Volume 77, Issue 15

B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, S. Amakawa, M. D. Blumenthal, L. Li, T. J. B. M. Janssen, G. Hein, K. Pierz, T. Weimann, U. Siegner, and H. W. Schumacher

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153301 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Evidence for nonadiabatic electron-phonon intraband scattering in self-assembled quantum dots

Stefan Menzel, Evgeny A. Zibik, Pantelis Aivaliotis, John W. Cockburn, Luke R. Wilson, and Matthew J. Steer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153302 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Anisotropic optical emission of single CdSe/CdS tetrapod heterostructures: Evidence for a wavefunction symmetry breaking

C. Mauser, T. Limmer, E. Da Como, K. Becker, A. L. Rogach, J. Feldmann, and D. V. Talapin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153303 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Lasing of donor-bound excitons in ZnSe microdisks

A. Pawlis, M. Panfilova, D. J. As, K. Lischka, K. Sanaka, T. D. Ladd, and Y. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153304 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Controlling the surface chirality of Si(110)

Yoichi Yamada, Antoine Girard, Hidehito Asaoka, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, and Shin-ichi Shamoto

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153305 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Surface optical phonons as a probe of organic ligands on ZnO nanoparticles: An investigation using a dielectric continuum model and Raman spectrometry

P.-M. Chassaing, F. Demangeot, V. Paillard, A. Zwick, N. Combe, C. Pagès, M. L. Kahn, A. Maisonnat, and B. Chaudret

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153306 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Generation and measurement of nonequilibrium spin currents in two-terminal systems

T. P. Pareek and A. M. Jayannavar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153307 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Suppression of competing tunneling processes in thermally-activated carrier emission on self-assembled InAs quantum dots

A. Schramm, S. Schulz, Ch. Heyn, and W. Hansen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153308 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Coherence of terahertz emission from photoexcited electron-hole plasma: Hydrodynamic model and Monte Carlo simulations

A. Reklaitis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153309 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Lead-molecule coupling effects on the distortion-dependent conductance of carbon nanotubes

Felipe A. Bulat, San-Huang Ke, Weitao Yang, and Luise Couchman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Fine tuning the charge transfer in carbon nanotubes via the interconversion of encapsulated molecules

H. Shiozawa, T. Pichler, C. Kramberger, A. Grüneis, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, J. Kürti, D. Batchelor, and H. Kataura

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153402 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Statistics of orbital entanglement production in quantum-chaotic dots

Victor A. Gopar and Diego Frustaglia

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153403 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Conditions for organized nanoring growth using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

F. Dumont, F. Picaud, C. Ramseyer, and C. Girardet

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153404 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Measurement of radial deformation of single-wall carbon nanotubes induced by intertube van der Waals forces

Y. Y. Jiang, W. Zhou, T. Kim, Y. Huang, and J. M. Zuo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153405 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Transport properties of single vacancies in nanotubes

A. R. Rocha, J. E. Padilha, A. Fazzio, and A. J. R. da Silva

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153406 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Optical polarizer made of uniaxially aligned short single-wall carbon nanotubes embedded in a polymer film

Satoru Shoji, Hidemasa Suzuki, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Zouheir Sekkat, and Satoshi Kawata

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153407 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Manipulation of benzene on Cu(110) by dynamic force microscopy: An ab initio study

N. Atodiresei, V. Caciuc, S. Blügel, and H. Hölscher

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153408 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Honeycomb chain structure of the $Au ∕ Si (111) − (5 \times 2)$ surface reconstruction: A first-principles study

Feng-Chuan Chuang, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Cai-Zhuang Wang, and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153409 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Quantum well and resonance-band split off in a K monolayer on Cu(111)

F. Schiller, M. Corso, M. Urdanpilleta, T. Ohta, A. Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, E. Rotenberg, and J. E. Ortega

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153410 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Suppression of spin polarization in graphene nanoribbons by edge defects and impurities

Bing Huang, Feng Liu, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153411 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Looking underneath fullerenes on Au(110): Formation of dimples in the substrate

M. Hinterstein, X. Torrelles, R. Felici, J. Rius, M. Huang, S. Fabris, H. Fuess, and M. Pedio

Phys. Rev. B 77, 153412 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

ARTICLES

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

Hybrid exchange-correlation functionals applied to hyperfine interactions at lanthanide and actinide impurities in Fe

D. Torumba, P. Novák, and S. Cottenier

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155101 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Sign structure of the $t − J$ model

K. Wu, Z. Y. Weng, and J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155102 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Fractional periodicity and magnetism of extended quantum rings

Y. Hancock, J. Suorsa, E. Tölö, and A. Harju

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155103 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

$γ$ and $β$ cerium: $LDA + U$ calculations of ground-state parameters

B. Amadon, F. Jollet, and M. Torrent

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155104 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum criticality of U(1) gauge theories with fermionic and bosonic matter in two spatial dimensions

Ribhu K. Kaul and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155105 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Self-interaction correction with Wannier functions

Massimiliano Stengel and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155106 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Indium-oxide polymorphs from first principles: Quasiparticle electronic states

F. Fuchs and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155107 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Coarse-grained density functional theories for metallic alloys: Generalized coherent-potential approximations and charge-excess functional theory

Ezio Bruno, Francesco Mammano, Antonino Fiorino, and Emanuela V. Morabito

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155108 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Embedded-cluster self-consistent partial-wave method: Extending the spatial scale of electronic structure calculations

Frank W. Averill and Gayle S. Painter

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155109 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Extended Hartree-Fock method based on pair density functional theory

Balázs Hetényi and Andreas W. Hauser

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155110 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Entanglement, fidelity, and topological entropy in a quantum phase transition to topological order

A. Hamma, W. Zhang, S. Haas, and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155111 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Another mechanism for the insulator-metal transition observed in Mott insulators

Alexander G. Gavriliuk, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Igor S. Lyubutin, Sergey G. Ovchinnikov, Michael Y. Hu, and Paul Chow

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155112 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Electronic structure and bulk properties of the single-crystalline paramagnet URuGa

M. Samsel-Czekała, E. Talik, R. Troć, and J. Stępień-Damm

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155113 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

$G W$ quasiparticle corrections to the $LDA + U ∕ GGA + U$ electronic structure of bcc hydrogen

Emmanouil Kioupakis, Peihong Zhang, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155114 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

On-site interband excitations in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering from ${Cu}_{2} O$

J. P. Hu, D. J. Payne, R. G. Egdell, P.-A. Glans, T. Learmonth, K. E. Smith, J. Guo, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155115 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Bootstrap approximations in contractor renormalization

M. Stewart Siu and Marvin Weinstein

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155116 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Fluctuating charge-density waves in the Hubbard model

Alexei Sherman and Michael Schreiber

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155117 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical anisotropy and electronic structures of $Cd Mo O_{4}$ and $Cd W O_{4}$ crystals: Polarized reflection measurements, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and electronic structure calculations

Masami Fujita, Minoru Itoh, Tsuyoshi Katagiri, Daisuke Iri, Mamoru Kitaura, and Vitalii B. Mikhailik

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155118 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Modeling elastic and photoassisted transport in organic molecular wires: Length dependence and current-voltage characteristics

J. K. Viljas, F. Pauly, and J. C. Cuevas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155119 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Theoretical study of the electronic states of hollandite vanadate $K_{2} V_{8} O_{16}$

S. Horiuchi, T. Shirakawa, and Y. Ohta

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155120 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Insulator-to-metal transition in $(R, Ca) V O_{3}$

M. H. Sage, G. R. Blake, and T. T. M. Palstra

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155121 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Upconversion-induced delayed fluorescence in multicomponent organic systems: Role of Dexter energy transfer

A. Monguzzi, R. Tubino, and F. Meinardi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155122 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Anomalies in transition metal conductivity: Strong evidence for Fermi-velocity dominance

V. Meded, T. Dziekan, S. Mirbt, P. Zahn, and S. Shallcross

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155123 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Effects of crystal structure on Co- $L_{2, 3}$ x-ray absorption near-edge structure and electron-energy-loss near-edge structure of trivalent cobalt oxides

Yu Kumagai, Hidekazu Ikeno, Fumiyasu Oba, Katsuyuki Matsunaga, and Isao Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155124 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Controlled compositional disorder in ${Er}^{3 +} : Y_{2} Si O_{5}$ provides a wide-bandwidth spectral hole burning material at $1.5 μ m$

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155125 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Hard-Sphere variational approach using an ab initio molecular dynamics code

Gérald Faussurier, Christophe Blancard, and Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155126 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Phase diagram for bilayer quantum Hall effect at total filling $ν_{T} = 5$

Chuntai Shi, Shivakumar Jolad, Nicolas Regnault, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155127 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Hybridization effects in $Ce Co {In}_{5}$ observed by angle-resolved photoemission

A. Koitzsch, S. V. Borisenko, D. Inosov, J. Geck, V. B. Zabolotnyy, H. Shiozawa, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, B. Büchner, E. D. Bauer, J. L. Sarrao, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155128 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Ferromagnetism and spin transitions in prussian blue: A solid-state hybrid functional study

Derek S. Middlemiss and Chick C. Wilson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155129 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Hartree-Fock study of electronic ferroelectricity in the Falicov-Kimball model with $f − f$ hopping

Pavol Farkašovský

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155130 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Direct observation of charge-density waves in ${Ho}_{5} {Ir}_{4} {Si}_{10}$

C. M. Tseng, C. H. Chen, and H. D. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155131 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Full-potential all-electron positron lifetime calculations: Assessment of local enhancement factors

H. Takenaka and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155132 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

First-principles study of transition metal impurities in Si

Z. Z. Zhang, B. Partoens, Kai Chang, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155201 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Density-functional study of bulk silicon lightly doped with manganese

Bhagawan R. Sahu, Sanjay K. Banerjee, and Leonard Kleinman

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155202 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Planar Hall effect and uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy in Mn $δ$ -doped $Ga As ∕ p − Al Ga As$ heterostructures

A. M. Nazmul, H. T. Lin, S. N. Tran, S. Ohya, and M. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155203 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Point defects in pure amorphous silicon and their role in structural relaxation: A tight-binding molecular-dynamics study

Xavier Urli, Cristiano L. Dias, Laurent J. Lewis, and Sjoerd Roorda

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155204 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Origin of the hot phonon effect in group-III nitrides

G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155205 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab initio supercell calculations on nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond: Electronic structure and hyperfine tensors

Adam Gali, Maria Fyta, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155206 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Microstructure, magnetic, and spin-dependent transport properties of (Zn,Cr)Te films fabricated by magnetron sputtering

W. G. Wang, K. J. Yee, D. H. Kim, K. J. Han, X. R. Wang, C. Ni, T. Moriyama, A. Mathew, R. Opila, T. Zhu, and John Q. Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155207 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Resonant Raman-active localized vibrational modes in ${Al}_{y} {Ga}_{1 - y} N_{x} {As}_{1 - x}$ alloys: Experiment and first-principles calculations

A. M. Teweldeberhan, G. Stenuit, S. Fahy, E. Gallardo, S. Lazić, J. M. Calleja, J. Miguel-Sánchez, M. Montes, A. Hierro, R. Gargallo-Caballero, A. Guzmán, and E. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155208 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Copper dihydrogen complex in ZnO

E. V. Lavrov, J. Weber, and F. Börrnert

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155209 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Ultrasonic investigation of $Zn Se : V^{2 +}$ and $Zn Se : {Mn}^{2 +}$ : Lattice softening and low-temperature relaxation in crystals with orbitally degenerate states

V. V. Gudkov, A. T. Lonchakov, V. I. Sokolov, I. V. Zhevstovskikh, and V. T. Surikov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155210 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Electronic surface error in the Si interstitial formation energy

Ann E. Mattsson, Ryan R. Wixom, and Rickard Armiento

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155211 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Exciton-spin dephasing and relaxation due to symmetry breaking in two-band bulk semiconductors

M. Gallart, S. Cronenberger, C. Brimont, B. Hönerlage, and P. Gilliot

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155212 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Role of strain and properties of N clusters at the onset of the alloy limit in $Ga {As}_{1 - x} N_{x}$

A. Polimeni, F. Masia, G. Pettinari, R. Trotta, M. Felici, M. Capizzi, A. Lindsay, E. P. O’Reilly, T. Niebling, W. Stolz, and P. J. Klar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155213 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Optical absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance of the $E_{α}^{'}$ center in amorphous silicon dioxide

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155214 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

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

Krylov subspace method for evaluating the self-energy matrices in electron transport calculations

Hans Henrik B. Sørensen, Per Christian Hansen, Dan Erik Petersen, Stig Skelboe, and Kurt Stokbro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155301 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Model of valley interference effects on a donor electron close to a $Si ∕ Si O_{2}$ interface

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155302 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Interaction, growth, and ordering of epitaxial graphene on SiC{0001} surfaces: A comparative photoelectron spectroscopy study

K. V. Emtsev, F. Speck, Th. Seyller, L. Ley, and J. D. Riley

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155303 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Understanding spin transport from motion in $SU (2) \times U (1)$ fields

Pei-Qing Jin and You-Quan Li

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155304 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Spin-conserving scattering of holes by magnetic ions in semimagnetic quantum wells

Elena Tsitsishvili and Heinz Kalt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155305 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Pathways of bond topology transitions at the interface of silicon nanocrystals and amorphous silica matrix

D. E. Yılmaz, C. Bulutay, and T. Çağın

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155306 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Fano resonances in the conductance of quantum dots with mixed dynamics

Michel Mendoza, Peter A. Schulz, Raúl O. Vallejos, and Caio H. Lewenkopf

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155307 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Quantum Hall system in Tao-Thouless limit

E. J. Bergholtz and A. Karlhede

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155308 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Confinement properties of a ${Ga}_{0.25} {In}_{0.75} As ∕ In P$ quantum point contact

T. P. Martin, C. A. Marlow, L. Samuelson, A. R. Hamilton, H. Linke, and R. P. Taylor

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155309 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Aharonov-Bohm ring with a side-coupled atomic cluster: Magnetotransport and the selective switching effect

Supriya Jana and Arunava Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155310 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Differential reflectance and second-harmonic generation of the $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ interface from first principles

V. I. Gavrilenko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155311 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Density-functional study of tilt-angle and temperature-dependent conductance in biphenyl dithiol single-molecule junctions

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155312 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of cleaved InAs/GaAs quantum dots at low temperatures

A. Urbieta, B. Grandidier, J. P. Nys, D. Deresmes, D. Stiévenard, A. Lemaître, G. Patriarche, and Y. M. Niquet

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155313 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Optical properties and growth mechanism of multiple type-II $Zn Te ∕ Zn Se$ quantum dots grown by migration-enhanced epitaxy

Y. Gong, W. MacDonald, G. F. Neumark, M. C. Tamargo, and Igor L. Kuskovsky

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155314 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Temperature dependence of persistent spin currents in a spin-orbit-coupled electron gas: A density-matrix approach

K. Bencheikh and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155315 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Ab initio study of atomic structure and Schottky barrier height at the $GaAs / {Ni}_{0.5} {Pt}_{0.5} Ge$ interface

Manish K. Niranjan, Leonard Kleinman, and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155316 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of two-dimensional polaritons in an in-plane harmonic potential

Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik, and David W. Snoke

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155317 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations in antidot lattices in the quantum Hall regime

Masanori Kato, Akira Endo, Shingo Katsumoto, and Yasuhiro Iye

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155318 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum pumping of electrons by a moving modulated potential

Markku Jääskeläinen, Frank Corvino, Christopher P. Search, and Vassilios Fessatidis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155319 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Multichannel architecture for electronic quantum Hall interferometry

Vittorio Giovannetti, Fabio Taddei, Diego Frustaglia, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155320 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Quantum model of microcavity intersubband electroluminescent devices

Simone De Liberato and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155321 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Effect of uniaxial stress on the polarization of light emitted from $Ga N ∕ Al N$ quantum dots grown on Si(111)

O. Moshe, D. H. Rich, B. Damilano, and J. Massies

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155322 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

8-band $k . p$ modeling of the quantum confined Stark effect in Ge quantum wells on Si substrates

D. J. Paul

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155323 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Modulation of bilayer quantum Hall states by tilted-field-induced subband-Landau-level coupling

N. Kumada, K. Iwata, K. Tagashira, Y. Shimoda, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, and A. Sawada

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155324 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Exciton polariton kinematic interaction in crystalline organic microcavities

Marina Litinskaya

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155325 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy

C. Colombo, D. Spirkoska, M. Frimmer, G. Abstreiter, and A. Fontcuberta i Morral

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155326 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Theoretical study of the effect of nonlinear piezoelectricity on the pressure coefficient of the light emission in (111)-oriented $In Ga As ∕ Ga As$ quantum wells

S. P. Łepkowski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155327 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Electric field effect on electron spin splitting in $Si Ge ∕ Si$ quantum wells

M. O. Nestoklon, E. L. Ivchenko, J.-M. Jancu, and P. Voisin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155328 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atomic configuration and mechanical and electrical properties of stable gold wires of single-atom width

Tokushi Kizuka

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Effects of self-interaction corrections on the transport properties of phenyl-based molecular junctions

C. Toher and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155402 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Validity of Yubero-Tougaard theory to quantitatively determine the dielectric properties of surface nanofilms

Shaaker Hajati, Oleksandr Romanyuk, Josef Zemek, and Sven Tougaard

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155403 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inelastic light scattering study of the $ν = 1$ quantum Hall ferromagnet

A. S. Zhuravlev, A. B. Van’kov, L. V. Kulik, I. V. Kukushkin, V. E. Kirpichev, J. H. Smet, K. v. Klitzing, V. Umansky, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155404 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Thermal stability, phase segregation, and sublimation of cesium fulleride thin films

Daniel Löffler, Patrick Weis, Sharali Malik, Artur Böttcher, and Manfred M. Kappes

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155405 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Ion bombardment induced smoothing of amorphous metallic surfaces: Experiments versus computer simulations

Sebastian Vauth and S. G. Mayr

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155406 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Cobalt-doped $β$ -peptide nanotubes: A class of spintronic materials

Biplab Sanyal, Olle Eriksson, and Per I. Arvidsson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155407 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coupling of plasmonic nanoparticles to their environments in the context of van der Waals–Casimir interactions

U. Håkanson, M. Agio, S. Kühn, L. Rogobete, T. Kalkbrenner, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155408 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Optical conductivity of bilayer graphene with and without an asymmetry gap

E. J. Nicol and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155409 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

CO oxidation on Pd(100) at technologically relevant pressure conditions: First-principles kinetic Monte Carlo study

Jutta Rogal, Karsten Reuter, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155410 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coulomb blockade in graphene nanodisks

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155411 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Raman spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes with vacancies

Sami Malola, Hannu Häkkinen, and Pekka Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155412 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Rapidly converging methods for the location of quantum critical points from finite-size data

M. Roncaglia, L. Campos Venuti, and C. Degli Esposti Boschi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155413 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Strain relaxation in small adsorbate islands: O on W(110)

T. O. Menteş, N. Stojić, N. Binggeli, M. A. Niño, A. Locatelli, L. Aballe, M. Kiskinova, and E. Bauer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155414 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Ballistic conductance of oxygen and sulfur-incorporated zigzag Au atomic wires

H. Ishida

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155415 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Chiral decomposition in the electronic structure of graphene multilayers

Hongki Min and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155416 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Heat transfer between nanoparticles: Thermal conductance for near-field interactions

A. Pérez-Madrid, J. M. Rubí, and L. C. Lapas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155417 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Renormalization group study of transport through a superconducting junction of multiple one-dimensional quantum wires

Sourin Das, Sumathi Rao, and Arijit Saha

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155418 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Plastic flow and failure resistance of metallic glass: Insight from in situ compression of nanopillars

Z. W. Shan, J. Li, Y. Q. Cheng, A. M. Minor, S. A. Syed Asif, O. L. Warren, and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155419 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Entanglement between charge qubits induced by a common dissipative environment

L. D. Contreras-Pulido and R. Aguado

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155420 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Adsorption and motion of $C_{60}$ molecules on the Pb-covered Si(111) surface

Shih-Hsin Chang, Ing-Shouh Hwang, Chung-Kai Fang, and Tien T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155421 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

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Junctions of three quantum wires for spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ electrons

Chang-Yu Hou and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155422 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Commensurate surface structures and concerted cis-trans-isomerization within ordered monolayers of $α$ -sexithiophene on Ag(001)

Klaus Duncker, Mario Kiel, Anke Höfer, and Wolf Widdra

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155423 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Dissociative adsorption of $O_{2}$ molecules on O-precovered Fe(110) and Fe(100): Density-functional calculations

Piotr Błoński, Adam Kiejna, and Jürgen Hafner

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155424 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Dielectric function of metal clusters: Finite-size effects and the macroscopic limit

F. A. Ivanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155425 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Atomic and electronic structure of few-layer graphene on SiC(0001) studied with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

P. Lauffer, K. V. Emtsev, R. Graupner, Th. Seyller, L. Ley, S. A. Reshanov, and H. B. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155426 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

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Effect of strain on the band gap and effective mass of zigzag single-wall carbon nanotubes: First-principles density-functional calculations

S. Sreekala, X.-H. Peng, P. M. Ajayan, and S. K. Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155434 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Theoretical studies of epitaxially grown Co and Ni thin films on (111) metallic substrates

M. Zelený and M. Šob

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155435 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

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Optical transitions in a quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction and its applications in terahertz electronics: Beyond zeroth-order theory

P. Upadhyaya, S. Pramanik, and S. Bandyopadhyay

Phys. Rev. B 77, 155439 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

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Publisher's Note: Morphology of copper nanoparticles in a nitrogen atmosphere: A first-principles investigation [Phys. Rev. B 77, 125423 (2008)]

Aloysius Soon, Lindee Wong, Bernard Delley, and Catherine Stampfl

Phys. Rev. B 77, 159901 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Long-time electron spin storage via dynamical suppression of hyperfine-induced decoherence in a quantum dot [Phys. Rev. B 77, 125336 (2008)]

Wenxian Zhang, N. P. Konstantinidis, V. V. Dobrovitski, B. N. Harmon, Lea F. Santos, and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. B 77, 159902 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Energy transfer to ${Gd}^{3 +}$ from the self-trapped exciton in $Sc P O_{4} : {Gd}^{3 +}$ : Dynamics and application to quantum cutting [Phys. Rev. B 77, 075129 (2008)]

Y. Zhou, S. P. Feofilov, H. J. Seo, J. Y. Jeong, D. A. Keszler, and R. S. Meltzer

Phys. Rev. B 77, 159903 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Krylov subspace method for evaluating the self-energy matrices in electron transport calculations [Phys. Rev. B 77, 155301 (2008)]

Hans Henrik B. Sørensen, Per Christian Hansen, Dan Erik Petersen, Stig Skelboe, and Kurt Stokbro

Phys. Rev. B 77, 159904 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Erratum: Exciton-polariton kinematic interactions in organic microcavities [Phys. Rev. B 72, 125306 (2005)]

Hashem Zoubi and G. C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 77, 159905 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008