Volume 73, Issue 7

F. Masia, G. Pettinari, A. Polimeni, M. Felici, A. Miriametro, M. Capizzi, A. Lindsay, S. B. Healy, E. P. O’Reilly, A. Cristofoli, G. Bais, M. Piccin, S. Rubini, F. Martelli, A. Franciosi, P. J. Klar, K. Volz, and W. Stolz

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073201 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

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

Quantitative estimate of phonon scattering rates in different forms of diamond

Saswati Barman and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073301 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Origin of $P_{b 1}$ center at $Si O_{2} ∕ Si (100)$ interface: First-principles calculations

Koichi Kato, Takahiro Yamasaki, and Tsuyoshi Uda

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073302 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Rotation of the plane of polarization of light in a semiconductor microcavity

D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. Sanvitto, I. A. Shelykh, M. M. Glazov, G. Malpuech, D. D. Solnyshkov, A. Kavokin, S. Ceccarelli, M. S. Skolnick, and J. S. Roberts

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073303 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Středa-like formula in the spin Hall effect

Min-Fong Yang and Ming-Che Chang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073304 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Local field effects in excitonic population transfer in a driven quantum dot system

Emmanuel Paspalakis, Anastasia Kalini, and Andreas F. Terzis

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073305 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Integral charge quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall liquid

Giovanni Vignale

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073306 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Electric conductance through chemical bonding states being formed between a Si tip and a $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ surface by bias-voltage noncontact atomic force spectroscopy

T. Arai and M. Tomitori

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073307 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Accuracy of the calculated unoccupied states in GaN phases as tested by high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy

M. S. Moreno, S. Lazar, H. W. Zandbergen, and R. F. Egerton

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073308 (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Spin relaxation mechanism of strain-induced GaAs quantum dots studied by time-resolved Kerr rotation

Atsushi Kanno and Yasuaki Masumoto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073309 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Spin transitions in an incompressible liquid Coulomb-coupled to a quantum dot

V. M. Apalkov, Tapash Chakraborty, and C. Schüller

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073310 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Influence of dimer buckling on dimer diffusion: A scanning tunneling microscopy study

Jeroen Huijben, Arie van Houselt, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Bene Poelsema

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073311 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Antilocalization in Coulomb blockade

Y. Ahmadian and I. L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073312 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Giant step bunching from self-organized coalescence of $Sr Ru O_{3}$ islands

F. Sánchez, G. Herranz, J. Fontcuberta, M. V. García-Cuenca, C. Ferrater, and M. Varela

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073401 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Lifetimes of the image-state resonances at metal surfaces

A. G. Borisov, E. V. Chulkov, and P. M. Echenique

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073402 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Revisiting the (110) surface structure of ${TiO}_{2}$ : A theoretical analysis

Scott J. Thompson and Steven P. Lewis

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073403 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Waveguide cavity surface-enhanced Raman scattering

K. J. Webb and J. Li

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073404 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Nanoscale surface recrystallization driven by localized electric field

Feng Yin, Richard Palmer, and Quanmin Guo

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073405 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Energy transfer to erbium ions from wide-band-gap ${SnO}_{2}$ nanocrystals in silica

S. Brovelli, A. Chiodini, A. Lauria, F. Meinardi, and A. Paleari

Phys. Rev. B 73, 073406 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

ARTICLES

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

Optical decoherence and spectral diffusion at $1.5 μ m$ in ${Er}^{3 +} : Y_{2} {SiO}_{5}$ versus magnetic field, temperature, and ${Er}^{3 +}$ concentration

Thomas Böttger, C. W. Thiel, Y. Sun, and R. L. Cone

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075101 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Photoemission study of $R {BaCo}_{2} O_{6 - δ}$ ( $R = Tb$ , Nd; $δ = 0.5, 1.0$ )

K. Takubo, J.-Y. Son, T. Mizokawa, M. Soda, and M. Sato

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075102 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo study of TiO and MnO molecules

W. A. Al-Saidi, Henry Krakauer, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075103 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Charge carrier correlation in the electron-doped $t − J$ model

P. W. Leung

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075104 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Boron spectral density and disorder broadening in B-doped diamond

K.-W. Lee and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075105 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Electrical conductivity of warm expanded Al

G. Faussurier, C. Blancard, P. Renaudin, and P. L. Silvestrelli

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075106 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Fast factorization rule and plane-wave expansion method for two-dimensional photonic crystals with arbitrary hole-shape

Aurélien David, Henri Benisty, and Claude Weisbuch

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075107 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Spectral moment sum rules for strongly correlated electrons in time-dependent electric fields

V. M. Turkowski and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075108 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Persistent current and Drude weight in mesoscopic rings

F. Carvalho Dias, I. R. Pimentel, and M. Henkel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075109 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Light absorption spectrum of two-dimensional Mott insulators

Hisashi Itoh, Akira Takahashi, and Masaki Aihara

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075110 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Many-body effects on the electron-positron momentum density in simple and transition metals: Comparison with positron annihilation spectroscopy data

H. Sormann and G. Kontrym-Sznajd

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075111 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Magnetodielectric effect in the $S = 1 ∕ 2$ quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet $K_{2} V_{3} O_{8}$

R. C. Rai, J. Cao, J. L. Musfeldt, D. J. Singh, X. Wei, R. Jin, Z. X. Zhou, B. C. Sales, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075112 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Spectroscopic properties and configuration interaction assisted crystal field analysis of ${Nd}^{3 +}$ in neat ${Cs}_{2} Na Nd {Cl}_{6}$

Xianju Zhou, Chris S. K. Mak, Peter A. Tanner, and Michèle D. Faucher

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075113 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Adiabatic and nonadiabatic contributions to the free energy from the electron-phonon interaction for Na, K, Al, and Pb

N. Bock, Duane C. Wallace, and D. Coffey

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075114 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Optical properties of bcc transition metals in the range $0 - 40 eV$

P. Romaniello, P. L. de Boeij, F. Carbone, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075115 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

$f$ -electron correlations in nonmagnetic Ce studied by means of spin-resolved resonant photoemission

S.-W. Yu, T. Komesu, B. W. Chung, G. D Waddill, S. A. Morton, and J. G. Tobin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075116 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Optical properties of photonic crystals composed of metal-coated spheres

Jensen Li, Gang Sun, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075117 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Experimental demonstration of non-near-field image formed by negative refraction

Zhifang Feng, Xiangdong Zhang, Kun Ren, Shuai Feng, Zhi-Yuan Li, Bingying Cheng, and Daozhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075118 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Deconfinement of spinons on critical points: Multiflavor ${CP}^{1} + U (1)$ lattice gauge theory in three dimensions

Shunsuke Takashima, Ikuo Ichinose, and Tetsuo Matsui

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075119 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Steric hindrance of ion-ion interaction in electrolytes

Emad F. Aziz, M. Freiwald, S. Eisebitt, and W. Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075120 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Accurate polarization within a unified Wannier function formalism

Massimiliano Stengel and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075121 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Response of a Fermi gas to time-dependent perturbations: Riemann-Hilbert approach at nonzero temperatures

Bernd Braunecker

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075122 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Semiconductors I: bulk

Electron paramagnetic resonance and theoretical studies of shallow phosphorous centers in $3 C$ -, $4 H$ -, and $6 H − SiC$

N. T. Son, A. Henry, J. Isoya, M. Katagiri, T. Umeda, A. Gali, and E. Janzén

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075201 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

First principles study of ferromagnetism in ${Ti}_{0.0625} {Zn}_{0.9375} O$

K. Osuch, E. B. Lombardi, and W. Gebicki

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075202 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Acceptorlike behavior of nitrogen deep traps in $GaAs : N$

E. A. Stinaff, D. J. Wolford, K. W. Ver Steeg, and Tyson D. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075203 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Absolute negative conductivity of electrons after ultrafast photoexcitation

O. E. Raichev and F. T. Vasko

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075204 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Transport and magnetic properties of conducting polyaniline doped with $B X_{3}$ ( $X = F$ , Cl, and Br)

Debangshu Chaudhuri, Ashwani Kumar, R. Nirmala, D. D. Sarma, M. García-Hernández, L. S. Sharath Chandra, and V. Ganesan

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075205 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Critical temperatures of the two-band model for diluted magnetic semiconductors

F. Popescu, Y. Yildirim, G. Alvarez, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075206 (2006) - Published 15 February, 2006

Relaxation of stress-split orthoexcitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$

J. I. Jang and J. P. Wolfe

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075207 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Theory of magneto-optical properties of excitons in GaN

M. Sobol and W. Bardyszewski

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075208 (2006) - Published 16 February, 2006

Muoniated radical states in the organic semiconductor phthalocyanine

J. Piroto Duarte, R. C. Vilão, H. V. Alberto, J. M. Gil, Francisco P. S. C. Gil, A. Weidinger, N. Ayres de Campos, and K. Fostiropoulos

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075209 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Large magnetic moments and anomalous exchange coupling in As-doped Mn clusters

Mukul Kabir, D. G. Kanhere, and Abhijit Mookerjee

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075210 (2006) - Published 22 February, 2006

Many-body theory of current-induced fluorescence in molecular junctions

Upendra Harbola, Jeremy B. Maddox, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075211 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

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

From a few to many electrons in quantum dots under strong magnetic fields: Properties of rotating electron molecules with multiple rings

Yuesong Li, Constantine Yannouleas, and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075301 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Adsorption of ${Sb}_{4}$ on Ge(001) and Si(001) surfaces: Scanning tunneling microscopy and first-principles calculations

E. Martínez-Guerra, G. Falkenberg, R. L. Johnson, and Noboru Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075302 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Imaging mesoscopic spin Hall flow: Spatial distribution of local spin currents and spin densities in and out of multiterminal spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanostructures

Branislav K. Nikolić, Liviu P. Zârbo, and Satofumi Souma

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075303 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Investigation of liquid droplets, plume deflection, and a columnar structure in laser ablation of silicon

L. Cultrera, M. I. Zeifman, and A. Perrone

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075304 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Pulse-driven interwell carrier transfer in $n$ -type doped asymmetric double quantum wells

Adriano A. Batista

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075305 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Effects of strain, electric, and magnetic fields on lateral electron-spin transport in semiconductor epilayers

M. Hruška, Š. Kos, S. A. Crooker, A. Saxena, and D. L. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075306 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Thermoelectric effects in strongly interacting quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads

M. Krawiec and K. I. Wysokiński

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075307 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Adiabatic quantum pumping of a desired ratio of spin current to charge current

Sungjun Kim, Kunal K. Das, and Ari Mizel

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075308 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Influence of the long-lived quantum Hall potential on the characteristics of quantum devices

M. Pioro-Ladrière, A. Usher, A. S. Sachrajda, J. Lapointe, J. Gupta, Z. Wasilewski, S. Studenikin, and M. Elliott

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075309 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Spin Hamiltonian for the quantum Hall state in a ladder geometry

E. Kapit, P. Luitel, and D. F. Schroeter

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075310 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Coherent-incoherent transition in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model

Alex Chin and Misha Turlakov

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075311 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Fault-tolerant quantum computing with coded spins using the conditional Faraday rotation in quantum dots

Michael N. Leuenberger

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075312 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Spin tunneling through an indirect barrier: Tight-binding calculations

Titus Sandu, Athanasios Chantis, and Radu Iftimie

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075313 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Theory of a two-level artificial molecule in laterally coupled quantum Hall droplets

Ramin M. Abolfath, W. Dybalski, and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075314 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Dependence of the vortex structure in quantum dots on the range of the inter-electron interaction

T. Stopa, B. Szafran, M. B. Tavernier, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075315 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Small-angle impurity scattering and the spin Hall conductivity in two-dimensional semiconductor systems

A. V. Shytov, E. G. Mishchenko, H.-A. Engel, and B. I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075316 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Excitation of surface plasmons at a $Si O_{2} ∕ Ag$ interface by silicon quantum dots: Experiment and theory

J. Kalkman, H. Gersen, L. Kuipers, and A. Polman

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075317 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Coordinate shift in the semiclassical Boltzmann equation and the anomalous Hall effect

N. A. Sinitsyn, Q. Niu, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075318 (2006) - Published 13 February, 2006

Self-generated Bloch oscillations in biased semiconductor superlattices

Lijun Yang and Marc M. Dignam

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075319 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Evidence for excitonic polarons in $In As ∕ Ga As$ quantum dots

V. Preisler, T. Grange, R. Ferreira, L. A. de Vaulchier, Y. Guldner, F. J. Teran, M. Potemski, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075320 (2006) - Published 14 February, 2006

Electron transport in quantum cascade lasers in a magnetic field

Ivana Savić, Zoran Ikonić, Vitomir Milanović, Nenad Vukmirović, Vladimir D. Jovanović, Dragan Indjin, and Paul Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075321 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Analysis of strain and intermixing in single-layer $Ge ∕ Si$ quantum dots using polarized Raman spectroscopy

A. V. Baranov, A. V. Fedorov, T. S. Perova, R. A. Moore, V. Yam, D. Bouchier, V. Le Thanh, and K. Berwick

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075322 (2006) - Published 17 February, 2006

Formation and ordering of Ge nanocrystals on $Si O_{2}$

A. Karmous, I. Berbezier, and A. Ronda

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075323 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Two-spin measurements in exchange interaction quantum computers

S. D. Barrett and T. M. Stace

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075324 (2006) - Published 21 February, 2006

Interface of epitaxial ${SrTiO}_{3}$ on silicon characterized by transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and electron holography

H. F. Tian, H. X. Yang, H. R. Zhang, Y. Li, H. B. Lu, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075325 (2006) - Published 23 February, 2006

Electronic transport properties of molecular bipyridine junctions: Effects of isomer and contact structures

Zong-Liang Li, Bin Zou, Chuan-Kui Wang, and Yi Luo

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075326 (2006) - Published 24 February, 2006

Inter-valence-band hole-hole scattering in cubic semiconductors

M. V. Dolguikh, A. V. Muravjov, and R. E. Peale

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075327 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Bonding and interface states of $Si : Hf O_{2}$ and $Si : Zr O_{2}$ interfaces

P. W. Peacock, K. Xiong, K. Tse, and J. Robertson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075328 (2006) - Published 27 February, 2006

Electronic and optical fine structure of GaAs nanocrystals: The role of $d$ orbitals in a tight-binding approach

J. G. Díaz and G. W. Bryant

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075329 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Barrier-induced carrier localization effects in ordered/disordered/ordered quaternary quantum wells grown on $GaAs$ substrates

E. Ribeiro, A. A. Bernussi, R. L. Maltez, W. Carvalho, Jr., A. L. Gobbi, and D. Ugarte

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075330 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Spin polarization of edge states and the magnetosubband structure in quantum wires

S. Ihnatsenka and I. V. Zozoulenko

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075331 (2006) - Published 28 February, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Thickness dependence of the atomic and electronic structures of $Ti O_{2}$ rutile (110) slabs and the effects on the electronic and magnetic properties of supported clusters of Pd and Rh

P. Murugan, Vijay Kumar, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075401 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Dynamical core-hole screening in the x-ray absorption spectra of graphite, $C_{60}$ , and carbon nanotubes: A first-principles electronic structure study

O. Wessely, O. Eriksson, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075402 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Photophysics of excitons in quasi-one-dimensional organic semiconductors: Single-walled carbon nanotubes and $π$ -conjugated polymers

H. Zhao, S. Mazumdar, C.-X. Sheng, M. Tong, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075403 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Photoelectron spectra calculations of $N @ C_{60}$ molecules on a crystalline Si surface

A. S. Baltenkov, U. Becker, S. T. Manson, and A. Z. Msezane

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075404 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Pulling gold nanowires with a hydrogen clamp: Strong interactions of hydrogen molecules with gold nanojunctions

Sz. Csonka, A. Halbritter, and G. Mihály

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075405 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Photoemission and inverse photoemission study of the electronic structure of $C_{60}$ fullerenes encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes

H. Shiozawa, H. Ishii, H. Kihara, N. Sasaki, S. Nakamura, T. Yoshida, Y. Takayama, T. Miyahara, S. Suzuki, Y. Achiba, T. Kodama, M. Higashiguchi, X. Y. Chi, M. Nakatake, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, and H. Kataura

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075406 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Long-period surface structure stabilized by Fermi surface nesting: $Cu (001) − (\sqrt{20} \times \sqrt{20}) R 26.6 ° − In$

T. Nakagawa, H. W. Yeom, E. Rotenberg, B. Krenzer, S. D. Kevan, H. Okuyama, M. Nishijima, and T. Aruga

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075407 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Size-induced undercooling and overheating in phase transitions in bare and embedded clusters

Chang Q. Sun, Yong Shi, C. M. Li, S. Li, and T. C. Au Yeung

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075408 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Work function studies of rare-gas/noble metal adsorption systems using a Kelvin probe

C. Hückstädt, S. Schmidt, S. Hüfner, F. Forster, F. Reinert, and M. Springborg

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075409 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Ab initio calculations of the dispersion contribution to the physisorption potential: Application to the $N_{2}$ -BN system

I. Baraille, M. Rérat, and P. Mora

Phys. Rev. B 73, 075410 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Electronic structure of $Si (001) − c (4 \times 2)$ analyzed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy and ab initio simulations [Phys. Rev. B 73, 035330 (2006)]

Koji S. Nakayama, M. M. G. Alemany, Tomoko Sugano, Kenji Ohmori, H. Kwak, James R. Chelikowsky, and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. B 73, 079901 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006