Volume 78, Issue 4

15 July 2008

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Spin-dependent tunneling of single electrons into an empty quantum dot

S. Amasha, K. MacLean, Iuliana P. Radu, D. M. Zumbühl, M. A. Kastner, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041306(R) (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

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Surface states and topological invariants in three-dimensional topological insulators: Application to ${Bi}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x}$

Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, Liang Fu, and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045426 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

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Temperature-induced spin-coherence dissipation in quantum dots

F. G. G. Hernandez, A. Greilich, F. Brito, M. Wiemann, D. R. Yakovlev, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041303(R) (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

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Electronic and vibronic interactions at weakly bound organic interfaces: The case of pentacene on graphite

Pavel B. Paramonov, Veaceslav Coropceanu, and Jean-Luc Brédas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041403(R) (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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Theory of a continuous Mott transition in two dimensions

T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045109 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

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Destruction of Néel order in the cuprates by electron doping

Ribhu K. Kaul, Max A. Metlitski, Subir Sachdev, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045110 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

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Calculation of the conductance of a graphene sheet using the Chalker-Coddington network model

I. Snyman, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045118 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

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Self-consistent atomic deformation method for application of density functional theory

L. L. Boyer, H. T. Stokes, M. M. Ossowski, and M. J. Mehl

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045121 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

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Proposed method for detection of the pseudospin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Berry phase in a photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum

R. A. Sepkhanov, Johan Nilsson, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045122 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

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All-optical generation and detection of subpicosecond ac spin-current pulses in GaAs

Brian A. Ruzicka, Karl Higley, Lalani K. Werake, and Hui Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045314 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

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Effect of radiation on transport in graphene

S. V. Syzranov, M. V. Fistul, and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045407 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

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Detailed scanning probe microscopy tip models determined from simultaneous atom-resolved AFM and STM studies of the ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ surface

Georg H. Enevoldsen, Henry P. Pinto, Adam S. Foster, Mona C. R. Jensen, Angelika Kühnle, Michael Reichling, Werner A. Hofer, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, and Flemming Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045416 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

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Evidence of local superconductivity in granular Bi nanowires fabricated by electrodeposition

Mingliang Tian, Nitesh Kumar, Moses H. W. Chan, and Thomas E. Mallouk

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045417 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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

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Role of backflow correlations for the nonmagnetic phase of the $t – t^{'}$ Hubbard model

Luca F. Tocchio, Federico Becca, Alberto Parola, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041101(R) (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

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Crystal-field excitations in NiO studied with hard x-ray resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the $Ni K$ edge

Simo Huotari, Tuomas Pylkkänen, György Vankó, Roberto Verbeni, Pieter Glatzel, and Giulio Monaco

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041102(R) (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

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Vectorial four-wave mixing field dynamics from individual excitonic transitions

Jacek Kasprzak and Wolfgang Langbein

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041103(R) (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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

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Observation of an inter-Landau level quantum coherence in semiconductor quantum wells

K. M. Dani, I. A. Cotoros, J. Wang, J. Tignon, D. S. Chemla, E. G. Kavousanaki, and I. E. Perakis

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041301(R) (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

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Josephson effects in condensates of excitons and exciton polaritons

I. A. Shelykh, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Pavlovic, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041302(R) (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

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Temperature-induced spin-coherence dissipation in quantum dots

F. G. G. Hernandez, A. Greilich, F. Brito, M. Wiemann, D. R. Yakovlev, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041303(R) (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

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Spin dynamics of two-dimensional electrons in a quantum Hall system probed by time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy

D. Fukuoka, T. Yamazaki, N. Tanaka, K. Oto, K. Muro, Y. Hirayama, N. Kumada, and H. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041304(R) (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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Hybrid skew scattering regime of the anomalous Hall effect in Rashba systems: Unifying Keldysh, Boltzmann, and Kubo formalisms

Alexey A. Kovalev, Karel Výborný, and Jairo Sinova

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041305(R) (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

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Spin-dependent tunneling of single electrons into an empty quantum dot

S. Amasha, K. MacLean, Iuliana P. Radu, D. M. Zumbühl, M. A. Kastner, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041306(R) (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Spectral tuning and near-field imaging of photonic crystal microcavities

Francesca Intonti, Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Anna Vinattieri, Diederik S. Wiersma, Marcello Colocci, Laurent Balet, Christelle Monat, Carl Zinoni, Lianhe H. Li, Romuald Houdré, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, and Massimo Gurioli

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041401(R) (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

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Hydrogen storage by spillover on graphene as a phase nucleation process

Yu Lin, Feng Ding, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041402(R) (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

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Electronic and vibronic interactions at weakly bound organic interfaces: The case of pentacene on graphite

Pavel B. Paramonov, Veaceslav Coropceanu, and Jean-Luc Brédas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041403(R) (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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Far-infrared signature of the superconducting gap in intercalated graphite ${CaC}_{6}$

U. Nagel, D. Hüvonen, E. Joon, J. S. Kim, R. K. Kremer, and T. Rõõm

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041404(R) (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

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Effect of quantum confinement of surface electrons on an atomic motion on nanoislands: Ab initio calculations and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

A. S. Smirnov, N. N. Negulyaev, L. Niebergall, W. Hergert, A. M. Saletsky, and V. S. Stepanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041405(R) (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

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Lattice expansion in nonoxidized FePt nanoparticles: X-ray absorption measurements

C. Antoniak, A. Trunova, M. Spasova, M. Farle, H. Wende, F. Wilhelm, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041406(R) (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

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Optical transitions in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum wells with Ge-rich barriers

M. Bonfanti, E. Grilli, M. Guzzi, M. Virgilio, G. Grosso, D. Chrastina, G. Isella, H. von Känel, and A. Neels

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041407(R) (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

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Topology and electron scattering properties of the electronic interfaces in epitaxial graphene probed by resonant tunneling spectroscopy

H. Yang, G. Baffou, A. J. Mayne, G. Comtet, G. Dujardin, and Y. Kuk

Phys. Rev. B 78, 041408(R) (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

ARTICLES

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

Quench dynamics and defect production in the Kitaev and extended Kitaev models

Shreyoshi Mondal, Diptiman Sen, and K. Sengupta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045101 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Dielectric sensing in $ϵ$ -near-zero narrow waveguide channels

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045102 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Direct evidence of overdamped Peierls-coupled modes in the temperature-induced phase transition in tetrathiafulvalene-chloranil

A. Girlando, M. Masino, A. Painelli, N. Drichko, M. Dressel, A. Brillante, R. G. Della Valle, and E. Venuti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045103 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Relation between channel and spatial mesoscopic correlations in volume-disordered waveguides

Alexey Yamilov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045104 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Analytic form for a nonlocal kinetic energy functional with a density-dependent kernel for orbital-free density functional theory under periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions

Gregory S. Ho, Vincent L. Lignères, and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045105 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Bonding in Zintl phase hydrides: Density functional calculations for SrAlSiH, ${SrAl}_{2} H_{2}$ , ${SrGa}_{2} H_{2}$ , and ${BaGa}_{2} H_{2}$

Alaska Subedi and David J. Singh

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045106 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Insulator-metal transition and anomalous sign reversal of the dominant charge carriers in perovskite ${BaTiO}_{3 - δ}$

T. Kolodiazhnyi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045107 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Local atomic and electronic structures around Mg and Al dopants in ${LiNiO}_{2}$ electrodes studied by XANES and ELNES and first-principles calculations

Kazuyoshi Tatsumi, Yusuke Sasano, Shunsuke Muto, Tomoko Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Kayo Horibuchi, Yoji Takeuchi, and Yoshio Ukyo

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045108 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

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Theory of a continuous Mott transition in two dimensions

T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045109 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

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Destruction of Néel order in the cuprates by electron doping

Ribhu K. Kaul, Max A. Metlitski, Subir Sachdev, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045110 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Analysis of the photoconduction in ${CaF}_{2}$ : ${Eu}^{2 +}$ crystals using the microwave resonant cavity technique

H. Loudyi, Y. Guyot, S. A. Kazanskii, J.-C. Gâcon, B. Moine, C. Pédrini, and M.-F. Joubert

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045111 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Persistent positive and transient absolute negative photoconductivity observed in diamond photodetectors

Meiyong Liao, Yasuo Koide, Jose Alvarez, Masataka Imura, and Jean-Paul Kleider

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045112 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Enhancement of thermal transport in the degenerate periodic Anderson model

V. Zlatić, R. Monnier, and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045113 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Time-dependent Gutzwiller theory of pairing fluctuations in the Hubbard model

G. Seibold, F. Becca, and J. Lorenzana

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045114 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Effect of crystal-field splitting and interband hybridization on the metal-insulator transitions of strongly correlated systems

Alexander I. Poteryaev, Michel Ferrero, Antoine Georges, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045115 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Popular Kohn-Sham density functionals strongly overestimate many-body interactions in van der Waals systems

Alexandre Tkatchenko and O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045116 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Generalized susceptibility of a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic potential: A model for the organic superconductor ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {ClO}_{4}$

Yasumasa Hasegawa and Keita Kishigi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045117 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

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Calculation of the conductance of a graphene sheet using the Chalker-Coddington network model

I. Snyman, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045118 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Density functional perturbation theory with spin-orbit coupling: Phonon band structure of lead

Matthieu J. Verstraete, Marc Torrent, François Jollet, Gilles Zérah, and Xavier Gonze

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045119 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Electronic and magnetic properties of a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system ${Sr}_{3} {NiRhO}_{6}$

S. K. Pandey and Kalobaran Maiti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045120 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

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Self-consistent atomic deformation method for application of density functional theory

L. L. Boyer, H. T. Stokes, M. M. Ossowski, and M. J. Mehl

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045121 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proposed method for detection of the pseudospin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Berry phase in a photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum

R. A. Sepkhanov, Johan Nilsson, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045122 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

de Haas–van Alphen oscillations in the charge density wave compound lanthanum tritelluride ${LaTe}_{3}$

N. Ru, R. A. Borzi, A. Rost, A. P. Mackenzie, J. Laverock, S. B. Dugdale, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045123 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Wannier interpolation scheme for phonon-induced potentials: Application to bulk ${MgB}_{2}$ , W, and the $(1 \times 1)$ H-covered W(110) surface

Asier Eiguren and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045124 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Electronic structure of ${FeSi}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x}$ and ${FeGa}_{3}$ investigated by soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy complementary to x-ray emission spectroscopy

H. Yamaoka, M. Matsunami, R. Eguchi, Y. Ishida, N. Tsujii, Y. Takahashi, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045125 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Preconditioning of self-consistent-field cycles in density-functional theory: The extrapolar method

P.-M. Anglade and X. Gonze

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045126 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Bulk sensitive spectroscopy for the valence transition in ${YbInCu}_{4}$ -based compounds

H. Yamaoka, N. Tsujii, K. Yamamoto, A. M. Vlaicu, H. Oohashi, H. Yoshikawa, T. Tochio, Y. Ito, A. Chainani, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045127 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Semiconductors I: bulk

Resonant phonon scattering of paraexcitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$

Christian Sandfort, Jan Brandt, Dietmar Fröhlich, Manfred Bayer, and Heinrich Stolz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045201 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Threshold defect production in silicon determined by density functional theory molecular dynamics simulations

E. Holmström, A. Kuronen, and K. Nordlund

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045202 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ /piezoelectric actuator hybrids: A model system for magnetoelastic magnetization manipulation

C. Bihler, M. Althammer, A. Brandlmaier, S. Geprägs, M. Weiler, M. Opel, W. Schoch, W. Limmer, R. Gross, M. S. Brandt, and S. T. B. Goennenwein

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045203 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Growth and shape transition of small silicon self-interstitial clusters

Sangheon Lee and Gyeong S. Hwang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045204 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Debye relaxation in high magnetic fields

J. S. Brooks, R. Vasic, A. Kismarahardja, E. Steven, T. Tokumoto, P. Schlottmann, and S. Kelly

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045205 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Electron spin resonance and microwave magnetoresistance in Ge:Mn thin films

R. Morgunov, M. Farle, M. Passacantando, L. Ottaviano, and O. Kazakova

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045206 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Electric field effect on energy transfer monitored by bimolecular annihilation

C. Gadermaier, F. Grasse, S. Perissinotto, M. Graf, F. Galbrecht, U. Scherf, E. J. W. List, and G. Lanzani

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045207 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Energy level alignment and chemical interaction at ${Alq}_{3} / Co$ interfaces for organic spintronic devices

Y. Q. Zhan, M. P. de Jong, F. H. Li, V. Dediu, M. Fahlman, and W. R. Salaneck

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045208 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Controlling the torsional stochastic switching in phenylene ethynylene oligomer molecules by external electrostatic fields

Irina Petreska, Ljupčo Pejov, and Ljupčo Kocarev

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045209 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Triplet energy transfer in conjugated polymers. I. Experimental investigation of a weakly disordered compound

Lekshmi Sudha Devi, Mohammad K. Al-Suti, Carsten Dosche, Muhammad S. Khan, Richard H. Friend, and Anna Köhler

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045210 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Triplet energy transfer in conjugated polymers. II. A polaron theory description addressing the influence of disorder

Ivan I. Fishchuk, Andrey Kadashchuk, Lekshmi Sudha Devi, Paul Heremans, Heinz Bässler, and Anna Köhler

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045211 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Ordinary and extraordinary phonons and photons: Raman study of anisotropy effects in the polar modes of ${MnGa}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

P. Alonso-Gutiérrez and M. L. Sanjuán

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045212 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Coherent Stokes Raman spectroscopy of conduction electron spin flip transitions in ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} Te$ : A Van Vleck paramagnet

A. Winter, H. Pascher, H. Krenn, I. Miotkowski, and A. K. Ramdas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045213 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

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

Four-step evolution of spin Hall conductance: Tight-binding electrons with Rashba coupling in a magnetic field

Yi-Fei Wang, Yang Zhao, and Chang-De Gong

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045301 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Spin Nernst effect and Nernst effect in two-dimensional electron systems

Shu-guang Cheng, Yanxia Xing, Qing-feng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045302 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Spin-dependent processes at the crystalline ${Si-SiO}_{2}$ interface at high magnetic fields

D. R. McCamey, G. W. Morley, H. A. Seipel, L. C. Brunel, J. van Tol, and C. Boehme

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045303 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Acoustic dispersion in a two-dimensional dipole system

Kenneth I. Golden, Gabor J. Kalman, Zoltan Donko, and Peter Hartmann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045304 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Kondo resonance in the presence of spin-polarized currents

Yunong Qi, Jian-Xin Zhu, Shufeng Zhang, and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045305 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Statistics of charge and phase in a ballistic chaotic cavity

A. L. R. Barbosa, A. F. Macedo-Junior, and A. M. S. Macêdo

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045306 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

ARTICLES

Origin of ferromagnetism of ${MnSi}_{1.7}$ nanoparticles in Si: First-principles calculations

Shin Yabuuchi, Hiroyuki Kageshima, Yukinori Ono, Masao Nagase, Akira Fujiwara, and Eiji Ohta

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045307 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

ARTICLES

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

Statistics of measurement of noncommuting quantum variables: Monitoring and purification of a qubit

Hongduo Wei and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045308 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Two-step versus one-step model of the interpolarization conversion and statistics of CdSe/ZnSe quantum dot elongations

A. V. Koudinov, B. R. Namozov, Yu. G. Kusrayev, S. Lee, M. Dobrowolska, and J. K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045309 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Effects of different geometries on the conductance, shot noise, and tunnel magnetoresistance of double quantum dots

Ireneusz Weymann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045310 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Impact of visible light illumination on ultraviolet emission from ZnO nanocrystals

S. S. Kurbanov, G. N. Panin, T. W. Kim, and T. W. Kang

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045311 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Excitons in rolled up nanotubes of type-II semiconductor quantum wells: Theoretical study of a quasi-one-dimensional bosonic gas

Mehran Bagheri and Farshad Ebrahimi

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045312 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Analysis of the exciton-exciton interaction in semiconductor quantum wells

Christoph Schindler and Roland Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045313 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-optical generation and detection of subpicosecond ac spin-current pulses in GaAs

Brian A. Ruzicka, Karl Higley, Lalani K. Werake, and Hui Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045314 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Effect of thermal annealing on the hyperfine interaction in InAs/GaAs quantum dots

M. Yu. Petrov, I. V. Ignatiev, S. V. Poltavtsev, A. Greilich, A. Bauschulte, D. R. Yakovlev, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045315 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Colossal spin fluctuations in a molecular quantum dot magnet with ferromagnetic electrodes

Thibaut Jonckheere, Ken-Ichiro Imura, and Thierry Martin

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045316 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Thermal transport in a semiconductor heterostructure measured by time-resolved x-ray diffraction

Y. M. Sheu, S. H. Lee, J. K. Wahlstrand, D. A. Walko, E. C. Landahl, D. A. Arms, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and D. A. Reis

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045317 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Yb-induced $(2 \times 3)$ and $(2 \times 4)$ reconstructions on Si(100) studied by first-principles calculations and high-resolution core-level photoelectron spectroscopy

M. Kuzmin, M. P. J. Punkkinen, P. Laukkanen, R. E. Perälä, M. Ahola-Tuomi, T. Balasubramanian, and I. J. Väyrynen

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045318 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Local fields and conduction-electron behavior at impurity sites in indium-doped ZnO

W. Sato, Y. Itsuki, S. Morimoto, H. Susuki, S. Nasu, A. Shinohara, and Y. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045319 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Controlling the interactions between polaritons and molecular vibrations in strongly coupled organic semiconductor microcavities

J. Chovan, I. E. Perakis, S. Ceccarelli, and D. G. Lidzey

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045320 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Magnetic field dependence of the many-electron states in a magnetic quantum dot: The ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic transition

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

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045321 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Dephasing in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer at filling factor $ν = 2$

Ivan P. Levkivskyi and Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045322 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Negative differential conductance induced by electronic correlation in a double quantum dot molecule

Gustavo A. Lara, Pedro A. Orellana, and Enrique V. Anda

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045323 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Exciton formation in graphene bilayer

Raoul Dillenschneider and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045401 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Quantum confinement effects on Mn-doped InAs nanocrystals: A first-principles study

J. T. Arantes, G. M. Dalpian, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045402 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Doping of graphene: Density functional calculations of charge transfer between GaAs and carbon nanostructures

T. A. G. Eberlein, R. Jones, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045403 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Energy gaps, magnetism, and electric-field effects in bilayer graphene nanoribbons

Bhagawan Sahu, Hongki Min, A. H. MacDonald, and Sanjay K. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045404 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

ARTICLES

Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene

Johan Nilsson, A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, and N. M. R. Peres

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045405 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

ARTICLES

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Ground-state properties of a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas within a dynamical self-consistent mean-field approximation

Vinayak Garg, R. K. Moudgil, Krishan Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045406 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of radiation on transport in graphene

S. V. Syzranov, M. V. Fistul, and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045407 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Vibrational stability and electronic structure of a $B_{80}$ fullerene

Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson, and Rajendra R. Zope

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045408 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Bonding of hexagonal BN to transition metal surfaces: An ab initio density-functional theory study

Robert Laskowski, Peter Blaha, and Karlheinz Schwarz

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045409 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Vibrational modes and low-temperature thermal properties of graphene and carbon nanotubes: Minimal force-constant model

Janina Zimmermann, Pasquale Pavone, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045410 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Role of the van der Waals interactions on the bonding mechanism of pyridine on Cu(110) and Ag(110) surface: First-principles study

N. Atodiresei, V. Caciuc, J.-H. Franke, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045411 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Optical forces near a plasmonic nanostructure

Vassilios Yannopapas

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045412 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Raman $G$ band in double-wall carbon nanotubes combining $p$ doping and high pressure

Pascal Puech, Ahmad Ghandour, Andrei Sapelkin, Cyril Tinguely, Emmanuel Flahaut, David J. Dunstan, and Wolfgang Bacsa

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045413 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Effect of hydrogen molecules on the electronic transport through atomic-sized metallic junctions in the superconducting state

P. Makk, Sz. Csonka, and A. Halbritter

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045414 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Tilted anisotropic Dirac cones in quinoid-type graphene and $α − {(BEDT-TTF)}_{2} I_{3}$

M. O. Goerbig, J.-N. Fuchs, G. Montambaux, and F. Piéchon

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045415 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

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Detailed scanning probe microscopy tip models determined from simultaneous atom-resolved AFM and STM studies of the ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ surface

Georg H. Enevoldsen, Henry P. Pinto, Adam S. Foster, Mona C. R. Jensen, Angelika Kühnle, Michael Reichling, Werner A. Hofer, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, and Flemming Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045416 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

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