Volume 68, Issue 24

15 December 2003

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

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Geometry and electronic structure of $α$ -Pu: A theoretical study

Babak Sadigh, Per Söderlind, and Wilhelm G. Wolfer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241101(R) (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

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Magnetothermopower and Nernst effect in unconventional charge density waves

Balázs Dóra, Kazumi Maki, András Ványolos, and Attila Virosztek

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241102(R) (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

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

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Luttinger liquid in a finite one-dimensional wire with box-like boundary conditions

Fabrizio Anfuso and Sebastian Eggert

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241301(R) (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

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Microscopic theory of the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect in the first and second excited Landau levels

M. O. Goerbig, P. Lederer, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241302(R) (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

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Hysteretic dynamic nuclear polarization in ${G a A s / A l}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ (110) quantum wells

H. Sanada, S. Matsuzaka, K. Morita, C. Y. Hu, Y. Ohno, and H. Ohno

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241303(R) (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

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Generalized drift-diffusion model for miniband superlattices

L. L. Bonilla, R. Escobedo, and Álvaro Perales

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241304(R) (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

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Parallel magnetic-field-induced conductance fluctuations in one- and two-subband ballistic quantum dots

C. Gustin, S. Faniel, B. Hackens, S. Melinte, M. Shayegan, and V. Bayot

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241305(R) (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

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Reflection phase of scattering electrons in a single-channel atomic wire

H. Q. Xu, I. C. Fasth, D. Csontos, L. B. Zhang, and Y. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241306(R) (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

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Ultrafast polarization dynamics in biased quantum wells under strong femtosecond optical excitation

D. Turchinovich, P. Uhd Jepsen, B. S. Monozon, M. Koch, S. Lahmann, U. Rossow, and A. Hangleiter

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241307(R) (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

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Linear temperature dependence of conductivity in the apparent insulating regime of dilute two-dimensional holes in GaAs

Hwayong Noh, M. P. Lilly, D. C. Tsui, J. A. Simmons, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241308(R) (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

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Quantum magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid

Gregory W. Martin, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Michael Yu. Reizer

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241309(R) (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

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Inelastic scattering approach to the theory of a magnetic tunnel transistor source

Emmanuel I. Rashba

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241310(R) (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

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Scaling approach to electron-electron interactions in a chaotic quantum dot

Shaffique Adam, Piet W. Brouwer, and Prashant Sharma

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241311(R) (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

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Raman spectroscopy of silicon nanowires

S. Piscanec, M. Cantoro, A. C. Ferrari, J. A. Zapien, Y. Lifshitz, S. T. Lee, S. Hofmann, and J. Robertson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241312(R) (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

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$Si (111) - (7 \times 7)$ surface probed by reflection high-energy positron diffraction

A. Kawasuso, Y. Fukaya, K. Hayashi, M. Maekawa, S. Okada, and A. Ichimiya

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241313(R) (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

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Structural investigation of the $ZnSe (001) - c (2 \times 2)$ surface

W. Weigand, A. Müller, L. Kilian, T. Schallenberg, P. Bach, G. Schmidt, L. W. Molenkamp, O. Bunk, R. L. Johnson, C. Kumpf, and E. Umbach

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241314(R) (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

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Spin currents in thermodynamic equilibrium: The challenge of discerning transport currents

Emmanuel I. Rashba

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241315(R) (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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Shapes of cagelike metal carbide clusters: First-principles calculations

G. K. Gueorguiev and J. M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241401(R) (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

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Oxygen vacancy mediated adsorption and reactions of molecular oxygen on the ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ surface

Xueyuan Wu, Annabella Selloni, Michele Lazzeri, and Saroj K. Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241402(R) (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

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Coalescence of nanoscale metal clusters: Molecular-dynamics study

S. Hendy, S. A. Brown, and M. Hyslop

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241403(R) (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

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Electronic structure and rebonding in the onionlike $As @ {Ni}_{12} @ {As}_{20}$ cluster

Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, Steven L. Richardson, and Mark R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241404(R) (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

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Microscopic theory for nanotube piezoelectricity

Na Sai and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241405(R) (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

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Diameter dependent wall deformations during the compression of a carbon nanotube bundle

U. D. Venkateswaran, D. L. Masica, G. U. Sumanasekera, C. A. Furtado, U. J. Kim, and P. C. Eklund

Phys. Rev. B 68, 241406(R) (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

ARTICLES

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

Existence of broad acoustic bandgaps in three-component composite

Shu Zhang and Jianchun Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245101 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Unscreened Hartree-Fock calculations for metallic Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu from ab initio Hamiltonians

I. Schnell, G. Czycholl, and R. C. Albers

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245102 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Semiclassical action based on dynamical mean-field theory describing electrons interacting with local lattice fluctuations

Stefan Blawid and Gertrud Zwicknagl

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245103 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Tight-binding theory of Faraday rotation in graphite

Thomas G. Pedersen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245104 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Theory of time-domain measurement of spin-dependent recombination with pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance

Christoph Boehme and Klaus Lips

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245105 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Applicability of the localization-interaction model to magnetoconductivity studies of polyaniline films at the metal-insulator boundary

G. Tzamalis, N. A. Zaidi, and A. P. Monkman

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245106 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Water molecule by the self-consistent atomic deformation method

M. M. Ossowski, L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, and M. R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245107 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Dielectric properties and dynamical conductivity of ${LaTiO}_{3} :$ From dc to optical frequencies

P. Lunkenheimer, T. Rudolf, J. Hemberger, A. Pimenov, S. Tachos, F. Lichtenberg, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245108 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Signatures of an electronic nematic phase at the isotropic-nematic phase transition

Hae-Young Kee, Eugene H. Kim, and Chung-Hou Chung

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245109 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Evaluation of lensing in photonic crystal slabs exhibiting negative refraction

Zhi-Yuan Li and Lan-Lan Lin

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245110 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Scaling properties of the projected $SO (5)$ model in three dimensions

M. Jöstingmeier, A. Dorneich, E. Arrigoni, W. Hanke, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245111 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Green function approach for the ab initio calculation of the optical and magneto-optical properties of solids: Accounting for dynamical many-body effects

A. Perlov, S. Chadov, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245112 (2003) - Published 16 December, 2003

Electronic and optical properties of the $1 T$ phases of ${TiS}_{2},$ ${TiSe}_{2},$ and ${TiTe}_{2}$

Ali Hussain Reshak and S. Auluck

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245113 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Determination of pressure-induced valence changes in ${YbAl}_{2}$ by resonant inelastic x-ray emission

C. Dallera, E. Annese, J.-P. Rueff, A. Palenzona, G. Vankó, L. Braicovich, A. Shukla, and M. Grioni

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245114 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Strain-tunable optical valves at T-junction waveguides in photonic crystals

Natalia Malkova and Venkatraman Gopalan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245115 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

On-site interaction effects on localization: Dominance of nonuniversal contributions

Moshe Goldstein and Richard Berkovits

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245116 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Application of structural symmetries in the plane-wave-based transfer-matrix method for three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides

Zhi-Yuan Li and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245117 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Fermi surface of ${UGe}_{2}$ in the paramagnetic phase

M. Biasini and R. Troc

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245118 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Transport properties of Kondo-insulator alloys

L. Peche, E. V. Anda, and C. A. Büsser

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245119 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Alternative separation of exchange and correlation in density-functional theory

R. Armiento and A. E. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245120 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Dynamical properties of a strongly correlated model for quarter-filled layered organic molecular crystals

Jaime Merino, Andrés Greco, Ross H. McKenzie, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245121 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Semiconductors I: bulk

Atomistic simulations of the effect of Coulombic interactions on carrier fluctuations in doped silicon

Zudian Qin and Scott T. Dunham

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245201 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Near band edge recombination mechanisms in GaTe

A. Zubiaga, J. A. García, F. Plazaola, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé, and C. Martínez-Tomás

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245202 (2003) - Published 17 December, 2003

Geminate pair recombination in molecular systems with correlated disorder

Darius Abramavicius and Leonas Valkunas

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245203 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Charge dynamics of muonium centers in Si revealed by photoinduced muon spin relaxation

R. Kadono, R. M. Macrae, and K. Nagamine

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245204 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Spin relaxation in n-doped GaAs due to impurity and electron-electron Elliot-Yafet scattering

P. I. Tamborenea, M. A. Kuroda, and F. L. Bottesi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245205 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Predicted absence of ferromagnetism in manganese-doped diamond

Steven C. Erwin and C. Stephen Hellberg

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245206 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

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

Two-dimensional electron-hole capture in a disordered hopping system

N. C. Greenham and P. A. Bobbert

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245301 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Multiexcitons confined within a subexcitonic volume: Spectroscopic and dynamical signatures of neutral and charged biexcitons in ultrasmall semiconductor nanocrystals

M. Achermann, J. A. Hollingsworth, and V. I. Klimov

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245302 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Cyclotron resonance of an interacting polaron gas in a quantum well: Magnetoplasmon-phonon mixing

S. N. Klimin and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245303 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Single scatterings in single artificial atoms: Quantum coherence and entanglement

Ulrich Hohenester, Claudia Sifel, and Pekka Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245304 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Fano resonances in the overlapping regime

A. I. Magunov, I. Rotter, and S. I. Strakhova

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245305 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Spin-dependent transport through ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} Te$ diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dots

Shu-Shen Li, Kai Chang, Jian-Bai Xia, and Kenji Hirose

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245306 (2003) - Published 8 December, 2003

Positron-annihilation-induced Auger electron spectroscopy studies of the (100) and (111) surfaces of silicon

N. G. Fazleev, J. Kim, J. L. Fry, and A. H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245307 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Raman scattering in large single indium nitride dots: Correlation between morphology and strain

F. Demangeot, J. Frandon, C. Pinquier, M. Caumont, O. Briot, B. Maleyre, S. Clur-Ruffenach, and B. Gil

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245308 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Effective masses of two-dimensional electron gases around cubic inclusions in hexagonal silicon carbide

H. P. Iwata, U. Lindefelt, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245309 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Quantized acoustoelectric current transport through a static quantum dot using a surface acoustic wave

N. E. Fletcher, J. Ebbecke, T. J. B. M. Janssen, F. J. Ahlers, M. Pepper, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245310 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Coherence and Coulomb blockade in single-electron devices: A unified treatment of interaction effects

S. Florens, P. San José, F. Guinea, and A. Georges

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245311 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Surface electronic structures of Ca-induced reconstructions on Si(111)

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

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245312 (2003) - Published 17 December, 2003

Ballistic electron motion in a random magnetic field

K. B. Efetov and V. R. Kogan

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245313 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Contrasting structural and bonding properties of trimethylamine and dimethylamine adsorbed on Si(001)

Jun-Hyung Cho and Leonard Kleinman

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245314 (2003) - Published 18 December, 2003

Induced nonequilibrium currents in the magnetization of mesoscopic dots in the quantum Hall regime

M. P. Schwarz, D. Grundler, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, D. Reuter, and A. Wieck

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245315 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Band structure of the Ca/Si(111)- $(2 \times 1)$ surface

Kazuyuki Sakamoto, H. M. Zhang, and R. I. G. Uhrberg

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245316 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Quasistates and their relation to the Dicke effect in a mesoscopic ring coupled to a reservoir

Bernhard Wunsch and Alexander Chudnovskiy

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245317 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Interplay between quantum confinement and electron-electron interaction in deformed silicon quantum wires

G. Parascandolo, G. Cantele, D. Ninno, and G. Iadonisi

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245318 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Optical investigation of electrical spin injection into semiconductors

V. F. Motsnyi, P. Van Dorpe, W. Van Roy, E. Goovaerts, V. I. Safarov, G. Borghs, and J. De Boeck

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245319 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Vacuum-field Rabi splitting in quantum-well infrared photodetectors

E. Dupont, H. C. Liu, A. J. SpringThorpe, W. Lai, and M. Extavour

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245320 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Emergence of quasimetallic state in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas due to strong interactions

B. Rosenstein and Tran Minh-Tien

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245321 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Rashba effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic systems with transverse magnetic field

S. Bellucci and P. Onorato

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245322 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Kondo resonance in a quantum dot molecule

A.D. Güçlü, Qing Feng Sun, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245323 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Effects of three-dimensional atomic forces in topographical imaging of atoms with an atom force microscope

Wei Li Wang, S. Jack Hu, and Roy Clarke

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245401 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Structure and energetics of clean and hydrogenated Ni surfaces and symmetrical tilt grain boundaries using the embedded-atom method

Motoyuki Shiga, Masatake Yamaguchi, and Hideo Kaburaki

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245402 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Phonons and specific heat of neon and methane on the surface of a nanotube bundle

Milen K. Kostov, M. Mercedes Calbi, and Milton W. Cole

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245403 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Simulations of denuded-zone formation during growth on surfaces with anisotropic diffusion

C. Ebner, K.-B. Park, J.-F. Nielsen, and J. P. Pelz

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245404 (2003) - Published 9 December, 2003

Definition and measurement of the local density of electromagnetic states close to an interface

Karl Joulain, Rémi Carminati, Jean-Philippe Mulet, and Jean-Jacques Greffet

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245405 (2003) - Published 10 December, 2003

Phonon transport in nanowires coated with an amorphous material: An atomistic Green’s function approach

N. Mingo and Liu Yang

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245406 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Relativistic effects in EELS of nanoporous alumina membranes

N. Zabala, A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham, A. Rivacoba, F. J. García de Abajo, and M. O. Wolf

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245407 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Thermal expansion of the Ag(110) surface studied by low-energy electron diffraction and density-functional theory

V. B. Nascimento, E. A. Soares, V. E. de Carvalho, E. L. Lopes, R. Paniago, and C. M. C. de Castilho

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245408 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

Competing stabilization mechanism for the polar ZnO(0001)-Zn surface

Georg Kresse, Olga Dulub, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245409 (2003) - Published 11 December, 2003

From erosion to bombardment-induced growth on Ir(111)

Ansgar Petersen, Carsten Busse, Celia Polop, Udo Linke, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245410 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Enhanced electronic emission by excitation of an interface resonance in metallic bilayer gratings irradiated by short laser pulses

Serena Bastiani-Ceccotti, Patrick Monchicourt, and Thierry Lehner

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245411 (2003) - Published 12 December, 2003

Laser-driven electron transfer through metal-insulator-metal contacts: Time-dependent configuration interaction singles calculations for a jellium model

Tillmann Klamroth

Phys. Rev. B 68, 245421 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: ${Nd}^{3 +} \to {Yb}^{3 +}$ energy transfer in the ${YAl}_{3} ({BO}_{3})_{4}$ nonlinear laser crystal [Phys. Rev. B 68, 035118 (2003)]

D. Jaque, M. O. Ramirez, L. E. Bausa, J. García Solé, A. Speghini, M. Bettinelli, and E. Cavalli

Phys. Rev. B 68, 249901 (2003) - Published 15 December, 2003

Publisher’s Note: $Ab initio$ study of Ti-contacted single-walled carbon nanotube [Phys. Rev. B 68, 193409 (2003)]

Yi Liu, Brian Larade, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. B 68, 249902 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003