Volume 71, Issue 15

M. Taguchi, A. Chainani, N. Kamakura, K. Horiba, Y. Takata, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Nishino, D. Miwa, T. Ishikawa, S. Shin, E. Ikenaga, T. Yokoya, K. Kobayashi, T. Mochiku, K. Hirata, and K. Motoya

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155102 (2005) - Published 4 April, 2005

EXAFS spectroscopic analysis of the Verwey transition in ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ .

Gloria Subías, Joaquín García, and Javier Blasco

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155103 (2005) - Published 5 April, 2005

Analysis of the viscoelastic coefficients in the Vignale-Kohn functional: The cases of one- and three-dimensional polyacetylene

J. A. Berger, P. L. de Boeij, and R. van Leeuwen

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155104 (2005) - Published 5 April, 2005

Ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with an alternating chemical potential

Hiromi Otsuka and Masaaki Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155105 (2005) - Published 8 April, 2005

Negative refraction in a photonic crystal with a metallic cross lattice basis

Mark S. Wheeler, J. Stewart Aitchison, and Mohammad Mojahedi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155106 (2005) - Published 8 April, 2005

Satellite lines induced by electrons of near-threshold energy in the x-ray emission band spectra of $3 d$ , $4 d$ , and $5 d$ transition metals

P. Jonnard, I. Jarrige, and C. Bonnelle

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155107 (2005) - Published 8 April, 2005

Time-dependent current-density-functional theory for the metallic response of solids

P. Romaniello and P. L. de Boeij

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155108 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Ab initio and experimental pre-edge investigations of the Mn $K$ -edge XANES in oxide-type materials

François Farges

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155109 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Time-resolved broadband analysis of slow-light propagation and superluminal transmission of electromagnetic waves in three-dimensional photonic crystals

J. Gómez Rivas, A. Farré Benet, J. Niehusmann, P. Haring Bolivar, and H. Kurz

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155110 (2005) - Published 18 April, 2005

Minimally self-consistent T-matrix approximation to describe the low-temperature properties of the Hubbard model in the atomic limit

S. Verga, R. J. Gooding, and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155111 (2005) - Published 18 April, 2005

Density functional theory study of bulk platinum monoxide

Jamal Uddin, Juan E. Peralta, and Gustavo E. Scuseria

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155112 (2005) - Published 18 April, 2005

Resonant optical transmission through a photonic crystal in the forbidden gap

M. Laroche, R. Carminati, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155113 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Band structure and optical response of $2 H − Mo X_{2}$ compounds ( $X = S$ , Se, and Te)

Ali Hussain Reshak and Sushil Auluck

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155114 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Sufficient condition for absence of the sign problem in the fermionic quantum Monte Carlo algorithm

Congjun Wu and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155115 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Renormalization of the periodic Anderson model: An alternative analytical approach to heavy-fermion behavior

A. Hübsch and K. W. Becker

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155116 (2005) - Published 20 April, 2005

Quantifying the effective attenuation length in high-energy photoemission experiments

Maurizio Sacchi, Francesco Offi, Piero Torelli, Andrea Fondacaro, Carlo Spezzani, Marco Cautero, Giuseppe Cautero, Simo Huotari, Marco Grioni, Renaud Delaunay, Mauro Fabrizioli, György Vankó, Giulio Monaco, Guido Paolicelli, Giovanni Stefani, and Giancarlo Panaccione

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155117 (2005) - Published 26 April, 2005

Electronic structure of $β − {VOPO}_{4}$

M. G. Willinger, D. S. Su, and R. Schlögl

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155118 (2005) - Published 26 April, 2005

Electronic structure and optical properties of binary skutterudite antimonides

Kenji Koga, Koji Akai, Kazunori Oshiro, and Mitsuru Matsuura

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155119 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Embedding potential definition of channel functions

J. E. Inglesfield, S. Crampin, and H. Ishida

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155120 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Semiconductors I: bulk

Similar and dissimilar aspects of $III − V$ semiconductors containing $Bi$ versus $N$

Yong Zhang, A. Mascarenhas, and L.-W. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155201 (2005) - Published 6 April, 2005

Photoinduced structural instability in a hydrogenated amorphous silicon-germanium alloy with high structural inhomogeneity

Hidetoshi Oheda

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155202 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Ferromagnetism from localized deep impurities in magnetic semiconductors

Victor Barzykin

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155203 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Signature of exciton annihilation in the photoconductance of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)

Gerald Dicker, Matthijs P. de Haas, and Laurens D. A. Siebbeles

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155204 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Theory of Li in ZnO: A limitation for Li-based $p$ -type doping

M. G. Wardle, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155205 (2005) - Published 22 April, 2005

Anisotropic exchange interactions in III-V diluted magnetic semiconductors

C. Timm and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155206 (2005) - Published 25 April, 2005

Two-step field-induced singlet dissociation in a fluorene trimer

J. Cabanillas-Gonzalez, M. R. Antognazza, T. Virgili, G. Lanzani, C. Gadermaier, M. Sonntag, and P. Strohriegl

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155207 (2005) - Published 26 April, 2005

Resonant Raman scattering spectroscopy of $Ga P_{1 - x} N_{x}$ and $Ga {As}_{1 - x} N_{x}$ in the ultraviolet range

S. Yoon, J. F. Geisz, Sung-Ho Han, A. Mascarenhas, M. Rübhausen, and B. Schulz

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155208 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Photoexcited carriers in organic light emitting materials and blended films observed by surface photovoltage spectroscopy

Jihua Yang, Keith C. Gordon, A. James McQuillan, Yigal Zidon, and Yoram Shapira

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155209 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Interacting quantum rotors in oxygen-doped germanium

Hiroyuki Shima and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155210 (2005) - Published 29 April, 2005

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

Effective-mass theory for hierarchical self-assembly of $Ga As ∕ {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ quantum dots

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

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155301 (2005) - Published 1 April, 2005

Confinement and interwell coupling effects in Ge double quantum wells pseudomorphic to a Si (001) substrate

Michele Virgilio, Riccardo Farchioni, and Giuseppe Grosso

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155302 (2005) - Published 4 April, 2005

Effect of interwall surface roughness correlations on optical spectra of quantum well excitons

I. V. Ponomarev, L. I. Deych, and A. A. Lisyansky

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155303 (2005) - Published 5 April, 2005

Confined optical phonon modes and electron-phonon interactions in wurtzite $Ga N ∕ Zn O$ quantum wells

J. T. Lü and J. C. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155304 (2005) - Published 6 April, 2005

Reducing decoherence of the confined exciton state in a quantum dot by pulse-sequence control

V. M. Axt, P. Machnikowski, and T. Kuhn

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155305 (2005) - Published 6 April, 2005

Static and dynamic spectroscopy of $(Al, Ga) As ∕ Ga As$ microdisk lasers with interface fluctuation quantum dots

W. H. Wang, S. Ghosh, F. M. Mendoza, X. Li, D. D. Awschalom, and N. Samarth

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155306 (2005) - Published 7 April, 2005

Ground states of interacting composite fermions with spin at total filling factor one

Matteo Merlo, Nicodemo Magnoli, Maura Sassetti, and Bernhard Kramer

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155307 (2005) - Published 7 April, 2005

Real-time direct observation of asymmetric magnetization reversal in exchange-biased single-layer systems

Kwang-Su Ryu, Dong-Hyun Kim, Sung-Chul Shin, and H. Akinaga

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155308 (2005) - Published 8 April, 2005

Spin-polarized tunneling through a diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dot

Kai Chang, K. S. Chan, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155309 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Two-band electron transport in a double quantum well

R. Fletcher, M. Tsaousidou, T. Smith, P. T. Coleridge, Z. R. Wasilewski, and Y. Feng

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155310 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Monitoring the dynamics of a coherent cavity polariton population

J. Bloch, B. Sermage, M. Perrin, P. Senellart, R. André, and Le Si Dang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155311 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Dynamical conductivity of disordered quantum Hall stripes

Mei-Rong Li, H. A. Fertig, R. Côté, and Hangmo Yi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155312 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Spin-dependent resonant tunneling in symmetrical double-barrier structures

M. M. Glazov, P. S. Alekseev, M. A. Odnoblyudov, V. M. Chistyakov, S. A. Tarasenko, and I. N. Yassievich

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155313 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Orbital effect, subband depopulation, and conductance fluctuations in ballistic quantum dots under a tilted magnetic field

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

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155314 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Cesium-induced surface conversion: From As-rich to Ga-rich GaAs(001) at reduced temperatures

O. E. Tereshchenko, V. L. Alperovich, A. G. Zhuravlev, A. S. Terekhov, and D. Paget

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155315 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Resonant spin Hall conductance in quantum Hall systems lacking bulk and structural inversion symmetry

Shun-Qing Shen, Yun-Juan Bao, Michael Ma, X. C. Xie, and Fu Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155316 (2005) - Published 19 April, 2005

Long-lived spin coherence states in semiconductor heterostructures

Yuriy V. Pershin

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155317 (2005) - Published 20 April, 2005

Structural and electronic properties of epitaxial core-shell nanowire heterostructures

R. N. Musin and Xiao-Qian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155318 (2005) - Published 20 April, 2005

Kondo screening cloud in a double quantum dot system

Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155319 (2005) - Published 25 April, 2005

Phonon-induced exciton spin relaxation in semimagnetic quantum wells

E. Tsitsishvili, R. v. Baltz, and H. Kalt

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155320 (2005) - Published 26 April, 2005

Spontaneous spin-polarized current in a nonuniform Rashba interaction system

Qing-feng Sun and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155321 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

In situ revelation of a zinc-blende InN wetting layer during Stranski-Krastanov growth on GaN(0001) by molecular-beam epitaxy

Y. G. Cao, S. H. Xu, W. Lü, X. Q. Dai, Y. F. Chan, N. Wang, Y. Liu, H. S. Wu, M. H. Xie, and S. Y. Tong

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155322 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Spin-Förster transfer in optically excited quantum dots

Alexander O. Govorov

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155323 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

Heterovalent interlayers and interface states: An ab initio study of $Ga As ∕ Si ∕ Ga As$ (110) and (100) heterostructures

M. Di Ventra, C. Berthod, and N. Binggeli

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155324 (2005) - Published 28 April, 2005

Atomic structure of the $Eu ∕ Si (111) 3 \times 2$ , $5 \times 1$ , and $7 \times 1$ surfaces studied by photoelectron spectroscopy

M. Kuzmin, P. Laukkanen, R. E. Perälä, R.-L. Vaara, and I. J. Väyrynen

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155334 (2005) - Published 29 April, 2005

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Theoretical study of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of ${Au}_{n} M^{+}$ clusters ( $M = Sc$ , Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Au; $n ⩽ 9$ )

M. B. Torres, E. M. Fernández, and L. C. Balbás

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155412 (2005) - Published 21 April, 2005

Disorder-induced local-density-of-states oscillations on narrow Ag(111) terraces

Karina Morgenstern, Karl-Heinz Rieder, and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155413 (2005) - Published 21 April, 2005

Water adsorption at metal surfaces: A first-principles study of the $p (\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}) R 30 °$ $H_{2} O$ bilayer on Ru(0001)

Giuliana Materzanini, Gian Franco Tantardini, Philip J. D. Lindan, and Peter Saalfrank

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155414 (2005) - Published 25 April, 2005

In vacuo photoemission study of atomically controlled ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} Mn O_{3}$ thin films: Composition dependence of the electronic structure

K. Horiba, A. Chikamatsu, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, N. Nakagawa, M. Lippmaa, K. Ono, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma

Phys. Rev. B 71, 155420 (2005) - Published 27 April, 2005

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Electronic excitation spectrum of metallic carbon nanotubes [Phys. Rev. B 71, 153402 (2005)]

S. Sapmaz, P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. Kong, C. Dekker, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and H. S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. B 71, 159901 (2005) - Published 21 April, 2005

Erratum: Dynamic response and relaxation oscillations in random lasers [Phys. Rev. B 65, 041103(R) (2002)]

C. M. Soukoulis, Xunya Jiang, J. Y. Xu, and H. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 71, 159902 (2005) - Published 26 April, 2005

Publisher's Note: Acoustic phonon generation and detection in GaAs/ ${Al}_{0.3} {Ga}_{0.7} As$ quantum wells with picosecond laser pulses [Phys. Rev. B 71, 115330 (2005)]

O. Matsuda, T. Tachizaki, T. Fukui, J. J. Baumberg, and O. B. Wright

Phys. Rev. B 71, 159903 (2005) - Published 28 April, 2005

Publisher's Note: Disorder-induced local-density-of-states oscillations on narrow Ag(111) terraces [Phys. Rev. B 71, 155413 (2005)]

Karina Morgenstern, Karl-Heinz Rieder, and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. B 71, 159904 (2005) - Published 29 April, 2005