Volume 73, Issue 4

Kengo Enomoto, Shinya Uji, Takahide Yamaguchi, Taichi Terashima, Takako Konoike, Mitsuka Nishimura, Toshiaki Enoki, Masatsugu Suzuki, and Itsuko S. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045115 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Importance of many-body effects to the spectral function of $1 T ‐ {TiTe}_{2}$

G. Nicolay, B. Eltner, S. Hüfner, F. Reinert, U. Probst, and E. Bucher

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045116 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Field dependent quasiparticles in a strongly correlated local system

A. C. Hewson, J. Bauer, and W. Koller

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045117 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Phase diagram for Anderson disorder: Beyond single-parameter scaling

Nigel Goldenfeld and Roger Haydock

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045118 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Ab initio study of the electronic properties and Fermi surface of the uranium dipnictides

S. Lebègue, P. M. Oppeneer, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045119 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Role of hydrogen atoms in the photoinduced formation of stable electron centers in H-doped $12 CaO ∙ 7 {Al}_{2} O_{3}$

Peter V. Sushko, Alexander L. Shluger, Katsuro Hayashi, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045120 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Electronic structure and thermopower of $Ni ({Ti}_{0.5} {Hf}_{0.5}) Sn$ and related half-Heusler phases

L. Chaput, J. Tobola, P. Pécheur, and H. Scherrer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045121 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Nonlinear lattice relaxation of photoexcited diplatinum-halide chain compounds

Jun Ohara and Shoji Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045122 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Collective variable-range hopping in the Coulomb gap: Computer simulations

A. M. Somoza, M. Ortuño, and M. Pollak

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045123 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Fermi surface and edge-localized states in graphite studied by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

K. Sugawara, T. Sato, S. Souma, T. Takahashi, and H. Suematsu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045124 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Renormalization-group analysis of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with a single impurity

S. Andergassen, T. Enss, V. Meden, W. Metzner, U. Schollwöck, and K. Schönhammer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045125 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Disordered electronic systems. III. Thermoelectric power in alloys with phase separation

Joachim Sonntag

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045126 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Fermi surface fluctuations and single electron excitations near Pomeranchuk instability in two dimensions

Luca Dell’Anna and Walter Metzner

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045127 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Nonanalytic corrections to the specific heat of a three-dimensional Fermi liquid

Andrey V. Chubukov, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045128 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Orientation-dependent electron-energy-loss spectroscopy of $Ti O_{2}$ : A comparison of theory and experiment

Christian Heiliger, Frank Heyroth, Frank Syrowatka, Hartmut S. Leipner, Igor Maznichenko, Kalevi Kokko, Wolfram Hergert, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045129 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Omnidirectional two-dimensional photonic crystal band gap structures

Thomas Haas, Annett Hesse, and Theodor Doll

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045130 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Microscopic model for photoinduced magnetism in the molecular complex ${[Mo (IV) {(CN)}_{2} {(CN − Cu L)}_{6}]}^{8 +}$ perchlorate

Rajamani Raghunathan, S. Ramasesha, Corine Mathonière, and Valérie Marvaud

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045131 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Magnetic susceptibility anisotropies in a two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

M. B. Silva Neto, L. Benfatto, V. Juricic, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045132 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Construction of model dielectric functions for two- and three-dimensional electron liquids from density functionals

A. P. Fávaro, K. Capelle, and João Vítor Batista Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045133 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Semiconductors I: bulk

Ab initio calculation of excitons in ZnO

Robert Laskowski and Niels Egede Christensen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045201 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Ab initio calculation of the electronic structure and spectroscopic properties of spinel $γ − {Sn}_{3} N_{4}$

W. Y. Ching and Paul Rulis

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045202 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Exchange interactions in ZnMeO $(Me = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)$ : Calculations using the frozen-magnon technique

L. M. Sandratskii and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045203 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Effect of intermolecular disorder on the intrachain charge transport in ladder-type poly( $p$ -phenylenes)

P. Prins, F. C. Grozema, J. M. Schins, T. J. Savenije, S. Patil, U. Scherf, and L. D. A. Siebbeles

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045204 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Effective-mass approximation for shallow donors in uniaxial indirect band-gap crystals and application to $4 H − SiC$

I. G. Ivanov, A. Stelmach, M. Kleverman, and E. Janzén

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045205 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Analytic bond-order potential for the gallium arsenide system

D. A. Murdick, X. W. Zhou, H. N. G. Wadley, D. Nguyen-Manh, R. Drautz, and D. G. Pettifor

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045206 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Dynamics of the coherent ground state in intermediate-valent ${YbB}_{12}$

B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, O. Ushakov, M. Dressel, and F. Iga

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045207 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Characterization of $E^{'}_{δ}$ and triplet point defects in oxygen-deficient amorphous silicon dioxide

G. Buscarino, S. Agnello, and F. M. Gelardi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045208 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Tight-binding study of the magnetic properties of Mn-doped Ge

Guoqiang Liu and Bang-Gui Liu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045209 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Electronic structure of intrinsic defects in crystalline germanium telluride

Arthur H. Edwards, Andrew C. Pineda, Peter A. Schultz, Marcus G. Martin, Aidan P. Thompson, Harold P. Hjalmarson, and Cyrus J. Umrigar

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045210 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Phonon and free-charge-carrier properties of ${Zn}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} Se$ epilayers grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

K. C. Agarwal, B. Daniel, C. Klingshirn, and M. Hetterich

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045211 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

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

Single-exciton spectroscopy of semimagnetic quantum dots

J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045301 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Chemical tuning of band alignments for metal gate/high- $κ$ oxide interfaces

Y. F. Dong, S. J. Wang, Y. P. Feng, and A. C. H. Huan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045302 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Magnetotransport in two-dimensional electron gas: The interplay between spin-orbit interaction and Zeeman splitting

W. Yang and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045303 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Spin relaxation in lateral quantum dots: Effects of spin-orbit interaction

Marian Florescu and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045304 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Spin-lattice relaxation of Mn ions in $ZnMnSe ∕ ZnBeSe$ quantum wells measured under pulsed photoexcitation

M. K. Kneip, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, A. A. Maksimov, I. I. Tartakovskii, D. Keller, W. Ossau, L. W. Molenkamp, and A. Waag

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045305 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Electronic transport through a quantum-dot ring

Kuo Bao and Yisong Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045306 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Optical initialization and dynamics of spin in a remotely doped quantum well

T. A. Kennedy, A. Shabaev, M. Scheibner, Al. L. Efros, A. S. Bracker, and D. Gammon

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045307 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Indium incorporation in In-rich ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As ∕ GaAs$ layers grown by low-pressure metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy and its influence on the growth of self-assembled quantum dots

Guillaume Saint-Girons, Isabelle Sagnes, and Gilles Patriarche

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045308 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and topography of $Si (111) − c 2 \times 8$ and coexisting $7 \times 7$ and $2 \times 1$ reconstructions: Surface electronic band structure

Franck Rose, Shigeki Kawai, Takanori Ishii, and Hideki Kawakatsu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045309 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Single-photon-induced random telegraph signal in a two-dimensional multiple-tunnel-junction array

Ratno Nuryadi, Yasuhiko Ishikawa, and Michiharu Tabe

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045310 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Thermal stability, atomic vibrational dynamics, and superheating of confined interfacial Sn layers in $Sn ∕ Si$ multilayers

B. Roldan Cuenya, W. Keune, W. A. Adeagbo, and P. Entel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045311 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Strain determination in MBE-grown $InAs$ quantum wires on $InP$

A. Mazuelas, L. González, J. M. García, Y. González, T. Schuelli, C. Priester, and H. T. Metzger

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045312 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Spin filtering through magnetic-field-modulated double quantum dot structures

P. Brusheim and H. Q. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045313 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Resonant inelastic tunneling in molecular junctions

Michael Galperin, Abraham Nitzan, and Mark A. Ratner

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045314 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Coupling between charge-density excitations and polar optical phonons in single quantum wells revisited

P. Giudici, A. R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, K. Eberl, and M. Hauser

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045315 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Dynamics of a nanowire superlattice in an ac electric field

Aizhen Zhang, L. C. Lew Yan Voon, and M. Willatzen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045316 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Size-dependent local conductance properties of CdSe nanocrystal ensembles

D. Toker, I. Balberg, O. Zelaya-Angel, E. Savir, and O. Millo

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045317 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Charge-injection mechanisms in semiconductor nanoparticles analyzed from force microscopy experiments

S. Barbet, T. Mélin, H. Diesinger, D. Deresmes, and D. Stiévenard

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045318 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Electric-field driven donor-based charge qubits in semiconductors

Belita Koiller, Xuedong Hu, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045319 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Theoretical analysis of ridge gratings for long-range surface plasmon polaritons

Thomas Søndergaard, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, and Alexandra Boltasseva

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045320 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Scaling behavior of charge and spin conductance of a two-dimensional network with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Hui-Xian Wang and Shi-Jie Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045321 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Stability of the quantum spin Hall effect: Effects of interactions, disorder, and $Z_{2}$ topology

Cenke Xu and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045322 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Tailored quantum dots for entangled photon pair creation

A. Greilich, M. Schwab, T. Berstermann, T. Auer, R. Oulton, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, V. Stavarache, D. Reuter, and A. Wieck

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045323 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Non-retracing orbits in Andreev billiards

Florian Libisch, Stefan Rotter, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045324 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Decoherence of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs in a noisy Andreev entangler

Émilie Dupont and Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045325 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Temperature dependence of the electron diffusion coefficient in electrolyte-filled ${TiO}_{2}$ nanoparticle films: Evidence against multiple trapping in exponential conduction-band tails

Nikos Kopidakis, Kurt D. Benkstein, Jao van de Lagemaat, Arthur J. Frank, Quan Yuan, and Eric A. Schiff

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045326 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Probing hydrogenated amorphous silicon surface states by spectroscopic and real-time second-harmonic generation

I. M. P. Aarts, J. J. H. Gielis, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and W. M. M. Kessels

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045327 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Cotunneling current through quantum dots with phonon-assisted spin-flip processes

Jörg Lehmann and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045328 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Integer spin Hall effect in ballistic quantum wires

S. Bellucci and P. Onorato

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045329 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Role of Si clusters in the phase transformation and formation of $(6 \times 6)$ -ring structures on 6H-SiC(0001) as a function of temperature: An STM and XPS study

W. J. Ong and E. S. Tok

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045330 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Piezoelectric coupling, phonons, and tunneling into a quantum Hall edge

S. Khlebnikov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045331 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Conductance of quantum wires: A numerical study of effects of an impurity and interactions

Amit Agarwal and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045332 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Electron temperature of hot spots in quantum Hall conductors

S. Komiyama, H. Sakuma, K. Ikushima, and K. Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045333 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron system in GaAs towards the weak interaction region

Y.-W. Tan, J. Zhu, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045334 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Charge-density excitations in a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions: Zero magnetic field

M. S. Kushwaha and S. E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045335 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Direct observation of site-specific valence electronic structure at the $Si O_{2} ∕ Si$ interface

Y. Yamashita, S. Yamamoto, K. Mukai, J. Yoshinobu, Y. Harada, T. Tokushima, T. Takeuchi, Y. Takata, S. Shin, K. Akagi, and S. Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045336 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Atomic assembly during GaN film growth: Molecular dynamics simulations

X. W. Zhou, D. A. Murdick, B. Gillespie, and H. N. G. Wadley

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045337 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Optical circular dichroism of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Ariadna Sánchez-Castillo, C. E. Román-Velázquez, and Cecilia Noguez

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045401 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Electronic and optical properties of nitrogen-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes

S. H. Lim, H. I. Elim, X. Y. Gao, A. T. S. Wee, W. Ji, J. Y. Lee, and J. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045402 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Effect of the atomic configuration of gold electrodes on the electrical conduction of alkanedithiol molecules

K.-H. Müller

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045403 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Many-impurity effects in Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy

O. Kodra and W. A. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045404 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Lattice dynamics of single-walled achiral ${BC}_{3}$ nanotubes

Z. X. Guo, Y. Xiao, J. W. Ding, and X. H. Yan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045405 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Size-sensitive melting characteristics of gallium clusters: Comparison of experiment and theory for ${Ga}_{17}^{+}$ and ${Ga}_{20}^{+}$

Sailaja Krishnamurty, S. Chacko, D. G. Kanhere, G. A. Breaux, C. M. Neal, and M. F. Jarrold

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045406 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Temperature dependent normal and anomalous electron diffusion in porous $Ti O_{2}$ studied by transient surface photovoltage

Thomas Dittrich, Iván Mora-Seró, Germà García-Belmonte, and Juan Bisquert

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045407 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Kinetic rectification of charge transmission through a single molecule

E. G. Petrov, V. May, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045408 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Effects of strain on island morphology and size distribution in irreversible submonolayer growth

Giridhar Nandipati and Jacques G. Amar

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045409 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Continuum and atomistic studies of a disclinated crack in a bicrystalline nanowire

K. Zhou, A. A. Nazarov, and M. S. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045410 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Effect of gating on the transport properties of a ${Si}_{4}$ cluster

Z. X. Dai, X. Q. Shi, X. H. Zheng, and Z. Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045411 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Phonon dispersion curves of stable and metastable $B C_{3}$ honeycomb epitaxial sheets and their chemical bonding: Experiment and theory

H. Yanagisawa, T. Tanaka, Y. Ishida, E. Rokuta, S. Otani, and C. Oshima

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045412 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Epitaxial growth of ultrathin Cr films on $Mo (110)$ at elevated temperature

A. Cazacu, S. Murphy, and I. V. Shvets

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045413 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Tuning the surface metal work function by deposition of ultrathin oxide films: Density functional calculations

Livia Giordano, Fabrizio Cinquini, and Gianfranco Pacchioni

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045414 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Different melting behavior in pentane and heptane monolayers on graphite: Molecular dynamics simulations

Cary L. Pint

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045415 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Near-field Raman scattering investigation of tip effects on $C_{60}$ molecules

Prabhat Verma, Kohei Yamada, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045416 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Possible lowest-reactivity structure of the silicon cluster ${Si}_{45}$

R. L. Zhou and B. C. Pan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045417 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Tunneling magnetoresistance in $Co − {ZrO}_{2}$ granular thin films

B. J. Hattink, M. García del Muro, Z. Konstantinović, X. Batlle, A. Labarta, and M. Varela

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045418 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Finite-temperature behavior of small silicon and tin clusters: An ab initio molecular dynamics study

Sailaja Krishnamurty, Kavita Joshi, D. G. Kanhere, and S. A. Blundell

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045419 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Nonequilibrium molecular vibrons: An approach based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique and the self-consistent Born approximation

D. A. Ryndyk, M. Hartung, and G. Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045420 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

First-principles kinetic Monte Carlo simulations for heterogeneous catalysis: Application to the CO oxidation at $Ru O_{2} (110)$

Karsten Reuter and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045433 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Microstructure and velocity of field-driven solid-on-solid interfaces moving under stochastic dynamics with local energy barriers

G. M. Buendía, P. A. Rikvold, and M. Kolesik

Phys. Rev. B 73, 045437 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Spin-Hall conductivity due to Rashba spin-orbit interaction in disordered systems [Phys. Rev. B 71, 245318 (2005)]

Oleg Chalaev and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. B 73, 049901 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Publisher's Note: Exciton binding energies in carbon nanotubes from two-photon photoluminescence [Phys. Rev. B 72, 241402(R) (2005)]

J. Maultzsch, R. Pomraenke, S. Reich, E. Chang, D. Prezzi, A. Ruini, E. Molinari, M. S. Strano, C. Thomsen, and C. Lienau

Phys. Rev. B 73, 049902 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Publisher's Note: Single-photon-induced random telegraph signal in a two-dimensional multiple-tunnel-junction array [Phys. Rev. B 73, 045310 (2006)]

Ratno Nuryadi, Yasuhiko Ishikawa, and Michiharu Tabe

Phys. Rev. B 73, 049903 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006