Volume 79, Issue 8

15 February 2009

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Order- $N$ implementation of exact exchange in extended insulating systems

Xifan Wu, Annabella Selloni, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085102 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

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Origin of the peaks in the Nernst coefficient of bismuth in strong magnetic fields

Yu. V. Sharlai and G. P. Mikitik

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081102(R) (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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Suppression of nuclear spin diffusion at a $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ interface measured with a single quantum-dot nanoprobe

A. E. Nikolaenko, E. A. Chekhovich, M. N. Makhonin, I. W. Drouzas, A. B. Van’kov, J. Skiba-Szymanska, M. S. Skolnick, P. Senellart, D. Martrou, A. Lemaître, and A. I. Tartakovskii

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081303(R) (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

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Polarization fields in nitride-based quantum dots grown on nonpolar substrates

Stefan Schulz, Arnaud Berube, and Eoin P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081401(R) (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

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Positron annihilation study of the electronic structure of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ : Fermi surface and hidden order parameter

M. Biasini, J. Rusz, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085115 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

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Hydrogen adsorption and etching on the Si-rich 3 $C$ -SiC(001) $3 \times 2$ surface: First-principles molecular dynamics calculations

Peter Deák, Bálint Aradi, Jan M. Knaup, and Thomas Frauenheim

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085314 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

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Microwave-induced zero-resistance states are not necessarily static

Ilya G. Finkler and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085315 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

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Slow imbalance relaxation and thermoelectric transport in graphene

Matthew S. Foster and Igor L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085415 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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

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High-pressure ${}^{51}V$ NMR study of the magnetic phase diagram and metal-insulator transition in quasi-one-dimensional $β {-Na}_{0.33} V_{2} O_{5}$

Taisuke Suzuki, Ichihiro Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Masayuki Itoh, Nao Takeshita, Chieko Terakura, Hidenori Takagi, Yoshinori Tokura, Touru Yamauchi, and Yutaka Ueda

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081101(R) (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the peaks in the Nernst coefficient of bismuth in strong magnetic fields

Yu. V. Sharlai and G. P. Mikitik

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081102(R) (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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

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Odd-even spin effects and variation of $g$ factor in a quasi-one-dimensional subband

T.-M. Chen, A. C. Graham, M. Pepper, F. Sfigakis, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081301(R) (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

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Thermospin effects in a quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads

Yonatan Dubi and Massimiliano Di Ventra

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081302(R) (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

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Suppression of nuclear spin diffusion at a $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ interface measured with a single quantum-dot nanoprobe

A. E. Nikolaenko, E. A. Chekhovich, M. N. Makhonin, I. W. Drouzas, A. B. Van’kov, J. Skiba-Szymanska, M. S. Skolnick, P. Senellart, D. Martrou, A. Lemaître, and A. I. Tartakovskii

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081303(R) (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Polarization fields in nitride-based quantum dots grown on nonpolar substrates

Stefan Schulz, Arnaud Berube, and Eoin P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081401(R) (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Controlling the efficiency of spin injection into graphene by carrier drift

C. Józsa, M. Popinciuc, N. Tombros, H. T. Jonkman, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081402(R) (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

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Reversible pressure-driven nanoscale phase separation in ${Rb}_{4} C_{60}$

M. G. Yao, B. Sundqvist, and T. Wågberg

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081403(R) (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

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Probing charge transport in single-molecule break junctions using inelastic tunneling

Maryam Rahimi and Michael Hegg

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081404(R) (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

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Oxygen octahedron reconstruction in the ${SrTiO}_{3} / {LaAlO}_{3}$ heterointerfaces investigated using aberration-corrected ultrahigh-resolution transmission electron microscopy

C. L. Jia, S. B. Mi, M. Faley, U. Poppe, J. Schubert, and K. Urban

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081405(R) (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

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Photovoltaic Hall effect in graphene

Takashi Oka and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081406(R) (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

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Theoretical and experimental analysis of $H_{2}$ binding in a prototypical metal-organic framework material

Lingzhu Kong, Valentino R. Cooper, Nour Nijem, Kunhao Li, Jing Li, Yves J. Chabal, and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081407(R) (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

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Electron-stimulated positive-ion desorption caused by charge transfer from adsorbate to substrate: Oxygen adsorbed on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Junseok Lee, Zhen Zhang, and John T. Yates, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 79, 081408(R) (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

ARTICLES

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

Charge instabilities and electron-phonon interaction in the Hubbard-Holstein model

A. Di Ciolo, J. Lorenzana, M. Grilli, and G. Seibold

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085101 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Order- $N$ implementation of exact exchange in extended insulating systems

Xifan Wu, Annabella Selloni, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085102 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Coordinate transformation based design of confined metamaterial structures

Borislav Vasić, Goran Isić, Radoš Gajić, and Kurt Hingerl

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085103 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Calculation of the lattice constant of solids with semilocal functionals

Philipp Haas, Fabien Tran, and Peter Blaha

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085104 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Magnetic structure of the high-density single-valent $e_{g}$ Jahn-Teller system ${LaMn}_{7} O_{12}$

Andrea Prodi, Edi Gilioli, Riccardo Cabassi, Fulvio Bolzoni, Francesca Licci, Qingzhen Huang, Jeff W. Lynn, Marco Affronte, Andrea Gauzzi, and Massimo Marezio

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085105 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Energy resolution and discretization artifacts in the numerical renormalization group

Rok Žitko and Thomas Pruschke

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085106 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Ab initio study of the elastic anomalies in Pd-Ag alloys

E. K. Delczeg-Czirjak, L. Delczeg, M. Ropo, K. Kokko, M. P. J. Punkkinen, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085107 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Coherent stimulated x-ray Raman spectroscopy: Attosecond extension of resonant inelastic x-ray Raman scattering

Upendra Harbola and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085108 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Two-magnon Raman scattering from the ${Cu}_{3} O_{4}$ layers in $({Sr}_{2}, {Ba}_{2}) {Cu}_{3} O_{4} {Cl}_{2}$

Joakim Holmlund, Christopher S. Knee, Jakob Andreasson, Mats Granath, A. P. Litvinchuk, and Lars Börjesson

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085109 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Magneto-oscillations in underdoped cuprates

C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085110 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Coupling between a dark and a bright eigenmode in a terahertz metamaterial

Ranjan Singh, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, and Weili Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085111 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Effects of fluctuation in air hole radii and positions on optical characteristics in photonic crystal heterostructure nanocavities

Hiroyuki Hagino, Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takashi Asano, and Susumu Noda

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085112 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Thermal canting of spin-bond order

V. W. Scarola, K. B. Whaley, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085113 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Spin-selective localization due to intrinsic spin-orbit coupling

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Shimul Akhanjee

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085114 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Positron annihilation study of the electronic structure of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ : Fermi surface and hidden order parameter

M. Biasini, J. Rusz, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085115 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Theory of interacting electrons on the honeycomb lattice

Igor F. Herbut, Vladimir Juričić, and Bitan Roy

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085116 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Atomic-resolution imaging of oxidation states in manganites

M. Varela, M. P. Oxley, W. Luo, J. Tao, M. Watanabe, A. R. Lupini, S. T. Pantelides, and S. J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085117 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

Tensor-product representations for string-net condensed states

Zheng-Cheng Gu, Michael Levin, Brian Swingle, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085118 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

Explicit tensor network representation for the ground states of string-net models

Oliver Buerschaper, Miguel Aguado, and Guifré Vidal

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085119 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

Exploring the limits of the self-consistent Born approximation for inelastic electronic transport

William Lee, Nicola Jean, and Stefano Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085120 (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

Optical excitations in ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{3}$

K. W. Kim and G. D. Gu

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085121 (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

Junctions of anyonic Luttinger wires

Brando Bellazzini, Pasquale Calabrese, and Mihail Mintchev

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085122 (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

Mott-Hubbard and filling-controlled electronic transitions in the layered cuprate oxides

L. Craco

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085123 (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

Quantum phase transition in quantum dot trimers

Andrew K. Mitchell, Thomas F. Jarrold, and David E. Logan

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085124 (2009) - Published 26 February, 2009

Spin-crossover-induced Mott transition and the other scenarios of metallization in $3 d^{n}$ metal compounds

I. S. Lyubutin, S. G. Ovchinnikov, A. G. Gavriliuk, and V. V. Struzhkin

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085125 (2009) - Published 26 February, 2009

Semiconductors I: bulk

Density functional study of the magnetic coupling in $V {(TCNE)}_{2}$

Giulia C. De Fusco, Leonardo Pisani, Barbara Montanari, and Nicholas M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085201 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Rapid ion-implantation-induced amorphization of ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ relative to InAs and GaAs

Z. S. Hussain, E. Wendler, W. Wesch, G. J. Foran, C. S. Schnohr, D. J. Llewellyn, and M. C. Ridgway

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085202 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Modeling and analysis of the three-dimensional current density in sandwich-type single-carrier devices of disordered organic semiconductors

J. J. M. van der Holst, M. A. Uijttewaal, B. Ramachandhran, R. Coehoorn, P. A. Bobbert, G. A. de Wijs, and R. A. de Groot

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085203 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Structural disorder and silanol groups content in amorphous ${SiO}_{2}$

E. Vella and R. Boscaino

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085204 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Calculated phonon band structure and density of states and interpretation of the Raman spectrum in rocksalt ScN

Tula R. Paudel and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085205 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Origin of the codopant-induced enhancement of ferromagnetism in (Zn,Mn)O: Density functional calculations

Y. Zhu, J. X. Cao, Z. Q. Yang, and R. Q. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085206 (2009) - Published 26 February, 2009

Metallicity in crystals of the quasi-one-dimensional rhodate ${Ba}_{1.2} {Rh}_{8} O_{16}$

W. Kobayashi, S. Hébert, O. Pérez, D. Pelloquin, and A. Maignan

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085207 (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

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

Energy level spectroscopy of InSb quantum wells using quantum-well LED emission

T. G. Tenev, A. Palyi, B. I. Mirza, G. R. Nash, M. Fearn, S. J. Smith, L. Buckle, M. T. Emeny, T. Ashley, J. H. Jefferson, and C. J. Lambert

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085301 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Terahertz intersubband absorption and conduction band alignment in $n$ -type Si/SiGe multiple quantum wells

G. Ciasca, M. De Seta, G. Capellini, F. Evangelisti, M. Ortolani, M. Virgilio, G. Grosso, A. Nucara, and P. Calvani

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085302 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Controlling Fano profiles via conical intersections

Yoav Berlatzky and Shachar Klaiman

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085303 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Ultrafast laser-induced coherent spin dynamics in ferromagnetic ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As / GaAs$ structures

J. Qi, Y. Xu, A. Steigerwald, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, I. E. Perakis, and N. H. Tolk

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085304 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Pinning of electron densities in quantum rings by defects: Symmetry constraints and distribution of persistent currents

T. Chwiej and B. Szafran

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085305 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Dielectric mismatch effect on coupled shallow impurity states in a semiconductor nanowire

Bin Li, B. Partoens, F. M. Peeters, and W. Magnus

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085306 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Nonperturbative phenomena in semiconductor four-wave mixing spectra

Mikhail Erementchouk, Michael N. Leuenberger, and L. J. Sham

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085307 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Photon antibunching in double quantum ring structures

M. Abbarchi, C. A. Mastrandrea, A. Vinattieri, S. Sanguinetti, T. Mano, T. Kuroda, N. Koguchi, K. Sakoda, and M. Gurioli

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085308 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Antilocalization of hole carriers in ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Eu}_{x} Te$ alloys in the metallic regime

Marcelos L. Peres, V. A. Chitta, Nei F. Oliveira, Jr., D. K. Maude, P. H. O. Rappl, A. Y. Ueta, and E. Abramof

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085309 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Experimental study of weak antilocalization effects in a two-dimensional system: Anomalous dephasing rate

K. H. Gao, G. Yu, Y. M. Zhou, W. Z. Zhou, T. Lin, J. H. Chu, N. Dai, D. G. Austing, Y. Gu, and Y. G. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085310 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the spin transport through a Rashba superlattice

Ya Zhang and Feng Zhai

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085311 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Tunneling magnetoresistance anomalies in a Coulomb blockaded quantum dot

Piotr Stefański

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085312 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Effect of nuclear polarization on spin dynamics in a double quantum dot

J. Särkkä and A. Harju

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085313 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrogen adsorption and etching on the Si-rich 3 $C$ -SiC(001) $3 \times 2$ surface: First-principles molecular dynamics calculations

Peter Deák, Bálint Aradi, Jan M. Knaup, and Thomas Frauenheim

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085314 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microwave-induced zero-resistance states are not necessarily static

Ilya G. Finkler and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085315 (2009) - Published 23 February, 2009

Correlation energy of finite two-dimensional systems: Toward nonempirical and universal modeling

S. Pittalis, E. Räsänen, C. R. Proetto, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085316 (2009) - Published 24 February, 2009

Localization and hopping conduction in glass and crystal phases of monatomic Au layers on a silicon surface

Shiro Yamazaki, Iwao Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okino, Harumo Morikawa, and Shuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085317 (2009) - Published 27 February, 2009

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Crystallographic dependence of visible-light photoactivity in epitaxial ${TiO}_{2 - x} N_{x}$ anatase and rutile

T. Ohsawa, I. Lyubinetsky, Y. Du, M. A. Henderson, V. Shutthanandan, and S. A. Chambers

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085401 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Electronic properties of a carbon nanotube in a field-effect transistor structure: A first-principles study

Kazuyuki Uchida and Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085402 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Second random phase approximation studies in metallic clusters

D. Gambacurta and F. Catara

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085403 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Role of aperiodic order in the spectral, localization, and scaling properties of plasmon modes for the design of nanoparticle arrays

Carlo Forestiere, Giovanni Miano, Gugliemo Rubinacci, and Luca Dal Negro

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085404 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Transport and noise in organic field-effect devices

K. Morawetz, S. Gemming, R. Luschtinetz, T. Kunze, P. Lipavský, L. M. Eng, G. Seifert, V. Pankoke, and P. Milde

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085405 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Growth and structural transition of Fe ultrathin films on Ni(111) investigated by LEED and STM

Bai An, Lin Zhang, Seiji Fukuyama, and Kiyoshi Yokogawa

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085406 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Bound states and magnetic field induced valley splitting in gate-tunable graphene quantum dots

Patrik Recher, Johan Nilsson, Guido Burkard, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085407 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Effects of coadsorbed $O_{2}$ on hydrogen ortho-para conversion on Ag surfaces

K. Niki, S. Ogura, M. Matsumoto, T. Okano, and K. Fukutani

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085408 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Reconstruction of the second layer of Ag on Pt(111): Extended Frenkel-Kontorova model

Raghani Pushpa, Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, and Silvia N. Santalla

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085409 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Effect of contact induced states on minimum conductivity in graphene

Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad and Supriyo Datta

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085410 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

First-principles study of Au nanostructures on rutile ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Tomasz Pabisiak and Adam Kiejna

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085411 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Assessing the efficiency of first-principles basin-hopping sampling

Ralf Gehrke and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085412 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Elastic and chemical contributions to the stability of magnetic surface alloys on Ru(0001)

Madhura Marathe, Mighfar Imam, and Shobhana Narasimhan

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085413 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the ground state of the two-dimensional Fermi fluid

N. D. Drummond and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085414 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coating of a layer of Au on ${Al}_{13}$ : The findings of icosahedral $Al @ {Al}_{12} {Au}_{20}^{-}$ and ${Al}_{12} {Au}_{20}^{2 -}$ fullerenes using ab initio pseudopotential calculations

Vijay Kumar

Phys. Rev. B 79, 085423 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Vacuum space-charge effects in solid-state photoemission [Phys. Rev. B 79, 035402 (2009)]

S. Hellmann, K. Rossnagel, M. Marczynski-Bühlow, and L. Kipp

Phys. Rev. B 79, 089901 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Erratum: Quantitative vectorial spin analysis in angle-resolved photoemission: $Bi ∕ Ag (111)$ and $Pb ∕ Ag (111)$ [Phys. Rev. B 77, 165431 (2008)]

Fabian Meier, Hugo Dil, Jorge Lobo-Checa, Luc Patthey, and Jürg Osterwalder

Phys. Rev. B 79, 089902 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Erratum: Chiral tunneling through a time-periodic potential in monolayer graphene [Phys. Rev. B 78, 165420 (2008)]

M. Ahsan Zeb, K. Sabeeh, and M. Tahir

Phys. Rev. B 79, 089903 (2009) - Published 26 February, 2009