Volume 77, Issue 24

Ján Rusz, Peter M. Oppeneer, Nicholas J. Curro, Ricardo R. Urbano, Ben-Li Young, S. Lebègue, Pascoal G. Pagliuso, Long D. Pham, Eric D. Bauer, John L. Sarrao, and Zachary Fisk

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245124 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Optohydrodynamic theory of particles in a dual-beam optical trap

R. Gordon, M. Kawano, J. T. Blakely, and D. Sinton

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245125 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Anderson localization on Falicov-Kimball model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping and long-range correlated disorder

D. O. Maionchi, A. M. C. Souza, H. J. Herrmann, and R. N. da Costa Filho

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245126 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

${Tm}^{3 +} : Y_{2} O_{3}$ investigated for a quantum light storage application

T. Chanelière, J. Ruggiero, J.-L. Le Gouët, W. Tittel, J.-H. Mun, A. Jouini, A. Yoshikawa, G. Boulon, Y. Le Du, Ph. Goldner, F. Beaudoux, J. Vincent, E. Antic-Fidancev, and O. Guillot-Noël

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245127 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Sum-rules for Raman scattering off strongly correlated electron systems

Luca de’ Medici, Antoine Georges, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245128 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Selective Mott transition and heavy fermions

C. Pépin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245129 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Dynamical aspects of two-dimensional quantum percolation

Gerald Schubert and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245130 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Signatures of diffusion and ballistic transport in the stiffness, dynamical correlation functions, and statistics of one-dimensional systems

Subroto Mukerjee and B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245131 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Nonlinear refraction of hard x rays

A. Fratalocchi, C. Conti, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245132 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Interplay between spin-glass-like and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in ${CeNi}_{1 - x} {Rh}_{x} Sn$

A. Ślebarski, M. B. Maple, R. E. Baumbach, and T. A. Sayles

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245133 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Light-induced nuclear quadrupolar relaxation in semiconductors

D. Paget, T. Amand, and J.-P. Korb

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245201 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Defect energetics in ZnO: A hybrid Hartree-Fock density functional study

Fumiyasu Oba, Atsushi Togo, Isao Tanaka, Joachim Paier, and Georg Kresse

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245202 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

First-principles study of the electronic, optical, and lattice vibrational properties of ${AgSbTe}_{2}$

Lin-Hui Ye, Khang Hoang, A. J. Freeman, S. D. Mahanti, Jian He, Terry M. Tritt, and M. G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245203 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Measurements of the energy band gap and valence band structure of ${AgSbTe}_{2}$

V. Jovovic and J. P. Heremans

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245204 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of silicon-related defects in diamond

A. M. Edmonds, M. E. Newton, P. M. Martineau, D. J. Twitchen, and S. D. Williams

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245205 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Effect of exchange coupling on coherently controlled spin-dependent transition rates

A. Gliesche, C. Michel, V. Rajevac, K. Lips, S. D. Baranovskii, F. Gebhard, and C. Boehme

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245206 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Mahan excitons in degenerate wurtzite InN: Photoluminescence spectroscopy and reflectivity measurements

Martin Feneberg, Jürgen Däubler, Klaus Thonke, Rolf Sauer, Pascal Schley, and Rüdiger Goldhahn

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245207 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Evidence of substitutional Co ion clusters in ${Zn}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} O$ dilute magnetic semiconductors

Zhihu Sun, Wensheng Yan, Guobin Zhang, Hiroyuki Oyanagi, Ziyu Wu, Qinghua Liu, Wenqing Wu, Tongfei Shi, Zhiyun Pan, Pengshou Xu, and Shiqiang Wei

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245208 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Electronic structure and phase stability of MgO, ZnO, CdO, and related ternary alloys

Y. Z. Zhu, G. D. Chen, Honggang Ye, Aron Walsh, C. Y. Moon, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245209 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Magnetic coupling and electric conduction in oxide diluted magnetic semiconductors

H. Chou, C. P. Lin, J. C. A. Huang, and H. S. Hsu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245210 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Energetic stability, electronic structure, and magnetism in Mn-doped silicon dilute magnetic semiconductors

Qinghua Liu, Wensheng Yan, He Wei, Zhihu Sun, Zhiyun Pan, A. V. Soldatov, Cong Mai, Congjian Pei, Xinfeng Zhang, Yong Jiang, and Shiqiang Wei

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245211 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Decoherence dynamics of a single spin versus spin ensemble

V. V. Dobrovitski, A. E. Feiguin, D. D. Awschalom, and R. Hanson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245212 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Lattice dynamics and Raman scattering from GaN:Mn crystals

W. Gebicki, P. Dominik, and S. Podsiadlo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245213 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

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

Carrier spin polarization in digital Mn/GaAs ferromagnetic structures studied with hot electron photoluminescence

V. F. Sapega, A. Trampert, and K. H. Ploog

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245301 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Calculation of surface core-level shifts within complete screening: Problems with pseudohydrogenated slabs

M. P. J. Punkkinen, K. Kokko, L. Vitos, P. Laukkanen, E. Airiskallio, M. Ropo, M. Ahola-Tuomi, M. Kuzmin, I. J. Väyrynen, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245302 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Hydrogen-induced metallization of zinc oxide $(2 \bar{1} \bar{1} 0)$ surface and nanowires: The effect of curvature

Chenchen Wang, Gang Zhou, Jia Li, Binghai Yan, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245303 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Quantum ratchet effects induced by terahertz radiation in GaN-based two-dimensional structures

W. Weber, L. E. Golub, S. N. Danilov, J. Karch, C. Reitmaier, B. Wittmann, V. V. Bel’kov, E. L. Ivchenko, Z. D. Kvon, N. Q. Vinh, A. F. G. van der Meer, B. Murdin, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245304 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

States of interacting composite fermions at the Landau level filling $ν = 2 + 3 / 8$

Csaba Tőke, Chuntai Shi, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245305 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Single-spin optical read-out in CdTe/ZnTe quantum dot studied by photon correlation spectroscopy

J. Suffczyński, K. Kowalik, T. Kazimierczuk, A. Trajnerowicz, M. Goryca, P. Kossacki, A. Golnik, M. Nawrocki, J. A. Gaj, and G. Karczewski

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245306 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Hysteretic magnetotransport in $p$ -type ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ heterostructures with In/Zn/Au Ohmic contacts

B. Grbić, R. Leturcq, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, G. Blatter, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245307 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Interplay between the exchange and Coulomb interactions in a ferromagnetic semiconductor quantum dot

N. Lebedeva, H. Holmberg, and P. Kuivalainen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245308 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Charge relaxation resistance at atomic scale: An ab initio calculation

Bin Wang and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245309 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Green’s function surface integral equation method for theoretical analysis of scatterers close to a metal interface

Jesper Jung and Thomas Søndergaard

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245310 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Coulomb interactions in single charged self-assembled quantum dots: Radiative lifetime and recombination energy

Paul A. Dalgarno, Jason M. Smith, Jamie McFarlane, Brian D. Gerardot, Kahled Karrai, Antonio Badolato, Pierre M. Petroff, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245311 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Spontaneous spin polarization and electron localization in constrained geometries: The Wigner transition in nanowires

D. Hughes and P. Ballone

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245312 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Transport through a double-quantum-dot system with noncollinearly polarized leads

R. Hornberger, S. Koller, G. Begemann, A. Donarini, and M. Grifoni

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245313 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Nonresonant carrier transfer in single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot molecules

Wen-Hao Chang, Hsuan Lin, Sheng-Yun Wang, Chia-Hsien Lin, Shun-Jen Cheng, Ming-Chih Lee, Wen-Yen Chen, Tzu-Min Hsu, Tung-Po Hsieh, and Jen-Inn Chyi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245314 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Spin dynamics in a double quantum dot: Exact diagonalization study

J. Särkkä and A. Harju

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245315 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Cohesive and surface energies of $π$ -conjugated organic molecular crystals: A first-principles study

Dmitrii Nabok, Peter Puschnig, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245316 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Luminescence upconversion in GaAs quantum wells

Soheyla Eshlaghi, Wieland Worthoff, A. D. Wieck, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245317 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Electronic structure of ${In}_{1 - x} {Ga}_{x} As$ quantum dots via finite difference time domain method

G. B. Ren (任光宝) and J. M. Rorison

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245318 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Theory of resonant radiation force exerted on nanostructures by optical excitation of their quantum states: From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions

Takuya Iida and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245319 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Valley splitting in finite barrier quantum wells

Timothy B. Boykin, Neerav Kharche, and Gerhard Klimeck

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245320 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Spin and angular momentum transitions in few-electron quantum dots and rings

Ning Yang, Zhensheng Dai, and Jia-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245321 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Theoretical strategy for self-assembly of quantum rings

X. Tan, X. L. Li, and G. W. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245322 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Phase-sensitive Fourier space imaging of optical Bloch modes

N. Le Thomas, R. Houdré, M. V. Kotlyar, and T. F. Krauss

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245323 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Theory of NMR in semiconductor quantum point contact devices

N. R. Cooper and V. Tripathi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245324 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Numerical study of the Coulomb blockade in an open quantum dot

Yuji Hamamoto and Takeo Kato

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245325 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Spin nutation and polarization in ballistic semiconductor nanostructures

Sam Young Cho

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245326 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Imaging a one-electron InAs quantum dot in an InAs/InP nanowire

Ania C. Bleszynski-Jayich, Linus E. Fröberg, Mikael T. Björk, H. J. Trodahl, Lars Samuelson, and R. M. Westervelt

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245327 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of Si/Ge and GaAs/AlAs superlattices

A. Ward and D. A. Broido

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245328 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Photovoltage dynamics of the hydroxylated Si(111) surface investigated by ultrafast electron diffraction

Ryan A. Murdick, Ramani K. Raman, Yoshie Murooka, and Chong-Yu Ruan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245329 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Magnetic barriers in graphene nanoribbons: Theoretical study of transport properties

Hengyi Xu, T. Heinzel, M. Evaldsson, and I. V. Zozoulenko

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245401 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Surface exciton polaritons in individual Au nanoparticles in the far-ultraviolet spectral regime

Ming-Wen Chu, Cheng-Hsuan Chen, F. Javier García de Abajo, Jin-Pei Deng, and Chung-Yuan Mou

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245402 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Intershell interaction in double walled carbon nanotubes: Charge transfer and orbital mixing

V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, Á. Rusznyák, J. Kürti, Á. Gali, F. Simon, H. Kuzmany, Á. Szabados, and P. R. Surján

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245403 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of collective excitations in quasi-one-dimensional metallic nanostructures: Size and density dependence

Amy Cassidy, Ilya Grigorenko, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245404 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Test of validity of the $V$ -type approach for electron trajectories in reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy

F. Yubero, N. Pauly, A. Dubus, and S. Tougaard

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245405 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Optical response of metal or dielectric nano-objects in strongly convergent light beams

Jean Lermé, Christophe Bonnet, Michel Broyer, Emmanuel Cottancin, Salem Marhaba, and Michel Pellarin

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245406 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Effect of progressive oxidation on the optical properties of small silicon quantum dots: A computational study

R. J. Eyre, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245407 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Geometrical approach for the study of $G^{'}$ band in the Raman spectrum of monolayer graphene, bilayer graphene, and bulk graphite

L. G. Cançado, A. Reina, J. Kong, and M. S. Dresselhaus

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245408 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Pressure dependence of phonons in ${Rb}_{4} C_{60}$ studied with Raman spectroscopy

Ch. Bellin, J. C. Chervin, C. Hérold, and N. Bendiab

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245409 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Density functional study of oxygen vacancies at the ${SnO}_{2}$ surface and subsurface sites

F. Trani, M. Causà, D. Ninno, G. Cantele, and V. Barone

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245410 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Atomic gold chain on hydrogen terminated $Si (001) : 1 \times 1$ surface: A density functional theory study

Shyamal Konar, Bikash C. Gupta, and Inder P. Batra

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245411 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Theory of charge transport in a quantum dot tunnel junction with multiple energy levels

Yia-Chung Chang and David M.-T. Kuo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245412 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Berry phase in graphene: Semiclassical perspective

Pierre Carmier and Denis Ullmo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245413 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reconstructions on the polar $Sr Ti O_{3}$ (110) surface: Analysis using STM, LEED, and AES

Bruce C. Russell and Martin R. Castell

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245414 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Plasmon excitations of single-wall carbon nanotubes

S. Dmitrović, T. Vuković, B. Nikolić, M. Damnjanović, and I. Milošević

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245415 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Stable elasticity of epitaxial Cu thin films on Si

N. Nakamura, H. Ogi, and M. Hirao

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245416 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Electronic structure calculations of liquid-solid interfaces: Combination of density functional theory and modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory

Ryosuke Jinnouchi and Alfred B. Anderson

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245417 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic dissipation in nanomechanical resonators due to phonon tunneling

I. Wilson-Rae

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245418 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations of $H_{2} O$ on BaO(001)

Henrik Grönbeck and Itai Panas

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245419 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Plastic deformation of pentagonal silver nanowires: Comparison between AFM nanoindentation and atomistic simulations

Marcel Lucas, Austin M. Leach, Matthew T. McDowell, Simona E. Hunyadi, Ken Gall, Catherine J. Murphy, and Elisa Riedo

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245420 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Three reversible states controlled on a gold monoatomic contact by the electrochemical potential

Manabu Kiguchi, Tatsuya Konishi, Kouta Hasegawa, Satoshi Shidara, and Kei Murakoshi

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245421 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Electronic correlations and disorder in transport through one-dimensional nanoparticle arrays

E. Bascones, V. Estévez, J. A. Trinidad, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245422 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Generalized scattering matrix method for electrostatic calculations of nanoscale systems

G. M. Sacha and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245423 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Stacking faults in homoepitaxy on Ir(111): Detection, evolution with film thickness, and associated defect patterns

Sebastian Bleikamp, Arne Thoma, Celia Polop, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245424 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Beyond the ensemble average: X-ray microdiffraction analysis of single SiGe islands

C. Mocuta, J. Stangl, K. Mundboth, T. H. Metzger, G. Bauer, I. A. Vartanyants, M. Schmidbauer, and T. Boeck

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245425 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Electron localization in graphene quantum dots

Prabath Hewageegana and Vadym Apalkov

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245426 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Crater formation via homoepitaxy of adatoms dislodged from reducing oxide islands on metal surfaces

Guangwen Zhou, Weiying Dai, and Judith C. Yang

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245427 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Two-dimensional skew scattering in the vicinity of and away from the resonant scattering condition

V. V. Mkhitaryan and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245428 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Ni(111) surface state observed with scanning tunneling microscopy

K.-F. Braun and K.-H. Rieder

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245429 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Growth instabilities and adsorbed impurities: A case study

A. Ben-Hamouda, N. Absi, P. E. Hoggan, and A. Pimpinelli

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245430 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Optical properties of graphene antidot lattices

Thomas G. Pedersen, Christian Flindt, Jesper Pedersen, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Niels Asger Mortensen, and Kjeld Pedersen

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245431 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Potential electron emission induced by multiply charged ions in thin film tunnel junctions

D. A. Kovacs, T. Peters, C. Haake, M. Schleberger, A. Wucher, A. Golczewski, F. Aumayr, and D. Diesing

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245432 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Observation of an ultrahigh-temperature ferromagnetic-like transition in iron-contaminated multiwalled carbon nanotube mats

Guo-meng Zhao and Pieder Beeli

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245433 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Armchair graphene nanoribbons: Electronic structure and electric-field modulation

Hassan Raza and Edwin C. Kan

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245434 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Azimuthal dispersion and energy mode condensation of grating-coupled surface plasmon polaritons

Filippo Romanato, Lee Kwang Hong, Husen Kartasasmita Kang, Chee Cheong Wong, Zong Yun, and Wolfgang Knoll

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245435 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Band structure of $Tl / Ge (111) − (3 \times 1)$ : Angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles prediction of giant Rashba effect

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

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245436 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Polar distortion in ultrathin ${BaTiO}_{3}$ films studied by in situ LEED $I − V$

Junsoo Shin, V. B. Nascimento, A. Y. Borisevich, E. W. Plummer, S. V. Kalinin, and A. P. Baddorf

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245437 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Quantum critical scaling in magnetic field near the Dirac point in graphene

Igor F. Herbut and Bitan Roy

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245438 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Pauli spin blockade in carbon nanotube double quantum dots

M. R. Buitelaar, J. Fransson, A. L. Cantone, C. G. Smith, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, A. Ardavan, A. N. Khlobystov, A. A. R. Watt, K. Porfyrakis, and G. A. D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. B 77, 245439 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008