Volume 81, Issue 23

15 June 2010

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Photoluminescence from silicon dioxide photonic crystal cavities with embedded silicon nanocrystals

Yiyang Gong, Satoshi Ishikawa, Szu-Lin Cheng, Marika Gunji, Yoshio Nishi, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235317 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

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Charge neutrality and band-gap tuning of epitaxial graphene on SiC by molecular doping

C. Coletti, C. Riedl, D. S. Lee, B. Krauss, L. Patthey, K. von Klitzing, J. H. Smet, and U. Starke

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235401 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

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Electron self-energy near a nematic quantum critical point

Markus Garst and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235105 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

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Theory of charged impurities in correlated electron materials: Application to muon spectroscopy of high- $T_{c}$ superconductors

Hung T. Dang, Emanuel Gull, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235124 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-energy Mott-Hubbard excitations in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ probed by optical ellipsometry

N. N. Kovaleva, Andrzej M. Oleś, A. M. Balbashov, A. Maljuk, D. N. Argyriou, G. Khaliullin, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235130 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

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Element-resolved orbital polarization in (III,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors from $K$ -edge x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

P. Wadley, A. A. Freeman, K. W. Edmonds, G. van der Laan, J. S. Chauhan, R. P. Campion, A. W. Rushforth, B. L. Gallagher, C. T. Foxon, F. Wilhelm, A. G. Smekhova, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235208 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

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Isotopic fingerprints of Pt-containing luminescence centers in highly enriched ${}^{28}S i$

M. Steger, A. Yang, T. Sekiguchi, K. Saeedi, M. L. W. Thewalt, M. O. Henry, K. Johnston, E. Alves, U. Wahl, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov, M. F. Churbanov, A. V. Gusev, A. K. Kaliteevskii, O. N. Godisov, P. Becker, and H.-J. Pohl

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235217 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

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Probing semiconductor band structures and heterojunction interface properties with ballistic carrier emission: $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ as a model system

Wei Yi, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Hong Lu, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Arthur C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235325 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

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Electronic decoupling of an epitaxial graphene monolayer by gold intercalation

Isabella Gierz, Takayuki Suzuki, R. Thomas Weitz, Dong Su Lee, Benjamin Krauss, Christian Riedl, Ulrich Starke, Hartmut Höchst, Jurgen H. Smet, Christian R. Ast, and Klaus Kern

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235408 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

BRIEF REPORTS

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

Zero-bandwidth mode in a split-ring-resonator-loaded one-dimensional photonic crystal

Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Begoña Tomás-Navarro, Carlos García-Meca, Rubén Ortuño, Javier Martí, and Alejandro Martínez

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233101 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Long-range van der Waals attraction and alkali-metal lattice constants

Jianmin Tao, John P. Perdew, and Adrienn Ruzsinszky

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233102 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Electronic structure and metalization of a silane-hydrogen system under high pressure investigated using density functional and GW calculations

M. Ramzan, S. Lebègue, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233103 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Pressure-induced changes in ${Cr}^{3 +}$ -doped elpasolites and ${LiCaAlF}_{6}$ : Interpretation of macroscopic data

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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233104 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Negative refraction by a uniaxial wire medium with suppressed spatial dispersion

Mário G. Silveirinha and Alexander B. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233105 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Semiconductors I: bulk

Detailed structure of the H-N-H center in ${GaAs}_{y} N_{1 - y}$ revealed by vibrational spectroscopy under uniaxial stress

L. Wen, F. Bekisli, M. Stavola, W. B. Fowler, R. Trotta, A. Polimeni, M. Capizzi, S. Rubini, and F. Martelli

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233201 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Dynamical collapse of the Peierls gap by an intense laser field

Y. Mizumoto and Y. Kayanuma

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233202 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Evidence for a general mechanism modulating carrier lifetime in SiC

Bin Chen, Takashi Sekiguchi, Takasumi Ohyanagi, Hirofumi Matsuhata, Akimasa Kinoshita, and Hajime Okumura

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233203 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

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

Contrasting LH-HH subband splitting of strained quantum wells grown along [001] and [113] directions

D. F. Cesar, M. D. Teodoro, H. Tsuzuki, V. Lopez-Richard, G. E. Marques, J. P. Rino, S. A. Lourenço, E. Marega, Jr., I. F. L. Dias, J. L. Duarte, P. P. González-Borrero, and G. J. Salamo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233301 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Reactive interface formation and Co-induced $(\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{7})$ superstructure on a GaN(0001) pseudo- $(1 \times 1)$ substrate surface

H. D. Li, G. H. Zhong, H. Q. Lin, and M. H. Xie

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233302 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Polarized zone-center phonon modes of wurtzite GaAs

Shanna Crankshaw, Linus C. Chuang, Michael Moewe, and Connie Chang-Hasnain

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233303 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Spatially resolved photoluminescence and Raman mapping of epitaxial GaN laterally overgrown on sapphire

J.-S. Song, H. Rho, M. S. Jeong, J.-W. Ju, and I.-H. Lee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233304 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Direct evidence of metallicity at $ZnO (000 \bar{1}) − (1 \times 1)$ surfaces from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

L. F. J. Piper, A. R. H. Preston, A. Fedorov, S. W. Cho, A. DeMasi, and K. E. Smith

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233305 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Quantum effects in linear and nonlinear transport of $T$ -shaped ballistic junction patterned from $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ heterostructures

J. Wróbel, P. Zagrajek, M. Czapkiewicz, M. Bek, D. Sztenkiel, K. Fronc, R. Hey, K. H. Ploog, and B. R. Bułka

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233306 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Stability and electronic structure of potassium-intercalated hexagonal boron nitride from density functional calculations

Susumu Okada and Minoru Otani

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233401 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Graphene-based spin-pumping transistor

F. S. M. Guimarães, A. T. Costa, R. B. Muniz, and M. S. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233402 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Room-temperature giant magnetoresistance over one billion percent in a bare graphene nanoribbon device

Rui Qin, Jing Lu, Lin Lai, Jing Zhou, Hong Li, Qihang Liu, Guangfu Luo, Lina Zhao, Zhengxiang Gao, Wai Ning Mei, and Guangping Li

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233403 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Surface states in defect-free polyatomic lattices described by a tight-binding model

Ricardo A. Pinto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233404 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Impurity-induced states on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators

Rudro R. Biswas and A. V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233405 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Excitons on the surface of a sphere

Thomas G. Pedersen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233406 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Symmetry and selection rules for localized surface plasmon resonances in nanostructures

Weihua Zhang (张伟华), Benjamin Gallinet, and Olivier J. F. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233407 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Vibrational mode-selective chemistry: Methane dissociation on Ni(100)

Sven Nave and Bret Jackson

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233408 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Material limitations of carbon-nanotube inertial balances: Possibility of intrinsic yoctogram mass resolution at room temperature

Johannes Lischner and T. A. Arias

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233409 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Symmetry based analysis of the Kohn anomaly and electron-phonon interaction in graphene and carbon nanotubes

I. Milošević, N. Kepčija, E. Dobardžić, M. Mohr, J. Maultzsch, C. Thomsen, and M. Damnjanović

Phys. Rev. B 81, 233410 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

ARTICLES

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

Tailoring the ultrafast dynamics of the magnetic mode in magnetic photonic crystals

M. Geiselmann, T. Utikal, M. Lippitz, and H. Giessen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235101 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Entanglement renormalization in noninteracting fermionic systems

G. Evenbly and G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235102 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Quantum oscillations near the metamagnetic transition in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

J.-F. Mercure, A. W. Rost, E. C. T. O’Farrell, S. K. Goh, R. S. Perry, M. L. Sutherland, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, P. Gegenwart, A. S. Gibbs, and A. P. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235103 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Large positive magnetoresistance of the lightly doped ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$ Mott insulator

I. Raičević, Dragana Popović, C. Panagopoulos, and T. Sasagawa

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235104 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electron self-energy near a nematic quantum critical point

Markus Garst and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235105 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Quantum phase transition in a gapped Anderson model: A numerical renormalization group study

C. P. Moca and A. Roman

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235106 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Thermoelectric properties of electron- and hole-doped ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Y. J. Yan, X. F. Wang, R. H. Liu, H. Chen, Y. L. Xie, J. J. Ying, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235107 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Four-point vertex in the Hubbard model and partial bosonization

S. Friederich, H. C. Krahl, and C. Wetterich

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235108 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Structure and correlation effects in semiconducting ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Young Jun Chang, Aaron Bostwick, Yong Su Kim, Karsten Horn, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235109 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Charge transport in charge-ordered layered crystals $θ − {(BEDT-TTF)}_{2} M Zn {(SCN)}_{4}$ $(M = Cs, Rb)$ : Effects of long-range Coulomb interaction and the Pauli exclusion principle

Yamaguchi Takahide, Motoi Kimata, Kaori Hazama, Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji, Takako Konoike, and Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235110 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Magnetic response of nanoscale left-handed metamaterials

R. S. Penciu, M. Kafesaki, Th. Koschny, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235111 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Chemical control of polar behavior in bicomponent short-period superlattices

Hena Das, Nicola A. Spaldin, Umesh V. Waghmare, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235112 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Competition between antiferromagnetic and charge order in the Hubbard-Holstein model

Johannes Bauer and Alex C. Hewson

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235113 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Theoretical calculations of electron transport in molecular junctions: Inflection behavior in Fowler-Nordheim plot and its origin

Masaaki Araidai and Masaru Tsukada

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235114 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Strongly correlated fermions on a kagome lattice

A. O’Brien, F. Pollmann, and P. Fulde

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235115 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Correlated initial condition for an embedded process by time partitioning

B. Velický, A. Kalvová, and V. Špička

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235116 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Ab initio computational and experimental investigation of the electronic structure of actinide 218 materials

S. Elgazzar, J. Rusz, P. M. Oppeneer, E. Colineau, J.-C. Griveau, N. Magnani, J. Rebizant, and R. Caciuffo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235117 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Nesting of the Fermi surface and the wave-vector-dependent susceptibility in quasi-one-dimensional electron systems

Yasumasa Hasegawa and Keita Kishigi

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235118 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Chemical bonding analysis for solid-state systems using intrinsic oriented quasiatomic minimal-basis-set orbitals

Y. X. Yao, C. Z. Wang, and K. M. Ho

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235119 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Spectral function of the Anderson impurity model at finite temperatures

Aldo Isidori, David Roosen, Lorenz Bartosch, Walter Hofstetter, and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235120 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Correlation effects in $Ni 3 d$ states of LaNiPO

A. V. Lukoyanov, S. L. Skornyakov, J. A. McLeod, M. Abu-Samak, R. G. Wilks, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. Moewes, N. A. Skorikov, Yu. A. Izyumov, L. D. Finkelstein, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Johrendt

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235121 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Benchmarking the variational cluster approach by means of the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model

Michael Knap, Enrico Arrigoni, and Wolfgang von der Linden

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235122 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Doping of cobalt oxide with transition metal impurities: Ab initio study

P. A. Ignatiev, N. N. Negulyaev, D. I. Bazhanov, and V. S. Stepanyuk

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235123 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

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Theory of charged impurities in correlated electron materials: Application to muon spectroscopy of high- $T_{c}$ superconductors

Hung T. Dang, Emanuel Gull, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235124 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Bath optimization in the cellular dynamical mean-field theory

David Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235125 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Comparison of chiral metamaterial designs for repulsive Casimir force

R. Zhao, Th. Koschny, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235126 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Thermoelectric transport through strongly correlated quantum dots

T. A. Costi and V. Zlatić

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235127 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Leading corrections to local approximations

Attila Cangi, Donghyung Lee, Peter Elliott, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235128 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Optimizing Hartree-Fock orbitals by the density-matrix renormalization group

H.-G. Luo, M.-P. Qin, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235129 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

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Low-energy Mott-Hubbard excitations in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ probed by optical ellipsometry

N. N. Kovaleva, Andrzej M. Oleś, A. M. Balbashov, A. Maljuk, D. N. Argyriou, G. Khaliullin, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235130 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Probing Kitaev models on small lattices

Han-Dong Chen, B. Wang, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235131 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Kondo behavior, ferromagnetic correlations, and crystal fields in the heavy-fermion compounds ${Ce}_{3} X$ $(X = In, Sn)$

C. H. Wang, J. M. Lawrence, A. D. Christianson, E. A. Goremychkin, V. R. Fanelli, K. Gofryk, E. D. Bauer, F. Ronning, J. D. Thompson, N. R. de Souza, A. I. Kolesnikov, and K. C. Littrell

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235132 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Spectral weight of doping-induced states in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

Ansgar Liebsch

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235133 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Electromagnetic field of a moving charge in the presence of a left-handed medium

Sergey N. Galyamin and Andrey V. Tyukhtin

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235134 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Nonconservation of fermionic degrees of freedom at low energy in doped Mott insulators

Shiladitya Chakraborty, Seungmin Hong, and Philip Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235135 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Semiconductors I: bulk

Intrinsically limited critical temperatures of highly doped ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ thin films

Kh. Khazen, H. J. von Bardeleben, J. L. Cantin, A. Mauger, L. Chen, and J. H. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235201 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Electron spin resonance parameters of bulk oxygen vacancy in semiconducting tin dioxide

Nergiz Özcan, Tommi Kortelainen, Vyacheslav Golovanov, Tapio T. Rantala, and Juha Vaara

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235202 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Time evolution of two ground-state excitons

M. Combescot and O. Betbeder-Matibet

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235203 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Charge carrier scattering by defects in semiconductors

Vincenzo Lordi, Paul Erhart, and Daniel Åberg

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235204 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Deep hole traps in boron-doped diamond

Pierre Muret, Julien Pernot, Amit Kumar, Laurence Magaud, Christine Mer-Calfati, and Philippe Bergonzo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235205 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Anomalous composition dependence of the band gap pressure coefficients in In-containing nitride semiconductors

I. Gorczyca, A. Kamińska, G. Staszczak, R. Czernecki, S. P. Łepkowski, T. Suski, H. P. D. Schenk, M. Glauser, R. Butté, J.-F. Carlin, E. Feltin, N. Grandjean, N. E. Christensen, and A. Svane

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235206 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Fourier transform imaging of impurities in the unit cells of crystals: Mn in GaAs

T.-L. Lee, C. Bihler, W. Schoch, W. Limmer, J. Daeubler, S. Thieß, M. S. Brandt, and J. Zegenhagen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235207 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Element-resolved orbital polarization in (III,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors from $K$ -edge x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

P. Wadley, A. A. Freeman, K. W. Edmonds, G. van der Laan, J. S. Chauhan, R. P. Campion, A. W. Rushforth, B. L. Gallagher, C. T. Foxon, F. Wilhelm, A. G. Smekhova, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235208 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Thermoelectric figure of merit of ${({In}_{0.53} {Ga}_{0.47} As)}_{0.8} {({In}_{0.52} {Al}_{0.48} As)}_{0.2}$ III-V semiconductor alloys

Je-Hyeong Bahk, Zhixi Bian, Mona Zebarjadi, Joshua M. O. Zide, Hong Lu, Dongyan Xu, Joseph P. Feser, Gehong Zeng, Arun Majumdar, Arthur C. Gossard, Ali Shakouri, and John E. Bowers

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235209 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Structural and paramagnetic properties of dilute ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} N$

Wiktor Stefanowicz, Dariusz Sztenkiel, Bogdan Faina, Andreas Grois, Mauro Rovezzi, Thibaut Devillers, Francesco d’Acapito, Andrea Navarro-Quezada, Tian Li, Rafał Jakieła, Maciej Sawicki, Tomasz Dietl, and Alberta Bonanni

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235210 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Compositional dependence of the exciton reduced mass in ${GaAs}_{1 - x} {Bi}_{x}$ $(x = 0 - 10 %)$

G. Pettinari, A. Polimeni, J. H. Blokland, R. Trotta, P. C. M. Christianen, M. Capizzi, J. C. Maan, X. Lu, E. C. Young, and T. Tiedje

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235211 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Proximity-induced spin ordering at the interface between a ferromagnetic metal and a magnetic semiconductor

V. N. Men’shov, V. V. Tugushev, S. Caprara, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235212 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Ti, Fe, and Ni in Si and their interactions with the vacancy and the $A$ center: A theoretical study

D. J. Backlund and S. K. Estreicher

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235213 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

First-principles study of the elasticity, piezoelectricity, and vibrational modes in ${LiGaO}_{2}$ compared with ZnO and GaN

Adisak Boonchun and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235214 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Magnetism in ZnO nanowire with Fe/Co codoping: First-principles density functional calculations

S. Ghosh, Q. Wang, G. P. Das, and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235215 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Experimental and theoretical analysis of magnetic moment enhancement in oxygen-deficient EuO

M. Barbagallo, N. D. M. Hine, J. F. K. Cooper, N.-J. Steinke, A. Ionescu, C. H. W. Barnes, C. J. Kinane, R. M. Dalgliesh, T. R. Charlton, and S. Langridge

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235216 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotopic fingerprints of Pt-containing luminescence centers in highly enriched ${}^{28}S i$

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235217 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Infrared anomalous Hall effect in ${SrRuO}_{3}$ : Exploring evidence for crossover to intrinsic behavior

M.-H. Kim, G. Acbas, M.-H. Yang, M. Eginligil, P. Khalifah, I. Ohkubo, H. Christen, D. Mandrus, Z. Fang, and J. Cerne

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235218 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

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

Epitaxial growth in dislocation-free strained asymmetric alloy films

Rashmi C. Desai, HoKwon Kim, Apratim Chatterji, Darryl Ngai, Si Chen, and Nan Yang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235301 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Spatial pattern formation and polarization dynamics of a nonequilibrium spinor polariton condensate

Magnus O. Borgh, Jonathan Keeling, and Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235302 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Ultrastrong coupling between a cavity resonator and the cyclotron transition of a two-dimensional electron gas in the case of an integer filling factor

David Hagenmüller, Simone De Liberato, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235303 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Convergence study of neutral and charged defect formation energies in Si nanowires

Riccardo Rurali, Maurizia Palummo, and Xavier Cartoixà

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235304 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Contrast between spin and valley degrees of freedom

T. Gokmen, Medini Padmanabhan, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235305 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Electronic state calculations of ultrasmall Si quantum boxes: Quasialloying and surface effects on the electronic and optical properties

Masahiko Nishida

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235306 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Magnetic polarons in ferromagnetic semiconductor single-electron transistors

N. Lebedeva, A. Varpula, S. Novikov, and P. Kuivalainen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235307 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Localized exciton states with giant oscillator strength in quantum well in vicinity of metallic nanoparticle

V. I. Sugakov and G. V. Vertsimakha

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235308 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Kondo effect in spin-orbit mesoscopic interferometers

Jong Soo Lim, Mircea Crisan, David Sánchez, Rosa López, and Ioan Grosu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235309 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Electrons in $GaAs / {Ga}_{1 - x} {Al}_{x} As$ superlattices: Spin and orbital states in a magnetic field

Pawel Pfeffer and Wlodek Zawadzki

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235310 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Coupling of bonding and antibonding electron orbitals in double quantum dots by spin-orbit interaction

M. P. Nowak and B. Szafran

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235311 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Quantum and semiclassical inelastic electron transport

Kelly C. Magruder and A. F. J. Levi

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235312 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Using acoustic waves to induce high-frequency current oscillations in superlattices

M. T. Greenaway, A. G. Balanov, D. Fowler, A. J. Kent, and T. M. Fromhold

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235313 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Operator ordering and interface-band mixing in the Kane-like Hamiltonian of lattice-matched semiconductor superlattices with abrupt interfaces

P. C. Klipstein

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235314 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Josephson coupling of Bose-Einstein condensates of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

D. Read, Yuri G. Rubo, and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235315 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Effect of scattering on zero-bias anomaly and conductance reduction in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires

K. M. Liu, V. Umansky, and S. Y. Hsu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235316 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photoluminescence from silicon dioxide photonic crystal cavities with embedded silicon nanocrystals

Yiyang Gong, Satoshi Ishikawa, Szu-Lin Cheng, Marika Gunji, Yoshio Nishi, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235317 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Electron tunnel rates in a donor-silicon single electron transistor hybrid

Hans Huebl, Christopher D. Nugroho, Andrea Morello, Christopher C. Escott, Mark A. Eriksson, Changyi Yang, David N. Jamieson, Robert G. Clark, and Andrew S. Dzurak

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235318 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Dielectric function of colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots obtained by a Kramers-Krönig analysis of the absorbance spectrum

Iwan Moreels, Guy Allan, Bram De Geyter, Ludger Wirtz, Christophe Delerue, and Zeger Hens

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235319 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Optical control of electron spin coherence in CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells

E. A. Zhukov, D. R. Yakovlev, M. M. Glazov, L. Fokina, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, J. Kossut, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235320 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Separation-dependent localization in a two-impurity spin-boson model

Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Ahsan Nazir, Sougato Bose, and Andrew J. Fisher

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235321 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Termination layer dependence of Schottky barrier height for ${La}_{0.6} {Sr}_{0.4} {MnO}_{3} / Nb : {SrTiO}_{3}$ heterojunctions

M. Minohara, R. Yasuhara, H. Kumigashira, and M. Oshima

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235322 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Electron tunneling through a planar single barrier in HgTe quantum wells with inverted band structures

L. B. Zhang, Feng Zhai, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235323 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Hyperfine induced spin and entanglement dynamics in double quantum dots: A homogeneous coupling approach

B. Erbe and J. Schliemann

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235324 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing semiconductor band structures and heterojunction interface properties with ballistic carrier emission: $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ as a model system

Wei Yi, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Hong Lu, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Arthur C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235325 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Singlet-triplet relaxation in multivalley silicon single quantum dots

L. Wang, K. Shen, B. Y. Sun, and M. W. Wu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235326 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Quantum confinement effects in hydrogen-intercalated ${Ga}_{1 - x} {As}_{x} N_{x} {-GaAs}_{1 - x} N_{x} : H$ planar heterostructures investigated by photoluminescence spectroscopy

R. Trotta, L. Cavigli, L. Felisari, A. Polimeni, A. Vinattieri, M. Gurioli, M. Capizzi, F. Martelli, S. Rubini, L. Mariucci, M. Francardi, and A. Gerardino

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235327 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charge neutrality and band-gap tuning of epitaxial graphene on SiC by molecular doping

C. Coletti, C. Riedl, D. S. Lee, B. Krauss, L. Patthey, K. von Klitzing, J. H. Smet, and U. Starke

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235401 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Phase sensitive two-mode squeezing and photon correlations from exciton superfluid in semiconductor electron-hole bilayer systems

T. Shi, Longhua Jiang, and Jinwu Ye

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235402 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Curvature-induced excess surface energy of fullerenes: Density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations

David Holec, Markus A. Hartmann, Franz D. Fischer, Franz G. Rammerstorfer, Paul H. Mayrhofer, and Oskar Paris

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235403 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Reactive forcefield for simulating gold surfaces and nanoparticles

John A. Keith, Donato Fantauzzi, Timo Jacob, and Adri C. T. van Duin

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235404 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Substrate-induced structural modulation of a CoO(111) bilayer on Ir(100)

Christina Ebensperger, Matthias Gubo, Wolfgang Meyer, Lutz Hammer, and Klaus Heinz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235405 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Engineering the figure of merit and thermopower in single-molecule devices connected to semiconducting electrodes

D. Nozaki, H. Sevinçli, W. Li, R. Gutiérrez, and G. Cuniberti

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235406 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Finite-bias electronic transport of molecules in a water solution

I. Rungger, X. Chen, U. Schwingenschlögl, and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235407 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic decoupling of an epitaxial graphene monolayer by gold intercalation

Isabella Gierz, Takayuki Suzuki, R. Thomas Weitz, Dong Su Lee, Benjamin Krauss, Christian Riedl, Ulrich Starke, Hartmut Höchst, Jurgen H. Smet, Christian R. Ast, and Klaus Kern

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235408 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Approximate quantum mechanical method for describing excitations and related properties of finite single-walled carbon nanotubes

A. L. Montero-Alejo, M. E. Fuentes, E. Menéndez-Proupin, W. Orellana, C. F. Bunge, L. A. Montero, and J. M. García de la Vega

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235409 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Atomic and electronic structures of the ordered $2 \sqrt{3} \times 2 \sqrt{3}$ and molten $1 \times 1$ phase on the Si(111):Sn surface

P. E. J. Eriksson, J. R. Osiecki, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, and R. I. G. Uhrberg

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235410 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Anderson impurity in a helical metal

Xiao-Yong Feng, Wei-Qiang Chen, Jin-Hua Gao, Qiang-Hua Wang, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235411 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Imaging the symmetry breaking of molecular orbitals in single-wall carbon nanotubes

H. Lin, J. Lagoute, V. Repain, C. Chacon, Y. Girard, F. Ducastelle, H. Amara, A. Loiseau, P. Hermet, L. Henrard, and S. Rousset

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235412 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Growth kinetics of intermetallic alloy phase at the interfaces of a Ni/Al multilayer using polarized neutron and x-ray reflectometry

Surendra Singh, Saibal Basu, M. Gupta, C. F. Majkrzak, and P. A. Kienzle

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235413 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Scanning probe microscopy study of height-selected Ag/Ge(111) nanomesas driven by quantum size effects

F. Krok, F. Buatier de Mongeot, M. Goryl, J. J. Kolodziej, and M. Szymonski

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235414 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

First-passage time approach to kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of metal (100) growth

Giridhar Nandipati, Yunsic Shim, and Jacques G. Amar

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235415 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

First-principles quantum transport theory of the enhanced wind force driving electromigration on Ag(111)

Kirk H. Bevan, Hong Guo, Ellen D. Williams, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235416 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Honeycomb superperiodic pattern and its fine structure near the armchair edge of graphene observed by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

Ken-ichi Sakai, Kazuyuki Takai, Ken-ichi Fukui, Takeshi Nakanishi, and Toshiaki Enoki

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235417 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Theory of phonon-drag thermopower of extrinsic semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes and comparison with previous experimental data

M. Tsaousidou

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235425 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Termination and Verwey transition of the (111) surface of magnetite studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and first-principles calculations

Tomoko K. Shimizu, Jaehoon Jung, Hiroyuki S. Kato, Yousoo Kim, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235429 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Electron transition probabilities in elementary electron-phonon scattering processes using electron-energy-loss spectroscopy: Application to graphite

Hirofumi Yanagisawa, Toma Yorisaki, Ryota Niikura, Shuhei Kato, Yasuchika Ishida, Kenji Kamide, and Chuhei Oshima

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235430 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Role of metal contacts in the mechanical properties of molecular nanojunctions: Comparative ab initio study of Au/1,8-octanedithiol and Au/4,4-bipyridine

P. Vélez, S. A. Dassie, and E. P. M. Leiva

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235435 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Growth kinetics of a single ${InP}_{1 - x} {As}_{x}$ nanowire

Jean-Christophe Harmand, Frank Glas, and Gilles Patriarche

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235436 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Linear reduction of stiffness and vibration frequencies in defected circular monolayer graphene

M. Neek-Amal and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235437 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Anisotropic Rashba splitting of surface states from the admixture of bulk states: Relativistic ab initio calculations and $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory

E. Simon, A. Szilva, B. Ujfalussy, B. Lazarovits, G. Zarand, and L. Szunyogh

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235438 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Atomistic simulations of structural and thermodynamic properties of bilayer graphene

K. V. Zakharchenko, J. H. Los, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. Fasolino

Phys. Rev. B 81, 235439 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Current routes in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon”

A. Vetushka, A. Fejfar, M. Ledinský, B. Rezek, J. Stuchlík, and J. Kočka

Phys. Rev. B 81, 237301 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Reply to “Comment on ‘Current routes in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon’ ”

D. Azulay, I. Balberg, V. Chu, J. P. Conde, and O. Millo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 237302 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Theory of the interaction forces and the radiative heat transfer between moving bodies [Phys. Rev. B 78, 155437 (2008)]

A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. B 81, 239901 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Publisher's Note: Optical gain of the $1.54 μ m$ emission in MBE-grown Si:Er nanolayers [Phys. Rev. B 81, 195206 (2010)]

N. N. Ha, K. Dohnalová, T. Gregorkiewicz, and J. Valenta

Phys. Rev. B 81, 239902 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Publisher's Note: Quantum oscillations in the microwave magnetoabsorption of a two-dimensional electron gas [Phys. Rev. B 81, 201302(R) (2010)]

O. M. Fedorych, M. Potemski, S. A. Studenikin, J. A. Gupta, Z. R. Wasilewski, and I. A. Dmitriev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 239903 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Publisher's Note: Electronic structure of turbostratic graphene [Phys. Rev. B 81, 165105 (2010)]

S. Shallcross, S. Sharma, E. Kandelaki, and O. A. Pankratov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 239904 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010