Volume 83, Issue 4

1 January 2011

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Signatures of Wigner localization in epitaxially grown nanowires

L. H. Kristinsdóttir, J. C. Cremon, H. A. Nilsson, H. Q. Xu, L. Samuelson, H. Linke, A. Wacker, and S. M. Reimann (Nanometer Structure Consortium, nmC@LU)

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041101(R) (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Geometrical frustration and the competing phases of the Sn/Si(111) $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3} R 30^{°}$ surface systems

Gang Li, Manuel Laubach, Andrzej Fleszar, and Werner Hanke

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041104(R) (2011) - Published 19 January, 2011

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Impurity scattering in a Luttinger liquid with electron-phonon coupling

Alexey Galda, Igor V. Yurkevich, and Igor V. Lerner

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041106(R) (2011) - Published 26 January, 2011

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Candidates for topological insulators: Pb-based chalcogenide series

Hosub Jin, Jung-Hwan Song, Arthur J. Freeman, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041202(R) (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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Spin-orbit fields in asymmetric (001)-oriented GaAs/Al $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As quantum wells

P. S. Eldridge, J. Hübner, S. Oertel, R. T. Harley, M. Henini, and M. Oestreich

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041301(R) (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

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Spatial gradient of dynamic nuclear spin polarization induced by breakdown of the quantum Hall effect

M. Kawamura, K. Kono, Y. Hashimoto, S. Katsumoto, and T. Machida

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041305(R) (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

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Quantized Landau level spectrum and its density dependence in graphene

Adina Luican, Guohong Li, and Eva Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041405(R) (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Quantum critical metamagnetism of Sr $_{3}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ under hydrostatic pressure

W. Wu, A. McCollam, S. A. Grigera, R. S. Perry, A. P. Mackenzie, and S. R. Julian

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045106 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Violation of the continuity equation in the Krieger-Li-Iafrate approximation for current-density functional theory

Marc Siegmund and Oleg Pankratov

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045113 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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Diffusion-induced dephasing in nanomechanical resonators

J. Atalaya, A. Isacsson, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045419 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Local sublattice-symmetry breaking in rotationally faulted multilayer graphene

M. Kindermann and P. N. First

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045425 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Signatures of Wigner localization in epitaxially grown nanowires

L. H. Kristinsdóttir, J. C. Cremon, H. A. Nilsson, H. Q. Xu, L. Samuelson, H. Linke, A. Wacker, and S. M. Reimann (Nanometer Structure Consortium, nmC@LU)

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041101(R) (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Suppression of metal-insulator transition at high pressure and pressure-induced magnetic ordering in pyrochlore oxide Nd $_{2}$ Ir $_{2}$ O $_{7}$

Masafumi Sakata, Tomoko Kagayama, Katsuya Shimizu, Kazuyuki Matsuhira, Seishi Takagi, Makoto Wakeshima, and Yukio Hinatsu

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041102(R) (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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$LDA + DMFT$ study of Ru-based perovskite ${SrRuO}_{3}$ and ${CaRuO}_{3}$

E. Jakobi, S. Kanungo, S. Sarkar, S. Schmitt, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041103(R) (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

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Geometrical frustration and the competing phases of the Sn/Si(111) $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3} R 30^{°}$ surface systems

Gang Li, Manuel Laubach, Andrzej Fleszar, and Werner Hanke

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041104(R) (2011) - Published 19 January, 2011

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Relativistic effects in a phosphorescent Ir(III) complex

A. R. G. Smith, M. J. Riley, S.-C. Lo, P. L. Burn, I. R. Gentle, and B. J. Powell

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041105(R) (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

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Impurity scattering in a Luttinger liquid with electron-phonon coupling

Alexey Galda, Igor V. Yurkevich, and Igor V. Lerner

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041106(R) (2011) - Published 26 January, 2011

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Persistent polarization memory in sexithiophene nanostructures

Benoit Gosselin, Vincent Cardin, Alexandre Favron, Jelissa De Jonghe, Laura-Isabelle Dion-Bertrand, Carlos Silva, and Richard Leonelli

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041201(R) (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Candidates for topological insulators: Pb-based chalcogenide series

Hosub Jin, Jung-Hwan Song, Arthur J. Freeman, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041202(R) (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin-orbit fields in asymmetric (001)-oriented GaAs/Al $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As quantum wells

P. S. Eldridge, J. Hübner, S. Oertel, R. T. Harley, M. Henini, and M. Oestreich

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041301(R) (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

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One-dimensional ZnO exciton polaritons with negligible thermal broadening at room temperature

A. Trichet, L. Sun, G. Pavlovic, N.A. Gippius, G. Malpuech, W. Xie, Z. Chen, M. Richard, and Le Si Dang

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041302(R) (2011) - Published 19 January, 2011

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Interaction-induced corrections to conductance and thermopower in quantum wires

Alex Levchenko, Zoran Ristivojevic, and Tobias Micklitz

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041303(R) (2011) - Published 19 January, 2011

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Acoustic and optical phonon scattering in a single In(Ga)As quantum dot

Erik Stock, Matthias-Rene Dachner, Till Warming, Andrei Schliwa, Anatol Lochmann, Axel Hoffmann, Aleksandr I. Toropov, Askhat K. Bakarov, Ilya A. Derebezov, Marten Richter, Vladimir A. Haisler, Andreas Knorr, and Dieter Bimberg

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041304(R) (2011) - Published 19 January, 2011

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Spatial gradient of dynamic nuclear spin polarization induced by breakdown of the quantum Hall effect

M. Kawamura, K. Kono, Y. Hashimoto, S. Katsumoto, and T. Machida

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041305(R) (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

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Evidence for zero-differential resistance states in electronic bilayers

G. M. Gusev, S. Wiedmann, O. E. Raichev, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041306(R) (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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$g$ -factor anisotropy in a GaAs/Al $_{x}$ Ga $_{1 - x}$ As quantum well probed by electron spin resonance

Yu. A. Nefyodov, A. V. Shchepetilnikov, I. V. Kukushkin, W. Dietsche, and S. Schmult

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041307(R) (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Engineering carbon chains from mechanically stretched graphene-based materials

E. Erdogan, I. Popov, C. G. Rocha, G. Cuniberti, S. Roche, and G. Seifert

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041401(R) (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

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Magnetic field enhancement at optical frequencies through diffraction coupling of magnetic plasmon resonances in metamaterials

C. J. Tang, P. Zhan, Z. S. Cao, J. Pan, Z. Chen, and Z. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041402(R) (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Formation of hydrogenated graphene nanoripples by strain engineering and directed surface self-assembly

Z. F. Wang, Yu Zhang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041403(R) (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

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Seebeck coefficients in nanoscale junctions: Effects of electron-vibration scattering and local heating

Bailey C. Hsu, Yu-Shen Liu, Sheng Hsien Lin, and Yu-Chang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041404(R) (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Quantized Landau level spectrum and its density dependence in graphene

Adina Luican, Guohong Li, and Eva Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041405(R) (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Persistent Rabi oscillations probed via low-frequency noise correlation

Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041406(R) (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Observation of $dd$ excitations in NiO and ${NiCl}_{2}$ using $K$ -edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Michel van Veenendaal, Xiaosong Liu, Matthew H. Carpenter, and Stephen P. Cramer

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045101 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Iterative variational approach to finite many-body systems

M. Sambataro, D. Gambacurta, and L. Lo Monaco

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045102 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Orbital-selective Mott transition and heavy-fermion behavior in a bilayer Hubbard model for ${}^{3}{He}$

K. S. D. Beach and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045103 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Perturbation theory of the mass enhancement for a polaron coupled to acoustic phonons

Zhou Li, Carl J. Chandler, and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045104 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

Local exact exchange potentials within the all-electron FLAPW method and a comparison with pseudopotential results

Markus Betzinger, Christoph Friedrich, Stefan Blügel, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045105 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Quantum critical metamagnetism of Sr $_{3}$ Ru $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ under hydrostatic pressure

W. Wu, A. McCollam, S. A. Grigera, R. S. Perry, A. P. Mackenzie, and S. R. Julian

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045106 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Surface plasmon driven electric and magnetic resonators for metamaterials

Durdu Ö. Güney, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045107 (2011) - Published 26 January, 2011

Isentropic curves at magnetic phase transitions

J. D. Cone, A. Zujev, and R. T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045108 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Symmetry breaking for transmission in a photonic waveguide coupled with two off-channel nonlinear defects

Evgeny Bulgakov, Konstantin Pichugin, and Almas Sadreev

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045109 (2011) - Published 28 January, 2011

Entanglement spectrum of random-singlet quantum critical points

Maurizio Fagotti, Pasquale Calabrese, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045110 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Hydrogen-induced interactions in vanadium from first-principles calculations

Chuying Ouyang and Young-Su Lee

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045111 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

NaAlH $_{4}$ doped with Ti or Sc: Bulk and surface investigation from first principles

Hao Wang, Akinori Tezuka, Hiroshi Ogawa, and Tamio Ikeshoji

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045112 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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Violation of the continuity equation in the Krieger-Li-Iafrate approximation for current-density functional theory

Marc Siegmund and Oleg Pankratov

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045113 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Quantum spin Hall effect induced by nonmagnetic and magnetic staggered potentials

Huaiming Guo, Shiping Feng, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045114 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Semiconductors I: bulk

Urbach tails of amorphous silicon

D. A. Drabold, Y. Li, B. Cai, and M. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045201 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Transport, electronic, and structural properties of nanocrystalline CuAlO $_{2}$ delafossites

O. J. Durá, R. Boada, A. Rivera-Calzada, C. León, E. Bauer, M. A. López de la Torre, and J. Chaboy

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045202 (2011) - Published 26 January, 2011

Correlation between morphology, chemical environment, and ferromagnetism in the intrinsic-vacancy dilute magnetic semiconductor Cr-doped Ga $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ /Si(001)

E. N. Yitamben, T. C. Lovejoy, A. B. Pakhomov, S. M. Heald, E. Negusse, D. Arena, F. S. Ohuchi, and M. A. Olmstead

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045203 (2011) - Published 28 January, 2011

Reconfiguration and dissociation of bonded hydrogen in silicon by energetic ions

S. V. S. Nageswara Rao, S. K. Dixit, G. Lüpke, N. H. Tolk, and L. C. Feldman

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045204 (2011) - Published 28 January, 2011

Spin-dependent resonant quantum tunneling between magnetic nanoparticles on a macroscopic length scale

J. Varalda, C. A. Dartora, A. J. A. de Oliveira, W. A. Ortiz, B. Vodungbo, M. Marangolo, F. Vidal, Y. Zheng, G. G. Cabrera, and D. H. Mosca

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045205 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Energetics of intrinsic defects and their complexes in ZnO investigated by density functional calculations

R. Vidya, P. Ravindran, H. Fjellvåg, B. G. Svensson, E. Monakhov, M. Ganchenkova, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045206 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

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

Substitutional and surface Mn $^{2 +}$ centers in cubic ZnS:Mn nanocrystals. A correlated EPR and photoluminescence study

M. Stefan, S. V. Nistor, D. Ghica, C. D. Mateescu, M. Nikl, and R. Kucerkova

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045301 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Rectification in Y-junctions of Luttinger liquid wires

Chenjie Wang and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045302 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Direct correlation of crystal structure and optical properties in wurtzite/zinc-blende GaAs nanowire heterostructures

Martin Heiss, Sonia Conesa-Boj, Jun Ren, Hsiang-Han Tseng, Adam Gali, Andreas Rudolph, Emanuele Uccelli, Francesca Peiró, Joan Ramon Morante, Dieter Schuh, Elisabeth Reiger, Efthimios Kaxiras, Jordi Arbiol, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045303 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Electrostatic modulation of anisotropic magnetotransport in Ar $^{+}$ -irradiated SrTiO $_{3}$ : Effects of boundary scattering

J. H. Ngai, Y. Segal, F. J. Walker, and C. H. Ahn

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045304 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Light squeezing via a biexciton in a semiconductor microcavity

Hisaki Oka and Hiroshi Ajiki

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045305 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

Convergence of quasiparticle band structures of Si and Ge nanowires in the $GW$ approximation and the validity of scissor shifts

H. Peelaers, B. Partoens, M. Giantomassi, T. Rangel, E. Goossens, G.-M. Rignanese, X. Gonze, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045306 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

Adsorbate-induced modification of the surface electronic structure at GaAs(001) surfaces

Thomas Bruhn, Bjørn-Ove Fimland, Michael Kneissl, Norbert Esser, and Patrick Vogt

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045307 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Si nanocrystals embedded in SiO $_{2}$ : Optical studies in the vacuum ultraviolet range

V. Pankratov, V. Osinniy, A. Kotlov, A. Nylandsted Larsen, and B. Bech Nielsen

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045308 (2011) - Published 28 January, 2011

Magnetotransport and spin dynamics in an electron gas formed at oxide interfaces

Chenglong Jia and Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045309 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Graphene-based biosensor using transport properties

R. Chowdhury, S. Adhikari, P. Rees, S. P. Wilks, and F. Scarpa

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045401 (2011) - Published 3 January, 2011

Low-energy coherent transport in metallic carbon nanotube junctions

A. A. Maarouf and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045402 (2011) - Published 3 January, 2011

Metal-layer-assisted coalescence of Au nanoparticles and its effect on diameter control in vapor-liquid-solid growth of oxide nanowires

Dong Lai Guo, Xiao Huang, Guo Zhong Xing, Zhou Zhang, Gong Ping Li, Mi He, Hua Zhang, Hongyu Chen, and Tom Wu

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045403 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Broadband-infrared assessment of phonon resonance in scattering-type near-field microscopy

S. Amarie and F. Keilmann

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045404 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Orientational properties of $C_{70}$ and $C_{80}$ fullerenes in carbon nanotubes

B. Verberck

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045405 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Disorder-induced magneto-oscillations in bilayer graphene at high bias

V. V. Mkhitaryan and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045406 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Mechanism for optical activation of dark spin-triplet excitons in hydrogenated single-walled carbon nanotubes

S. Konabe and K. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045407 (2011) - Published 20 January, 2011

Anomalous thermal transport in disordered harmonic chains and carbon nanotubes

Xiaoxi Ni, Meng Lee Leek, Jian-Sheng Wang, Yuan Ping Feng, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045408 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

Graphene adhesion on mica: Role of surface morphology

A. N. Rudenko, F. J. Keil, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045409 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

Atomic force microscope measurements and $LCAO - S^{2}$ $+$ vdW calculations of contact length between a carbon nanotube and a graphene surface

M. Seydou, Y. J. Dappe, S. Marsaudon, J.-P. Aimé, X. Bouju, and A.-M. Bonnot

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045410 (2011) - Published 21 January, 2011

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Diffusion-induced dephasing in nanomechanical resonators

J. Atalaya, A. Isacsson, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045419 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Effects of flavor-symmetry violation from staggered fermion lattice simulations of graphene

Joel Giedt, Andrew Skinner, and Saroj Nayak

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045420 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Unique nature of the lowest Landau level in finite graphene samples with zigzag edges: Dirac electrons with mixed bulk-edge character

Igor Romanovsky, Constantine Yannouleas, and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. B 83, 045421 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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