Volume 79, Issue 24

15 June 2009

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Engineering artificial graphene in a two-dimensional electron gas

Marco Gibertini, Achintya Singha, Vittorio Pellegrini, Marco Polini, Giovanni Vignale, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241406(R) (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

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Bismuth in strong magnetic fields: Unconventional Zeeman coupling and correlation effects

Jason Alicea and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241101(R) (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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Direct minimization technique for metals in density functional theory

Christoph Freysoldt, Sixten Boeck, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241103(R) (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

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Dispersion relation and spectral function of an impurity in a one-dimensional quantum liquid

Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241105(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Characterization of the torsional piezoelectriclike response of tantalum trisulfide associated with charge-density-wave depinning

J. Nichols, D. Dominko, L. Ladino, J. Zhou, and J. W. Brill

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241110(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

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Large anisotropic adatom kinetics on nonpolar GaN surfaces: Consequences for surface morphologies and nanowire growth

Liverios Lymperakis and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241308(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Resonant tunneling in a dissipative environment

Yu. Bomze, H. Mebrahtu, I. Borzenets, A. Makarovski, and G. Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241402(R) (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Strong coupling of localized plasmons and molecular excitons in nanostructured silver films

N. I. Cade, T. Ritman-Meer, and D. Richards

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241404(R) (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

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Unconventional Fermi surface spin textures in the ${Bi}_{x} {Pb}_{1 - x} / Ag (111)$ surface alloy

Fabian Meier, Vladimir Petrov, Sebastian Guerrero, Christopher Mudry, Luc Patthey, Jürg Osterwalder, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241408(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

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Spectral functions in one-dimensional quantum systems at finite temperature using the density matrix renormalization group

Thomas Barthel, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245101 (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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$\frac{1}{N}$ expansion of the nonequilibrium infinite- $U$ Anderson model

Zurab Ratiani and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245111 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

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Toric-boson model: Toward a topological quantum memory at finite temperature

Alioscia Hamma, Claudio Castelnovo, and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245122 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

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Hall plateaus at magic angles in bismuth beyond the quantum limit

Benoît Fauqué, Huan Yang, Ilya Sheikin, Luis Balicas, Jean-Paul Issi, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245124 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Origin of hysteresis in resistive switching in magnetite is Joule heating

A. A. Fursina, R. G. S. Sofin, I. V. Shvets, and D. Natelson

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245131 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

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Conformal invariance of chiral edge theories

N. Read

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245304 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

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Terahertz acoustic oscillations by stimulated phonon emission in an optically pumped superlattice

P. M. Walker, A. J. Kent, M. Henini, B. A. Glavin, V. A. Kochelap, and T. L. Linnik

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245313 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

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Unconventional spin topology in surface alloys with Rashba-type spin splitting

H. Mirhosseini, J. Henk, A. Ernst, S. Ostanin, C.-T. Chiang, P. Yu, A. Winkelmann, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245428 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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

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Bismuth in strong magnetic fields: Unconventional Zeeman coupling and correlation effects

Jason Alicea and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241101(R) (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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Localized high spin states in transition-metal dimers: X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

J. T. Lau, K. Hirsch, A. Langenberg, J. Probst, R. Richter, J. Rittmann, M. Vogel, V. Zamudio-Bayer, T. Möller, and B. von Issendorff

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241102(R) (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

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Direct minimization technique for metals in density functional theory

Christoph Freysoldt, Sixten Boeck, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241103(R) (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

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Self-consistent calculation of metamaterials with gain

A. Fang, Th. Koschny, M. Wegener, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241104(R) (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

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Dispersion relation and spectral function of an impurity in a one-dimensional quantum liquid

Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241105(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Color shift in ${Al}_{2} O_{3} \cdot x {Cr}_{2} O_{3}$ solid solutions and the electroneutrality principle

J. M. García-Lastra, M. T. Barriuso, J. A. Aramburu, and M. Moreno

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241106(R) (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

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Fano effect in the point contact spectroscopy of heavy-electron materials

Yi-feng Yang

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241107(R) (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

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Tunable terahertz metamaterials with negative permeability

H. Němec, P. Kužel, F. Kadlec, C. Kadlec, R. Yahiaoui, and P. Mounaix

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241108(R) (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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Strong dispersive effects in the light-scattering mean free path in photonic gaps

P. D. García, R. Sapienza, L. S. Froufe-Pérez, and C. López

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241109(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

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Characterization of the torsional piezoelectriclike response of tantalum trisulfide associated with charge-density-wave depinning

J. Nichols, D. Dominko, L. Ladino, J. Zhou, and J. W. Brill

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241110(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Ferrimagnetic Fe-doped GaN: An unusual magnetic phase in dilute magnetic semiconductors

Gustavo M. Dalpian, Juarez L. F. Da Silva, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241201(R) (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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Magnetization-driven metal-insulator transition in strongly disordered Ge:Mn magnetic semiconductors

O. Riss, A. Gerber, I. Ya. Korenblit, A. Suslov, M. Passacantando, and L. Ottaviano

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241202(R) (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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Relative stability of extended interstitial defects in silicon: First-principles calculations

Hyoungki Park and John W. Wilkins

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241203(R) (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

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

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Atomic-layer-resolved bandgap structure of an ultrathin oxynitride-silicon film epitaxially grown on $6 H -SiC (0001)$

T. Shirasawa, K. Hayashi, H. Yoshida, S. Mizuno, S. Tanaka, T. Muro, Y. Tamenori, Y. Harada, T. Tokushima, Y. Horikawa, E. Kobayashi, T. Kinoshita, S. Shin, T. Takahashi, Y. Ando, K. Akagi, S. Tsuneyuki, and H. Tochihara

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241301(R) (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

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Insulating phases induced by crossing of partially filled Landau levels in a Si quantum well

Tohru Okamoto, Kohei Sasaki, Kiyohiko Toyama, Ryuichi Masutomi, Kentarou Sawano, and Yasuhiro Shiraki

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241302(R) (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

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Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation for the edge transport of a quantum spin Hall insulator

Dafang Li and Junren Shi

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241303(R) (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

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Distinct signatures for Coulomb blockade and Aharonov-Bohm interference in electronic Fabry-Perot interferometers

Yiming Zhang, D. T. McClure, E. M. Levenson-Falk, C. M. Marcus, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241304(R) (2009) - Published 3 June, 2009

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Variational Rashba splitting in two-dimensional electron gases in III-V semiconductor heterojunctions

M. A. Toloza Sandoval, A. Ferreira da Silva, E. A. de Andrada e Silva, and G. C. La Rocca

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241305(R) (2009) - Published 3 June, 2009

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Optical manipulation of edge-state transport in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum Hall regime

M. J. Schmidt, E. G. Novik, M. Kindermann, and B. Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241306(R) (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

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Quantum analysis of shot noise suppression in a series of tunnel barriers

P. Marconcini, M. Macucci, G. Iannaccone, and B. Pellegrini

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241307(R) (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

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Large anisotropic adatom kinetics on nonpolar GaN surfaces: Consequences for surface morphologies and nanowire growth

Liverios Lymperakis and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241308(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Nonlinear cyclotron resonance of a massless quasiparticle in graphene

S. A. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241309(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Giant modulation of resonance Raman scattering from (Cd,Mn)Te quantum wells by secondary illumination

A. V. Koudinov, Yu. G. Kusrayev, D. Wolverson, L. C. Smith, J. J. Davies, G. Karczewski, and T. Wojtowicz

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241310(R) (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Origin of one-photon and two-photon optical transitions in PbSe nanocrystals

A. Franceschetti, J. W. Luo, J. M. An, and A. Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241311(R) (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

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Accurate prediction of the $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ interface band offset using the self-consistent ab initio DFT/LDA-1/2 method

Mauro Ribeiro, Jr., Leonardo R. C. Fonseca, and Luiz G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241312(R) (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Shot noise probing of magnetic ordering in zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Ralitsa L. Dragomirova, Denis A. Areshkin, and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241401(R) (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

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Resonant tunneling in a dissipative environment

Yu. Bomze, H. Mebrahtu, I. Borzenets, A. Makarovski, and G. Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241402(R) (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Nanomechanical electron shuttle consisting of a gold nanoparticle embedded within the gap between two gold electrodes

Andriy V. Moskalenko, Sergey N. Gordeev, Olivia F. Koentjoro, Paul R. Raithby, Robert W. French, Frank Marken, and Sergey E. Savel’ev

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241403(R) (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Strong coupling of localized plasmons and molecular excitons in nanostructured silver films

N. I. Cade, T. Ritman-Meer, and D. Richards

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241404(R) (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

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Critical exponents of the semimetal-insulator transition in graphene: A Monte Carlo study

Joaquín E. Drut and Timo A. Lähde

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241405(R) (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

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Engineering artificial graphene in a two-dimensional electron gas

Marco Gibertini, Achintya Singha, Vittorio Pellegrini, Marco Polini, Giovanni Vignale, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241406(R) (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

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Quasiphase transition and many-spin Kondo effects in a graphene nanodisk

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241407(R) (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

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Unconventional Fermi surface spin textures in the ${Bi}_{x} {Pb}_{1 - x} / Ag (111)$ surface alloy

Fabian Meier, Vladimir Petrov, Sebastian Guerrero, Christopher Mudry, Luc Patthey, Jürg Osterwalder, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241408(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

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Valence force model for phonons in graphene and carbon nanotubes

Vasili Perebeinos and J. Tersoff

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241409(R) (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

ARTICLES

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectral functions in one-dimensional quantum systems at finite temperature using the density matrix renormalization group

Thomas Barthel, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245101 (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

Transient dynamics of the nonequilibrium Majorana resonant level model

A. Komnik

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245102 (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

Self-consistently renormalized quasiparticles under the electron-phonon interaction

Asier Eiguren, Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, and Pedro M. Echenique

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245103 (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

Apparent “three-dimensional” Fermi surface of transition-metal monolayers

O. Rader, H. Wolf, W. Gudat, A. Tadich, L. Broekman, E. Huwald, R. C. G. Leckey, J. D. Riley, A. M. Shikin, F. Matsui, H. Miyata, and H. Daimon

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245104 (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

Ru-doping-induced ferromagnetism in charge-ordered ${La}_{0.4} {Ca}_{0.6} {MnO}_{3}$

C. L. Lu, X. Chen, S. Dong, K. F. Wang, H. L. Cai, J.-M. Liu, D. Li, and Z. D. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245105 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

Iterative calculations of dielectric eigenvalue spectra

Hugh F. Wilson, Deyu Lu, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245106 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

Mean-field theory for ferroelectricity in ${Ca}_{3} {CoMnO}_{6}$

Y. J. Guo, Shuai Dong, K. F. Wang, and J.-M. Liu

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245107 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

Classical and quantum interference in multiband optical Bloch oscillations

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245108 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

Dispersive spectrum and orbital order of spinless $p$ -band fermions in an optical lattice

Xiancong Lu and E. Arrigoni

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245109 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Parametrization of a reactive many-body potential for Mo–S systems

Tao Liang, Simon R. Phillpot, and Susan B. Sinnott

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245110 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

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$\frac{1}{N}$ expansion of the nonequilibrium infinite- $U$ Anderson model

Zurab Ratiani and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245111 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Thermal conductivity in complex metallic alloys: Beyond Wiedemann-Franz law

Enrique Maciá

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245112 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

High-pressure transport and microcalorimetry studies on high quality ${YbCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ single crystals

E. Colombier, D. Braithwaite, G. Lapertot, B. Salce, and G. Knebel

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245113 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Insulator to correlated metal transition in $V_{1 - x} {Mo}_{x} O_{2}$

K. L. Holman, T. M. McQueen, A. J. Williams, T. Klimczuk, P. W. Stephens, H. W. Zandbergen, Q. Xu, F. Ronning, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245114 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Structural and electronic properties of the 17 K superconductor ${Sr}_{2} {ScFePO}_{3}$ in comparison to ${Sr}_{2} {ScFeAsO}_{3}$ from first principles calculations

I. R. Shein and A. L. Ivanovskii

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245115 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Synthesis of the phenomenology of the underdoped cuprates

T. Senthil and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245116 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Accurate electronic band gap of pure and functionalized graphane from GW calculations

S. Lebègue, M. Klintenberg, O. Eriksson, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245117 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Photon echo spectroscopy reveals structure-dynamics relationships in carotenoids

N. Christensson, T. Polivka, A. Yartsev, and T. Pullerits

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245118 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Crystal-water-induced switching of magnetically active orbitals in ${CuCl}_{2}$

M. Schmitt, O. Janson, M. Schmidt, S. Hoffmann, W. Schnelle, S.-L. Drechsler, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245119 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Origin of the Mott gap

R. G. Leigh and Philip Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245120 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Schottky barriers at transition-metal/ ${SrTiO}_{3} (001)$ interfaces

M. Mrovec, J.-M. Albina, B. Meyer, and C. Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245121 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

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Toric-boson model: Toward a topological quantum memory at finite temperature

Alioscia Hamma, Claudio Castelnovo, and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245122 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Ab initio investigation of magnetic transport properties by Wannier interpolation

Yi Liu, Hai-Jun Zhang, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245123 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

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Hall plateaus at magic angles in bismuth beyond the quantum limit

Benoît Fauqué, Huan Yang, Ilya Sheikin, Luis Balicas, Jean-Paul Issi, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245124 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Many-body theory of electronic transport in single-molecule heterojunctions

J. P. Bergfield and C. A. Stafford

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245125 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Evidence of a heavy fermion state in the disordered Ce-alloy system without translation symmetry

Yusuke Amakai, Shigeyuki Murayama, Yoshihisa Obi, Hideaki Takano, and Koki Takanashi

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245126 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Optical anisotropic metamaterials: Negative refraction and focusing

Anan Fang, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245127 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Spatial fluctuations of spin and orbital nature in the two-orbital Hubbard model

Tomoko Kita, Takuma Ohashi, and Sei-ichiro Suga

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245128 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Description of magnetic interactions in strongly correlated solids via range-separated hybrid functionals

Pablo Rivero, Ibério de P. R. Moreira, Gustavo E. Scuseria, and Francesc Illas

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245129 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Quantum information analysis of the phase diagram of the half-filled extended Hubbard model

C. Mund, Ö. Legeza, and R. M. Noack

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245130 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Origin of hysteresis in resistive switching in magnetite is Joule heating

A. A. Fursina, R. G. S. Sofin, I. V. Shvets, and D. Natelson

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245131 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Effective optical response of metamaterials

Guillermo P. Ortiz, Brenda E. Martínez-Zérega, Bernardo S. Mendoza, and W. Luis Mochán

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245132 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Electronic structure of the ${Ti}_{4} O_{7}$ Magnéli phase

Leandro Liborio, Giuseppe Mallia, and Nicholas Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245133 (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of one-dimensional metal-dielectric photonic crystals

T. Ergin, T. Benkert, H. Giessen, and M. Lippitz

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245134 (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

Nonlinear control of tunneling through an epsilon-near-zero channel

David A. Powell, Andrea Alù, Brian Edwards, Ashkan Vakil, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245135 (2009) - Published 29 June, 2009

Semiconductors I: bulk

Onsite matrix elements of the tight-binding Hamiltonian of a strained crystal: Application to silicon, germanium, and their alloys

Y. M. Niquet, D. Rideau, C. Tavernier, H. Jaouen, and X. Blase

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245201 (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

Electronic structure and phase stability of MgTe, ZnTe, CdTe, and their alloys in the B3, B4, and B8 structures

Ji-Hui Yang, Shiyou Chen, Wan-Jian Yin, X. G. Gong, Aron Walsh, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245202 (2009) - Published 2 June, 2009

First-principles prediction of an enhanced optical second-harmonic susceptibility of low-dimensional alkali-metal chalcogenides

Jung-Hwan Song, Arthur J. Freeman, Tarun K. Bera, In Chung, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245203 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Electron spin resonance and electron nuclear double resonance of photogenerated polarons in polyfluorene and its fullerene composite

K. Marumoto, M. Kato, H. Kondo, S. Kuroda, N. C. Greenham, R. H. Friend, Y. Shimoi, and S. Abe

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245204 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

First-principles calculations of elasticity, polarization-related properties, and nonlinear optical coefficients in Zn-IV- $N_{2}$ compounds

Tula R. Paudel and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245205 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Hydrogen interactions with acceptor impurities in ${SnO}_{2}$ : First-principles calculations

J. B. Varley, A. Janotti, A. K. Singh, and C. G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245206 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Influence of light on spin diffusion in weak magnetic fields

J.-H. Quast, G. V. Astakhov, W. Ossau, L. W. Molenkamp, J. Heinrich, S. Höfling, and A. Forchel

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245207 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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

Magnetic anisotropy in symmetric magnetic colloidal quantum dots doped with few ${Mn}^{2 +}$ impurities

Shun-Jen Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245301 (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

Calculation of the local optoelectronic properties of nanostructured silicon

A. Mattoni, L. Ferraro, and L. Colombo

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245302 (2009) - Published 1 June, 2009

Spin-induced charge correlations in transport through interacting quantum dots with ferromagnetic leads

Stephan Lindebaum, Daniel Urban, and Jürgen König

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245303 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conformal invariance of chiral edge theories

N. Read

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245304 (2009) - Published 4 June, 2009

Experimental signatures of non-Abelian statistics in clustered quantum Hall states

Roni Ilan, Eytan Grosfeld, Kareljan Schoutens, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245305 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Nonequilibrium Green’s function approach to strongly correlated few-electron quantum dots

K. Balzer, M. Bonitz, R. van Leeuwen, A. Stan, and N. E. Dahlen

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245306 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Time-dependent single electron tunneling through a shuttling nanoisland

G. Cohen, V. Fleurov, and K. Kikoin

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245307 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Energy level alignment at the interfaces in a multilayer organic light-emitting diode structure

S. Olthof, R. Meerheim, M. Schober, and K. Leo

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245308 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Förster energy-transfer signatures in optically driven quantum dot molecules

Juan E. Rolon and Sergio E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245309 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Estimation of the spatial decoherence time in circular quantum dots

Michael Genkin, Erik Waltersson, and Eva Lindroth

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245310 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Graphene bilayer field-effect phototransistor for terahertz and infrared detection

V. Ryzhii and M. Ryzhii

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245311 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Detecting non-Markovian plasmonic band gaps in quantum dots using electron transport

Yueh-Nan Chen, Guang-Yin Chen, Ying-Yen Liao, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245312 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Terahertz acoustic oscillations by stimulated phonon emission in an optically pumped superlattice

P. M. Walker, A. J. Kent, M. Henini, B. A. Glavin, V. A. Kochelap, and T. L. Linnik

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245313 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Pure quantum dephasing of a solid-state electron spin qubit in a large nuclear spin bath coupled by long-range hyperfine-mediated interactions

Łukasz Cywiński, Wayne M. Witzel, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245314 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Dephasing-enabled triplet Andreev conductance

B. Béri

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245315 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Quantum confinement dependence of the energy splitting and recombination dynamics of A and B excitons in a GaN/AlGaN quantum well

F. Stokker-Cheregi, A. Vinattieri, E. Feltin, D. Simeonov, J.-F. Carlin, R. Butté, N. Grandjean, F. Sacconi, M. Povolotskyi, A. Di Carlo, and M. Gurioli

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245316 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Isomeric electronic states in concentric quantum rings

José María Escartín, Francesc Malet, Agustí Emperador, and Martí Pi

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245317 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Dynamics of electronic transport in a semiconductor superlattice with a shunting side layer

Huidong Xu, Andreas Amann, Eckehard Schöll, and Stephen W. Teitsworth

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245318 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Stability-instability transition of reaction fronts in thermal oxidation of silicon

Hiroo Omi, Hiroyuki Kageshima, Tomoaki Kawamura, Masashi Uematsu, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Seiji Fujikawa, Yoshiyuki Tsusaka, Yasushi Kagoshima, and Junji Matsui

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245319 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Electron Bloch oscillations and electromagnetic transparency of semiconductor superlattices in multi-frequency electric fields

Yu. A. Romanov, J. Yu. Romanova, and L. G. Mourokh

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245320 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Nonlinear spin-charge dynamics in a driven double quantum dot

D. V. Khomitsky and E. Ya. Sherman

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245321 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Whispering-gallery exciton polaritons in submicron spheres

C. E. Platts, M. A. Kaliteevski, S. Brand, R. A. Abram, I. V. Iorsh, and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245322 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Luttinger liquid and persistent current in a continuous mesoscopic ring with a weak link

M. Moško, R. Németh, R. Krčmár, and M. Indlekofer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245323 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Finite-bias visibility dependence in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer

E. Bieri, M. Weiss, O. Göktas, M. Hauser, C. Schönenberger, and S. Oberholzer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245324 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Fractional quantum Hall state at $ν = \frac{1}{4}$ in a wide quantum well

Z. Papić, G. Möller, M. V. Milovanović, N. Regnault, and M. O. Goerbig

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245325 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Ultrafast conductivity in a low-band-gap polyphenylene and fullerene blend studied by terahertz spectroscopy

Hynek Němec, Han-Kwang Nienhuys, Erik Perzon, Fengling Zhang, Olle Inganäs, Petr Kužel, and Villy Sundström

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245326 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Single-particle-like charge-density excitations in charged spherical semiconductor quantum dots

Chih-Li Weng and Yan-Chr Tsai

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245327 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Variational calculation for the direct-gap exciton in the Ge quantum well systems

Yu-Hsuan Kuo and Yin-Shun Li

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245328 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Magnetogyrotropic photogalvanic effect and spin dephasing in (110)-grown $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ quantum well structures

P. Olbrich, J. Allerdings, V. V. Bel’kov, S. A. Tarasenko, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, T. Korn, C. Schüller, D. Weiss, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245329 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Excitonic and biexcitonic properties of single GaN quantum dots modeled by 8-band $k \cdot p$ theory and configuration-interaction method

Stanko Tomić and Nenad Vukmirović

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245330 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Topological insulators in three dimensions from spontaneous symmetry breaking

Yi Zhang, Ying Ran, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245331 (2009) - Published 30 June, 2009

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Probing buried magnetic nanostructures by spin-resolved local density of states at the surface: A density functional study

O. O. Brovko, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245417 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Electronic structure, stability, and mechanism of the decohesion and shear of interfaces in superhard nanocomposites and heterostructures

R. F. Zhang, A. S. Argon, and S. Veprek

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245426 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Enhanced transmission of TE polarized light through wire gratings

Hans Lochbihler

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245427 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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Erratum: Iterative real-time path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport [Phys. Rev. B 77, 195316 (2008)]

S. Weiss, J. Eckel, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger

Phys. Rev. B 79, 249901 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Publisher's Note: Quasiparticles in the Kondo lattice model at partial fillings of the conduction band using the density matrix renormalization group [Phys. Rev. B 79, 235107 (2009)]

Sebastian Smerat, Ulrich Schollwöck, Ian P. McCulloch, and Herbert Schoeller

Phys. Rev. B 79, 249902 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Erratum: Density-density propagator for one-dimensional interacting spinless fermions with nonlinear dispersion and calculation of the Coulomb drag resistivity [Phys. Rev. B 77, 125109 (2008)]

A. V. Rozhkov

Phys. Rev. B 79, 249903 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Erratum: Short-range wetting at liquid gallium-bismuth alloy surfaces: X-ray measurements and square-gradient theory [Phys. Rev. B 68, 085409 (2003)]

Patrick Huber, Oleg Shpyrko, Peter S. Pershan, Ben Ocko, Elaine DiMasi, and Moshe Deutsch

Phys. Rev. B 79, 249904 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009