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Physical Review B – 15 December 2005
Volume 72, Issue 23

BRIEF REPORTS

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

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Monte Carlo simulations of small-angle elastic scattering events
M. Vos and M. Went
Published 2 December 2005 (4 pages)
233101 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Lossless interface modes at the boundary between two periodic dielectric structures
A. V. Kavokin, I. A. Shelykh, and G. Malpuech
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
233102 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of spins coupled by electrons in a one-dimensional channel
Dmitry Mozyrsky, Alexander Dementsov, and Vladimir Privman
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
233103 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Orbital ordering in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 studied by model Hartree-Fock calculation
K. Ebata, T. Mizokawa, and A. Fujimori
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
233104 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Electric-field tuning of the Bragg peak in large-pore TiO2 inverse shell opals
E. Graugnard, J. S. King, S. Jain, C. J. Summers, Y. Zhang-Williams, and I. C. Khoo
Published 13 December 2005 (4 pages)
233105 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Exact results for spatial decay of correlations in low-dimensional insulators
Janusz Jȩdrzejewski and Taras Krokhmalskii
Published 29 December 2005 (4 pages)
233106 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Raman scattering from the filled tetrahedral semiconductor LiZnAs
K. Kuriyama, T. Ishikawa, and K. Kushida
Published 5 December 2005 (3 pages)
233201 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Ultraviolet laser photoemission spectroscopy of FeSi: Observation of a gap opening in density of states
K. Ishizaka, T. Kiss, T. Shimojima, T. Yokoya, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C. Q. Zhang, C. T. Chen, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, and S. Shin
Published 16 December 2005 (4 pages)
233202 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Femtosecond formation of collective modes due to mean-field fluctuations
K. Morawetz, P. Lipavský, and M. Schreiber
Published 21 December 2005 (4 pages)
233203 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Current-induced dynamic nuclear polarization in GaAs
M. J. R. Hoch, J. Lu, P. L. Kuhns, W. G. Moulton, and A. P. Reyes
Published 29 December 2005 (4 pages)
233204 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Spin polarization of light atoms in jellium: Detailed electronic structures
V. U. Nazarov, C. S. Kim, and Y. Takada
Published 29 December 2005 (4 pages)
233205 [View PDF (81 kB)]

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

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Shot noise of quantum ring excitons in a planar microcavity
Y. N. Chen, D. S. Chuu, and S. J. Cheng
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
233301 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Optical control of the exciton charge states of single quantum dots via impurity levels
W.-H. Chang, H.-S. Chang, W.-Y. Chen, T. M. Hsu, T.-P. Hsieh, J.-I. Chyi, and N.-T. Yeh
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
233302 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Oscillator potential for the four-dimensional Hall effect
Levon Mardoyan and Armen Nersessian
Published 13 December 2005 (4 pages)
233303 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Atomic-scale analysis of hydrogen bond breaking from Si(100):H induced by optical electronic excitation
D. Riedel, A. J. Mayne, and G. Dujardin
Published 13 December 2005 (4 pages)
233304 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Magnetic-field dependence of hole levels in self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots
J. I. Climente, J. Planelles, M. Pi, and F. Malet
Published 19 December 2005 (4 pages)
233305 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dihydride formation in the reaction of water with Si(111)-(7×7)
T. Yamada, Y. Ohtsuka, H. Okuyama, and T. Aruga
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
233306 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Nearly degenerate time-resolved Faraday rotation in an interacting exciton system
Yumin Shen, A. M. Goebel, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, and Hailin Wang
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
233307 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium magnetization of a two-dimensional electron gas in a static magnetic field
D. R. Faulhaber and H. W. Jiang
Published 28 December 2005 (4 pages)
233308 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Origin and elimination of spurious solutions of the eight-band k∙p theory
W. Yang and Kai Chang
Published 28 December 2005 (4 pages)
233309 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Electronic properties of FeCl3-adsorbed single-wall carbon nanotubes
S. Guerini, A. G. Souza Filho, J. Mendes Filho, O. L. Alves, and Solange B. Fagan
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
233401 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Coupling symmetry of quantum dot states
M. C. Rogge, B. Harke, C. Fricke, F. Hohls, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, and R. J. Haug
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
233402 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Radial-breathing mode frequencies for single-walled carbon nanotubes of arbitrary chirality: First-principles calculations
H. M. Lawler, D. Areshkin, J. W. Mintmire, and C. T. White
Published 13 December 2005 (4 pages)
233403 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Effective charging energy for a regular granular metal array
Y. L. Loh, V. Tripathi, and M. Turlakov
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
233404 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Out-of-equilibrium electronic transport properties of a misfit cobaltite thin film
A. Pautrat, H. W. Eng, and W. Prellier
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
233405 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Optical second harmonic spectroscopy of reconstructed Au(100) and (111) surfaces
T. Iwai and G. Mizutani
Published 19 December 2005 (4 pages)
233406 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Logarithmic behavior of the conductivity of electron-beam deposited granular Pt∕C nanowires
L. Rotkina, S. Oh, J. N. Eckstein, and S. V. Rotkin
Published 21 December 2005 (4 pages)
233407 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Imaging a buried interface by scanning tunneling spectroscopy of surface states in a metallic system
C. Didiot, A. Vedeneev, Y. Fagot-Revurat, B. Kierren, and D. Malterre
Published 30 December 2005 (4 pages)
233408 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Correlation effects for semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes: A density matrix renormalization group study
Fei Ye, Bing-Shen Wang, Jizhong Lou, and Zhao-Bin Su
Published 30 December 2005 (4 pages)
233409 [View PDF (312 kB)]

ARTICLES

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

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Ab initio calculations of the electronic structure and bonding characteristics of LaB6
Faruque M. Hossain, Daniel P. Riley, and Graeme E. Murch
Published 1 December 2005 (5 pages)
235101 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of classical wave transport in mesoscopic media at the localization transition
S. K. Cheung and Z. Q. Zhang
Published 1 December 2005 (10 pages)
235102 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Tangent formulation of the Kronig-Penney problem for N-period layered systems with application to photonic crystals
Frank Szmulowicz
Published 1 December 2005 (17 pages)
235103 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Emergent U(1) gauge theory with fractionalized boson/fermion from the Bose condensation of excitons in a multiband insulator
Sung-Sik Lee and Patrick A. Lee
Published 2 December 2005 (23 pages)
235104 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Photoinduced valence transition in gold complexes Cs2Au2X6 (X=Cl and Br) probed by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
J.-Y. Son, T. Mizokawa, J. W. Quilty, K. Takubo, K. Ikeda, and N. Kojima
Published 2 December 2005 (4 pages)
235105 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Quantum mechanical understanding of field dependence of the apex barrier of a single-wall carbon nanotube
Jie Peng, Zhibing Li, Chunshan He, Shaozhi Deng, Ningsheng Xu, Xiao Zheng, and GuanHua Chen
Published 2 December 2005 (8 pages)
235106 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Spectral properties and isotope effect in strongly interacting systems: Mott-Hubbard insulator versus polaronic semiconductor
S. Fratini and S. Ciuchi
Published 2 December 2005 (9 pages)
235107 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Interface ordering and phase competition in a model Mott-insulator-band-insulator heterostructure
Satoshi Okamoto and Andrew J. Millis
Published 7 December 2005 (5 pages)
235108 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Conserving approximations in time-dependent density functional theory
Ulf von Barth, Nils Erik Dahlen, Robert van Leeuwen, and Gianluca Stefanucci
Published 9 December 2005 (10 pages)
235109 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Multiple core-hole coherence in x-ray four-wave-mixing spectroscopies
Shaul Mukamel
Published 12 December 2005 (12 pages)
235110 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Fluorescence quantum efficiency and Auger upconversion losses of the stoichiometric laser crystal NdAl3(BO3)4
C. Jacinto, T. Catunda, D. Jaque, and J. García Solé
Published 13 December 2005 (8 pages)
235111 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Nonperturbative approach to backscattering off a dynamical impurity in one-dimensional Fermi systems
Daniel G. Barci, L. Moriconi, M. Moriconi, Carlos M. Naón, and Mariano J. Salvay
Published 13 December 2005 (5 pages)
235112 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Embedded Green-function formulation of tunneling conductance: Bardeen versus Landauer approaches
D. Wortmann, H. Ishida, and S. Blügel
Published 15 December 2005 (6 pages)
235113 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Quantum wire networks with local Z2 symmetry
K. Kazymyrenko, S. Dusuel, and B. Douçot
Published 19 December 2005 (14 pages)
235114 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Slab lenses from simple anisotropic media
Thomas Dumelow, José Alzamir Pereira da Costa, and Valder Nogueira Freire
Published 19 December 2005 (8 pages)
235115 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Giant angular-dependent Nernst effect in the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor (TMTSF)2PF6
Weida Wu, N. P. Ong, and P. M. Chaikin
Published 22 December 2005 (15 pages)
235116 [View PDF (1,421 kB)]
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Three-dimensional superresolution in metamaterial slab lenses: Experiment and theory
F. Mesa, M. J. Freire, R. Marqués, and J. D. Baena
Published 27 December 2005 (6 pages)
235117 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Energetic balance of the superconducting transition across the BCS—Bose Einstein crossover in the attractive Hubbard model
A. Toschi, M. Capone, and C. Castellani
Published 30 December 2005 (10 pages)
235118 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Charge-density waves in rubidium blue bronze Rb0.3MoO3 observed by scanning tunneling microscopy
C. Brun, J. C. Girard, Z. Z. Wang, J. Marcus, J. Dumas, and C. Schlenker
Published 30 December 2005 (7 pages)
235119 [View PDF (606 kB)]

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Electron spin-echo relaxation and envelope modulation of shallow phosphorus donors in silicon
Anna Ferretti, Marco Fanciulli, Alessandro Ponti, and Arthur Schweiger
Published 1 December 2005 (7 pages)
235201 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Analytic model of carrier mobility in doped disordered organic semiconductors
V. I. Arkhipov, E. V. Emelianova, P. Heremans, and H. Bässler
Published 7 December 2005 (5 pages)
235202 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Muonium spectroscopy in ZnSe: Metastability and conversion
R. C. Vilão, H. V. Alberto, J. Piroto Duarte, J. M. Gil, A. Weidinger, N. Ayres de Campos, R. L. Lichti, K. H. Chow, and S. F. J. Cox
Published 14 December 2005 (6 pages)
235203 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Negative capacitances in low-mobility solids
H. H. P. Gommans, M. Kemerink, and R. A. J. Janssen
Published 15 December 2005 (6 pages)
235204 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Passivation of copper in silicon by hydrogen
C. D. Latham, M. Alatalo, R. M. Nieminen, R. Jones, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon
Published 20 December 2005 (11 pages)
235205 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Ab initio structures of AsmV complexes and the simulation of Rutherford backscattering channeling spectra in heavily As-doped crystalline silicon
Alessandra Satta, Eros Albertazzi, Giorgio Lulli, and Luciano Colombo
Published 23 December 2005 (6 pages)
235206 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Mn-doped ScN: A dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor with local exchange coupling
Aditi Herwadkar and Walter R. L. Lambrecht
Published 27 December 2005 (6 pages)
235207 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Spin multiplicity and charge state of a silicon vacancy (TV2a) in 4H-SiC determined by pulsed ENDOR
N. Mizuochi, S. Yamasaki, H. Takizawa, N. Morishita, T. Ohshima, H. Itoh, T. Umeda, and J. Isoya
Published 28 December 2005 (6 pages)
235208 [View PDF (240 kB)]

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

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Temperature-dependent optical properties of InAs∕GaAs quantum dots: Independent carrier versus exciton relaxation
P. Dawson, O. Rubel, S. D. Baranovskii, K. Pierz, P. Thomas, and E. O. Göbel
Published 2 December 2005 (10 pages)
235301 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Doping-dependent charge injection and band alignment in organic field-effect transistors
B. H. Hamadani, H. Ding, Y. Gao, and D. Natelson
Published 2 December 2005 (5 pages)
235302 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Origin of positive magnetoresistance in small-amplitude unidirectional lateral superlattices
Akira Endo and Yasuhiro Iye
Published 2 December 2005 (11 pages)
235303 [View PDF (1,143 kB)]
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Green’s function technique for studying electron flow in two-dimensional mesoscopic samples
G. Metalidis and P. Bruno
Published 2 December 2005 (9 pages)
235304 [View PDF (1,910 kB)]
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Stroboscopic model of transport through a quantum dot with spin-orbit scattering
J. H. Bardarson, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 5 December 2005 (6 pages)
235305 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Magneto-optics of two-dimensional electron gases modified by strong Coulomb interactions in ZnSe quantum wells
D. Keller, D. R. Yakovlev, G. V. Astakhov, W. Ossau, S. A. Crooker, T. Slobodskyy, A. Waag, G. Schmidt, and L. W. Molenkamp
Published 5 December 2005 (12 pages)
235306 [View PDF (1,828 kB)]
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Transport between edge states in multilayer integer quantum Hall systems: Exact treatment of Coulomb interactions and disorder
J. W. Tomlinson, J.-S. Caux, and J. T. Chalker
Published 5 December 2005 (13 pages)
235307 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium transport through parallel double quantum dots in the Kondo regime
Y.-F. Yang and K. Held
Published 6 December 2005 (12 pages)
235308 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Rashba interaction in quantum wires with in-plane magnetic fields
Llorenç Serra, David Sánchez, and Rosa López
Published 7 December 2005 (6 pages)
235309 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Ripple pattern formation on silicon surfaces by low-energy ion-beam erosion: Experiment and theory
B. Ziberi, F. Frost, Th. Höche, and B. Rauschenbach
Published 7 December 2005 (7 pages)
235310 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Coulomb scattering in nitride-based self-assembled quantum dot systems
T. R. Nielsen, P. Gartner, M. Lorke, J. Seebeck, and F. Jahnke
Published 8 December 2005 (11 pages)
235311 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Relation between phenomenological few-level models and microscopic theories of the nonlinear optical response of semiconductor quantum wells
N. H. Kwong, I. Rumyantsev, R. Binder, and Arthur L. Smirl
Published 9 December 2005 (14 pages)
235312 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Structural, electrical, and magneto-optical characterization of paramagnetic GaMnAs quantum wells
M. Poggio, R. C. Myers, N. P. Stern, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom
Published 12 December 2005 (15 pages)
235313 [View PDF (2,511 kB)]
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Curved quantum waveguides in uniform magnetic fields
O. Olendski and L. Mikhailovska
Published 12 December 2005 (20 pages)
235314 [View PDF (1,103 kB)]
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Numerical study of spin Hall transport in a two-dimensional hole-gas system
W. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Weng, and D. N. Sheng
Published 13 December 2005 (8 pages)
235315 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Quantum splitter controlled by Rasha spin-orbit coupling
I. A. Shelykh, N. G. Galkin, and N. T. Bagraev
Published 13 December 2005 (7 pages)
235316 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Conversion between two binding states of benzene on Si(001)
Jung-Yup Lee and Jun-Hyung Cho
Published 14 December 2005 (5 pages)
235317 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Derivation of built-in polarization potentials in nitride-based semiconductor quantum dots
D. P. Williams, A. D. Andreev, E. P. O’Reilly, and D. A. Faux
Published 15 December 2005 (10 pages)
235318 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Einstein relation for electron diffusion on arrays of weakly coupled quantum dots
Jao van de Lagemaat
Published 15 December 2005 (7 pages)
235319 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Non-Markovian dynamics of double quantum dot charge qubits due to acoustic phonons
M. Thorwart, J. Eckel, and E. R. Mucciolo
Published 16 December 2005 (6 pages)
235320 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Intrinsic phonon decoherence and quantum gates in coupled lateral quantum-dot charge qubits
Markus J. Storcz, Udo Hartmann, Sigmund Kohler, and Frank K. Wilhelm
Published 16 December 2005 (10 pages)
235321 [View PDF (707 kB)]
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Excitonic and impurity-related optical transitions in Be δ-doped GaAs∕AlAs multiple quantum wells: Fractional-dimensional space approach
J. Kundrotas, A. Čerškus, S. Ašmontas, G. Valušis, B. Sherliker, M. P. Halsall, M. J. Steer, E. Johannessen, and P. Harrison
Published 19 December 2005 (11 pages)
235322 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Selective measurement of hole tunneling times through AlGaAs barriers based on the quantum confined Stark effect
N. Le Thomas, N. T. Pelekanos, and Z. Hatzopoulos
Published 19 December 2005 (5 pages)
235323 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of coherent phonon dephasing in CsPbCl3 nanocrystals
P. Němec and P. Malý
Published 19 December 2005 (6 pages)
235324 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Strain and electronic structure of Ge nanoislands on Si(111)-7×7 surface
Masahiko Suzuki, Ryota Negishi, and Yukichi Shigeta
Published 20 December 2005 (5 pages)
235325 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Shot noise and spin-orbit coherent control of entangled and spin-polarized electrons
J. Carlos Egues, Guido Burkard, D. S. Saraga, John Schliemann, and Daniel Loss
Published 20 December 2005 (27 pages)
235326 [View PDF (832 kB)]
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Standing waves on Si(100) and Ge(100) surfaces observed by scanning tunneling microscopy
Keisuke Sagisaka and Daisuke Fujita
Published 21 December 2005 (8 pages)
235327 [View PDF (1,124 kB)]
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Inelastic interaction corrections and universal relations for full counting statistics in a quantum contact
J. Tobiska and Yu. V. Nazarov
Published 21 December 2005 (10 pages)
235328 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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First-principles calculations of the electrical properties of LaAlO3 and its interface with Si
A. A. Knizhnik, I. M. Iskandarova, A. A. Bagatur’yants, B. V. Potapkin, L. R. C. Fonseca, and A. Korkin
Published 22 December 2005 (10 pages)
235329 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Slow light based on population oscillation in quantum dots with inhomogeneous broadening
Shu-Wei Chang and Shun Lien Chuang
Published 22 December 2005 (10 pages)
235330 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Correlated electron states and transport in triangular arrays
D. S. Novikov, B. Kozinsky, and L. S. Levitov
Published 27 December 2005 (18 pages)
235331 [View PDF (1,367 kB)]
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Magnetic response of magnetic ion-doped nanocrystals: Effects of single Mn2+ impurity
Shun-Jen Cheng
Published 29 December 2005 (7 pages)
235332 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Transport equation for the two-dimensional electron liquid under microwave radiation and a magnetic field: Explanation for the zero-resistance state
Tai-Kai Ng and Lixin Dai
Published 29 December 2005 (5 pages)
235333 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Current oscillations, switching, and hysteresis in CdSe nanorod superlattices
Hugo E. Romero, Gregory Calusine, and Marija Drndic
Published 1 December 2005 (5 pages)
235401 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Inorganic cage molecules encapsulating Kr: A computational study
Ch. Chang, A. B. C. Patzer, E. Sedlmayr, and D. Sülzle
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
235402 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Ground-state electronic structure of nanoscale carbon cones
M. Muñoz-Navia, J. Dorantes-Dávila, M. Terrones, and H. Terrones
Published 1 December 2005 (7 pages)
235403 [View PDF (860 kB)]
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Apparent thermal contraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen, and Jeffrey W. Kysar
Published 1 December 2005 (6 pages)
235404 [View PDF (754 kB)]
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Femtosecond excitation dynamics in gold nanospheres and nanorods
O. P. Varnavski, T. Goodson, III, M. B. Mohamed, and M. A. El-Sayed
Published 6 December 2005 (9 pages)
235405 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Structure and energetics of water adsorbed on the ZnO(101̅ 0) surface
Yanfa Yan and M. M. Al-Jassim
Published 6 December 2005 (6 pages)
235406 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Cooperative defect-deformational nucleation of ordered adatom nanostructures with the participation of surface quasi-Rayleigh waves
V. I. Emel’yanov and A. I. Mikaberidze
Published 7 December 2005 (11 pages)
235407 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Electron-phonon matrix elements in single-wall carbon nanotubes
J. Jiang, R. Saito, Ge. G. Samsonidze, S. G. Chou, A. Jorio, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Published 7 December 2005 (11 pages)
235408 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Dichroic effects in Auger photoelectron coincidence spectroscopy of solids
R. Gotter, F. Da Pieve, A. Ruocco, F. Offi, G. Stefani, and R. A. Bartynski
Published 7 December 2005 (5 pages)
235409 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Manifestations of the absence of spin diffusion in multipulse NMR experiments on diluted dipolar solids
María Belén Franzoni and Patricia R. Levstein
Published 7 December 2005 (5 pages)
235410 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Isomers of small Pbn clusters (n=2–15): Geometric and electronic structures based on ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
C. Rajesh, C. Majumder, M. G. R. Rajan, and S. K. Kulshreshtha
Published 7 December 2005 (8 pages)
235411 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Modification of energy transfer from Si nanocrystals to Er3+ near a Au thin film
Toshihiro Nakamura, Minoru Fujii, Kenji Imakita, and Shinji Hayashi
Published 8 December 2005 (6 pages)
235412 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Self-organization of semiconductor nanocrystals by selective surface faceting
Bin Yang, Pengpeng Zhang, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Guang-Hong Lu, Minghuang Huang, and Feng Liu
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
235413 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Quartz-crystal microbalance studies of the slippage of solid and liquid krypton monolayers on metal(111) and C60 surfaces
T. Coffey and J. Krim
Published 12 December 2005 (5 pages)
235414 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Double-slip mechanism in atomic-scale friction: Tomlinson model at finite temperatures
Jun Nakamura, Shinya Wakunami, and Akiko Natori
Published 16 December 2005 (6 pages)
235415 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Atomic and electronic structures of an ultrathin Ni-deposited SiC(0001)-2×2 surface
Y. Hoshino, Y. Matsubara, T. Nishimura, and Y. Kido
Published 16 December 2005 (9 pages)
235416 [View PDF (703 kB)]
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Oxide-trap-enhanced Coulomb energy in a metal-oxide-semiconductor system
Ming-Pei Lu and Ming-Jer Chen
Published 16 December 2005 (5 pages)
235417 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Experimental and ab initio study of the structural and electronic properties of subnanometer thick Ag films on Pd(111)
V. Mikšić Trontl, I. Pletikosić, M. Milun, P. Pervan, P. Lazić, D. Šokčević, and R. Brako
Published 16 December 2005 (11 pages)
235418 [View PDF (1,098 kB)]
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Anisotropy of spin-orbit interaction in W(110) by spin-polarized two-electron spectroscopy
S. Samarin, O. M. Artamonov, A. D. Sergeant, and J. F. Williams
Published 19 December 2005 (5 pages)
235419 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Determination of the atomic structure of scanning probe microscopy tungsten tips by field ion microscopy
Anne-Sophie Lucier, Henrik Mortensen, Yan Sun, and Peter Grütter
Published 19 December 2005 (9 pages)
235420 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Probing attractive forces at the nanoscale using higher-harmonic dynamic force microscopy
S. Crittenden, A. Raman, and R. Reifenberger
Published 21 December 2005 (13 pages)
235422 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Surface energy and stress release by layer relaxation
S. K. Kwon, Z. Nabi, K. Kádas, L. Vitos, J. Kollár, B. Johansson, and R. Ahuja
Published 22 December 2005 (5 pages)
235423 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Giant field effect in self-assembled metallo-organic nanoscale networks
Mohammad S. Kabir, Andrey V. Danilov, Leonid Y. Gorelik, Robert I. Shekhter, Mathias Brust, and Sergey E. Kubatkin
Published 23 December 2005 (8 pages)
235424 [View PDF (1,061 kB)]
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Kinetic lattice-gas model approach to collective diffusion in an ordered adsorbate in two dimensions
Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur and Zbigniew W. Gortel
Published 27 December 2005 (15 pages)
235425 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys
Dongxu Li, Xu Jiang, Binhua Lin, Mati Meron, and Stuart A. Rice
Published 29 December 2005 (11 pages)
235426 [View PDF (1,182 kB)]
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Ab initio and x-ray photoemission spectroscopy study of the bulk and surface electronic structure of pyrite (100) with implications for reactivity
G. U. von Oertzen, W. M. Skinner, and H. W. Nesbitt
Published 29 December 2005 (10 pages)
235427 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Electron properties of carbon nanotubes in a periodic potential
Dmitry S. Novikov
Published 30 December 2005 (22 pages)
235428 [View PDF (1,241 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Taming multiple valency with density functionals: A case study of defective ceria”
Georg Kresse, Peter Blaha, Juarez L. F. Da Silva, and M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano
Published 23 December 2005 (2 pages)
237101 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Taming multiple valency with density functionals: A case study of defective ceria' ”
Stefano Fabris, Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni, Gianpaolo Vicario, and Gabriele Balducci
Published 23 December 2005 (2 pages)
237102 [View PDF (46 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Applicability of the ladder theory to the three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas [Phys. Rev. B 71, 125105 (2005)]
Jerzy Cioslowski and Paul Ziesche
Published 1 December 2005 (1 page)
239901(E) [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Erratum: [11̅ 00]/(1102) twin boundaries in wurtzite ZnO and group-III-nitrides [Phys. Rev. B 71, 041309(R) (2005)]
Yanfa Yan, M. M. Al-Jassim, M. F. Chisholm, L. A. Boatner, S. J. Pennycook, and M. Oxley
Published 1 December 2005 (1 page)
239902(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
 
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