Volume 76, Issue 7

T. D. Veal, P. D. C. King, P. H. Jefferson, L. F. J. Piper, C. F. McConville, Hai Lu, W. J. Schaff, P. A. Anderson, S. M. Durbin, D. Muto, H. Naoi, and Y. Nanishi

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075313 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Scaling behavior and mechanism of formation of $Si O_{2}$ thin films grown by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

A. Yanguas-Gil, J. Cotrino, A. Walkiewicz-Pietrzykowska, and A. R. González-Elipe

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075314 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

First-principles calculations of Cu adsorption on an H-terminated Si surface

A. S. Foster, M. A. Gosálvez, T. Hynninen, R. M. Nieminen, and K. Sato

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075315 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Electron transport through nanosystems driven by Coulomb scattering

Benny Lassen and Andreas Wacker

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075316 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Regimes of GaAs quantum dot self-assembly by droplet epitaxy

Ch. Heyn, A. Stemmann, A. Schramm, H. Welsch, W. Hansen, and Á. Nemcsics

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075317 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Limits to accumulation of electric-field-stabilized geminate polaron pairs in an organic semiconductor thin film

N. C. Giebink and S. R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075318 (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

Electronic states in a magnetic quantum-dot molecule: Instabilities and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Wei Zhang, Tianming Dong, and Alexander O. Govorov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075319 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Phonon-assisted tunneling regimes in diatomic molecules

E. Vernek, E. V. Anda, S. E. Ulloa, and N. Sandler

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075320 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Electronic structure of unidirectional superlattices in crossed electric and magnetic fields and related terahertz oscillations

L. Smrčka, N. A. Goncharuk, M. Orlita, and R. Grill

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075321 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Local spin density in a two-dimensional electron gas with a hexagonal boundary

Son-Hsien Chen, Ming-Hao Liu, and Ching-Ray Chang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075322 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Coarsening of ion-beam-induced surface ripple in Si: Nonlinear effect vs. geometrical shadowing

Debi Prasad Datta and Tapas Kumar Chini

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075323 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

Electronic structure of biphenyl on Si(100)

M. Cranney, G. Comtet, G. Dujardin, J. W. Kim, T. U. Kampen, K. Horn, M. Mamatkulov, L. Stauffer, and Ph. Sonnet

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075324 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

First-principles $G W$ calculations of GaAs clusters and crystal using an all-electron mixed basis approach

Erm Kikuchi, Shohei Iwata, Soh Ishii, and Kaoru Ohno

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075325 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

Ultralong-range plasmonic waveguides using quasi-two-dimensional metallic layers

Jonathan Plumridge and Chris Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075326 (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

First-principles investigations of the structure and stability of oxygen adsorption and surface oxide formation at Au(111)

Hongqing Shi and Catherine Stampfl

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075327 (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

Charge ordering and nonlinear electrical transport in quasi-one-dimensional organic chains with strong electrostatic interchain interactions

Kentaro Okamoto, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Wataru Fujita, Kunio Awaga, and Tamotsu Inabe

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075328 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Spin characteristics of excitonic absorption in multiply charged quantum dots

Shun-Jen Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075329 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Semiclassical theory of ballistic transport through chaotic cavities with spin-orbit interaction

Jens Bolte and Daniel Waltner

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075330 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Mesoscopic photovoltaic effect in $Ga As ∕ {Ga}_{1 - x} {Al}_{x} As$ Aharonov-Bohm rings

L. Angers, A. Chepelianskii, R. Deblock, B. Reulet, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075331 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Quantized electron transfer through random multiple tunnel junctions in phosphorus-doped silicon nanowires

Daniel Moraru, Yukinori Ono, Hiroshi Inokawa, and Michiharu Tabe

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075332 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Bell-state preparation for electron spins in a semiconductor double quantum dot

Robert Roloff and Walter Pötz

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075333 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

Theoretical investigation of the effect of sample properties on the electron velocity in quantum Hall bars

D. Eksi, E. Cicek, A. I. Mese, S. Aktas, A. Siddiki, and T. Hakioğlu

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075334 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Optical determination of the effective wetting layer thickness and composition in $In As ∕ Ga (In) As$ quantum dots

M. Hugues, M. Teisseire, J.-M. Chauveau, B. Vinter, B. Damilano, J.-Y. Duboz, and J. Massies

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075335 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Linear combination of harmonic orbitals and configuration interaction method for the voltage control of exchange interaction in gated lateral quantum dot networks

Irene Puerto Gimenez, Marek Korkusinski, and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075336 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Ballistic-phonon heat conduction at the nanoscale as revealed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction and time-domain thermoreflectance

M. Highland, B. C. Gundrum, Yee Kan Koh, R. S. Averback, David G. Cahill, V. C. Elarde, J. J. Coleman, D. A. Walko, and E. C. Landahl

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075337 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Experimental imaging and atomistic modeling of electron and hole quasiparticle wave functions in $In As ∕ Ga As$ quantum dots

G. Bester, D. Reuter, Lixin He, A. Zunger, P. Kailuweit, A. D. Wieck, U. Zeitler, J. C. Maan, O. Wibbelhoff, and A. Lorke

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075338 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Electronic interface reconstruction at polar-nonpolar Mott-insulator heterojunctions

Wei-Cheng Lee and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075339 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations for the Rashba model subject to an in-plane electric field

V. V. Bryksin and P. Kleinert

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075340 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Hamiltonian theory of the half-filled Landau level with disorder: Application to recent NMR data

Ganpathy Murthy and R. Shankar

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075341 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Circuit theory and full counting statistics of charge transfer through mesoscopic systems: A random-matrix approach

G. C. Duarte-Filho, A. F. Macedo-Junior, and A. M. S. Macêdo

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075342 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Angle-dependent tunneling through quantum dots coupled to noncollinearly oriented magnetic leads and subject to magnetic fields

Yun-Qing Zhou, Rui-Qiang Wang, Baigeng Wang, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075343 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Transition from two-dimensional electron-hole to geminate-exciton photoluminescence in $Ga As ∕ {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ heterostructures under a high in-plane magnetic field

B. M. Ashkinadze, E. Cohen, V. V. Rudenkov, P. C. M. Christianen, J. C. Maan, and L. N. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075344 (2007) - Published 27 August, 2007

Plasmons in vertically coupled $In As ∕ Ga As$ quantum dots

Ting-Ting Kang, R. Q. Zhang, W. G. Hu, G. W. Cong, F. A. Zhao, X. X. Han, S. Y. Yang, X. L. Liu, Q. S. Zhu, and Z. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075345 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Landau-level crossing in two-subband systems in a tilted magnetic field

C. A. Duarte, G. M. Gusev, A. A. Quivy, T. E. Lamas, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075346 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Composite-fermion wave functions as correlators in conformal field theory

T. H. Hansson, C.-C. Chang, J. K. Jain, and S. Viefers

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075347 (2007) - Published 29 August, 2007

Cooperative nitrogen insertion processes: Thermal transformation of $N H_{3}$ on a Si(100) surface

J. C. F. Rodríguez-Reyes and A. V. Teplyakov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075348 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Resonant Rayleigh scattering in ordered and disordered semiconductor superlattices

V. Bellani, M. Amado, E. Diez, C. Koerdt, M. Potemski, and R. Hey

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075349 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Exciton luminescence in one-dimensional resonant photonic crystals: A phenomenological approach

L. I. Deych, M. V. Erementchouk, A. A. Lisyansky, E. L. Ivchenko, and M. M. Voronov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075350 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Structural and electronic properties of an abrupt $4 H − SiC (0001) ∕ {SiO}_{2}$ interface model: Classical molecular dynamics simulations and density functional calculations

Fabien Devynck, Feliciano Giustino, Peter Broqvist, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075351 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Density functional theory study of flat and stepped NaCl(001)

Bo Li, Angelos Michaelides, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075401 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

High-symmetry high-stability silicon fullerenes: A first-principles study

Aristides D. Zdetsis

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075402 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Analytic approach to the ground-state energy of charged anyon gases

B. Abdullaev, U. Rössler, and M. Musakhanov

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075403 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Thermodynamic measurements of the first layer of Ne adsorbed on closed-end single-walled carbon nanotube bundles

S. Ramachandran and O. E. Vilches

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075404 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Trions in cylindrical nanowires with a dielectric mismatch

A. F. Slachmuylders, B. Partoens, W. Magnus, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075405 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Quantum size effects in $Pb ∕ Si (111)$ investigated by laser-induced photoemission

P. S. Kirchmann, M. Wolf, J. H. Dil, K. Horn, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075406 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Energy redistribution and polarization transformation in conical mount diffraction under resonance excitation of surface waves

A. V. Kats, I. S. Spevak, and N. A. Balakhonova

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075407 (2007) - Published 7 August, 2007

Headgroup dimerization in methanethiol monolayers on the Au(111) surface: A density functional theory study

Jian-Ge Zhou, Quinton L. Williams, and Frank Hagelberg

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075408 (2007) - Published 7 August, 2007

Size- and temperature-dependent epitaxy for a strong film-substrate mismatch: The case of $Pt ∕ Mg O (001)$

J. Olander, R. Lazzari, J. Jupille, B. Mangili, J. Goniakowski, and G. Renaud

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075409 (2007) - Published 7 August, 2007

Spontaneous crystallographic instabilities of Pb nanoparticles in a SiO matrix

Avraham Be’er, Richard Kofman, Fritz Phillipp, and Yossi Lereah

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075410 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Exchange-correlation holes in metal surfaces using nonlocal density-functional theory

Dominik B. Jochym and Stewart J. Clark

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075411 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Thermodynamic stability and atomic and electronic structure of reduced ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ (111) single-crystal surfaces

M. Paul, M. Sing, R. Claessen, D. Schrupp, and V. A. M. Brabers

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075412 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Ab initio study of charge transport through single oxygen molecules in atomic aluminum contacts

S. Wohlthat, F. Pauly, J. K. Viljas, J. C. Cuevas, and Gerd Schön

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075413 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

First-principles study of the atomic and electronic structure of the $Si (111) − (5 \times 2) − Au$ surface reconstruction

Chung-Yuan Ren, Shiow-Fon Tsay, and Feng-Chuan Chuang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075414 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Single-walled carbon nanotubes show stable emission and simple photoluminescence spectra with weak excitation sidebands at cryogenic temperatures

Oliver Kiowski, Sergei Lebedkin, Frank Hennrich, and Manfred M. Kappes

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075422 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Atomic and electronic structure of $Tl ∕ Ge (111) − (1 \times 1)$ : LEED and ARPES measurements and first-principles calculations

Shinichiro Hatta, Chihiro Kato, Noriko Tsuboi, Shin Takahashi, Hiroshi Okuyama, Tetsuya Aruga, Ayumi Harasawa, Taichi Okuda, and Toyohiko Kinoshita

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075427 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coherent-incoherent transition in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model”

Hang Wong and Zhi-De Chen

Phys. Rev. B 76, 077301 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Reply to “Comment on ‘Coherent-incoherent transition in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model’ ”

A. W. Chin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 077302 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: First-principles study of spin-orbit effects and NMR in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. B 74, 035115 (2006)]

E. Pavarini and I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. B 76, 079901 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Publisher's Note: Substrate-induced band gap in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride: Ab initio density functional calculations [Phys. Rev. B 76, 073103 (2007)]

Gianluca Giovannetti, Petr A. Khomyakov, Geert Brocks, Paul J. Kelly, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. B 76, 079902 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007