Volume 74, Issue 4

V. R. Galakhov, N. A. Ovechkina, A. S. Shkvarin, S. N. Shamin, E. Z. Kurmaev, K. Kuepper, A. F. Takács, M. Raekers, S. Robin, M. Neumann, G.-N. Gavrilă, A. S. Semenova, D. G. Kellerman, T. Käämbre, and J. Nordgren

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045120 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Wave-vector analysis of the jellium exchange-correlation surface energy in the random-phase approximation: Support for nonempirical density functionals

J. M. Pitarke, Lucian A. Constantin, and John P. Perdew

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045121 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Hydrogen bonding in infinite hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen chloride chains

Christian Buth and Beate Paulus

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045122 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

ARTICLES

Modulating image oscillations in focusing by a metamaterial lens: Time-dependent Green’s function approach

Xueqin Huang, Lei Zhou, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045123 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

ARTICLES

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

Charge susceptibility in the $t − J$ model

D. N. Aristov and G. Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045124 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

General theorem relating the bulk topological number to edge states in two-dimensional insulators

Xiao-Liang Qi, Yong-Shi Wu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045125 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Correlation between thermodynamical stabilities of metal borohydrides and cation electronegativites: First-principles calculations and experiments

Yuko Nakamori, Kazutoshi Miwa, Akihito Ninomiya, Haiwen Li, Nobuko Ohba, Shin-ichi Towata, Andreas Züttel, and Shin-ichi Orimo

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045126 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Bulk band structure and Fermi surface of nickel: A soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission study

N. Kamakura, Y. Takata, T. Tokushima, Y. Harada, A. Chainani, K. Kobayashi, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045127 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Surface state peculiarities in one-dimensional photonic crystal interfaces

A. P. Vinogradov, A. V. Dorofeenko, S. G. Erokhin, M. Inoue, A. A. Lisyansky, A. M. Merzlikin, and A. B. Granovsky

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045128 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

Semiconductors I: bulk

Magnetic anisotropy switching in $(Ga, Mn) As$ with increasing hole concentration

K. Hamaya, T. Watanabe, T. Taniyama, A. Oiwa, Y. Kitamoto, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045201 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Effects of cation $d$ states on the structural and electronic properties of III-nitride and II-oxide wide-band-gap semiconductors

Anderson Janotti, David Segev, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045202 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Simultaneous diffusion of Si and N in silicon nitride

H. Schmidt, U. Geckle, and M. Bruns

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045203 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Donor-acceptor pairs in the confined structure of $ZnO$ nanocrystals

Serguei B. Orlinskii, Hubert Blok, Jan Schmidt, Pavel G. Baranov, Celso de Mello Donegá, and Andries Meijerink

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045204 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Band gap of Hg chalcogenides: Symmetry-reduction-induced band-gap opening of materials with inverted band structures

Chang-Youn Moon and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045205 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

First-principles calculations of the band gap and optical properties of germanium sulfide

L. Makinistian and E. A. Albanesi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045206 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Highly effective ${Mg}_{2} {Si}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x}$ thermoelectrics

V. K. Zaitsev, M. I. Fedorov, E. A. Gurieva, I. S. Eremin, P. P. Konstantinov, A. Yu. Samunin, and M. V. Vedernikov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045207 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Defects in virgin and $N^{+}$ -implanted ZnO single crystals studied by positron annihilation, Hall effect, and deep-level transient spectroscopy

G. Brauer, W. Anwand, W. Skorupa, J. Kuriplach, O. Melikhova, C. Moisson, H. von Wenckstern, H. Schmidt, M. Lorenz, and M. Grundmann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045208 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Dependence of the linewidth of planar electron channeling radiation on the thickness of the diamond crystal

B. Azadegan, W. Wagner, and J. Pawelke

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045209 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Dynamics of conformational relaxation in photoexcited oligofluorenes and polyfluorene

S. I. Hintschich, F. B. Dias, and A. P. Monkman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045210 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Auger recombination and biexcitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$ : A case for dark excitonic matter

J. I. Jang and J. P. Wolfe

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045211 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Dielectric properties of doping-free $Na {Mn}_{7} O_{12}$ : Origin of the observed colossal dielectric constant

R. Cabassi, F. Bolzoni, A. Gauzzi, E. Gilioli, A. Prodi, and F. Licci

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045212 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Hyperfine interaction and magnetoresistance in organic semiconductors

Y. Sheng, T. D. Nguyen, G. Veeraraghavan, Ö. Mermer, M. Wohlgenannt, S. Qiu, and U. Scherf

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045213 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Theoretical study of interacting hole gas in $p$ -doped bulk III-V semiconductors

John Schliemann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045214 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Phase stability, chemical bonds, and gap bowing of ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N$ alloys: Comparison between cubic and wurtzite structures

C. Caetano, L. K. Teles, M. Marques, A. Dal Pino, Jr., and L. G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045215 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Dressed-band theory for semiconductors in a high-intensity infrared laser field

Yoshihiko Mizumoto, Yosuke Kayanuma, Ajit Srivastava, Junichiro Kono, and Alan H. Chin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045216 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Vacancy clustering and diffusion in silicon: Kinetic lattice Monte Carlo simulations

Benjamin P. Haley, Keith M. Beardmore, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045217 (2006) - Published 31 July, 2006

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

Tunneling conductance of a mesoscopic ring with spin-orbit coupling and Tomonaga-Luttinger interaction

M. Pletyukhov, V. Gritsev, and N. Pauget

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045301 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Enhancement and suppression of energy transfer from Si nanocrystals to Er ions through a control of the photonic mode density

Toshihiro Nakamura, Minoru Fujii, Satoru Miura, Masaki Inui, and Shinji Hayashi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045302 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Effect of magnetic anisotropy on the transverse planar Hall resistance of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ films grown on vicinal $GaAs$ substrates

W. L. Lim, X. Liu, K. Dziatkowski, Z. Ge, S. Shen, J. K. Furdyna, and M. Dobrowolska

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045303 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Magnetoplasmon excitations in quasi-two-dimensional Rashba spintronic systems: Oscillations, resonances, and energy gaps

Manvir S. Kushwaha

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045304 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Effect of inelastic scattering on spin entanglement detection through current noise

Pablo San-Jose and Elsa Prada

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045305 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Light intensity, temperature, and thickness dependence of the open-circuit voltage in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Henry J. Snaith, Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Michael Grätzel, and Marco Chiesa

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045306 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Screening in the two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling

M. Pletyukhov and V. Gritsev

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045307 (2006) - Published 12 July, 2006

Multichannel tunneling in multiband heterostructures: Heavy-hole and light-hole transmission properties

L. Diago-Cisneros, H. Rodríguez-Coppola, R. Pérez-Álvarez, and P. Pereyra

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045308 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Artificial trapping of a stable high-density dipolar exciton fluid

Gang Chen, Ronen Rapaport, L. N. Pffeifer, K. West, P. M. Platzman, Steven Simon, Z. Vörös, and D. Snoke

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045309 (2006) - Published 14 July, 2006

Exchange coupling in semiconductor nanostructures: Validity and limitations of the Heitler-London approach

M. J. Calderón, Belita Koiller, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045310 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Two-dimensional architectures for donor-based quantum computing

L. C. L. Hollenberg, A. D. Greentree, A. G. Fowler, and C. J. Wellard

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045311 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Multiple-impurity Anderson model for quantum dots coupled in parallel

R. Žitko and J. Bonča

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045312 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Artificial molecular quantum rings: Spin density functional theory calculations

L. K. Castelano, G.-Q. Hai, B. Partoens, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045313 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Diffusion and ballistic contributions of the interaction correction to the conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas

G. M. Minkov, A. V. Germanenko, O. E. Rut, A. A. Sherstobitov, V. A. Larionova, A. K. Bakarov, and B. N. Zvonkov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045314 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Influence of a parallel magnetic field on the microwave photoconductivity in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system

C. L. Yang, R. R. Du, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045315 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Nominally forbidden transitions in the interband optical spectrum of quantum dots

Gustavo A. Narvaez and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045316 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Polariton parametric amplifications in organic microcavities

Hashem Zoubi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045317 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Atomic-scale dielectric permittivity profiles in slabs and multilayers

N. Shi and R. Ramprasad

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045318 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a tool to probe fractional statistics

K. T. Law, D. E. Feldman, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045319 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Orbital and spin relaxation in single and coupled quantum dots

Peter Stano and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045320 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Metastable excited states of a closed quantum dot probed by an aluminum single-electron transistor

J. C. Chen, Zhenghua An, T. Ueda, S. Komiyama, K. Hirakawa, and V. Antonov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045321 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Interedge interactions and fixed points at a junction of quantum Hall line junctions

Sourin Das, Sumathi Rao, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045322 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Radiative emission dynamics of quantum dots in a single cavity micropillar

M. Schwab, H. Kurtze, T. Auer, T. Berstermann, M. Bayer, J. Wiersig, N. Baer, C. Gies, F. Jahnke, J. P. Reithmaier, A. Forchel, M. Benyoucef, and P. Michler

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045323 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Amplification and quantum statistics of microcavity polaritons under nonresonant excitation

Paolo Schwendimann and Antonio Quattropani

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045324 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Influence of contacts on the microwave response of a two-dimensional electron stripe

S. A. Mikhailov and N. A. Savostianova

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045325 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Network compaction and surface deformation in the hydrogenated silicon nitride film upon soft x-ray/VUV illumination

Mohammed H. Modi, G. S. Lodha, P. Srivastava, A. K. Sinha, and R. V. Nandedkar

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045326 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Topological Hall effect studied in simple models

G. Metalidis and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045327 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Sensitivity and back action in charge qubit measurements by a strongly coupled single-electron transistor

Neil P. Oxtoby, H. M. Wiseman, and He-Bi Sun

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045328 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Distribution of oscillator strength in Gaussian quantum dots: An energy flow from center-of-mass mode to internal modes

Tokuei Sako, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, and Geerd H. F. Diercksen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045329 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Spin-glass-like behavior of Ge:Mn

C. Jaeger, C. Bihler, T. Vallaitis, S. T. B. Goennenwein, M. Opel, R. Gross, and M. S. Brandt

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045330 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Critical roles of metal-molecule contacts in electron transport through molecular-wire junctions

A. Grigoriev, J. Sköldberg, G. Wendin, and Ž. Crljen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045401 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Silica nanotube multi-terminal junctions as a coating for carbon nanotube junctions

Leonid A. Chernozatonskii, Vasilii I. Artyukhov, and Pavel B. Sorokin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045402 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Dielectric response theory for electron energy loss in clad cylindrical systems

Y. H. Tu, C. M. Kwei, Y. C. Li, and C. J. Tung

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045403 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Site-specific laser modification of MgO nanoclusters: Towards atomic-scale surface structuring

Kenneth M. Beck, Matthias Henyk, Chongmin Wang, Paolo E. Trevisanutto, Peter V. Sushko, Wayne P. Hess, and Alexander L. Shluger

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045404 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Kinetic lattice gas model of collective diffusion in a one-dimensional system with long-range repulsive interactions

Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur and Zbigniew W. Gortel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045405 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Coalescence, melting, and mechanical characteristics of carbon nanotube junctions

Ping-Chi Tsai, Yeau-Ren Jeng, and Te-Hua Fang

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045406 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Growth and structure of prismatic boron nitride nanorods

Hongzhou Zhang, John D. FitzGerald, Lewis T. Chadderton, Jun Yu, and Ying Chen

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045407 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Scaling of the conductance in gold nanotubes

Miriam del Valle, Carlos Tejedor, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045408 (2006) - Published 10 July, 2006

Ab initio study of single-wall ${BC}_{2} N$ nanotubes

Hui Pan, Yuan Ping Feng, and Jianyi Lin

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045409 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Time-dependent fracture behavior of single-walled carbon nanotubes with and without Stone-Wales defects

Yu Ren, Tan Xiao, and Kin Liao

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045410 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Size-dependent resistivity of nanometric copper wires

H. Marom, J. Mullin, and M. Eizenberg

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045411 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Nonlinear surface impurity in a semi-infinite two-dimensional square lattice: Green function approach

Mario I. Molina

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045412 (2006) - Published 11 July, 2006

Transport properties of composite solid films with rough self-affine surfaces

Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee and Muhammad Sahimi

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045413 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Evidence for bandlike dispersion in $K_{6} C_{60} (110)$ films

A. Goldoni, L. Petaccia, G. Zampieri, S. Lizzit, C. Cepek, E. Gayone, J. Wells, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045414 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Spontaneous oscillation of current in fullerene molecular junctions

Chao-Cheng Kaun, Ryan Jorn, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045415 (2006) - Published 13 July, 2006

Thermal modification of magnetism in cobalt-doped ZnO nanowires grown at low temperatures

Jingbiao Cui and Ursula Gibson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045416 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Photoemission studies of ${Ti}_{3} Si C_{2}$ and nanocrystalline-TiC/amorphous-SiC nanocomposite thin films

P. Eklund, C. Virojanadara, J. Emmerlich, L. I. Johansson, H. Högberg, and L. Hultman

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045417 (2006) - Published 17 July, 2006

Perfectly matched multiscale simulations for discrete lattice systems: Extension to multiple dimensions

Shaofan Li, Xiaohu Liu, Ashutosh Agrawal, and Albert C. To

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045418 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Temperature-induced epitaxial growth modes of para-sexiphenyl on Au(111)

T. Haber, S. Muellegger, A. Winkler, and R. Resel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045419 (2006) - Published 18 July, 2006

Plasmon instability in energy transfer from a current of charged particles to multiwall and cylindrical nanotube arrays based on self-consistent field theory

Antonios Balassis and Godfrey Gumbs

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045420 (2006) - Published 20 July, 2006

Nanotube field of $C_{60}$ molecules in carbon nanotubes: Atomistic versus continuous approach

B. Verberck and K. H. Michel

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045421 (2006) - Published 21 July, 2006

Strongly bonded water monomers on the ice Ih basal plane: Density-functional calculations

C. Thierfelder, A. Hermann, P. Schwerdtfeger, and W. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045422 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Optical properties of cobalt clusters implanted in thin silica layers

M. Gilliot, A. En Naciri, L. Johann, J. P. Stoquert, J. J. Grob, D. Muller, and M. Stchakovsky

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045423 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Confined states and direction-dependent transmission in graphene quantum wells

J. Milton Pereira, Jr., V. Mlinar, F. M. Peeters, and P. Vasilopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045424 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Coadsorption of potassium and carbon monoxide on Ni(111): A density functional theory study

A. H. Zhang, Jing Zhu, and W. H. Duan

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045425 (2006) - Published 25 July, 2006

Electronic properties of acenes: Oligomer to polymer structure

M. C. dos Santos

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045426 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Modulation of Luttinger liquid exponents in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

S. Bellucci, J. González, P. Onorato, and E. Perfetto

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045427 (2006) - Published 26 July, 2006

Luminescence quenching of tetracene films adsorbed on an ultrathin alumina $Al O_{x}$ layer on ${Ni}_{3} Al (111)$

Andreas Langner, Yang Su, and Moritz Sokolowski

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045428 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006

Ab initio ballistic conductance with spin-orbit coupling: Application to monoatomic wires

Andrea Dal Corso, Alexander Smogunov, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045429 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

Geometric and electronic structure of the $N ∕ Rh (100)$ system by core-level photoelectron spectroscopy: Experiment and theory

Laura Bianchettin, Alessandro Baraldi, Stefano de Gironcoli, Silvano Lizzit, Luca Petaccia, Erik Vesselli, Giovanni Comelli, and Renzo Rosei

Phys. Rev. B 74, 045430 (2006) - Published 28 July, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Coriolis force, geometric phase, and spin-electric coupling in semiconductors [Phys. Rev. B 73, 195317 (2006)]

Yuri A. Serebrennikov

Phys. Rev. B 74, 049901 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Erratum: Resonant soft x-ray scattering investigation of orbital and magnetic ordering in ${La}_{0.5} {Sr}_{1.5} {MnO}_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. B 71, 245102 (2005)]

S. B. Wilkins, N. Stojić, T. A. W. Beale, N. Binggeli, C. W. M. Castleton, P. Bencok, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, P. D. Hatton, and M. Altarelli

Phys. Rev. B 74, 049902 (2006) - Published 19 July, 2006

Erratum: Time-dependent universal conductance fluctuations and coherence in AuPd and Ag [Phys. Rev. B 72, 035407 (2005)]

A. Trionfi, S. Lee, and D. Natelson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 049903 (2006) - Published 24 July, 2006

Erratum: Many-impurity effects in Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. B 73, 045404 (2006)]

O. Kodra and W. A. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. B 74, 049904 (2006) - Published 27 July, 2006