Volume 82, Issue 12

15 September 2010

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Electron spin coherence of phosphorus donors in silicon: Effect of environmental nuclei

Eisuke Abe, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, Shinichi Tojo, John J. L. Morton, Wayne M. Witzel, Akira Fujimoto, Joel W. Ager, Eugene E. Haller, Junichi Isoya, Stephen A. Lyon, Mike L. W. Thewalt, and Kohei M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121201(R) (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

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Experimental test for geminate recombination applied to organic solar cells

R. A. Street, Sarah Cowan, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121301(R) (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

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Subband engineering even-denominator quantum Hall states

V. W. Scarola, C. May, M. R. Peterson, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121304(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Cryogenic scanning force microscopy of quantum Hall samples: Adiabatic transport originating in anisotropic depletion at contact interfaces

F. Dahlem, E. Ahlswede, J. Weis, and K. v. Klitzing

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121305(R) (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

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Mode-specific reactivity of ${CH}_{4}$ on $Pt (110) − (1 \times 2)$ : The concerted role of stretch and bend excitation

Régis Bisson, Marco Sacchi, and Rainer D. Beck

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121404(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Quantifying transition voltage spectroscopy of molecular junctions: Ab initio calculations

Jingzhe Chen, Troels Markussen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121412(R) (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

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Electron spectrum of epitaxial graphene monolayers

O. Pankratov, S. Hensel, and M. Bockstedte

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121416(R) (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Apical oxygens and correlation strength in electron- and hole-doped copper oxides

Cédric Weber, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125107 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

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Terahertz Kerr and reflectivity measurements on the topological insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

G. S. Jenkins, A. B. Sushkov, D. C. Schmadel, N. P. Butch, P. Syers, J. Paglione, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125120 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

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Ultrafast few-fermion optoelectronics in a single self-assembled $In Ga As / GaAs$ quantum dot

M. Zecherle, C. Ruppert, E. C. Clark, G. Abstreiter, J. J. Finley, and M. Betz

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125314 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

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Graphene and few-layer graphite probed by second-harmonic generation: Theory and experiment

Jesse J. Dean and Henry M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125411 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

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“Cube-on-hexagon” orientation relationship for Fe on $GaN (000 \bar{1})$ : The missing link in bcc/hcp epitaxy

Cunxu Gao, Oliver Brandt, Steven C. Erwin, Jonas Lähnemann, Uwe Jahn, Bernd Jenichen, and Hans-Peter Schönherr

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125415 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Flat-lens focusing of electrons on the surface of a topological insulator

F. Hassler, A. R. Akhmerov, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125423 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Effect of noble-metal contacts on doping and band gap of graphene

A. Varykhalov, M. R. Scholz, Timur K. Kim, and O. Rader

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121101(R) (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

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Self-consistent calculations of loss-compensated fishnet metamaterials

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

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121102(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Band-to-band photoluminescence in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Yasuhiro Yamada and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121103(R) (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Phase retrieval based on wave-front relay and modulation

Fucai Zhang and J. M. Rodenburg

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121104(R) (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Semiconductors I: bulk

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electron spin coherence of phosphorus donors in silicon: Effect of environmental nuclei

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121201(R) (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Experimental test for geminate recombination applied to organic solar cells

R. A. Street, Sarah Cowan, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121301(R) (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

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Oscillatory angular dependence of the magnetoresistance in a topological insulator ${Bi}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x}$

A. A. Taskin, Kouji Segawa, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121302(R) (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

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Thresholdless coherent light scattering from subband polaritons in a strongly coupled microcavity

Johannes Gambari, Antonio I. Fernandez-Dominguez, Stefan A. Maier, Ben S. Williams, Sushil Kumar, John L. Reno, Qing Hu, and Chris C. Phillips

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121303(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Subband engineering even-denominator quantum Hall states

V. W. Scarola, C. May, M. R. Peterson, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121304(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Cryogenic scanning force microscopy of quantum Hall samples: Adiabatic transport originating in anisotropic depletion at contact interfaces

F. Dahlem, E. Ahlswede, J. Weis, and K. v. Klitzing

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121305(R) (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

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Exciton spin state mediated photon-photon coupling in a strongly coupled quantum dot microcavity system

S. Reitzenstein, S. Münch, P. Franeck, A. Löffler, S. Höfling, L. Worschech, A. Forchel, I. V. Ponomarev, and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121306(R) (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

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Asymmetric optical nuclear spin pumping in a single uncharged quantum dot

F. Klotz, V. Jovanov, J. Kierig, E. C. Clark, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter, M. S. Brandt, J. J. Finley, H. Schwager, and G. Giedke

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121307(R) (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

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Electromagnetically induced transparency with an ensemble of donor-bound electron spins in a semiconductor

Maksym Sladkov, A. U. Chaubal, M. P. Bakker, A. R. Onur, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and C. H. van der Wal

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121308(R) (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

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Ripple-to-dome transition: The growth evolution of Ge on vicinal Si(1 1 10) surface

L. Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, and A. Balzarotti

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121309(R) (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

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Robust impurity-scattering spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas

V. K. Dugaev, M. Inglot, E. Ya. Sherman, and J. Barnaś

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121310(R) (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Impact of disorder on the $ν = 2$ quantum Hall plateau in graphene

Jean-Marie Poumirol, Walter Escoffier, Amit Kumar, Bertrand Raquet, and Michel Goiran

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121401(R) (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

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Weak temperature dependence of stress relaxation in as-deposited polycrystalline gold films

J. Leib and C. V. Thompson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121402(R) (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

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Chiral gap and collective excitations in monolayer graphene from strong coupling expansion of lattice gauge theory

Yasufumi Araki and Tetsuo Hatsuda

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121403(R) (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

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Mode-specific reactivity of ${CH}_{4}$ on $Pt (110) − (1 \times 2)$ : The concerted role of stretch and bend excitation

Régis Bisson, Marco Sacchi, and Rainer D. Beck

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121404(R) (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

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Spin-polarized semiconductor induced by magnetic impurities in graphene

Maria Daghofer, Nan Zheng, and Adriana Moreo

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121405(R) (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

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Transverse thermoelectric conductivity of bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime

Chang-Ran Wang, Wen-Sen Lu, and Wei-Li Lee

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121406(R) (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

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Flat bands in slightly twisted bilayer graphene: Tight-binding calculations

E. Suárez Morell, J. D. Correa, P. Vargas, M. Pacheco, and Z. Barticevic

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121407(R) (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

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Fluorescence of laser-created electron-hole plasma in graphene

Rainer J. Stöhr, Roman Kolesov, Jens Pflaum, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121408(R) (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

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Radiation-induced quantum interference in low-dimensional $n − p$ junctions

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

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121409(R) (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

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Generic suppression of conductance quantization of interacting electrons in graphene nanoribbons in a perpendicular magnetic field

A. A. Shylau, I. V. Zozoulenko, H. Xu, and T. Heinzel

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121410(R) (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

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Lateral hopping of CO on Cu(111) induced by femtosecond laser pulses

H. Ueba, Y. Ootsuka, M. Paulsson, and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121411(R) (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

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Quantifying transition voltage spectroscopy of molecular junctions: Ab initio calculations

Jingzhe Chen, Troels Markussen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121412(R) (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

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Variational approach to the excitonic phase transition in graphene

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

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121413(R) (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

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Nonlinear effects of phonon fluctuations on transport through nanoscale junctions

D. F. Urban, R. Avriller, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121414(R) (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

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Wave-front phase retrieval in transmission electron microscopy via ptychography

F. Hüe, J. M. Rodenburg, A. M. Maiden, F. Sweeney, and P. A. Midgley

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121415(R) (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

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Electron spectrum of epitaxial graphene monolayers

O. Pankratov, S. Hensel, and M. Bockstedte

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121416(R) (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Mechanical compression induced short-range ordering of nanographene spins

Katsunori Takahara, Sijia Hao, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takeshi Kadono, Michikazu Hara, Kazuyuki Takai, and Toshiaki Enoki

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121417(R) (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Lattice gauge theory model for graphene

Alessandro Giuliani, Vieri Mastropietro, and Marcello Porta

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121418(R) (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Fundamental limits for noncontact transfers between two bodies

Philippe Ben-Abdallah and Karl Joulain

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121419(R) (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Spin and valley splittings in multilayered massless Dirac fermion system

Naoya Tajima, Mitsuyuki Sato, Shigeharu Sugawara, Reizo Kato, Yutaka Nishio, and Koji Kajita

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121420(R) (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Crystal and electronic structures of lithium fluorosulphate based materials for lithium-ion batteries

M. Ramzan, S. Lebègue, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125101 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Dielectric screening and band-structure effects in low-energy photoemission

E. E. Krasovskii, V. M. Silkin, V. U. Nazarov, P. M. Echenique, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125102 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Collective phonon excitation in ${KTaO}_{3}$

Akitoshi Koreeda, Ryuta Takano, Akira Ushio, and Seishiro Saikan

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125103 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

First-principles investigation on redox properties of $M$ -doped ${CeO}_{2}$ $(M = Mn, Pr, Sn, Zr)$

Yuanhao Tang, Hua Zhang, Lixia Cui, Chuying Ouyang, Siqi Shi, Weihua Tang, Hong Li, Jong-Sook Lee, and Liquan Chen

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125104 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Finite-temperature Gutzwiller projection for strongly correlated electron systems

Wan-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Mei He, Da Wang, Qiang-Hua Wang, Z. D. Wang, and F. C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125105 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Scattering and transport statistics at the metal-insulator transition: A numerical study of the power-law banded random-matrix model

J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, Victor A. Gopar, and Imre Varga

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125106 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

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Apical oxygens and correlation strength in electron- and hole-doped copper oxides

Cédric Weber, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125107 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

Effect of strong correlations on the disorder-induced zero bias anomaly in the two-site Anderson-Hubbard model

Hong-Yi Chen and W. A. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125108 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Photovoltaic effect for narrow-gap Mott insulators

Efstratios Manousakis

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125109 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Far-infrared cyclotron resonance and Faraday effect in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

A. B. Sushkov, G. S. Jenkins, D. C. Schmadel, N. P. Butch, J. Paglione, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125110 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Spontaneous breaking of fourfold rotational symmetry in two-dimensional electron systems as a topological phase transition

M. V. Zverev, J. W. Clark, Z. Nussinov, and V. A. Khodel

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125111 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Systematically convergent method for accurate total energy calculations with localized atomic orbitals

S. Azadi, C. Cavazzoni, and S. Sorella

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125112 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Energy transfer enhancement by oxygen perturbation of spin-forbidden electronic transitions in aromatic systems

A. Monguzzi, R. Tubino, M. M. Salamone, and F. Meinardi

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125113 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Finite-temperature linear conductance from the Matsubara Green’s function without analytic continuation to the real axis

C. Karrasch, V. Meden, and K. Schönhammer

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125114 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Low-temperature properties of ${CeRu}_{4} {Sn}_{6}$ from NMR and specific heat measurements: Heavy fermions emerging from a Kondo-insulating state

E. M. Brüning, M. Brando, M. Baenitz, A. Bentien, A. M. Strydom, R. E. Walstedt, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125115 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Effects of Zeeman field on a spin Bose-metal phase

Hsin-Hua Lai and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125116 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Physical properties of quasi-one-dimensional ${SrNbO}_{3.41}$ and Luttinger liquid analysis of electrical transport

A. de Campos, M. S. da Luz, C. A. M. dos Santos, A. T. Rice, A. M. Deml, B. D. White, J. J. Neumeier, and J. L. Cohn

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125117 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Anyonic entanglement renormalization

Robert König and Ersen Bilgin

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125118 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Anomalous dielectric response in the dimer Mott insulator $κ − {(BEDT-TTF)}_{2} {Cu}_{2} {(CN)}_{3}$

Majed Abdel-Jawad, Ichiro Terasaki, Takahiko Sasaki, Naoki Yoneyama, Norio Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Uesu, and Chisa Hotta

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125119 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

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Terahertz Kerr and reflectivity measurements on the topological insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

G. S. Jenkins, A. B. Sushkov, D. C. Schmadel, N. P. Butch, P. Syers, J. Paglione, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125120 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Gain of the kinetic energy of bipolarons in the $t − J$ -Holstein model based on electron-phonon coupling

L. Vidmar and J. Bonča

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125121 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Zero energy and chiral edge modes in a $p$ -wave magnetic spin model

G. Kells and J. Vala

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125122 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Hybridization and suppression of superconductivity in ${CeFeAsO}_{1 - y}$ : Pressure and temperature dependence of the electronic structure

Hitoshi Yamaoka, Ignace Jarrige, Atsushi Ikeda-Ohno, Satoshi Tsutsui, Jung-Fu Lin, Nao Takeshita, Kiichi Miyazawa, Akira Iyo, Hijiri Kito, Hiroshi Eisaki, Nozumu Hiraoka, Hirofumi Ishii, and Ku-Ding Tsuei

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125123 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Flow equation calculation of transient and steady-state currents in the Anderson impurity model

P. Wang and S. Kehrein

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125124 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Conductance of DNA molecules: Effects of decoherence and bonding

Matías Zilly, Orsolya Ujsághy, and Dietrich E. Wolf

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125125 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Fractional statistics and quantum scaling properties of the integrable Penson-Kolb-Hubbard chain

Carlindo Vitoriano and M. D. Coutinho-Filho

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125126 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Experimental determination of the state-dependent enhancement of the electron-positron momentum density in solids

J. Laverock, T. D. Haynes, M. A. Alam, and S. B. Dugdale

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125127 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Semiconductors I: bulk

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the GaAs-type semiconductors in a strong magnetic field

P. S. Alekseev and A. P. Alekseeva

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125201 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Band-tail shape and transport near the metal-insulator transition in Si-doped ${Al}_{0.3} {Ga}_{0.7} As$

Jennifer Misuraca, Jelena Trbovic, Jun Lu, Jianhua Zhao, Yuzo Ohno, Hideo Ohno, Peng Xiong, and Stephan von Molnár

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125202 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Nitrogen composition dependence of electron effective mass in ${GaAs}_{1 - x} N_{x}$

T. Dannecker, Y. Jin, H. Cheng, C. F. Gorman, J. Buckeridge, C. Uher, S. Fahy, C. Kurdak, and R. S. Goldman

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125203 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Detection of trap charge in small molecular organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Debdutta Ray, Lorenzo Burtone, Karl Leo, and Moritz Riede

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125204 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Magnetic interaction in pairwise Mn-doped Si nanocrystals

C. Panse, R. Leitsmann, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125205 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Spin-dependent dynamics of polaron pairs in organic semiconductors

D. R. McCamey, S.-Y. Lee, S.-Y. Paik, J. M. Lupton, and C. Boehme

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125206 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Twisted-light-induced optical transitions in semiconductors: Free-carrier quantum kinetics

G. F. Quinteiro and P. I. Tamborenea

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125207 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Topological electronic structure in half-Heusler topological insulators

W. Al-Sawai, Hsin Lin, R. S. Markiewicz, L. A. Wray, Y. Xia, S.-Y. Xu, M. Z. Hasan, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125208 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Defect-induced ferromagnetism in undoped and Mn-doped zirconia thin films

Jan Zippel, Michael Lorenz, Annette Setzer, Gerald Wagner, Nikolai Sobolev, Pablo Esquinazi, and Marius Grundmann

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125209 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Comparative ab initio study of half-Heusler compounds for optoelectronic applications

Thomas Gruhn

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125210 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Low-temperature hopping and absence of spin-dependent transport in single crystals of cobalt-doped ZnO

N. Sharma, S. Granville, S. C. Kashyap, and J.-Ph. Ansermet

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125211 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

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

Model of generating either odd or even optical harmonics by varying the coupling parameters between source quantum dots

Weidong Chu, Yan Xie, Suqing Duan, Ning Yang, Wei Zhang, Jia-Lin Zhu, and Xian-Geng Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125301 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Decoherence by electromagnetic fluctuations in double-quantum-dot charge qubits

Diego C. B. Valente, Eduardo R. Mucciolo, and F. K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125302 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Local structure of indium in quinary (InGa)(AsSbN)/GaAs quantum wells

Jingli Chen, Gianluca Ciatto, Melanie Le Du, Jean-Christophe Harmand, and Frank Glas

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125303 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Optoelectronic properties of graphene in the presence of optical phonon scattering

W. Xu, H. M. Dong, L. L. Li, J. Q. Yao, P. Vasilopoulos, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125304 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Relation between symmetry breaking and the anomalous Josephson effect

Jun-Feng Liu and K. S. Chan

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125305 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Pressure dependence of the electronic structure of a [311] piezoelectric ${Ga}_{0.85} {In}_{0.15} As / AlAs$ superlattice

J. S. Reparaz, L. R. Muniz, A. R. Goñi, M. I. Alonso, G. Rozas, A. Fainstein, S. Saravanan, and P. O. Vaccaro

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125306 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Drag effects in a system of electrons and microcavity polaritons

Oleg L. Berman, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, and Yurii E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125307 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Ab initio study of stabilization of the misfit layer compound ${(PbS)}_{1.14} {TaS}_{2}$

Evgeniya Kabliman, Peter Blaha, and Karlheinz Schwarz

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125308 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

Spin-dependent tunneling into an empty lateral quantum dot

Peter Stano and Philippe Jacquod

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125309 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

Optical gaps of free and embedded Si nanoclusters: Density functional theory calculations

Timothy J. Pennycook, George Hadjisavvas, Juan C. Idrobo, Pantelis C. Kelires, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125310 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Self-excited oscillations of charge-spin accumulation due to single-electron tunneling

D. Radić, A. M. Kadigrobov, L. Y. Gorelik, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125311 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Orthogonality catastrophe in ballistic quantum dots: Role of level degeneracies and confinement geometry

Georg Röder and Martina Hentschel

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125312 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Parametric instabilities of microcavity polaritons in a periodic potential

A. V. Gorbach and D. V. Skryabin

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125313 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrafast few-fermion optoelectronics in a single self-assembled $In Ga As / GaAs$ quantum dot

M. Zecherle, C. Ruppert, E. C. Clark, G. Abstreiter, J. J. Finley, and M. Betz

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125314 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Stabilization of semiconductor surface reconstructions by configurational entropy

O. Romanyuk, F. Grosse, A. Proessdorf, W. Braun, and H. Riechert

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125315 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Growth of spatially ordered Ge nanoclusters in an amorphous matrix on rippled substrates

M. Buljan, J. Grenzer, A. Keller, N. Radić, V. Valeš, S. Bernstorff, T. Cornelius, H. T Metzger, and V. Holý

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125316 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Electrical excitation of microcavity polaritons by radiative pumping from a weakly coupled organic semiconductor

Grant H. Lodden and Russell J. Holmes

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125317 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Electronic and optical properties of nonpolar $a$ -plane GaN quantum wells

S. Schulz, T. J. Badcock, M. A. Moram, P. Dawson, M. J. Kappers, C. J. Humphreys, and E. P. O’Reilly

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125318 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Inhomogeneous free-electron distribution in InN nanowires: Photoluminescence excitation experiments

J. Segura-Ruiz, A. Molina-Sánchez, N. Garro, A. García-Cristóbal, A. Cantarero, F. Iikawa, C. Denker, J. Malindretos, and A. Rizzi

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125319 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of PbS quantum dots in glass: Evidence of exciton state splitting and carrier trapping

Maxim S. Gaponenko, Andrey A. Lutich, Nikolai A. Tolstik, Alexei A. Onushchenko, Alexander M. Malyarevich, Eugene P. Petrov, and Konstantin V. Yumashev

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125320 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Coherent control in semiconductor quantum dots: Reduced optical gain thresholds via biexciton control

David Gerbasi, Gregory D. Scholes, and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125321 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Chaotic transport in the symmetry crossover regime with a spin-orbit interaction

Keiji Saito and Taro Nagao

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125322 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Orbital Kondo effect in double quantum dots

Piotr Trocha

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125323 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Band-edge biexciton in nanocrystals of semiconductors with a degenerate valence band

A. V. Rodina and Al. L. Efros

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125324 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Radial spin helix in two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Yuriy V. Pershin and Valeriy A. Slipko

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125325 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Role of the surface states in the magnetotransport properties of ultrathin bismuth films

N. Marcano, S. Sangiao, C. Magén, L. Morellón, M. R. Ibarra, M. Plaza, L. Pérez, and J. M. De Teresa

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125326 (2010) - Published 29 September, 2010

Valence-band splitting energies in wurtzite InP nanowires: Photoluminescence spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

E. G. Gadret, G. O. Dias, L. C. O. Dacal, M. M. de Lima, Jr., C. V. R. S. Ruffo, F. Iikawa, M. J. S. P. Brasil, T. Chiaramonte, M. A. Cotta, L. H. G. Tizei, D. Ugarte, and A. Cantarero

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125327 (2010) - Published 29 September, 2010

Quantum approach to electronic noise calculations in the presence of electron-phonon interactions

Hong-Hyun Park and Gerhard Klimeck

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125328 (2010) - Published 29 September, 2010

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Effective time-reversal symmetry breaking in the spin relaxation in a graphene quantum dot

P. R. Struck and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125401 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Antilinear spectral symmetry and the vortex zero modes in topological insulators and graphene

Igor F. Herbut and Chi-Ken Lu

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125402 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Oxidation functional groups on graphene: Structural and electronic properties

Jia-An Yan and M. Y. Chou

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125403 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Mechanism of Fe impurity motivated ion-nanopatterning of Si (100) surfaces

Jing Zhou and Ming Lu

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125404 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Reversed polarized emission in highly strained $a$ -plane GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells

R. Mata, A. Cros, J. A. Budagosky, A. Molina-Sánchez, N. Garro, A. García-Cristóbal, J. Renard, S. Founta, B. Gayral, E. Bellet-Amalric, C. Bougerol, and B. Daudin

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125405 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Density functional theory screened-exchange approach for investigating electronical properties of graphene-related materials

Roland Gillen and John Robertson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125406 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Unexpected change in the electronic properties of the Au-graphene interface caused by toluene

H. Pinto, R. Jones, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125407 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Phonon-mediated sticking of electrons at dielectric surfaces

R. L. Heinisch, F. X. Bronold, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125408 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Renormalization of Coulomb interaction in graphene: Determining observable quantities

Fernando de Juan, Adolfo G. Grushin, and María A. H. Vozmediano

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125409 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

Metastable polymeric nitrogen nanotube from a zigzag sheet phase and first-principles calculations

Anguang Hu, Fan Zhang, and Tom Woo

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125410 (2010) - Published 7 September, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Graphene and few-layer graphite probed by second-harmonic generation: Theory and experiment

Jesse J. Dean and Henry M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125411 (2010) - Published 8 September, 2010

Origin of insulating behavior of the $p$ -type ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ interface: Polarization-induced asymmetric distribution of oxygen vacancies

Lixin Zhang, Xiang-Feng Zhou, Hui-Tian Wang, Jing-Jun Xu, Jingbo Li, E. G. Wang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125412 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Semiconductor–half metal transition at the ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} (001)$ surface upon hydrogen adsorption

Gareth S. Parkinson, Narasimham Mulakaluri, Yaroslav Losovyj, Peter Jacobson, Rossitza Pentcheva, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125413 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Two bonding configurations for individually adsorbed $C_{60}$ molecules on Au(111)

Lin Tang, Xin Zhang, Quanmin Guo, Yu-Ning Wu, Lin-Lin Wang, and Hai-Ping Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125414 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

“Cube-on-hexagon” orientation relationship for Fe on $GaN (000 \bar{1})$ : The missing link in bcc/hcp epitaxy

Cunxu Gao, Oliver Brandt, Steven C. Erwin, Jonas Lähnemann, Uwe Jahn, Bernd Jenichen, and Hans-Peter Schönherr

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125415 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the Li-graphite system from first-principles calculations

Kristin Persson, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125416 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Efficient optical excitation transfer in layered quantum dot nanostructures networked via optical near-field interactions

Makoto Naruse, Erich Runge, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, and Motoichi Ohtsu

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125417 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Adsorption of nitro-substituted aromatics on single-walled carbon nanotubes

E. S. Alldredge, Ş. C. Bădescu, N. Bajwa, F. K. Perkins, E. S. Snow, and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125418 (2010) - Published 9 September, 2010

Edge and bulk components of lowest-Landau-level orbitals, correlated fractional quantum Hall effect incompressible states, and insulating behavior in finite graphene samples

Constantine Yannouleas, Igor Romanovsky, and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125419 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Shell structure and phase relations in electronic properties of metal nanowires from an electron-gas model

Yong Han and Da-Jiang Liu

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125420 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Step structure of Si(110)- $(16 \times 2)$ and adsorption of $H_{2} O$

Martin Setvín, Veronika Brázdová, Kazushi Miki, and David R. Bowler

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125421 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

Origin of Rh and Pd agglomeration on the ${CeO}_{2} (111)$ surface

Baihai Li, Obiefune K. Ezekoye, Qiuju Zhang, Liang Chen, Ping Cui, George Graham, and Xiaoqing Pan

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125422 (2010) - Published 10 September, 2010

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Flat-lens focusing of electrons on the surface of a topological insulator

F. Hassler, A. R. Akhmerov, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125423 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Spin-split electronic states in graphene: Effects due to lattice deformation, Rashba effect, and adatoms by first principles

Samir Abdelouahed, A. Ernst, J. Henk, I. V. Maznichenko, and I. Mertig

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125424 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Early stage of the electron kinetics in swift heavy ion tracks in dielectrics

N. A. Medvedev, A. E. Volkov, N. S. Shcheblanov, and B. Rethfeld

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125425 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Ab initio study of electron transport in dry poly(G)-poly(C) $A$ -DNA strands

C. D. Pemmaraju, I. Rungger, X. Chen, A. R. Rocha, and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125426 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Diamond C $1 s$ core-level excitons: Surface sensitivity

Alastair Stacey, Bruce C. C. Cowie, Julius Orwa, Steven Prawer, and Alon Hoffman

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125427 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Transmission through a boundary between monolayer and bilayer graphene

Takeshi Nakanishi, Mikito Koshino, and Tsuneya Ando

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125428 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Evolution of the Raman spectra from single-, few-, and many-layer graphene with increasing disorder

E. H. Martins Ferreira, Marcus V. O. Moutinho, F. Stavale, M. M. Lucchese, Rodrigo B. Capaz, C. A. Achete, and A. Jorio

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125429 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Broadband plasmonic device concentrating the energy at the nanoscale: The crescent-shaped cylinder

Alexandre Aubry, Dang Yuan Lei, Stefan A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125430 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Valence band photoemission from the Zn-phthalocyanine/Ag(110) interface: Charge transfer and scattering of substrate photoelectrons

L. Giovanelli, P. Amsalem, T. Angot, L. Petaccia, S. Gorovikov, L. Porte, A. Goldoni, and J.-M. Themlin

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125431 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Substrate-induced cooperative effects in water adsorption from density functional calculations

Pepa Cabrera-Sanfelix, M. V. Fernández-Serra, A. Arnau, and D. Sánchez-Portal

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125432 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm effect: Optical spin as the magnetic flux parameter

Yuri Gorodetski, Sergey Nechayev, Vladimir Kleiner, and Erez Hasman

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125433 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

ac-dc voltage profile and four point impedance of a quantum driven system

Federico Foieri and Liliana Arrachea

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125434 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Self-consistent screening approximation for flexible membranes: Application to graphene

K. V. Zakharchenko, R. Roldán, A. Fasolino, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125435 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Molecular relaxation dynamics in organic monolayer junctions

Stéphane Pleutin, Nicolas Clément, David Guérin, and Dominique Vuillaume

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125436 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Double quantum dots in carbon nanotubes

J. von Stecher, B. Wunsch, M. Lukin, E. Demler, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125437 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Kondo behavior of anisotropic single atomic spins on a ${Cu}_{2} N$ molecular layer

M. A. Barral, P. Roura-Bas, A. M. Llois, and A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125438 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

One-dimensional polymeric carbon structure based on five-membered rings in alkaline earth metal dicarbides ${BeC}_{2}$ and ${MgC}_{2}$

Pornjuk Srepusharawoot, Andreas Blomqvist, C. Moysés Araújo, Ralph H. Scheicher, and Rajeev Ahuja

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125439 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Sputtering at grazing ion incidence: Influence of adatom islands

Yudi Rosandi, Alex Redinger, Thomas Michely, and Herbert M. Urbassek

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125440 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Quantum quench dynamics and population inversion in bilayer graphene

Balázs Dóra, Eduardo V. Castro, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125441 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Coverage-dependent adsorption superstructure transition of $C_{60} / Cu (001)$

Sheng-Syun Wong, Woei Wu Pai, Chia-Hao Chen, and Minn-Tsong Lin

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125442 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Collision-induced fusion of two $C_{60}$ fullerenes: Quantum chemical molecular dynamics simulations

Jacek Jakowski, Stephan Irle, and Keiji Morokuma

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125443 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Combined experimental and ab initio study of the electronic structure of narrow-diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes with predominant (6,4),(6,5) chirality

K. De Blauwe, D. J. Mowbray, Y. Miyata, P. Ayala, H. Shiozawa, A. Rubio, P. Hoffmann, H. Kataura, and T. Pichler

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125444 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Epitaxial graphene on 3C-SiC(111) pseudosubstrate: Structural and electronic properties

A. Ouerghi, M. Marangolo, R. Belkhou, S. El Moussaoui, M. G. Silly, M. Eddrief, L. Largeau, M. Portail, B. Fain, and F. Sirotti

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125445 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Roughness of silicon nanowire sidewalls and room temperature photoluminescence

Vladimir A. Sivakov, Felix Voigt, Andreas Berger, Gottfried Bauer, and Silke H. Christiansen

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125446 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Photocurrent analysis of quantum cascade detectors by magnetotransport

François-Régis Jasnot, Nicolas Péré-Laperne, Louis-Anne de Vaulchier, Yves Guldner, Francesca Carosella, Robson Ferreira, Amandine Buffaz, Laetitia Doyennette, Vincent Berger, Mathieu Carras, and Xavier Marcadet

Phys. Rev. B 82, 125447 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010