Volume 81, Issue 4

15 January 2010

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Many-body instability of Coulomb interacting bilayer graphene: Renormalization group approach

Oskar Vafek and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041401(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Spontaneous inversion symmetry breaking in graphene bilayers

Fan Zhang, Hongki Min, Marco Polini, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041402(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Skyrmion lattice in the doped semiconductor ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} Si$

W. Münzer, A. Neubauer, T. Adams, S. Mühlbauer, C. Franz, F. Jonietz, R. Georgii, P. Böni, B. Pedersen, M. Schmidt, A. Rosch, and C. Pfleiderer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041203(R) (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Inhomogeneous nuclear spin flips: Feedback mechanism between electronic states in a double quantum dot and the underlying nuclear spin bath

M. Stopa, J. J. Krich, and A. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041304(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Direct mapping of the spin-filtered surface bands of a three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator

Akinori Nishide, Alexey A. Taskin, Yasuo Takeichi, Taichi Okuda, Akito Kakizaki, Toru Hirahara, Kan Nakatsuji, Fumio Komori, Yoichi Ando, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041309(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Quasiparticle scattering and the protected nature of the topological states in a parent topological insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

S. R. Park, W. S. Jung, Chul Kim, D. J. Song, C. Kim, S. Kimura, K. D. Lee, and N. Hur

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041405(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Electron-phonon coupling in graphene antidot lattices: An indication of polaronic behavior

Nenad Vukmirović, Vladimir M. Stojanović, and Mihajlo Vanević

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041408(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Fermi liquid near Pomeranchuk quantum criticality

Dmitrii L. Maslov and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045110 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

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Chiral topological insulators, superconductors, and other competing orders in three dimensions

Pavan Hosur, Shinsei Ryu, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045120 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Nonlocal orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for semiconductors

Chen Huang and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045206 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Above-barrier surface electron resonances induced by a molecular network

R. Stiufiuc, L. M. A. Perdigão, B. Grandidier, D. Deresmes, G. Allan, C. Delerue, D. Stiévenard, P. H. Beton, S. C. Erwin, M. Sassi, V. Oison, and J.-M. Debierre

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045421 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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LUMO photoemission lineshape in quasi-one-dimensional $C_{60}$ chains

A. Tamai, F. Baumberger, M. Hengsberger, J. Lobo-Checa, M. Muntwiler, M. Corso, C. Cirelli, L. Patthey, Z.-X. Shen, T. Greber, and J. Osterwalder

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045423 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

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Two-body problem in graphene

J. Sabio, F. Sols, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045428 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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

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Experimental demonstration of an all-optical analogue to the superradiance effect in an on-chip photonic crystal resonator system

Jun Pan, Sunil Sandhu, Yijie Huo, Norbert Stuhrmann, Michelle L. Povinelli, James S. Harris, M. M. Fejer, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041101(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Theory of quasiparticle interference on the surface of a strong topological insulator

H.-M. Guo and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041102(R) (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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Charge-transfer excitons in strongly coupled organic semiconductors

Jean-François Glowe, Mathieu Perrin, David Beljonne, Sophia C. Hayes, Fabrice Gardebien, and Carlos Silva

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041201(R) (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

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Adjustable anisotropy in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn) (As,P) layered alloys

M. Cubukcu, H. J. von Bardeleben, Kh. Khazen, J. L. Cantin, O. Mauguin, L. Largeau, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041202(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Skyrmion lattice in the doped semiconductor ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} Si$

W. Münzer, A. Neubauer, T. Adams, S. Mühlbauer, C. Franz, F. Jonietz, R. Georgii, P. Böni, B. Pedersen, M. Schmidt, A. Rosch, and C. Pfleiderer

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041203(R) (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Excited states of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond

Yuchen Ma, Michael Rohlfing, and Adam Gali

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041204(R) (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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

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Local and effective temperatures of quantum driven systems

Alvaro Caso, Liliana Arrachea, and Gustavo S. Lozano

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041301(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Nanostructure formation in the initial roughening of a thin silicon sheet

S. Seo, C. Euaruksakul, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, and P. G. Evans

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041302(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Field-orientation dependence of the Zeeman spin splitting in (In,Ga)As quantum point contacts

T. P. Martin, A. Szorkovszky, A. P. Micolich, A. R. Hamilton, C. A. Marlow, R. P. Taylor, H. Linke, and H. Q. Xu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041303(R) (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

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Inhomogeneous nuclear spin flips: Feedback mechanism between electronic states in a double quantum dot and the underlying nuclear spin bath

M. Stopa, J. J. Krich, and A. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041304(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Quantum dot in a two-dimensional topological insulator: The two-channel Kondo fixed point

K. T. Law, C. Y. Seng, Patrick A. Lee, and T. K. Ng

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041305(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Probing a quantum Hall pseudospin ferromagnet by resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance

G. P. Guo, X. J. Hao, T. Tu, Y. J. Zhao, Z. R. Lin, G. Cao, H. O. Li, C. Zhou, G. C. Guo, and H. W. Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041306(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Oscillatory crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional topological insulators

Chao-Xing Liu, HaiJun Zhang, Binghai Yan, Xiao-Liang Qi, Thomas Frauenheim, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041307(R) (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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Resistance minimum observed at Landau level filling factor $ν = 1 / 2$ in ultra high magnetic fields

Jian Zhang, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041308(R) (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

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Direct mapping of the spin-filtered surface bands of a three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator

Akinori Nishide, Alexey A. Taskin, Yasuo Takeichi, Taichi Okuda, Akito Kakizaki, Toru Hirahara, Kan Nakatsuji, Fumio Komori, Yoichi Ando, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041309(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Kondo regimes in a three-dots quantum gate

G. Chiappe, E. V. Anda, L. Costa Ribeiro, and E. Louis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041310(R) (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

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Interaction-induced edge channel equilibration

Anders Mathias Lunde, Simon E. Nigg, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041311(R) (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

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Semiconductor-homojunction induction in single-crystal GaN nanostructures under a transverse electric field: Ab initio calculations

Hulusi Yilmaz, Brad R. Weiner, and Gerardo Morell

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041312(R) (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Temperature and size-dependent suppression of Auger recombination in quantum-confined lead-salt nanowires

Valery I. Rupasov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041313(R) (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Many-body instability of Coulomb interacting bilayer graphene: Renormalization group approach

Oskar Vafek and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041401(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Spontaneous inversion symmetry breaking in graphene bilayers

Fan Zhang, Hongki Min, Marco Polini, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041402(R) (2010) - Published 4 January, 2010

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Electron-phonon coupling in potassium-doped graphene: Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

M. Bianchi, E. D. L. Rienks, S. Lizzit, A. Baraldi, R. Balog, L. Hornekær, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041403(R) (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

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Nanostructuring surfaces: Deconstruction of the $Pt (110) − (1 \times 2)$ surface by $C_{60}$

X. Torrelles, V. Langlais, M. De Santis, H. C. N. Tolentino, and Y. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041404(R) (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

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Quasiparticle scattering and the protected nature of the topological states in a parent topological insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

S. R. Park, W. S. Jung, Chul Kim, D. J. Song, C. Kim, S. Kimura, K. D. Lee, and N. Hur

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041405(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Anisotropic layer-by-layer growth of graphene on vicinal SiC(0001) surfaces

Satoru Tanaka, Kouhei Morita, and Hiroki Hibino

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041406(R) (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

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Model for transient elongation and drift of islands on vicinal substrates

M. Dufay and O. Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041407(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Electron-phonon coupling in graphene antidot lattices: An indication of polaronic behavior

Nenad Vukmirović, Vladimir M. Stojanović, and Mihajlo Vanević

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041408(R) (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

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Surface acoustic wave propagation in graphene

Peter Thalmeier, Balázs Dóra, and Klaus Ziegler

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041409(R) (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

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Single Dirac cone with a flat band touching on line-centered-square optical lattices

R. Shen, L. B. Shao, Baigeng Wang, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041410(R) (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

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Enhanced down conversion of photons emitted by photoexcited ${Er}_{x} Y_{2 - x} {Si}_{2} O_{7}$ films grown on silicon

Maria Miritello, Roberto Lo Savio, Paolo Cardile, and Francesco Priolo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041411(R) (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

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Stress release mechanisms for Cu on Pd(111) in the submonolayer and monolayer regimes

J. Jalkanen, G. Rossi, O. Trushin, E. Granato, T. Ala-Nissila, and S.-C. Ying

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041412(R) (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Visualizing quantum well state perturbations of metallic thin films near stacking fault defects

Alexander A. Khajetoorians, Gregory A. Fiete, and Chih-Kang Shih

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041413(R) (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

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Excitons and high-order optical transitions in individual carbon nanotubes: A Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy study

Stéphane Berciaud, Christophe Voisin, Hugen Yan, Bhupesh Chandra, Robert Caldwell, Yuyao Shan, Louis E. Brus, James Hone, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041414(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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First-principles description of atomic gold chains on Ge(001)

S. López-Moreno, A. H. Romero, A. Muñoz, and U. Schwingenschlögl

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041415(R) (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Ballistic transport in graphene beyond linear response

B. Rosenstein, M. Lewkowicz, H. C. Kao, and Y. Korniyenko

Phys. Rev. B 81, 041416(R) (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

ARTICLES

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

Pressure-induced insulating state in ${Ba}_{1 - x} R_{x} {IrO}_{3}$ ( $R = Gd$ , Eu) single crystals

O. B. Korneta, S. Chikara, S. Parkin, L. E. DeLong, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045101 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Quasiparticle Nernst effect in stripe-ordered cuprates

Andreas Hackl, Matthias Vojta, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045102 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Density matrix renormalization group study of excitons in polydiacetylene chains

Gergely Barcza, Örs Legeza, Florian Gebhard, and Reinhard M. Noack

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045103 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Universality of Anderson transition in two-dimensional systems of symplectic symmetry class

Reza Sepehrinia

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045104 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Two-band electronic metal and neighboring spin Bose-metal on a zigzag strip with longer-ranged repulsion

Hsin-Hua Lai and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045105 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Quantum criticality and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a two-level two-lead quantum dot

Xin Wang and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045106 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Structural, electronic, elastic, and piezoelectric properties of $α$ -quartz and $M X O_{4}$ ( $M = Al$ , Ga, Fe; $X = P$ , As) isomorph compounds: A DFT study

Pierre Labéguerie, Moussab Harb, Isabelle Baraille, and Michel Rérat

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045107 (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

Electronic structure and ionicity of actinide oxides from first principles

L. Petit, A. Svane, Z. Szotek, W. M. Temmerman, and G. M. Stocks

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045108 (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

Multidomain decomposition approach to large-scale electronic structure calculations

K. Varga

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045109 (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

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Fermi liquid near Pomeranchuk quantum criticality

Dmitrii L. Maslov and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045110 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Numerical analysis of the spatial range of the Kondo effect

C. A. Büsser, G. B. Martins, L. Costa Ribeiro, E. Vernek, E. V. Anda, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045111 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Resonant inelastic charge transfer in short alanine bridges

Nikolai Sergueev and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045112 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

High-resolution optical spectroscopy of ${Tm}^{3 +}$ ions in ${LiYF}_{4}$ : Crystal-field energies, hyperfine and deformation splittings, and the isotopic structure

S. A. Klimin, D. S. Pytalev, M. N. Popova, B. Z. Malkin, M. V. Vanyunin, and S. L. Korableva

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045113 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Origin of the ${}^{2}E \leftrightarrow {{}^{4}T}_{2}$ Fano resonance in ${Cr}^{3 +}$ -doped ${LiCaAlF}_{6}$ : Pressure-induced excited-state crossover

M. N. Sanz-Ortiz, F. Rodríguez, I. Hernández, R. Valiente, and S. Kück

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045114 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Liquid crystal phases of ultracold dipolar fermions on a lattice

Chungwei Lin, Erhai Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045115 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Dynamics of two interacting electrons in Anderson-Hubbard chains with long-range correlated disorder: Effect of a static electric field

W. S. Dias, E. M. Nascimento, M. L. Lyra, and F. A. B. F. de Moura

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045116 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Orbital-selective formation of local moments in $α$ -iron: First-principles route to an effective model

A. A. Katanin, A. I. Poteryaev, A. V. Efremov, A. O. Shorikov, S. L. Skornyakov, M. A. Korotin, and V. I. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045117 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Electronic properties of pyroxenes ${NaCrSi}_{2} O_{6}$ and ${NaFeSi}_{2} O_{6}$

S. V. Streltsov, J. McLeod, A. Moewes, G. J. Redhammer, and E. Z. Kurmaev

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045118 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

First-principles $LDA + U$ and $GGA + U$ study of neptunium dioxide

Bao-Tian Wang, Hongliang Shi, Weidong Li, and Ping Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045119 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Chiral topological insulators, superconductors, and other competing orders in three dimensions

Pavan Hosur, Shinsei Ryu, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045120 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Extremely correlated quantum liquids

B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045121 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Completeness of the exact muffin-tin orbitals: Application to hydrogenated alloys

N. I. Al-Zoubi, M. P. J. Punkkinen, B. Johansson, and L. Vitos

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045122 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Interplay of bulk and interface effects in the electric-field-driven transition in magnetite

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

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045123 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Raman signatures of charge ordering in $K_{0.3} {WO}_{3}$

D. M. Sagar, D. Fausti, S. van Smaalen, and P. H. M. van Loosdrecht

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045124 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Semiconductors I: bulk

Soft x-ray spectroscopy study of the element and orbital contributions to the electronic structure of copper hexadecafluoro-phthalocyanine

L. F. J. Piper, S. W. Cho, Y. Zhang, A. DeMasi, K. E. Smith, A. Y. Matsuura, and C. McGuinness

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045201 (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

Temperature dependence of the charge carrier mobility in disordered organic semiconductors at large carrier concentrations

I. I. Fishchuk, A. K. Kadashchuk, J. Genoe, Mujeeb Ullah, H. Sitter, Th. B. Singh, N. S. Sariciftci, and H. Bässler

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045202 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Electronic properties of $3 R {-CuAlO}_{2}$ under pressure: Three theoretical approaches

N. E. Christensen, A. Svane, R. Laskowski, B. Palanivel, P. Modak, A. N. Chantis, M. van Schilfgaarde, and T. Kotani

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045203 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Effects of filling in ${CoSb}_{3}$ : Local structure, band gap, and phonons from first principles

Daehyun Wee, Boris Kozinsky, Nicola Marzari, and Marco Fornari

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045204 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Electronic structure of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ analyzed according to hole-concentration-dependent measurements

M. A. Mayer, P. R. Stone, N. Miller, H. M. Smith, III, O. D. Dubon, E. E. Haller, K. M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045205 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

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Nonlocal orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for semiconductors

Chen Huang and Emily A. Carter

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045206 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Electron-beam-induced dissociation of (B,D) complexes in diamond mediated by multiple vibrational excitations

N. Habka, J. Chevallier, and J. Barjon

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045207 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Curie temperature versus hole concentration in field-effect structures of ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

Y. Nishitani, D. Chiba, M. Endo, M. Sawicki, F. Matsukura, T. Dietl, and H. Ohno

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045208 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Boron diffusion in extrinsically doped crystalline silicon

D. De Salvador, E. Napolitani, G. Bisognin, M. Pesce, A. Carnera, E. Bruno, G. Impellizzeri, and S. Mirabella

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045209 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Temperature-dependent electron and hole transport in disordered semiconducting polymers: Analysis of energetic disorder

J. C. Blakesley, H. S. Clubb, and N. C. Greenham

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045210 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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

Exciton spin dynamics in spherical CdS quantum dots

P. Horodyská, P. Němec, D. Sprinzl, P. Malý, V. N. Gladilin, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045301 (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

Sub-meV linewidth of excitonic luminescence in single GaN nanowires: Direct evidence for surface excitons

Oliver Brandt, Carsten Pfüller, Caroline Chèze, Lutz Geelhaar, and Henning Riechert

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045302 (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

Schottky barrier heights, carrier density, and negative electron affinity of hydrogen-terminated diamond

K. Tsugawa, H. Noda, K. Hirose, and H. Kawarada

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045303 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Decoherence of spin qubits due to a nearby charge fluctuator in gate-defined double dots

Guy Ramon and Xuedong Hu

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045304 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Electron spin polarization and detection in InAs quantum dots through $p$ -shell trions

S. G. Carter, Ş. C. Bădescu, and A. S. Bracker

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045305 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Room-temperature negative photoconductivity in degenerate InN thin films with a supergap excitation

Pai-Chun Wei, Surojit Chattopadhyay, Min-De Yang, Shih-Chang Tong, Ji-Lin Shen, Chien-Yao Lu, Han-Chang Shih, Li-Chyong Chen, and Kuei-Hsien Chen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045306 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Spin-torque generation by dc or ac voltages in quasi-one-dimensional magnetic layered structures

F. Romeo and R. Citro

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045307 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Many-body effects in the population dynamics of terahertz quantum cascade lasers

F. Wang, X. G. Guo, and J. C. Cao

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045308 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Quantum interface between light and nuclear spins in quantum dots

Heike Schwager, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Géza Giedke

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045309 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Effects of disorder and interactions in the quantum Hall ferromagnet

D. Makogon, A. Alamir, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045310 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Theory of exciton fine structure in semiconductor quantum dots: Quantum dot anisotropy and lateral electric field

Eugene Kadantsev and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045311 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Quantum teleportation of electrons in quantum wires with surface acoustic waves

Fabrizio Buscemi, Paolo Bordone, and Andrea Bertoni

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045312 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Hopping and trapping mechanisms in organic field-effect transistors

S. J. Konezny, M. N. Bussac, and L. Zuppiroli

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045313 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Plasmon dynamics in strongly driven finite few-electron quantum systems: The role of the surface

Carlos F. Destefani, Chris McDonald, Suren Sukiasyan, and Thomas Brabec

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045314 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Atomistic modeling of strain and diffusion at the $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ interface

Patrick Ganster, Guy Tréglia, and Andrés Saúl

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045315 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Effect of the surface on the electronic properties of a two-dimensional electron gas as measured by the quantum Hall effect

G. Kopnov, V. Y. Umansky, H. Cohen, D. Shahar, and R. Naaman

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045316 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Signatures of critical full counting statistics in a quantum-dot chain

Torsten Karzig and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045317 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Topological stability of the half-vortices in spinor exciton-polariton condensates

H. Flayac, I. A. Shelykh, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045318 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Interlayer and interfacial exchange coupling in ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor heterostructures

M. J. Wilson, M. Zhu, R. C. Myers, D. D. Awschalom, P. Schiffer, and N. Samarth

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045319 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Comparison of ultrafast carrier thermalization in ${Ga}_{x} {In}_{1 - x} As$ and Ge quantum wells

C. Lange, N. S. Köster, S. Chatterjee, H. Sigg, D. Chrastina, G. Isella, H. von Känel, B. Kunert, and W. Stolz

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045320 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Spin transport theory in ferromagnet/semiconductor systems with noncollinear magnetization configurations

Yang Song and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045321 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Hole and trion spin dynamics in quantum dots under excitation by a train of circularly polarized pulses

B. Eble, P. Desfonds, F. Fras, F. Bernardot, C. Testelin, M. Chamarro, A. Miard, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045322 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

$U (1) \times U (1) ⋊ Z_{2}$ Chern-Simons theory and $Z_{4}$ parafermion fractional quantum Hall states

Maissam Barkeshli and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045323 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Determination of dissociative fragment-adsorbate interaction energy during chemisorption of the diatomic molecule HCl on Si(100)

Ming-Feng Hsieh (謝明峰), Jen-Yin Cheng (鄭人夤), Jenq-Cheng Yang (楊正成), Deng-Sung Lin (林登松), Karina Morgenstern, and Woei-Wu Pai (白偉武)

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045324 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Density functional theory with nonlocal correlation: A key to the solution of the CO adsorption puzzle

P. Lazić, M. Alaei, N. Atodiresei, V. Caciuc, R. Brako, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045401 (2010) - Published 5 January, 2010

Symmetric hydrogen bond in a water-hydroxyl complex on Cu(110)

T. Kumagai, M. Kaizu, H. Okuyama, S. Hatta, T. Aruga, I. Hamada, and Y. Morikawa

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045402 (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

Unraveling the rotational disorder of graphene layers in graphite

H. S. Wong and C. Durkan

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045403 (2010) - Published 6 January, 2010

Growth and stability of Langmuir-Blodgett films on OH-, H-, or Br-terminated Si(001)

J. K. Bal, S. Kundu, and S. Hazra

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045404 (2010) - Published 7 January, 2010

Nonadiabatic phonons within the doped graphene layers of $X C_{6}$ compounds

Mark P. M. Dean, Christopher A. Howard, Siddharth S. Saxena, and Mark Ellerby

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045405 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Resistivity of thin Cu films coated with Ta, Ti, Ru, Al, and Pd barrier layers from first principles

Ferdows Zahid, Youqi Ke, Daniel Gall, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045406 (2010) - Published 8 January, 2010

Single cysteine adsorption on Au(110): A first-principles study

B. Höffling, F. Ortmann, K. Hannewald, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045407 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Cluster scattering effects on phonon conduction in graphene

Natalio Mingo, K. Esfarjani, D. A. Broido, and D. A. Stewart

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045408 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Local density of states in the presence of impurity scattering in graphene at high magnetic field

Cristina Bena

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045409 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Microstructure of a Cu film grown on bcc Ta (100) by large-scale molecular-dynamics simulations

Ivan Lazić, Peter Klaver, and Barend Thijsse

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045410 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Photoluminescence polarization properties of single GaN nanowires containing ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N / GaN$ quantum discs

L. Rigutti, M. Tchernycheva, A. De Luna Bugallo, G. Jacopin, F. H. Julien, F. Furtmayr, M. Stutzmann, M. Eickhoff, R. Songmuang, and F. Fortuna

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045411 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Tunneling conductance of graphene ferromagnet-insulator-superconductor junctions

Ya-Fen Hsu and Guang-Yu Guo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045412 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Thermal conductivity and phonon transport in empty and water-filled carbon nanotubes

John A. Thomas, Ryan M. Iutzi, and Alan J. H. McGaughey

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045413 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Effects of magnetism and electric field on the energy gap of bilayer graphene nanoflakes

Bhagawan Sahu, Hongki Min, and Sanjay K. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045414 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Growth direction and morphology of ZnO nanobelts revealed by combining in situ atomic force microscopy and polarized Raman spectroscopy

Marcel Lucas, Zhong Lin Wang, and Elisa Riedo

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045415 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Complex behavior in a simple system: Low-temperature Ag/Ag(100) growth revisited

Yunsic Shim and Jacques G. Amar

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045416 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

AFM dissipation topography of soliton superstructures in adsorbed overlayers

Carlotta Negri, Nicola Manini, Andrea Vanossi, Giuseppe E. Santoro, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045417 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Influence of intramolecular polar bonds on interface energetics in perfluoro-pentacene on Ag(111)

Steffen Duhm, Shunsuke Hosoumi, Ingo Salzmann, Alexander Gerlach, Martin Oehzelt, Bernhard Wedl, Tien-Lin Lee, Frank Schreiber, Norbert Koch, Nobuo Ueno, and Satoshi Kera

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045418 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Effect of electron-phonon interaction on spectroscopies in graphene

J. P. Carbotte, E. J. Nicol, and S. G. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045419 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Atomic motion in $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ single-molecule junctions induced by phonon excitation

Manabu Kiguchi, Tomoka Nakazumi, Kunio Hashimoto, and Kei Murakoshi

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045420 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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Above-barrier surface electron resonances induced by a molecular network

R. Stiufiuc, L. M. A. Perdigão, B. Grandidier, D. Deresmes, G. Allan, C. Delerue, D. Stiévenard, P. H. Beton, S. C. Erwin, M. Sassi, V. Oison, and J.-M. Debierre

Phys. Rev. B 81, 045421 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010