Volume 73, Issue 19

C. Fantini, E. Cruz, A. Jorio, M. Terrones, H. Terrones, G. Van Lier, J-C Charlier, M. S. Dresselhaus, R. Saito, Y. A. Kim, T. Hayashi, H. Muramatsu, M. Endo, and M. A. Pimenta

Phys. Rev. B 73, 193408 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

Formation of nanoislands by the electromolding self-organization process

C.-H. Chiu, Z. Huang, and C. T. Poh

Phys. Rev. B 73, 193409 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

ARTICLES

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

Initial- and final-state excitations in $K L_{23} L_{23}$ Auger spectra of Cu and Ni metals, induced near threshold

L. Kövér, Z. Berényi, I. Cserny, L. Lugosi, W. Drube, T. Mukoyama, and V. R. R. Medicherla

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195101 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Optical properties of strontium monochalcogenides from first principles

M. Dadsetani and A. Pourghazi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195102 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Domain-wall excitations and optical conductivity in one-dimensional Wigner lattices

Matthias Mayr and Peter Horsch

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195103 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Electronic stucture of methane hydrate studied by Compton scattering

C. Sternemann, S. Huotari, M. Hakala, M. Paulus, M. Volmer, C. Gutt, T. Buslaps, N. Hiraoka, D. D. Klug, K. Hämäläinen, M. Tolan, and J. S. Tse

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195104 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Band structure and Fermi surface of ${La}_{0.6} {Sr}_{0.4} {MnO}_{3}$ thin films studied by in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

A. Chikamatsu, H. Wadati, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, A. Fujimori, N. Hamada, T. Ohnishi, M. Lippmaa, K. Ono, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195105 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Giant nonlinear conduction and thyristor-like negative differential resistance in ${BaIrO}_{3}$ single crystals

Tomohito Nakano and Ichiro Terasaki

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195106 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Oxidation energies of transition metal oxides within the $GGA + U$ framework

Lei Wang, Thomas Maxisch, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195107 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Competitive density waves in quasi-one-dimensional electron systems

Samuele Bissola and Alberto Parola

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195108 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Hidden symmetries of electronic transport in a disordered one-dimensional lattice

Wonkee Kim, L. Covaci, and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195109 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Origin of light localization from orientational disorder in one- and two-dimensional random media with uniaxial scatterers

Jinsong Liu, Chun Wang, and Zheng Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195110 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Electron energy-loss spectra calculations and experiments as a tool for the identification of a lamellar $C_{3} N_{4}$ compound

P. Moreau, F. Boucher, G. Goglio, D. Foy, V. Mauchamp, and G. Ouvrard

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195111 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Photon localization and lasing in disordered ${GaN}_{x} {As}_{1 - x}$ optical superlattices

B. Q. Sun and D. S. Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195112 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Frequency and temperature dependence of the optical conductivity of granular metals: A path-integral approach

V. Tripathi and Y. L. Loh

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195113 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Spinless fermionic ladders in a magnetic field: Phase diagram

Sam T. Carr, Boris N. Narozhny, and Alexander A. Nersesyan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195114 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Semiclassical theory of quantum chaotic transport: Phase-space splitting, coherent backscattering, and weak localization

Ph. Jacquod and Robert S. Whitney

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195115 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Exact density matrix of the Gutzwiller wave function as the ground state of the inverse-square supersymmetric $t − J$ model

Onuttom Narayan and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195116 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Negative-index imaging by an index-matched photonic crystal slab

E. Schonbrun, T. Yamashita, W. Park, and C. J. Summers

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195117 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Real-space pseudopotential method for electron transport properties of nanoscale junctions

Lingzhu Kong, Murilo L. Tiago, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195118 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Dynamic pattern of finite-pulsed beams inside one-dimensional photonic band gap materials

Li-Gang Wang and Shi-Yao Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195119 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Metal-insulator transition in rutile-based ${VO}_{2}$

M. S. Laad, L. Craco, and E. Müller-Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195120 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Electronic structure and transport in the low-temperature thermoelectric $Cs {Bi}_{4} {Te}_{6}$ : Semiclassical transport equations

Lars Lykke, Bo B. Iversen, and Georg K. H. Madsen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195121 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Quantum state swapping via a qubit network with Hubbard interactions

S. Yang, Z. Song, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195122 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Nonequivalence of the generalized gradient approximations PBE and PW91

Ann E. Mattsson, Rickard Armiento, Peter A. Schultz, and Thomas R. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195123 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Coherently induced stop-bands in resonantly absorbing and inhomogeneously broadened doped crystals

Qiong-Yi He, Yan Xue, M. Artoni, G. C. La Rocca, Ji-Hua Xu, and Jin-Yue Gao

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195124 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Temperature-dependent optical spectroscopy studies of ${Nd}_{1 - x} Ti O_{3}$

J. Yang, J. Hwang, T. Timusk, A. S. Sefat, and J. E. Greedan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195125 (2006) - Published 31 May, 2006

Collective excitations in unconventional charge-density wave systems

A. Greco and R. Zeyher

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195126 (2006) - Published 31 May, 2006

Semiconductors I: bulk

Two-trap model for carrier lifetime and resistivity behavior in partially annealed $GaAs$ grown at low temperature

I. S. Gregory, C. M. Tey, A. G. Cullis, M. J. Evans, H. E. Beere, and I. Farrer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195201 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Density functional study of ${Zn}_{1 - x} {Mg}_{x} {Se}_{y} {Te}_{1 - y}$ quaternary semiconductor alloys

Fouad El Haj Hassan, S. Javad Hashemifar, and Hadi Akbarzadeh

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195202 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Optical transitions in ${Eu}^{3 +}$ ions in $GaN : Eu$ grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Thomas Andreev, Nguyen Quang Liem, Yuji Hori, Mitsuhiro Tanaka, Osamu Oda, Daniel Le Si Dang, and Bruno Daudin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195203 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Hydrogen migration in single crystal and polycrystalline zinc oxide

N. H. Nickel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195204 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Self-interaction-corrected pseudopotentials for silicon carbide

Björn Baumeier, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195205 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Relaxations and bonding mechanism in ${Hg}_{1 - x} {Cd}_{x} Te$ with mercury vacancy defect: First-principles study

L. Z. Sun, Xiaoshuang Chen, Y. L. Sun, X. H. Zhou, Zh. J. Quan, He Duan, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195206 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Growth of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in a diluted magnetic semiconductor obtained by ${Mn}^{+}$ implantation on Ge single crystals

M. Passacantando, L. Ottaviano, F. D’Orazio, F. Lucari, M. De Biase, G. Impellizzeri, and F. Priolo

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195207 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Valence electronic structure of gas-phase 3,4,9,10-perylene tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride: Experiment and theory

Navit Dori, Mahesh Menon, Lennart Kilian, Moritz Sokolowski, Leeor Kronik, and Eberhard Umbach

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195208 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Electrical activity of the $Pt H_{2}$ complex in silicon: High-resolution Laplace deep-level transient spectroscopy and uniaxial-stress technique

Vl. Kolkovsky, O. Andersen, L. Dobaczewski, A. R. Peaker, and K. Bonde Nielsen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195209 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

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

Towards full counting statistics for the Anderson impurity model

A. O. Gogolin and A. Komnik

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195301 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Microwave response of two-dimensional electron rings

V. A. Kovalskii, S. I. Gubarev, I. V. Kukushkin, S. A. Mikhailov, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195302 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Origin of the hole gas at the Si(111):Cl surface: Role of surface electronic structure, impurities, and defects

Torbjörn Blomquist and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195303 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Adaptive time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group technique for calculating the conductance of strongly correlated nanostructures

K. A. Al-Hassanieh, A. E. Feiguin, J. A. Riera, C. A. Büsser, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195304 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Lateral Fano resonances and Kondo effect in the strong coupling regime of a $T$ -coupled quantum dot

R. Franco, M. S. Figueira, and E. V. Anda

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195305 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Mechanism for increasing dopant incorporation in semiconductors via doped nanostructures

Igor L. Kuskovsky, Y. Gu, Y. Gong, H. F. Yan, J. Lau, I. C. Noyan, G. F. Neumark, O. Maksimov, X. Zhou, M. C. Tamargo, V. Volkov, Y. Zhu, and L. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195306 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in a generalized Rashba model

P. L. Krotkov and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195307 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Density-of-states effect on surface and lattice vibrational modes in hydrogenated polycrystalline diamond

A. Lafosse, A. Hoffman, M. Bertin, D. Teillet-Billy, and R. Azria

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195308 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Interplay between hydrogen bonding and electron solvation on hydrated $Ti O_{2} (110)$

Jin Zhao, Bin Li, Kenneth D. Jordan, Jinlong Yang, and Hrvoje Petek

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195309 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Effects of geometry and impurities on quantum rings in magnetic fields

M. Aichinger, S. A. Chin, E. Krotscheck, and E. Räsänen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195310 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Spin-polarized electron transport of a self-assembled organic monolayer on a Ni(111) substrate: An organic spin switch

Haiying He, Ravindra Pandey, Ranjit Pati, and Shashi P. Karna

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195311 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Influence of pure dephasing by phonons on exciton-photon interfaces: Quantum microscopic theory

Kunihiro Kojima and Akihisa Tomita

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195312 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Density functional investigation of the adsorption of a methane monolayer on an MgO(100) surface

Michael L. Drummond, Bobby G. Sumpter, William A. Shelton, and J. Z. Larese

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195313 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Role of wide contacts in the ac response of a double-barrier structure

Jun Quan, Yabin Yu, and Y. H. Tang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195314 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Scattering echoes in a waveguide with a ripple cavity

Hoshik Lee, C. Jung, and L. E. Reichl

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195315 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Quantum-fluctuation effects on the thermopower of a single-electron transistor

Björn Kubala and Jürgen König

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195316 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Coriolis force, geometric phase, and spin-electric coupling in semiconductors

Yuri A. Serebrennikov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195317 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Unified model of fractal conductance fluctuations for diffusive and ballistic semiconductor devices

C. A. Marlow, R. P. Taylor, T. P. Martin, B. C. Scannell, H. Linke, M. S. Fairbanks, G. D. R. Hall, I. Shorubalko, L. Samuelson, T. M. Fromhold, C. V. Brown, B. Hackens, S. Faniel, C. Gustin, V. Bayot, X. Wallart, S. Bollaert, and A. Cappy

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195318 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Growth-temperature-dependent band alignment in $Si ∕ Ge$ quantum dots from photoluminescence spectroscopy

M. Larsson, A. Elfving, W.-X. Ni, G. V. Hansson, and P. O. Holtz

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195319 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Surface chemical control of the electronic structure of silicon nanowires: Density functional calculations

Paul W. Leu, Bin Shan, and Kyeongjae Cho

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195320 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Electron depletion at InAs free surfaces: Doping-induced acceptorlike gap states

L. F. J. Piper, T. D. Veal, M. J. Lowe, and C. F. McConville

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195321 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Surface smoothing of amorphous silicon thin films: Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

X. Tan, G. Ouyang, and G. W. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195322 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Shot noise in transport through two coherent strongly coupled quantum dots

Jasmin Aghassi, Axel Thielmann, Matthias H. Hettler, and Gerd Schön

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195323 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Adsorption of fullerenes $C_{n} (n = 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 60)$ on the $Ga As (001) − c (4 \times 4)$ reconstructed surface

Chenggang Zhou, Jinping Wu, Bo Han, Shujuan Yao, and Hansong Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195324 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Exciton spin relaxation in quantum dots measured using ultrafast transient polarization grating spectroscopy

Gregory D. Scholes, Jeongho Kim, and Cathy Y. Wong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195325 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Hot-electron dynamics and terahertz generation in GaN quantum wells in the streaming transport regime

J. T. Lü, J. C. Cao, and S. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195326 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

Band-edge alignment of $SiGe ∕ Si$ quantum wells and $SiGe ∕ Si$ self-assembled islands

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

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195327 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Coulomb blockade of field emission from nanoscale conductors

O. E. Raichev

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195328 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Breakdown of phase rigidity and variations of the Fano effect in closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometers

Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Tomohiro Otsuka, Shingo Katsumoto, Hisashi Aikawa, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195329 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Second-harmonic and reflectance-anisotropy spectroscopy of vicinal $Si (001) ∕ Si O_{2}$ interfaces: Experiment and simplified microscopic model

Jinhee Kwon, M. C. Downer, and B. S. Mendoza

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195330 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Magnetic properties and domain structure of (Ga,Mn)As films with perpendicular anisotropy

L. Thevenard, L. Largeau, O. Mauguin, G. Patriarche, A. Lemaître, N. Vernier, and J. Ferré

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195331 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Theoretical investigation of $PtSi$ surface energies and work functions

Manish K. Niranjan, Stefan Zollner, Leonard Kleinman, and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195332 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Unambiguous determination of Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy proportionality factors: The case of silicon nitride

V. Verlaan, C. H. M. van der Werf, W. M. Arnoldbik, H. D. Goldbach, and R. E. I. Schropp

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195333 (2006) - Published 30 May, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Dynamics of charge injection into an open conjugated polymer: A nonadiabatic approach

Ji-yong Fu, Jun-feng Ren, Xiao-jing Liu, De-sheng Liu, and Shi-jie Xie

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195401 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Magnetic field effects on spin-flip processes in semimagnetic quantum wells

Elena Tsitsishvili and Heinz Kalt

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195402 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Lattice-polarization effects on electron-gas charge densities in ionic superlattices

D. R. Hamann, D. A. Muller, and H. Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195403 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Intertube interactions in carbon nanotube bundles

Ágnes Szabados, László P. Biró, and Péter R. Surján

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195404 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Theory of coherent and incoherent processes in quantum corrals

Gastón García-Calderón and Lorea Chaos-Cador

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195405 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Adsorption and diffusion of an alkali-metal adatom on transition-metal dichalcogenides

C. Ramírez, R. Adelung, L. Kipp, and W. Schattke

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195406 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Continuous-time core-level photon-stimulated desorption spectroscopy for monitoring soft x-ray-induced reactions of molecules adsorbed on a single-crystal surface

L.-C. Chou and C.-R. Wen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195407 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Edge states and the quantized Hall effect in graphene

Luis Brey and H. A. Fertig

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195408 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Probing and locally modifying the intrinsic electronic structure and the conformation of supported nonplanar molecules

Marie-Christine Blüm, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195409 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Evolution of patterned GaAs(001) during homoepitaxial growth: Size versus spacing

H.-C. Kan, R. Ankam, S. Shah, K. M. Micholsky, T. Tadayyon-Eslami, L. Calhoun, and R. J. Phaneuf

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195410 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Conductance quantization in mesoscopic graphene

N. M. R. Peres, A. H. Castro Neto, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195411 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Structural characterization of fully coordinated ultrathin silica nanotubes by first-principles calculations

Mingwen Zhao, R. Q. Zhang, Yueyuan Xia, and S.-T. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195412 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Interplay between structural, chemical, and spectroscopic properties of $Ag ∕ Au (111)$ epitaxial ultrathin films: A way to tune the Rashba coupling

H. Cercellier, C. Didiot, Y. Fagot-Revurat, B. Kierren, L. Moreau, D. Malterre, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195413 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Simple approach to estimating the van der Waals interaction between carbon nanotubes

Cheng-Hua Sun, Gao-Qing Lu, and Hui-Ming Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195414 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Electronic structure of Co-induced magic clusters grown on $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ : Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and real-space multiple-scattering calculations

M. A. K. Zilani, H. Xu, T. Liu, Y. Y. Sun, Y. P. Feng, X.-S. Wang, and A. T. S. Wee

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195415 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Theory of optical scattering by achiral carbon nanotubes and their potential as optical nanoantennas

G. Ya. Slepyan, M. V. Shuba, S. A. Maksimenko, and A. Lakhtakia

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195416 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Effects of different hydrogen distributions on the magnetic properties of hydrogenated single-walled carbon nanotubes

Xiaoyuan Pei, Xiaoping Yang, and Jinming Dong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195417 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Effects of electron-electron interaction and electron spin correlations on the exchange coupling in mesoscopic rings

E. Heidari Semiromi and F. Ebrahimi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195418 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

EXAFS investigations of iodine-doped carbon nanotubes

T. Michel, L. Alvarez, J-L. Sauvajol, R. Almairac, R. Aznar, J-L. Bantignies, and O. Mathon

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195419 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Chirality correlation in double-wall carbon nanotubes as studied by electron diffraction

Kaori Hirahara, Mathieu Kociak, Shunji Bandow, Takanori Nakahira, Kouji Itoh, Yahachi Saito, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195420 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Surface-state scattering by adatoms on noble metals: Ab initio calculations using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method

Samir Lounis, Phivos Mavropoulos, Peter H. Dederichs, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 195421 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Volume 73, Issue 19

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Semiconductors I: bulk

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

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

ARTICLES

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

Semiconductors I: bulk

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

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

ERRATA