Volume 69, Issue 23

Anjali S. Ogale, S. R. Shinde, V. N. Kulkarni, J. Higgins, R. J. Choudhary, Darshan C. Kundaliya, T. Polleto, S. B. Ogale, R. L. Greene, and T. Venkatesan

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235101 (2004) - Published 2 June, 2004

Density-functional perturbational theory for dielectric tensors in the ultrasoft pseudopotential scheme

P. Umari, Xavier Gonze, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235102 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

White lines and $d$ -band occupancy for the $3 d$ transition-metal oxides and lithium transition-metal oxides

Jason Graetz, Channing C. Ahn, Hao Ouyang, Peter Rez, and Brent Fultz

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235103 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Testing the local density approximation with energy-versus-separation curves of jellium slab pairs

John F. Dobson and Jun Wang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235104 (2004) - Published 9 June, 2004

Transmission anomalies in Kerr media photonic crystal circuits: Intrinsic localized modes

Arthur R. McGurn and Gulay Birkok

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235105 (2004) - Published 14 June, 2004

Simulations of ferroelectric polymer film polarization: The role of dipole interactions

Chun-gang Duan, W. N. Mei, Wei-Guo Yin, Jianjun Liu, J. R. Hardy, Stephen Ducharme, and P. A. Dowben

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235106 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Fe $K$ pre-edges as revealed by resonant x-ray emission

J.-P. Rueff, L. Journel, P.-E. Petit, and F. Farges

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235107 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

$B − T$ phase diagram of $\Pr {Os}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ studied by low-temperature thermal expansion and magnetostriction

N. Oeschler, P. Gegenwart, F. Weickert, I. Zerec, P. Thalmeier, F. Steglich, E. D. Bauer, N. A. Frederick, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235108 (2004) - Published 24 June, 2004

Origin of mechanoluminescence from Mn-activated ${ZnAl}_{2} O_{4}$ : Triboelectricity-induced electroluminescence

Hiroaki Matsui, Chao-Nan Xu, Yun Liu, and Hiroshi Tateyama

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235109 (2004) - Published 24 June, 2004

Enhanced stability of bound pairs at nonzero lattice momenta

Pavel Kornilovitch

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235110 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Variation of the density of states in amorphous GdSi at the metal-insulator transition

L. Bokacheva, W. Teizer, F. Hellman, and R. C. Dynes

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235111 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Effects of symmetry reduction in two-dimensional square and triangular lattices

T. Trifonov, L. F. Marsal, A. Rodríguez, J. Pallarès, and R. Alcubilla

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235112 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Delocalization, thermal ionization, and energy transfer in singly doped and codoped $Ca {Al}_{4} O_{7}$ and $Y_{2} O_{3}$

Dongdong Jia, Xiao-jun Wang, and W. M. Yen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235113 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Multiple and weak-coupling charge-density-wave transitions in $Y_{5} {Ir}_{4} {Si}_{10}$

Y. K. Kuo, Y. Y. Chen, L. M. Wang, and H. D. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235114 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Charge and dimensionality effects on the properties of CaNiN

Michael Springborg and R. C. Albers

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235115 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

BRIEF REPORTS

Semiconductors I: bulk

Thermal characterization of doped polyaniline and its composites with CoPc

Sajan D. George, S. Saravanan, M. R. Anantharaman, S. Venkatachalam, P. Radhakrishnan, V. P. N. Nampoori, and C. P. G. Vallabhan

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235201 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

ARTICLES

Semiconductors I: bulk

Ab initio study of the annealing of vacancies and interstitials in cubic SiC: Vacancy-interstitial recombination and aggregation of carbon interstitials

Michel Bockstedte, Alexander Mattausch, and Oleg Pankratov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235202 (2004) - Published 11 June, 2004

Electron and hole states in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dots

Kai Chang, S. S. Li, J. B. Xia, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235203 (2004) - Published 17 June, 2004

Evolution of an amorphous silicon network from silicon paracrystallites studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Sukti Hazra, Isao Sakata, Mitsuyuki Yamanaka, and Eiichi Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235204 (2004) - Published 17 June, 2004

Nonadiabatic simulations of polaron dynamics

Anders A. Johansson and Sven Stafström

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235205 (2004) - Published 17 June, 2004

$SU (2)$ non-Abelian holonomy and dissipationless spin current in semiconductors

Shuichi Murakami, Naoto Nagosa, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235206 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Raman scattering and absorption study of the high-pressure wurtzite to rocksalt phase transition of GaN

M. P. Halsall, P. Harmer, P. J. Parbrook, and S. J. Henley

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235207 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Long-wavelength nonequilibrium optical phonon dynamics in cubic and hexagonal semiconductors

Saswati Barman and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235208 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

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

Singlet–triplet transition in lateral quantum dots: A numerical renormalization group study

W. Hofstetter and G. Zarand

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235301 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Lattice defects in InAs quantum dots on the $GaAs (3 ¯ 1 ¯ 5 ¯) B$ surface

T. Suzuki, Y. Temko, M. C. Xu, and K. Jacobi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235302 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Trions, excitons, and scattering states in multiple quantum wells with a variable-concentration electron gas

R. T. Cox, R. B. Miller, K. Saminadayar, and T. Baron

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235303 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Statistical model of dephasing in mesoscopic devices introduced in the scattering matrix formalism

Marco G. Pala and Giuseppe Iannaccone

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235304 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Shot noise in strongly correlated double quantum dots

Rosa López, Ramón Aguado, and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235305 (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

Carrier tunneling in nanocrystalline silicon–silicon dioxide superlattices: A weak coupling model

B. V. Kamenev, G. F. Grom, D. J. Lockwood, J. P. McCafrey, B. Laikhtman, and L. Tsybeskov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235306 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Ion-irradiation-induced effects in ${Si}_{m} {Ge}_{n}$ superlattices

J. Tarus and G. Zollo

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235307 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Monte Carlo simulations of hole dynamics in $SiGe ∕ Si$ terahertz quantum-cascade structures

Z. Ikonić, R. W. Kelsall, and P. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235308 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Quantum Hall fractions for spinless bosons

N. Regnault and Th. Jolicoeur

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235309 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Spin interference effects in ring conductors subject to Rashba coupling

Diego Frustaglia and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235310 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Interacting many-body systems in quantum wells: Evidence for exciton-trion-electron correlations

M. T. Portella-Oberli, V. Ciulin, J. H. Berney, B. Deveaud, M. Kutrowski, and T. Wojtowicz

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235311 (2004) - Published 14 June, 2004

Entanglement in mesoscopic structures: Role of projection

A. V. Lebedev, G. Blatter, C. W. J. Beenakker, and G. B. Lesovik

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235312 (2004) - Published 15 June, 2004

Atomic force microscopy study of $60 − keV$ Ar-ion-induced ripple patterns on Si(100)

Debi Prasad Datta and Tapas Kumar Chini

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235313 (2004) - Published 16 June, 2004

Many-body theory of carrier capture and relaxation in semiconductor quantum-dot lasers

T. R. Nielsen, P. Gartner, and F. Jahnke

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235314 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Ising quantum Hall ferromagnetism in InSb-based two-dimensional electronic systems

J. C. Chokomakoua, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, M. B. Santos, J. L. Hicks, M. B. Johnson, and S. Q. Murphy

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235315 (2004) - Published 21 June, 2004

Intrinsic electric field effects on few-particle interactions in coupled GaN quantum dots

S. De Rinaldis, I. D’Amico, and F. Rossi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235316 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Nonresonant and resonant Zener tunneling

S. Glutsch

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235317 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Evolution of the $Ge ∕ Si (001)$ wetting layer during Si overgrowth and crossover between thermodynamic and kinetic behavior

D. B. Migas, P. Raiteri, Leo Miglio, A. Rastelli, and H. von Känel

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235318 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Statistics of transmission eigenvalues for a disordered quantum point contact

G. Campagnano, O. N. Jouravlev, Ya. M. Blanter, and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235319 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Magnetoexciton in vertically coupled $InP ∕ GaInP$ quantum disks: Effect of strain on the exciton ground state

K. L. Janssens, B. Partoens, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235320 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Electron-phonon interaction in quantum-dot∕quantum-well semiconductor heterostructures

F. Comas and Nelson Studart

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235321 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Hafnium silicide formation on $Si (001)$

H. T. Johnson-Steigelman, A. V. Brinck, S. S. Parihar, and P. F. Lyman

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235322 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on magnetotransport in $InGaAs ∕ InP$ quantum wire structures

Th. Schäpers, J. Knobbe, and V. A. Guzenko

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235323 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Ground state and optical conductivity of interacting polarons in a quantum dot

S. N. Klimin, V. M. Fomin, F. Brosens, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235324 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Terahertz generation from coherent optical phonons in a biased GaAs photoconductive emitter

Y. C. Shen, P. C. Upadhya, E. H. Linfield, H. E. Beere, and A. G. Davies

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235325 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Electron-electron interactions in isolated and realistic quantum dots: A density functional theory study

Hong Jiang, Denis Ullmo, Weitao Yang, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235326 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Microscopic investigation of phonon modes in $SiGe$ alloy nanocrystals

Shang-Fen Ren, Wei Cheng, and Peter Y. Yu

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235327 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Atomic and electronic structure of the $Si (001) 2 \times 2 − Li$ chemisorption system at 0.5 monolayer coverage

H. Q. Shi, M. W. Radny, and P. V. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235328 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

$χ^{(3)}$ analysis of all-optical polarization switching in semiconductor quantum wells

I. Rumyantsev, N. H. Kwong, R. Binder, Eric J. Gansen, and Arthur L. Smirl

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235329 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Exciton-polariton dynamics in a transparent organic semiconductor microcavity

Jung-Hoon Song, Y. He, A. V. Nurmikko, J. Tischler, and V. Bulovic

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235330 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Acetonitrile adsorption on Si(001)

R. Miotto, M. C. Oliveira, M. M. Pinto, F. de León-Pérez, and A. C. Ferraz

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235331 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects, quantum solids, etc.

Theory of optical signal amplification and processing by quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

M. Sugawara, H. Ebe, N. Hatori, M. Ishida, Y. Arakawa, T. Akiyama, K. Otsubo, and Y. Nakata

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235332 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Adhesion and adhesive transfer at aluminum/diamond interfaces: A first-principles study

Yue Qi and Louis G. Hector, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235401 (2004) - Published 3 June, 2004

Structure of $H_{2} Pc$ monolayers on $InSb (111) A$

S. Yim, T. S. Jones, Q. Chen, and N. V. Richardson

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235402 (2004) - Published 7 June, 2004

Theory of shock wave propagation during laser ablation

Zhaoyan Zhang and George Gogos

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235403 (2004) - Published 8 June, 2004

Electronic structures of Au on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ by first-principles calculations

K. Okazaki, Y. Morikawa, S. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, and M. Kohyama

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235404 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Enhancement of femtosecond-laser-induced molecular desorption by thin metal films

Mathias Nest and Peter Saalfrank

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235405 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004

Macroscopic properties of carbon nanotubes from molecular-mechanics simulations

A. Sears and R. C. Batra

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235406 (2004) - Published 11 June, 2004

Kinetic roughening of the interfaces of Langmuir-Blodgett films

Xiu-Hong Li, Ming Li, and Zhen-Hong Mai

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235407 (2004) - Published 18 June, 2004

Excited electron transfer between a core-excited $Ar * (2 p_{3 ∕ 2}^{- 1} 4 s)$ atom and the metal substrate in the $Ar ∕ Cu (111)$ system

J. P. Gauyacq and A. G. Borisov

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235408 (2004) - Published 22 June, 2004

Ab initio phonon dispersions of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Lin-Hui Ye, Bang-Gui Liu, Ding-Sheng Wang, and Rushan Han

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235409 (2004) - Published 23 June, 2004

Electronic friction and liquid-flow-induced voltage in nanotubes

B. N. J. Persson, U. Tartaglino, E. Tosatti, and H. Ueba

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235410 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Conductance of molecular wires and transport calculations based on density-functional theory

F. Evers, F. Weigend, and M. Koentopp

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235411 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Coherent x-ray scattering from ultrathin probe layers

R. Röhlsberger, T. Klein, K. Schlage, O. Leupold, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235412 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Structural and electronic properties of the metal-metal intramoleular junctions of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Wei Fa, Jiangwei Chen, Hong Liu, and Jinming Dong

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235413 (2004) - Published 25 June, 2004

Structural modifications of quasi-one-dimensional submonolayers by impurity doping

G. Godzik, T. Block, and H. Pfnür

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235414 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Near-infrared resonance Raman excitation profile studies of single-walled carbon nanotube intertube interactions: A direct comparison of bundled and individually dispersed $HiPco$ nanotubes

Michael J. O’Connell, Saujan Sivaram, and Stephen K. Doorn

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235415 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

BRIEF REPORTS

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Polar surface engineering in ultrathin $MgO (111) ∕ Ag (111)$ : Possibility of a metal-insulator transition and magnetism

Ryotaro Arita, Yoshiaki Tanida, Shiro Entani, Manabu Kiguchi, Koichiro Saiki, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235423 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

ARTICLES

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Energetics of $Sr$ adatom interactions on the $Mo (112)$ surface

A. Kiejna and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. B 69, 235424 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Effects of the localized state inside the barrier on resonant tunneling in double-barrier quantum wells”

H. Z. Xu and Z. Shi

Phys. Rev. B 69, 237201 (2004) - Published 24 June, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical response of double parabolically graded quantum wells [Phys. Rev. B 54, 11 436 (1996)]

L. Wendler and T. Kraft

Phys. Rev. B 69, 239901 (2004) - Published 1 June, 2004

Erratum: Picosecond acoustic phonon pulse generation in nickel and chromium [Phys. Rev. B 67, 205421 (2003)]

T. Saito, O. Matsuda, and O. B. Wright

Phys. Rev. B 69, 239902 (2004) - Published 10 June, 2004