Volume 78, Issue 24

15 December 2008

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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Highly flexible wide angle of incidence terahertz metamaterial absorber: Design, fabrication, and characterization

Hu Tao, C. M. Bingham, A. C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N. I. Landy, K. Fan, X. Zhang, W. J. Padilla, and R. D. Averitt

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241103(R) (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Piezoelectric exciton acoustic-phonon coupling in single quantum dots

D. Sarkar, H. P. van der Meulen, J. M. Calleja, J. M. Meyer, R. J. Haug, and K. Pierz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241305(R) (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electron screening and excitonic condensation in double-layer graphene systems

Maxim Yu. Kharitonov and Konstantin B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241401(R) (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density matrix numerical renormalization group for non-Abelian symmetries

A. I. Tóth, C. P. Moca, Ö. Legeza, and G. Zaránd

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245109 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perturbative approach to an exactly solved problem: Kitaev honeycomb model

Julien Vidal, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Sébastien Dusuel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245121 (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-principles investigation of the atomic and electronic structure of the $4 H -SiC (1 \bar{1} 02) − c (2 \times 2)$ surface

Björn Baumeier, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245318 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of microwave radiation on the nonlinear resistivity of a two-dimensional electron gas at large filling factors

Maxim Khodas and Maxim G. Vavilov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245319 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inelastic neutron scattering due to acoustic vibrations confined in nanoparticles: Theory and experiment

Lucien Saviot, Caleb H. Netting, Daniel B. Murray, Stéphane Rols, Alain Mermet, Anne-Laure Papa, Catherine Pighini, Daniel Aymes, and Nadine Millot

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245426 (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bond excitations in the pseudogap phase of the Hubbard model

Alexandru Macridin and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241101(R) (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Probing the Hofstadter butterfly with the quantum oscillation of magnetization

W. H. Xu, L. P. Yang, M. P. Qin, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241102(R) (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Highly flexible wide angle of incidence terahertz metamaterial absorber: Design, fabrication, and characterization

Hu Tao, C. M. Bingham, A. C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N. I. Landy, K. Fan, X. Zhang, W. J. Padilla, and R. D. Averitt

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241103(R) (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Photoinduced Tomonaga-Luttinger-like liquid in a Mott insulator

Takashi Oka and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241104(R) (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ab initio study of the electronic states induced by oxygen vacancies in rutile and anatase ${TiO}_{2}$

G. Mattioli, F. Filippone, P. Alippi, and A. Amore Bonapasta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241201(R) (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

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

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Controlling fluorescence intermittency of a single colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dot in a half cavity

Yanpeng Zhang, Vamsi K. Komarala, Carl Rodriguez, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241301(R) (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ultrafast control of light emission from a quantum-well semiconductor microcavity using picosecond strain pulses

A. V. Scherbakov, T. Berstermann, A. V. Akimov, D. R. Yakovlev, G. Beaudoin, D. Bajoni, I. Sagnes, J. Bloch, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241302(R) (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bolometric detection of quantum shot noise in coupled mesoscopic systems

Masayuki Hashisaka, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Shuji Nakamura, Shinya Kasai, Teruo Ono, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241303(R) (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin-dependent electron-impurity scattering in two-dimensional electron systems

A. Pályi and J. Cserti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241304(R) (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Piezoelectric exciton acoustic-phonon coupling in single quantum dots

D. Sarkar, H. P. van der Meulen, J. M. Calleja, J. M. Meyer, R. J. Haug, and K. Pierz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241305(R) (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electron screening and excitonic condensation in double-layer graphene systems

Maxim Yu. Kharitonov and Konstantin B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241401(R) (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Limits of hardness at the nanoscale: Molecular dynamics simulations

Nhon Q. Vo, Robert S. Averback, Pascal Bellon, and Alfredo Caro

Phys. Rev. B 78, 241402(R) (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

ARTICLES

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

Coupling between the $4 f$ core binding energy and the $5 f$ valence band occupation of elemental Pu and Pu-based compounds

Torbjörn Björkman, Olle Eriksson, and Per Andersson

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245101 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Combining $M$ - and $L$ -edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering for studies of $3 d$ transition metal compounds

S. G. Chiuzbăian, T. Schmitt, M. Matsubara, A. Kotani, G. Ghiringhelli, C. Dallera, A. Tagliaferri, L. Braicovich, V. Scagnoli, N. B. Brookes, U. Staub, and L. Patthey

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245102 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Optical spectroscopy in CoO: Phononic, electric, and magnetic excitation spectrum within the charge-transfer gap

Ch. Kant, T. Rudolf, F. Schrettle, F. Mayr, J. Deisenhofer, P. Lunkenheimer, M. V. Eremin, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245103 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Interband and intraband optical transitions in InAs nanocrystal quantum dots: A pseudopotential approach

Theerapong Puangmali, Marco Califano, and Paul Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245104 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Boundary criticality and multifractality at the two-dimensional spin quantum Hall transition

Arvind R. Subramaniam, Ilya A. Gruzberg, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245105 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

$Q$ -dependent electronic excitations in osmium: Pressure- and temperature-induced effects

Yu. S Ponosov, V. V. Struzhkin, A. F. Goncharov, and S. V. Streltsov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245106 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

$k \cdot p$ formula for use with linearized augmented plane waves

Tatsuya Shishidou and Tamio Oguchi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245107 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Backscattering in monomode periodic waveguides

B. Wang, S. Mazoyer, J. P. Hugonin, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245108 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density matrix numerical renormalization group for non-Abelian symmetries

A. I. Tóth, C. P. Moca, Ö. Legeza, and G. Zaránd

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245109 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Metal-insulator transition in the Hartree-Fock phase diagram of the fully polarized homogeneous electron gas in two dimensions

B. Bernu, F. Delyon, M. Duneau, and M. Holzmann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245110 (2008) - Published 10 December, 2008

Lattice models for non-Fermi-liquid metals

Michael Levin and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245111 (2008) - Published 11 December, 2008

Quasiatomic orbitals for ab initio tight-binding analysis

Xiaofeng Qian, Ju Li, Liang Qi, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Tzu-Liang Chan, Yong-Xin Yao, Kai-Ming Ho, and Sidney Yip

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245112 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Measuring correlated electron dynamics with time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Martin Eckstein and Marcus Kollar

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245113 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Light-induced charge transport in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ crystals

B. Sturman, M. Carrascosa, and F. Agullo-Lopez

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245114 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Spiral spin structures and origin of the magnetoelectric coupling in ${YMn}_{2} O_{5}$

J.-H. Kim, S.-H. Lee, S. I. Park, M. Kenzelmann, A. B. Harris, J. Schefer, J.-H. Chung, C. F. Majkrzak, M. Takeda, S. Wakimoto, S. Y. Park, S-W. Cheong, M. Matsuda, H. Kimura, Y. Noda, and K. Kakurai

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245115 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Dipole approximation in the $L_{2, 3}$ electron excited spectra in $3 d$ transition metals

K. Nuroh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245116 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

In-gap state and effect of light illumination in ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4}$ probed by photoemission spectroscopy

K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, N. Matsumoto, and S. Nagata

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245117 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Calculation of self-energy matrices using complex absorbing potentials in electron transport calculations

J. A. Driscoll and K. Varga

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245118 (2008) - Published 22 December, 2008

Core-level and valence-band study using angle-integrated photoemission on ${LaFeAsO}_{0.9} F_{0.1}$

D. R. Garcia, C. Jozwiak, C. G. Hwang, A. Fedorov, S. M. Hanrahan, S. D. Wilson, C. R. Rotundu, B. K. Freelon, R. J. Birgeneau, E. Bourret-Courchesne, and A. Lanzara

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245119 (2008) - Published 23 December, 2008

Electronic structure, magnetic, and electrical properties of single-crystalline magnetic fluctuator URuAl and comparison with reference systems

M. Samsel-Czekała, E. Talik, and R. Troć

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245120 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perturbative approach to an exactly solved problem: Kitaev honeycomb model

Julien Vidal, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Sébastien Dusuel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245121 (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and spontaneous anomalous Hall effect in Fermi fluids

Kai Sun and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245122 (2008) - Published 30 December, 2008

Semiclassical theory of diffusive-ballistic crossover and the persistent spin helix

B. Andrei Bernevig and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245123 (2008) - Published 30 December, 2008

Accuracy of the pseudopotential approximation in ab initio theoretical spectroscopies

Eleonora Luppi, Hans-Christian Weissker, Sandro Bottaro, Francesco Sottile, Valérie Veniard, Lucia Reining, and Giovanni Onida

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245124 (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Distance dependence of excitation energy transfer between spacer-separated conjugated polymer films

Paul E. Shaw, Arvydas Ruseckas, and Ifor D. W. Samuel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245201 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Electrochemical doping during light emission in polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells

Nathaniel D. Robinson, Junfeng Fang, Piotr Matyba, and Ludvig Edman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245202 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Temperature dependence of the electron spin $g$ factor in GaAs

W. Zawadzki, P. Pfeffer, R. Bratschitsch, Z. Chen, S. T. Cundiff, B. N. Murdin, and C. R. Pidgeon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245203 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

First-principles study of electronic properties of biaxially strained silicon: Effects on charge carrier mobility

Decai Yu, Yu Zhang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245204 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Polaron and phonon properties in proton intercalated amorphous tungsten oxide thin films

M. F. Saenger, T. Höing, B. W. Robertson, R. B. Billa, T. Hofmann, E. Schubert, and M. Schubert

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245205 (2008) - Published 22 December, 2008

Effect of nitrogen interactions on photoluminescence linewidth broadening in dilute nitride semiconductors

I. Bosa, D. McPeake, and S. Fahy

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245206 (2008) - Published 23 December, 2008

Semiconductor thermochemistry in density functional calculations

Stephan Lany

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245207 (2008) - Published 30 December, 2008

Anomalous Hall effect in IV-VI magnetic semiconductors

A. Dyrdal, V. K. Dugaev, and J. Barnas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245208 (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

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

Electron-spin dephasing via hyperfine interaction in a quantum dot: An equation-of-motion calculation of electron-spin correlation functions

Changxue Deng and Xuedong Hu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245301 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Quantum nondemolition measurements of single donor spins in semiconductors

Mohan Sarovar, Kevin C. Young, Thomas Schenkel, and K. Birgitta Whaley

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245302 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Numerical study of spin relaxation in a quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction

Tomoaki Kaneko, Mikito Koshino, and Tsuneya Ando

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245303 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Electrical conductivity of double stranded DNA measured with ac impedance spectroscopy

Jiaxiong Wang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245304 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Intervalence transverse-electric mode terahertz lasing without population inversion

M. F. Pereira, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245305 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Few-electron artificial molecules formed by laterally coupled quantum rings

T. Chwiej and B. Szafran

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245306 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Observation of a metallic ground state of $Sn / Ge (111) − 3 \times 3$ at 4 K

Harumo Morikawa, Sukmin Jeong, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245307 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Elementary charge-transfer processes in mesoscopic conductors

Mihajlo Vanević, Yuli V. Nazarov, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245308 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Quantum pumping and rectification effects in Aharonov-Bohm-Casher ring-dot systems

F. Romeo, R. Citro, and M. Marinaro

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245309 (2008) - Published 9 December, 2008

Spin polarization control via magnetic barriers and spin-orbit effects

Anh T. Ngo, J. M. Villas-Bôas, and Sergio E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245310 (2008) - Published 10 December, 2008

Cyclotron resonance of a magnetic quantum dot

Nga T. T. Nguyen and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245311 (2008) - Published 11 December, 2008

Nonmagnetic control of spin flow: Generation of pure spin current in a Rashba-Dresselhaus quantum channel

Chia-Hui Lin, Chi-Shung Tang, and Yia-Chung Chang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245312 (2008) - Published 11 December, 2008

Hydrogen dissociation on Mg(0001) studied via quantum Monte Carlo calculations

M. Pozzo and D. Alfè

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245313 (2008) - Published 12 December, 2008

Combined experimental and theoretical study of thin hafnia films

X. Luo, A. A. Demkov, D. Triyoso, P. Fejes, R Gregory, and S. Zollner

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245314 (2008) - Published 12 December, 2008

Aharonov-Casher and spin Hall effects in mesoscopic ring structures with strong spin-orbit interaction

M. F. Borunda, Xin Liu, Alexey A. Kovalev, Xiong-Jun Liu, T. Jungwirth, and Jairo Sinova

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245315 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Spin polarization control through resonant states in an Fe/GaAs Schottky barrier

S. Honda, H. Itoh, J. Inoue, H. Kurebayashi, T. Trypiniotis, C. H. W. Barnes, A. Hirohata, and J. A. C. Bland

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245316 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Built-in electric field assisted spin injection in Cr and Mn $δ$ -layer doped AlN/GaN(0001) heterostructures from first principles

X. Y. Cui, J. E. Medvedeva, B. Delley, A. J. Freeman, and C. Stampfl

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245317 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-principles investigation of the atomic and electronic structure of the $4 H -SiC (1 \bar{1} 02) − c (2 \times 2)$ surface

Björn Baumeier, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245318 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of microwave radiation on the nonlinear resistivity of a two-dimensional electron gas at large filling factors

Maxim Khodas and Maxim G. Vavilov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245319 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

Atomic structure, electronic structure, and defect energetics in $[001] (310) Σ 5$ grain boundaries of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ and ${BaTiO}_{3}$

M. Imaeda, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Sato, H.-S. Lee, S. D. Findlay, N. Shibata, T. Yamamoto, and Y. Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245320 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

Spin transverse separation in a two-dimensional electron-gas using an external magnetic field with a topological chirality

S. G. Tan, M. B. A. Jalil, Xiong-Jun Liu, and T. Fujita

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245321 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

Low-field quantum Hall transport in an electron Fabry-Perot interferometer: Dependence of constriction filling on front-gate voltage

Ping V. Lin, F. E. Camino, and V. J. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245322 (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

Interplay between quantum dissipation and an in-plane magnetic field in the spin ratchet effect

Sergey Smirnov, Dario Bercioux, Milena Grifoni, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245323 (2008) - Published 29 December, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Beam transit effects in single molecule coherent diffraction

J. M. Gibson and M. M. J. Treacy

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245401 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Superlattice structures of graphene-based armchair nanoribbons

H. Sevinçli, M. Topsakal, and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245402 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Homogeneous large-area graphene layer growth on $6 H$ -SiC(0001)

C. Virojanadara, M. Syväjarvi, R. Yakimova, L. I. Johansson, A. A. Zakharov, and T. Balasubramanian

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245403 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of 13-, 55-, and 147-atom clusters of Fe, Co, and Ni: A spin-polarized density functional study

Ranber Singh and Peter Kroll

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245404 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Electronic transport properties of quantum-well states in ultrathin Pb (111) films

Nobuhiro Miyata, Kotaro Horikoshi, Toru Hirahara, Shuji Hasegawa, C. M. Wei, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245405 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Quantum oscillations in graphene in the presence of disorder and interactions

Pallab Goswami, Xun Jia, and Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245406 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Enhancement of subband effective mass in Ag/Ge(111) thin film quantum wells

S.-J. Tang, Wen-Kai Chang, Yu-Mei Chiu, Hsin-Yi Chen, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Ku-Ding Tsuei, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245407 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Particle size effect of hydrogen-induced lattice expansion of palladium nanoclusters

Bridget Ingham, Michael F. Toney, Shaun C. Hendy, Timothy Cox, Dillon D. Fong, Jeffrey A. Eastman, Paul H. Fuoss, Kevin J. Stevens, Andreas Lassesson, S. A. Brown, and Mary P. Ryan

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245408 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Screening and retardation effects on $180 °$ -domain wall motion in ferroelectrics: Wall velocity and nonlinear dynamics due to polarization-screening charge interactions

E. A. Eliseev, A. N. Morozovska, G. S. Svechnikov, E. L. Rumyantsev, E. I. Shishkin, V. Y. Shur, and S. V. Kalinin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245409 (2008) - Published 8 December, 2008

Lifetime of an adsorbate excitation modified by a tunable two-dimensional substrate

M. Wiesenmayer, M. Bauer, S. Mathias, M. Wessendorf, E. V. Chulkov, V. M. Silkin, A. G. Borisov, J.-P. Gauyacq, P. M. Echenique, and M. Aeschlimann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245410 (2008) - Published 9 December, 2008

Low-frequency magneto-optical excitations of a graphene monolayer: Peierls tight-binding model and gradient approximation calculation

Y. H. Chiu, J. H. Ho, C. P. Chang, D. S. Chuu, and M. F. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245411 (2008) - Published 9 December, 2008

Spectrum of $π$ electrons in graphene as an alternant macromolecule and its specific features in quantum conductance

Alexander Onipko

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245412 (2008) - Published 9 December, 2008

High-field magnetooptical behavior of polymer-embedded single-walled carbon nanotubes

A. Nish, R. J. Nicholas, C. Faugeras, Z. Bao, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245413 (2008) - Published 10 December, 2008

Phase diagram of ${}^{4}H e$ adsorbed on graphite

Philippe Corboz, Massimo Boninsegni, Lode Pollet, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245414 (2008) - Published 12 December, 2008

Modeling nucleation and growth of encapsulated nanocrystals: Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and rate theory

D. O. Yi, M. H. Jhon, I. D. Sharp, Q. Xu, C. W. Yuan, C. Y. Liao, J. W. Ager, III, E. E. Haller, and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245415 (2008) - Published 12 December, 2008

Stacking faults, bound states, and quantum Hall plateaus in crystalline graphite

Daniel P. Arovas and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245416 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Ab initio study of decohesion properties in oxide/metal systems

J. I. Beltrán and M. C. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245417 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Atomic and electronic structures of $Ag / Si (111) -c (12 \times 2)$ surface: A first-principles study

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

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245418 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides: Figures of merit and mode characterization by image and Fourier plane leakage microscopy

J. Grandidier, S. Massenot, G. Colas des Francs, A. Bouhelier, J.-C. Weeber, L. Markey, A. Dereux, J. Renger, M. U. González, and R. Quidant

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245419 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

General mechanism of optical nonlinearity enhancement by cavity QED

Hisaki Oka, Kazuya Taniguchi, Hiroshi Ajiki, and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245420 (2008) - Published 22 December, 2008

Remarkably long-ranged repulsive interaction between adsorbed CO molecules on Pt modified Ge(001)

Daan Kockmann, Bene Poelsema, and Harold J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245421 (2008) - Published 22 December, 2008

Cascade upconversion of photoluminescence in quantum dot ensembles

João R. Santos, Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy, and Sergey A. Filonovich

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245422 (2008) - Published 22 December, 2008

From clusters to the solid state: Global minimum structures for cesium clusters ${Cs}_{n}$ $(n = 2 - 20, \infty)$ and their electronic properties

Behnam Assadollahzadeh, Christian Thierfelder, and Peter Schwerdtfeger

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245423 (2008) - Published 24 December, 2008

Fractionalization in dimerized graphene and graphene bilayer

M. V. Milovanović

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245424 (2008) - Published 30 December, 2008

Catalytic role of adsorbates in the photoluminescence emission of Si nanocrystals

Giuseppe Faraci, Santo Gibilisco, Agata R. Pennisi, Giorgia Franzó, Salvatore La Rosa, and Luca Lozzi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245425 (2008) - Published 30 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inelastic neutron scattering due to acoustic vibrations confined in nanoparticles: Theory and experiment

Lucien Saviot, Caleb H. Netting, Daniel B. Murray, Stéphane Rols, Alain Mermet, Anne-Laure Papa, Catherine Pighini, Daniel Aymes, and Nadine Millot

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245426 (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

Scanning tunneling microscopy and kinetic Monte Carlo investigation of cesium superlattices on Ag(111)

M. Ziegler, J. Kröger, R. Berndt, A. Filinov, and M. Bonitz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245427 (2008) - Published 31 December, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Effects of disorder on atomic density waves and spin-singlet dimers in one-dimensional optical lattices [Phys. Rev. B 78, 085108 (2008)]

Gao Xianlong

Phys. Rev. B 78, 249901 (2008) - Published 12 December, 2008