Volume 68, Issue 16

15 October 2003

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

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High-order density-matrix perturbation theory

Michele Lazzeri and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161101(R) (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Quantitative determination of short-range ordering in ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} {As}_{1 - y} N_{y}$

G. Ciatto, F. D’Acapito, L. Grenouillet, H. Mariette, D. De Salvador, G. Bisognin, R. Carboni, L. Floreano, R. Gotter, S. Mobilio, and F. Boscherini

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161201(R) (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

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Ferromagnetic transition temperature enhancement in (Ga,Mn)As semiconductors by carbon codoping

T. Jungwirth, J. Mašek, Jairo Sinova, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161202(R) (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

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

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Nonlinear optical absorption of semiconductor quantum wires: Photoexcitation dynamical effects

Justino R. Madureira, Marcos H. Degani, and Marcelo Z. Maialle

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161301(R) (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

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Atomic layer deposition of ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ on H-passivated Si: $Al ({CH}_{3})_{2} OH$ surface reactions with $H / S i (100) - 2 \times 1$

Mathew D. Halls, Krishnan Raghavachari, Martin M. Frank, and Yves J. Chabal

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161302(R) (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

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Singlet-triplet transition in a lateral quantum dot

M. Pustilnik, L. I. Glazman, and W. Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161303(R) (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

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Scaling of three-dimensional InN islands grown on GaN(0001) by molecular-beam epitaxy

Y. G. Cao, M. H. Xie, Y. Liu, S. H. Xu, Y. F. Ng, H. S. Wu, and S. Y. Tong

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161304(R) (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

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Mesoscopic fluctuations in quantum dots in the Kondo regime

R. K. Kaul, Denis Ullmo, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161305(R) (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

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Resonant second-harmonic generation in a GaAs photonic crystal waveguide

A. M. Malvezzi, G. Vecchi, M. Patrini, G. Guizzetti, L. C. Andreani, F. Romanato, L. Businaro, E. Di Fabrizio, A. Passaseo, and M. De Vittorio

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161306(R) (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

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Radiative lifetime of quantum confined excitons near interfaces

Kwang Jun Ahn and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161307(R) (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

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$k \cdot p$ Hamiltonian without spurious-state solutions

K. I. Kolokolov, J. Li, and C. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161308(R) (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

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Single-hole spin relaxation in a quantum dot

T. Flissikowski, I. A. Akimov, A. Hundt, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161309(R) (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

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Probe-configuration-dependent dephasing in a mesoscopic interferometer

G. Seelig, S. Pilgram, A. N. Jordan, and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161310(R) (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

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Quantum pumping: Coherent rings versus open conductors

M. Moskalets and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 68, 161311(R) (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

ARTICLES

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

Infrared-to-visible upconversion processes in $\Pr^{3 +} / {Yb}^{3 +}$ -codoped ${KPb}_{2} {Cl}_{5}$

R. Balda, J. Fernández, A. Mendioroz, M. Voda, and M. Al-Saleh

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165101 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Self-consistent modification to the electron density of states due to electron-phonon coupling in metals

F. Doğan and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165102 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Quantum Monte Carlo study of sodium

Ryo Maezono, M. D. Towler, Y. Lee, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165103 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Influence of shallow core-level hybridization on the electronic structure of post-transition-metal oxides studied using soft X-ray emission and absorption

Cormac McGuinness, Cristian B. Stagarescu, Philip J. Ryan, James E. Downes, Dongfeng Fu, Kevin E. Smith, and R. G. Egdell

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165104 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Approximate ground state of a confined Coulomb anyon gas in an external magnetic field

B. Abdullaev, G. Ortiz, U. Rössler, M. Musakhanov, and A. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165105 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Localized modes in defect-free dodecagonal quasiperiodic photonic crystals

Yiquan Wang, Xiaoyong Hu, Xingsheng Xu, Bingying Cheng, and Daozhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165106 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Electronic structure of ${FePO}_{4},$ ${LiFePO}_{4},$ and related materials

Ping Tang and N. A. W. Holzwarth

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165107 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Ab initio calculation of the exchange-correlation kernel in extended systems

Gianni Adragna, Rodolfo Del Sole, and Andrea Marini

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165108 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Semiconductors I: bulk

Temperature and excitation energy dependence of decay processes of luminescence in Ge-doped silica

S. Agnello, R. Boscaino, M. Cannas, A. Cannizzo, F. M. Gelardi, S. Grandi, and M. Leone

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165201 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Semiconducting Al–transition-metal quasicrystals

M. Krajčí and J. Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165202 (2003) - Published 10 October, 2003

Intralayer and interlayer energy transfer from excitonic states into the Mn ${3 d}^{5}$ shell in diluted magnetic semiconductor structures

H. Falk, J. Hübner, P. J. Klar, and W. Heimbrodt

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165203 (2003) - Published 17 October, 2003

Electronic structure and carrier dynamics of the ferromagnetic semiconductor ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

E. J. Singley, K. S. Burch, R. Kawakami, J. Stephens, D. D. Awschalom, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165204 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Electronic states and cyclotron resonance in n-type InMnAs

G. D. Sanders, Y. Sun, F. V. Kyrychenko, C. J. Stanton, G. A. Khodaparast, M. A. Zudov, J. Kono, Y. H. Matsuda, N. Miura, and H. Munekata

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165205 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

EPR studies of the isolated negatively charged silicon vacancies in n-type $4 H$ - and $6 H$ -SiC: Identification of $C_{3 v}$ symmetry and silicon sites

N. Mizuochi, S. Yamasaki, H. Takizawa, N. Morishita, T. Ohshima, H. Itoh, and J. Isoya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165206 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Photoluminescence of ${Er}^{3 +}$ -implanted amorphous hydrogenated silicon suboxides

A. Janotta, M. Schmidt, R. Janssen, M. Stutzmann, and Ch. Buchal

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165207 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Realistic models of binary glasses from models of tetrahedral amorphous semiconductors

De Nyago Tafen and D. A. Drabold

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165208 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Effects of impurities on the lattice parameters of GaN

Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165209 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

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

Quantum Hall effect in a p-type heterojunction with a lateral surface superlattice

V. Ya. Demikhovskii and D. V. Khomitskiy

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165301 (2003) - Published 2 October, 2003

Ballistic quantum transport at high energies and high magnetic fields

S. Rotter, B. Weingartner, N. Rohringer, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165302 (2003) - Published 3 October, 2003

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and exotic quantum orders in integer quantum Hall systems under a tilted magnetic field

Daw-Wei Wang, Eugene Demler, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165303 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Tunneling effects on the impurity spectral function in coupled asymmetric quantum wires

Marcos R. S. Tavares, G.-Q. Hai, and G. E. Marques

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165304 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Temperature and ac effects on charge transport in arrays of metallic dots

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165305 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Effect of ZnS shell thickness on the phonon spectra in CdSe quantum dots

A. V. Baranov, Yu. P. Rakovich, J. F. Donegan, T. S. Perova, R. A. Moore, D. V. Talapin, A. L. Rogach, Y. Masumoto, and I. Nabiev

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165306 (2003) - Published 8 October, 2003

Far-infrared modulated photoluminescence spectroscopy of InSb/GaSb quantum dot structures

R. A. Child, R. J. Nicholas, N. J. Mason, P. A. Shields, J.-P. R. Wells, I. V. Bradley, J. Phillips, and B. N. Murdin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165307 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Interaction corrections to two-dimensional hole transport in the ${l a r g e - r}_{s}$ limit

H. Noh, M. P. Lilly, D. C. Tsui, J. A. Simmons, E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165308 (2003) - Published 13 October, 2003

Particle tunneling through a polarizable insulator

Peter Nalbach and Walter Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165309 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

InAs quantum dots grown on the $GaAs (113) A$ and $GaAs (1 ¯ 1 ¯ 3 ¯) B$ surfaces: A comparative STM study

Y. Temko, T. Suzuki, P. Kratzer, and K. Jacobi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165310 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Anisotropic transport in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling

John Schliemann and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165311 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Pumping in an interacting quantum wire

R. Citro, N. Andrei, and Q. Niu

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165312 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Magnetization and spin distribution of single sub-monolayers of MnTe in semiconductor quantum wells

G. Prechtl, W. Heiss, A. Bonanni, W. Jantsch, S. Mackowski, and E. Janik

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165313 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

High-resolution photoemission spectroscopy study of clean and Au-nanowire-decorated Si(5 5 12) surfaces

J. R. Ahn, W. H. Choi, Y. K. Kim, H. S. Lee, and H. W. Yeom

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165314 (2003) - Published 15 October, 2003

Perturbative results on localization for a driven two-level system

Marco Frasca

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165315 (2003) - Published 15 October, 2003

Effects of electric field on the electronic structure and optical properties of quantum rods with wurtzite structure

Xin-Zheng Li and Jian-Bai Xia

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165316 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Grover algorithm for large nuclear spins in semiconductors

Michael N. Leuenberger and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165317 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Relaxation of high-energy quasiparticle distributions: Electron-electron scattering in a two-dimensional electron gas

R. N. Gurzhi, A. I. Kopeliovich, A. N. Kalinenko, A. V. Yanovsky, E. N. Bogachek, Uzi Landman, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165318 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Photothermal deflection measurement on heat transport in GaAs epitaxial layers

Sajan D George, P. Radhakrishnan, V. P. N. Nampoori, and C. P. G. Vallabhan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165319 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Phonons in ${In}_{0.53} {Ga}_{0.47} A s / I n P (100)$ superlattices by infrared reflectance

N. L. Rowell, G. Yu, D. J. Lockwood, and P. J. Poole

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165320 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Atomic structure determination of the Si-rich β-SiC(001) $3 \times 2$ surface by grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction: A stress-driven reconstruction

M. D’angelo, H. Enriquez, V. Yu. Aristov, P. Soukiassian, G. Renaud, A. Barbier, M. Noblet, S. Chiang, and F. Semond

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165321 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Qubit disentanglement and decoherence via dephasing

T. Yu and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165322 (2003) - Published 17 October, 2003

Carrier-carrier relaxation kinetics in quantum well semiconductor structures with nonparabolic energy bands

H. Dery, B. Tromborg, and G. Eisenstein

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165323 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Statistics of polaritons in the nonlinear regime

Paolo Schwendimann, Cristiano Ciuti, and Antonio Quattropani

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165324 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Exceptionally slow rise in differential reflectivity spectra of excitons in GaN: Effect of excitation-induced dephasing

Y. D. Jho, D. S. Kim, A. J. Fischer, J. J. Song, J. Kenrow, K. El Sayed, and C. J. Stanton

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165325 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Spontaneous magnetization and electron momentum density in three-dimensional quantum dots

R. Saniz, B. Barbiellini, A. B. Denison, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165326 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Ordering effects on optical transitions in ${Ga}_{x} {In}_{1 - x} P / ({Al}_{0.66} {Ga}_{0.34})_{y} {In}_{1 - y} P$ quantum wells studied by photoluminescence and reflectivity spectroscopy

Jun Shao, Rolf Winterhoff, Achim Dörnen, Enno Baars, and Junhao Chu

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165327 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Independent electronic and magnetic doping in (Ga,Mn)As based digital ferromagnetic heterostructures

E. Johnston-Halperin, J. A. Schuller, C. S. Gallinat, T. C. Kreutz, R. C. Myers, R. K. Kawakami, H. Knotz, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165328 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Optical mapping of amplitude and phase of excitonic wave functions in a quantum dot system

O. Di Stefano, S. Savasta, G. Pistone, G. Martino, and R. Girlanda

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165329 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Discrete states of conduction electrons bound to magnetoacceptors in quantum wells

S. Bonifacie, Y. M. Meziani, S. Juillaguet, C. Chaubet, A. Raymond, W. Zawadzki, V. Thierry-Mieg, and J. Zeman

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165330 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Resonant hydrogenic impurity states and $1 s - {2 p}_{0}$ transitions in coupled double quantum wells

S. T. Yen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165331 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Helium ion implantation-induced defects in silicon probed with variable-energy positrons

M. Fujinami, T. Miyagoe, T. Sawada, R. Suzuki, T. Ohdaira, and T. Akahane

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165332 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Comparison between 6-band and 14-band $k \cdot p$ formalisms in SiGe/Si heterostructures

M. El kurdi, G. Fishman, S. Sauvage, and P. Boucaud

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165333 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Symmetry constraints and the electronic structures of a quantum dot with thirteen electrons

G. M. Huang, Y. M. Liu, and C. G. Bao

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165334 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Interface optical-phonon modes and electron–interface-phonon interactions in wurtzite GaN/AlN quantum wells

Jun-jie Shi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165335 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Effects of covalency, $p - d$ coupling, and epitaxial strain on the band offsets of II-VI semiconductors

D. Segev and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165336 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Density-functional theory simulation of large quantum dots

Hong Jiang, Harold U. Baranger, and Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165337 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Donor states in modulation-doped Si/SiGe heterostructures

A. Blom, M. A. Odnoblyudov, I. N. Yassievich, and K.-A. Chao

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165338 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Pressure dependence of phonons and excitons in InSe films prepared by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

In-Hwan Choi and Peter Y. Yu

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165339 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Collision broadening in II-VI semiconductor microcavities

A. Huynh, J. Tignon, G. Keller, Ph. Roussignol, C. Delalande, R. André, R. Romestain, and Le Si Dang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165340 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Persistent current in ballistic mesoscopic rings with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale, and Ulrich Zülicke

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165341 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Defect formation in $Si (111) 7 \times 7$ surfaces due to 200 eV ${Ar}^{+}$ ion bombardment

S. K. Ghose, I. K. Robinson, and R. S. Averback

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165342 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Impurity and spin effects on the magneto-spectroscopy of a THz-modulated nanostructure

Vidar Gudmundsson, Chi-Shung Tang, and Andrei Manolescu

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165343 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Conductance fluctuations in the presence of spin scattering

Jun-ichiro Ohe, Masayuki Yamamoto, and Tomi Ohtsuki

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165344 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Quantum phase transitions in dissipative tunnel junctions

Scott Drewes, Daniel P. Arovas, and Scot Renn

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165345 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Nature of quasiparticle excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect

Gun Sang Jeon and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165346 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Spatial distribution of edge states in the quantum Hall plateaus investigated by magnetocapacitance

K. Arai, S. Hashimoto, K. Oto, and K. Murase

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165347 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

All-optical injection and control of spin and electrical currents in quantum wells

Ali Najmaie, R. D. R. Bhat, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165348 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Effective wall thickness of a single-walled carbon nanotube

T. Vodenitcharova and L. C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165401 (2003) - Published 2 October, 2003

Influence of the electrode potential on the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier

Michael I. Haftel and Mervine Rosen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165402 (2003) - Published 7 October, 2003

Adsorption and switching behavior of individual Ti atoms on the $Si (111) - 7 \times 7$ surface

H. F. Hsu, L. J. Chen, H. L. Hsiao, and T. W. Pi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165403 (2003) - Published 7 October, 2003

Photoemission microspectroscopy of occupied and unoccupied surface states of crystalline facets formed on polycrystalline copper

Toshiaki Munakata, Takeharu Sugiyama, Takuya Masuda, and Nobuo Ueno

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165404 (2003) - Published 14 October, 2003

Supramolecular interactions in clusters of polar and polarizable molecules

Francesca Terenziani and Anna Painelli

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165405 (2003) - Published 15 October, 2003

Absolute negative conductivity in two-dimensional electron systems associated with acoustic scattering stimulated by microwave radiation

V. Ryzhii and V. Vyurkov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165406 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

Emission Mössbauer spectroscopy study of the ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} (100)$ surface and ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} / MgO (100)$ and ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} / CoO (100)$ interfaces

L. A. Kalev, P. Schurer, and L. Niesen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 165407 (2003) - Published 16 October, 2003

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ground-state geometry of small Ni-C clusters”

R. C. Longo, M. M. G. Alemany, B. Fernández, and L. J. Gallego

Phys. Rev. B 68, 167401 (2003) - Published 2 October, 2003