-mediated lateral SiGe island motion in single and stacked layers
M. Stoffel, A. Rastelli, S. Kiravittaya, and O. G. Schmidt
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
205411 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Quantum-dot nucleation in strained-layer epitaxy: Minimum-energy pathway in the stress-driven two-dimensional to three-dimensional transformation
José Emilio Prieto and Ivan Markov
Published 9 November 2005 (8 pages)
205412 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Dynamics of confined plumes during short and ultrashort pulsed laser ablation of graphite
S. J. Henley, J. D. Carey, S. R. P. Silva, G. M. Fuge, M. N. R. Ashfold, and D. Anglos
Published 9 November 2005 (13 pages)
205413 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Intramolecular vibronic dynamics in molecular solids: C60
L. Kjeldgaard, T. Käämbre, J. Schiessling, I. Marenne, J. N. O’Shea, J. Schnadt, C. J. Glover, M. Nagasono, D. Nordlund, M. G. Garnier, L. Qian, J.-E. Rubensson, P. Rudolf, N. Mårtensson, J. Nordgren, and P. A. Brühwiler
Published 9 November 2005 (5 pages)
205414 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Cs adsorption on Si(001) surface: An ab initio study
R. Shaltaf, E. Mete, and Ş. Ellialtıoğlu
Published 9 November 2005 (8 pages)
205415 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Nitrogen in graphite and carbon nanotubes: Magnetism and mobility
Yuchen Ma, A. S. Foster, A. V. Krasheninnikov, and R. M. Nieminen
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
205416 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Electron transport and current fluctuations in short coherent conductors
Dmitri S. Golubev, Artem V. Galaktionov, and Andrei D. Zaikin
Published 11 November 2005 (18 pages)
205417 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Structural and energetic properties of unsupported Cu nanoparticles from room temperature to the melting point: Molecular dynamics simulations
Francesco Delogu
Published 11 November 2005 (9 pages)
205418 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Effect of hydrogen on the surface relaxation of Pd(100), Rh(100), and Ag(100)
Sung Chul Jung and Myung Ho Kang
Published 14 November 2005 (6 pages)
205419 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Structural and thermal behavior of compact core-shell nanoparticles: Core instabilities and dynamic contributions to surface thermal stability
Andrés Aguado and José M. López
Published 14 November 2005 (12 pages)
205420 [View PDF (1,072 kB)]
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Multiscale kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating epitaxial growth
Jason P. DeVita, Leonard M. Sander, and Peter Smereka
Published 15 November 2005 (7 pages)
205421 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Growth and structure of small gold particles on rutile TiO2(110)
Devina Pillay and Gyeong S. Hwang
Published 15 November 2005 (6 pages)
205422 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Growth of oriented Bi nanorods at graphite step-edges
Shelley A. Scott, Milo V. Kral, and Simon A. Brown
Published 15 November 2005 (8 pages)
205423 [View PDF (703 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of the dispersion of surface phonons on unreconstructed and reconstructed Pt(110)
Sampyo Hong, Talat S. Rahman, Rolf Heid, and Klaus Peter Bohnen
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
205424 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Local anisotropy and giant enhancement of local electromagnetic fields in fractal aggregates of metal nanoparticles
Sergei V. Karpov, Valeriy S. Gerasimov, Ivan L. Isaev, and Vadim A. Markel
Published 16 November 2005 (8 pages)
205425 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Condensation on (002) graphite of liquid bismuth far below its bulk melting point
M. K. Zayed and H. E. Elsayed-Ali
Published 16 November 2005 (9 pages)
205426 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Mechanisms of exchange diffusion on fcc(111) transition metal surfaces
Hervé Bulou and Carlo Massobrio
Published 18 November 2005 (6 pages)
205427 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Bulk fragment and tubelike structures of AuN (N=2-26)
Wei Fa, Chuanfu Luo, and Jinming Dong
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
205428 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Electronic and magnetic properties of BNC ribbons
Jun Nakamura, Toshihiro Nitta, and Akiko Natori
Published 18 November 2005 (5 pages)
205429 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Elastic and rotationally inelastic diffraction of D2 molecules from the LiF(001) surface
Yasin Ekinci and J. Peter Toennies
Published 18 November 2005 (19 pages)
205430 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Chirality-dependent boron-mediated growth of nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes
Joseph G. Wiltshire, Lain-Jong Li, Laura M. Herz, Robin J. Nicholas, Marianne Glerup, Jean-Louis Sauvajol, and Andrei N. Khlobystov
Published 21 November 2005 (6 pages)
205431 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Two electrons in a strongly coupled double quantum dot: From an artificial helium atom to a hydrogen molecule
W. Dybalski and P. Hawrylak
Published 21 November 2005 (9 pages)
205432 [View PDF (1,018 kB)]
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Longitudinal versus transverse spheroidal vibrational modes of an elastic sphere
Lucien Saviot and Daniel B. Murray
Published 21 November 2005 (6 pages)
205433 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Composition dependence of Si1−xGex sputter yield
V. Tuboltsev, P. Jalkanen, M. Kolodyazhnaya, and J. Räisänen
Published 21 November 2005 (5 pages)
205434 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Tubular form of aluminates with metallic conduction: Density-functional calculations
Hyun-Min Hong, Yong-Ju Kang, C.-Y. Moon, K. J. Chang, and Hae Jin Kim
Published 21 November 2005 (5 pages)
205435 [View PDF (969 kB)]
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Orientation dependence of the polarizability of an individual WS2 nanotube by resonant Raman spectroscopy
P. M. Rafailov, C. Thomsen, K. Gartsman, I. Kaplan-Ashiri, and R. Tenne
Published 23 November 2005 (4 pages)
205436 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Numerical simulations of the electromagnetic field scattered by defects in a double-periodic structure
Patrick C. Chaumet and Anne Sentenac
Published 23 November 2005 (8 pages)
205437 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Radial breathing mode of single-walled carbon nanotubes: Optical transition energies and chiral-index assignment
J. Maultzsch, H. Telg, S. Reich, and C. Thomsen
Published 28 November 2005 (16 pages)
205438 [View PDF (1,450 kB)]
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Long-range metal-mediated interactions between S and CO on Cu(100)
X. F. Hu and C. J. Hirschmugl
Published 28 November 2005 (7 pages)
205439 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Optical absorption of magnesia-supported gold clusters and nanoscale catalysts: Effects due to the support, clusters, and adsorbants
Michael Walter and Hannu Häkkinen
Published 28 November 2005 (5 pages)
205440 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Tunneling resistance of double-barrier tunneling structures with an alkanethiol-protected Au nanoparticle
H. Zhang, Y. Yasutake, Y. Shichibu, T. Teranishi, and Y. Majima
Published 29 November 2005 (7 pages)
205441 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Interrupted tubules in filamentous crystals: Elastic analysis
M. Upmanyu and J. R. Barber
Published 30 November 2005 (6 pages)
205442 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Designable electron transport features in one-dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles: Monte Carlo study of the relation between shape and transport
Stefan Semrau, Herbert Schoeller, and Wolfgang Wenzel
Published 30 November 2005 (13 pages)
205443 [View PDF (519 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electric field effect on the second-order nonlinear optical properties of parabolic and semiparabolic quantum wells”
İbrahim Karabulut, Ülfet Atav, and Haluk Şafak
Published 23 November 2005 (2 pages)
207301 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Comment on “Effect of spin-orbit interaction on the plasma excitations in a quantum wire”
Marcos R. S. Tavares
Published 29 November 2005 (2 pages)
207302 [View PDF (139 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Electronic and vibrational properties of diamondlike hydrocarbons [Phys. Rev. B 72, 035447 (2005)]
A. J. Lu, B. C. Pan, and J. G. Han
Published 1 November 2005 (1 page)
209901(E) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Erratum: Interface roughness correlation due to changing layer period in Pt∕C multilayers [Phys. Rev. B 65, 245416 (2002)]
Amitesh Paul and G. S. Lodha
Published 16 November 2005 (1 page)
209902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
 
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