Volume 74, Issue 3

P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, E. V. Nefeodova, K. S. Nemkovski, V. N. Lazukov, N. N. Tiden, A. P. Menushenkov, R. V. Chernikov, K. V. Klementiev, A. Ochiai, A. V. Golubkov, R. I. Bewley, A. V. Rybina, and I. P. Sadikov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035114 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

First-principles study of spin-orbit effects and NMR in ${Sr}_{2} Ru O_{4}$

E. Pavarini and I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035115 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Phase and envelope characteristics of ultrashort pulses reflected from a two-dimensional silicon photonic crystal

H. W. Tan, H. M. van Driel, S. L. Schweizer, and R. B. Wehrspohn

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035116 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Regimes of correlated hopping via a two-site interacting chain

A. D. Ballard and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035117 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Matrix element effects in angle-resolved valence band photoemission with polarized light from the Ni(111) surface

M. Mulazzi, M. Hochstrasser, M. Corso, I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, J. Osterwalder, J. Henk, and G. Rossi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035118 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Electromagnetic scattering from finite-length metallic carbon nanotubes in the lower IR bands

Jin Hao and George W. Hanson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035119 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Expansion of the spectral representation function of a composite material in a basis of Legendre polynomials: Experimental determination and analytic approximations

C. Pecharromán and F. J. Gordillo-Vázquez

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035120 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

Semiconductors I: bulk

Optical rectification and shift currents in GaAs and GaP response: Below and above the band gap

F. Nastos and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035201 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Computation of the Stark effect in P impurity states in silicon

A. Debernardi, A. Baldereschi, and M. Fanciulli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035202 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Alloy scattering of $n$ -type carriers in $Ga N_{x} {As}_{1 - x}$

S. Fahy, A. Lindsay, H. Ouerdane, and E. P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035203 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Blockade of free carriers by hopping carriers leading to the low-frequency current oscillations in semi-insulating GaAs

A. G. de Oliveira, G. M. Ribeiro, H. A. Albuquerque, M. V. B. Moreira, W. N. Rodrigues, J. C. González, and R. M. Rubinger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035204 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Mechanisms of arsenic clustering in silicon

F. F. Komarov, O. I. Velichko, V. A. Dobrushkin, and A. M. Mironov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035205 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Current-driven threshold switching of a small polaron semiconductor to a metastable conductor

David Emin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035206 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Anomalous photoluminescence in $BaS : Eu$

P. F. Smet, J. E. Van Haecke, F. Loncke, H. Vrielinck, F. Callens, and D. Poelman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035207 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Ultranarrow photoluminescence transitions of nitrogen cluster bound excitons in dilute GaAsN

D. Karaiskaj, A. Mascarenhas, M. Adamcyk, E. C. Young, and T. Tiedje

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035208 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Geometrical phase effects on the Wigner distribution of Bloch electrons

Dimitrie Culcer and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035209 (2006) - Published 20 July, 2006

Density-functional electronic structure calculations for native defects and Cu impurities in CdS

Kazume Nishidate, Takuya Sato, Yuta Matsukura, Mamoru Baba, Masayuki Hasegawa, and Taizo Sasaki

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035210 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Nitrogen incorporation and lattice constant of strained dilute $Ga {As}_{1 - x} N_{x}$ layers on GaAs (001): An ab initio study

N. Shtinkov, P. Desjardins, R. A. Masut, and Michel Côté

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035211 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Tunneling assisted two-photon absorption: The nonlinear Franz-Keldysh effect

Hernando Garcia

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035212 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

Bound exciton states of isoelectronic centers in GaAs:N grown by an atomically controlled doping technique

Takashi Kita and Osamu Wada

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035213 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

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

Energetic stability, equilibrium geometry, and electronic properties of Bi-induced $Si (001) − (2 \times n)$ surfaces

R. H. Miwa and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035301 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Initial stage of the two-dimensional to three-dimensional transition of a strained SiGe layer on a pit-patterned Si(001) template

Gang Chen, H. Lichtenberger, G. Bauer, W. Jantsch, and F. Schäffler

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035302 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Phonon dispersion curves of the $Ge (111) − c (2 \times 8)$ surface determined by He atom scattering

J. Lobo, D. Farías, E. Hulpke, J. P. Toennies, and E. G. Michel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035303 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Evolution of wave-function statistics from closed quantum billiards up to the open quantum dot limit: Application to the measurement of dynamical properties through imaging experiments

M. Mendoza and P. A. Schulz

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035304 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Structural stability of $(Ga, Mn) As$ from first principles: Random alloys, ordered compounds, and superlattices

Jorge Osorio-Guillén, Yu-Jun Zhao, Sergey V. Barabash, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035305 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Density-functional study of structural and electronic properties of ${Ga}_{n} N$ $(n = 1 - 19)$ clusters

Bin Song, Chang-Hong Yao, and Pei-lin Cao

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035306 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Spin charging sequences in three colinear laterally coupled vertical quantum dots

J. Kim, D. V. Melnikov, J. P. Leburton, D. G. Austing, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035307 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Numerical investigation of a piezoelectric surface acoustic wave interaction with a one-dimensional channel

S. Rahman, M. Kataoka, C. H. W. Barnes, and H. P. Langtangen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035308 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Structure of the interface between ultrathin ${SiO}_{2}$ films and $4 H − SiC (0001)$

Mark Schürmann, Stefan Dreiner, Ulf Berges, and Carsten Westphal

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035309 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

$(n − 2)$ -fold resonant splitting in open periodic quantum structures

Yuan Ping Chen, Yue E. Xie, and Xiao Hong Yan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035310 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Wigner transport models of the electron-phonon kinetics in quantum wires

M. Nedjalkov, D. Vasileska, D. K. Ferry, C. Jacoboni, C. Ringhofer, I. Dimov, and V. Palankovski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035311 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Electronic and optical properties of $In As ∕ In P$ quantum dots on InP(100) and $In P (311) B$ substrates: Theory and experiment

C. Cornet, A. Schliwa, J. Even, F. Doré, C. Celebi, A. Létoublon, E. Macé, C. Paranthoën, A. Simon, P. M. Koenraad, N. Bertru, D. Bimberg, and S. Loualiche

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035312 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Phonon-induced electron relaxation in weakly confined single and coupled quantum dots

Juan I. Climente, Andrea Bertoni, Guido Goldoni, and Elisa Molinari

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035313 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Surface electromagnetic waves in Fibonacci superlattices: Theoretical and experimental results

Y. El Hassouani, H. Aynaou, E. H. El Boudouti, B. Djafari-Rouhani, A. Akjouj, and V. R. Velasco

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035314 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Second generation of Moore-Read quasiholes in a composite-fermion liquid

Arkadiusz Wójs, Daniel Wodziński, and John J. Quinn

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035315 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Identifying single-electron charging islands in a two-dimensional network of nanocrystalline silicon grains using Coulomb oscillation fingerprints

M. A. H. Khalafalla, H. Mizuta, and Z. A. K. Durrani

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035316 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Stimulated polariton scattering in intersubband lasers: Role of motional narrowing

J. B. Khurgin and H. C. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035317 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Charge transport in two-dimensional electron gas/insulator/superconductor junctions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

T. Yokoyama, Y. Tanaka, and J. Inoue

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035318 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Formation of stable fullerenelike ${Ga}_{n} {As}_{n}$ clusters $(6 \leq n \leq 9)$ : Gradient-corrected density-functional theory and a genetic global optimization approach

Jijun Zhao, Rui-Hua Xie, Xiaolan Zhou, Xiaoshuang Chen, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035319 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Polarized Raman scattering from single $GaN$ nanowires

Tsachi Livneh, Jinping Zhang, Guosheng Cheng, and Martin Moskovits

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035320 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Conductance quantization in etched $Si ∕ Si Ge$ quantum point contacts

G. Scappucci, L. Di Gaspare, E. Giovine, A. Notargiacomo, R. Leoni, and F. Evangelisti

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035321 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Quantum theory for electron spin decoherence induced by nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum computer architectures: Spectral diffusion of localized electron spins in the nuclear solid-state environment

W. M. Witzel and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035322 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Optical response of layers of embedded semiconductor quantum dots

C. M. J. Wijers, Jiun-Haw Chu, J. L. Liu, and O. Voskoboynikov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035323 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Escape dynamics of photoexcited electrons at catechol: ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

L. Gundlach, R. Ernstorfer, and F. Willig

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035324 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Nonequilibrium electron spin polarization in a double quantum dot: Lande mechanism

Yuri A. Serebrennikov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035325 (2006) - Published 20 July, 2006

Spin-filtering through excited states in double-quantum-dot pumps

Rafael Sánchez, Ernesto Cota, Ramón Aguado, and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035326 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Higher-order mesoscopic fluctuations in quantum wires: Conductance and current cumulants

Markku P. V. Stenberg and Jani Särkkä

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035327 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Population inversion in a $p$ -doped quantum well with reduced photon energy

Chi-Ken Lu, Hsin-Fei Meng, and Pin Han

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035328 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Fermi-edge singularities in transport through quantum dots

Holger Frahm, Carsten von Zobeltitz, Niels Maire, and Rolf J. Haug

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035329 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Electron energy spectrum and density of states for nonsymmetric semiconductor heterostructures in an in-plane magnetic field

A. Hernández-Cabrera, P. Aceituno, and F. T. Vasko

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035330 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Quantum phases of correlated electrons in artificial molecules under magnetic fields

Devis Bellucci, Massimo Rontani, Guido Goldoni, and Elisa Molinari

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035331 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Transport through an array of quantum dots using modified Wannier states

B. Lassen and M. Willatzen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035332 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Unified hydrodynamics theory of the lowest Landau level

I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035333 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Anomaly in the excitation dependence of the optical gain of semiconductor quantum dots

M. Lorke, W. W. Chow, T. R. Nielsen, J. Seebeck, P. Gartner, and F. Jahnke

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035334 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Geometrical decay of the spin Hall effect measured in $Fe (CsAu)_{ν}$ multilayers

F. Song, H. Beckmann, and G. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035335 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Effect of electromechanical coupling on the pressure coefficient of light emission in group-III nitride quantum wells and superlattices

S. P. Łepkowski and J. A. Majewski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035336 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Two-hole localization mechanism for electronic bond rupture of surface atoms by laser-induced valence excitation of semiconductors

K. Tanimura, E. Inami, J. Kanasaki, and Wayne P. Hess

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035337 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Coherent tunneling in exciton condensates of bilayer quantum Hall systems

K. Park and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035338 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Strain-engineered photoluminescence of silicon nanoclusters

X.-H. Peng, S. Ganti, A. Alizadeh, P. Sharma, S. K. Kumar, and S. K. Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035339 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Quasiclassical approach to the spin Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas

Roberto Raimondi, Cosimo Gorini, Peter Schwab, and Michael Dzierzawa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035340 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Origin of Stokes shift in InAs and CdSe quantum dots: Exchange splitting of excitonic states

Anjana Bagga, P. K. Chattopadhyay, and Subhasis Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035341 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Equilibrium spin current through tunneling junctions

J. Wang and K. S. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035342 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Oxygen-induced step bunching and faceting of Rh(553): Experiment and ab initio calculations

J. Gustafson, A. Resta, A. Mikkelsen, R. Westerström, J. N. Andersen, E. Lundgren, J. Weissenrieder, M. Schmid, P. Varga, N. Kasper, X. Torrelles, S. Ferrer, F. Mittendorfer, and G. Kresse

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035401 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Structure and properties of $TiN (111) ∕ {Si}_{x} N_{y} ∕ TiN (111)$ interfaces in superhard nanocomposites: First-principles investigations

Shiqiang Hao, Bernard Delley, and Catherine Stampfl

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035402 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Vibronic spectra of mixed Frenkel and charge transfer excitons

I. J. Lalov and I. Zhelyazkov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035403 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Structural investigation of the adsorption of SnPc on Ag(111) using normal-incidence x-ray standing waves

C. Stadler, S. Hansen, F. Pollinger, C. Kumpf, E. Umbach, T.-L. Lee, and J. Zegenhagen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035404 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Compositional structures and thermodynamic properties of Pd-Cu, Rh-Pd, and Rh-Pd-Cu nanoclusters computed by a combined free-energy concentration expansion method and tight-binding approach

Leonid Rubinovich, Michael I. Haftel, Noam Bernstein, and Micha Polak

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035405 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Numerical simulations of atomic-scale disordering processes at impact between two rough crystalline surfaces

F. Delogu and G. Cocco

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035406 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Experimental investigation towards a periodically pumped single-photon source

C. Bödefeld, J. Ebbecke, J. Toivonen, M. Sopanen, H. Lipsanen, and A. Wixforth

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035407 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Quantum effects in the capacitance between a pair of thin and slightly separated $Sr Ti O_{3}$ slabs: A first-principles study

Kazuyuki Uchida, Hiroyuki Kageshima, and Hiroshi Inokawa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035408 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

First-principles study of the polar (111) surface of ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$

L. Zhu, K. L. Yao, and Z. L. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035409 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Postbuckling prediction of axially loaded double-walled carbon nanotubes with temperature dependent properties and initial defects

Hui-Shen Shen and Chen-Li Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035410 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Surface electron mobility over a helium film from Boltzmann and force-balance equations

Débora Coimbra, Sviatoslav S. Sokolov, J.-P. Rino, and Nelson Studart

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035411 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Growth of palladium nanoparticles: An experimental and numerical study

Vinay Agarwal, I. Aruna, Varsha Banerjee, and B. R. Mehta

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035412 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Broad boron sheets and boron nanotubes: An ab initio study of structural, electronic, and mechanical properties

Jens Kunstmann and Alexander Quandt

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035413 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

First-principles study of ${Ni}_{2} P$ (0001) surfaces

Qunxiang Li and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035414 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Identification of an excitonic phonon sideband by photoluminescence spectroscopy of single-walled carbon-13 nanotubes

Yuhei Miyauchi and Shigeo Maruyama

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035415 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of gold nanospheres immobilized on a metallic surface

Shinya Abe and Kotaro Kajikawa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035416 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Electronic and elastic properties of two-dimensional carbon planes

Elena Konstantinova, Sócrates O. Dantas, and Paulo M. V. B. Barone

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035417 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

ARTICLES

Dynamic correlations in an ordered $c (2 \times 2)$ lattice gas

P. Argyrakis, M. Maragakis, O. Chumak, and A. Zhugayevych

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035418 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

ARTICLES

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Eigenmodes of metallic ring systems: A rigorous approach

Lei Zhou and S. T. Chui

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035419 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Density functional theory investigation of surface-stress-induced phase transformations in fcc metal nanowires

M. I. Haftel and Ken Gall

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035420 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Self-organization of Ce adatoms on $Ag (111)$ : A kinetic Monte Carlo study

N. N. Negulyaev, V. S. Stepanyuk, L. Niebergall, W. Hergert, H. Fangohr, and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035421 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Theory of electrochemical monoatomic nanowires

E. P. M. Leiva, Cristián G. Sánchez, P. Vélez, and W. Schmickler

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035422 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Raman spectroscopy of nanocrystalline diamond: An ab initio approach

J. Filik, J. N. Harvey, N. L. Allan, P. W. May, J. E. P. Dahl, S. Liu, and R. M. K. Carlson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035423 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Role of oxygen in $TiN (111) ∕ {Si}_{x} N_{y} ∕ TiN (111)$ interfaces: Implications for superhard nanocrystalline $nc − TiN ∕ a − {Si}_{3} N_{4}$ nanocomposites

Shiqiang Hao, Bernard Delley, and Catherine Stampfl

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035424 (2006) - Published 20 July, 2006

Adhesion of single functional groups to individual carbon nanotubes: Electronic effects probed by ab initio calculations

Giancarlo Cicero, Jeffrey C. Grossmann, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035425 (2006) - Published 20 July, 2006

Temperature dependence of the resistance of metallic nanowires of diameter $⩾ 15 nm$ : Applicability of Bloch-Grüneisen theorem

Aveek Bid, Achyut Bora, and A. K. Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035426 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Robust Bessel-function-based method for determination of the $(n, m)$ indices of single-walled carbon nanotubes by electron diffraction

Hua Jiang, David P. Brown, Albert G. Nasibulin, and Esko I. Kauppinen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035427 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Analytic theory of hexagonal monolayer interacting with hexagonal substrate

Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035428 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Characterization of aperiodic and periodic thin Cu films formed on the five-fold surface of $i − {Al}_{70} {Pd}_{21} {Mn}_{9}$ using medium-energy ion scattering spectroscopy

J. A. Smerdon, J. Ledieu, R. McGrath, T. C. Q. Noakes, P. Bailey, M. Draxler, C. F. McConville, T. A. Lograsso, and A. R. Ross

Phys. Rev. B 74, 035429 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Monotonically decreasing size distributions for one-dimensional Ga rows on Si(100)”

Pavel Kocán, Pavel Sobotík, and Ivan Ošt’ádal

Phys. Rev. B 74, 037401 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Reply to “Comment on ‘Monotonically decreasing size distributions for one-dimensional Ga rows on Si(100)’”

M. A. Albao, M. M. R. Evans, J. Nogami, D. Zorn, M. S. Gordon, and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. B 74, 037402 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Sum rule for thermal conductivity and dynamical thermal transport coefficients in condensed matter [Phys. Rev. B 73, 085117 (2006)]

B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. B 74, 039901 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Erratum: Effective Hamiltonian approach for magnetic band structure and additional oscillations in the magnetization originating from the Fermi surface at finite magnetic fields [Phys. Rev. B 72, 165304 (2005)]

M. Taut, H. Eschrig, and M. Richter

Phys. Rev. B 74, 039902 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006