Volume 71, Issue 7

I. Galbraith, R. Chari, S. Pellegrini, P. J. Phillips, C. J. Dent, A. F. G. van der Meer, D. G. Clarke, A. K. Kar, G. S. Buller, C. R. Pidgeon, B. N. Murdin, J. Allam, and G. Strasser

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073302 (2005) - Published 10 February, 2005

Observation of skyrmions in a two-dimensional hole system

C. M. Townsley, R. Chughtai, R. J. Nicholas, and M. Henini

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073303 (2005) - Published 10 February, 2005

Correlation between morphological transition and preferred thickness of Pb and Ag islands on Si(111) $7 \times 7$

W. B. Su, H. Y. Lin, Y. P. Chiu, H. T. Shih, T. Y. Fu, Y. W. Chen, C. S. Chang, and Tien T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073304 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Inelastic resonant tunneling through single molecules and quantum dots: Spectrum modification due to nonequilibrium effects

D. A. Ryndyk and J. Keller

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073305 (2005) - Published 16 February, 2005

Magnetic-field modulation of the spectrum of coherent thermal radiation of semiconductor layers

O. G. Kollyukh, A. I. Liptuga, V. Morozhenko, and V. I. Pipa

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073306 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Ab initio simulation of photoinduced transformation of small rings in amorphous silica

Davide Donadio and Marco Bernasconi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073307 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Deep-level optical transitions of (Ga,Mn)As in high magnetic fields

Yongmin Kim, Yoon Shon, T. Takamasu, and H. Yokoi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073308 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Statistical photoluminescence of dislocations and associated defects in heteroepitaxial GaN grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition

L. Macht, J. L. Weyher, A. Grzegorczyk, and P. K. Larsen

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073309 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Electronic transport and Fano resonance in crossed carbon nanotubes

Hua Tong Yang, Jiang Wei Chen, Lin Feng Yang, and Jinming Dong

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073401 (2005) - Published 1 February, 2005

Optical manifestations of the condensation of topological defects in continuous layer multishell carbon nanoparticles

Peter V. Pikhitsa, Young Jeong Kim, Myung Whun Kim, Sangsun Yang, Tae Won Noh, and Mansoo Choi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073402 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Melting temperature of screened Wigner crystal on helium films by molecular dynamics

J. A. R. da Cunha and Ladir Cândido

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073403 (2005) - Published 4 February, 2005

First-principles calculation of the second harmonic response of Ag(111) and Ag(100) surfaces

Cristián G. Sánchez, Elizabeth Santos, and Wolfgang Schmickler

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073404 (2005) - Published 4 February, 2005

Electronic structure of an electron on the gyroid surface: A helical labyrinth

M. Koshino and H. Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073405 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Electronic structure of ${Ca}_{3} Co X O_{6}$ ( $X = Co$ , Rh, Ir) studied by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy

K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, S. Hirata, J.-Y. Son, A. Fujimori, D. Topwal, D. D. Sarma, S. Rayaprol, and E.-V. Sampathkumaran

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073406 (2005) - Published 17 February, 2005

Clustering of Au on the faulted half of the Si(111)- $7 \times 7$ unit cell

S. K. Ghose, P. A. Bennett, and I. K. Robinson

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073407 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Comparison of the bonding in ${Au}_{8}$ and ${Cu}_{8}$ : A density functional theory study

Henrik Grönbeck and Peter Broqvist

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073408 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Long periodic oscillation of electronic properties in capped finite-length armchair carbon nanotubes

Jia Li, Gang Zhou, Li Yang, Jian Wu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073409 (2005) - Published 23 February, 2005

Tin clusters that do not melt: Calorimetry measurements up to $650 K$

Gary A. Breaux, Colleen M. Neal, Baopeng Cao, and Martin F. Jarrold

Phys. Rev. B 71, 073410 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

ARTICLES

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

Radiative decay of vacuum-ultraviolet excitation of silica synthesized by molecular precursors of $Si ‐ Si$ sites: An indicator of intracenter relaxation of neutral oxygen vacancies

A. Paleari, N. Chiodini, D. Di Martino, and F. Meinardi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075101 (2005) - Published 1 February, 2005

Cyclotron resonance in rare-earth monopnictides

Makoto Yoshida, Keiichi Koyama, Akira Ochiai, and Mitsuhiro Motokawa

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075102 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Phase diagram of the half-filled two-dimensional $SU (N)$ Hubbard-Heisenberg model: A quantum Monte Carlo study

F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075103 (2005) - Published 4 February, 2005

Scaling behavior of the longitudinal and transverse transport in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors

M. Dressel, K. Petukhov, B. Salameh, P. Zornoza, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075104 (2005) - Published 4 February, 2005

Optical spectroscopy study of the electronic structure of ${Eu}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} B_{6}$

Jung-Ho Kim, Youngwoo Lee, C. C. Homes, Jong-Soo Rhyee, B. K. Cho, S.-J. Oh, and E. J. Choi

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075105 (2005) - Published 7 February, 2005

Strong correlation effects of the Re $5 d$ electrons on the metal-insulator transition in ${Ca}_{2} Fe Re O_{6}$

H. Iwasawa, T. Saitoh, Y. Yamashita, D. Ishii, H. Kato, N. Hamada, Y. Tokura, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075106 (2005) - Published 8 February, 2005

Large- $N$ limit of a magnetic impurity in unconventional density waves

Balázs Dóra

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075107 (2005) - Published 10 February, 2005

Stripe formation in doped Hubbard ladders

G. Hager, G. Wellein, E. Jeckelmann, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075108 (2005) - Published 10 February, 2005

Effects of carrier concentration on the dielectric function of ZnO:Ga and ${In}_{2} O_{3} : Sn$ studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry: Analysis of free-carrier and band-edge absorption

Hiroyuki Fujiwara and Michio Kondo

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075109 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Regular networks of Luttinger liquids

K. Kazymyrenko and B. Douçot

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075110 (2005) - Published 17 February, 2005

Dynamical mean-field theory of temperature- and field-dependent band shifts in magnetically coupled semimetals: Application to $Eu B_{6}$

Chungwei Lin and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075111 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Lifetime of a quasiparticle in an electron liquid

Zhixin Qian and Giovanni Vignale

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075112 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Structural, transport, and thermal properties of the single-crystalline type-VIII clathrate ${Ba}_{8} {Ga}_{16} {Sn}_{30}$

D. Huo, T. Sakata, T. Sasakawa, M. A. Avila, M. Tsubota, F. Iga, H. Fukuoka, S. Yamanaka, S. Aoyagi, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075113 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Electronic structure and bonding in ${Mo}_{3} Si$ , ${Mo}_{5} {Si}_{3}$ , and $Mo {(Si, Al)}_{2}$ alloys investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density-functional theory

D. A. Pankhurst, Z. Yuan, D. Nguyen-Manh, M.-L. Abel, G. Shao, J. F. Watts, D. G. Pettifor, and P. Tsakiropoulos

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075114 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Temperature dependence of the crystal structure and charge ordering in ${Yb}_{4} {As}_{3}$

U. Staub, M. Shi, C. Schulze-Briese, B. D. Patterson, F. Fauth, E. Dooryhee, L. Soderholm, J. O. Cross, D. Mannix, and A. Ochiai

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075115 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Dipole emission into rectangular metallic gratings with subwavelength slits

Yanko Todorov, Izo Abram, and Christophe Minot

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075116 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Optical evidence for transient photoinduced magnetization in ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} Mn O_{3}$

S. A. McGill, R. I. Miller, O. N. Torrens, A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen, and J. M. Kikkawa

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075117 (2005) - Published 24 February, 2005

Optical excitation in the creep phase of plastic charge-density waves

Naoki Ogawa, Kenjiro Miyano, and Serguei Brazovski

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075118 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Leading interactions in the $β − Sr V_{6} O_{15}$ compound

Marie-Liesse Doublet and Marie-Bernadette Lepetit

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075119 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Semiconductors I: bulk

Vibrational properties of $Ga {As}_{0.915} N_{0.085}$ under hydrostatic pressures up to $20 GPa$

M. Güngerich, P. J. Klar, W. Heimbrodt, J. Koch, W. Stolz, M. P. Halsall, and P. Harmer

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075201 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Structure and properties of ilmenite from first principles

N. C. Wilson, J. Muscat, D. Mkhonto, P. E. Ngoepe, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075202 (2005) - Published 14 February, 2005

Tight-binding calculations of the band structure and total energies of the various polytypes of silicon carbide

N. Bernstein, H. J. Gotsis, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, and M. J. Mehl

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075203 (2005) - Published 16 February, 2005

Positron annihilation study of density fluctuations in amorphous poly(ethylene terephthalate) films in terms of quasispinodal decomposition

Tong Xu, Yuezhen Bin, Nikolay Djourelov, Takenori Suzuki, and Masaru Matsuo

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075204 (2005) - Published 23 February, 2005

Theoretical and experimental study of dynamic triplet-triplet annihilation in an organic one-dimensional motion system

A. Benfredj, F. Henia, L. Hachani, S. Romdhane, and H. Bouchriha

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075205 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Chemical profile and magnetoresistance of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ /GaAs/AlAs/GaAs/ ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ tunnel junctions

R. Mattana, M. Elsen, J.-M. George, H. Jaffrès, F. Nguyen Van Dau, A. Fert, M. F. Wyczisk, J. Olivier, P. Galtier, B. Lépine, A. Guivarc’h, and G. Jézéquel

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075206 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Structural, electronic, and energetic properties of small self-interstitial clusters in GaAs by tight-binding molecular dynamics

M. Volpe, G. Zollo, and L. Colombo

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075207 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

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

Conductance of a quantum wire with a Gaussian impurity potential and variable cross-sectional shape

Vassilios Vargiamidis and Hariton M. Polatoglou

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075301 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Electronic structure of donor states under a strong magnetic field

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

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075302 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Combined ab initio and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of C diffusion on the $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ $β − Si C (111)$ surface

M. C. Righi, C. A. Pignedoli, R. Di Felice, C. M. Bertoni, and A. Catellani

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075303 (2005) - Published 2 February, 2005

Epitaxial properties of Al-doped ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition on ${SrTiO}_{3} (001)$

M. Karger and M. Schilling

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075304 (2005) - Published 3 February, 2005

Strongly correlated regimes in a double quantum dot device

P. S. Cornaglia and D. R. Grempel

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075305 (2005) - Published 4 February, 2005

All-optical ejection and control of spin currents from a quantum well

Ali Najmaie, Arthur L. Smirl, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075306 (2005) - Published 7 February, 2005

Origin of surface metallization of Si(001) at high temperatures

Jun-Hyung Cho and Jung-Yup Lee

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075307 (2005) - Published 10 February, 2005

Hole spin relaxation in semiconductor quantum dots

C. Lü, J. L. Cheng, and M. W. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075308 (2005) - Published 11 February, 2005

Influence of self-affine interface roughness on the charge capacitance between two dielectric media

G. Palasantzas

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075309 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Kinetics of excitonic complexes on tunneling devices

A. Vercik, Y. Galvão Gobato, I. Camps, G. E. Marques, M. J. S. P. Brasil, and S. S. Makler

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075310 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Inhomogeneous broadening of ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N ∕ Ga N$ quantum wells

F. Natali, D. Byrne, M. Leroux, B. Damilano, F. Semond, A. Le Louarn, S. Vezian, N. Grandjean, and J. Massies

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075311 (2005) - Published 15 February, 2005

Design of a very thin direct-band-gap semiconductor nanotube of germanium with metal encapsulation

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Vijay Kumar, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075312 (2005) - Published 16 February, 2005

Unoccupied states in the band gap of $δ$ -doped Si in GaAs probed by Auger resonance spectroscopy

M. D. Jackson, J. M. C. Thornton, D. Lewis, A. Robinson, M. Fahy, A. Aviary, and P. Weightman

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075313 (2005) - Published 16 February, 2005

Shape transition of self-assembled InAs quantum dots on $Ga As (114) A$

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

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075314 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin relaxation in silicon quantum wells

Charles Tahan and Robert Joynt

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075315 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Scanning capacitance microscopy of nanostructures

H. E. Ruda and A. Shik

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075316 (2005) - Published 18 February, 2005

Time-dependent quantum transport: Direct analysis in the time domain

Yu Zhu, Joseph Maciejko, Tao Ji, Hong Guo, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075317 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

X-ray absorption study of the growth of $Y_{2} O_{3}$ on Si(001)

M. Malvestuto, R. Carboni, F. Boscherini, F. D’Acapito, S. Spiga, M. Fanciulli, A. Dimoulas, G. Vellianitis, and G. Mavrou

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075318 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Off-centering of hydrogenic impurities in quantum dots

J. L. Movilla and J. Planelles

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075319 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Quantum transport through a deformable molecular transistor

P. S. Cornaglia, D. R. Grempel, and H. Ness

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075320 (2005) - Published 22 February, 2005

Electron spin tomography through counting statistics: A quantum trajectory approach

Holger Schaefers and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075321 (2005) - Published 23 February, 2005

Theory of noncoherent spin pumps

Eran Sela and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075322 (2005) - Published 24 February, 2005

First-principles study of Sb-stabilized GaSb(001) surface reconstructions

M. C. Righi, Rita Magri, and C. M. Bertoni

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075323 (2005) - Published 24 February, 2005

Hot-phonon effect on power dissipation in a biased ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N ∕ Al N ∕ Ga N$ channel

M. Ramonas, A. Matulionis, J. Liberis, L. Eastman, X. Chen, and Y.-J. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075324 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Broken symmetry and quantum entanglement of an exciton in ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As ∕ Ga As$ quantum dot molecules

Gabriel Bester, Alex Zunger, and J. Shumway

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075325 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Electron-hole exchange interaction in a negatively charged quantum dot

I. A. Akimov, K. V. Kavokin, A. Hundt, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075326 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Intraband polaron dynamics of excited carriers in $InAs ∕ {In}_{x} {Al}_{1 - x} As$ quantum dots

G. Bahir, E. Finkman, F. Fossard, F. H. Julien, J. Brault, M. Gendry, and S. E. Schacham

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075327 (2005) - Published 25 February, 2005

Growth of Te on As-exposed Si(211): Electronic structure calculations

Bikash C. Gupta, Inder P. Batra, and S. Sivananthan

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075328 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Phonon-assisted tunneling in coupled semiconductor quantum dots

V. López-Richard, S. S. Oliveira, and G.-Q. Hai

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075329 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Stark effect dependence on hydrogenic impurity position in a cubic quantum box

Carlos I. Mendoza, G. J. Vazquez, M. del Castillo-Mussot, and H. Spector

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075330 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Quantum and semiclassical study of magnetic quantum dots

Bence Kocsis, Gergely Palla, and József Cserti

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075331 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Resonance Raman spectroscopy $(n, m)$ -dependent effects in small-diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes

A. Jorio, C. Fantini, M. A. Pimenta, R. B. Capaz, Ge. G. Samsonidze, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, J. Jiang, N. Kobayashi, A. Grüneis, and R. Saito

Phys. Rev. B 71, 075401 (2005) - Published 1 February, 2005